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Muhammad in the Bible David Benjamin KeldaniEdited & Annotated by: Prof. Dawud M. R. Alhanbali & Prof, Dr. Kaseb A. Albadran ( 83 )1) The most cogent and important proof that the Apocalyptic Barnasha is Muhammad (pbuh) is given in a wonderful description in the vision of Daniel (vii) already discussed in a previous article. In no way whatever the Barnasha therein described can be identified with any of the Makkah-bees’ heroes or with Jesus(pbuh) ; nor can the terrible Beast which was utterly killed and destroyed by that Son of Man be a prototype of Antiochus Epiphanes or the Roman Caesar, Nero. The culminating evil of that dreadful Beast was the “Little Horn,” which uttered blasphemies against the Most High by associating with His essence three co-eternal divine persons and by its persecution of those who maintained the absolute oneness of God. Constantine the Great is the person symbolized by that hideous Horn.2) The Son of Man founds the Kingdom of Peace, the capital of which is no longerthe old Jerusalem, but the new Jerusalem — the “Dāru‘s Salām,” the “city or court of Peace.” The Sophee or Seer in this wonderful vision narrates how the terrestrial Jerusalem islifted up and transplanted in a southern country; but a new Temple, larger and higher than the first one, is built upon the ruins of the old edifice! Gracious God! How wonderfully all this was accomplished by Thy most Illustrious and Holy Servant Muhammad (pbuh)! The New Jerusalem is none other than Makkah; foritisin a southern country, its two hills, the “Marwa” and “Sapha,” bear the same names as those of Moriah and Zion, of the same root and signification but originally earlier. “Irushalem” or “Uishalem” of old becomes a city of “Light and Peace.” Itis also for thisreason that Makkah , as the seat of the sacred ka’aba became the “Qibla” — the direction towardswhich the Muslims turn their faces at prayer. Here every year tens of thousands of pilgrim from all Muslim countries assemble, visit