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Jesus was not the advent of the “prophet like unto thee,”
and his second advent can hardly fulfil the words. Jesus
(pbuh), as is believed by his Church, will appear as a Judge
and not as a lawgiver; but the promised one has to come
with a “fiery law” in “his right hand.”

In ascertaining the personality of the promised prophet
the other prophecy of Moses (pbuh) is, however, very
helpful where it speaks of the shining forth of God from
Paran, the Makkah mountain. The words in the Book of
Deuteronomy, (chapter xxxiii. Verses 2), run as follows:
“The Lord came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto
them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came
with ten thousands of saints; from his right hand went a
fiery law for them.”

In these words, the Lord has been compared with
the sun. He comes from Sinai, he rises from Seir, but
he shines in his full glory from Paran, where he had to
appear with ten thousands of saints with a fiery law in
his right hand. None of the Israelites, including Jesus
(pbuh), had anything to do with Paran. Hagar, with her son
Ishmael (pbuh), wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba,
who afterwards dwelt in the wilderness of Paran (Gen.
Xxi. 21). He married an Egyptian woman, and through his
firstborn, Kedar, gave descent to the Arabs who from that
time until now are the dwellers of the wilderness of Paran.
And if Muhammad (pbuh) admittedly on all hands traces his
descent to Ishmael (pbuh) through Kedar and he appeared
as a prophet in the wilderness of Paran and re-entered
Makkah with ten thousand saints and gave a fiery law to
his people, is not the prophecy above-mentioned fulfilled
to its very letter? The words of the prophecy in Habakkuk
are especially noteworthy. His (the Holy one from Paran)

which God hath spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world
began. 22 For Mosestruly said unto the fa¬thers, A prophet shall the Lord your
God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things
whatsoever he shall say unto you”. (Acts iii.).