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Jesus was not the advent of the “prophet like unto thee,”9and 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 ofthe 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.).