One is naturally tempted to ask who is this loving "Being of Light", who comforts the new entrants into the life after death.
The Holy Bible says :
"And God said, let there be light: And there was light".
"And God saw the light, that it was good……..” [13].
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God…….."
"The same was in the beginning with God".
"And all things were made by him; and without him was not a thing made that was made" [14].
From these quotations of the Holy Bible it would appear :
1. God created "Light".
2. "Light" was a good thing.
3. In the beginning the "Word" was with God.
4. All things were made by God out of the "Word" and nothing was created without the "Word".
Now let us look at the history of Man. It will be found that Man from time immemorial has believed in a Guiding Light, a Saviour. The chart given below vividly brings out that this belief is widespread throughout the earth from even pre-historic times :
Name of the Countries => Name of Saviour
Babylon => Baal or Bacchus or Merodach or Tammuz or Nimrod.
Persia => Maithra
Greece => Apollo or Plutus
Italy => Hercules
Rome => Jupiter-puer
Syria & Phyygia => Adonis or Attis
Egypt => Osiris or Horus
Scandinavia => Balder
Mexico, Peru & Central America => Quetzalcoatl
India => Hare Krishna
Asia Minor => Deoius
Tibet, Thailand, Ceylon & Japan => Buddha
Jewish Religion => Moses
European and American Countries => Christ
Islamic Countries => Mohammad
A. WHO IS THIS COMFORTER OR BEING OF LIGHT ?
With so many names before us it becomes difficult to find out who is this "Spirit of Light" the loving Comforting — Saviour of the Universe. Let us start our search systematically based upon the records as available from the very beginning of Man.
B. ACCORDING TO THE FIRST MAN – ADAM
The incidents that took place at that time of the creation of the First man are quoted here from pages 89 & 91, “Gospel of Barnabas” [15].
"God gave His soul to men, while all the holy angels sang : 'Blessed be Thy holy name O God our Lord'.
"Adam, having sprung up upon his feet, saw in the air a writing that shone like the sun, which said : "There is only one God and Mohammad is the messenger of God". Where upon Adam opened his mouth and said : I thank thee, O Lord my God, that Thou hast deigned to create me; but tell me, I pray Thee, what meaneth the message of these words : 'Mohammad is the messenger of God'. Have there been other men before me?"
"Then said God: 'Be thou welcome, O my servant Adam. I tell you that thou art the first man whom I have created. And he whom thou hast seen is thy son, for whom I have created all things . Who shall give light to the world when he shall come; whose soul was set in a celestial splendour sixty thousand years before I made anything’.
''Adam besought God, saying : 'Lord, grant me this writing upon the nails of the fingers of my hands'. Then God gave to the first man upon his thumbs that writing; upon the thumb-nail of the right hand it said : ‘There is only one God', and upon the thumb-nail of the left hand it said : 'Mohammad is the messenger of God’. Then with fatherly affection the first man kissed those words, and rubbed (his thumb-nails) on his eyes, and said : "Blessed be that day when thou shalt come to the world".
C. ACCORDING TO THE HEBREW TEXT OF HOLY BIBLE
The Hebrew Text of verse 16 of Chapter V of “The Song of Solomon" is transliterated hereunder from page 1159 of the Old Testament — Hebrew text with English translation printed in 1950 in London for the British and Foreign Bible Society :
Hebrew Text Transliterated :
16. Hikor mumethakeem
"Wey Kehelav Mahamadeem"
zey dodi wey zey rayee
beynoth Yerushalayeem.
Translation :
16. His mouth is most sweet :
"And he is called Mohamad".
This is My beloved, and this is My friend,
O daughters of Jerusalem.
D. ACCORDING TO HINDU SCRIPTURES
The "Puranas" are the 3500 years old religious books of the Hindus. “Bhavishya" means foretellings of things that will happen in the future.
Below is the English translation of the Sanskrit text from Parv 3, Kanda 3, Adhyaya 3, Slokas 5-8 of "Bhavishya Puran”, published by Venkateshwar Press, Bombay :
"A person, who has not been taught how to read or write, will appear (after many centuries) with his companions. His name will be Mahamad.
"He will be the teacher of the Universe teaching what they knew not".
"A Raja from India after giving this Maha Dev Arab a bath in the Panchgavya and the Ganges water, will offer him the presents of his sincere devotion and showing him all reference will say : ‘I make obeisance to thee'.
"O Ye ! the dweller in Arabia, the pride of mankind, Ye have collected a great force to kill the Devil and you yourself have been protected from your opponents".
"0 Ye ! the image of the Most Pious God, the biggest lord, I offer myself as a slave to thee. Take me as one lying at thy feet''.
The name of the promised saviour of the Earth has been given as "Maha-mad"' also in "Allo-Upanishad" translated by Upendra Math Mukhopadya of Calcutta.
E. ACCORDING TO SIKH SCRIPTURES
Baba Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikh Religion has preached :
"Pakh Padho Kalma Rab da Mohammad nal milaye"
"Ho Ya mashuk-e-Khuda yeda ho ya yallah" [16]
Translation :
"O Pious People ! Recite the Kalma of the Creator adding to it the name of Mohammad.
"Who is the beloved of God by dedicating his very self to Allah”.
F. ACCORDING TO THE BOOK WRITTEN BY MOSES AND JOSHUA
The following was revealed by a Jewish Scribe as recorded on page 427 of "The Gospel of Barnabas" [15] :
"The scribe then said : 'Pardon me, for I have sinned'.
“Said Jesus: ‘God pardon thee; for against Him hast thou sinned’.
"Whereupon said the scribe : 'I have seen an old book written by the hands of Moses and Joshua servants and prophets of God, which book is the true book of Moses. Therein is written that Ishmael is the (fore) father of the Messiah (Mohammad the Messenger of God), and Issac is the (fore) father of (Jesus) the messenger (who will announce to the world the coming) of the Messiah. And thus saith the book, that Moses said "Lord God of Israel, Mighty and Merciful, manifest to thy servant the splendour of Thy Glory". Where upon God showed him His messenger (Mohammad) in the arms of Ishmael, and Ishmael in the arms of Abraham. Nigh to Ishmael stood (his younger brother) Isaac, in whose arms was a child (i. e. Jesus), who with his finger pointed to the Messenger of God saying :
"This is he for whom God hath created all things".
"Thereupon Moses cried out with joy : ‘O Ishmael, thou hast in thine arms all the world and paradise: Be mindful of me, God's servant, that I may find grace in God’s sight by means of thy son, for whom God hath made all’.”
G. ACCORDING TO NEW TESTAMENT
"I (Jesus) have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.
"Howbeit when he, the Spirit of Truth, is come (after I have gone away), he will guide you unto all truth :
“For he shall not speak of himself ; but whatsoever he shall hear (from God ) that shall he speak and he will show you things to come" [17].
"But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring aII things to your rememberance, whatsoever I have said unto you" [18].
H. ACCORDING TO HOLY JESUS
Jesus has disclosed the following facts regarding the Comforter Saviour in "The Gospel of Barnabas" [15] :
1) The very first thing that God created was the Soul of Mohammad ( page 91 ). So he is the "Light" that God created and found the Light to be good [13].
2) God kept the Soul of Mohammad for 60,000 years in Celestial Splendour before He created anything (page 91).
3) Everything that has been created is for the sake of Mohammad (pages 91, 225). So he is the "Word" referred to in the Holy Bible through which everything has been created [14].
4) His name will be Mohammad (pages 89, 91, 97, 105, 129, 225, 227, 319, 331 & 437).
5) Whosoever will bless Mohammad will be blessed by God, whosoever will curse Mohammad will be accursed (page 2 7).
6) All the earlier prophets from Adam till Jesus became prophets only because of “Mohammad" (page 105).
7) The mission of Jesus was to inform the Jews as well as the World of the coming of Mohammad, the Messenger of God (page 167).
8) Blessed is the time when Mohammad will come on earth (pages 91, 106).
9) Idols all over the earth will fall down upon the birth of Mohammad and when lifted would speak like human beings announcing the birth of Mohammad (page 169).
10) Mohammad will come on earth as the Messenger of Salvation (page 227).
11) There will be no more prophets born after Mohammad (page 225).
12) Mohammad will be born South of the land of Israel (page 223).
13) A white cloud would give shade over him whenever he would go out under the open skies and that he would be recognised by this sign (page 167).
14) Destroyer of idolatry and idols (pages 167, 223).
15) Jesus informs that even though the heaven and the earth shall fail but the faith taught by Mohammad shall never fail (page 227).
I. ACCORDING TO ASTROLOGY
Jamaseph the great astrologer of Persia had predicted 4000 years back the birth of Prophet Mohammad [20] in his works known as "Jamaseph Nama" or the records of Jamaseph.
J. ON THEORY OF JUDGEMENT
All religions have taught that Man would be resurrected from the dead on the Day of Judgement and would have to give an account of what he has done on earth. So it becomes very important to know what function the Comforter Saviour of the Universe is likely to play at this most important event in the lives of each one of us.
On pages 127 and 129 of "The Gospel of Barnabas" [15] one reads :
"When these signs be passed, there shall be darkness over the world for forty years, God alone being alive to Whom bo honour and glory forever. When the forty years be passed, God shall give life to His messenger, who shall rise again like the sun, but resplendent as a thousand suns. He shall sit, and shall not speak, for he shall be as it were besides himself. God shall rise again the four angels favoured of God, who shall seek the messenger of God, and, having found him, shall station themselves on the four sides of the place to keep watch upon him. Next shall God give life to all the angels, who shall come as bees circling round the messenger of God. Next shall God give life to all His prophets, who, following Adam shalI go every one to kiss the hand of the messenger of God, committing themselves to his protection. Next shall God give life to all the elect, who shall cry out : 'O Mohammad, be mindful of us !‘ At whose cries pity shall awake in the messenger of God, and he shall consider what he ought to do fearing for their salvation…..... "
Thus Holy Jesus has clarified that on the day of Judgement all the prophets from Adam till himself would place themselves under the protection of Mohammad the Comforter—Saviour of the Universe, who would plead for the safety of the followers of the earlier prophets from Adam to Jesus and also for mankind at large.
References to Chapter 3 :
[13] Holy Bible—Genesis 1 : 3 & 4.
[14] New Testament-St. John 1 :1-3.
[15] 'Gospel of Barnabas' translated by Lonsdale and Laura Ragg, published by Clarendon Press Oxford University, 1907. To know who St. Barnabas was please refer to Author's Notes.
[16] Page 14 of Bhai Bhala's Janam Sakhi.
[17] New Testament—St. John 16 : 12 & 13.
[18] New Testament—St John 14:26.
[19] New Testament—Acts 3 : 22-24.
[20] Page 5, Second part of Silver Jubilee—1945/1970—issue of Jyotish Ghayan, published at Calcutta on 21-1-1972.
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