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“The prophet who Preaches Islam”

In the Book of Deuteronomy (xiii. 1-5, xviii. 20-22)

God the Almighty gives some instructions concerning
the false prophets who may prophesy in the name of
the Lord and in such an insidious way that they could
mislead His people. Further, he tells us that the best
way to find out the impostor’s perfidy was to anticipate
the fulfilment of his predictions, and then to put him
to death when his fraud was divulged. But, as is well
known, the ignorant cannot well distinguish between
the genuine prophet and the imposter, just as much as
they to-day are unable to definitely discover which of
the two, a Roman Catholic priest or a Calvinist minister,
is genuine follower of Jesus (pbuh) Christ! A false prophet
would also foretell events, work wonders, and do other
religious things similar -at least in appearance- to those
performed by a true one. The competition between the
prophet Moses (pbuh) and the magicians of Egypt is an
apt illustration of this statement. Thus it is Jeremiah
who gives us the best way of testing the veracity, the
genuineness, of a prophet, and that way is the sign of
Islam. Please read the whole chapter xxviii. of Jeremiah,
and then ponder and reflect on the ninth verse:-

“The prophet which foretells the Islam (Shalom), at
the coming of the word of the Prophet, that prophet will be
recognized to have been sent by God in truth” (Jer. xxviii. 9).

This translation is strictly literal. The original verb
naba, usually translated as “to foretell” or “to prophesy”,
and the noun nabi, “a prophet” has given the impression
that a prophet is a person who foretells the future or past
events by the aid of divine revelation. This definition
is only partially true. The complete definition of the
word “Prophet” must be: “one who receives oracles or
messages from God, and delivers them faithfully to the