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170persons alleged to be inspired by the Holy Spirit, and the record believed to be a revelation! Yet there is a lie, a false statement, or a forgery somewhere. Elijah (or Elias) is said to come before “that Prophet” (Mal. iv. 5, 6); Jesus (pbuh) says, “John is Elijah”; John says, “I am not Elijah”, and it is the sacred Scripture of the Christians which makes both these affirmative and negative statements!It is impossible to get at the truth, the true religion, from these Gospels, unless they are read and examined from an Islamic and Unitarian point of view. It is only then that the truth can be extracted from the false, and the authentic distinguished from the spurious. It is the spirit and the faith of Islam that can alone sift the Bible and cast away the chaff and error from its pages. Before proceeding farther to show that the Prophet foretold by the Baptist could be none other than Muhammad (pbuh) , I must draw the serious attention of my readers to one or two other important points.It may, in the first place, be remarked that the Muslims have the highest reverence and veneration for all the John Prophets, particularly for those whose names are mentioned in the Quran, like John (“Yahya”) and Jesus (“ ،Isa”) ; and believe that the Apostles or Disciples of Jesus(pbuh) were holy men and inspired byAllah. However, as we do not possess their genuine and unadulterated writings we consequently cannot for a moment imagine the possibility that either of these two great Servants of Allah could have contradicted each other. Another important matter to be noted isthe very significantsilence of the Gospel of Barnabas about John the Baptist (pbuh) . This Gospel, which never mentions the name of Yahya, puts his prophecy about the “more powerful Prophet” into the mouth of Jesus Christ (pbuh) . Therein Christ, while speaking of the Spirit of Muhammad (pbuh) as having been created before that of other John Prophets says that it was