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Authorized Version, Malachi (chap. iii. I) [1] :“Behold I will
send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before
me: suddenly he will come to his temple. He is the Adonai
(i.e. the Lord) whom you desire, and the Messenger of the
Covenant with whom you are pleased. Lo he is coming,
says the Lord of hosts.” Then compare these mysterious
oracles with the wisdom embodied in the sacred verse of
the Quran: “Praise be unto Him Who instantly transported
His servant by night from the sacred temple (of Makkah)
to the father temple (of Jerusalem), the circuit of which We
have blessed” (chap. xvii.) [2] .

That by the person coming suddenly to the temple, as
foretold in the two biblical documents above mentioned,
Muhammad (pbuh), and not Jesus (pbuh), is intended the
following arguments must surely suffice to convince
every impartial observer:-

1. The kinship, the relation and resemblance between
the two tetrograms Himda and Ahmed, and the identity of
the root hmd from which both substantives are derived,
leave not a single particle of doubt that the subject in
the sentence “and the Himda of all nations will come”
is Ahmed; that is to say, Muhammad (pbuh). There is not
the remotest etymological connection between himda and
any other names of “Jesus (pbuh),” “Christ,” “Saviour,” not
even a single consonant in common between them.

2. Even if it be argued that the Hebrew from Hmdh
(read himdah) is an abstract substantive meaning “desire,
lust, covetousness, and praise,” the argument would be

[1] Quran, 3:3. It is He Who sent down to thee (step by step), in truth, the Book,
confirming what went before it; and He sent down the Law (of Moses and the
Gospel (of Jesusbefore this, as a guide to mankind, and He sent down the criterion
(of judgment between right and wrong). (Editors).

[2] Quran, 17:1. (Glory to Allah) Who did take His servant for a Journey by night
from the Sacred Mosque to the farthest Mosque, whose precincts We did bless,- in
order that We might show him some of Our Signs: for He is the One Who heareth
and seeth (all things). (Editors).