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37Authorized 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 betweenthem.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).