Рет қаралды 28,731
So, can Muslims claim that their Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, was the first to use the name "Muhammad"?
The answer is obvious...of course not. The word Muhammad, or rather the four consonants which are the root for that word MHMD were well known and well used long before the Muslims stole it and applied it to their prophet.
Mel, using A.J. Deuce's research, takes us back to the time of king David and Solomon (around 1000 BC) where in Psalms 68:16 and Proverbs 12:12 we find this same root in Hebrew (note: both Hebrew and Arabic come from the same root, and only used consonants in ancient times, so that the letters HMD would be the Hebrew equivalent to the Arabic word MHMD, later applied to the prophet of Islam sometime in the 8th century).
In both Hebrew and Arabic this word meant "lovely, or desired, praised, or pleasant".
When we refer to the famous and popular verse used by Muslims to try and find their prophet Muhammad in our Bible, that of Song of Solomon 5:16, we find it saying "His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is ALTOGETHER LOVELY (Machmad). This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem".
The word 'Machmad' here can be translated as "desired, praised, pleasant, or lovely" which in the context seems to refer to the author himself, in other words to King Solomon, and that is the meaning the Jews today give to it.
In 387 AD, however, Saint Ambrose maintained that the word 'machmad' in Song of Solomon was to refer to Jesus. It was this meaning which the church then applied to this word all the way up to and including the 7th and 8th century, when the Qur'an was supposedly written.
Therefore, both the Jews in 1000 BC and the Christians in 387 AD had used this word "MHMD" long before the Muslims then grabbed it and applied it to their prophet sometime in the 8th century AD, proving yet again that the man Muhammad wasn't a historical figure at all, but was nothing more than a borrowed name taken from the Jews and Christians before them, much they did with our scriptures.
© Pfander Centre for Apologetics - US, Nov. 5, 2023
(90,330) Music: 'Country Girl' by aleksound, from filmmusic-io