have some certain corruptions in their beliefs and practices. However,
they still follow a religion sent down by Allah. Allah says that the
Qur'an was sent down to confirm other holy books:
Believe in what I have sent down, confirming what is with you. Do not
be the first to reject it, and do not sell My Signs for a paltry
price. Have fear and consciousness of Me alone. (Surat al-Baqarah: 41)
Allah reveals in another verse that some Jewish scholars knew the Qur'an:
It is certainly in the scriptures of the previous peoples. Is it not,
indeed, a Sign for them that the scholars of the tribe of Israel have
knowledge of it? (Surat al-Shu'ara':196-97)
In his work Al-Asas fi al-Tafsir, the famous Qur'anic commentator Imam
Said Hawa states:
It is certain that the Qur'an existed in earlier books. In other
words, it is referred to in earlier scriptures, or the senses it
contains were transmitted by the prophets of other communities and
were present in their books in the manner revealed by Allah, as can be
seen in Divine texts.
...Moderate and honest Jewish scholars know that the Tawrah, Psalms, and
Gospel contain the contents of the Qur'an; that every element in it is
the truth from Allah; and that this is the last book and the last
prophet of whom the earlier scriptures speak. 20
Jewish and Christian scholars therefore immediately recognized the
Prophet Muhammad (saas) as the foretold illiterate prophet (no matter
how much they did not want to accept this truth). Allah states in the
Qur'an that the People of the Book will recognize our Prophet (saas)
as they know their own children, but that some will rebel in spite of
this and that those who do not believe in him will be disappointed:
Those We have given the Book recognize it as they recognize their own
sons. Yet a group of them knowingly conceal the truth. (Surat
al-Baqarah: 146)
Those to whom We have given the Book recognize it as they recognize
their own children. As for those who have lost their own selves, they
have no belief. (Surat al-An'am: 20)
Allah warns the Israelites in Surat al-Baqarah:
O tribe of Israel, remember the blessing I conferred on you. Honor My
contract and I will honor your contract. Have fear and respect of Me
alone. Have belief in what I have sent down, confirming what is with
you. Do not be the first to reject it, and do not sell My Signs for a
paltry price. Have fear and taqwa of Me alone. Do not mix up truth
with falsehood and knowingly hide the truth. (Surat al-Baqarah:
40-42)
The only way that our Prophet (saas) could have known of these
blessings and the vows they had made to Allah was if the Lord had told
him. When the Prophet Muhammad (saas) recited these verses, the wise
men of the Israelites recognized him as the messenger for whom they
had been waiting. The People of the Book knew who he was and that he
spoke the truth due to his way of life and moral character. Allah
relates in the Qur'an:
Those who follow the Messenger, the unlettered Prophet, whom they find
written down with them in the Torah and the Gospel, commanding them to
do right and forbidding them to do wrong, making good things lawful
for them and bad things unlawful for them, relieving them of their
heavy loads and the chains that were around them. Those who believe
him, honor and help him, and follow the Light that has been sent down
with him, they are the ones who are successful." (Surat al-A'raf: 157)
The famous Islamic scholar Omer Nasuhi Bilmen interprets this verse as follows:
This verse reveals that those possessed of the most distinguished
qualities, the best deeds and excellences in this world and the
Hereafter, are the followers of the Khatam al-Anbiya' (the Last
Prophet): those who follow the Prophet Muhammad (saas)- to whom the
Divine Book, in which the knowledge of the past and future are
contained, was revealed, though he read nothing from anyone and wrote
nothing - achieve the honor of being of his community. He is referred
to by name or by his characteristics in the Tawrah and the Gospel.
There can be no doubt that he is present in name and in his
characteristics in these books. If such were not written in those
books, would the Prophet Muhammad (saas) claim to be [referred to] and
thus give grounds for his rejection? He is such a great Prophet that
he commands and advises those whom he calls to faith, all humanity, to
respect and honor the commands of Allah, to acquire proper belief and
morality, and to show affection to creatures (and he forbids the
wrong). 21
As we can see, the fact that his coming and the qualities of this
blessed person were foretold to the People of the Book is another of
the miracles associated with him. Those Jews and Christians who, with
faith and common sense, used their conscience to consider what they
saw have confirmed this evident truth.
Footnotes
12. Al-Tirmidhi, Shama'il al-Tirmidhi, tr. Muhammad Bin Abdur Rahman
Ebrahim (New Delhi: 2000), 12-13
13. As-Suyuti, Tahdhib al-Khasa'is, 237.
14.As-SuyutiTahdhib al-Khasa'is al-Nabawiyyah al-Kubra (The Awesome
Characteristics of the Prophet [saas] (Istanbul: Iz Publications,
2003), p.238
15. Ibid., p. 237
16. Imam al-Ghazali, Ihya Ulum-ud-din (Revival of the Sciences of the
Deen), tr. Sitki Gulle (Istanbul: Huzur Publishings, 1998), 795-96.
17. Imam al-Ghazali, Ihya', tr. Fazlul Karim, 2:252.
18. Tafsir of Jalalayn, tr. Ibrahim Serdar [Istanbul: Yusuf Sensoy
Fatih Enes Publishings, 1997], vol. 3, p.1432-1433
19. Afzalur Rahman, Encyclopaedia of Seerah: Muhammad (saas)
(Istanbul: Inkilap Publishing, 1996), 162.
20. Imam Sa'id Hawa, Al-Asas fi al-Tafsir (The Basics of Qur'anic
Commentary) (Istanbul: Samil Yayinevi, 1991), 332.
21. Omer Nasuhi Bilmen, Ku'ran-i Kerim'in Turkçe Meali (Tafsir of the
Qur'an) (Istanbul: Bilmen Basim ve Yayinevi), 2:1101-02.-
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