Texts of the Torah and the Bible in preaching about Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him 4

 

Texts of the Torah and the Bible in preaching about Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him 4

On August 21, 1933, the late scholar and researcher Ahmed Zaki Pasha, famous for his meticulousness and extensive knowledge, published in Al-Balagh newspaper a year before his death (July 4, 1934) that he had access to an old copy of the Torah in which the name of Muhammad, the Messenger of God, was mentioned. It was reported that Shalabi Samaritan from the “Samra” sect had a copy of the Torah copied from the oldest copy of the Torah kept by the Samaritan sect settled in the city of Nablus, and the late Nour al-Din Bey Mustafa bought it. Zaki Pasha went to Mount Gerizim in Nablus in 1922 and met Shalabi Samaritan and the high priest of the sect, Isaac bin Imran, whose lineage goes back to Aaron the Elder. In 1926, Zaki Pasha bought a copy of the Torah in Palestine written in the handwriting of the High Priest Isaac bin Imran, which was the one Ahmed Pasha had referred to. An eyewitness saw it and described it as a volume containing 615 pages of small pieces of paper, which included only the five books of the Torah, which the Samaritans believe were inspired by God and nothing else, and that God commanded people to act upon them, and that no one remains who acts upon them to this day except them, and that they alone are on the right path, while others are otherwise, and in their view they are unclean and outcasts; the Samaritans do not take anything from them except water

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On the last page of this volume is the following: “The completion of writing this holy Torah took place on Sunday, corresponding to the fourth of the month of Safar al-Khair, of the months of the year 1320 Arab, which is the second month for us, corresponding to the fifteenth of the fifties imposed on the children of Israel, by the hand of his servant and son of his servant, Isaac bin Imran bin Salamah bin Ghazal bin Isaac bin Ibrahim Hakhan (priest) Halawi Bashkam, may God pardon him and forgive him, and those who did good to him and those who taught him, amen. And the peace of God be upon he who is the master of the first and the last. Amen, amen

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All the pages of the book are written in Arabic, interspersed with writings in the Samaritan language. Among these phrases is a sentence in the seventeenth chapter, that is, on page 39 of the book, in which the Samaritan high priest wrote in his own handwriting on the margin phrases arranged as follows

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92

With Madmad

Any Mohammed

Very much so

very

For Joy

table

400

43

any great people

Any Mohammed

92

Then he put at the end of it the following sentence: Look, Zaki, how God, in every word of His speech, contains combined secrets and great signs. Edited by the poor servant, Isaac the Samaritan priest

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We are perplexed by these vague texts and the Gefri numbers. We are almost certain that they were tampered with by the high priest; this is because the copy that Nur al-Din Bey Mustafa bought was in a language that Zaki Pasha did not understand; as he said: “Since it was written in a language that I did not understand, I advised my friend Nur al-Din Bey Mustafa to buy it. He actually bought it, and I do not know now what God did with it

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Then the priest dated according to an Arab month and an Arab year, but he should have dated according to the months and years of his religion! In conclusion, he greets the Master of the First and the Last, and he did not tell us who he is, even though the terminology among Arabs and Muslims refers to the Prophet Muhammad

, may God bless him and grant him peace

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Then the priest says at the end, “Look, Zaki.” Does he mean Zaki Pasha, so the copy is made for him, in his name, and at his expense

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I think that the priests of this sect - including Shalabi Samari and Isaac bin Imran - traded these copies skillfully, as evidenced by the copy sold to Nur al-Din Bey, and by what Zaki Pasha himself said that the chief priest sought to sell the ancient, ancient copy of the Torah that his sect kept to His Majesty the King of England, but he changed his mind, not to preserve its sanctity or regret losing it, but because King George V did not pay him more than five hundred pounds for it! The chief priest added to this by coming to Egypt, hoping to find greater luck there than he found in England

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All this speaks volumes that the issue was a matter of trade and bargaining. He succeeded in selling two copies

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If we return to “Bamdamad, meaning Muhammad, and the numbers 400, 43, 92,” we do not understand anything from them, nor do we see that they indicate anything

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We mentioned this phrase to cover the aspects of the subject of good news, and because it is fixed in people’s minds, it has found promoters in every time and place, even from the Samaritan high priest

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1 The most famous English historian, Gibbon, stated in Volume 5 of his book that the rabbis and monks, after the advent of Islam, distorted and changed many texts in the Bible and the Torah, as mentioned in the Qur’an

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