Prophet Muhammad (SAWLLALLAHU 'ALAYHI WA SALLAM) is mentioned by name in the Song of Solomon chapter 5 verse 16: "Hikko Mamittakim we kullo Muhammadim Zehdoodeh wa Zehraee Bayna Jerusalem." "His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem. Angelwill not depart from all who believe in the Lord, unless we drive him away by bad deeds ourselves. For as the bees drive away the smoke, as the Inthe Song of Solomon, chapter 5 verse 16, we read in Hebrew: "Hikko Mamittakim we kullo Muhammadim Zehdoodeh wa Zehraee Bayna Jerusalem." Does Muhammadim mean Prophet Muhammad (SAW)? Fast Money. Prophet Muhammad pbuh is mentioned by name in the Song of Solomon chapter 5 verse 16 “Hikko Mamittakim we kullo Muhammadim Zehdoodeh wa Zehraee Bayna Jerusalem.” “His mouth is most sweet yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem. Muhammadim in the symmetric languages, when you give respect. you add “im” to it , like “ila” is for God, “Ilohim” respect for God. So same thing to the name Muhammad PBUH they add “im” and it means. It says Muhammadim. So if you read the original text, The name of Muhammad PBUH is even mention in the bible. The name of Muhammad PBUH in scripture of most of the world religions including bible as i mentioned earlier that not only Prophet Muhammad is mentioned by name, Prophet Muhammad is prophecies in various different parts of the bible. Prophet Muhammad is prophecies book of deuteronomy Ch 18 Verse 18 and 19 and in the book of Isaiah Ch 29 verse 12 and in Song of Solomon Ch 5 verse 16. Prophet Muhammad is also prophecies in new testament Gospel of John Ch 14 verse 16 and Ch 15 verse 26 and again in Gospel og John Ch 16 verse 7 and Gospel of John Ch 165 verse 12-14 and in several places in the bible. So that’s what i asked my christian brother and sister that if its clearly mention about the last and final messenger Prophet Muhammad PBUH then why don;t they believe in them. Those Christian brother and sister who really study and analyse and do research, they are accepting Islam. The other who do not want to accept the truth even quoting from bible. I have come a cross some christian brothers saying, that I have been a christian since for 40 years and now you want me to change my religion, so it seems they are afraid, many times the ego comes in between and many times the society comes in between and many times sayings, many times what will my friends tell me and many times what would my customer tell me, so these things prevent our Christian brother and sister in accepting Islam,. What our christian brothers and sister failed to realize, they wouldn’t mind offending their creator just to please the family and friends. Pleasing of creator is more important than pleasing family and friends. So those who realize the Importance of creator almighty God, they accept Islam. Report Quite simply, no. The claim in the video series you linked is patently What is being claimed? The argument presented in your videos is based entirely on the following passage in the Old Testament book of Song of Solomon. Song of Solomon 516 ASV2 16 His mouth is most sweet; Yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem. I have highlighted the phrase in question here. The claim in the video is that the phrase translated here as altogether lovely is actually the proper name "Mohammed" with a respectful plural ending and is incorrectly translated to its meaning. The video and several other sites on the net suggest taking the root Hebrew word מחמד into an online translator. The results they show have two machine translation sites returning "Mohamed" as the Why doesn't this mean anything? The flaw in this argument is that it proves absolutely nothing. To show why, I will give some translation examples from a language I know well. While it is relatively rare in English with our mish-mash of nationalities, in many languages even today and even more so through history it is common for proper names to be based words with straight forward meanings in their native tongues. I have Turkish friends with names like Güven, Gül, Nehir and Pınar. In the previous sentences I capitalized them and from the context it is clear that those words refer to people, but these are the ordinary everyday words for trust, rose, river and spring respectively. In fact most of the people I know have names with similar ordinary meanings. If I were to say "Güven çiçekçiden bir gül aldı," Güven bought a rose from the florist there is absolutely no question from the context that I am using Güven as a proper name and gül as a type of flower. You don't even need the capitalization or know my friends names. The immediate context of the words makes it clear how they are being used. Back to your videos. The accusation is raised that "we have no right to translate names". This is, in itself, true. You will note that in the English translation I provided for the Turkish sentence above, I have done the work of interpreting it for you and retained the proper names but translated the words with ordinary meanings. If I had given the translation as "Trust bought a Gül from the florist", my competence with the language must be called into question. The issue before us is when to translate a word as a name and when to give the meaning. For this, we need the context and to understand the thing we're translating in the first place. What does the context tell us? Song of Solomon is a notoriously difficult book to translate. The Hebrew is difficult and sometimes obscure. Even when you sort out the words, it is difficult to interpret what it is all supposed to mean. Jews and Christians differ widely on what to do with the passage, and even among Christian traditions there is some debate as to what the imagery refers to. However, those interpretation difficulties do not concern us here. Whether or not the passage was intended as an allegory or a plain description, it is clear that the immediate context of the passage is a woman addressing her lover. Even with two different religions claiming this as a holy text and vast differences in interpretation, the simple translation of these particular words has never really been in doubt because the face value translation of מחמד to mean lovely fits the context of both the sentence and the book. The verses leading up to this are in the voice of the woman describing the physical characteristics of her man. His hair, his eyes, his legs, etc. are all described in terms of appeal and desire. Verse 16 starts out talking about how sweet his mouth is and then says that he is desirable as a whole. Given the context and the time it was written, there is not a shred of evidence this should be translated any other way than it has been in every one of hundreds of languages by thousands of translators. And the Hebrew? One of the basic claims in the video is that the -im suffix used on the Hebrew root word should be seen as a respectful plural just as it is in Arabic, where saying "Mohammed-im" does apparently4 have that effect. According to Gesenius the standard Hebrew Grammar, the respectful plural is quite foreign to Hebrew. The "let us" passages of Genesis, which many take as plural of majesty, Gesenius takes as self deliberation. In the verse above, the word מַחְמַד is correctly being translated 'lovely' and the suffix that makes the contextual form of מַחֲמַדִּים is a plural that intensifies the meaning, rendering the final translation 'altogether lovely'. This is not out of place. In fact the entire poem has similar constructs, including the previous line of the same verse. 'Very sweet' is one word, ממתקים, the root ממתק means 'sweet' and the plural makes it 'exceedingly sweet' or 'very sweet'.5 It is utterly irresponsible to take this standard grammar form that translates consistently as an intensifier on a series of adjective and render the final instance as a proper name just because it sounds like one in a later language and translate the suffix as a respectful plural according to the later language rather than the one in which it was written. But why does it sound the same? Lots of words in one language might be combined as a series of sounds and understood as something entirely different in another language. The videos include the sound of a Jewish Rabbi reading Hebrew text in question. To an ear that does not speak Hebrew, the combination of sounds making up the name Mohammed are clearly in there. Linguistically, this is just as absurd as the other line of reasoning. Just because a combination of sounds appearing in the normal course of a language sounds like something else in another language doesn't make it so. If I asked somebody on the street in Turkey "Where can I find a peach?" in English, they might look at me strange because they only word they heard in their own language was "bastard". Just because what used to be a root word in one language ends up sounding like a proper name in a later language does not mean that every instance of the original root word is a reference to a famous figure with the later name. The connection simply doesn't mean anything. And Jesus? Your question includes a one liner concerning a claim not actually found in your video Does Jesus predict the coming of Muhammad in the Bible? The simple answer to this is no. It is difficult to debunk this "claim" since you haven't even established in the question what the claim is, but let me do your homework for you. The Islamic Research Foundation makes the following claim which you will hear echoed throughout the Muslim world in various forms "Ahmed" or "Muhammad" meaning "the one who praises" or "the praised one" is almost the translation of the Greek word Periclytos. In the Gospel of John 1416, 1526, and 167. The word 'Comforter' is used in the English translation for the Greek word Paracletos which means advocate or a kind friend rather than a comforter. Paracletos is the warped reading for Periclytos. Jesus pbuh actually prophesised Ahmed by name. Even the Greek word Paraclete refers to the Prophet pbuh who is a mercy for all creatures. As far as I know, this is the only place the NT or Jesus is commonly claimed to mention Mohamed. I presume is is the subject of your inquiry. This claim, like the one above, is also patently ridiculous. There are several other variants of this, but they all hinge on really poor linguistics. Determining the meaning of the Greek word παράκληο in context is not easy. Greek scholar Raymond Brown is often cited by Muslim apologists on this issue because his translation of John keeps a transliteration of the Greek as a sort of name instead of translating the meaning as most other English translations have done and rendering it as helper, advocate, comforter or counselor. However, his intention was to clear up the usage and understand it better in context. His understanding of who/what fills the role referred to can be clearly seen from this quote Thus the basic function of the Paraclete are twofold he comes to the disciples and dwells within them, guiding and teaching them about Jesus; but he is hostile to the world and puts the world on trial. Whether Christian or secular, Greek scholars investigating this passage all conclude that this passage must be understood in context with the related passages from the same authors and time period that describe the coming of the Holy Spirit. Whether you believe in such a thing at all, it is clear that the disciples did based on Jesus words, and that Jesus words as recorded in Greek fit with their contemporary understanding. Only a series of linguistic flying-leaps can connect this usage with another word in another language that doesn't sound the same but happens to have a similar meaning. Here is a similar series of connections My name is derived from a Hebrew name having a connotation of "faithful". The Turkish for faithful is "sadık" which sounds a lot like "sağdıç" meaning groomsmen. Ergo my parents predicted that their son would be somebody's faithful best man. There are just too many unsupported jumps for this claim to hold water. Even the text from the IRF is worded with tentative phases such as "almost the translation of". They are making the jump from two words in two unrelated languages that have similar meanings to one being a prophecy of the other - in spite of other solid contextual evidence about the intended meaning being to the contrary. Footnotes Frankly this particular claim is one of the weaker ones made. There are several other verses more commonly cited as "proof" that hold more water than this one. There is an Isaiah verse with a similar translation issue. The case holds "more" water because at least it happens to be a prophecy, but still sinks because of the translation issue explained above. The usage of the ASV translation here was selected at random, the English translation used makes absolutely no difference to the argument. No serious translation work has translated this passage in any other way. While legitimate as far as it goes, I think it's somewhat telling that given the same input Google translator returns a clue in the form of the noun roots loveliness, delight, desire or charm. I didn't research the Arabic here, I'm only going off of the popular claim. Thanks to Frank Luke for some help with the Hebrew grammar here. This is Q&A Islamic sessions that provide an opportunity for individuals to ask questions and receive answers from experts or knowledgeable individuals in to solve the problem. In this time we receive a question from individual that asking “Who Is “Muhammadim” In The Song of Solomon?” and the question responded by the Imam below 14 March, 2018 Question Salam, I have a question regarding our prophet Muhammad PBUH in the Bible. In the Song of Solomon, chapter 5 verse 16, we read in Hebrew “Hikko Mamittakim we kullo Muhammadim Zehdoodeh wa Zehraee Bayna Jerusalem.” It means “His mouth is most sweet yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.” Islamic scholars claim “Muhammadim” is one of the places where Prophet PBUH is mentioned in the Bible. However, Christians claim that it does not refer to Muhammad because the whole chapter is about man-woman love story. So, is it Prophet Muhammad PBUH who is meant by “Muhammadim” in the Song of Solomon? Answer Thank you for contacting About Islam with your scholars have noted clear and undeniable prophecies found in the Bible both in the Old and New Testaments about the coming of the final these verses are quoted, the usual response of many Jews and Christians is a staunch denial of any such possibility. And among those who have cared to examine the Islamic evidences were unbiased persons who were eventually convinced of the truth of Islam and have subsequently become Muslims. Understanding the Background As you have said, one of these prophetic verses is from the Song of Solomon. Before we explain the context and meaning of the quoted verse, we need to understand the subject of the Song of Solomon and why it is considered a holy book inspired by God Almighty. Here, I quote the learned view of a Christian Bible scholar on the Song of Solomon This book has received more varied interpretations than perhaps any other book in the Bible. Some writers believe it presents the reader with the “greatest hermeneutical challenge in the Old Testament”. One excellent exegete called it “the most obscure book in the Old Testament” Franz Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Song of Songs and Ecclesiastes, quoted by Dr. Thomas L. Constable in his Notes on Song of Solomon There is no doubt that the Song of Solomon has a unique place among the books of the Bible because it is a love poem. Naturally, no one expects a love poem to be part of the Book revealed by God Almighty. The Christian Point of View Let us consider this question from the Christian point of view The Christian scholars quote the following verse from Paul’s Second Epistle to Timothy as giving clear criteria for judging inspired scripture [All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.] 2 Timothy 316, KJV Therefore, whatever is believed to have been revealed or inspired by God must serve one of the four purposes Either 1 it must teach us doctrine; 2 it must reprove us for our error; 3 it offers us correction; or 4 it guides us into righteousness. On examination, we can find the Song of Solomon failing to pass any of the above criteria. From a religious point of view 1 it does not teach any doctrine; nor does it even mention God; 2 it does not reprove us for any error on our part; 3 it does not offer us any sort of correction; and 4 it does not guide us into righteousness; rather it gives sensuous descriptions of physical intimacy in a frank language in a Book of God. Indeed, the difficulty of providing it a meaningful interpretation has caused some Christian readers to doubt its status as a part of scripture. An Allegory? The Song is apparently sung by Solomon in admiration of one woman, and it depicts faithful love to that woman; but Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines 1 Kings 113. This fact alone should be enough to cast doubts on the claim that Solomon wrote the Song in admiration of his sweetheart — a single person — glorifying fidelity and sincerity in love. The only possible apology for the inclusion of the Song in the Bible can come from the view that it is an allegory. The majority of interpreters favor this view. To them, what the writer said was only a symbolic husk for a deeper spiritual meaning that the reader must discover. Greg W. Parsons “Guidelines for Understanding and Utilizing the Song of Songs,” Bibliotheca Sacra 156624 October-December 1999399-422; quoted by Dr. Thomas L. Constable in his Notes on Song of Solomon Viewed from this angle, it would be wrong to take the Song of Solomon literally. Chiefly, because a love story for the sake of a love story does not have any place in scripture. This means that the Christians have to take one of the two reasonable positions Either they should consider the Song of Songs as non-canonical and reject it as possessing any scriptural value, or they should be prepared to accept it as an allegory, where language is used symbolically. And then the love story suddenly takes on new meanings which it did not possess before. Muhammadim The Praised One Now, let us take a closer look at the verse quoted [His mouth is most sweet yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.] Song of Solomon 516 The original Hebrew Bible has “Muhammadim” in the place of “altogether lovely”, but the translators rendered it “altogether lovely”. It should have been “the Praised One” — that is the correct meaning of “Muhammadim”. At the same time, “Muhammadim” happens to contain the name of the final prophet peace be upon him. This is what Muslims are quick to point out. They with very few exceptions do not study the context of the expression as found in the present Bible. The Christian contention is that the context does not warrant any one to claim that there is a clear reference here to the final prophet peace be upon him. Now, after considering the whole of the Song of Solomon and the context of the verse, we can say that if we take the Song as an allegory, and the epithet, “Muhammadim” as a description of “the beloved”, it is possible that the beloved is someone for whom a nation — or the world — was waiting for instance. And as has been argued above, there is a strong case for that. I want to underscore this point again. The Christian claim about the Song of Solomon, that it just tells a good love story, seems to contradict their defense of the Song as divinely inspired as the rest of the Bible. It follows logically that either the Song of Solomon is not divinely inspired, or there is a possibility of “Muhammadim” being a reference to the Last Prophet, Muhammad peace be upon him. I hope this answers your questions. Please keep in touch. Walaikum Asalam. 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