The greatest Omen in the New Testament of the final Prophet (Muhammad) is Jesus' omen about the Paraclete. John’s Bible is distinguished by mentioning Jesus' omen of this Prophet, where he says to his followers: “If you love me, you will obey what I command, and I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever—the spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you……” “If anyone loves me, he will obey my teachings. The Father will love him, and will come to him and make our home with him. He who does not love me will not obey my teachings. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me. All this I have spoken while still with you. But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you…..” “I have told you now before it happen, so that when it does happen you will believe. I will not speak with you much longer, for the prince of this world is coming. He has no hold on me-“ John 14, 15-30

In the next chapter, Jesus asks his followers to sustain his commandments, and then says: “When the Counselor comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father, he will testify about me. And you also must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning” John 15, 26

“All this I have told you so that you will not go astray. They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God….” “Because I have said these things, you are filled with grief. But I tell you the truth: it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. When he comes, he will convict the world of guilt in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment: in regard to sin, because men do not believe in me; in regard to righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer; and in regard to judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned. I have much more to say to you, more than you can bear. But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. He will bring glory to me by taking from what is mine and making it known to you.” John 16, 1-14

In these lines, Jesus spoke of the characteristics of his successor. Who is that successor??

Christians and “the Paraclete”:

Christians say “The Holy Spirit comes at Pentecost, When the day of Pentecost came; they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.” Acts 2, 1-4

The New Testament’s chapters speak no more about what happened on the day of Pentecost regarding the raising of the Christ. Father Athnasios in his interpretation of John’s Bible states “Paraclete, is the Holy Spirit, the counselor “But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name”(John 14, 26) is the one who descended upon them on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2, 1-4) so they filled with him and went to spread the word, and he is with the Church and within the believers. He is a gift with faith and baptism.”

Muslims and “ the Paraclete”:

Muslims believe that what John mentioned about the Counselor is a foreseeing of Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) for so many indication. One of which is the word “Counselor” which is a new replacement of the new translations of the New Testament, where the old Arabic translations (1820, 1831, 1844AD) used the Latin word “Paraclete” as it is. Same is done with many international translations.

In explanation to the term “Paraclete”, it is a Latin originated word, derived either from:-

The word Paraclytos which means Counselor, or helper. Or

The word Peroclotos which is near the meaning of Muhammad and Ahmad (to be thanked)

Father Athnasios, Bishop of Bani-Sowaif, in his interpretation of John’s Bible states “The term Paraclete if manipulated can be pronounced Perclyte which means “Praise”, a meaning close to the meaning of Ahmad”

Mr. Abdul-Wahab Al-Naggar asks Dr. Carlo Nilno (PhD of Ancient Jewish Greek literature) about the meaning of the term “Perclotos”, who replies “it means the one with lots of Praise”

Meanwhile, what confirms the incorrectness of this translation is that the Greeks were accustomed to add the letter “s” at the end of names not adjectives.

Mr. Abdul-Ahad Dawod thinks that Church’s interpretation of the term “Paraclete” (as a person whom is called to help, an intercessor, an attorney, or a mediator) is incorrect. And that the Greek word “Paraclete” is none of these meanings. Since “Counselor” mean “Paraclov” or “Paregoris” in Greek, whereas an “Attorney” is an Arabic translation of the term “Sangers”. “Intercessor” and “mediator” are “Meditia” in Greek. Therefore, Church’s refrain from the meaning “Praise” to any of those meaning is some kind of perversion or alteration.

Dr. Simpson (Author of “The Holy Spirit, or a higher force”) states that “Counselor” is not a precise translation.

All the above shows that there is a conflict between Muslims and Christians in the Latin origin of the term “Paraclete”, as Muslims believe that its origin is the term “Perclotos”, and that Christians have misinterpreted it in order to conceal its indication of the meaning of the name “Ahmad” (the one with lots of Praise). Such misinterpretation is not strange or awkward for their books. The same while translating or reprinting, some twisting, misspelling or change in names could occur. For example, “Parpas” in the protestant version is “Parpa” in the catholic version. The same with “Mesaia – Mashih” and “Shelon – Sheloh” and so on. “Paraclete” is translated from Syriac, native language of the Christ, therefore, the same twisting might occur.

To clear the distortion from this point, Edwin Jones in his book (The beginning of Christianity) admits that “Paraclete” is a sign form “Mohammad (may Allah exalt his mention).but then again covers his confession with a lame lie by saying that Christians – influenced by emerging Islam and Islamic culture – have inserted this term to John’s Bible.

The Paraclete is a human prophet not a Holy Spirit:

It makes no difference whether the meaning of Paraclete is “Ahmad” or “Counselor”, Since Jesus stipulated some characteristics that declines the meaning of “Holy Spirit”, and confirms that the Paraclete is a human being was sent by Allah. It is very clear through deep analysis of John’s texts about “Paraclete”.

John used some verbal senses (talking, hearing, etc) “he will speak only what he hears”. Those characteristics do not apply to the “tongues of fire” that came to them on the day of Pentecost, since John never mentioned that the “tongues of fire” spoke that day. Besides, what the spirit does is heart inspiration while talking is a human characteristic not spiritual.

Early Christians believed that John was talking about a human being, that in the second century (187 A.D.) a “Montenos” claimed to be the Paraclete. The same during the fourth century A.D. with “Many”, who chose twelve students (like Jesus) in addition to seventy bishops whom he sent to the eastern countries, in a clear indication that they didn’t believe that the third hypostasis (Holy Spirit) is the Paraclete.

Another characteristic that this messenger comes after Jesus departs from earth, since Jesus and the counselor messenger would never be together on earth, confirming once more that the counselor is not the Holy Spirit who supported Jesus during his life. “Unless I go away, the Counselor will not come to you”

The Holy Spirit existed before Jesus, and was in the students before Jesus left, since it witnessed the creation of heaven and earth (Genesis 1/2). It even played some role in the birth of Jesus, Since Jesus’ mother “was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit” (Matthew 1/18)

They gathered also on the day Jesus was baptized “and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove” (Luke 3/22). So, the Holy Spirit was with Jesus and even before. Therefore, the counselor - “Unless I go away, the Counselor will not come to you” – is not the Holy Spirit.

Another indication that Paraclete is human, that he is the same as Jesus, who was human “I ask the Father to give you another counselor”. In the Greek text the word “allon” is used, which is used to indicate “another of the same kind” while the word “Hetenos” is used when referring to “another of another kind”. In this sense, it would be fair to assume that the meaning is “another prophet” since we can not presume the meaning “another Holy Spirit” for the Holy Spirit is one unit.

Because Jews and followers of Jesus will not believe the forthcoming prophet, Jesus stresses that they must believe in the forthcoming prophet and follow him. “If you love me, you will obey what I command”, “I have told you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe”, and confirms his honesty by saying “he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come” All these commandments have no meaning if the forthcoming is the Holy Spirit, who descended in the form of “tongues of fire” with the effect of them knowing many languages. Such entity needs no one to prove its honesty. Also the Holy Spirit is one part of the Trinity, and all Christians should believe in his, why then should Jesus tell them to believe in him??

According to Christians, The Holy Spirit is equal to The Father in divinity. Therefore, he can speak for himself, while the forthcoming spirit of truth “will speak only what he hears”.

“I have much more to say to you, more than you can bear. But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth.”(John 16/12-13) This text indicates that the Paraclete will be coming in a later time, since he will tell them things they can’t understand, for humanity is still immature to understand this complete religion that includes different aspects of life. As well as it is impossible for the students to have matured within ten days from Jesus’ ascending to Heaven. No mention of such maturity was ever found in the testaments. Moreover, Christians mention that after the Holy Spirit descended, they abandoned many of their law and commandments that was easier than having more commandment than what they barred at Jesus’ time. While the Paraclete will bring more burdens to all week oppressed subjects as Allah said in Surat Al-Muzzamel, verse5 “Verily, We shall send down to you a weighty Word (i.e. obligations, legal laws, etc)”

Jesus told that before the coming of the Paraclete “They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God” and that was exactly what happened after the day of Pentecost, oppression of all followers of Jesus continued until there was almost no believers just before Islam emerged.

John mentioned that Jesus told his students about the characteristics of the Paraclete, which never applied to the Holy Spirit that came upon the students on the day of Pentecost that “he will testify about me. And you also must testify”, So, where’s the Holy Spirit’s testimony about Jesus?? And what was it about??

Whereas Muhammad (may Allah exalt his mention) testified about Jesus’ innocence of claiming divinity, and also about his mother’s innocence of what Jews accused her with “And because of their (Jews) disbelief and uttering against Maryam (Mary) a grave false charge “ (Surat An-Nisaa, Verse156)

“He will bring glory to me by taking from what is mine and making it known to you” and no one has praised Jesus like Muhammad (may Allah exalt his mention) did, when he gloried him and stipulated his honor above all creatures. Non of the new testimony’s chapters mentioned anything about the Holy Spirit praising Jesus on the day of Pentecost, where he descended in the form of tongues of fire.

Jesus said that the Paracelet will stay forever (his religion or commandments) while all the powers given to the students on the day of Pentecost – if true – vanished with their death, and never transferred to any of the church men. Whereas, our prophet Mohammad (may Allah exalt his mention) stays forever with his message and religion, and that there will be no prophet or message after him.

“..will remind you of everything I have said to you” Such reminder is not needed after ten days from Jesus’ ascendance. The new testimony never mentioned that the Holy Spirit reminded them with anything. On the contrary, we find in lots of their texts and messages many indications of prescription and forgetting some of the details mentioned by others. Whereas Muhammad (PBUH) mentioned everything humanity may have forgotten of Allah’s commands ever descended upon his prophets including Jesus (peace upon him).

The Paraclete has many tasks never achieved by the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost “When he comes, he will convict the world of guilt in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment” The Holy Spirit never convicted anyone on the day of Pentecost, That’s what Mohammad (PBUH) has done with infidel humanity.

Mr. Abdul-Ahad Dawood thinks that Jesus has interpreted (reproving the world of guilt in regard of righteousness) by saying “in regard to righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer” in other words that “he will reprove those saying that Jesus was crucified denying his surviving his enemies’ terror. Then he told them that they will ask for him and will not find him, for he will ascend to heaven “My children, I will be with you only a little longer. You will look for me, and just as I told the Jews, so I tell you know; where I am going, you cannot come.” (John 13/33). The forthcoming prophet will also reprove the devil and convict it with his inspiration and guidance “and in regard to judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned”

Convicting and reproving don’t go along with consolation, it was said that the counselor has come to the students to consulate the on the lose of their master and prophet. Consolation is due in crises, and Jesus was announcing his going and the coming of the successor.

Consolation is also due on time of crises, not 10 days after (the time of Holy Spirit’s descending upon the students), and why didn’t this counselor offer condolences to Jesus mother in the first place??

Then again, Christians should not consider Jesus murder as a crises, since in their believe, is the cause of deliverance and eternal happiness for humanity. Therefore, his murder should present a great joy, but Christians’ insistence that the students needed the consolation of the Holy Spirit corrupts the faith of redemption & deliverance.

Considering all the above, the Paraclete can never be the Holy Spirit. Since all the characteristics of the Paraclete tell of a prophet that will come after Jesus, the same prophet Moses once told of, The Paraclete “He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears” and the same with what Moses told “I will put my words in his mouth, and will tell them everything I command”(Deuteronomy 18/18), and this is a description of Mohammad (may Allah exalt his mention)  as Allah said in Surat An-Najm, Verses 3-5 “Nor does he speak of (his own) desire (3) It is only an Inspiration that is inspired (4) He has been taught (this Qur'ân) by one mighty in power (Gabriel)(5)”

Furthermore, everything mentioned about the Paraclete has indications in Quraan and Sunnah that strongly points out Mohammad (may Allah exalt his mention) as the one. He was the one testifying about Jesus, he was the one who knew the unknown, and he was the last prophet. Allah admitted his religion as the true religion till judgment day.

The bible text speaks in apparent contradictions to the following subject of salvation. According to Johanna, Jesus said to Samurai in the context of his talking about Jesus: “Because the salvation is from the Jews)" Johanna 4/22). But this matter is mentioned in a lot of other texts in the Bible and the Old Testament, which throw doubt on the correctness of the issue of this statement from Jesus, especially, that it is mentioned apparently in the context in which it is mentioned. We found here that it is worthy to mention the texts of the holy bible that indicate the possibility of the transfer of the prophecy from Israel to another nation like the Arab?

Allah has sent a lot of prophets to the people of Israel, but they didn't believe them and killed them. Let’s contemplate what is said by the prophet about this insurgent nation, in order to find whether it deserves the permanency of blessing and selection. Mousses said about them: “They are a nation that have neither opinion nor insight, if they were reasonable, they would comprehend this and contemplate the afterworld-" 32/28

And he said: " a distorted and indirect generation, how they are awarded whereas they are stupid and unwise people?-"the repetition 32/5-6

The same was said by Elias: " I have felt the same jealousy of God, the God of the soldiers, because the people of Israel have left your convention and breach your slaughters, in addition they killed your prophets by sword. Then I was left alone, and they wanted to kill me-" Kings (Al-Mlouk) (1) 19/10

The same description, Allah described them in the book of the prophet Hazkial: ”Allah said to me: I send you to the people of Israel, to an insurgent nation that was insurgent with me and were disobedient to me until this day. And I send you to the cruel and the hard-hearted people to tell them: all what God say. They may obey or not, because they are insurgents. They know that a prophet has been sent to them. As for you, do not be afraid of them and from their speech. Do not be afraid, because you live among the scorpions. Do not be afraid of their speech and do not get scared from their cruel faces, because they are insurgents. You have to speak with them according to My speech, they may obey or not, Because they are insurgents. Hazkial 2/3-8

Also this was said about them by the prophet Ishia: " Skies hear and you the earth listen, because God is speaking, I have brought up sons, as for them they disobeyed me. The bull knows its sponsor and the donkey knows its owner, as for the people of Israel they don't know, my nation did not understand. Woe unto the mistaken nation, people full of sins, the children of the evil-committer. A corrupted generation, who left God and despise the sanity of Israel, you will increase your deviation, every one is ill and every heart is atheist. From the feet until the head there is not any sanity but injury, depression and a soft hit which is not moisten by oil- "Ishia 1/1-6.

When Jesus came he called Jerusalem: "You the killer of the prophets "Matta 13/37 ( For the great number of prophets who were killed on its land. Jesus said while talking to their groups :” Woe unto you the writers and the hypocrite Pharisee…. Woe unto you the blinded leaders… the ignorant and blinded men… the snakes the sons of the serpents, how dare you to escape from the doom of the hell, therefore I sent to you prophets, wise men and the writers, whom you will kill and crucify, while you will whip others in your gathering… Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the killer of the prophets "…Matta 23/13-37

Is this a nation that deserves to have the welfare and the prophecy on its land? If no, then which nation is the selected one? Which nation other than the nation that is promised by welfare repeatedly; that's of the sons of Isma'eel (peace be upon him)? There is not any nation that don't pretend being the selected nation    

The prophets followed in succession and they predicted the coming of the final prophet. They mentioned his characteristics and his condition and the most important of these characteristics that he isn`t from Israel, he has a law [sharia] that lasts forever, he will defeat his enemies and his message will be for the welfare of all nations.

These characteristics didn`t exist in anyone of the prophets except him. And the christains can`t describe any of the prophets by such predictions-that they admitted that they were true- except him. That Mosses and Jesus were prophets to Israel only. And Mosses has a law [sharia] and his followers defeated their enemies.But for Jesus,he didn`t have an independent law [Sharia],but he came with Mosses`law and its completeness.Jesus is the one who said: 

”Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets;I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them”Matthew 5/17.

And also he wasn`t destined to defeat his enemies, but the chirstians said that he had been crucified. So how can it be said that one of them is the chosen who defeats his enemies and the nations wait for him?

The oldest written predictions that spoke about the final prophet were mentioned in Jacob`s advise to his sons before his death when he said to them:

“There is not any rod that will move from Judaic and legislated from in between them until shilon came and to him all the nations will submit”

the genesis [al-takwin]49/10

The translations differ in three words of the text.Some replace the word ”Rod” with the king or the scepter,and all of them have the same meaning .Also it replaced the word “legislator” with the disposer or the arranger,and they are near in the meaning of the legislator and the disposer of his people.

But the most important difference is in the word”shilon” which remained as it is in most of the translations. In another Hebrew translation, it has been written”until the coming of Jesus” The priest Ibraham Locas interpreted “shilon” as Jesus and considered it a correct translation for the Hebrew word “shilon”. The American edition of the Holy Bible mentioned in its margin that ”shilon”  means safety or the one who has.

 So what is the proper meaning of the word “shilon” in which the prophecy rotates?

According to the Bible, God said to Moses, on whom be peace: I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers; I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him. (The Holy Bible, New International Version, Deuteronomy chapter 18, verse 18). The prophet described in the above verse must have the following three characteristics:

 1. He will be like Moses.

2. He will come from the brothers of the Israelites, i.e. the Ishmaelites.

3. God will put His words in the mouth of the prophet and he will declare what God commanded him. Let us see which prophet God was speaking of.

1. The prophet like Moses Some people feel that this prophecy refers to the prophet Jesus, on whom be peace. But, although Jesus (peace be upon him and all of God’s prophets and messengers) was truly a prophet of God, he is not the prophet spoken of here. He was born miraculously, and finally God raised him up miraculously. On the other hand, Muhammad is more like Moses; both were born in a natural way and both died natural deaths.

2. From among the Ishmaelites Abraham had two sons, Ishmael and Isaac (Genesis, chapter 21). Ishmael became the grandfather of the Arab nation. And Isaac became the grandfather of Jewish nation. The prophet spoken of was to come not from among the Jews themselves, but from among their brothers, the Ishmaelites. Muhammad a descendant of Ishmael, is indeed that prophet.

3. God will put his words in his mouth ‘Neither the content of the revelation, nor its form, were of Muhammad’s devising. Both were given by the angel, and Muhammad’s task was only to repeat what he heard.’ (Word Religions from Ancient history to the Present, by Geoffrey Parrinder, p. 472).

God sent the angel Gabriel to teach Muhammad the exact words that he should repeat to the people. The words are therefore not his own; they did not come from his own thoughts, but were put into his mouth by the angel. These are written down in the Qur’an word for word, exactly as they came from God. Now that we know that prophet we must listen to him, for, according to the Bible, God says: ‘I will punish anyone who refuses to obey him’ (Good News Bible, Deut. 18:19).

Jesus (on whom be peace) In the Glorious Qur'an The Qur’an tells us many wonderful things about Jesus. As a result, believers in the Qur’an love Jesus, honor him and believe in him. In fact, no Muslim can be a Muslim unless he or she believes in Jesus, on whom be peace.

The Qur’an says that Jesus was born of a virgin, that he spoke while he was still only a baby, that he healed the blind and the leper by God's leave and that he raised the dead by God's leave. What then is the significance of these miracles? First, the virgin birth. God demonstrates His power to create in every way. God created everyone we know from a man and a woman. But how about Adam, on whom be peace? God created him from neither a man nor a woman. And Eve from only a man, without a woman. And finally, to complete the picture, God created Jesus from a woman, without a man. What about the other miracles? These were to show that Jesus was not acting on his own behalf, but that he was backed by God.

The Qur’an specifies that these miracles were performed by God's leave. This may be compared to the Book of Acts in the Bible, chapter 2, verse 22, where it says that the miracles were done by God to show that he approved of Jesus. Also, note that Jesus himself is recorded in the Gospel of John to have said: ‘I can do nothing of my own authority' (5:30).

The miracles, therefore, were done not by his own authority, but by God's authority. What did Jesus teach? The Qur'an tells us that Jesus came to teach the same basic message which was taught by previous prophets from God – that we must shun every false god and worship only the One True God. Jesus taught that he is the servant and messenger of the One True God, the God of Abraham. These Qur'anic teachings can be compared with the Bible (Mark 10:18; Matthew 26:39; John 14:28, 17:3, and 20:17) where Jesus teaches that the one he worshipped is the only true God. See also Matthew 12:18; Acts 3:13, and 4:27 where we find that his disciples knew him as ‘Servant of God’.

The Qur’an tells us that some of the Israelites rejected Jesus, and conspired to kill him, but God rescued Jesus and raised him to Himself. God will cause Jesus to descend again, at which time Jesus will confirm his true teachings and everyone will believe in him as he is and as the Qur'an teaches about him. Jesus is the Messiah. He is a word from God, and a spirit from Him. He is honored in this world and in the hereafter, and he is one of those brought nearest to God. Jesus was a man who spoke the truth which he heard from God. This can be compared with the Gospel According John where Jesus says to the Israelites: ‘You are determined to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God’ (John 8:40).