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Salam Aleykoum,

John J. Parsons wrote some article dedicated to the hebrew word emet, suggesting that the "Truth" is adressed to a person:

"Indeed, Pilate’s famous question, „What is truth?” is a category mistake, since truth is not about ‘what’ but about ‘Who’."

The text was taken from: http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Glossary/Word_of_the_Week/Archived/Emet/emet.html

also he said in another article:

"The Hebrew word emet has a more concrete meaning than the English word for "truth" (the English word derives from the Greek/Western view of truth as a form of correspondence between language and reality, but invariably languished over epistemological questions that led, ultimately, to skepticism.)"

The text was taken from:
http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Grammar/Unit_One/Jesus_and_the_Aleph-Bet/jesus_and_the_aleph-bet.html

As for the rest what he said about the Mesaiah (Pbuh) we do not necessarily agree.
In the Quran it can be found a following verse which implies that Muhammad (Pbuh) is a personal Truth:

كَيْفَ يَهْدِي اللَّهُ قَوْمًا كَفَرُوا بَعْدَ إِيمَانِهِمْ وَشَهِدُوا أَنَّ الرَّسُولَ حَقٌّ وَجَاءَهُمُ الْبَيِّنَاتُ ۚ وَاللَّهُ لَا يَهْدِي الْقَوْمَ الظَّالِمِينَ

YUSUF ALI TRANSLATION

’’How shall Allah Guide those who reject Faith after they accepted it and bore witness that the Messenger was true and that Clear Signs had come unto them? but Allah guides not a people unjust.’’    (Quran 3:86)

The arabic text of this 'ayah' contains the word "Haqqun" (حَقٌّ) which is synonymous with "al-Haqqu" (الحَقُّ). Now if Amint is indeed an original form of the word "emeth" then even in this way it refers to Muhammad (Pbuh), because Amin was his title by which people know him (the Honest, the Reliable and the Trustworthy). In Qurtubi’s tafsir on sura 2:146 we can find a following hadith:

ورُوِيَ أنّ عمر قال لعبد اللَّه بن سَلاَم: أتعرف محمداً صلى الله عليه وسلم كما تعرف ٱبنك؟ فقال: نعم وأكثر، بعث الله أَمِينه في سمائه إلى أَمِينه في أرضه بنعته فعرفتُه، وٱبني لا أدري ما كان من أُمّه

It was narrated that Omar said to Abdullah bin Salam: "Do you recognize Muhammad (Pbuh) as you recognize your son ?" Yes, and even better ! Allah sent His celestial "Amin" (Gabriel) to His earthly "Amin" (Muhammad/Ahmed) by his attributes (or titles) so I recognized him, as for my son I’m not sure whether he is from his mother.

The Jews believed that "emeth" or 'eh'meth' (actually 'Amint' in original form) is a "Seal of God". Now, we muslims know that the arabic word "Amin" was a unique title of Prophet Muhammad and... also expresses acceptance of our supplication during salat (prayer), and we consciously pronounce it all the time at the end of sura al'Fatiha ! Could this be a "Seal of God" or Seal of God's final message to humanity, the devine message that which - more than 1,400 years ago - brought the "Seal of Prophets" ie. Muhammad (Pbuh)?

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Salam Aleykoum,

I found some interesting material produced by a well known scholar of Hebrew, Sanskrit, and other ancient languages. He is a Writer and Researcher on comparative religion, Missionary and Debator of Islam.

I will quote some passage from Chapter 7 of his book (I think it's worthy of attention):

"The Spirit of Truth, or perfect truthfulness, or the perfection of truth from every point of view, is called pneuma tes aletheias in Greek and emet(h) in the Old Testament.23 The term emeth is derived from the root ’aman,24 that is to say, the Paraclete will be Amin, i.e., truthful from every point of view. And this was the name by which the Holy Prophet was well known among the people even prior to the Call. According to the Hebrew lexicon, the meaning of this term is ‘to be honest and truthful’, not only in money matters but in a much broader sense, as its significance is: faithfulness, trustworthiness, permanence, sureness and security. But its meaning as perfect truthfulness is commonly found in the Bible. From a linguistic and etymological point of view, emet(h) and Ahmad are parallel to each other. The Holy Prophet Muhammad alone revealed the whole truth about God, His unity and religion, and rectified the impious libels written and believed against His holy prophets. In Jewish scriptures, emet(h) is called the seal of God. According to the Prophet Daniel, the seal of God is the book or scripture of truth.25 In the same book, the emet(h) spoken of is apparently the religion of God. In respect of emet(h) the prophet David has sung:

“O Lord, who shall sojourn in thy tent? Who shall dwell on thy holy hill? He who walks blamelessly, and does what is right, and speaks truth [emet(h)] from his heart; who does not slander with his tongue, and does no evil to his friend, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbour; in whose eyes a reprobate is despised, but who honours those who fear the Lord; who swears to his own hurt and does not change; who does not put out his money at interest,
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23. “Truth is the first of all perfections. The Hebrew word for truth is Emeth. It is composed of three letters: Aleph, Mem, and Thaw. The Aleph and the Thaw are the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet … Thus the term Emeth (truth) begins with the first letter of the alphabet and ends with the last. This led the Jewish sages to find in this word a mystical meaning.” — The Catholic Encyclopaedia, edited by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York, 1907, art. ‘Alpha and Omega’. 24. The original form of emet(h) is amint, which then changed in pronunciation to emet(h). 25. Daniel, 10:21.
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and does not take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved.” 26

These aspects of emet(h) are corroborated in Isaiah.27 The part of the verse in Zechariah:

“… render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace” 28
reads literally:

“Truth [emet(h)] and judgment of peace [shalom] judge within your gates”
which may be interpreted as follows: “Ahmad will judge with justice and bring Islam to your gates”. Emet(h) is eulogized by the name Ma‘et in ancient Egyptian religion, and Ma‘et has frequently:

“a purely intellectual connotation; it then means ‘truth’.” 29
It is also written:

“Maat was the goddess of truth.” 30

By designating him as pneuma tes aletheias or ‘Spirit of Truth’, Jesus did not give a sign of the promised Paraclete like the sign that he shall be born without the agency of a human father, or that wise men from the East shall come to worship him, or that he shall walk on water, or that he shall change a sta into a serpent, or that, spitting into someone’s mouth, he shall restore his power of speech.31 However wonderful and strange be these works, they are all the same impermanent and transitory. The greatest attribute of the Holy Prophet is to be the ‘Spirit of Truth’ (pneuma tes aletheias), an embodiment of righteousness and truth, fidelity, sincerity, punctuality in keeping promises, and teaching true doctrines. Another argument that emet(h) is Ahmad is that there is a tradition of the Jews relating that some righteous men of the temple implored the Most High God to banish Satan, who was the root cause of all sin and suffering, bag and baggage from the world. Upon this a wrapped-up book descended
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26. Psalms, 15:1–5. 27. Isaiah, 33:15. 28. Zechariah, 8:16. 29. Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, Edited by James Hastings, art. ‘Ethics and Morality (Egyptian)’, vol. 5, p. 475. 30. Ibid., art. ‘Egyptian Religion’: 40. Abstract gods, vol. 5, p. 249. 31. Mark, 7:33; John, 9:6.
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from heaven on which was written ‘Truth’ (emeth). Thereafter a lion of fire came out of the temple and ran away. It was idolatry and polytheism which had abandoned the earth.32 In this connection, it is written in the Catholic Encyclopaedia, quoting the Jewish Encyclopedia:

“This legend shows that the seal of God is truth.33

In the New Catholic Encyclopedia, the meaning of emeth is given as follows:

“aleph-mem-tau = ’eˇmet, truth or fidelity” 34

This scripture of truth is the Holy Quran, in several verses of which it has been called ‘the Truth’. For instance, “Say: The Truth has come and falsehood vanished.” And it came to pass accordingly when the Holy Prophet, after the conquest of Makka, entered the Ka‘ba and smote every idol with his stick, reciting this verse:

“And say: The Truth has come and falsehood vanished. Surely falsehood is ever bound to vanish.” 35

The idols fell down broken into pieces, and Satan came out of the Ka‘ba and ran away from the whole of Arabia for ever. Whatever Jesus is reported to have said regarding the promised Paraclete, he must have spoken not in Greek, but in the language of the Jewish scriptures, and the word spoken could only be emeth (Ahmad), for this term is very widely known among the Jews and is regarded as a word of secret power, the recital whereof drives away all di culties and troubles. In emet(h), which is a mystic syllable, there are three letters, A-M-T. According to the Hebrew script, A or aleph is the first letter, T or taw is the last, and M or mem is the middle one. These three letters in a way predominate and prevail over the entire Hebrew alphabet, just as we say in English “from A to Z”. The Jews call it emet(h). But from another point of view, emet(h) was not a meaningless term. It means ‘Truth’ or ‘all in all Truth’, an anthology of virtues, i.e., Praised One or Ahmad.

(Muhammad in World Scriptures by Maulana Abdul Haq Vidyarthi, Vol 1, pp. 389-391)

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Salam Aleykoum,

I've made a small research and unfortunately in Ancient Aramaic "Codex Khabouris" the word truth (ܫܪܪܐ) used in John 18:37-38 simply means truth because you will see the same word appears in many other places in the NT.

source: http://dukhrana.com/lexicon/word.php?adr=2:22295&font=Estrangelo+Edessa&size=125%

http://dukhrana.com/peshitta/sedra_concordance.php?adr=2:22295&font=Estrangelo+Edessa&size=125%&source=ubs

So we can not identify this word which we talking about (Ah'meth) through this manuscripts unless we discover the original form of it in another source for example in the Qumran scrolls.

I'm not sure what these shortcuts means such as "Man" (male???) or "Syr" (Syriac???) below:

2 truth Syr, Man. --(a) ܡܢ ܫܪܪܐ : truthfully;
source: http://cal1.cn.huc.edu/getlex.php?coord=620410533&word=16

In regards to the previous word ie. before "truth", according to "The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon" the original aramaic word (ܡܢܘ) "manuw" that have been used here literally means "who" so there is no doubt that it refers to a person !!!

source: http://cal1.cn.huc.edu/getlex.php?coord=620400307&word=14

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As-Salamu Aleykoum,

there is some interesting passage in the New Testament in which Jesus probably mentioned the name Ahmed (the prophetic name of Muhammad - Pbuh):

John 18:37 Pilate asked him, "So you are a king?" Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. I was born for this, and I came into the world for this: to testify to the truth. Everyone who is committed to the truth listens to my voice."
 
John 18:38  Pilate asked him, "What is 'truth'?" After he said this, he went out to the Jews again and told them, "I find no basis for a charge against him.
 
If you read this verse carefully you would notice that there is something wrong with it’s context. I mean the question that Pilate adressed to Jesus (Pbuh) when he heard: „testify to the truth”. Note that after hearing this, Pilate asked him in a very strange way: ''What is ‘truth’’’ ? just like he didn’t understand what this word means ! The big question then is why he said: "What is 'truth'?" instead of saying: "What ‘truth’?" ??? Well, if we suppose as various English translations of the Bible says that Pilate asked Jesus „What is truth ?’’ it does not make sense, since historically Pilate was a judge and he dealt with lies and truth almost every day, so how did he not know what truth is ? Even from a grammatical point of view the formulated question (poses by Pilate) that we find in various translation of the Gospel of John it is incorrect ! But now you will be really surprised. Ready ? In the Ancient Aramaic Scriptures, Pilate in John 18:38 says here: ’’Who is the Truth ?’’ !!!

Source : http://www.v-a.com/bible/

’’Who’’ ??? Every one know that „who” is a form of interrogative pronoun i.e. part of speech which applies only to a person ! But the word ’’truth’’ actually stands for a noun not for a person. Now it is very important to know that the hebrew word for ‘’truth’’ is ’emeth’ (אמת) and according to Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew Bible it correctly pronounced as eh’meth ! As we have seen above, the translation of this verse in the Ancient Aramaic Scriptures indicates that the hebrew word eh'meth - in this case - must refer to the person and not to a thing. This word eh’meth corresponds to Ahmed in view of their phonetic spelling. Apparently this word was a foreign word for Pilate and looks like that made him to ask: „Who is Eh’meth ?” or more probably „Who is Ahmed ?” implying that he was not asking about the truth (which is just a noun) but about a man named Ahmed (person)! That mystery word forced Pilate to repeat what he heard by asking "Who is Ahmed?", and it shows that he realized that Jesus was talking about a person. It is possible !

It becomes quite clear and does make sense because the Qur'an gives exactly the same witness from the mouth of Jesus (Pbuh):

And [mention] when Jesus, the son of Mary, said, "O children of Israel, indeed I am the messenger of Allah to you confirming what came before me of the Torah and bringing good tidings of a messenger to come after me, whose name is Ahmed."   (Quran 61:6)

MY OPINION

I believe that Jesus in John 18:37 was trying to say „I came into this world for, that I should bear witness to Ahmed” and Allah knows best!

Unfortunately, the problem is that the word eh’meth or emeth appears 56 times in the Bible ! So I want to know how to explain it to prove that the word for Ahmad is mentioned only in specific places. Together we can solve our problems :)

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Assalamou Aleykoum,

Tafsir for 77:5

http://www.altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=7&tSoraNo=77&tAyahNo=5&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=1

http://www.qtafsir.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1448&Itemid=133

That could be an allusion to the following verse:

"Except whom He has approved of messengers, and indeed, He sends before each messenger and behind him observers. That he may know that they have conveyed the messages of their Lord; and He has encompassed whatever is with them and has enumerated all things in number."    (Quran 72:27-28)

NOTE: "observes" in the above verse is the angels. The Revelation for the prophets and messengers bring only Gabriel (AS). This is his main function and Allah knows best !

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Salam Aleykoum

Did you know that Prophet Moses (PBUH) gave the exact time of the appearance of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) ??? It can be found in one of the Jewish apocrypha Pseudepigrapha under the title "Assumption of Moses" (also known as The Testament of Moses) and in Chapter 10, Moses foretold the advent of some Prophet who will establish the Kingdom of God. Actually I was shocked when I read that for first time. This is Amazing! What you know and what you can say about this testimony ?

The book "ASSUMPTION OF MOSES"

Chapter 10 of the ‘Testament’, indicates its main and central theme. It relates the advent of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). Some of its lines are reproduced below:

And then His kingdom shall appear throughout all His creation,
(…)
And He will appear to punish the Gentiles,
 And He will destroy all their idols.
And do thou, Joshua (the son of) Nun, keep these words and this book; 
For from my death [assumption] until His advent there shall be CCL times (Year weeks) (i.e. 250 year weeks i.e. 250*7 = 1750 years).

The meanings of the original Hebrew word (according to its idiomatic usage in that context), which has been translated here in English as ‘times’, are ‘year weeks’ as explained by the editor. The ‘year week’ stands for ‘seven years’, in the same way as the ‘day week’ stands for ‘seven days’. Consequently ‘250 year weeks’ will mean ‘ 250 x 7 years, i.e. 1750 years’.

ESTABLISHING 1750 YEARS AFTER MOSES (PBUH) DEATH

Above passage foretells the advent of the ‘kingdom of God’, which is to be established 1750 years after the death of Moses (PBUH). To appreciate the exact personality that was to establish the foretold ‘kingdom of God’, first of all we have to find out the point of time in the world history that falls 1750 years after the death of Moses (PBUH).

- Exodus of Israelites under Moses (PBUH) from Egypt during the period of Pharaoh Rameses II who ruled Egypt ( 1290 to 1224 BC) i.e. Rameses II drowned and died in 1224 BC. [Oxford Bible Atlas] & [ Exodus 14:5-18,21-23,26-28]
- Israelites wondered for forty years in Sinai before entering into the land of Canaan. Moses (pbAh) died at the end of this forty-year wandering in the wilderness before the entry of the Israelites into the Promised Land of Canaan under the leadership of Joshua son of Nun. It shows that Moses (pbAh) died in the year 1184 BC (1224-40=1184). That the Israelites had wandered in Sinai for forty years after the announcement of this punishment for their misbehavior in Sinai and before their entry into the Promised Land of Canaan.

- The punishment of forty years wandering in the wilderness had not started just after the entrance of the Israelites into Sinai. There had elapsed a number of events and misdeeds of the Israelites stretching on a long time that justified this heavy punishment. The description of this period is stretched in the Bible on 26 chapters of the book of Exodus, complete book of Leviticus (27 chapters), and fourteen chapters of the book of Numbers; which make a total of 67 chapters. It would have definitely taken at least four years of the sinful activities of the Israelites to justify the pronouncement of the punishment of forty years wandering into the wilderness of Sinai.
It means that Moses (PBUH) would have died almost forty four years after the death of Rameses II who died of drowning in the sea in the year 1224 BC. As such the year of the death of Moses (PBUH) becomes 1180 BC (1224-44=1180). It can thus be affirmed that the gap between the death of Moses (PBUH) and the birth of Jesus Christ (PBUH) is 1180 years.

Birth Year of Muhammad (PBUH)

It is almost unanimously held that Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was born in AD 570.
Geo. W. Gilmore observes in his article ‘Mohammed, Mohammedanism’:
Mohammed, ‘The Praised,’ the posthumous son of AbduAllah, a member of the Koraish tribe, by Aminah, was born at Mecca Aug. 20, 570, and died at Medina June 8, 632.

Moses (PBUH) foretold about none other than Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in his prophecy recorded in the ‘Assumption of Moses’

It can thus be appreciated that the number of years from the death of Moses (PBUH) till the birth of Jesus (PBUH) is 1180 years; and the number of years from the birth of Jesus (PBUH) till the birth of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) is 570. Now 1180+570 make nothing else than 1750 years. It reveals that Moses (PBUH) foretold about none other than Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in his prophecy recorded in the ‘Assumption of Moses’. It should also be borne in mind that there is only one prominent figure in the annals of history that fulfils this prophecy of the ‘Assumption of Moses’ in letter and spirit. It is only the person of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), and none other than he. He came exactly after 1750 years from the death of Moses (PBUH). As such, there remains no justifiable reason to denying the sincerity of the claim to the apostolate of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) for an honest, impartial, and unbiased person.

Provenance
The book "ASSUMPTION OF MOSES" consisted of 12 chapters, originally of 1,100 stichoi [lines], about half of which had been discovered. This ‘Assumption of Moses’. According to the Introduction of this book by its editor, it was originally written in Hebrew, between AD 7 and 29. A Greek version of it appeared in the first century AD. The Greek version was translated into Latin not later than the fifth century. Included in ‘The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament in English’, Vol. II, edited by R. H. Charles in conjunction with many scholars, (The Oxf. Univ. Press, 1979), pp. 414-24, with an Introduction to this ‘Assumption’, pp. 407-13.  It was first published in 1913. Please download "Muhammad foretold in the bible by Name" Courtesy Abdus Sattar Ghauri (Al Mawrid Institute of Islamic Sciences) for full details

link: http://neurotherapy-of-christian-brain.blogspot.com/2012/11/26-proofs-from-bible-on-muhammads.html

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It's my pleasure brother, I'm glad that we can create together such as this beautiful work.
This will be insha'allah the strongest, the irrefutable proof - about the prophecy of Muhammad (PBUH) in Bible - that Christians never break ! maybe in their dreams !
My brothers, it's impossible to refute this evidence so let their foggy eyes open widely at last ! Allahu akbar and Alhamduli'llah ! Thank you God for this

Salam Aleykom, take care brothers and sisters :)

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Salam Aleykoum brother,

No problem my brother :) certainly when I'll find an another interesting research I'll put this here for our investigations and dua for all who seek the truth about Islam :)

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Salam Aleykom to every one,

exploring the resource of internet I've just found a really interesting investigation made by our brother Abdullah ben Isa/Al Abdul'Jabbar. Namely, a very detailed work about the prophecy of prophet Ahmad in the Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS). This book is written in Arabic language, so is there anyone can translate it to English ? It is a great job, the exhausting and stately attention an analysis of Isaiah's manuscript. That's what we looked for my brothers :) Let's all join together our strengths and translate it to English. Can you imagine ? This will be a powerful dua for those seeking the truth !!! dzazakom Allahu hayra :)

here is the link to the book:

https://ia601605.us.archive.org/21/items/AlmasehNet/almaseh_net.pdf

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Salamu Aleykum,

well, actually brother I meant directly proof like this one:

http://khazarzar.skeptik.net/biblia/syriac_s/index.htm

Finally I found it ! but thank's anyway :)

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No one answer to my post ! Thank's my brother ! Salam

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As'Salam Aleykum,

my dear brother, I'm looking for the original text of Codex Syriacus (written in fifth century C.E) from the of John 14:26 that which begins: "Paraclete, the Spirit"; and not "Paraclete, the Holy Spirit." Please help, I need this to prove it in my future work "The Detailed Prophecy about Muhammad in the Bible" in Polish language inshallah ! Dzazaka'llahu khayran  :)

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