Islam - The Summit of Religious Evolution — Page 51
51 The prophecy gives additional signs for the Promised One: 36 "The everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow". This part of the prophecy also applies to the Holy Prophet of Islam. His stronger and well-equipped enemies (Roman and Persian empires), who are referred to as mountains and hills, were completely routed. This prophecy thus concludes with one final sign: 34 I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble. This part of the prophecy clearly shows that the Promised Prophet was to belong from somewhere outside Syria because those afflicted and frightened by the armies of the Promised One are to be in Cushan and Midian. The description cannot apply to Moses or Jesus. It applies only to the Prophet of Islam. During the Caliphate of Abu Bakr, the first successor of the Holy Prophet, a small and ill- equipped Muslim army captured Palestine after defeating the far superior Roman army of Kaiser. Notwithstanding the fact that Canaan was then under the Roman Kaiser, master of half the known world at the time, the superior forces of the Kaiser were crushed by the inferior Muslim forces. It was thus that the tents of Cushan were in affliction and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble. The people of these lands found their salvation in laying down their arms before the servants of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). THE PROPHECIES IN SONGS OF SOLOMON The Songs of Solomon describe the Promised Prophet, whose advent has been foretold in earlier books of the Old Testament, in five places. I. The first description is: 37* My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand. His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven. His eyes are as the eyes of dove by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set. His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh. His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires. His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon socks of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars. His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem. This prophecy promises a Prophet who would be superior to others, and would possess a rank higher than others. This is because the rapturous description in the Song of Solomon comes in reply to the question: 38 "What is thy beloved more than another beloved ?" * The word “MOHAMMAD-IM” is contained in the Hebrew version of Songs of Solomon 5:10-16