and set minds at liberty.' In another place of the Torah it is also stated that Mohammed was to be the son of Abd Allah, that the place of his birth was to be Mecca and that of his flight Medina; and that his power should extend over Syria; that his people should give thanks, and say, 'God is great,' whenever they ascend up high, and render praise whenever they descend low; that they should bind their loins with a girdle and take ablutions; and that their Moezzins should call out from high places, and that their line of battle and their line of prayer should be straight; and that at night their voices should be like the humming of bees. It is further affirmed that Moses in his Torah was acquainted with seventy attributes of the people of the latter time; and that as often as he had considered one of them, he asked of God that that congregation might be his own people. But the answer came to him, 'They are to be Mohammed's people.' At last, when he saw that Mohammed's people were to have so many excellencies, he said, 'O God, let me also be amongst Mohammed's people.'

In the book of the prophet Habakkuk, the contemporary of Daniel, the following prophecy occurs, 'God came from Teman, and the Holy One from the mountain Paran; and the earth was filled with the praise of Ahmed and his holiness and he possessed the earth, and subdued the nations.' And in another place of the same book it is written, 'Heaven was illumined with the dignity of Mohammed, and the earth filled with his grandeur.'

Wahab Ibn Minbeh said, that the Most High sent the following revelation to the prophet Isaiah: 'I will send a prophet who is to be unlettered, and by his name I will open the ears of the deaf, and the minds of the listless; and I will clothe him with gravity, and I will make goodness his outward mark, and godliness and temperance his inward mind; and wisdom his understanding; and truth and purity his nature, and propriety his disposition; and equity his practice; and truth his law; and right guidance his leader; and Islam his people; and his name Ahmed. And through him I will show to his people the right way out of error, and the way of knowledge after ignorance; and by his name I will make the few many and the divided united; and will bring amongst

the separated hearts and the antagonistic nations harmony and intimacy; and his people shall be superior to every other; and they shall pay respect to the light of the sun, i.e. they shall look to the sun to know the right time for prayer.'

In the Gospel the Most High gave the following revelation to Jesus, 'Declare Mohammed to be true, and believe in him; and tell also thy people that those of them who reach his time should believe in him. O thou son of the Virgin, i.e. O thou Jesus, know thou, that if it had not been for Mohammed, I should not have created Adam and Paradise and Hell; and the truth is, that when I made the Throne, it shook and would not stand firm till I wrote upon it, "There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is the Apostle of Allah," whereupon it steadied itself and became quiet.' ¹

The prophecies by sundry learned Christians and others are very many e.g. Seif Ibn Yazan, a king of Yemen, to whom a deputation was sent from Mecca, to congratulate him on having reconquered his land from the Abyssinians, said to Abdu-l-Mottaleb who was one of the deputation, 'A prophet shall arise from thy seed, Mohammed and Ahmed by name. The time of his birth has now come. His parents will die, and he will be under the care of his grandfather and uncle. God will make him known, and suddenly give him assistants and helpers, so that with their aid he will make his friends glorious and his enemies despised. At his birth shall the fire of the fire-temples be extinguished; the people shall worship the one incomparable God; infidelity and sin shall disappear from the world; Lat, Ozza, and the other idols shall be broken; his word shall be decision and his judgment justice; and he shall make his commands respected.'

It is recorded that when that Excellency was seven years old, a number of Christians came to Mecca from Syria for purposes of trade, and one of them recognised that prince