A Study of Baha’u’llah’s
Kitab-i-Iqan, The Book of Certitude
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Biblical References
to Islam (Para. 135)
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1662. Biblical References to Muhammad and 'Ali
"References
in the Bible to 'Mt. Paran' and 'Paraclete' refer to Muhammad's Revelation:
Deuteronomy 33:2, Genesis 21:21, Numbers 12:16, Numbers 13:3. Genesis 17:20
refers to the twelve Imams and in the Revelation of St. John,chapter 11, where
it mentions two witnesses, it refers to Muhammad and "Ali.
"The
figures 1290 date from the declaration of Muhammad, ten years before His flight
to Medina."
(From a
letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to the National Spiritual Assembly
of Australia and New Zealand, December 26, 1941)
(Compilations,
Lights of Guidance, p. 494 )