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Do you believe that Prophet Mohamad's coming was predicted by the Buddha?
This belief was popularized by many so-called Muslim scholars, especially Zakir Naik, who wanted so much to glorify Islam,and perhaps to show the superiority of their faith over others. These scholars not only popularize this theory, there are many more of the similar natured theories saying that other religions predicted the coming of this prophet of Islam.Muslims and Buddhists are encouraged to respond by citing the relevent Buddhist texts to support the given answer.
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
That Matters not
Buddha didn't rise from the dead, nor did Confucius or Zoroaster. Muhammad didn't fulfill detailed prophecy. Alexander the Great didn't raise the dead or heal the sick. And though there is far less reliable information written about them, people believed in them.
The scripture is right when it says in 1 Pet. 2:7-8, "This precious value, then, is for you who believe. But for those who disbelieve, 'The stone which the builders rejected, this became the very corner stone,' and, 'A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense'; for they stumble because they are disobedient to the word, and to this doom they were also appointed." (NASB).
Source(s): The Lightning Strikes - LorraineLv 45 years ago
The Muslim claim that Jesus and Moses predicted the coming of Mohammed is a bit of a stretch. It is easy to look at the text now and say "OK Mohammed is the final prophet. Let's see how we can take writings from the Jewish and Christian bible to fit him". By removing context and historical references, this is a very easy thing to do. Many Christians also have done the same with the Jewish bible to make it seem like the whole thing was referring to Jesus. People who follow the writings of Nostradamus also do the exact same thing.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
It's the other way around:
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, though considered deviant and non-Muslim by all other Sunni and Shia branches of Islam, holds the view that the Buddha was indeed a Prophet of God.
Mirza Tahir Ahmad has also stated that the Qur'anic figure called Dhul-Kifl may have been the Buddha in his book "An Elementary Study of Islam."
Ghulam Ahmad stated that he was the ‘Reflection of All Prophets’ and he regarded Siddharta Gautama Buddha as a Prophet.
“ If you desire to see the most noble of mankind, look at the king
in beggar's clothing; it is he whose sanctity is great among men.
” —Abdul Atahiya, Arab Poet.
“ The mission of the Buddha was quite unique in its character, and therefore it stands quite apart from the many other religions of the world. His mission was to bring the birds of idealism flying in the air nearer to the earth, because the food for their bodies belonged to the earth. ”—Hazrat Inayat Khan.
In the Bahá'í Faith, Buddha is classified as one of the Manifestations of God which is a title for a major prophet in the Bahá'í Faith. Similarly, the Prophet of the Bahá'í Faith, Bahá'u'lláh, is believed by Bahá'ís to be the Fifth Buddha, among other prophetic stations.
As with Christian and Judaism Buddha is a Saint.
The legend of "Barlaam and Ioasaph" written by the Georgian monk Euthymius in the 11th century, was ultimately derived, through a variety of intermediate versions (Arabic and Georgian) from the life story of the Buddha. The king-turned-monk Ioasaph (Georgian Iodasaph, Arabic Yūdhasaf or Būdhasaf: Arabic "b" could become "y" by duplication of a dot in handwriting) ultimately derives his name from the Sanskrit Bodhisattva, the name used in Buddhist accounts for Gautama before he became a Buddha.
Barlaam and Ioasaph were placed in the Greek Orthodox calendar of saints on 26 August, and in the West they were entered as "Barlaam and Josaphat" in the Roman Martyrology on the date of 27 November.
- 1 decade ago
I don't really know, and I don't think it's true. Judaism and Christianity predicted that another great prophet is to come.. But I don't know about Buddhism. Buddhism is not the one of the monotheistic religions, it came right after Judaism. If it does have any predictions of Mohammed's coming then it probably took the idea from the Torah.
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
Zakir naik's rubbish did not work with Christianity. So now he is trying to make up different types of rubbish about how Buddha predicted about Mohammad
lol
- rich kLv 61 decade ago
It doesn't actually matter in Buddhism if there even is a god, so it would make no sense to worry about what some god or other might be intending to do. Buddhism, strictly speaking, is not even a religion, it was simply so described by Europeans who lacked both an understanding of Asian culture in general and about Buddhist teaching in specific.
- 1 decade ago
No it is not predicted by Buddha. As a Muslim, Prophet Mohammad's arrival was predicted by God. I think that you should believe in what you know not what others say. Also it depends on which scholar you believe in.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Acutely if that's the case, we also believe and know for a fact that the prophet mohammad coming was told " & predicted " by both Christian and Jewish, in both there holy books, of course the untempered original text of both holy books.
- 1 decade ago
I love that corinthian a*hole if only because he heavily implied that you were a woman speaking out of line.
I gotsta agree with him on this one.
- 1 decade ago
1Cor.14:34-35 Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law.
35 And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.