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Some Christian denominations are making tremendous progress
now by acknowledging for the first time in history that
Muhammed (pbuh) descended from Ishmael, (the first son of
Prophet Abraham) through his second son Kedar. The 1980
Davis Dictionary of the Bible, sponsored by the Board of
Christian Education of the Presbyterian Church in the USA,
writes under the word Kedar: “ . . . A tribe descended from
Ishmael
(Gen. 25:13
) ... The people of Kedar were Pliny’s Cedrai,
and from their tribe
Muhammed ultimately arose.”
The
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia quotes the following
from A. S. Fulton: “ . . . Of the Ishmaelite tribes, Kedar must have
been one of the most important, and thus in later times the name
came to be applied to all the wild tribes of the desert.”
“It is through Kedar (Arab-Keidar) that Muslim genealogists
trace the descent of Muhammed from Ishmael.”
Also Smith’s Bible Dictionary prints the following: “Kedar,
second son of Ishmael (
Gen. 25:13
) ... Muhammed traces his
lineage to Abraham through the celebrated Koreish tribe, which
sprang from Kedar. The Arabs in the Hejaz are called Beni Harb
(men of war), and are Ishmaelites as of old from their
beginning.”
Palgrave in the 1800’s, says their language is as
pure now as when the Koran was written (A.D. 610), having
remained unchanged more than 1200 years; a fine proof of the
permanency of Eastern Institutions.” (1425 years in 2005).
The biggest asset brought by Muslim immigrants to the Western
hemisphere is not their manpower but Islam, which is now
taking root there. Many mosques and Islamic centers have been
established and many Christians have reverted into Islam. I
prefer the word reverted and not converted, because, Allah, in