Section: A Fifth Prophecy from Isaiah

They said:

The Prophet Isaiah—speaking here about Mecca, may Allah exalt her—declared:

“Move forth and quake, O barren one who has never borne a child; lift up your voice in glorification and rejoice, for you have not conceived, for your people shall outnumber my people.”

By “my people” he means the inhabitants of Bayt al-Maqdis (Jerusalem), and by “the barren one” he means Mecca, because no prophet had ever arisen from her before our Prophet, blessings and peace be upon him. It cannot be imagined that Isaiah intended Jerusalem by the term “barren,” for it has ever been the house of the prophets and the wellspring of revelation; that precinct has always been fruitful. }