Nor can this glad tiding be applied to the Messiah, as the Christians themselves admit, because it was given concerning someone who would arise from among the brothers of the Children of Israel. All of the Children of Israel and their brothers are servants—there is no deity among them—whereas the Messiah, in their view, is a worshipped god, far too exalted, in their estimation, to be counted among the brothers of slaves. The prophecy, therefore, pertains to a created servant whom God will raise up from among His servants and their brothers; the highest rank granted to him is that of prophethood, and nothing beyond it. This is certainly not the figure whom the Christians call the Messiah.

As for the statement of those who distort the word of God—that the sentence is to be read with the interrogative alif omitted, making it a rhetorical question of denial, i.e., “Shall I not raise up for the Children of Israel a prophet?”—this is merely their well-known practice of twisting God’s words from their proper places, lying about God, and then, once they have altered and replaced them, saying, “This is from God.” To force an interrogative, denying sense upon these words is the height of tampering and distortion (1).

This very tampering and distortion is itself one of the miracles of the Prophet ﷺ, for he informed us—on God’s authority—that they would alter and substitute; God then made his truthfulness manifest to every person of sound mind, so the believers increased in faith upon faith, while the disbelievers added impurity to their impurity (2).

(The second proof) (3): It is written in the Torah, in the fifth book: “The Lord came from Sinai, shone forth from Seir, and appeared from the mountains of Paran, and with Him were myriads of the holy ones…”