先知们不断地预言最后一位先知的到来,并描述了他的特征和品性。其中最重要的特征是:他不出自以色列的后裔。

he prophets continued to give prophecies about the coming of the final prophet. They mentioned his description and his attitudes. The most important description is that he is not from the children of Israel.

他带来了一部永久有效的律法，击败了他的敌人，他的使命将造福于所有民族。

He brings a law that lasts forever, crushes his enemies and his message will be for the good of all nations.

这些描述在除他之外的任何自称先知者身上都不曾存在。基督徒承认这些是预言,但他们无法将其应用于穆罕默德ﷺ之外的任何人。穆萨和尔撒(愿二人蒙安拉赐福)是只被派遣给以色列子孙的先知。穆萨带来了一套律法仪轨,他的追随者战胜了敌人。尔撒并未带来新的律法或仪轨,因为他是来成全穆萨的律法的。他说:"你们不要以为我来是要废掉律法和先知的;我来不是要废掉,而是要成全。"(马太福音 5:17)他没有战胜自己的敌人;而且基督徒宣称,他的敌人曾抓住他并将他钉十字架。他们怎么能说他就是那位将要粉碎敌人、为万国所期待的被拣选者呢?

These descriptions did not exist in anyone who claimed the prophethood except him. The Christians admit that these were prophecies but they could not attach them to anyone other than Muhammad (PBUH). Moses and Jesus (PBUT) were prophets sent only to the children of Israel. Moses had a rite and his followers were victorious over their enemies. Jesus did not come with a new law or rite, as he came to fulfill the Law of Moses. He said, "Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them." (Matthew: 5/17) He did not defeat his enemies; more over, the Christians claim that his enemies had captured him and crucified him. How can they say that he is the chosen who will crush his enemies and be the one expected by nations?

目前有明确文字记载、讲到末代先知的最古老预言，出现在雅各临终前对众子的遗嘱中。他对他们说："权杖必不离开犹大，治权的杖也不离开他的两脚之间，直到示罗来到，万民都要归顺他。"（创世记 49:10）他是在告诉他们，那将是在末日，统治权和律法将从他们手中被夺走的时候。

The oldest clearly written prophecy that talks about the final prophet comes in Jacob's will to his sons before he died. When he said to them: "The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until tribute comes to him; and to him shall be the obedience of the people be." (Genesis: 49/10) He was telling them about the time in which the dominion and the statute will be removed from them at the end of days.

在耶稣会神父团的版本中，经文如下："犹大将持有王杖，他的后裔将永远执政。列国将向他进贡，并在他面前俯首顺服。"按照乔纳森的译文，这段经文更加清楚。

In the Jesuit Priesthood's edition, the text is as follows: "Judah will hold the royal scepter, and his descendants will always rule. Nations will bring him tribute and bow in obedience before him. " According to Jonathan’s translation, the passage is clearer:

“不会有君王和统治者，也不会有拉比，从犹大的家族中断绝，他的后裔也不会断绝，直到弥赛亚君王，他的幼子降临。”1

"Neither the kings and rulers nor the rabbis will stop from Judah’s family nor does his offspring till the Messiah King, his younger child, come.” 1

译文之间在三个词上有所不同:有的译本把"bar"(权杖)换成了"王"或"节杖",二者意思相同。"ruler"(统治者)一词被译成"筹划者"、"治理者"或"手杖",这些词的含义都接近于"统治其民的君王"这一短语的意思。其中最重要的差异在于"Shilon"一词,大多数译本保留了原样。在其他希伯来文译本中,这句话被译为"直到弥赛亚降临"。牧师易卜拉欣·卢卡将"Shilon"解释为弥赛亚,并认为这是对希伯来词"Shiloh"[ שִׁילֹה ]的正确翻译。《圣经》美国版在脚注中指出,"Shilon"一词的意思是:平安,或拥有者。

The translations differ in three of words in the text, some have exchanged the word "bar" with the king or the scepter, and both have the same meaning. The word "ruler" was replaced with “planner”, “disposer”, or “swagger stick”. The meaning for all these words is close to the meaning of the phrase “with a rite who disposes his people.” The most important difference in these words is about the word "Shilon" which was kept as it is by most of the translations. In other Hebrew translations, it is said, "Until the messiah comes". The priest Ibrahim Luka interpreted "Shilon" as the messiah, and he considered it a correct translation of the Hebrew word "Shiloh", [ שִׁילֹה ]. The American edition of the Holy Bible, mentions it as a footnote that the word "Shilon" means: safety, or the one who has.

因此，我们要问，"shilon"（Shilon）一词的确切含义是什么？

Thus, we ask, what is the exact meaning of the word (shilon)?

在回答这个问题时，前牧师、古代语言学者阿卜杜勒·阿哈德·达武德注意到，希伯来语原文中的“shilon”一词有不同的含义；以下是其中最重要的几种：

In answering this question, Abdul Alahad Dawood, the ex-priest and scholar in ancient languages, sees that the word "shilon" in its Hebrew origin has different meanings; the following are the most important ones:

1) 它可能源自一个亚述语词，该词由两个词组成："bsheta"和"lowh"。第一个词"bsheta"意为"他"或"那个人"，第二个词"lowh"意为"他的"。按照他的解释，这一预言的含义变为："所预言的王权印记不会从犹大手中夺走，直到印记所属之人到来，万民都将归顺于他。"

1) It may be derived from an Assyrian word that consists of the two words "bsheta" and "lowh". The first "bsheta” means "he" or "the one" and the second "lowh" means "his". According to his interpretation, the meaning of the prophecy becomes “The forecasted kingdom seal will not be taken from Judas until the arrival of the person that the seal belongs to, and to him the nations will submit".

2）这个词可能是“Shelwah”一词的变体，其意为“上帝的使者”。作为例外，该词也用于指被休的妻子，因为她被遣走了。圣杰罗姆则倾向于将此词解释为“信息”，因此将该短语译为“被差遣的人”。1

2) It may be an alteration of the word "Shelwah" which means "the messenger of God", as an exception, the word is also used for the divorced wife because she is sent away. Saint Jerome preferred interpreting the word as the message, so he translated the phrase “he who was sent". 1

无论这段预言的含义如何，它所指的是一个名叫“Shilon”的人，而不是某些注释者所声称的地名“Shilon”。那么，Shilon是谁？

Whatever the meaning is the prophecy talks about a person and calls him “Shilon”, it does not talk about the place "Shilon" as claimed by some interpreters, so who is Shilon?

所谓王权将被夺走，并不是指将其彻底消灭，而是指从真主那里被取消了拥有它的权利。因为把王权从犹太人身上夺走，与先知的出现并不相悖——无论这位先知是谁。所指的乃是取消了（真主的）拣选与赐福。

What was said about the kingdom vanishing did not mean to eliminate it, but it is the elimination of the right to have it from God, because taking the kingdom from the Jews was not consistent with the appearance of a prophet, whomsoever this prophet was, what was meant, was the elimination of the selection and blessing.

没有人能说示罗是摩西，因为犹大的诸王是在摩西之后许多世纪才出现的。也没有人能说他是所罗门，因为王国在所罗门之后仍然延续，体现在他的后代身上，而且统治的律例并未在他之后被废除，正如它也没有在耶稣那里被废除一样。

No one can say that Shilon is Moses, because the kings of Judas came centuries after him. No one can say he is Solomon, because the kingdom continued after him, represented in his offspring and the statute was not lifted after him, as it was not lifted with Jesus (PBUH)

他既没有来废除律法，各民族也没有归顺于他。甚至他所奉派去的犹太民族也没有归顺，正如他所说："他回答说：“我奉差遣，只是为以色列家迷失的羊。”"（马太福音 15:24）

who did not neither came to revoke the statute nor the nations did submit to him. Not even the nation of Judea to whom he was sent, as he said, "He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." (Matthew: 15/24).

耶稣（PBUH）从未有一天成为以色列子孙的国王。当他们想要立他为王时，他逃离了他们。"耶稣看出他们要来强拉他去立他为王，就又独自退到山上去了。"（约翰福音 6:15）

Jesus (PBUH) was never, even for one day, a king of the children of Israel. He escaped from them when they wanted to make him their king “Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, Jesus withdrew again to the mountain by himself." (John: 6/15).

在彼拉多面前,犹太人控告他自称为王,他否认了,并且以比喻的方式谈论一个属灵的国度,而不是一个世俗的国度。"耶稣回答说:'我的国不属这世界。我的国若属这世界,我的臣仆必为我争战,使我不至于被交给犹太人。但如今我的国不是从这里来的。'"(约翰福音 18:36)

Before Pilate, When the Jews accused him that he called himself a king, he denied it, and he talked about a spiritual kingdom metaphorically, not a real one. "Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world." (John: 18/36).

这位被称为“Shilon”的先知不可能出自以色列的后裔，因为根据经文的理解，他的到来意味着以色列的权杖与律法的终结。那么，Shilon是谁？

This prophet, who was called “Shilon”, could not have been from the children of Israel, because his arrival ends the Scepter and the Law of Israel as understood from the text, so who is Shilon?

他就是夏甲和亚伯拉罕曾预言过的先知，经上说：“他要像野驴一样为人；他的手要攻击各人，各人的手也要攻击他；他必住在他众兄弟的对面。”（创世记 16:12）他也是先知以西结所论及的那一位，经上说：“我必使它荒废，荒废，荒废。这事也必不成就，直到那有审判权的人来到，我必将审判交给他。”（以西结书 21:27）

He is the prophet whom Hagar and Abraham gave prophecies about “He shall be a wild donkey of a man; his hand against everyone and everyone's hand against him; and he shall dwell over against all his kinsmen." (Genesis: 16/12), and he is the one the prophet Ezekiel said about him: “A ruin, ruin, ruin I will make it. This also shall not be, until he comes, the one to whom judgment belongs, and I will give it to him." (Ezekiel: 21/27).

耶稣(愿主赐他平安)说过关于那将以他的律法废除一切律法的人:"不要以为我来是要废除律法或先知的教训;我来不是要废除,而是要成全。我实在告诉你们,天地没有过去,律法上的一点一画也不会废去,全都要成就。"(马太福音 5:17-18)。他"拥有一切的那一位"就是"掌握权柄的那一位"。

Jesus (PBUH) said about the one who will destroy all the Laws with his Law: "do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot will pass from the law until all is accomplished." (Matthew: 5/17-18). He "the one that has it all" is "the one that has the rule".

他是先知，保罗称他为"完全者"，并说只有当他来临时，律法才会失效。"爱却永不止息。先知讲道的，必归于无有；说方言的，终必停止；知识，也必归于无有。因我们所知道的有限，所讲的先知也有限。但那完全的来到，那有限的必归于无有。"（哥林多前书 13:8-10）

He is the prophet, who was called "the perfect" by Paul and that only with his coming, the law will be invalid." But love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away." (Corinthians 1: 13/8-10).