that [both committed murder, that both married wives, Muhammad a large number, that the
names of both begin with M1., that] both died natural deaths, and so on. But
all this is in vain, because the very foundation for the comparison is cut away by the
verses which we have quoted from Genesis, proving that God definitely declared that
His convenant was to descend not in Ishmael's family but in Isaac's.
Let us now appeal to the Qur'an for a proof that, in at least one very important point
indeed, Muhammad was not in the least like Moses. In Surah VII., Al A'raf, 156, 158 we
are told that Moses prophesied of Muhammad, calling him "the unlettered2
prophet," by God's command. Now in this Muhammad was not very like Moses, who
"was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians" (Acts vii. 22). Hence either
you are wrong or the Qur'an is. Again we are told that Moses was the meekest3
of men (Num. xii. 3), which can hardly be truly said of Muhammad. There is no likeness
between Moses' matrimonial arrangements and those of Muhammad. Moreover Muhammad was not
even of the Jewish nation as Moses was. The words