WHO IS THE COMFORTER WHICH JESUS PROPHESIED?!

During the speeches of Jesus Christ, He prophesied about a “comforter”. When Bible says it is “Holy Spirit”, Muslims often say that it is Mohammed. Not Holy Spirit. Let us look who is that comforter!

1.          Can it be Mohammed?
Luke 24:49 “And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.”
Acts1:4-“And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me.”
In theses verses it is clear that the comforter will come to the people who tarry in the city of Jerusalem! But we all know that Mohammed was born in Saudi. Not in Jerusalem or near to it!! So Mohammed is not the comforter which Jesus prophesied!

2.          Luke 24:49(which I said above) are the words of Jesus Christ to His Disciples. So the comforter will be sent to His disciples! Not to Mohammed, who wasn’t Jesus’ disciple

3.          John 16:7-“Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you”
This verse also shows that the comforter will be sent to his disciples. So the comforter must come in the age of disciples! It is well clear that Mohammed came 500 years after Jesus. So how can he be the comforter which Jesus prophesied?!!

4.          John 16:13: “Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. “
John 15:26-“ But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me”
Here we can see that the comforter is “Spirit of Truth”. It means that Comforter is Spirit not a human having body!! We all know that Mohammed is a human who has body. So Mohammed can never be “Spirit of Truth”!

5.          John 14:16-“And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;”
In this verse it is clear that comforter will be there with disciples forever! We know that Mohammed passed away in AD 632. So he cannot be with the disciples forever!! So he cannot be the comforter

6.          John 14:17 says “Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you”
The comforter will be in you!! How can Mohammed be in one person?!! He is a human having body, who cannot sit in one person! So the comforter is Spirit! Not a human like Mohammed!

7.          In above verse, there is one more thing! Jesus is saying to disciples that the comforter will be in the disciples! So the comforter is in many disciples!! That means one person is in many persons!! It shows that comforter is omnipresent being! How can Mohammed be an omnipresent being??!! So, Mohammed is not the comforter which Jesus prophesied!

8.          John 16:14 says “He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.”
This verse is saying about the comforter that He will glorify Jesus Christ! What did Mohammed do?  He just said the matters about Jesus which is present already in Apocryphal Books! Rather than glorifying Jesus Christ, He tried to curse Him, by denying the crucifixion of Jesus Christ which History accepted!!

Why the comforter is Holy Spirit?

As I have already told, the comforter is the Spirit, not a person! Further Bible clearly says that Holy Spirit is the comforter which Jesus prophesied! In Acts 2:33 we can see “Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear”. Here Bible clearly says Holy Spirit is the comforter which Jesus Christ prophesied! If we look all the qualities of the Comforter which I said above, it suits to the Holy Spirit not to Mohammed!
Muslims often say Holy Spirit is not the comforter because

1.       In John 16:14 we can see that word “he” is used to denote Comforter. He is the word used to denote people, and it is not used to denote God or Spirit!
They are saying these arguments because they don’t know usage of Bible. In Genesis 1:5 “And God called the light Day, and the darkness HE called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day” We can see similar terms in Genesis 1:10,1:16,1:27.. In all these verses “He” is used to describe God! So the word “He” does not mean that it must be Human

2.       Then the Muslims say that, Holy Spirit was there before Jesus. So the comforter cannot be Holy Spirit!
In Old Testament, The Spirit “came upon” people as Joshua (Numbers 27:18), David (1 Samuel 16:12-13) and even Saul (1 Samuel 10:10). In the book of Judges, we see the Spirit “coming upon” the various judges whom God raised up to deliver Israel from their oppressors. The Holy Spirit came upon these individuals for specific tasks. The indwelling was a sign of God’s favor upon that individual (in the case of David), and if God’s favor left an individual, the Spirit would depart (e.g., in Saul’s case in 1 Samuel 16:14). So, while in the New Testament the Spirit only indwells believers and that indwelling is permanent, the Spirit came upon certain Old Testament individuals for a specific task, irrespective of their spiritual condition. Once the task was completed, the Spirit presumably departed from that person. In case of New Testament, it is not so. Holy Spirit came to indwell in the disciples of Jesus forever unlike in Old Testament!

So Mohammed is not the Comforter which Jesus prophesied. The comforter is Holy Spirit!