These narratives clearly and plainly show that this covenant...

These narratives clearly and plainly show that this covenant was taken from all of the Prophets from Adam to the last of them -(a.s)- so that they would believe in the "last Prophet" Mohammad (s.a.w) and aid him if they were present during his lifetime. It is then commanded of them to extract a covenant from their nation on these matters.

It is related from Ali Ibn Abi Talib (a.s) that: "God never appointed a prophet without extracting a covenant from him regarding Mohammad, saying that if he were alive when that prophet was appointed he must certainly believe in him and aid him, and it was also commanded of him to extract the same promise from his own supporters".

243 In another more detail narrative of the Imam he says: "God took a covenant from his prophets (a.s), to inform and give tidings to their nations of the last Prophets' mission and his exalted rank, and to command them (if they lived during his lifetime) to certify him".

244 "And when Isa (Jesus) son of Marium said: O' children of Israel.' surely I am the apostle of Allah to you, verifying that which is before me of the Tavrat and giving the good news of an apostle who will come after me, his name being Ahmad. but when he came to them with clear arguments they said: This is clear magic". 245 The message in this verse is quite clear.

This verse clearly announces that the Prophet of Islam with his own name was mentioned during the time of Jesus' prophetic mission and that Jesus gave tidings of his coming and mission in one of his sermons. It could never be correct to think that this is but a mere claim; since we know that the Quran was revealed in an environment of hatred full of enemies, if this had been only a claim the enemies of Islam who strove to their utmost to battle against it (Islam), would have never remained quiet.

Those who gathered thousands of warriors and soldiers to battle the followers of the Quran, could have made use of just one mistake or false claim to easily nip Islam in the bud. Previous remarks to that effect were all based on the assumption that the above-mentioned tidings were not included in todays Bibles. Fortunately, however, older translation and printings of the Bible give us examples of this tidings. For example, in the Persian translation of the book "John" by the French Reverent F.