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Of course many religions do not have prophets in the strictest sense.当然也有许多宗教并没有严格意义上的先知。 Hindus have their gurus and sadhus, the Chinese their sages, Buddhists their masters — but they do not have prophets, as do Jews, Christians, and Muslims. There is no doubt that if anyone in the whole of religious印度教徒有其权威和sadhus，我国的圣人，佛教主人-但他们没有先知一样，犹太人，基督徒和穆斯林。 毫无疑问，如果有人在宗教整个 history 历史 is termed the prophet, because he claimed to be just that, but in no way more than that, it was Muhammad .被称为先知，因为他自称是那，但绝不多说，这是穆罕默德。 But may a Christian assert that Muhammad was a prophet?但可能是一个基督教断言，穆罕默德是先知？ Christians, if they pause to survey the situation, must admit the following (especially in light of the Hebrew Bible):基督徒，如果他们停下来调查的情况，必须承认，特别是在希伯来文圣经有下列（）：

• Like the prophets of Israel, Muhammad did not function by reason of an office assigned to him by the community (or its authorities), but by reason of a special personal relationship with God.像以色列的先知穆罕默德也无法正常的分配由社区（或机构）to他一office reason，而是由一个专门与神的个人关系的原因。
• Like the prophets of Israel, Muhammad was a person of strong will who felt himself fully imbued with a godly calling, fully consumed, exclusively appointed to his task.像以色列的先知穆罕默德是一个意志坚强的人谁觉得自己完全充满了神圣的要求，充分消耗，只任命他的任务。
• Like the prophets of Israel, Muhammad spoke to the heart of a religious and social crisis, and with his passionate piety and revolutionary proclamation he opposed the wealthy ruling class and the tradition it was trying to preserve.像以色列的先知穆罕默德谈到了宗教和社会危机的核心，他的虔诚和革命热情宣布，他反对富人的统治阶级和传统目的是想保存。
• Like the prophets of Israel, Muhammad, who mostly called himself the “Warner”, sought to be nothing but the verbal instrument of God and to proclaim not his own, but God's word.像以色列，穆罕默德，谁大多自称的“华纳”，力求完全是神的口头文书，并宣布自己不是他的先知，但神的话。
• Like the prophets of Israel, Muhammad untiringly proclaimed the one God who tolerates no other gods and who is at the same time the good Creator and merciful Judge.像以色列的先知穆罕默德的不懈宣布一个上帝谁容忍别神，谁没有在同一时间是很好的创造者和仁慈的法官。
• Like the prophets of Israel, Muhammad required, as a response to this one God, unconditional obedience, devotion, submission, which is the literal meaning of word Islam: everything that includes gratitude to God and generosity toward fellow human beings.像以色列的先知穆罕默德的要求，以此作为对这个上帝，无条件服从，敬业，提交，这是伊斯兰一词的字面意思回应：感谢一切，包括对上帝和对人类同胞慷慨。
• Like the prophets of Israel, Muhammad combined monotheism with humanism or human values, belief in the one God and God's judgment with a call to social justice, and a threat to the unjust, who go to hell, with promises to the just, who are gathered into God's paradise.像以色列，穆罕默德与人文主义或人的价值，在一个上帝的信仰和对社会正义的呼声，神的审判综合一神教，并威胁先知的不公正的，谁去地狱，与允诺的公正，谁是收集到神的天堂。

Whoever reads the Bible — at least the Hebrew Bible — together with the Qur'an will be led to ponder whether the three Semitic religions of revelation-Judaism, Christianity, and Islam-and especially the Hebrew Bible and the Qur'an, could have the same foundation.谁读了圣经 - 至少希伯来圣经 - 连同古兰经会导致思考的三个犹太人是否启示，犹太教，基督教和伊斯兰教，尤其是希伯来圣经和古兰经的宗教，也有可能同样的基础。 Is it not one and the same God who speaks so clearly in both?这难道不是同一个上帝谁说话都这么清楚？ Does not the “Thus says the Lord” of the Hebrew Bible correspond to the “Speak” of the Qur'an, and the “Go and proclaim” of the Hebrew Bible to the “Stand up and warn” of the Qur'an?难道不是“如此说，耶和华希伯来文圣经”对应于“讲的古兰经”，以及“去宣布的希伯来文圣经”到“站起来，警告古兰经”？ In truth, even the millions of Arab-speaking Christians have no other word for God than “Allah”.事实上，即使是讲阿拉伯语的基督徒对上帝百万比“阿拉”没有其他字眼。

Might it not therefore be purely dogmatic prejudice that recognizes Amos and Hosea, Isaiah and Jeremiah, as prophets, but not Muhammad?会不会因此单纯是教条式的偏见，承认先知阿摩司和何西阿，以赛亚和耶利米，但不是穆罕默德？ Whatever one may have against Muhammad from the standpoint of Western Christian morality (armed violence, polygamy, a sensual lifestyle for males), the following facts are indisputable:不管人们有可能从西方基督教道德（武装暴力，一夫多妻制，一个男性的感性生活的角度对穆罕默德），下面的事实是不容置疑的：

• Today there are almost eight hundred million persons in the huge area between Morocco to the west and Bangladesh to the east, between the steppes of central Asia to the North and the Island world of Indonesia to the south, who are stamped with the compelling power of a faith that, like virtually no other faith, has molded into a universal type those who confess it.今天，有近8.0亿人在摩洛哥之间巨大的西部地区向东部和孟加拉国之间的中亚草原，向北方和印度尼西亚岛南部的世界，谁是引人注目的权力与盖章1，像几乎没有其他的信仰，已经成为一个通用型的谁承认它塑造信仰。
• All those persons are linked by a simple confession of faith (There is no God but God, and Muhammad is his prophet), linked by five basic obligations, and linked by thorough submission to the will of God, whose unchangeable decision, even when it brings suffering, is to be accepted.所有这些人都与一个简单的信念供认（有没有神，但是神，穆罕默德是他的先知），由5个基本义务联系在一起的，彻底的提交与神，其不变的决定，甚至当它带来的痛苦，是被接受。
• Among all the Islamic peoples there has remained a sense of fundamental equality before God of an international solidarity that is basically capable of overcoming race (Arabs and non-Arabs) and even the castes of India.在所有有仍是基本的平等意识伊斯兰人民的国际团结之前，基本上是克服种族（阿拉伯人和非阿拉伯人能够神），甚至印度的种姓。

I am convinced that, despite all the renewed fears of Islam, there is a growing conviction among Christians that, in the light of Muhammad's place in world history, we must correct our attitude toward Islam.我深信，尽管所有的伊斯兰再度担心，有一个基督徒，在穆罕默德在世界历史上的地位，我们必须纠正我们对伊斯兰教的态度越来越相信。 The “scourge of exclusiveness”, arising from Christian dogmatic impatience and intolerance, condemned by the British historian Arnold Toynbee, must be abandoned.对排外“，”祸害，从基督教教条的不耐烦和不容忍由英国历史学家阿诺德汤因比的谴责，而必须放弃。 Regarding the figure of the prophet, I believe the following must be admitted:关于先知人物，我相信以下必须承认：

• Arabians in the seventh century rightly listened to and followed the voice of Muhammad.在公元7世纪阿拉伯人正确地听取和追随穆罕默德的声音。
• In comparison to the very worldly polytheism of the old Arabian tribal religions before Muhammad, the religion of the people was raised to a completely new level, that of a purified monotheism.相对于以前的旧阿拉伯穆罕默德部族宗教非常世俗的多神教，人民的宗教是完全提高到一个新水平，是一神论的纯化。
• The first Muslims received from Muhammad — or, better still, from the Qur'an — endless inspiration, courage, and strength for a new religious start: a start toward greater truth and deeper understanding, toward a breakthrough in the revitalizing and renewal of traditional religion.第一个穆斯林收到穆罕默德 - 或者更好的是，从古兰经 - 无尽的灵感，勇气和力量的一个新的宗教开始：朝着实现更大的突破一真理，开始更深入的了解，在传统的重建和振兴宗教。

In truth, Muhammad was and is for persons in the Arabian world, and for many others, the religious reformer, lawgiver, and leader; the prophet per se . 事实上，穆罕默德和阿拉伯世界中的人，和许多人一样，宗教的改革者，立法者和领导者;先知本身 。 Basically Muhammad, who never claimed to be anything more than a human being, is more to those who follow him than a prophet is to us: he is a model for the mode of life that Islam strives to be.基本上穆罕默德，谁从来没有声称自己是任何一个人多，更多的是那些谁跟他比先知是我们：他是一个对生活模式的模式，努力成为伊斯兰教。 If the Catholic Church, according to the Vatican II “Declaration on Non-Christian Religions”, “regards with esteem the Muslims”, then the same church must also respect the one whose name is embarrassingly absent from the same declaration, although he and he alone led the Muslims to pray to this one God, for through him this God “has spoken to humanity”: Muhammad the prophet.如果天主教教会，在梵蒂冈第二根据“非基督教宗教宣言”，“关于与自尊的穆斯林”，那么同样的教会也必须尊重一个令人尴尬的名字是由相同的声明缺席，尽管他和他单独带领穆斯林祈祷这个神，通过他这个“上帝对人类的发言”：先知穆罕默德的。 But does not such an acknowledgment have very grave consequences, especially for the message he proclaimed, the teachings set down in the Qur'an?但不承认有这样一个特别的消息，他宣布非常严重的后果，订下的教诲在古兰经？

I think for the peoples of Arabia Muhammad's prophecy led to tremendous progress.我认为，对各国人民的阿拉伯穆罕默德的预言引起了巨大的进步。 Whatever we Christians do with this fact, we must affirm that he acted as a prophet and that he was a prophet .其实无论我们基督徒与此， 我们必须肯定，他充当先知，他是一个先知 。 I do not see how we can avoid the conclusion that on their way of salvation, Muslims follow a prophet who is decisive for them.我看不出我们如何能避免这样的结论： 他们的救赎方式，穆斯林遵循先知谁是他们决定的。