Bhavishya Purana and Prediction of Muhammad and Islam

The Islamic claim of Muhammad in Bhavishya Purana has sparked great controversy. While Islamic preachers like Dr. Zakir Naik claim Prophet Muhammad in Bhavishya Purana and produce a translation of the Purana hailing the Prophet as a holy teacher who arrived to cleanse all evils, the Hindu scholars produce just the opposite interpretation of the same. How is this possible? Who is lying? Is Zakir Nayik trying conveniently bend the Purana to his advantage by biased and non existent translation or are the Hindu Scholars hiding the real truth? Is Zakir preaching a different purana known as "Islamic Purana" or the Hindu Scholars manipulating the real truth? Let us  evaluate.

First let us see the Script in question.

 

Let me  split them for better view

 

 

 

 

 

 

Introduction to Bhavishya Purana

General Outline

 

 

Bhavishya Purana is one of the 18 Major Puranas of Hindu Religion. It is the eleventh among the Puranas. Bhavishya Purana literally means "The History of the Future". It  is an ancient text authored by Sri Vyasa Muni, the compiler of the Vedic texts.Eleventh among the Puranas, contains five parts. The first part contains a description of the genesis, greatness of the dates and worship of Lord Vishnu, Shiva and Surya. Second, third and fourth parts describe about the greatness of Shiva, Vishnu and Surya respectively.

Like other Puranas, Bhavishya Purana also contains a description of the ancient kings and Chandra and Surya dynasties. Interestingly, Bhavishya Purana contains a description of a game that resembles modern chess to a great extent. In all, the subject matter of Bhavishya Purana seems to be an attempt to prove and establish the supremacy of Brahma.

 Though the text was written many thousands of years before the recorded events took place, by the power of his mystic vision, Sri Vyasa was able to accurately predict the happenings of the modern times. One of the text's poetic styles is to present the events as though they have already happened. This is a common practice in Sanskrit poetry, and does not indicate that the book was written in modern times. Modern scholars reject the contents of Bhavishya Purana mostly on the grounds that its information is too accurate. But we should ask ourselves: If there was an empowered saint, who knew past, present and future, and if he chose to write a book named "the History of the Future", shouldn't it contain accurate information about the modern times, as the title suggests? We cannot disqualify it simply because it speaks accurately of the British controlling India, Hitler fighting the world, and Max Mueller misrepresenting the Vedic teachings. "Veda" means knowledge, and the Vedic texts contain knowledge of everything - past, present and future.