Thinking Out Loud

A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet

// July 6th, 2010 // Bible Study, Islam

In the Tabak, or Torah, the old Testament of the bible, prophet Habakkuk says a prayer Upon Shigionoth. Who or what is Shigionoth? Upon research I found that it is a form of praise to Allah (swt) in Hebrew.

It is a style of Music, also mentioned in the Psalms or Zabur of Prophet Dawud ( David). The word itself mean to wander, or ramble.

2: “O LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.”

3: “God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.”

Where is Mount Paran?
The Desert of Paran in Arabia or Wilderness of Paran (Hebrew מדבר פארן Midbar Par’an; Douay-Rheims: Pharan), is quite likely the place where the Israelites spent part of their 40 years of wandering. King David spent some time in the wilderness of Paran after Samuel died (I Samuel, 25:1). It is also the place where Abraham’s wife Hagar and his first son Ishmael were taken (Genesis 21) and it features in the opening lines of the Book of Deuteronomy.

“Then God opened her [Hagar] eyes and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink. God was with the boy as he grew up. He lived in the desert and became an archer. While he was living in the Desert of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from Egypt. At that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his forces said to Abraham, “God is with you in everything you do. (Genesis 21:19-22, NIV)”

“He said: ‘The LORD came from Sinai and dawned over them from Seir; he shone forth from Mount Paran. He came with myriads of holy ones from the south, from his mountain slopes.’ (Deuteronomy 33:2, NIV)”

What Holy one or Prophet is from Arabia?
Prophet Muhammad ( pbuh)

Resources Cited

1) Hebrew-English Bible

http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt2003.htm

Retrieved July 6, 2010

2) Paran on Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_of_Paran

Retrieved July 6, 2010

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