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The mystery of Jerusalem in the Qur’an is compounded
by the fact that the Holy Book sometimes refers to the city ‘Jerusalem’
synonymously with the ‘Holy Land’ (as in
… Surah al-Anbiyah, 95-96) and then proceeds to refer to the ‘Holy
Land’ in the same mysterious way in which it referred to ‘Jerusalem’. For
example in Surah Banu Israilthe Qur’an declared that it was the
destiny of Banu Israil that they would commit Fasad (i.e.,
destructive corruption) in the Holy Land (al-Ard al-Muqaddasah) on two
occasions. But the Qur’an did not refer in the verse to the Holy Land by
name. Rather the Qur’an referred to it simply and enigmatically as ‘the
earth’ or ‘the land’:
“And We gave (clear) warning to the Children of Israel in the
Book that twice would they commit Fasad on ‘the land’ and be elated with mighty
arrogance (and twice would they be punished)!”
(Qur’an, Banu Israil, 17:4)
And then when the Qur’an addressed the crucially
important subject of the divine conditions for inheritance of the Holy Land,
again it referred to it simply and enigmatically as ‘the earth’ or ‘the land’,
and not as the ‘Holy Land’:
“Before this We wrote in the Psalms after the Message (i.e., the
Torah given to Moses): My servants the righteous shall inherit ‘the land’.”
(Qur’an, al-Anbiyah, 21:105)
Finally, the Qur’an refers to a moment in time when
Allah Most High would raise D’abatul ard (a ‘Beast of the Earth or
Land’):
“And when the Word is fulfilled against them (i.e., Banu Israil)
We shall produce from the land a beast to (face) them (Banu Israil). He will
speak to them for the people did not believe with assurance in our Signs.”
(Qur’an, al-Naml, 27:82)
This ‘Beast of the Earth’ or the ‘Land’ is, like Dajjal and
Gog and Magog, one of the major Signs of the Last Age. It is clear that the
word ‘land’ or ‘earth’ with reference to the Beast is no other than the ‘Holy
Land’.
And so, when Allah Most High is prepared to commence His
punishment of the Jews, He raises a ‘Beast’ in the Holy Land’. This ‘Beast’ is
readily identifiable as no other than the modern Jewish State of Israel.
“And
there is a ban on (the people of) a town which We destroyed: that they (the
people of the town) shall not return (to reclaim their town) until Gog and
Magog are released and (eventually) they descend from every height (or spread
out in every direction).”
(Qur’an, al-Anbiyah, 21:95-6)
(When Gog and Magog do so they assume control over the world and
rule the world in the World Order of Gog and Magog).
It is strange, mysterious, and enigmatic, … that the name of
the city ‘Jerusalem’ (Arabic ‘Quds’ or ‘Bait al-Maqdis’) does not
appear in the Qur’an! Yet so many of the Prophets mentioned in the Qur’an
had links with that Holy City, and in it is located that only other House of
Allah, apart from those built in Makkah and Madina, ever built by a Prophet of
Allah, Most High. Not only is that House of Allah (Masjid alAqsa) mentioned
in the Qur’an but so, also, is the miraculous night-time journey in which
Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) was taken from Makkah to Jerusalem
and to that House of Allah. Perhaps the reason for this mysterious treatment of
the subject is located in the Islamic view that Jerusalem is destined to play a
central crucial role in the Last Age. Hence there was, perhaps, a divine need
to cloud the name of the city, as well as its destiny, with a sacred cloud that
would not be lifted until the appropriate time had come, and Jerusalem was
poised and ready to play its role in the End of History.
This, perhaps, explains the almost total absence of Islamic
literature on the subject of the destiny of Jerusalem, something to which Dr.
Ismail Raji al-Faruqi referred when he lamented: “Unfortunately, there is no Islamic literature on the subject” (see
Ch. 1). The fact is that no one could have written on this subject until that time
arrived when the cloud was lifted. This book was written in consequence of the
conviction that the cloud is now being lifted.
When the Jews rejected Jesus (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam)
as the Messiah and subsequently boasted that they had killed him (see
Qur’an, al-Nisa, 4:157), they remained convinced that the advent of the
Promised Messiah (and with him, the return of the Golden Age of Judaism) was
still to come. They believed that the return of that Golden Age required, among
other things, the following:
Øthat the Holy Land would be liberated from the control of
Gentiles,
Øthat the Jews would return to the Holy Land from their exile
in order to reclaim it,
Øthat the State of Israel would be restored,
Øthat the Temple (or Masjid) would be restored for the
(Jewish) worship of the God of Abraham,
Øthat Israel would eventually become the Ruling State
in the world in a manner similar to that achieved in the age ofDavid (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam)
and Solomon (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam),
Øthat a Jewish King, who would be the Messiah, would rule the
world from the throne of David(sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam), i.e., from
Jerusalem as the ruler of Israel, and finally
Øthat his rule would be eternal.
Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam)
declared that one of the major signs of the Last Day was that Allah Most High
would deceive the Jews by raising and sending against them one who would
impersonate the Messiah and lead them to believe that the Golden Age was
returning. But, instead, that ‘False Messiah’ would lead them by exquisite
deception to the greatest divine punishment ever inflicted upon any in Allah’s
creation. Al-Masih al-Dajjal or Dajjal, the False Messiah, who is
known by Christians as the Anti-Christ, was created by Allah Most High and
would be released into the world in the Last Age to accomplish this mission.
Now consider the following:
• The Holy Land was ‘liberated’ (i.e.,
from a Jewish perspective) from Muslim ‘gentile’ rule when the British General,
Allenby, conquered Jerusalem in 1917;
• Israelite Jews have now ‘returned’ to
reclaim the Holy Land after their divinely ordained 2000-year exile. This has
occurred exactly as the Qur’an declared 1400 years ago that it would
happen at the ‘End Time’. The remaining Caucasian Jews in USA and elsewhere
seem destined to soon reach there;
• A state of Israel was ‘restored’ in
1948 and it lays claim to being the ancient State of Israel;
• An Israel which is armed to the teeth
with an arsenal of nuclear … weapons seems destined to exploit the Palestinian Intifada
… and the September 11th Mossad attack on America (which created
conditions favorable for Israel) with a war in which Israel will defy USA,
Europe, the UN, and all the rest of the world, to take control of the entire
region in which it is located. That Israeli war is likely to witness the
expansion of the territory of Israel to that promised in the Torah, i.e., from
the river of Egypt to the river Euphrates. With success in that act of
defiance of the entire world, including USA, and with the predictable collapse
of the US dollar and US economy, Euro-Israel would finally have graduated
from dependency, first on the British and then USA. The Euro-Jewish State would
finally replace USA and Britain as a military and financial super-power of the
world …;
• The predictable destruction of Masjid
al-Aqsa and the reconstruction of the Jewish temple on the site would then
take place. The prediction of the Prophet Nathan who declared, “the Messiah
would build a House for God” (1 Chronicles 17:11-15), suggests the destruction
of the present Masjid.
All of this
[would] appear very much to Jews as the fulfillment of prophecy pertaining to
the return of the Golden Age when Solomon (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) ruled
the world from Jerusalem. From the perspective of this book, however, none of
the above could have been accomplished without the intervention of Dajjal, the
False Messiah. Therefore all of the above constitute deception. The Holy State
of Israel (first established by Prophet Solomon) has not really been
restored.Rather, an impostor Israel is
in the place of the real Israel. It is clear to this writer that the cloud has
now been lifted and that the ‘End Time’ has arrived ...That, perhaps, is the reason why the writing
of this book at this time is possible. The Qur’an explains all of the
above.
The Qur’an referred to Jerusalem, time and again, as
a ‘city’ or ‘town’ – but without naming it ... This appears to have been part
of the divine cloud that shrouded the subject of the role of Jerusalem in the
Last Age. For example, the Qur’an referred to that occasion when the
Israelite Jews worshipped a golden calf while their Prophet, Moses (sallalahu
‘alaihi wa sallam), had gone up Mt. Sinai in consequence of a divine summons.
The Qur’an warned that such worship of other than Allah Most High …would
result in divine punishment:
“Those who took the (golden) calf (for worship and thus committed
Shirk) (and whoever thereafter commits Shirk) will indeed be overwhelmed with
wrath from their Lord and with shame in this life: thus do We recompense those
who invent (falsehoods against Allah).....”
(Qur’an, al-‘Araf, 7:152-3)
The Qur’an continued to describe the event while the
Israelites were still in Sinai, and before they were allowed to enter the Holy
Land, and declared:
“We divided them into twelve tribes or nations. (Then) We
directed Moses by inspiration when his (thirsty) people asked him for water:
‘Strike the rock with thy staff’: out of it there gushed forth twelve springs:
each group knew its own place for water. We gave them the shade of clouds and
sent down to them manna and quails (saying): ‘Eat of the good things We have
provided for you’: (but they rebelled): to Us they did no harm but they harmed
their own souls.”
(Qur’an, al-‘Araf, 7:160)
It was after this
that the Qur’an then referred to Jerusalem simply and mysteriously as a
‘town’:
“And remember it was said
to them ‘Dwell in this town (i.e., Jerusalem) and eat therein as ye wish but
say the word of humility and enter the gate in a posture of humility’...”
(Qur’an, al-‘Araf, 7:161)
There is another more ominous and mysterious reference to
Jerusalem as simply a ‘town’ in the following passage of the Qur’an:
“And there is a ban on (the people of) a town which We destroyed
(and the inhabitants were expelled) that they (i.e., the people of the town)
shall not return (to reclaim the town) until Gog and Magog are released
and they (eventually) descend from every height or spread in every direction.”
(Qur’an, al-Anbiyah, 21:95-96)
When then descend from every height, or spread out in every
direction they, in effect, assume control over the world and rule the world in
the World Order of Gog and Magog.
In order to determine the identity of the ‘town’ referred to
above we examined all the material that exists in the Qur’an and Ahadith
that pertain to Gog and Magog. We found only one town that is linked to Gog and
Magog, and it is Jerusalem (see Chapter 10 of Pt. 1). Hence we concluded that
the town referred to in the above verse of the Qur’an is Jerusalem!
When we recognize Jerusalem as the ‘town’ it would then
become clear that the cloud over Jerusalem in the Qur’an would be lifted
only when Y’ajuj (Gog) and M’ajuj (Magog) are released and when
they eventually descend from every height or spread in every direction (i.e.,
they take control of the world in the World Order of Gog and Magog). The return
of the Israelite Jews to the Holy Land confirms that Y’ajuj (Gog) and M’ajuj (Magog)have already been
released, have already descended from every height, or have already spread
out in every direction, and therefore have already taken control of the
world. The World Order which today rules over the world is the World Order of
Gog and Magog. Indeed it is Gog and Magog who made the return of the Jews to
the Holy Land possible.
It is now possible for us to anticipate the grand design
through which Dajjal, the False Messiah,would continue to
convince the Jews that he is delivering the return of the golden age. That
grand design appears to have commenced when Dajjal sallied forth from
Britain (see Hadith of Tamimal-Dari in Sahih Muslim) to transform European civilization into
a post-Christian and essentially godless civilization, and to endow it … with
the power to achieve whatever goal it chose to pursue. Then the plan witnessed
the creation of the Zionist movement. Zionism, in turn, established the State of
Israel. The plan seems to include eventual Jewish control over the entire
region in which the Holy Land is located, and that would be a step towards the
world dominion that Dajjal must deliver in order for the Jews to accept
him as the true Messiah. At the very heart of the grand design for the region
must be the control over wealth and over water. Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu
‘alaihi wa sallam) has explained the link between Dajjaland Riba,
and between Gog and Magog and water!
The Israelite Jews have returned to the Holy Land. That
return could not have been possible without modern western civilization (in
which Britain played the most conspicuous role). And hence it is also now clear
that not only did Dajjal, the False Messiah, sally forth from the island
of Britain, but in addition, that Gog and Magog are located within European
civilization.
It has become quite unfashionable in this age of the secularization
of knowledge to resort to the revealed word of the God of Abraham (sallalahu
‘alaihi wa sallam) to seek to explain the world. Yet this is precisely what
took place when the State of Israel emerged in the modern world. European
Zionist-Jews used the Torah to argue the case of their ‘God-given’ right to
take possession of the Holy Land in order to restore the State of Israel (that
was first established by the Prophet-King, David (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam)).
The first European Prime Minister of Israel, David Ben Gurion, stated quite frankly:
The Bible is our deed to the Land of Israel.
We were therefore quite justified in responding to the
advent of Jewish Israel with a presentation that is derived exclusively from
the Qur’an.
As the historical
process unfolds in this the last stage of history, and as the Qur’an increasingly
demonstrates its capacity to explain accurately the world and Jerusalem today,
this would validate its claim to be Truth. More than anything else this book
has presented the claim of the Qur’an that it is Truth. This is
precisely what the book itself declares in a Surah which is itself named
al-Fussilat (“that which is clearly spelled out”):
In time We shall make them fully understand Our messages (through
that which unfolds) in the utmost horizons (of the universe) and within
themselves, so that it will become clear to them that this (revelation) is
indeed the Truth. Will this not suffice for them to be convinced that your Lord
is witness unto all things?
(Qur’an, al-Fussilaat, 41:53-4)
Jerusalem, a city
sacred to Muslims, Christians and Jews, is destined to play the most
significant of all roles in the End of History. Islam, Christianity and
Judaism are all agreed on this. There are an abundance of signs, plainly
visible to those blessed with spiritual insight (i.e., who see with two eyes,
the external and the internal) that we now live in that Last Age, the age that
will witness the End of History.
It is critically
important that the Qur’anic view on this subject be presented again and again
at this time since Jerusalem has already begun to play that ‘role’ which is her
destiny. This book explains that ‘role’. It is also important that Jerusalem’s
‘role’ in the ‘End of History’ should be explained with as much intuitive
spiritual insight as is possible since that ‘role’ is oft-times discernible
only in this way.
Our objective was, of course, to address the general reading
public. It is particularly important for them to be acquainted with the destiny
of Jerusalem and the Holy Land, established in the Qur’an and Hadith
(the word of Prophet Muhammad sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam), because of
the rival claims to Jerusalem each of which declare that Jerusalem is destined
to validate its exclusive claim to Truth and invalidate all others.
To paraphrase this means that Jews believe in a destiny of
Jerusalem that will witness the advent of the Messiah. When the Messiah comes
he will restore the golden age of Judaism and he will rule the world from
Jerusalem. That will validate the Jewish claim to Truth and invalidate the
claims of rivals. Christians have the same belief. When Jesus, the Messiah
returns, he will reign over the world from Jerusalem and he will validate the
Christian dogmas of Trinity, Incarnation, Atonement, etc. Thus will the
Christian claim to Truth be validated and all others invalidated. The Muslims also
believe that Jerusalem has a destiny that will validate Islam’s claim to
Truth and invalidate the current Christian and Jewish claims. Since these three
conceptions of Truth, all of which claim to originate from Abraham (sallalahu
‘alaihi wa sallam), have such profound differences, they cannot possibly
all be true.
The Muslim view, as it emerges in this book, is that Jesus(sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam),
the ‘true’ Messiah, would return to life on earth one day, would go to
Jerusalem and rule the world as Hakimun ‘Adil (a ‘just ruler’), “will marry, have children, and
die”.“Muslims will pray over his body and he will be buried next to Prophet
Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) in the city of Madina” in Arabia
where the Prophet (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) is buried. When he
returns “Jesus (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) will break the cross”, and
that will be the end of Christianity, the religion of the cross. And “he will
kill the pigs”:
“Narrated Abu Hurairah: Allah’s Messenger said:
“By Him in Whose Hand is my soul, the son of Mary will shortly descend amongst
you as a just ruler. He will break the cross and kill the pigs and abolish
Jizyah (a punitive tax imposed upon Jews and Christians resident in the territory
of Islam). Then there will be abundance of money and nobody will accept
charitable gifts.”
(Sahih Bukhari)
The word ‘pigs’ cannot be interpreted literally because such
an interpretation does not fit into the context of the text. Rather, the use of
the word ‘pigs’ indicates extreme divine anger. This book poses the question:
Who are the pigs that will be killed by the Messiah when he returns? With whom
will the Messiah be so angry? Who attempted to crucify him?
Muslims have precise information of the moment in time when
Jesus (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam), the Messiah, will return. It will
be when the water in the Sea in Galilee has almost dried up, or has dried up:
“….It will be at this very time that Allah will
send Christ, son of Mary. He will descend at the white minaret on the eastern
side of Damascus, wearing two garments lightly dyed with saffron and placing
his hands on the wings of two Angels. When he lowers his head, there will fall beads
of perspiration from his head, and when he raises it up, beads like pearls will
scatter from it. Every non-believer who smells the odor of his body will die
and his breath will reach as far as he is able to see. He will then search for
him (Dajjal) until he catches hold of him at the gate of Ludd and kills him.
Then a people whom Allah had protected will come to Jesus, son of Mary, and he
will wipe their faces and inform them of their ranks in Paradise. It will be
under such conditions that Allah will reveal to Jesus these words: I have
brought forth from among My servants such people against whom none will be able
to fight; you take these people safely to Tur, and then Allah will send Gog and
Magog and they will swarm down from every slope. The first of them will pass
the lake of Tiberias and drink out of it. Andwhen the lastof
them passes, he will say: There was once water here….”
(Sahih Muslim)
The Sea of Galilee (otherwise called Lake Tiberias or Lake
Kinneret) has less water today than ever before in history, and that water is
constantly decreasing because Israel’s Euro-Jewish Government is taking out
more water than nature can put back into the Sea. It is as simple as that! When
the water dries up and there is no more drinking water left, the Zionist-Jews
will finally reach the supreme moment in their over-all strategy to get the
Arabs to submit to Jewish rule in the Holy Land. That would imply their worship
of the False Messiah rather than the worship of Allah Most High. They would be
required to do so in order to get water from the desalinization plants that
Israel would build. The Arabs would be too poor to be able to afford to buy water.
This book makes it clear that all that such Jews have to do
to measure the time left for their final destruction is to observe the water
level in the Sea of Galilee.
