Jerusalem
and the Qur'an’s Claim to Truth
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. And when the last of
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.
to be continued....
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