Jews, Christians, and ‘Jerusalem in the Qur’an’
Finally, while the subject of ‘Jerusalem in the Qur’an’
is important to Muslims, we were particularly interested in reaching out to
Jews and Christians with the Holy Qur’an. As time passes, and the Last
Hour draws nearer, it is becoming more and more difficult for Christian and
Jewish scholarship to respond to the Qur’an and Ahadith as they
deal with the subject of this book, as well as with Gog and Magog, the (False)
Messiah, and the Return of Jesus (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam). The
evidence that confirms the truth of the Qur’an continues to
increase.
Muslims have a duty to present this subject to Jews and
Christians, and we have done so in this book.
This book made a
distinction between two different Jews. There are those Israelite-Jews who
traced their ancestry to Father Abraham (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam).
They are a Semitic people whose racial affinity to the Arabs is quite clear. On
the other hand, there are blue-eyed blond-haired Europeans who converted to
Judaism once upon a time and who share no such descent from Abraham (sallalahu
‘alaihi wa sallam). The opinion of this writer, and Allah Knows best, is
that the original Gog and Magog are definitely located somewhere within the
ranks of such European Jews. Gog and Magog overturned Christian European
civilization and transformed it into the present godless civilization. Gog and
Magog established the Zionist movement and the State of Israel.
There can be no question of the fact that this book would be
psychologically shocking to Western, Christian, Jewish and even to some Muslim
readers. But let us make it plain and clear that we have not written this book
to offend such a reading audience. The ‘internal reality’ of the world today,
as understood through the Qur’an, is quite different from the ‘external
appearances’ on the basis of which such people form judgments. There is a world
of difference in the perception of those who see with two eyes, the external
and internal, and those who see with only one eye (because they are internally
blind). Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) warned that the
age of Dajjal, the False Messiah, would be an age in which ‘appearance’
and ‘reality’ would be completely different from each other. None can see
‘internally’ and penetrate ‘reality’ in the Last Age save those who faithfully
follow Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam).
We feel confident
that there would be some Jews at least who, upon reading in this book the
Qur’anic explanation of the events which are unfolding in the Holy Land, would,
Insha Allah, be convinced of the Truth in the Qur’an and would
consequently accept Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) as a
true Prophet of the God of Abraham.
to be continued....
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