JERUSALEM IN THE QUR’AN
By Imran N. Hosein
PART ONE
Chapter 12
QUR’ANIC EXPLANATION OF
THE RETURN OF
THE JEWS
TO THE HOLY
LAND
“And
say: Praise be to Allah, Who will soon show you His ‘Signs’, so that you would
know them; and your Lord is not unmindful of all that you do.”
(Qur’an, al-Naml, 27:93)
We live in an age in which the Jews have returned to
Jerusalem to reclaim it after a divinely imposed exile of almost 2000 years.
Jerusalem flourishes today, exercising power and influence over the entire
region. The State of Israel has secured advantageous ‘peace’ treaties with such
client-states as Egypt and Jordan. Israel has also made agreements with the
Palestine Liberation Organization progressively diluting its opposition to the
establishment of the Jewish State. Even Saudi Arabia has entered into the same
Israeli embrace acting very secretively until its dramatic emergence to offer
the ‘Saudi Plan’ that includes recognition of the Jewish State.
The city of Madina, in the meantime has returned to being a
‘backwater’ city wielding no influence whatsoever on regional or world
developments. Adding further to this insult to Madina’s injury the Saudi State,
which emerged on the ruins of the Caliphate, was created as a client-state of
Britain. When USA took over from Britain as the Ruling State in the world, the Saudi State became a
client-state of USA. Saudi Arabia, like Israel, has been dependent from the
very beginning of its existence on (first) Britain, and then USA for its very
survival.
The Saudi-Wahhabi alliance in the Saudi State has
faithfully preserved that client state status ever since 1916 when ‘Abd
al-‘Aziz ibn Saud accepted a British offer of 5000 Sterling pounds a month in
return for an alliance which would allow the British to pursue their objective
of wresting control of the Hejaz from Ottoman Islamic rule.
The Wahhabi religious movement accommodated this
client-state status with the Christian and Jewish west, always holding the view
that the Christians and Jews were closer to them that the rest of the Muslim
world. The Wahhabis considered nonWahhabi Muslims to be
disbelievers accusing all of committing Shirk!
While the State of Israel also emerged as a client-state of
the West, the fundamental difference between the two client-states, Israel and
Saudi Arabia, is that the State of Israel is destined to not only rid itself of
that client-state relationship, but to emerge as the superpower that will
succeed both Britain and USA as the Ruling State in the world.
When that occurs, the Saudi State will then become a client-state of Israel.
The Prophet (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) prophesied
that this day would come. But it would hold an ominous promise for Israel:
“Narrated Mu’adh ibn Jabal: The Prophet (peace be
upon him) said: The flourishing state of Jerusalem will be when Yathrib (i.e.,
Madina in modern-day Saudi Arabia) is in ruins, the ruined state of Yathrib
will be when the great war comes, the outbreak of the great war will be at the
conquest of Constantinople and the conquest of Constantinople when the Dajjâl (the false Messiah or Antichrist) comes forth. He (the Prophet)
struck his thigh or his shoulder with his hand and said: This is as true as you
are here or as you are sitting (meaning Mu’adh ibn Jabal).”
(Sunan, Abu Daud)
The flourishing state of Jerusalem today, substantially
fulfils the above prophecy. Already Israel has successfully defied the
President of USA as well as the Security Council of the UN both of whom
demanded an Israeli military withdrawal from the Palestinian West Bank. This
was after Israel had responded to a wave of Palestinian human bombers (who are shuhada and should not be referred to
as ‘suicide’ bombers). This will increase when Israel wages her biggest ever
war. That war will deliver to Israel a
dramatic territorial expansion. The above prophecy of Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu
‘alaihi wa sallam) will then be more clearly understood.
The predictable collapse of the US economy and successful
Israeli defiance of a US demand that Israel give up the territory acquired
through war would result in the complete fulfilment of the prophecy. Similarly
Yathrib’s (i.e., Madina’s) ruined state is already substantially fulfilled in
the client-state status with the godless USA. When Israel takes over as the
superpower of the world and the Saudi State becomes a clientstate of Israel,
the result would be complete fulfilment of the prophecy. The implication of the
above is that the Muslims now stand on the brink of a great war that Israel would,
perhaps, jointly initiate with Kemalist Turkey’s armed forces. The Prophet (sallalahu
‘alaihi wa sallam) prophesied that war with Turkey whose military have now become
a tool of Israel:
“Narrated Abu Hurairah:
The Prophet said: The Hour will not be established
till you fight a nation wearing hairy shoes, and till you fight the Turks, who
will have small eyes, red faces and flat noses; and their faces will be like
flat shields. And you will find that the best people are those who hate
responsibility of ruling most of all till they are chosen to be the rulers. And
the people are of different natures: The best in the pre-Islamic period are the
best in Islam. A time will come when any of you will love to see me rather than
to have his family and property doubled.”
(Sahih, Bukhari)
The war may commence as a Turkish attack on Syria that will
be used by Israel to provoke a greater conflagration in the region. But at the
end of it all the State of Israel will emerge as the Ruling State in the
world. Subsequent to this event Dajjal would emerge in a day that would be like ‘our’ day,
i.e., he would appear in our dimension of time and hence in our world. It is
certain that he would appear in Jerusalem as the ruler of the State of Israel.
When Dajjal, the false Messiah, appears, it is at that time that the true
Messiah, the son of Mary, would return. He would kill Dajjal, and then a
Muslim army would destroy the State of Israel.
The Qur’an
prophesied the return of the Jews to the Holy Land and also explained its
implications. There are many Qur’anic declarations and many prophecies and
pronouncements of the Prophet (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) pertaining
to the destiny of Jerusalem. The reader should direct careful attention to the
following ten declarations concerning the destiny of Jerusalem.
Both the Qur’an and the Ahadith affirm that
Jesus (alaihi al-Salam) would one day return to the world. At that time,
Jews would have no alternative but to believe in him as the Messiah. They would
then be destroyed, but would die with the certain knowledge that the ‘truth’ to
which they had clung was actually ‘falsehood’, while the rejected messages of
Jesus (alaihi al-Salam) and of Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam)
were in fact the ‘truth’. They will thus die with the certain knowledge that
they would enter into hell.
After they boasted of their crucifixion of Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salam), Allah expelled them
from the Holy Land. The Qur’an then revealed the destiny of Jerusalem and of
the Jews as follows:
Ø A Jewish Diaspora of bits and pieces scattered all over the
earth
Ø Jews banned from returning to Holy Land to reclaim it
Ø Possibility for Jews to be forgiven by Allah, the Merciful,
if they believe in the Prophet who would be ‘Ummi’ (unlettered and
Gentile)
Ø Divinely-ordained return of the Jews to the Holy Land at the
‘End Time' (the last stage of the Last Age)
Ø Gog and Magog responsible for the return of the Jews to the
Holy Land
Ø A warning to the Jews that divine punishment can be repeated
Ø A warning of the worst punishment ever for the Jews
Ø Spiritual blindness when the time for the final punishment
comes
Ø The body of Pharaoh (of the Exodus) would be recovered and
that would indicate that the Jews would now suffer the same fate that he
suffered
Ø Jews will have no alternative but to believe in Jesus as the
Messiah when he returns but it would then be too late to save them from
horrible punishment and from the hellfire.
1. A Jewish Diaspora
of bits and pieces scattered all over the earth
When Allah Most High expelled the Jews from the Holy Land
after their rejection of the Messiah and their attempt to kill him, He made a
declaration which reveale d that this new Diaspora would be different.
Previously, in Babylon, the Jews had remained as a homogenous community living
in one geographical location. But on the occasion of their second expulsion,
Allah Most High declared that this time it would be different.
“And We dispersed them as separate communities (all over) the
earth ….”
(Qur’an, al-‘Araf, 7:168)
This declaration of the Qur’an was spectacularly
fulfilled when, for over two thousand years, the Jews remained dispersed all
over the world. They lived during this period of time in Yemen, Morocco, Iraq,
Iran, Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Ethiopia, Arabia, Syria, Turkey, etc.
The strangely scattered Jewish Diaspora which lasted for
some 2000 years was meant to function as a sign to the Jews of divine anger and
punishment, and many Jews recognized it as such.
2. Jews banned from
returning to Holy Land to reclaim it
After expelling the Jews , Allah Most High placed a ban
prohibiting their return to that Land. (They could come back as tourists but
they could not return in order to reclaim it). That ban became a historical
reality and remained in force for all to see for some two thousand years. And
this constituted a dramatic confirmation of the declaration of the Qur’an in Surah
al-Anbiyah:
“There is a ban on a ‘Town’ which We have destroyed, that they (the
people of the Town) shall not return (to the Town in order to reclaim it).”
(Quran, al-Anbiyah, 21:95)
As has previously been demonstrated, that town
mentioned refers to Jerusalem. That divine
ban on the Jews prohibiting their return to Jerusalem (and the Holy Land) to reclaim
it was meant to function as a sign to the Jews of divine anger and punishment.
It was also meant to convey to them that they were no longer the ‘chosen
people’.
3. Possibility for
Jews to be forgiven by Allah, the Merciful, if they believe in the Prophet who
would be ‘Ummi’ (unlettered and Gentile)
Even after Allah Most High had expelled the Jews from the
Holy Land and then banned their return to Jerusalem (to reclaim it), the Qur’an
declared that it was still possible for them to earn forgiveness from Allah,
Most Forgiving:
“It may be that your Lord would have mercy
on you.”
(Qur’an, Banu Israil, 17:8)
Allah Most High gave them a period of time during which He
was prepared to forgive them if they mended their ways, sought His forgiveness,
and returned to the religion of Abraham (alaihi al-Salam). But there was
only one door through which that forgiveness could be obtained. The Qur’an
addressed a Banu Israil who had already received both the Torah and the Injil (Gospel of Jesus), and
informed them of the path to forgiveness as follows:
“Those who follow the
Messenger, the unlettered Prophet, whom they find mentioned in their own
(Scriptures) - in the Law and the Gospel - for he commands them what is just
and forbids them what is evil; he allows them as lawful what is good (and pure)
and prohibits them from what is bad (and impure); he releases them from their
heavy burdens and from the yokes that are upon them. So it is those who believe
in him, honor him, help him, and follow the Light which is sent down with him
(i.e., the Qur’an), it is they who will achieve salvation.”
(Qur’an, al-‘Araf, 7:157)
Thus in accepting, believing, and following the Last Prophet
(sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam), forgiveness could be earned.
There would be a number of signs by which it would be known
that the time given to Banu Israil, in which to seek forgiveness, had
now expired. Among those signs would be the release of Dajjal, and of
Gog and Magog into the world. Both of these took place during the lifetime
of Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam),
seventeen months after he had lived in Madina amongst the Jews. By this time it had become quite clear that
the Jews had rejected him, and the Qur’an, and were conspiring to destroy
Islam. At that moment Allah Most High sent down revelation decreeing that the Ka’aba
be restored as the Qiblah.
This change of Qiblah from Jerusalem to Makkah indicated that the one
and only ‘window of opportunity’ open to the Jews to earn Divine Forgiveness
and Mercy was now closed. The Last Age had now commenced and the inevitable
punishment of the Jews could no longer be averted. It was a thing decreed.
Although the Last Age had commenced, and the door to Divine
Mercy had been closed, the Jews still had to wait before their final punishment
was to occur. During much of the time before the countdown to final punishment
would begin, the Jews would actually find sanctuary amongst Muslims:
“Shame is pitched over them (like a tent) wherever they are found,
except when under a covenant (of protection) from Allah and from men; they draw
on themselves wrath from Allah, and pitched over them is (the tent of)
destitution. This because they rejected the Signs of Allah, and slew the
Prophets in defiance of right; this because they rebelled and transgressed
beyond bounds.”
(Qur’an, Ale ‘Imran, 3: 112)
The time for the final ‘countdown’ to punishment would be
preceded by Signs from Allah Most High. Among those Signs one of the most
visible would be the recovery of the body of Pharaoh who had drowned while
pursuing Moses (‘alaihi al-Salam) and the Israelite people.
Unfortunately for the Jews the body of that Pharaoh (Rameses 11) has already been recovered and it is now too
late for them to repent (i.e., to make Taubah), to accept the Truth
revealed by the God of Abraham (‘alaihi al-Salam) in the Qur’an,
and to believe in Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) as the Final
Messenger of Allah, Most High. It is
also too late to avert the greatest of all divine punishments:
“Are they waiting to see if the angels come to them, or thy Lord
(Himself), or certain of the ‘Signs’ of thy Lord? The day that certain of the
‘Signs’ of thy Lord do come (i.e., Dajjal, Y’ajuj and M’ajuj, the recovery of
the body of Pharaoh, etc.) no good will it do to a soul to believe in them
then, if it believed not before nor earned righteousness through its Faith.
Say: “Wait! We, too, are waiting.”
(Qur’an, al-An’am, 6:158)
4. Divinely-ordained return of the Jews to Holy Land at the
‘End Time ’ (i.e., the last stage of the Last Age)
The Qur’an went on to declare that Allah Most High
would Himself bring the Jews back to the Holy Land in the ‘End Time’. The Jews would be deceived into believing
that their success in returning to the Holy Land to reclaim it validates their
claim to Truth. This prophecy pertaining to the final return to the Holy Land
has also been fulfilled, even more spectacularly, through the establishment of
the Impostor State of Israel:
“And We said thereafter to the Children of Israel: dwell
securely in the (Holy) Land (on condition that you remain faithful to Allah and
you are righteous in your conduct); but (know that) when the last of the
warnings come to pass (i.e. when the Last Age arrives), We (shall) gather you
together in a mingled crowd (i.e., you will all be brought back to the Holy
Land complete with all the heterogeneity which you would have accumulated from
long years of exile in the scattered Jewish Diaspora).”
(Qur’an, Banu Israil,
17:104)
This prophecy in the Qur’an declared that the Last
Age would witness a return of the Jews to the Holy Land in which the
accumulated diversity and heterogeneity would be on display. The expression lafif
denotes a human crowd who are not all the same. This is precisely the
description of Jewish society in today’s Israel. It is a ‘motley crowd’ of Jews
from so many different parts of the world, speaking in different languages,
with different accents, wearing different clothes, eating different food,
worshipping in different ways, in different synagogues, etc. But the most
amazing difference is the racial, and that is where the Qur’anic prophecy has
found ominous fulfilment. Modern Israel comprises large numbers of Jews who are
a pure European people with blue eyes and blond hair. There is emerging genetic
evidence demonstrating that European Jews (i.e., Ashkenazi Jews) are
genetically different from every other people on earth. The racial homogeneity
of a people descended from Abraham (‘alaihi al-Salam) through Isaac (‘alaihi
al-Salam) and Jacob (‘alaihi al-Salam), has now evaporated.
What is the meaning
and implication of the fulfilment of the Qur’anic prophecy pertaining to the
return of the Jews to the Holy Land in the Last Age?
5. Gog and Magog responsible for the return of the Jews to
the Holy Land
There are at least three verses of the Qur’an that
point distinctly in the direction of divine punishment for the Jews when they
are brought back to the Holy Land. Here are two of these three verses:
“But there is a ban on a city which We destroyed: that they
(i.e, the people of the city) shall not return (to that city), unless and until
Gog and Magog are released, and they swiftly descend from every height (or
spread out in every direction).”
(Qur’an, al-Anbiyah, 21-95-6)
While the identity of the ‘city’ has not been explicitly
stated, it is quite clear that it cannot be other than Jerusalem. There is an
indirect Qur’anic identification of the city as follows: The Rabbis in Madina
responded to the appeal of the Quraish for a means whereby they could determine
whether Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) was indeed a Prophet.
Their response was to pose three questions. If he could answer them all
correctly then he would be a true Prophet. Allah Most High responded by
revealing the answers to all three questions in Qur’anic revelation. The
answers to the first two questions, i.e., the young men who fled into the cave
and the ‘great traveller’ who travelled to the two ends of the earth, were
placed in Surah al-Kahf. (see
al-Kahf, 18:9-26; 83-98) But the answer to the third question
concerning the ruh was placed in Surah Banu Israil, 17:85. The
implication of this strange arrangement was a principle of interpretation that
linked together the two Surahs of the Qur’an as a pair. Dr. Israr
Ahmad, the eminent scholar of the Qur’an, has presented an abundance of
evidence that confirm the pairing of the two Surahs.
And so, in order to locate the identity of the young men in
the cave as well as the identity of Dhul Qarnain, Y’ajuj and M’ajuj and
the Qaryah (city), we need to turn to Surah Banu Israil for assistance. When we do so we find that
the Surah deals with only one Qaryah (city), Jerusalem.
The Ahadith of Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi
wa sallam), on the other hand, directly establish the identity of the city.
Not only is Jerusalem mentioned by name in the Ahadith concerning Y’ajuj
and M’ajuj but also no other such city, destroyed by Allah Most
High, is mentioned. The following Hadith that describes and narrates the
event of the return of Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salam) would suffice to
establish the link between Y’ajuj and M’ajuj and the Holy Land,
as well as Jerusalem, and hence identify the qaryah (city) as none other than Jerusalem:
“Narrated al-Nawwas ibn
Sam’an: ….It will be under such conditions that Allah will reveal to Jesus (‘alaihi
al-Salam) 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 Tiberius (i.e., the Sea of
Galilee) and drink out of it. And when the last of them passes, he will say:
There was once water there. Jesus and his companions will then be besieged
here at Tur, (and they will be so hard pressed) that the head of the ox will be
dearer to them than one hundred dinars …. ”
(Sahih Muslim)
The Sea of Galilee is in the Holy Land. Secondly, the Tur
(mountain) mentioned in the Hadith is a mountain in Jerusalem. This is
mentioned in another version of the same Hadith on the authority of the
same chain of transmitters:
“Gog and Magog would walk until they reach the
mountain of al-Khamr, and it is a mountain of Bait al-Maqdis (i.e., Jerusalem)
and they would say: We have killed those who are on the earth. Let us now kill
those who are in the sky. They would shoot their arrows towards the sky and the
arrows would return to them smeared with blood.”
(Sahih Muslim)
We are now in a position to recognize the return of the Jews
to Jerusalem in the ‘End Time’ as a Sign, revealed in the Qur’an, which
not only confirms the release of Gog and Magog, i.e., Y’ajuj and
M’ajuj but also reveals that they now control the world with a power which
is indestructible . Now Y’ajuj and M’ajuj are agents of
universal fasad. (see Qur’an, al-Kahf, 18:94). Fasad means “corruption, decay,
wickedness, viciousness, immorality, perverseness, etc.” When Y’ajuj and
M’ajuj embrace a people they lead that people into the hell-fire. The Hadith
reveals that globalization, in the age of Y’ajuj and M’ajuj, will
culminate with 999 out every 1000 entering the hell-fire:
“Narrated Abu Said Al Khudri: The Prophet
said: On the day of Resurrection Allah will say: O Adam! Adam will reply:
Labbaik our Lord, and Sa’daik. Then there will be a loud call (saying): Allah
orders you to take from among your offspring a mission for the (Hell) Fire. Adam
will say: O Lord! How many are they for the (Hell) Fire? Allah will say: Out of
each thousand, take out 999. At that time every pregnant female shall drop her
load (have a miscarriage) and a child will have gray hair. “And you shall see
mankind as in a drunken state, yet not drunk, but severe will be the torment of
Allah”. (Qur’an, al-Hajj, 22:2) (When the Prophet mentioned this), the people
were so distressed (and afraid) that their faces changed (in color) whereupon
the Prophet said: From Y’ajuj and M’ajuj nine hundred and ninety-nine will be
taken out, and one from you. You Muslims (compared to the large number of other
people) will be like a black hair on the side of a white ox, or a white hair on
the side of a black ox, and I hope that you will be one-fourth of the people of
Paradise. On that, we said: Allahu-Akbar! Then he said: I hope that you will be
one-third of the people of Paradise. We again said: Allahu-Akbar! Then he said:
(I hope that you will be) one-half of the people of Paradise. So we said:
Allahu-Akbar.”
(Sahih Bukhari)
The Jewish return to Jerusalem, and the restoration of the
State of Israel, was made possible through Gog and Magog (Y’ajuj and M’ajuj),
and by the False Messiah (alMasih al-Dajjal). It thus constitutes the
greatest possible danger to which Jews have ever been exposed in all their
history. In fact their fate is now sealed. But they are not even aware of it.
Only by embracing the Qur’an as the divinely revealed word of the God of
Abraham, and the teachings of Muhammad the Prophet (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa
sallam), the Last Prophet, would it have been possible for the Jewish
people to realize the reality that now confronts them. The references to the Qur’an
and Ahadith in this book should assist them in understanding that
reality.
6. A warning to the Jews that divine punishment can be
repeated
The Qur’an warned the Jews that
if they returned to their wicked ways Allah, the Supreme, would return with His
punishment. He first punished them with a Babylonian army. Then He punished
them with a Roman army. The last punishment, when it takes place, would be with
a Muslim army:
“It may be that your Lord may (yet) show Mercy unto you; but if
ye revert (to your sins) We shall revert (to Our punishments): and We have made
Hell a prison for those who reject (all Faith).”
(Qur’an, Banu Israil, 17:8)
7. A divine warning of the worst punishment ever for the
Jews
The Qur’an gave as clear and as plain a warning as
was possible to the Jews that one day they would face the reality that now
confronts them, i.e., Y’ajuj, M’ajuj and Dajjal, the False
Messiah would be released into the world. The Jews refused to believe in the Qur’an
as the revealed word of the God of Abraham and in Muhammad (sallalahu
‘alaihi wa sallam) as the Last Prophet of the God of Abraham. In
consequence of this they are incapable of recognizing that reality:
“Behold! Thy Lord made it known that He would send against them
(i.e., the Jews) to the Day of Resurrection such (beings) who would afflict
them with great suffering. Thy Lord is quick in retribution, but He is also
Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.”
(Qur’an, al-‘Araf, 7:167)
The law of Allah Most High is that punishment must be
commensurate with or equivalent to the crime. And since the Jews committed the
worst possible crime in attempting to crucify Jesus (alaihi al-Salam),
of changing the Torah, etc., they would pay for it with the worst possible
punishment. That punishment would commence even before the Day of Judgment.
Indeed it would commence after the Last Prophet (Muhammad) had come to the
world and had been rejected. A series of dramatic events would then occur
culminating in the worst possible punishment for the Jews. Allah would raise
those who would function as the major actors of that drama: Gog and Magog, and Dajjal,
the False Messiah.
8. Jewish spiritual blindness when the time for the last
punishment comes
Allah Most High has Himself ensured that neither the Jews
nor the non-believing in the world would be able to perceive the reality of
their own condition:
“I will turn away from My signs the eyes of those who are
unjustly arrogant in the land, so that even if they see each and every sign
they will not believe in it. If they see the Right Way before them they will
not follow it, but if they see a crooked way they will follow it. This is
because they denied Our revelations and were heedless of them.”
(Qur’an, al-‘Araf, 7:146)
The major actor in that awesome drama of the Last Age is
none other than the False Messiah himself, Dajjal. It is significant
that the most important of all the equipment with which Allah Most High has
endowed Dajjal (for the purpose of accomplishing his mission) is his
‘one eye’. Dajjal is blind in his right eye, and that indicates his internal
spiritual blindness. All those who are deceived by him would themselves become
spiritually blind and hence would be incapable of seeing and recognizing the
Signs of Allah in the Last Age. This
would continue until the return of the True Messiah, Jesus the son of Mary.
9. The body of Pharaoh (of the Exodus) would be recovered
and that would indicate that the Jews would now suffer the same fate that he
suffered
The Qur’an provided yet another sign to show that the
final countdown for Banu Israil in the Last Age had now arrived and that
the worst possible punishment would now be unleashed upon them by Allah Most
High. That divine sign was the recovery of the body of the Pharaoh who was
drowned when he attempted to cross the sea in pursuit of Moses (‘alaihi
al-Salam). Allah Most High had parted the sea in order to save Banu
Israil. And after they had crossed over to safety He brought down the
waters on Pharaoh and his army and they were all destroyed. The Qur’an
refers to this:
“And remember We parted the Sea for you and saved you and
drowned Pharaoh’s people before your very sight.”
(Qur’an, al-Baqarah, 2:50)
Banu Israil
did not know, and still do not recognize, that they would themselves one day
be destroyed (as Pharaoh was destroyed), and in the same manner as Pharaoh if they
betrayed Allah Most High and committed certain sins.
How did
Pharaoh die? The gentle reader would be astonished
when he reads of the Qur’anic account of Pharaoh’s death:
“We took Banu Israil across the sea: then Pharaoh and his hosts
followed them in insolence and spite. At length, when overwhelmed with the
flood, he said: I (now) believe that there is no god except Him Whom the
Children of Israel believe in: I am of those who submit (to Allah Most High in
Islam).
“(It was said to him:) Ah now! But a little while before, you
were in (a state of) rebellion! And you were inflicting oppression (and
violence)! “And so this day (We have decided that) We shall save you in your
body (i.e. We shall preserve your dead body), so that you (i.e., your dead body
when it reappears in history) may be a Sign for those who come after you! But
verily, most among mankind are heedless of Our Signs!”
(Qur’an, Yunus, 10:90-2)
“But when they continued to challenge Us We inflicted Our
retribution on them and drowned them all. And We made them a thing of the past
and an (ominous) example for those to come after them.”
(Qur’an, al-Zukhruf, 43:55-6)
And so the Qur’an made the amazing prophecy that the
dead body of the Pharaoh of the exodus would one day be discovered, and that
when it was discovered that would constitute a most ominous divine sign.
Amazingly the body of that Pharaoh was discovered close to the end of the last
century. It was an even more ominous sign for the Jews that the Zionist
Movement was also established at just about the same time that the body of
Pharaoh was discovered. It is clear that Dajjal, the False Messiah, was the
mastermind behind the creation of the Zionist Movement. And so the age of Gog
and Magog was also the age of Dajjal.
The implication of the above is that the Jews were now being
led by Dajjal, the False Messiah, and by Gog and Magog, on a path which
would witness the worst possible punishment being unleashed against them and
which would culminate with divinely ordained destruction. But the end would
come upon them in the same way that the end came to Pharaoh. What would be that end? The discovery
of the body of Pharaoh was a momentous Sign from Allah Most High that the world
would now witness the greatest drama ever enacted in human history. Time was
now up for the Jews in particular, and for all of mankind in general. Those who
lived like Pharaoh would now die the way Pharaoh died.
10. Jews will have no alternative but to believe in Jesus as
the Messiah when he re turns, but it would then be too late to save them from
punishment and hellfire
After the Qur’an narrated the event in which the Jews
attempted to have Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salam) crucified, and then boasted
that they had achieved their goal, Allah Most High delivered the most ominous
of warnings. The Jews who rejected Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salam) as the
Messiah (and Christians who worshipped him as God) were informed that they
would (have to) believe in him (Jesus) before he experienced Maut, i.e.
after he returns and before he dies. Thus Jews would have to believe in him as
the Messiah and Christians would have to cease worshipping him as God and
recognize him as a Prophet:
“And there is none of the
People of the Book but must believe in him before his death; and on the Day of
Judgment he will be a witness against them.”
(Qur’an, al-Nisa, 4:159)
The above verse indicated that when Jesus (‘alaihi
al-Salam) returned the Jews would not only recognize and confirm their
faith in him as the Messiah, but would also, by implication, recognize and
confirm their faith in Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) as the
Final Prophet sent by the God of Abraham, and the Qur’an as the Final
Divine Revelation. But this last-minute
affirmation of faith on the part of Jews would be of no benefit to them in the
same way that his last-minute affirmation of faith was of no avail for Pharaoh
(he was still condemned to the hellfire). That is the ominous message to the
Jews that has emerged in consequence of the recovery of Pharaoh’s body!
The further implication, crucial for the proper
understanding of the historical process as the world moves to the moment of the
final grand climax, is that the Jews as well as non-believers would remain
absolutely convinced up to the very last moment prior to that grand climax,
that they are on the path of success. And so the divinely ordained profile for
the Truth (i.e., Islam) in the world in the Last Age is one in which
external observation increasingly indicates that Islam has failed. That
is precisely the world today.
to be continued....
