A
strange European obsession with the Holy Land
When Abraham (‘alaihi al-Salam) made Hijrah to
the Holy Land, and Babylon, Persia, Egypt and China had great civilizations,
and the Greek and Roman Empires had not as yet emerged, Europe lived largely as
‘wild tribes’. There was little or no trade with the rest of the civilized
world... In consequence of this peculiar isolation the rest of the world could
not understand European languages, nor could Europe ever play any role as an
actor on the stage of the world. The Qur’an referred in Surah al-Kahf
to this unique European characteristic when Dhul Qarnain embarked on
his third journey and came upon a people whose language could not be understood
(Surah al-Kahf, 18:93).
A strange and mysterious
revolution overtook Europe. Pagan Greek and Roman civilizations emerged and
they immediately and strangely embarked upon the conquest of as much of the
rest of the world as could be conquered. Both Greek and Roman European
civilizations seemed to have a special interest in the Holy Land. Alexander ‘the
Great’ conquered Jerusalem and evinced an interest in Judaism, and the Roman Empire
ruled over Jerusalem and the Holy Land up to the time of Jesus (‘alaihi
al-Salam) and even after that. Secondly, there was no abiding fidelity to
their gods and goddesses and to the pagan way of life… Rather pagan beliefs
were eventually unceremoniously discarded in the same strange way that they had
been embraced centuries earlier.
Then a strange European embrace of Christianity for
essentially political reasons resulted in the emergence of the Euro-Christian
Church with Rome as the center of a new church. It was Christia nity that
brought much of the remaining part of Europe out of the ‘wild tribes’ stage of its history and united Europe as
Christendom. The new Christian church was so emphatic about its independence
from the old Christianity that it even appointed its own date for commemorating
the birth anniversary of Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salam). The new European
Christmas was celebrated on December 25.
But Euro-Christianity differed significantly and
mysteriously from the old orthodox Christianity of Byzantium. As soon as the new Christian church had consolidated its
hold over Europe it proceeded to display an obsession for the Holy Land
unmatched by any other Christians. The Crusades were not just Christian, rather
they were EuroChristian. They were launched one after another against the
Muslims in a futile effort to wrest control over the Holy Land. A short-lived European
liberation of the Holy Land was brought to an unceremonious end when Sultan Salahuddin defeated the Christian
crusaders and recovered Muslim control over the Holy Land.
What was most significant about the Crusades was that it was
exclusively European. Even though the European Crusaders had to pass through
the territory of the Byzantine Christians, non-European Christians did not join
the Europeans and hence played no part in the Crusades… This book poses the
question: Why this strange
Euro-Christian obsession with the Holy Land?
Secondly, when the European Crusaders did succeed in
wresting control over Jerusalem from the Muslims for a brief period they
perpetrated a bloodbath that was ominously un-Christian. They slaughtered all
the inhabitants of Jerusalem. Not even women and children were spared. The
Christian world was horrified by the barbarism and savagery of an ostensibly
Christian European people who had embarked on a religious and spiritual quest
to liberate the Holy Land. It certainly appeared as though the cloak of
Christianity had been donned by Europe as an act of expediency and convenience
rather than as an act of faith. The Crusades revealed a frightful, ruthless,
godless, amoral face of Europe. It was more essentially godless than it was
Christian, and it was more constituted of ‘wild tribes’ than of civilized
people… As time passed by it also displayed an amazing capacity to conceal its
true nature and to present itself as the opposite of what it really was.
The attention that Muslims should have devoted to the study
of this strange European phenomenon was strangely and mysteriously diverted when
the Mongol invasions took place and a wild and savage people, who behaved no
differently from the Euro-Christians, terrorized the Muslim world...
It is precisely because attention was not directed to the
study of this strange emerging phenomenon in history that the world of Islam
was unable to understand and explain the even stranger, more mysterious and
more inexplicable revolution that transformed Europe from a medieval Christian
civilization to an essentially godless modern secular western civilization.
That revolution also delivered to Europe a scientific and industrial revolution
and a Riba-based economic system
that resulted in godless Europe becoming more powerful than the rest of the
world combined and assuming the position of unchallenged and unchallengeable
ruler of the world. In the new Europe, Britain, an insignificant island located
about one month’s journey by sea from the Holy Land, defied all European power
equations to emerge as the leader of Europe and ruler of the world.
But the new essentially godless, ostensibly Christian,
Europe displayed the same strange obsession for the Holy Land that was
displayed by the old Christian crusading Europe. It proceeded to join hands
with the essentially godless ostensibly Jewish European Khazers in pursuing a
continuing obsession with liberating the Holy Land. These two European people
have remained locked together in a mystifying unholy embrace ever since.
It was the island of Britain that declared (in what is known
as the Balfour Declaration) in 1917
that it would work for the establishment of a Jewish National Homeland in
Palestine. Britain proceeded just two years later to liberate the Holy Land from
gentile (Muslim) rule. This occurred in 1917 when the British General, Allenby,
lead an army to victory over the Turkish army that defended Jerusalem and the
Holy Land. Where the old crusades, waged by an ostensibly Christian Europe, had
failed, the new crusade, waged by a godless Europe, succeeded. Both the efforts
to liberate Jerusalem and the Holy Land were European. Both were crusades. In
fact General Allenby himself
confirmed this in his memorable declaration that he made when he entered
Jerusalem as a conquerer: “Today the
crusades have ended”. And so it is clear that the effort to
liberate the Holy Land had nothing to do with religion. It had everything to do
with that strange new actor on the stage of the world, i.e., Europe!
Britain then assumed control over the Holy Land as the
Mandate Power under the cover of the League of Nations and proceeded to pursue
the goal of establishing that Jewish National Homeland. This book poses the
question: why this strange Euroobsession with the Holy Land by a Europe which
had now embraced secularism and materialism and was only nominally Christian?
If Europe’s embrace of Christianity was something strange,
then Europe’s embrace of Judaism was stranger still. It was sometime in the seventh century, perhaps, that the
Khazer tribes of Eastern Europe embraced Judaism. When they became Jews they
did so for essentially political reasons. Faith had no part to play in their
conversion. Even before they converted to Judaism the Euro-Khazers were recognized
to possess some mysterious power that permitted them to successfully and effectively
block the advance of Islam into Europe.
Like Euro-Christians, so too Euro-Jews differed
significantly from the Israelite Jews. Unlike Israelite Jews, Euro-Jews were
obsessed about wresting control over the Holy Land. It was Euro-Jews who
eventually established the Zionist Movement and pursued the same goal that
Euro-Christians had pursued in the Crusades, i.e., the goal of liberating the
Holy Land. This book poses the question: why this strange Euro-Jewish obsession
with the Holy Land?
Britain assisted the Zionist Movement in effecting the ‘return’ of the Jews to the Holy Land,
something finally accomplished after the creation of the State of Israel in 1948.
When Britain, the midwife, delivered the baby ‘Israel’, the world witnessed what
appeared to be the restoration of ancient Israel which had been destroyed by Allah
Most High more than 2000 years previously.
After Britain had ruled the world for a few hundred years a
strange and mysterious change occurred in which a new superpower became the
ruler of the world. The clear evidence of that change was present in the First
World War when US military intervention
saved Britain from defeat. It was even more evident in the Second World War
when an American General, Eisenhower, was chosen as Supreme Commander of all
Allied troops that fought in the Second World War…
Then in 1944, at Bretton
Woods in Upstate New York, an international conference was convened to
establish a new inter-national monetary system. The British Sterling pound that
was universally recognized as the key currency in the world of artificial paper
money was displaced at Breton Woods by the US dollar. Similarly, London was displaced
by Washington as the center of the new international monetary system...
The new superpower strangely and mysteriously emerged out of
the same European civilization that had first fought the Crusades in an
obsession with Jerusalem, and had played the leading role in the establishment
of a Jewish National Homeland in the
Holy Land. The new superpower continued where the old one left off in
maintaining a strange and intimate relation with the Holy Land and the State of
Israel. Thus when the State of Israel was declared to be independent in 1948,
the first country in the world to recognize the Jewish State was the United
States of America.
The new superpower made it abundantly clear that it had
displaced Britain as the strategic partner of the Jewish State. Indeed, it
proceeded to do so in a manner that subjected Britain to public humiliation. An
Egyptian revolution had taken place in 1952 and the Egyptian army displaced the
monarchy as the new ruler of Egypt. In 1956 Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser replaced
General Muhammad Naguib as Head of State and Nasser promptly proceeded to give
a spectacular display of his nationalist credentials by nationalizing the Suez Canal. Israel perceived this as a
strategic threat to the Jewish State. Britain, on the other, felt her
superpower status challenged.
In a joint operation that was conducted independently of
USA, the British French and Israeli governments launched a joint attack on
Egypt and dislodged the Egyptian army from Suez. US President Eisenhower responded by ordering the withdrawal of the
British, French and Israeli troops from Egyptian territory. Britain, the former
superpower, was forced to withdraw her troops and the British government of
Anthony Eden collapsed. Thereafter, and until the present, USA has been the
patron par excellence of the Jewish State. This book poses the question: why
this strange Euro-American obsession with the Holy Land?
If the European and American (including Euro-Christian and
Euro-Jewish) obsession with the Holy Land has been strange, the future appears
to hold even stranger things in store. Our view is that the world is about to
witness the emergence of the European State of Israel (i.e., an Israel which
was created by the Euro-Zionist Movement) as the super-power that would replace
Britain and USA as the dominant power in the world. Euro-Israel already
possesses enough nuclear and thermo-nuclear
weapons to be ranked as a superpower. Its military technology is at par
with the best in the world. Finally, Euro-Jewish financiers and bankers have it
within their power to assume financial control of the world through the simple
maneuver of causing the collapse of the US dollar. When the US dollar goes down it would bring down
the entire world of paper money with it. This may be planned to synchronize
with a spectacular Euro-Israeli display of military power in an attack on the
Palestinians as well as neighboring Arab States. Israel will then successfully
defy the rest of the world in holding on to the fruits of its war and, in so
doing, establish itself as the ruling power in the world. When that occurs it
would most certainly appear to the Israeli Jews (i.e., Banu Israil) that
they would be experiencing the return of the golden age, i.e., the age when
Solomon’s Israel ruled the world.
Does
the Qur’an explain all of the above, and if so,
what
is that explanation?
We wish to concede at the outset that it was not possible
for a book such as this to have been written before the return of the Jews to
the Holy Land. And this appears to be the first book of its kind to be written
since that event took place. Consequently when we use the Qur’an and Ahadith
to explain the strange and mysterious events described above our explanation
will surely come as a surprise even to scholars of Islam. It further
appears to this writer that the Qur’anic explanation of all these strange events
in Europe, and in the Holy Land, is knowledge that perhaps did not exist in the
world before this time. Consequently it forces him, and all those who now
accept as ‘truth’ what this book explains, as well as those who had already
been blessed with this knowledge, to bow down most humbly before Allah Most
High Who alone has “knowledge of all
things”, and “Who guides to
His light whomsoever He chooses.”
Those who would reject the Qur’anic explanation given in
this book must themselves declare either that the Qur’an does not
explain the return of the Jews to the Holy Land and the restoration of the
State of Israel, or that there is a different explanation other than the one
given in this book, in which case they are obliged to produce that other
Qur’anic explanation!
Those who reject Islam and declare that they possess
the Truth are challenged to use that Truth to explain this subject. Whether the
modern secular State makes the claim to Truth, or whether it is made by
Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism,
Bahaism,… secular humanism and liberalism, materialism, or atheism, that claim
can only be validated if they can explain the subject here addressed. That
appears to be the greatest importance of this book. It validates the Islamic
claim to Truth!
The Qur’an proceeded to warn that the world would now
witness the count down to the Last Day:
“Then will the true
warning (of the Day of Accounts) draw close (to fulfillment): then behold! (on
that day) the eyes of the Unbelievers will fixedly stare in horror: Ah! Woe to
us! we were indeed heedless of this; nay, we truly did wrong!”
(Qur’an, al-Anbiyah, 21-98)
When Gog and Magog are released they would ‘swarm down from
every height’ or ‘spread out in every direction’. This indicates that with
their invincible power they will take control of the whole world and that, for
the first time in history, one set of people would rule all of mankind. That
is the precise moment in history in which the world is now located.
The world order of Gog and Magog would be one of Fasad
(i.e., oppression and wickedness). Surah al-Kahf has described the two
defining characteristics of the Fasad of that world order as being the
opposite of the two defining characteristics of the world order of Dhul Qarnain. They were as follows:
Dhul Qarnain
used power (built on the foundations of
faith in Allah) to punish the oppressor and, in doing so, to establish a
harmony between the world order here on earth with the heavenly world order
above (i.e., a harmony of temporal reality with spiritual reality). Gog and
Magog, on the other hand, would use their invincible power (built on foundations of Godlessness) to
oppress, and to punish the oppressed. In doing so they establish here on earth
a world order which would be in total conflict with the heavenly order above.
Secondly, that world order would be one that would witness constantly
increasing oppression.
Dhul Qarnain
used power to reward those who had faith in Allah Most High and whose conduct
was righteous. Gog and Magog would use power for exactly the opposite
purpose.
Gog and Magog would thus create and sustain a world order
that could not possibly escape being recognized by those whose spiritual vision (built on faith and
righteous conduct) permitted them to see the reality of things. If the Jewish
people allowed such a people to become the champions who would liberate for
them the Holy Land and permit their return to Jerusalem, it would indicate that
the Jewish people were spiritually blind.
From the time of medieval Euro-Christendom to the age of
modern western civilization Europe has progressively displayed the
characteristics of the world order of Gog and Magog and has also fulfilled
their basic mission. Europe has corrupted the whole world and Europe it was
which brought the Jews back to the Holy Land. It is therefore an indication of
the utter spiritual blindness of the Jewish people that they allowed themselves
to be deceived and led down the road to their final destruction by Gog and
Magog.
The Prophet (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa-sallam) has
provided for us a measure by which we can monitor the countdown to the time of
the final punishment of the Jews. Firstly, this final punishment will not take
place until Jesus, the true Messiah, kills Dajjal, the False Messiah,
and until Allah Most High Himself destroys Gog and Magog through biological
warfare. That moment cannot come while still there is water left in the Sea of Galilee. Consider the following Hadith:
“Narrated al-Nawwas ibn Sam’an: ….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 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. ..”
(Sahih Muslim)
It is therefore a matter of supreme importance that we
direct attention to the water level in the Sea of Galilee.
to be continued....
