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[Quran 2:54] Recall that Moses said to
his people, "O my people, you have wronged your souls by worshiping the
calf. You must repent to your Creator. You shall kill your egos. This is better
for you in the sight of your Creator." He did redeem you. He is the
Redeemer, Most Merciful.
What
is this thing called "ego" which God advises us to kill? We all have
a feeling of what it is, but Western culture has confused the issue for us. The
dictionary definition of ego is almost useless, perhaps even harmful:
The
thinking, feeling and acting self that is conscious of itself and aware of its
distinction from the selves of others and from the objects of its thought and
other operations.
That sounds harmless enough, doesn’t it? But is it really? Interestingly, even
the dictionary suggests the Quranic truth. The word "distinction" is
the key here. The very word implies that some are better than others, and thus
should be followed in preference to others. But the messengers are just
vehicles for God’s guidance, and it is that guidance we must follow, not the
individuals themselves. In the same way, making a distinction between others
and ourselves implies that one or the other is inherently better. Yet we know
that the only thing which distinguishes the people is righteousness:
O people, we created you from the same
male and female, and rendered you distinct peoples and tribes, that you may
recognize one another. The best among you in the sight of God is the most
righteous. God is Omniscient, Cognizant (49:13).
And
even righteousness comes from God alone:
[Quran 74:56] They cannot take heed
against God's will. He is the source of righteousness; He is the source of
forgiveness.
Our
ego directs us to make distinction among our self and others, making us better
than them in our own eyes. It is also the piece that makes us feel that we have
some power, control or influence over things. It is the piece that gives
importance to our personal opinions, to our grudges, to our desires.
The ego is that piece which got us into trouble in the first place when we did
not stand up for God’s absolute power during the heavenly feud! It is because
of it that we are going through this life—the make-up test.
The Quran gives us examples of the result of following our egos rather than
killing them. It teaches us that it was ego that provoked Adam’s son Cain into
murdering his brother Abel (5:30). Through the example of the governor’s wife
who had tempted Joseph it teaches us that "the self is an advocate of
vice" (12:53).
Following
our ego puts us in danger of being covered by the following verse:
[Quran 47:14] Are those enlightened by
their Lord the same as those whose evil works are adorned in their eyes, and
they follow their own opinions?
Following
our ego causes us to be arrogant to the extent of rejecting God’s messengers:
[Quran 2:87] ...Is it not a fact that
every time a messenger went to you with anything you disliked, your ego caused
you to be arrogant? Some of them you rejected, and some of them you killed.
Finally,
we are given the example of David whose repentance was reinforced with God’s
teaching to
[Quran 38:26] ...rule among the people
equitably, and do not follow your personal opinion, lest it diverts you from
the way of God"
Humility
is antithesis of ego. Its importance is emphasized throughout the scriptures.
(See also 17:37
and 25:63):
[Quran 31:18-19] You shall not treat
the people with arrogance, nor shall you roam the earth proudly. God does not
like the arrogant showoffs "Walk humbly and lower your voice - the ugliest
voice is the donkey’s voice."
Man’s
pride causes his humiliation, but he who is humble of spirit obtains honor.
(Proverbs 29 verse 23) God teaches us that the ego can become an idol and the
consequences can be detrimental for our salvation. Those who idolize their
selves or egos may be sent astray by God, despite the knowledge they acquired:
[Quran 25:43] Have you seen the one
whose god is his own ego? Will you be his advocate?
[Quran 45:23] Have you noted the one
whose god is his ego? Consequently, God sends him astray, despite his
knowledge, seals his hearing and his mind, and places a veil on his eyes. Who
then can guide him, after such a decision by God? Would you not take heed?
How
do we go about killing our egos? God gives us many means of working at this.
For example, advice has been given to us to use criticism from someone else to
kill the ego. Even if it was not correct, you have used it constructively.
(Easier said than done though!) Every time we make a mistake, then repent and
try to make amends, we are killing our ego. Every time we take ourselves to
task for not being as eager to work righteousness, for not being
straightforward, for backsliding, for falling into gossip or vain talk, we are
killing our ego.
Sadly, the ego is like a hearty weed. Just when you think you have it licked,
it sprouts right back up again. We must remember that God is the only one who
really can do anything—including killing our ego. However, it is us who must
make the initial decision to improve ourselves:
[Quran 13:11] ...God does not change
the condition of any people unless they themselves make the decision to
change...
Whenever you
want to pursue the truth and verify anything you hear about Islam, we urge you
to please use the only valid and divine source of Islam, Quran.
“We shall confound their hearts and eyes in
consequence of their previous rejection of this (message). And We shall leave
them in their obstinate rejection (of this revealed Truth), to wander in
distraction (or to live in a state of aimlessness and drift).”
(Qur’an, al-An’am, 6:110)
[I.e.
We shall confound their Jewish hearts and eyes in consequence of their previous
rejection of this message when, among other things, they rejected the Messiah,
son of the Virgin Mary.]
JESUS THE MESSIAH
Prophets of Allah Most High communicated to Banu Israil
a divine promise to send to them a Prophet who would be their Prophet, who
would be known as the Messiah, and who would rule the world from the throne of
King David (‘alaihi al-Salaam). This, in fact, amounted to a prophecy of
the return of the golden age of Solomon (‘alaihi al- Salaam).
In 1 Chronicles, 17:11-15, the Prophet Nathan spoke
to King David about the Messiah and called him the Son of David:
“And it shall come to pass, when your days have
expired and you must go to be with your fathers, that I will raise up one of
your descendents after you, who shall be of your sons, and I will establish his
kingdom. He shall build for Me a house, and I will establish his throne forever.
I will be his father, and he will be My son: and I will not take My mercy away
from him, as I took it from him that was before thee: But I will settle him in
My house and in My kingdom forever; and his throne shall be established forever
more”.
(1 Chronicles, 17:11-15)
Years later Isaiah added to this as follows:
“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is
given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder (i.e., he will rule the
world): and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty God, the
EverlastingFather, the Prince of
Peace.
Of the increase of his government and peace there
shall be no end (i.e., he will rule the world eternally) upon the throne of
David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgement
and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts
will perform this.”
(Isaiah9:6-7)
Isaiah further wrote of him that:
“Behold My servant, in whom my soul delighteth: I
have put my spirit unto him: he shall bring forth judgement to the Gentiles.
He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice
to be heard in the street.
A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking
flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgement unto truth.
He shall not fail nor be discouraged, ‘till he
have set judgement unto the earth : and the isles shall wait for his law.
(Isaiah: 42:1-4)
I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles,
that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
(Isaiah: 49:6)
{While Jewish scholarship recognized these prophecies as
pertaining to the advent of the Messiah there are Muslim scholars who declare
that the prophesies refer to the advent of Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu
‘alaihi wa sallam).}
Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam)
declared that he, the Messiah, would be Hakimun ‘Adil (a Just Ruler of
the world):
“Narrated Abu Hurairah: Allah’s Messenger said:
‘By Him in Whose Hand is my soul (I swear that) 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.’ ”
“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.
