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“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.’ ”
“Will
they not travel through the earth so that they may thus learn wisdom and their
ears may thus learn to hear? Truly it is not their eyes that are blind, but
(rather) their hearts which are in their chests.”
(Qur’an, al-Hajj, 22:46)
[I.e.
Will they not travel through the earth perchance that their dead hearts might
come alive, so that with such hearts and minds, which are now internally alive,
they may thus learn wisdom and their ears may thus learn to hear, i.e., with
internal hearing? Truly it is not their eyes that are blind, but, rather, their
hearts that are in their chests.]
Jewish religious scholarship recognized a Jewish
relationship with the Holy Land, the city of Jerusalem, and the Temple of
Solomon (‘alaihi al-Salaam), to be matters connected with the very
substance of ‘faith’. As a consequence of that belief they concluded that the
religion of Judaism would forever remain incomplete unless and until Jews
returned to a liberated Holy Land, restored the State of Israel with Holy Jerusalem
as the capital of that State, and reconstructed the Temple of Solomon (‘alaihi
al-Salaam). Zionism had no such sacred attachment or relationship with the
Land, the city, or the Temple. The Zionist ties to these entities were based on
grounds that were essentially political, historic, secular and national.
The Qur’an declared, on the other hand, that the
substance of religion resided in ‘faith’ (and righteous conduct) – ‘faith’ in
Allah Most High, His Angels, His Revealed Scriptures, His Messengers or
Prophets, the Last Day, the Resurrection and Judgment, Heaven and Hell, etc.
Allah Most High is the ‘Truth’. ‘Faith’ resides in the human heart. When
‘Faith’ is achieved then ‘Truth’ enters the heart! Allah Most High is greater
than a Land, or a City, or a Temple. “My
heavens and My earth are too small to contain Me. But the heart of My faithful
servant can contain Me”(Hadith al-Qudsi).
When the Last Prophet (‘alaihi al-Salaam) came into
the world Jewish scholarship was incapacitated in respect of formally
recognizing him as a Prophet because of this fixation with the ‘external form’
of religion and inadequate recognition of the ‘internal substance’ of religion.
Muhammad (‘alaihi al-Salaam), the Arab, was not a Jew, hence, they
argued, he could not be a Prophet to the Jews. After the arrival of the Prophet
(‘alaihi al-Salaam) in their very midst in the Hejazi city of Yathrib
(now Madina), he fasted with the Jews on the days when they fasted and
in accordance with the law of fasting in the Torah (sunset to sunset). He also
performed his Salat (prescribed prayers) while facing in the direction
of Jerusalem. When after seventeen months it became clear that the Jews had not
only rejected Muhammad (‘alaihi al-Salaam) as a Prophet of Allah Most
High and the Qur’an as the word of Allah Most High but were also
conspiring to destroy the unity and power of the community of Muslims, Allah Most
High ordered the Prophet to turn away from Jerusalem in prayer and to turn instead
to Makkah.
This change in Qiblah (direction of prayer) provoked
the Jews to make many critical comments. It was an affront to them that this
change should have taken place since they believed that the very substance of
religion was located in attachment to Jerusalem. The Qur’an responded to
their criticisms with contempt:
“The fools among the people will say: What hath turned them from
the Qiblah to which they were used? Say: To Allah belong East and West: He
guides whom He will to a Way that is straight.”
(Qur’an, al-Baqarah,2:142)
The Qur’an
declared the Jews to be so imprisoned by the false belief that Jerusalem belonged
to the heart and center of faith that nothing in the world could change it:
“Even if you were to bring to the People of the Book all the
Signs (together), they would not follow your Qiblah…”
(Qur’an, al-Baqarah, 2:145)
Finally the Qur’an responded with a declaration that
demolished the false belief that Jerusalem, the city, and its Temple, were
located at the substance of the religion of Abraham (‘alaihi al-Salaam):
“It is not righteousness that you turn your faces towards East
or West; but it is righteousness to have faith in Allah, and the Last Day, and
the Angels, and the Book, and the Messengers; to spend of your wealth, out of
love for Him (or despite your love for wealth) for your relatives, for orphans,
for the needy, for the traveler, for those who ask, and for the ransom of
slaves; (righteousness is) to be steadfast in prayer, and practice regular
charity, to fulfill contracts which you make; and to be firm and patient, in
pain (or suffering) and adversity, and throughout all periods of panic. Such are
the people of Truth, the God-fearing.”
(Qur’an, al-Baqarah, 2:177)
And so no negative implication for Islam should be derived
from this event of the turning away by Muslims from Jerusalem, and turning to Makkah,
other than the clear Qur’anic attempt to correct the religious perspective of
those who located the substance of religion in a geographical framework. The
Qur’anic message to the Jews was very clear. The Jews were informed that
although Muhammad (‘alaihi al-Salaam) was not a Jew, and although he no
longer prayed in the direction of Jerusalem, and although he never made any
attempt whatsoever to liberate Jerusalem, yet he was still a true Prophet of
the God of Abraham and the religion which he preached was the true religion of
Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon, and of the Messiah, the son of Mary! And so the
change in Qiblah was an ominous sign for the stubborn Jew who insisted that
Jerusalem was the spiritual heart of the religion of Abraham.
If the divine wrath did not come down upon Muhammad (‘alaihi
al-Salaam) after he turned away from Jerusalem, then the implication would
be that a ‘true’ Prophet could turn away from Jerusalem and yet remain a ‘true’
Prophet. Not only did Muhammad (‘alaihi al-Salaam) suffer in no way in
consequence of ‘turning away’ from Jerusalem, but, rather, he went on to
convincingly defeat a Jewish people who insisted that they were the ‘chosen
people’ of the God of Abraham.
And so it is clear that there were no such political
implications to be derived from the change of Qiblah to the effect that Islam,
the religion, no longer had any ties with Jerusalem... On the contrary, the Qur’an
affirms that Muhammad (‘alaihi al-Salaam), and those who follow him, are
the true followers of the religion of Abraham:
“Without doubt, among men, the nearest of men to Abraham (i.e.,
closest to him in respect of following his religion), are those who followed
him, as are also this Prophet (i.e., Muhammad) and those who believe (i.e.,
believe in him and in the Book which was revealed to him): and Allah is the
Protecting Friend of those who have Faith.”
(Qur’an, Ale ‘Imran, 3:68)
The implication of this declaration of the Qur’an is
quite clear. It is those who faithfully follow Muhammad (‘alaihi al-Salaam)
who have the right to inherit the Holy Land. It is the destiny of Jerusalem to
confirm this truth.
“And We gave
warning to Banu Israil through revelation, that twice would they corrupt the (Holy)
Land and be elated with mighty arrogance (and twice would they be
punished)!When the first of the
warnings came to pass, We sent against you Our servants who were capable of terrible
warfare. They entered the very inmost parts of your homes, and it was a warning
fulfilled.And after a time We allowed
you to prevail against them once again, and aided you with wealth and
offspring, and made you more numerous.
If
you persevere in doing good you will do so for your own good; whereas if you
commit evil you will (yourself) bear the consequences.
And so when the prediction of the second (period of wickedness) came
true, (We raised new enemies against you and allowed them) to disgrace you
utterly, and to enter the Temple as (their forerunners) had entered it once
before, and to destroy with utter destruction all that they had conquered.”
(Qur’an, Banu Israil,
17:4-7)
Surah Banu Israil
of the Qur’an(Surah No. 17) records the history of Jerusalem
that exposes the following fraudulent statement in the Torah:
“Know therefore that it is not because of your
righteousness that the Lord, your God has given you this good land to possess
it; for you are a stiff-necked people.”
(Deuteronomy , 9:6)
The statement is fraudulent because it establishes the
foundation for the belief that the Divine grant of the Holy Land to the Jews
was unconditional. In other words, it allows a Jew to argue that the Holy Land
would still belong to the Jews even if they were not righteous in their conduct
since righteousness was not a condition for their inheritance of that Holy
Land. The Jew would argue that Abraham (‘alaihi al-Salaam) was righteous
and, in consequence of his righteousness, the Land was given to him and to his
progeny! Thereafter no violation of the standard of righteous conduct by the Jewish
people could invalidate their right to the Holy Land. After all, the Torah was quite
plain and clear on the subject:
“Therefore impress these My words upon your very
heart: bind them as a sign on your hand and let them serve as a symbol on your
forehead, and teach them to your children reciting them when you stay at home
and when you are away, and when you lie down and when you get up; and inscribe
them on the door posts of your house and on your gates to the end that you and your
children may endure, in the Land (i.e., Holy Land) that the Lord swore to your
fathers to give to them, as long as there is a heaven over the earth. If you
faithfully keep all the instructions that I command you, loving the Lord your
God, walking in His ways, and holding fast to Him, the Lord will dislodge
before you all these nations: you will dispossess nations greater and more
numerous than you. Every spot on which your foot treads shall be yours; your territory
shall extend from the wilderness to the Lebanon and from the River Euphrates to
the Western Sea. No man shall stand up to you: the Lord your God will put the
dread and the fear of you over the whole land in which you set foot, as He
promised you.”
(Deuteronomy , 11:18-25)
(The article by Michael Avi-Yonah in the Jewish
Encyclopeadia declares that “David (‘alaihi alSalaam), in the course of
his conquests, made Jerusalem the center of an empire extending from Egypt to
the Euphrates, although it was only in the reign of his successor, Solomon,
that full advantage was taken of this fact.”)
But Deuteronomy 9:6 as well as
11:18-25 are false in so far as they exclude righteousness and faith
as conditions for inheritance of the Holy Land! The Qur’an not only reaffirmed
‘righteousness’ as the condition for such inheritance (Surah alAnbiyah, 21:105), but went on to direct
attention to the historical evidence that violation of that condition always
resulted in Divine expulsion from the (Holy) Land. The Surah recounted
(at least) two occasions when the Israelite people so betrayed the religion of
Abraham (‘alaihi al-Salaam) and the standard of righteous conduct that
Allah Most High expelled them from the Holy Land.
On the first occasion in 587 BCE, a Babylonian army led by
Nebuchadnezzar laid siege to Jerusalem, then burned the city, murdered its
inhabitants, destroyed the Masjid built by Solomon (‘alaihi
al-Salaam), and carried the cream of the Jewish population into slavery in
Babylon. The Prophet Jeremiah had warned them that this would happen (Jeremiah: 32:36),
exactly as Allah, the Supreme, had declared in the Qur’an that He never
destroys a people before sending a warning to them (Qur’an, Banu Israil, 17:15-16).
They were so punished because, among other things, they
changed the Torah to make Halal (permissible) that which Allah, the
Supreme, had made Haram (prohibited). They rewrote the Torah to make it
permissible for them to lend money on interest to those who were not Jews while
yet prohibiting such in intra-Jewish transactions:
“Thou shalt not lend on interest to thy brother
(Jew); whether it be lending money on interest, or lending commodities on
interest (because commodities were sometimes used as money) or lending on
interest anything which is lent on interest (i.e., anything which functions as
money). Unto a stranger (i.e., one who is not a Jew) you may lend on interest…”
(Deuteronomy , 23:19-20)
On the second occasion they were again expelled from the
Holy Land because of their killing of the Prophets of Allah (see, for example, Qur’an, al-Baqarah,
2:61).They killed
Zakariah (‘alaihi al-Salaam) in the Masjid. John (‘alaihi
al-Salaam), his son, was killed by deception. Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salaam)
referred to this killing of the Prophets, and he minced no words in his fierce
condemnation of this heinous crime:
“This is why the wisdom of God said: I will send
them Prophets and Messengers. Some they will kill and some they will persecute.
It was that the blood of all the Prophets shed from the foundation of the world
might be charged upon this generation (of Jews), from the blood of Abel down to
the blood of Zakariah, who was slain between the altar and the House of God - yes,
I tell you, it will all be charged upon this generation….”
(Luke, 11:49-51)
Finally they boasted of how they killed the Messiah, Jesus,
the son of Mary (but Allah, the All-Powerful, saved him from death):
“That they said (in boast): We killed the Messiah, Jesus the son
of Mary, the Messenger of Allah; but they killed him not, nor crucified him,
but so it was made to appear to them, and those who differ therein are full of
doubts, with no (certain) knowledge, but only conjecture to follow, for of a
surety they killed him not.”
(Qur’an, al-Nisa, 4:157)
It was after this that Allah Most High punished them for the
second time. A Roman army led by General Titus besieged Jerusalem in 70CE.
Titus destroyed the city of Jerusalem, murdered the inhabitants and expelled
the remnant of Jews from the Holy Land. The Masjid was again destroyed
and soldiers tore it apart, stone by stone, in search of melted gold exactly as
Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salaam) had warned and prophesied "not one stone will be left upon another; all will be thrown
down." (See Qur’an, Banu Israil, 17:4-7):
“And We gave (clear)
warning to Banu Israil through revelation, that twice would they corrupt the
(Holy) Land and be elated with mighty arrogance (and twice would they be
punished)!”
“When the first of the
warnings came to pass, We sent against you Our servants capable of terrible
warfare.” “They entered the very inmost parts of your homes; and it was a
warning (completely) fulfilled.”
“And after a time We allowed you to prevail against them once
again, and aided you with wealth and offspring, and made you more numerous
(than ever).”
“(And We said) “If you persevere in doing good you will but be
doing good to yourselves; and if you do evil it will be done to yourselves.”
And so when the prediction of the second (period of iniquity) came true, (We
raised new enemies against you and allowed them) to disgrace you utterly, and
to enter the Temple as (their forerunners) had entered it once before, and to
destroy with utter destruction all that they had conquered.”
(Qur’an, Banu Israil, 17:4-7)
“….soon shall I show you the homes of the wicked (how they lie
desolate).”
(Qur’an, al-‘Araf, 7:145)
The Qur’an referred to the Temple that was twice
destroyed, as ‘al-Masjid’. But just before doing so it described the
miraculous journey of Prophet Muhammad (‘alaihi alSalaam) (i.e., al-Isra
and Mi’raj) as a journey from al-Masjid al-Haram (in Makkah) to
al-Masjid al-Aqsa (i.e. the distant Temple):
“Glory to (Allah) Who did take His servant for a Journey by
night from the Sacred Mosque to the Farthest Mosque, whose precincts We did
bless, in order that We might show him some of Our Signs: for He is the One Who
hears and sees (all things).”
(Qur’an, Banu Israil, 17:1)
The Masjid of the Qur’anic verse, which was twice
destroyed, could not have been any other than the Masjid built by
Solomon (‘alaihi al-Salaam) in Jerusalem. The Prophet (‘alaihi
al-Salaam) himself confirmed this. It is this same Masjid that is
described above as Masjid al-Aqsa to which the Prophet (‘alaihi
al-Salaam) was taken by night on a miraculous journey. The Qur’an
explained that he was taken there in order to be shown some of the ‘Signs’ of
Allah, Most High. More than anything else those ‘Signs’ related to the destiny
of Jerusalem.
After punishing the Jews for a second time by expelling them
from the Holy Land, Allah Most High declared His intention to keep on punishing
them (and expelling them) if they kept on desecrating the Holy Land with
violations of the condition of faith and righteous conduct:
“….but if ye revert (to
your violation of the condition imposed for inheritance of the Holy Land) We
shall revert (to Our punishments. i.e., you will be expelled again and again)….”
(Qur’an, Banu Israil, 17:8)
The destiny of Jerusalem is plainly written in the above
warning and firm declaration in the Qur’an. This remains so regardless
of any, or all, or the following:
Øagreements negotiated in Camp David or elsewhere between the
secular nationalist representatives of the Palestinian people and the secular
nationalist European Jewry who presume to represent Banu Israil, or
Øresolutions of the US Senate and House of Representatives
which have replaced the British Parliament as the Ultimate Patron and Protector
of the Jewish State, or
Øresolutions of the UN Security Council or General Assembly
which assume the status of world government,
The destiny of Jerusalem is plainly visible in the context
of the awesome godlessness, decadence and oppression, which now pollutes the
Holy Land. Some of this has been described in subsequent chapters of this book
in the analysis of the political Shirk
of the State of Israel and the Riba of its economy. It is Israel’s
destiny that it will be subjected to the same divine punishment that it
experienced twice before. The first divine punishment came in the form of a
Babylonian army that destroyed Israel. The second time it was a Roman army. And
the third and last time it would be a Muslim army which would destroy the
Jewish State.
The Divine ‘Signs’ that were shown to Prophet Muhammad (‘alaihi
al-Salaam) during his miraculous visit to Jerusalem were ‘Signs’ which,
among other things, revealed to him the destiny of Jerusalem. This matter seems
to have escaped the attention of Daniel Pipes.
The Last Prophet (‘alaihi al-Salaam) saw the Last
Age. He saw with his spiritual eyes the return of the Jews in that age to the
Holy Land. He saw the creation of the Impostor State of Israel, and the
godlessness, decadence and awesome oppression that it would visit upon the Holy
Land. He saw the return of Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salaam), the son of Mary,
and the destruction of Israel by a Muslim army. And he saw the Truth, Justice
and Righteousness in the religion of Abraham (‘alaihi al-Salaam) that
the ‘true’ Messiah will restore to the Holy Land when he returns.
