JESUS (‘alaihi al-Salaam) WILL RETURN - JERUSALEM IN THE QUR’AN

JESUS (‘alaihi al-Salaam) WILL RETURN

The Qur’an emphatically declared that Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salaam) did not die (i.e., he was neither killed, nor was he crucified). It further declared that he was raised unto Allah, the Most High. And since the Qur’an declared that every soul (including Jesus) must taste death (Maut), it follows that Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salaam) must return and experience death like every other human being.  

But the Qur’an also delivered an ominous warning when it spoke about the death of Jesus. The warning was that Jews and Christians would all have to believe in Jesus (i.e., as the Qur’an has established Jesus’ status and position as the Messiah and as a Prophet of Allah) before ‘Jesus’ dies. This verse therefore clearly established the Divine plan that Jesus would one day return and that this event would occur prior to his death:

“And there is none from the People of the Book (i.e., not a single Jew who rejects Jesus as the Messiah and Prophet of Allah, and not a single Christian who insists that Jesus must be worshipped as God and as son of God) but must believe in him (Jesus) before his death (i.e., before the death of Jesus). And on the Day of Judgment he (Jesus) will be a witness against them.”

(Qur’an, al-Nisa, 4:159)  

Hence on that day every Jew will have to accept Jesus as the Messiah and believe in him, and every Christian will have to abandon belief in Jesus as the ‘son of God’ and the third person in a divine trinity.  

Prophet Muhammad (‘alaihi al-Salaam) has declared as emphatically as it is possible for anyone to declare, that Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salaam) will return:

“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.’ ”  

(Sahih, Bukhari)

Indeed the return of Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salaam) is one of the ten major Signs of the Last Day mentioned by the Prophet (‘alaihi al-Salaam):

 

“Narrated Hudhayfah ibn Usayd Ghifari:

Allah’s Apostle (‘alaihi al-Salaam) came to us all of a sudden as we were (busy in a discussion) He said: What do you discuss about? (The Companions) said: We are discussing about the Last Hour. Thereupon he said: It will not come until you see ten signs before and (in this connection) he made a mention of the smoke, Dajjal, the beast, the rising of the sun from the west, the descent of Jesus son of Mary (‘alaihi al-Salaam), Gog and Magog, and landslides in three places, one in the east, one in the west and one in Arabia at the end of which fire would burn forth from Yemen, and would drive people to the place of their assembly.

(Sahih, Muslim)

Thus the ten Signs are as follows: (Please note that these Signs are not necessary listed in chronological order of their happening)

•      the release of Dajjal – the False Messiah,

•      the release of Gog and Magog,

•      the return of Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salaam) – the True Messiah,

•      the appearance of dukhan (smoke),

•      the emergence of d’abbatul ard (a creature of the Land, i.e., Holy Land),

•      the sun would rise from the West,

•      a landslide or movement of the earth in the East,

•      another one in the West,

•      a third one in Arabia,

•      a fire comes out of Yemen and drives people to their place of assembly.

The Qur’an affirmed the return of Jesus as the ‘Sign of all Signs’ of the Last Day:

“And surely he (i.e., Jesus) is the Sign of the Hour”.

(Qur’an, al-Zukhraf, 43:61)

Jesus himself gave a list of signs to look for at the time when he is to return:

Ø  men would arise calling themselves Messiah, but they would be false,

Ø  there would be wars and rumors of wars,

Ø  there would be an outbreak of unprecedented global famine,

Ø  plagues would sweep the world,

Ø  there would be a great increase in lawlessness and inhumanity to man,

Ø  earthquakes would increase in intensity and frequency.

We now have the explanation for the two conflicting portraits of the Messiah in the scriptures – the first a meek and humble Messiah who would suffer immensely, and the other a mighty conqueror. When Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salaam) returns he would fulfill the second portrait of him. 

But Prophet Muhammad (‘alaihi al-Salaam) went on to reveal that prior to the return of  Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salaam) Allah Most High would rele ase a False Messiah (al-Masih alDajjal) into the world in the Last Age.

Source: Jerusalem in the Qur'an by Imran N. Hosein

to be continued....

Zionist Jewish Strategy - JERUSALEM IN THE QUR’AN

Zionist Jewish Strategy

One dimension of the over-all Zionist-Jewish strategy has been the attempt to control Israel’s strategic environment through cultivating alliances of expediency with a corrupt, permanently rich, predatory and godless elite who now control the Arab Muslim communities around Israel on Israel’s behalf. That elite is forced to maintain friendly ties with Israel in order to maintain their position of power, dominance, privilege and wealth. Those Jews who are supporters of the State of Israel constantly put pressure on that elite to so oppress Muslims that they would either be forced into submission to Israel, or their opposition to Israel would pose no threat to the Jews. When Israel escalates its oppression in the Holy Land and the Muslim Arab masses become enraged then that ruling elite is forced, as a matter of survival, to adopt a posture of anger against Israel.  This Jewish-Arab (elite) strategy has today reached an advanced stage of implementation. … it is the strategy of a people who have essentially abandoned the ethical heart of the religion of Abraham (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam). The Zionist-Jewish strategy requires that they one day abandon that Arab elite… Indeed the strategy of abandoning that Arab elite has already begun. Even as we write Israel is preparing for a war with the Arab Muslims that would result in an expansion of the territory of the Jewish State. Israel would then rule the entire region as the Ruling State in the world (i.e., replacing USA as the Ruling State).

In response to all such Jewish strategies that seek to defy Allah Most High and the believers, and to subvert destiny, the Qur’an ominously declared:

 “And they (the Jews) plotted and planned, and Allah too plotted and planned, and Allah is the best of plotters and planners.” 

(Qur’an, Ale Imran, 3:54)

That strategy was successful in Egypt, Jordan, Turkey and Saudi Arabia , all of which are client states of a godless USA. But that strategy has not succeeded in the Holy Land. Nor has it succeeded in Syria  and Yemen.

Readers of this book may wish to reflect over the prayer of Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) who prayed as follows:

 

“Narrated by Ibn Umar: The Prophet (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) said: O Allah! Bestow Your Blessings on our Sham (Syria) and our Yemen. People said: Our Najd (Najd is that part of Saudi Arabia from which the Saudi rulers have originated). The Prophet again said: O Allah! Bestow Your Blessings on our Sham and Yemen. They said again: Our Najd as well. On that the Prophet said: There will appear earthquakes and afflictions, and from there (i.e., Najd) will come out the side of the head of Satan.”

The Jewish State of Israel has completed 50 years of existence. But that is certainly not an achievement “against the odds” as the Jews would have us believe. An essentially godless Zionist Movement conned Banu Israil with a mountain of lies! One such lie was the false slogan “a land without people for a people without land”.

If the Arabs are not ‘people’, if they are just ‘grasshoppers’ as former Israeli Prime Minister Shamir once declared, did they not permit the Jews to dwell amongst them for more than two thousand years? The Arabs guaranteed to the Jews security of life and property while they lived amongst them in the Arab lands for more than two thousand years. The Arabs did all of this and more at a time when Europeans had closed their doors to Jews, or had reluctantly allowed them to live in ghettoes. Arabs did this because they still possessed a ‘remnant’ of the religion of Abraham that had come to them with Ishmael (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam). That ‘remnant’ of the Truth had taught them to show hospitality. To this day the hospitality of the Arab has survived. The same religion of Abraham should have taught those Jews to show gratitude to hospitable ‘grass-hoppers’.

Zionism argued that Truth, in Judaism, had conferred on the Jewish people ‘exclusive’, ‘eternal’ and ‘unconditional’ title to the Holy Land. Zionism argued that restoration of the Jewish State of Israel, destroyed by Allah Most High some 2000 years ago, validated Judaism’s claim to (an imperialist version of) Truth. After all, had the Torah not proclaimed: “every spot on which your foot treads shall be yours”(Deuteronomy, 11:24)? For fifty years since the birth of Israel the world has watched in amazement the calamitous threading of Jewish ‘footsteps’ in an ever-expanding Israel. That expansion has not as yet ceased. Despite the ‘appearance’ that Israel is besieged and is circling her wagons to better protect herself from an Arab onslaught, the ‘reality’ at the time that this book is being published (after the destruction of the Jenin refugee camp and the slaughter of so many more Arabs) is that Israel is preparing to unleash a major war on the Arabs through which the frontiers of the Jewish State would dramatically expand to embrace the Bibilical Holy Land, i.e., “from the river of Egypt (and this implies control over the Suez Canal) to the River Euphrates (and this implies control over all of the Gulf oil with the possible exception of Iran’s oil. Europe, Japan and much of the rest of the world are dependent on that Gulf oil).” That war, which would be planned with meticulous care, would also witness Israel replacing USA as the ‘Ruling State’ in the world.

And so, from a Biblical perspective, the Jewish success in restoring the State of Israel and in then expanding the territory of the State, in addition to Jewish control over the holy city of Jerusalem, certainly appears to validate Judaism’s claim to Truth.

Our question is: How was this achieved without the Messiah? The answer is that it was achieved through the deception of a False Messiah (al-Masih al-Dajjal)! 

Again, the inescapable implication of the apparent success in restoring the Biblical Israel was the validation of the Jewish claim that Jesus and Muhammad (peace be upon them both) were both impostors.

But in order for Israel to be created, Judaism had to hitch its wagon onto the newly emergent, essentially godless and decadent modern western civilization. That godless western world established its authority as the peerless dominant actor on the stage of the world, “descending on mankind from every height” or “spreading out in all directions”(Surah al-Anbiyah, 21:96) to control all the sea, land and air. Nor could the Jewish State have survived these fifty years but for the active assistance of that all powerful but godless and decadent West.

Those Jews who support the State of Israel acclaimed what appeared to them to be the restoration of Biblical Israel, but they conveniently ignored the great injustices and oppression inflicted upon a hapless Palestinian people - Christian as well as Muslim - whose only sin appears to have been their residence in the Holy Land (of the Jews). That injustice and oppression has been constantly increasing these 50 years. Our question to such Jews is this: Is a valid claim to Truth compatible with such godlessness, decadence, injustice, racism, and oppression? Can a people ‘hitch their wagon’ to an essentially godless train and still claim to be faithful to the God of Abraham?

The Zionist-Jews argued that they did not drive the Palestinian people out of their homes - rather they left themselves. Well then, why did those Jews not preserve their homes for them as a sacred trust, and why did they not invite them to return to their homes? Instead the Jews have persisted for fifty long miserable years in obstinately denying them the ‘right of return’ to the homes. 

Israel’s wicked oppression continues to intensify every day. Israel will soon reach the pinnacle of ‘false’ glory when she becomes the Ruling State in the world. However, this book declares that the world is witnessing the beginning of the end for the Impostor Jewish State of Israel! Jews should not blame Zionism for the plight in which they now find themselves. All that Zionism ever did was to exploit every single lie that was put into the Bible  by embellishing those lies with a mountain of more lies.

Source: Jerusalem in the Qur'an by Imran N. Hosein

to be continued....

To Christians With Love - FOURTH PHASE

FOURTH PHASE: The dynamics of the relationship between the Christians and the Jews started to change, slowly but steadily, after the invasion of Spain by the Muslims in 712 CE. During the battles between Arab and Spanish armies, the Jews of Spain helped and supported the Muslims, and, consequently, after the establishment of the latter’s rule in Spain, they enjoyed an unprecedented respite of peace and prosperity after more than a thousand years of humiliation and persecution. Thus, Jewish historians like Abba Eban and Solomon Grayzel have acknowledged and recognized their “Golden Age of Diaspora”, that is, the period of Jewish prosperity and growth in Muslim Spain.  

After the end of Arab rule in 1492, and the consequent expulsion of the Jews from Spain by its new Christian rulers, they were given refuge and asylum in the Ottoman Empire, Large populations of Jews continued to prosper peacefully in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Egypt, during the time when their brethren were suffering heavily in Europe, particularly in the Russian Lands.

Source: To Christians With Love (Book by Dr. Israr Ahmed)