CONCLUSION - JERUSALEM IN THE QUR’AN

JERUSALEM IN THE QUR’AN

By Imran N. Hosein

PART TWO

Chapter 3

CONCLUSION

“Had We sent this as a Qur’an (in a language) other than Arabic, they would have said: Why are not its verses explained in detail (in a language, which we could understand)? How strange it is that the book is in a foreign language while the one who brought the book is an Arab. Say: This book is a guide and a healing to those who believe; but for those who believe not in it, there is a deafness in their ears, and it is blindness in their (eyes): they are (as it were) being called from a place far distant!”

(Qur’an, Fussilat, 41:44)

It is now time for us to conclude with a brief restatement of the main points made in this book. They are as follows. The strange revolutionary change that transformed Europe from a pagan to a very largely Christian but also with a small and influential Jewish society, eventually gave way to an even stranger revolutionary change which resulted in that same European people now becoming essentially godless. In the process of becoming a Christian and a Jew the modern largely godless White Man subverted both Christianity and Judaism, respectively, and destroyed whatever was left in these revealed religions that was still sacred.

The modern secular White Man and his brown, yellow and black-skinned ‘mimic men’ are now attempting to do with Islam what had previously been accomplished with Judaism and Christianity. That is the fundamental explanation for the 1000-year-old war on Islam that was unleashed with the greatest fury after September 11^th.

Muslims are now being subjected to a sophisticated and comprehensive effort to so rethink Islam and to so modify their religion that it can be accommodated within the new universal global godless society. A new cosmetic version of Islam must emerge which would accept the Jews as rulers of the world and accept the State of Israel as the Ruling State of the world. This must perforce be an Islam that would be devoid of all notions of Jihad.

Muslims are being told that the values of the new global society are indeed universal values of pure Islam. But the new global society and its cosmopolitan elite are the product of secular western civilization and it shares the values of that godless civilization. Among those values are the political Shirk that has now embraced all of mankind in its deadly embrace, and the economic Riba of the modern economy whose embrace of mankind has brought a new economic slavery.

Godless western civilization made possible the establishment of both the Jewish State of Israel, and the Saudi-Wahhabi State of Saudi Arabia, and it is that civilization which has ensured the survival of both Israel and Saudi Arabia from their birth to the present. This is the key with which Muslims can seek to understand the world today. Neither of these phenomena can be explained without the Qur’an. The Qur’anic explanation that has emerged as the very core of this book is that the world is now in the control of Y’ajuj and M’ajuj as well Dajjal, the False Messiah.

Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) explained the purpose of a Divine Plan in which the Jews (i.e. the Israelite Jews) were expelled from the Holy Land after their rejection of the Messiah, the son of the Virgin Mary, and their attempt to crucify him. Allah, Most Merciful, then gave them a certain period of time in which to seek His mercy (“It may be that your Lord may (yet) have mercy on you.” Qur’an, Banu Israil, 17:8), and He left only one door open for them through which they could earn mercy. That door (to mercy) was the one last Prophet who was still to come. He was Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam), the Prophet of Allah, Most High. The Jews would have to believe in him and follow him, honor him and assist him in order to win divine mercy (Qur’an, al-‘Araf, 7:157).

If the Israelite Jews were to reject Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam), the implication would be that the door for divine mercy would be closed, and that when the final count-down of the Last Age came, Allah Most High would bring them back to the scene of their greatest crimes, i.e., the Holy Land (Qur’an, Banu Israil, 17:104). That Jewish return to the Holy Land would signify that their final divine punishment had commenced. This book has declared that such moment has arrived! The period of seventeen months commencing after the arrival of Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) in Madina was the most crucially important in all of Jewish history. The door to Divine Mercy was open. When it became absolutely clear at the end of seventeen months that the Jews had not only rejected Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) but were conspiring to destroy Islam, Allah Most High decreed the change in Qiblah and this implied that the door to Divine Mercy was now shut for the Jews. Never again would they ever qualify for inheriting the Holy Land. Instead it is Muslims who have now been bestowed that inheritance:

“It is He Who has made you (the Muslims) inheritors of the (Holy) Land (after the Jews): He has raised some of you by degrees above others that He might test you through that which He bestowed upon you (Banu Israil got more than any other people): for thy Lord is swift in punishment: yet He is indeed Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.”

 (Qur’an, al-An’am, 6:165)

It was at this point in time, i.e., after the change in Qiblah and before the death of the Prophet (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) that the release of Dajjal and of Y’ajuj and M’ajuj took place. Only ‘one-eyed’ Muslims would now join with Jews to participate in ‘Inter-faith’ services and joint prayer sessions. This is because Jews have now been brought back to the Holy Land to face the consequences of many evil deeds of theirs, including the evil that they now commit. At the top of that list is their betrayal of their Covenant with Allah Most High.

Jews already recognize that Allah Most High has punished them many times before. This book has explained the Islamic view that history cannot end before the Jews receive their final punishment. Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) has provided crucially important information on the subject, to wit: that a Muslim army would conquer Jerusalem, destroy the impostor State of Israel and punish the Jews. The followers of Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) would thus liberate the Holy Land. Here, once more, is the prophecy of Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) to that effect:

“Abu Hurairah reported that the Prophet said: Black banners shall emerge from Khorasan (i.e., area which is now included in Afghanistan, Pakistan and a little in Iran and Central Asia), and no force would be able to stop them until they are inserted in Aelia (Jerusalem).”

(Sunan, Tirmidhi)

This is why ‘Jerusalem in the Qur’an’ should be read again and again, and why it should lead every reader to a penetrating study of the Qur’an and to the explanations of the Qur’an that were given by Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam). He spoke at length about Jerusalem and its role in the Last Age. Among the things that he said were the following: 

“Narrated Auf bin Malik: I went to the Prophet during the Ghazwa of Tabuk while he was sitting in a leather tent. He said: Count six signs that indicate the approach of the Hour: my death, the conquest of Jerusalem, a plague that will afflict you (and kill you in great numbers) as the plague that afflicts sheep, the increase of wealth to such an extent that even if one is given one hundred Dinars, he will not be satisfied; then an affliction which no Arab house will escape, and then a truce between you and Bani al-Asfar (i.e. the Byzantines) who will betray you and attack you under eighty flags. Under each flag will be twelve thousand soldiers.”

(Sahih Bukhari)

 “Narrated Abu Hurairah: Allah’s Messenger said: The Last Hour would not come unless the Muslims fight against the Jews. The Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree, and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say (such), for it is the tree of the Jews.”

(Sahih Muslim)

Perhaps for the first time in history a war is being fought with ‘stones’. The Palestinian Muslim intifada (uprising) continues to deliver its response to Israeli oppression with ‘stones’. That is a truly ominous sign for Israel. In addition, Israel has engaged in the indiscriminate destruction of ‘trees’ in the Holy Land. Thousands of olive trees have already been destroyed by Israel in a diabolical effort to increase the economic hardship being imposed upon the Palestinian people, Muslim as well as Christian. The outrage against these acts of Fasad (awesome oppression and wickedness) is such that the ‘trees’ and ‘stones’ in the Holy Land are now beginning to ‘speak’ in fulfillment of the prophecy of the Prophet (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam). Of course the trees and stones cannot be heard with the external ears. Rather, it is with the internal hearing faculty in the heart of those who possess faith (Iman) that one will hear the ‘trees’ and ‘stones’ when they speak! That, perhaps, explains why the Saudi, Egyptian, Turkish, Jordanian and Pakistani Governments, as well as so many other governments around the world, appear unable to hear the stones speaking in the Holy Land!

Our view is that the above prophecy of Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) is already being fulfilled today in the Palestinian intifada. As time now passes the stones will speak louder and louder. Only those who are spiritually deaf and dead will fail to hear them. If the very stones are now crying out to Muslims everywhere in the world to liberate the Holy Land from Jewish occupation and oppression, the implication is that Muslims should mobilize themselves and devote all their efforts and all their resources for that struggle; and that struggle be given precedence over such mundane goals as, for example, raising the standard of living of a people who are already living comfortably. It follows quite logically that Muslims cannot reside in territories where the war against Islam and support for Israel are most pronounced. Such would be USA, Britain, etc. Muslims must migrate from such territories and go to reside in places where they can better preserve their faith and support the struggle for the liberation of the Holy Land. The world is increasingly being forced to recognize the oppression created and sustained by Israel, an oppression that will constantly increase until, according to the prophecy of Prophet Muhammad (‘alaihi alSalam):

“…. a man would pass by a grave and roll on it saying: I wish I were in the grave (instead of the dead man), not for religious reasons but because of oppression”

(Sahih, Muslim) 

Perhaps the most important warning that this book gives is that every tomorrow will now witness increased oppression of those Muslims who remain faithful to Islam. Indeed since September 11^th the oppression of such Muslims has dramatically intensified all around the world. Muslims are now living through the ‘mother of all trials’. The present Ruling State in the world (USA) is leading an effort to make the world safe for the next Ruling State (Israel)! 

The guidance that the Qur’an provides in Surah al-Kahf is the only guidance with which Muslims can hope to survive this wicked storm. The only guide who can successfully guide Muslims in this age is the guide who understands the age in which we now live and whose understanding is derived from the Qur’an and the Ahadith of the blessed Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam). Such a guide would understand the Shirk of the modern secular State and its system of electoral politics and he would advise Muslims to abstain from that Shirk by not pledging allegiance to a secular constitution. He would also understand the Riba of the modern economy and advise Muslims to abstain from all forms of Riba to the maximum extent that is possible for them. He would recognize ‘paper money’ to be Haram and would be taking steps to encourage Muslims to return to the use of gold and silver coins as money which can be used in the market as legal tender. (It is unlikely that the ‘International Jew’ would allow the Government of Malaysia to reintroduce gold and silver coins as ‘legal tender’.) 

The guide would recognize and warn his people about the back-door Riba now being practiced by Islamic Banks, Credit Unions and other financial institutions. Such a guide would declare this to be the age of Y’ajuj and M’ajuj and of Dajjal, the False Messiah. All others are just ‘whistling in the wind’.

My book entitled Surah al-Kahf and the Modern Age, which is now being written, will, Insha Allah, attempt to explain the guidance which that Surah of the Qur’an provides. At the very heart of that guidance is the imperative of disconnecting from the godless cities of the modern world and moving to the countryside where land is cheap and where there is water. Muslim villages should then be established in such locations and then an attempt be made to establish Islam as the way of life of the villages. The work of my teacher, Maulana Dr. Muhammad Fadlur Rahman Ansari, entitled ‘The Qur’anic Foundations and Structure of Muslim Society’ is a blueprint for survival since it provides the specific guidance of the Qur’an that must be applied in the establishment of authentic Islam in such Muslim villages. It is from children who grow up in Muslim villages that are disconnected from the godless world that the future Muslim army would emerge which would liberate the Holy Land.

 The End

 

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

The Prophet confirms the greatest danger of Riba - JERUSALEM IN THE QUR’AN

The Prophet confirms the greatest danger of Riba

This opinion of ours appears to be confirmed by the fact that the Prophet (‘alaihi alSalam) himself prophesied, in a Hadith received from Abu Hurairah (ra), the eventual total success of precisely such an attack launched through Riba. It would be an attack launched obviously by enemies of Islam, but it would penetrate all of mankind, including the followers of Prophet Muhammad (‘alaihi al-Salam):

“There will come a time,” said the Prophet, “when you will not be able to find a single person in all of mankind who will not be consuming Riba. And if anyone claims that he is not consuming Riba then surely the vapor of Riba will reach him.” According to another text “the dust of Riba will reach him.”

(Sunan Abu Daud)

 

The Prophet ((sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) thus made it abundantly clear that the greatest danger to the integrity of the Ummah and of the Iman (faith) of the believers would come from Riba. This confirmed the warning from Allah Most High Himself that was manifested in the choice of Riba as the subject of the last revelation.

The prophecy of the Prophet (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) concerning the universal prevalence of Riba has today been fulfilled. Indeed it has been fulfilled in our own miserable lifetime! Specifically it has been fulfilled during the time that has elapsed since the Ottoman Caliphate was abolished in 1924. Up to 1924 the Riba-based capitalist European economy could not succeed in penetrating the economy and the market of the Muslim world. But Europe did succeed in enticing the governments that presided over the affairs of Muslims to enter into Riba. The Ottoman Caliph, for example, had borrowed considerable sums of money on interest from Europe. His financial and economic difficulties grew to such an extent that he was forced, as a desperate means of preventing the collapse of the Empire, to seek membership in the new European secular State system. He achieved this in the Paris Peace Agreement of 1856. But the price he had to pay was to succumb to European/Jewish financial blackmail that extracted from him the abolition of Jizyah and Ahl al-Dhimmah in all the territories of the Ottoman Empire. This was also a quid pro quo for debt and interest payment relief. In doing so the Caliph betrayed Allah Most High Who had Himself established the jizyah tax in the Qur’an (al-Tauba, 9:29).  

The success of Euro-Jewish bankers in targeting the Ottoman Caliph was a classic example of the financial imperialism, which is made possible through Riba. Henry Kissinger was the author of the same strategy that eventually led to the collapse of a super-power in modern times, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). That event should have opened the eyes of the ‘Ulama of Islam. It did not! As a consequence the same strategy continues to be pursued by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and by so many others. Not only is Israel’s economy based on Riba but Israel is also embracing Arafat’s PLO and other Arab regimes with precisely the same deadly economic embrace which reduces the target of the embrace to poverty, destitution and economic slavery. The success of European/Jewish financial blackmail witnessed the beginning of the dismantling of the sacred model of a public order in the world of Islam (Dar al-Islam), and of its replacement with the secular European model. In that model of a State, ‘sovereignty’ was taken away from Allah Most High and was located, instead, in the State. That was an act of Shirk! 

Indeed, since 1924 Riba has penetrated the total economic life of Muslims all around the world. The financial imperialism inherent in Riba has delivered the entire world of Islam by its very throat into the hands of enemies with sharpened knives. Indeed all of mankind is now trapped in the worlds of Riba and Shirk. Not only has the prophecy of the Prophet (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) been fulfilled through the total victory of Ribabased banking all over the world, and through the Riba that is inherent in nonredeemable artificial money, but it has also been fulfilled in the total corruption of the free and fair market. Today's so-called free market is, in fact, a ‘den of thieves’, in which the strong exploit the weak. 

Finally, the Prophet (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) himself echoed the extreme gravity and dire warning in the Qur’anic revelation by using the strongest possible language in connection with Riba:

“Abu Hurairah (ra) said that the Messenger of Allah said: Riba is of seventy different parts, the least dangerous being equivalent to a man marrying (i.e., having sexual intercourse with) his own mother.”

(Sunan, Ibn Majah; Baihaqi)

“Abdullah Ibn Hanzala (ra) reported that the Messenger of Allah said: A dirham (silver coin) of Riba, which a man receives knowingly, is worse than committing adultery thirty-six times. (Ahmad). Baihaqi transmitted it, on the authority of Ibn Abbas (ra), with the addition that the Prophet continued to say: Hell is more fitting for him whose flesh is nourished by what is Haram.”

“Abu Hurairah reported Allah’s Messenger as saying: On the night I was taken up to heaven I came upon people whose bellies were like houses which contained snakes which could be seen from outside their bellies. I asked Gabriel who they were and he told me that they were people who had consumed Riba.” 

(Musnad, Ahmad; Sunan, Ibn Majah)

“Abu Hurairah (ra) reported that the Prophet said: Allah would be justified in not allowing four persons to enter paradise or to taste its blessings: he who drinks habitually (i.e., drinks alcohol), he who takes Riba, he who usurps an orphan's property without right, and he who is unmindful to his parents.” 

(Mustadrak, al-Hakim, ‘Kitab al-Buyu’) 

The Prophet (‘alaihi al-Salam) also reaffirmed the declaration of war from Allah and His Messenger in connection with the prohibition of Riba in the following Hadith:

“Jabir Ibn Abdullah (ra) said: I heard the Messenger of Allah say: If any one of you does not leave mukhabara he should take notice of war from Allah and His Messenger. Zaid Ibn Thabit said: I asked: What is mukhabarah? He replied: That you have the land for cultivation for a half, a third, or a quarter (of the produce).” (The danger here is that it leads deceptively to slave labour.) 

(Sunan, Abu Daud)

It should be clear from the material presented above that the establishment of an economy based on Riba is a very great sin indeed. Consequently it most certainly violates the divine conditions for inheritance of the Holy Land.

 

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

to be continued....

Reality of the modern secular state - JERUSALEM IN THE QUR’AN

Merits of the modern secular state

The secular state could not have won acceptance amongst a Euro-Christian and Euro-Jewish people, or amongst Muslims, had it not camouflaged its Kufr and Shirk with certain obvious merits. The modern secular state emerged in Europe in response to a dominant and oppressive Euro-Christian theocracy, and in order to challenge the ‘temporal’ power of the Euro-Christian Church. It challenged the Church when it proclaimed a fresh and exciting new gospel of complete and unfettered intellectual and religious freedom and human rights for all, and religious tolerance of all. It also established the political conditions that preserved peaceful coexistence amongst different religions within the same territory. It thus put an end to all the bloody religious warfare that had plagued Europe for so many centuries. 

It also skillfully bribed its way into the bellies and the hearts of mankind through its inventive creativity. It discovered or produced most of that which has been joyfully embraced by mankind, regardless of religious beliefs, as an indispensable necessity of modern life. Whenever anyone embraced modernity with all its wondrous inventions one also embraced the secular state and the secular way of life. That was no mean achievement!

Reality of the modern secular state

But these obvious merits of the secular state did not change that basic foundation of Kufr and Shirk. Indeed the modern secular state slowly began to reveal its real hidden agenda of rivalry when it began to wage a relentless war on the religious way of life Indeed religion slowly became a receding force in the new essentially godless secular world.

The democracy of the modern secular state turned out to be a sugarcoated pill of poison. The ‘political’ democracy worked in such a way as to sustain a usurious system of economic oppression and exploitation of the masses based on Riba. Economic oppression was oft-times supplemented by racial and ethnic oppression. The impoverished masses could never wrest real political power from the rich predatory elite, and hence could never have the power with which to end economic oppression. The new gospel of the modern secular society was that the rich shall inherit the earth. And that is precisely what has happened.

The new Europe proceeded to use its invincible military power and awesome powers of deception to dominate and brainwash non-European humanity. The new godless political philosophy with its godless conception of a sovereign state, exploitative economic system, and corruptive culture, eventually embraced all the rest of the world. That was no mean achievement!

Western colonial rule was now imposed upon the rest of mankind, including the Muslims, and through this means the new godless political system, based on Kufr and Shirk, was deceptively and subtly introduced. Thus the ominous prophecy of Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) was fulfilled! He prophesied that his community (of Muslims) would imitate and follow Jews and Christians to such an extent that even if they were to go down into a lizard’s hole, his community would do the same!

The result was that the world of Jews, Christians and Muslims entered into a collective trial of all trials (fitnah) and failed miserably in obeying the command of the God of Abraham, Most High, when He ordered:

“Follow what has been sent down unto you by your Lord-God, and follow no Master other than Him. How seldom do you keep this in mind!”

(Qur’an, al-‘Araf, 7:3)

The new modern secular state devised a system of electoral politics for constituting Parliament and Government, and sometimes for electing Judges. Citizens of the secular state, regardless of their religious beliefs, voted in democratic elections. They were obliged to submit to its authority and be obedient to it. If the elections were to produce a government dominated by idol-worshipping Hindus who were openly hostile to those who worshipped the God of Abraham (‘alaihi al-Salam), or a government which declared to be Halal (permissible) everything which Allah Most High had declared to be Haram, then the principle of democratic elections required that Jews, Christians, Muslims etc., who were citizens of that secular state, recognize that government as their lawful government, submit to its authority, and be obedient to it.

There is nothing in the revealed scriptures (Torah, Gospel, Qur’an) or the Sunnah (example or way of life) of the Prophets that can be used to justify Jews, Christians, Muslims, etc., participating in such elections in which they freely vote for such a government as lawful to govern over them. On the contrary there is very clear condemnation of such conduct! 

 

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

to be continued....