Woman and Paradise in Islam

Woman and Paradise in Islam

Articles - Women in Islam

Wednesday, 01 Sha'ban 1428

The secular feminist revolution rose upon the world from the West with an essentially godless agenda to liberate women from the “shackles” of the ages by totally transforming her status, role and function in society. In so doing it has turned the previous religious and sacred order upside-down in such a way that the sun now appears to be rising from the west.

Secularism led to materialism which in turn denied woman any reality beyond her material reality. Consequently the young beautiful woman became the goddess of the age. But she was a goddess who was shamelessly exploited in advertising to sell everything. She became a thing enjoyed, exploited, abused, degraded and discarded when her physical beauty and sex appeal began to wane. Then a host of schoolgirls would rush in to replace her. Even the national calypsonian gave his view on the subject quite some time ago when he sang of

the prostitute, “… and if you catch them broken (i.e., in financial difficulty), you can get them all for nothing.”

Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) prophesied the deception that would enslave women. He said, “women would be dressed and yet be naked”, thus anticipating an age of increasing feminine nudity that would be integrally linked to the feminist revolution. Carnival bandleaders in Trinidad are now complaining that they cannot use enough cloth to make creative designs since women increasingly demand the skimpiest of costumes. 

The ‘naked’ woman’s body was used to usher a sexual revolution that would culminate, according to the Prophet, with “the majority of children being born out of wedlock” and “people having sexual intercourse in public like donkeys.” When we see sex publicly simulated in Trinidad carnival we know that the feminist revolution will soon climax with woman being transformed into a donkey. Despite this colossal failure, the modern godless world has insisted on opening a ‘gender’ battlefield in quest of ‘equality’ while waging war on Islam. The latest target is the innocent Hijab that is maliciously attacked because it obstructs the way for the Muslim woman to be absorbed into the godless melting pot.

Islam has never sought to put an equal sign between the sexes. ‘Woman’ can neither be studied nor understood in a context independent of ‘man’. The two are inseparable. The Prophet declared that women were “… the twin-halves of men.” The Qur’an confirmed this inter-dependence when it declared “They are your garments, and you are their garments.” 

And in a passage with sublime literary beauty the Qur’an (al-Lail, 92:1-4) first directed attention to the ‘night’ and that which it shrouds and conceals with such mystery and splendor, and then turned to the ‘day’ with its bright light which exposes everything and leaves nothing concealed, and then proceeded to explain that the ‘male’ and the ‘female’ are functionally analogous to the ‘day’ and the ‘night’. In the same way that ‘day’ and ‘night’ are functionally different yet interdependent, so too are the ‘male’ and ‘female’.

When this philosophy of gender was applied to Muslim society the ‘night’ never attempted to become ‘day’. Rather ‘night’ and ‘day’ eternally longed for each other. And so we were never subjected to the abominable phenomenon (that European civilization is now exporting to the rest of the world) of the ‘day’ mating with ‘day’ and vice-versa. 

Women in such a society not only fulfilled all their sacred functional duties as wives and as mothers, and thus contributed in a significant way to preservation of the health, strength and stability of the family, but, in addition, they preserved both their femininity as well as their fertility. And so the Muslim woman remained truly and enchantingly a woman! An age that produced the celibate priest had obstinately insisted that one had to turn away from woman in order to turn to God. Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah Most High be upon him) responded by declaring “Three things have been made dear to me in this world of yours – perfume, women and prayer.” And so Islam rejected both celibacy and the ‘object’ while recognizing woman, like prayer, to be a medium through which a man might journey to paradise.

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What Will Women Get In Paradise

The World Order today - JERUSALEM IN THE QUR’AN

The World Order today

It is strange that in a world that still comprises many great non-European civilizations none today has control over territory. Everywhere in the world today mankind is subjected to the rule of European civilization and has been embraced by the European model of a secular state. The European system of secular states eventually produced a novel international political institution called (initially) the League of Nations later resurrected as the United Nations. In the name itself, ‘United Nations’, was enshrined the goal of the New World Order created by Europe to unite the world under European political influence and control so that Europe could eventually rule the world. At the time this book is being written Europe stands at the very verge of final and complete success of that political strategy. All the non-European civilizations in the world appear helpless to liberate themselves from the secular European stranglehold.

The ultimate consequence of this European effort, however, was to make possible the return of the Jews to the Holy Land and to deliver the rule to the Jews so that they may rule the world from Jerusalem. 

The Qur’an (al-Anbiyah, 21:96) had very plainly declared that when Gog and Magog were released into the world by Allah Most High they would “descend from every height”. In consequence of such, a people who had been expelled from a ‘Town’ which was destroyed by Allah Most High, and whose return was prohibited, would now return to that ‘Town’ to reclaim it. This book has argued that the ‘Town’ is Jerusalem! When Gog and Magog descend from every height it would be impossible for the rest of mankind to resist them because of the Divine declaration: 

“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 height.”

(Sahih Muslim)

It is clear from the above that European civilization (after the advent of Prophet Muhammad) is the civilization of Gog and Magog.

 

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

to be continued....

A strange European obsession with the Holy Land - JERUSALEM IN THE QUR’AN

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. 

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

to be continued....

THE MYSTERY OF JERUSALEM, THE ‘TOWN’, IN THE QUR’AN

JERUSALEM IN THE QUR’AN

By Imran N. Hosein

PART ONE

Chapter 2

THE MYSTERY OF JERUSALEM,

THE ‘TOWN’, IN THE QUR’AN

“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:

Ø  that the Holy Land would be liberated from the control of Gentiles,

Ø  that the Jews would return to the Holy Land from their exile in order to reclaim it,

Ø  that the State of Israel would be restored,

Ø  that the Temple (or Masjid) would be restored for the (Jewish) worship of the God of Abraham,

Ø  that Israel would eventually become the Ruling State in the world in a manner similar to that achieved in the age of  David (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) and Solomon (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam),

Ø  that 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

Ø  that 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 11^th 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 Dajjal and 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. 

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

to be continued....