I
have also argued in my book that Gog and Magog were released into the
world in the lifetime of Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of
Allah Most High be upon him). The Qur’an itself has made mention
(Qur’an, al-Anbiyah, 21:94-5) of a ‘town’ which was destroyed
by Allah Most High, and the people of the town expelled, and then
banned from returning to reclaim their town until Gog and Magog were
not only released but, also, had spread out (around the world) in all
directions.
“But
there is a ban on a town which We have destroyed: that they (the
people of the town) shall not return (to reclaim that town as their
own); until Gog and Magog are let through (their barrier), and they
swiftly spread out in every direction (replicating themselves amongst
all the peoples of the world).” (Qur’an, al-Anbiyah, 21:95-96)
I
identified that ‘town’ to be Jerusalem. And since the Jews have
already returned to Jerusalem to reclaim it as their own, it follows
that Gog and Magog, like Dajjal, are also close to the end of their
mission. And Allah Knows best!
Another
entire chapter of ‘Jerusalem in the Qur’an’ is devoted to
explaining the subject of Gog and Magog. In addition, the fourth of
the quartet of books on Surah al-Kahf will be devoted to a
comprehensive explanation of this subject Insha Allah.
I
have argued in my book, ‘Jerusalem in the Qur’an – An IslamicView of the Destiny of Jerusalem’, that Dajjal the False Messiah or
Antichrist was released into the world in the lifetime of Prophet
Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah Most High be upon him). He has
already completed the first stage of his mission that lasted for “a
day like a year”, and is about to complete the second stage that
lasts for “a day like a month”. The third and last stage of his
mission (of impersonation of the true Messiah) that would last for
just “a day like a week” would, I believe, commence when Israel
replaces USA as the ruling state of the world. And that would occur
when Israel wages a big war that would result in dramatic territorial
expansion “from the river of Egypt to the river Euphrates”.
Israel would then seize control of the Suez Canal and all the oil of
the Arabian Gulf.
By
the end of that third stage, Dajjal the false Messiah or Antichrist
would have been born into the world of Jewish parents, would have
risen to become ruler of Israel and, hence, would have completed his
mission to rule the world from Jerusalem. And Allah Knows best!
An
entire chapter of the book is devoted to explaining the subject of
Dajjal. I am now writing a quartet of books on Surah al-Kahf of the
Qur’an, and one of the four books would be entirely devoted to a
comprehensive explanation of the subject of Dajjal, the false Messiah
or Anti-Christ in Islam Insha Allah.
Hudhayfah
ibn Usayd Ghifari, the companion of the Prophet, said, “Allah’s
Messenger came to us all of a sudden as we were (busy in a
discussion). He asked: What are you discussing? (The Companions)
replied: We are discussing (the subject of) the Last Hour. There upon
he said: It will not come until you see ten signs. 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’, ‘Gog and Magog’, ‘sinkings of the
earth 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’ (i.e., the place
where mankind will be assembled for judgment).” (Sahih Muslim)
Here,
then, are the ten major Signs of the Last Day as prophesied by
Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah Most High be upon
him):
Dajjal
— the false Messiah or Anti-Christ,
Gog
and Magog,
Smoke,
The
beast of the earth or land (most likely the holy land),
The
sun would rise from the west,
Three
sinkings of the earth
one
in the east
One
in the west
and One
in Arabia,
A
fire would come out of Yemen and would drive people to their place
of assembly (for judgement),
• The
son of Mary would descend.
Although
these signs were not given by the blessed Prophet (peace and
blessings of Allah Most High be upon him) in their chronological
order of occurrence, I have made an effort to put them in that order,
with the ones that have not as yet occurred at the bottom of the
list. How did I arrive at the above order? We know from the
prophecies of the blessed Prophet (peace and
blessings of Allah Most High be upon him) that the third major ‘sinking of
the earth’, i.e., the one that would occur in Arabia, would swallow
an army that would be heading south to Makkah. That army would be on
its way to attack Imam al-Mahdi, the descendant of Prophet Muhammad
(peace and blessings of Allah Most High be upon him). It was
prophesied that he would restore the Islamic Caliphate (or Islamic
model of a state) in the Arabian peninsula. It is after that sign has
occurred (i.e., the third major earthquake) that the son of Mary
would descend from the sky with his hands resting on the wings of two
angels, and would kill Dajjal the False Messiah or Anti-Christ. The
Qur’an itself has described Jesus (i.e., the return of Jesus) as
the ‘ilm (which here means the very key to the subject) of the Last
Hour:
“And
he (i.e., Jesus) shall be a Sign (for the coming of) the Hour (of
Judgment): therefore have no doubt about the (Hour), but follow Me:
this is a Straight Way.” (Qur’an, Zukhruf, 43:61)
It
follows that his return must come chronologically at the end of the
list. We also know that the ‘fire’ from Yemen would follow the
third earthquake. And so now that it appears that the major
earthquake in the East has occurred, we await four more major signs
that still remain to occur. When did the first six ‘major’ signs
occur?
Prophet
Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah Most High be upon him)
prophesied of the Last Age that:
• “People
would follow a way of life other than mine, and give guidance other
than mine”
…“I fear for my people only the leaders who lead men
astray”
…“Before the Last Hour there will be great liars, so
beware of them”
…“When the most wicked member of a tribe becomes
its ruler, and the most worthless member of a community becomes its
leader, and a man is respected through fear of the evil he may do,
and leadership is given to people who are unworthy of it, expect the
Last Hour”.
All of these warnings have already been dramatically
and ominously fulfilled. Around the world today, with but few
exceptions, and even here in my native Caribbean island of Trinidad,
people, including Muslims, now have the worst leaders. This ominous
sign of the Last Day has come to pass, yet there are so many who do
not, or cannot see, and they blindly rush as dumb cattle to endorse
or to follow such leaders for personal gain, or fear, or due to sheer
ignorance;
“Women
would arrange their hair to look like the hump of a camel”, and
this sign has already occurred, we see it everyday;
“Women
would dress like men”, and we already see them today with
trousers, jacket and, perhaps, a tie; and “women would be dressed
and yet be naked”, and this prophecy, also, is now fulfilled. When
women parade in public “dressed, yet naked”, as they do today,
and when Muslims cannot prevent such, they should then seek to flee
from such mainstream society rather than to remain a part of it
until the women are fully naked and “donkey-like” sexual
intercourse is on public display. If they foolishly choose to remain
a part of such corrupt and decadent society then they or their
children would eventually be ruined by such a society.
“Men
would dress like women”, and already this sign also has come to
pass. Almost no one can tell that ‘she’, the so-called
‘crossdresser’, is really a man;
Homosexuality
(and lesbianism) would become commonplace, and that is now happening
before our very eyes. Social acceptance and legal protection for
this abominable sexual perversion is gaining ground. Indeed those
who hold fast to the divine prohibition of such sexual perversion
are now demonized as a people who suffer from a disease called
‘homophobia’;
Children
born outside of marriage would become commonplace, in fact marriage
itself now seems destined to become obsolete;
Fornication
and adultery would become commonplace, that, also, appears to have
already been fullled in a modern world in which virginity and
marital fidelity are becoming old-fashioned;
Disproportion
in balance of men and women to such an extent that “one man would
have to maintain (not marry) fifty women”, that is yet to occur
but could be linked to the impact on male sperm production of such
things as environmental pollution and genetically modified food;
Universal
consumption of alcoholic beverages, this “mother of all evils”
has already become a horrendous plague in which no one is safe from
the drunk driver; the unborn baby drinks when his mother drinks and
suffers unimaginably for such; people, including Prime Ministers,
drink and become drunk, and then behave in public like asses;
“Religious
knowledge would disappear”, since the rightly-guided scholars of
Islam are demonized, marginalized, “banned”, or declared to be
“great security risks”. Only those scholars who can skillfully
skip and dance to the tunes of those who control power are allowed
the unfettered freedom to preach a sanitized cosmetic version of
Islam acceptable to the godless rulers of the world. Institutions of
Islamic learning are forced to submit to the control of those waging
war on Islam. If they do not submit, they are shut down. Foreign
students are prohibited from studying Islam in certain so-called
Islamic Republics;
“Time
would move swiftly—a year passing like a month—a month like a
week—a week like a day” etc., and already the perception of
swiftly moving time is a universal experience;
Such
prevalence of random killing, murder and violence that “a killer
would not know why he is killing and the one who is killed would not
know why he is being killed”, and “every age is followed by one
which would be worse”—already around the world senseless random
killing has arrived and is constantly escalating;
“Nothing
would remain of Islam but the name, and nothing would remain of the
Qur’an but the traces (of its writing) (i.e., the Qur’an would
not be studied, no one would follow its guidance, it would be
recited mechanically etc.); the Masajid (mosques) would be grand
structures but would be devoid of guidance; and the Ulama (religious
scholars of Islam who represent such people) would be the worst
people beneath the sky. From them would emerge Fitnah (trials) and
they would be the centers of Fitnah (since they betray Islam)” —
there are many distinguished scholars of Islam who declare that this
prophesy, also, has today found fulfillment. The evidence of such is
overwhelming. The Islamic Khilafah (Caliphate) has been long
destroyed, Zakat is no longer collected and distributed by the
state, money itself is now corrupted, the universal Shirk of the
modern state has corrupted all of mankind, Riba is universally
prevalent, the Hajj would probably soon be abandoned;
Universal
consumption of Riba (i.e, money lent on interest, and transactions
which ‘rip off’ people through deception in business, etc.) Around
the world today Riba in modern banking and insurance, as well as in
the monetary system, has already taken total control over the market
and over economic life. There are some minor signs which have been
couched inenigmatic language such as,
“A
slave woman would give birth to her mistress”, made possible
through a combination of Riba and the modern feminist revolution,
and; •
“Naked
barefooted shepherds would vie with one another in the construction
of high-rise buildings”. This is already being fulfilled when
wealth is wasted in grandiose and expensive public relations
construction projects commissioned by people who hanker for visible
symbols of status in a modern world which recognizes the rich as a
‘somebody’ and the poor as a ‘nobody’ (see story of the rich
man and the poor man in Surah al-Kahf of the Qur’an).
And
then there are minor signs which have not as yet occurred such as:
“The
Last Hour would not come until there issues from the land of the
Hejaz (which is in Saudi Arabia) a fire which will illuminate the
backs of the camels in Busra”. But for the exchange of Basra for
Hejaz, this prophecy perhaps, anticipates a nuclear attack in or
around Iran which would formally launch Israel into the club of
nuclear powers. So many of these minor Signs of the Last Day, and so
many more not here mentioned, have already occurred, that we can now
turn to the major Signs with a clear recognition that we are already
living in that Last Age.
The
term ‘Last Day’ in reality stands for the ‘Last Age’, or the
age which would culminate in the end of history—when the true
Messiah, Jesus, the son of Mary (not son of God), would return to
rule the world from Jerusalem with justice and ‘eternal’ rule. It
would be ‘eternal’ in the sense that history would end with that
event. Life on earth beyond that event, and after Jesus dies a human
death and is buried next to Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of
Allah Most High be upon them both) in Madinah, would not qualify as
history.
This would be so since the modern secular rope would have
reached its predictable end in total godlessness, and with such a
consequent collapse of morals, and of moral consciousness, that
people would forget their human status and “would engage in sexual
intercourse in public like donkeys”. Already it is quite clear
(particularly at the time of Trinidad’s Carnival) that we are quite
close to the fulllment of that ominous prophecy made by Prophet
Muhammad (peace be upon him).
So
much so then, for the spurious claims of the one-eyed Judeo-Christian
western civilization and its ‘colored house slaves’ around the
world. They claim that mankind is witnessing unprecedented progress,
that the present is the best of all ages, that the world keeps on
growing better and better, and that modern western civilization has
rendered all previous civilizations, including Islam, moribund and
obsolete!
So
much so, then, for the local one-eyed ‘house slave’ here in my
native island of Trinidad who insists that Muslims must remain a part
of ‘mainstream society’ -even when that mainstream is heading for
the hell-fire.
When
a ship is sinking and you cannot prevent it from sinking, you have to
get o that ship, and urge others as well to do so. The ship of the
world is now sinking! The evidence is all around us as plainly
visible as daylight! But those who are blind cannot see that the ship
is sinking. They use their checkbooks, or the barrels of their guns,
to impose themselves around the world as leaders. The blind then lead
the blind until all are lost and will be drowned like the people of
Noah (peace be upon him).
Prophet
Muhammad prophesied many more signs of the Last Day other than public
‘donkey sex’. Most of these are known as the ‘minor’ signs.
Let us describe some of them (randomly selected) before we turn to
the ten ‘major’ signs in which we venture to include the major
underwater earthquake and resultant Tsunami in South East Asia that
occurred in late December 2004.
