Jerusalem In Quran; Chapter-12; Book by Sheikh Imran N. Hosein

Israel Palestine Conflict is almost a 100 years old and recent development is only a precursor of what was planned a long time ago. Sheikh Imran N. Hosein has written the Book "Jerusalem in Quran" some two decades ago and he stated that the book could not have been written until this era, since it is only over the past few years that the concealed plans of the Jews have come so clearly into view that few can doubt that there is a Jewish plan for world domination. Here is Chapter-12, for the readers of Bangbox Online, for the alternate opinion on the matter that is falsely spread by Zionist Jews dominated media.

JERUSALEM IN THE QUR’AN

By Imran N. Hosein

PART ONE

Chapter 12

A QUR’ANIC EXPLANATION OF THE RETURN OF THE JEWS TO THE HOLY LAND

“And say: Praise be to Allah, Who will soon show you His ‘Signs’, so that you would know

them; and your Lord is not unmindful of all that you do.”

(Qur’an, al-Naml, 27:93)

We live in an age in which the Jews have returned to Jerusalem to reclaim it after a

divinely imposed exile of almost 2000 years. Jerusalem flourishes today, exercising

power and influence over the entire region. The State of Israel has secured

advantageous ‘peace’ treaties with such client-states as Egypt and Jordan. Israel has

also made agreements with the Palestine Liberation Organization progressively

diluting its opposition to the establishment of the Jewish State. Even Saudi Arabia has

entered into the same Israeli embrace acting very secretively until its dramatic

emergence to offer the ‘Saudi Plan’ that includes recognition of the Jewish State.

The city of Madina, in the meantime has returned to being a ‘backwater’ city

wielding no influence whatsoever on regional or world developments. Adding further

to this insult to Madina’s injury the Saudi State, which emerged on the ruins of the

Caliphate, was created as a client-state of Britain. When USA took over from Britain

as the Ruling State in the world, the Saudi State became a client-state of USA. Saudi

Arabia, like Israel, has been dependent from the very beginning of its existence on

(first) Britain, and then USA for its very survival.

The Saudi-Wahhabi alliance in the Saudi State has faithfully preserved that client state

status ever since 1916 when ‘Abd al-‘Aziz ibn Saud accepted a British offer of

5000 Sterling pounds a month in return for an alliance which would allow the British

to pursue their objective of wresting control of the Hejaz from Ottoman Islamic rule.

The Wahhabi religious movement accommodated this client-state status with the

Christian and Jewish west, always holding the view that the Christians and Jews were

closer to them that the rest of the Muslim world. The Wahhabis considered non-

Wahhabi Muslims to be disbelievers accusing all of committing Shirk!

While the State of Israel also emerged as a client-state of the West, the fundamental

difference between the two client-states, Israel and Saudi Arabia, is that the State of

Israel is destined to not only rid itself of that client-state relationship, but to emerge as

the superpower that will succeed both Britain and USA as the Ruling State in the

world. When that occurs, the Saudi State will then become a client-state of Israel.

The Prophet (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) prophesied that this day would come. But it

would hold an ominous promise for Israel:

“Narrated Mu’adh ibn Jabal: The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: The flourishing state of

Jerusalem will be when Yathrib (i.e., Madina in modern-day Saudi Arabia) is in ruins, the

ruined state of Yathrib will be when the great war comes, the outbreak of the great war will be

at the conquest of Constantinople and the conquest of Constantinople when the Dajjâl (the

false Messiah or Antichrist) comes forth. He (the Prophet) struck his thigh or his shoulder with

his hand and said: This is as true as you are here or as you are sitting (meaning Mu’adh ibn

Jabal).”

(Sunan, Abu Daud)

The flourishing state of Jerusalem today, substantially fulfils the above prophecy.

Already Israel has successfully defied the President of USA as well as the Security

Council of the UN both of whom demanded an Israeli military withdrawal from the

Palestinian West Bank. This was after Israel had responded to a wave of Palestinian

human bombers (who are shuhada and should not be referred to as ‘suicide’ bombers).

This will increase when Israel wages her biggest ever war. That war will deliver to

Israel a dramatic territorial expansion. The above prophecy of Prophet Muhammad

(sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) will then be more clearly understood.

The predictable collapse of the US economy and successful Israeli defiance of a US

demand that Israel give up the territory acquired through war would result in the

complete fulfilment of the prophecy. Similarly Yathrib’s (i.e., Madina’s) ruined state

is already substantially fulfilled in the client-state status with the godless USA. When

Israel takes over as the superpower of the world and the Saudi State becomes a clientstate

of Israel, the result would be complete fulfilment of the prophecy. The

implication of the above is that the Muslims now stand on the brink of a great war that

Israel would, perhaps, jointly initiate with Kemalist Turkey’s armed forces. The

Prophet (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) prophesied that war with Turkey whose military have

now become a tool of Israel:

“Narrated Abu Hurairah:

The Prophet said: The Hour will not be established till you fight a nation wearing hairy shoes,

and till you fight the Turks, who will have small eyes, red faces and flat noses; and their faces

will be like flat shields. And you will find that the best people are those who hate responsibility

of ruling most of all till they are chosen to be the rulers. And the people are of different natures:

The best in the pre-Islamic period are the best in Islam. A time will come when any of you will

love to see me rather than to have his family and property doubled.”

(Sahih, Bukhari)

The war may commence as a Turkish attack on Syria that will be used by Israel to

provoke a greater conflagration in the region. But at the end of it all the State of Israel

will emerge as the Ruling State in the world. Subsequent to this event Dajjal would

emerge in a day that would be like ‘our’ day, i.e., he would appear in our dimension of

time and hence in our world. It is certain that he would appear in Jerusalem as the ruler

of the State of Israel. When Dajjal, the false Messiah, appears, it is at that time that the

true Messiah, the son of Mary, would return. He would kill Dajjal, and then a Muslim

army would destroy the State of Israel.

The Qur’an prophesied the return of the Jews to the Holy Land and also explained

its implications. There are many Qur’anic declarations and many prophecies and

pronouncements of the Prophet (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) pertaining to the destiny of

Jerusalem. The reader should direct careful attention to the following ten declarations

concerning the destiny of Jerusalem.

Both the Qur’an and the Ahadith affirm that Jesus (alaihi al-Salam) would one day

return to the world. At that time, Jews would have no alternative but to believe in him

as the Messiah. They would then be destroyed, but would die with the certain

knowledge that the ‘truth’ to which they had clung was actually ‘falsehood’, while the

rejected messages of Jesus (alaihi al-Salam) and of Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam)

were in fact the ‘truth’. They will thus die with the certain knowledge that they would

enter into hell.

After they boasted of their crucifixion of Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salam), Allah expelled them

from the Holy Land. The Qur’an then revealed the destiny of Jerusalem and of the

Jews as follows:

Ø A Jewish Diaspora of bits and pieces scattered all over the earth

Ø Jews banned from returning to Holy Land to reclaim it

Ø Possibility for Jews to be forgiven by Allah, the Merciful, if they believe

in the Prophet who would be ‘Ummi’ (unlettered and Gentile)

Ø Divinely-ordained return of the Jews to the Holy Land at the ‘End Time'

(the last stage of the Last Age)

Ø Gog and Magog responsible for the return of the Jews to the Holy Land

Ø A warning to the Jews that divine punishment can be repeated

Ø A warning of the worst punishment ever for the Jews

Ø Spiritual blindness when the time for the final punishment comes

Ø The body of Pharaoh (of the Exodus) would be recovered and that would

indicate that the Jews would now suffer the same fate that he suffered

Ø Jews will have no alternative but to believe in Jesus as the Messiah when

he returns but it would then be too late to save them from horrible

punishment and from the hellfire.

1. A Jewish Diaspora of bits and pieces scattered all over the earth

When Allah Most High expelled the Jews from the Holy Land after their rejection of

the Messiah and their attempt to kill him, He made a declaration which reveale d that

this new Diaspora would be different. Previously, in Babylon, the Jews had remained

as a homogenous community living in one geographical location. But on the occasion

of their second expulsion, Allah Most High declared that this time it would be

different.

“And We dispersed them as separate communities (all over) the earth …. ”

(Qur’an, al-‘Araf, 7:168)

This declaration of the Qur’an was spectacularly fulfilled when, for over two

thousand years, the Jews remained dispersed all over the world. They lived during this

period of time in Yemen, Morocco, Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Ethiopia, Arabia,

Syria, Turkey, etc.

The strangely scattered Jewish Diaspora which lasted for some 2000 years was

meant to function as a sign to the Jews of divine anger and punishment, and many

Jews recognized it as such.

2. Jews banned from returning to Holy Land to reclaim it

After expelling the Jews , Allah Most High placed a ban prohibiting their return to

that Land. (They could come back as tourists but they could not return in order to

reclaim it). That ban became a historical reality and remained in force for all to see for

some two thousand years. And this constituted a dramatic confirmation of the

declaration of the Qur’an in Surah al-Anbiyah:

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“There is a ban on a ‘Town’ which We have destroyed, that they (the people of the

Town) shall not return (to the Town in order to reclaim it).”

(Quran, al-Anbiyah, 21:95)

As has previously been demonstrated, that town mentioned refers to Jerusalem. That

divine ban on the Jews prohibiting their return to Jerusalem (and the Holy Land) to

reclaim it was meant to function as a sign to the Jews of divine anger and punishment.

It was also meant to convey to them that they were no longer the ‘chosen people’.

3. Possibility for Jews to be forgiven by Allah, the Merciful, if they believe in the

Prophet who would be ‘Ummi’ (unlettered and Gentile)

Even after Allah Most High had expelled the Jews from the Holy Land and then

banned their return to Jerusalem (to reclaim it), the Qur’an declared that it was still

possible for them to earn forgiveness from Allah, Most Forgiving:

“It may be that your Lord would have mercy on you.”

(Qur’an, Banu Israil, 17:8)

Allah Most High gave them a period of time during which He was prepared to

forgive them if they mended their ways, sought His forgiveness, and returned to the

religion of Abraham (alaihi al-Salam). But there was only one door through which that

forgiveness could be obtained. The Qur’an addressed a Banu Israil who had already

received both the Torah and the Injil (Gospel of Jesus), and informed them of the path

to forgiveness as follows:

“Those who follow the Messenger, the unlettered Prophet, whom they find mentioned

in their own (Scriptures) - in the Law and the Gospel - for he commands them what is

just and forbids them what is evil; he allows them as lawful what is good (and pure)

and prohibits them from what is bad (and impure); he releases them from their heavy

burdens and from the yokes that are upon them. So it is those who believe in him,

honor him, help him, and follow the Light which is sent down with him (i.e., the

Qur’an), it is they who will achieve salvation.”

(Qur’an, al-‘Araf, 7:157)

Thus in accepting, believing, and following the Last Prophet (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa

sallam), forgiveness could be earned.

There would be a number of signs by which it would be known that the time given

to Banu Israil, in which to seek forgiveness, had now expired. Among those signs

would be the release of Dajjal, and of Gog and Magog into the world. Both of these

took place during the lifetime of Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam),

seventeen months after he had lived in Madina amongst the Jews. By this time it had

become quite clear that the Jews had rejected him, and the Qur’an, and were

conspiring to destroy Islam. At that moment Allah Most High sent down revelation

decreeing that the Ka’aba be restored as the Qiblah. This change of Qiblah from

Jerusalem to Makkah indicated that the one and only ‘window of opportunity’ open to

the Jews to earn Divine Forgiveness and Mercy was now closed. The Last Age had

now commenced and the inevitable punishment of the Jews could no longer be

averted. It was a thing decreed.

Although the Last Age had commenced, and the door to Divine Mercy had been

closed, the Jews still had to wait before their final punishment was to occur. During

much of the time before the countdown to final punishment would begin, the Jews

would actually find sanctuary amongst Muslims:

“Shame is pitched over them (like a tent) wherever they are found, except when under

a covenant (of protection) from Allah and from men; they draw on themselves wrath

from Allah, and pitched over them is (the tent of) destitution. This because they

rejected the Signs of Allah, and slew the Prophets in defiance of right; this because

they rebelled and transgressed beyond bounds.”

(Qur’an, Ale ‘Imran, 3: 112)

The time for the final ‘countdown’ to punishment would be preceded by Signs from

Allah Most High. Among those Signs one of the most visible would be the recovery of

the body of Pharaoh who had drowned while pursuing Moses (‘alaihi al-Salam) and the

Israelite people. Unfortunately for the Jews the body of that Pharaoh (Rameses 11) has

already been recovered and it is now too late for them to repent (i.e., to make Taubah),

to accept the Truth revealed by the God of Abraham (‘alaihi al-Salam) in the Qur’an, and

to believe in Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) as the Final Messenger of Allah,

Most High. It is also too late to avert the greatest of all divine punishments:

“Are they waiting to see if the angels come to them, or thy Lord (Himself), or certain

of the ‘Signs’ of thy Lord? The day that certain of the ‘Signs’ of thy Lord do come (i.e.,

Dajjal, Y’ajuj and M’ajuj, the recovery of the body of Pharaoh, etc.) no good will it do

to a soul to believe in them then, if it believed not before nor earned righteousness

through its Faith. Say: “Wait! We, too, are waiting.”

(Qur’an, al-An’am, 6:158)

4. Divinely-ordained return of the Jews to Holy Land at the ‘End Time ’ (i.e., the

last stage of the Last Age)

The Qur’an went on to declare that Allah Most High would Himself bring the Jews

back to the Holy Land in the ‘End Time’. The Jews would be deceived into believing

that their success in returning to the Holy Land to reclaim it validates their claim to

Truth. This prophecy pertaining to the final return to the Holy Land has also been

fulfilled, even more spectacularly, through the establishment of the Impostor State of

Israel:

“And We said thereafter to the Children of Israel: dwell securely in the (Holy) Land

(on condition that you remain faithful to Allah and you are righteous in your conduct);

but (know that) when the last of the warnings come to pass (i.e. when the Last Age

arrives), We (shall) gather you together in a mingled crowd (i.e., you will all be

brought back to the Holy Land complete with all the heterogeneity which you would

have accumulated from long years of exile in the scattered Jewish Diaspora).”

(Qur’an, Banu Israil, 17:104)

This prophecy in the Qur’an declared that the Last Age would witness a return of

the Jews to the Holy Land in which the accumulated diversity and heterogeneity would

be on display. The expression lafif denotes a human crowd who are not all the same.

This is precisely the description of Jewish society in today’s Israel. It is a ‘motley

crowd’ of Jews from so many different parts of the world, speaking in different

languages, with different accents, wearing different clothes, eating different food,

worshipping in different ways, in different synagogues, etc. But the most amazing

difference is the racial, and that is where the Qur’anic prophecy has found ominous

fulfilment. Modern Israel comprises large numbers of Jews who are a pure European

people with blue eyes and blond hair. There is emerging genetic evidence

demonstrating that European Jews (i.e., Ashkenazi Jews) are genetically different from

every other people on earth. The racial homogeneity of a people descended from

Abraham (‘alaihi al-Salam) through Isaac (‘alaihi al-Salam) and Jacob (‘alaihi al-Salam), has

now evaporated.

What is the meaning and implication of the fulfilment of the Qur’anic prophecy

pertaining to the return of the Jews to the Holy Land in the Last Age?

5. Gog and Magog responsible for the return of the Jews to the Holy Land

There are at least three verses of the Qur’an that point distinctly in the direction of

divine punishment for the Jews when they are brought back to the Holy Land. Here are

two of these three verses:

“But there is a ban on a city which We destroyed: that they (i.e, the people of the city)

shall not return (to that city), unless and until Gog and Magog are released, and they

swiftly descend from every height (or spread out in every direction).”

(Qur’an, al-Anbiyah, 21-95-6)

While the identity of the ‘city’ has not been explicitly stated, it is quite clear that it

cannot be other than Jerusalem. There is an indirect Qur’anic identification of the city

as follows: The Rabbis in Madina responded to the appeal of the Quraish for a means

whereby they could determine whether Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) was

indeed a Prophet. Their response was to pose three questions. If he could answer them

all correctly then he would be a true Prophet. Allah Most High responded by revealing

the answers to all three questions in Qur’anic revelation. The answers to the first two

questions, i.e., the young men who fled into the cave and the ‘great traveller’ who

travelled to the two ends of the earth, were placed in Surah al-Kahf. (see al-Kahf,

18:9-26; 83-98) But the answer to the third question concerning the ruh was placed in

Surah Banu Israil, 17:85. The implication of this strange arrangement was a principle

of interpretation that linked together the two Surahs of the Qur’an as a pair. Dr. Israr

Ahmad, the eminent scholar of the Qur’an, has presented an abundance of evidence

that confirm the pairing of the two Surahs.

And so, in order to locate the identity of the young men in the cave as well as the

identity of Dhul Qarnain, Y’ajuj and M’ajuj and the Qaryah (city), we need to turn to

Surah Banu Israil for assistance. When we do so we find that the Surah deals with

only one Qaryah (city), Jerusalem.

The Ahadith of Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam), on the other hand,

directly establish the identity of the city. Not only is Jerusalem mentioned by name in

the Ahadith concerning Y’ajuj and M’ajuj but also no other such city, destroyed by

Allah Most High, is mentioned. The following Hadith that describes and narrates the

event of the return of Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salam) would suffice to establish the link between

Y’ajuj and M’ajuj and the Holy Land, as well as Jerusalem, and hence identify the

qaryah (city) as none other than Jerusalem:

“Narrated al-Nawwas ibn Sam’an: ….It will be under such conditions that Allah will reveal

to Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salam) 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. Jesus and his companions will then be

besieged here at Tur, (and they will be so hard pressed) that the head of the ox will be dearer to

them than one hundred dinars …. ”

(Sahih Muslim)

The Sea of Galilee is in the Holy Land. Secondly, the Tur (mountain) mentioned in

the Hadith is a mountain in Jerusalem. This is mentioned in another version of the

same Hadith on the authority of the same chain of transmitters:

“Gog and Magog would walk until they reach the mountain of al-Khamr, and it is a mountain

of Bait al-Maqdis (i.e., Jerusalem) and they would say: We have killed those who are on the

earth. Let us now kill those who are in the sky. They would shoot their arrows towards the sky

and the arrows would return to them smeared with blood.”

(Sahih Muslim)

We are now in a position to recognize the return of the Jews to Jerusalem in the ‘End

Time’ as a Sign, revealed in the Qur’an, which not only confirms the release of Gog

and Magog, i.e., Y’ajuj and M’ajuj but also reveals that they now control the world

with a power which is indestructible . Now Y’ajuj and M’ajuj are agents of universal

fasad. (see Qur’an, al-Kahf, 18:94). Fasad means “corruption, decay, wickedness,

viciousness, immorality, perverseness, etc.” When Y’ajuj and M’ajuj embrace a people

they lead that people into the hell-fire. The Hadith reveals that globalization, in the age

of Y’ajuj and M’ajuj, will culminate with 999 out every 1000 entering the hell-fire:

“Narrated Abu Said Al Khudri: The Prophet said: On the day of Resurrection Allah will say: O

Adam! Adam will reply: Labbaik our Lord, and Sa’daik. Then there will be a loud call

(saying): Allah orders you to take from among your offspring a mission for the (Hell) Fire.

Adam will say: O Lord! How many are they for the (Hell) Fire? Allah will say: Out of each

thousand, take out 999. At that time every pregnant female shall drop her load (have a

miscarriage) and a child will have gray hair. “And you shall see mankind as in a drunken state,

yet not drunk, but severe will be the torment of Allah”. (Qur’an, al-Hajj, 22:2) (When the

Prophet mentioned this), the people were so distressed (and afraid) that their faces changed (in

color) whereupon the Prophet said: From Y’ajuj and M’ajuj nine hundred and ninety-nine will

be taken out, and one from you. You Muslims (compared to the large number of other people)

will be like a black hair on the side of a white ox, or a white hair on the side of a black ox, and I

hope that you will be one-fourth of the people of Paradise. On that, we said: Allahu-Akbar!

Then he said: I hope that you will be one-third of the people of Paradise. We again said:

Allahu-Akbar! Then he said: (I hope that you will be) one-half of the people of Paradise. So we

said: Allahu-Akbar.”

(Sahih Bukhari)

The Jewish return to Jerusalem, and the restoration of the State of Israel, was made

possible through Gog and Magog (Y’ajuj and M’ajuj), and by the False Messiah (al-

Masih al-Dajjal). It thus constitutes the greatest possible danger to which Jews have

ever been exposed in all their history. In fact their fate is now sealed. But they are not

even aware of it. Only by embracing the Qur’an as the divinely revealed word of the

God of Abraham, and the teachings of Muhammad the Prophet (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa

sallam), the Last Prophet, would it have been possible for the Jewish people to realize

the reality that now confronts them. The references to the Qur’an and Ahadith in this

book should assist them in understanding that reality.

6. A warning to the Jews that divine punishment can be repeated

The Qur’an warned the Jews that if they returned to their wicked ways Allah, the

Supreme, would return with His punishment. He first punished them with a

Babylonian army. Then He punished them with a Roman army. The last punishment,

when it takes place, would be with a Muslim army:

“It may be that your Lord may (yet) show Mercy unto you; but if ye revert (to your

sins) We shall revert (to Our punishments): and We have made Hell a prison for those

who reject (all Faith).”

(Qur’an, Banu Israil, 17:8)

7. A divine warning of the worst punishment ever for the Jews

The Qur’an gave as clear and as plain a warning as was possible to the Jews that

one day they would face the reality that now confronts them, i.e., Y’ajuj, M’ajuj and

Dajjal, the False Messiah would be released into the world. The Jews refused to

believe in the Qur’an as the revealed word of the God of Abraham and in Muhammad

(sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) as the Last Prophet of the God of Abraham. In consequence of

this they are incapable of recognizing that reality:

“Behold! Thy Lord made it known that He would send against them (i.e., the Jews) to

the Day of Resurrection such (beings) who would afflict them with great suffering. Thy

Lord is quick in retribution, but He is also Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.”

(Qur’an, al-‘Araf, 7:167)

The law of Allah Most High is that punishment must be commensurate with or

equivalent to the crime. And since the Jews committed the worst possible crime in

attempting to crucify Jesus (alaihi al-Salam), of changing the Torah, etc., they would pay

for it with the worst possible punishment. That punishment would commence even

before the Day of Judgment. Indeed it would commence after the Last Prophet

(Muhammad) had come to the world and had been rejected. A series of dramatic

events would then occur culminating in the worst possible punishment for the Jews.

Allah would raise those who would function as the major actors of that drama: Gog

and Magog, and Dajjal, the False Messiah.

8. Jewish spiritual blindness when the time for the last punishment comes

Allah Most High has Himself ensured that neither the Jews nor the non-believing in

the world would be able to perceive the reality of their own condition:

“I will turn away from My signs the eyes of those who are unjustly arrogant in the

land, so that even if they see each and every sign they will not believe in it. If they see

the Right Way before them they will not follow it, but if they see a crooked way they

will follow it. This is because they denied Our revelations and were heedless of them.”

(Qur’an, al-‘Araf, 7:146)

The major actor in that awesome drama of the Last Age is none other than the False

Messiah himself, Dajjal. It is significant that the most important of all the equipment

with which Allah Most High has endowed Dajjal (for the purpose of accomplishing

his mission) is his ‘one eye’. Dajjal is blind in his right eye, and that indicates his

internal spiritual blindness. All those who are deceived by him would themselves

become spiritually blind and hence would be incapable of seeing and recognizing the

Signs of Allah in the Last Age. This would continue until the return of the True

Messiah, Jesus the son of Mary.

9. The body of Pharaoh (of the Exodus) would be recovered and that would

indicate that the Jews would now suffer the same fate that he suffered

The Qur’an provided yet another sign to show that the final countdown for Banu

Israil in the Last Age had now arrived and that the worst possible punishment would

now be unleashed upon them by Allah Most High. That divine sign was the recovery

of the body of the Pharaoh who was drowned when he attempted to cross the sea in

pursuit of Moses (‘alaihi al-Salam). Allah Most High had parted the sea in order to save

Banu Israil. And after they had crossed over to safety He brought down the waters on

Pharaoh and his army and they were all destroyed. The Qur’an refers to this:

“And remember We parted the Sea for you and saved you and drowned Pharaoh’s

people before your very sight.”

(Qur’an, al-Baqarah, 2:50)

Banu Israil did not know, and still do not recognize, that they would themselves one

day be destroyed (as Pharaoh was destroyed), and in the same manner as Pharaoh if

they betrayed Allah Most High and committed certain sins.

How did Pharaoh die? The gentle reader would be astonished when he reads of the

Qur’anic account of Pharaoh’s death:

“We took Banu Israil across the sea: then Pharaoh and his hosts followed them in

insolence and spite. At length, when overwhelmed with the flood, he said: I (now)

believe that there is no god except Him Whom the Children of Israel believe in: I am of

those who submit (to Allah Most High in Islam).

“(It was said to him:) Ah now! But a little while before, you were in (a state of)

rebellion! And you were inflicting oppression (and violence)!

“And so this day (We have decided that) We shall save you in your body (i.e. We shall

preserve your dead body), so that you (i.e., your dead body when it reappears in

history) may be a Sign for those who come after you! But verily, most among mankind

are heedless of Our Signs!”

(Qur’an, Yunus, 10:90-2)

“But when they continued to challenge Us We inflicted Our retribution on them and

drowned them all. And We made them a thing of the past and an (ominous) example

for those to come after them.”

(Qur’an, al-Zukhruf, 43:55-6)

And so the Qur’an made the amazing prophecy that the dead body of the Pharaoh of

the exodus would one day be discovered, and that when it was discovered that would

constitute a most ominous divine sign. Amazingly the body of that Pharaoh was

discovered close to the end of the last century. It was an even more ominous sign for

the Jews that the Zionist Movement was also established at just about the same time

that the body of Pharaoh was discovered. It is clear that Dajjal, the False Messiah, was

the mastermind behind the creation of the Zionist Movement. And so the age of Gog

and Magog was also the age of Dajjal.

The implication of the above is that the Jews were now being led by Dajjal, the

False Messiah, and by Gog and Magog, on a path which would witness the worst

possible punishment being unleashed against them and which would culminate with

divinely ordained destruction. But the end would come upon them in the same way

that the end came to Pharaoh. What would be that end? The discovery of the body of

Pharaoh was a momentous Sign from Allah Most High that the world would now

witness the greatest drama ever enacted in human history. Time was now up for the

Jews in particular, and for all of mankind in general. Those who lived like Pharaoh

would now die the way Pharaoh died.

10. Jews will have no alternative but to believe in Jesus as the Messiah when he

returns, but it would then be too late to save them from punishment and

hellfire

After the Qur’an narrated the event in which the Jews attempted to have Jesus

(‘alaihi al-Salam) crucified, and then boasted that they had achieved their goal, Allah

Most High delivered the most ominous of warnings. The Jews who rejected Jesus

(‘alaihi al-Salam) as the Messiah (and Christians who worshipped him as God) were

informed that they would (have to) believe in him (Jesus) before he experienced Maut,

i.e. after he returns and before he dies. Thus Jews would have to believe in him as the

Messiah and Christians would have to cease worshipping him as God and recognize

him as a Prophet:

“And there is none of the People of the Book but must believe in him before his death;

and on the Day of Judgment he will be a witness against them.”

(Qur’an, al-Nisa, 4:159)

The above verse indicated that when Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salam) returned the Jews would

not only recognize and confirm their faith in him as the Messiah, but would also, by

implication, recognize and confirm their faith in Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam)

as the Final Prophet sent by the God of Abraham, and the Qur’an as the Final Divine

Revelation. But this last-minute affirmation of faith on the part of Jews would be of no

benefit to them in the same way that his last-minute affirmation of faith was of no

avail for Pharaoh (he was still condemned to the hellfire). That is the ominous message

to the Jews that has emerged in consequence of the recovery of Pharaoh’s body!

The further implication, crucial for the proper understanding of the historical

process as the world moves to the moment of the final grand climax, is that the Jews as

well as non-believers would remain absolutely convinced up to the very last moment

prior to that grand climax, that they are on the path of success. And so the divinely

ordained profile for the Truth (i.e., Islam) in the world in the Last Age is one in which

external observation increasingly indicates that Islam has failed. That is precisely the

world today.

(This book can be ordered from Islamic Book Trust at ibtkl@pd.jaring.my)

Sheikh Imran has talked on the subject extensively and here is one video. The reader may find many related videos by Sheikh Imran on You Tube.