Jerusalem In Quran; Chapter-8; 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-8, 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 8
JESUS, THE TRUE MESSIAH, AND DAJJAL, THE FALSE MESSIAH
“We shall confound their hearts and eyes in consequence of their previous rejection of this
(message). And We shall leave them in their obstinate rejection (of this revealed Truth), to
wander in distraction (or to live in a state of aimlessness and drift).”
(Qur’an, al-An’am, 6:110)
[I.e. We shall confound their Jewish hearts and eyes in consequence of their previous rejection
of this message when, among other things, they rejected the Messiah, son of the Virgin Mary.]
JESUS THE MESSIAH
Prophets of Allah Most High communicated to Banu Israil a divine promise to send
to them a Prophet who would be their Prophet, who would be known as the Messiah,
and who would rule the world from the throne of King David (‘alaihi al-Salaam). This, in
fact, amounted to a prophecy of the return of the golden age of Solomon (‘alaihi al-
Salaam).
In 1 Chronicles, 17:11-15, the Prophet Nathan spoke to King David about the
Messiah and called him the Son of David:
“And it shall come to pass, when your days have expired and you must go to be with your
fathers, that I will raise up one of your descendents after you, who shall be of your sons, and I
will establish his kingdom. He shall build for Me a house, and I will establish his throne
forever. I will be his father, and he will be My son: and I will not take My mercy away from
him, as I took it from him that was before thee: But I will settle him in My house and in My
kingdom forever; and his throne shall be established forever more”.
(1 Chronicles, 17:11-15)
Years later Isaiah added to this as follows:
“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his
shoulder (i.e., he will rule the world): and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the
Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.
Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end (i.e., he will rule the world
eternally) upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with
judgement and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will
perform this.”
(Isaiah 9:6-7)
Isaiah further wrote of him that:
“Behold My servant, in whom my soul delighteth: I have put my spirit unto him: he shall bring
forth judgement to the Gentiles.
He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.
A bruised reed shall he not break , and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring
forth judgement unto truth.
He shall not fail nor be discouraged, ‘till he have set judgement unto the earth : and the isles
shall wait for his law.
(Isaiah: 42:1-4)
I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of
the earth.
(Isaiah: 49:6)
{While Jewish scholarship recognized these prophecies as pertaining to the advent of the
Messiah there are Muslim scholars who declare that the prophesies refer to the advent of
Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam).}
Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) declared that he, the Messiah, would
be Hakimun ‘Adil (a Just Ruler of the world):
“Narrated Abu Hurairah: Allah’s Messenger said: ‘By Him in Whose Hand is my soul (I
swear that) the son of Mary will shortly descend amongst you as a just ruler. He will break the
cross and kill the pigs and abolish Jizyah (a punitive tax imposed upon Jews and Christians
resident in the territory of Islam). Then there will be abundance of money and nobody will
accept charitable gifts.’ ”
(Sahih Bukhari)
TWO CONFLICTING PORTRAITS OF THE MESSIAH
The Jews were very pleased to receive the news of this Promised Messiah. But they
were confused by the fact that there was a two-fold picture that presented two
conflicting portraits of him and his mission. The first was that of a conquering King
who would restore the ‘Chosen People of Allah’ (who, at that time, were the Jews) to
the Holy Land and would rule the whole world in peace. The second was a Messiah
who was humble and suffering. The two apparently conflicting portraits were clearly
depicted in Isaiah who described the Messiah as a ‘Servant of the Lord’ who would
prosper, be lifted up and greatly exalted:
“Behold, My servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.”
(Isaiah 52:13)
But he then went on in the very same breath to describe that ‘Servant’ as one who
would be disfigured to the point that he would hardly look human, and thus one who
would experience both exaltation and humiliation:
“As many were astonished at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form
more than the sons of men.”
(Isaiah 52:14)
As unthinkable as it was, Isaiah prophesied that the ‘Servant’ would be struck on
both back and face. He would be humiliated by being spat upon the face (Isaiah, 50:4-
11). This is precisely what happened to Jesus. A Christian writer, Hal Lindsey,
comments on the event as follows and goes on to declare that it confirmed the
prophecy in Isaiah 52:13 and 53:12 :
“It is well known that this is the kind of treatment that Jesus received during the six illegal trials
to which he was subjected. The officers in Herod’s temple guard spat on Jesus’ face after the
Sanhedrin had condemned him. Then they blindfolded him and struck him in the face. A jagged
crown of thorns was jammed down on his head and he was cruelly whipped with a Roman
scourge. It was a sadistic whip made of many strips of leather to which pieces of bone or
jagged metal were attached to make the effect more painful.”
(Hal Lindsey, “The Messiah”. Harvest House Publishers, Oregon, 1982, pp. 108-9)
Isaiah went on to identify the Jews as those who would persecute the ‘Servant of the
Lord’ (i.e., the Messiah). He did so when he described the Servant-Messiah as “the
despised one, the one abhorred by the nation (Isaiah 49:7). Hal Lindsey points out that
the noun ‘nation’ is in the singular and not plural, and he goes on to protest dishonest
translations of the verse:
“It’s most unfortunate (and dishonest) that the Revised Standard Version of the Bible and the
Jewish Soncino Commentaries translate this passage “to him who is abhorred by the nations.”
By translating ‘nations’ plural, it makes it seem as though the Gentiles (who are always referred
to as the ‘nations’) are the ones who despise and abhor the Servant. The idea is fostered here
that the Servant is Israel and she is abhorred by the Gentiles. While that may have been true in
Jewish history, that particular fact can’t be proved by this passage because the word used in the
Hebrew for ‘nation’ is ‘goi’, and it is singular and can only honestly be translated as ‘nation’
which in this context refers to Israel alone.” (Lindsey, p. 109)
(Soncino: - a certain Israel Nathan b. Samuel moved to Soncino, a small town in the duchy of
Milan. There he set up a printing press for his son, and this was the beginning of the great firm
of Joshua Solomon Soncino and his nephews, Moses and Gershom. Attracting Abraham b.
Hayyim from Bologna, they produced the first complete Bible, the Soncino Bible of 1488, with
vowels and accents, but without a commentary, as was the custom of the Soncinos. The
Soncino brothers also were responsible for the 1491–93 Naples Bible, in which the vowelpoints
and accents are better placed than before. Gershom Soncino moved to Brescia, where he
produced the 1495 Brescia Bible, an improved edition of the 1488 Soncino Bible, but, more
important, in small octavo format, making it a pocket edition specifically produced for the
persecuted Jews who, perpetually moving from place to place, found it difficult to carry the
huge and costly folio Bibles. It was this edition which Martin Luther used when he translated
the Bible into German). (Jewish Encyclopaedia)
Even as far back in time as Genesis there was a prophecy of one through whom the
‘rule’ of the world, first established with David (‘alaihi al-Salaam) and Solomon (‘alaihi al-
Salaam), would continue.
He was described as Shiloh:
“The scepter shall not depart from (his son) Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet,
until Shiloh comes, and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.”
(Genesis : 49:10)
This prophecy was interpreted to have not only declared the tribe through which the
Messiah would come, but also to have designated Judah as the royal line for future
Kings. Rabbinic interpretation from ancient times recognized ‘Shiloh’ as a personal
title of the Messiah and that it was here predicted that he would come from the tribe of
Judah. (The view of Muslim scholars is that Shiloh was Prophet Muhammad (‘alaihi al-
Salaam).
The confusion was confounded when unknown scribes corrupted the text of Isaiah to
declare that the Messiah would not only be born as a child (and hence be a human
being), and would eventually rule the world, but that he would also be the mighty God.
The corrupted text thus portrayed the Messiah as both man and God:
“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his
shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the everlasting
Father, the Prince of Peace.”
(Isaiah, 9:6)
Two thousand years ago, when Allah Most High kept his promise and sent the
Messiah, Jesus the son of Mary, to Banu Israil, he found them holding on to the
external ‘form’ of religion while woefully neglecting its ‘internal’ substance. Even the
‘external’ form was corrupted since they had changed it and rewritten it to suit their
own fancies. When Jesus confirmed that he was indeed the Promised Messiah, and
when he fearlessly preached the ‘internal’ substance of religion and denounced the
corruption of the ‘external’ form, some Jews accepted him and believed in him but
most of them rejected him. They still continue to reject him as the Messiah to this day.
The Qur’an declared that they boasted (at that time) of having killed him (by
crucifixion):
“That they said (in boast): We killed the Messiah, Jesus the son of Mary, the
Messenger of Allah… ”
(Qur’an, al-Nisa, 4:157)
When they saw him ‘die’ on the cross before their very eyes it was conclusively
confirmed to them that he was an impostor. They were convinced that he could not
have been the Messiah since the Torah itself had declared that whoever died by
hanging was the ‘cursed’ of Allah, Most High (Deuteronomy, 21:23). Secondly, he
could not have been the Messiah because he died without liberating the Holy Land
from the pagan Roman rule, and he did not rule the world from the throne of David
(‘alaihi al-Salaam) (i.e., Jerusalem).
And so they kept on waiting for the Messiah to come. Every Jew who rejected Jesus
(‘alaihi al-Salaam) as the Messiah and kept on waiting since then for the Messiah to come
is indirectly implicated in the attempt to crucify him. This is so because their rejection
of his claim to be the Messiah is linked to the death that they believe he experienced.
But Allah Most High declared that the Jews were deceived into believing that Jesus
(‘alaihi al-Salaam) was killed or crucified:
“…. and they killed him not, nor crucified him, but so it was made to appear to them,
and those who differ therein are full of doubts, with no (certain) knowledge, but only
conjecture to follow, for of a surety they killed him not.”
(Qur’an, al-Nisa, 4:157)
Well then, what happened to Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salaam)? The Qur’an has explained what
happened. It has made five explanatory statements:
Firstly, the Qur’an declared that the Jews did not kill Jesus:
“…but they killed him not….”
(Qur’an, al-Nisa, 4:157)
Secondly, it declared that they did not crucify him:
“…nor did they crucify him….”
(Qur’an, al-Nisa, 4:157)
Thirdly it declared that Allah the Supreme reclaimed him (i.e., took his
soul). There are, in fact, two such statements in the Qur’an:
“And behold, Allah said: Oh Jesus, I (will) reclaim you (i.e., I will take your
soul, - the word used is Wafaat), and raise you to Myself and clear you (of the
falsehoods) of those who blaspheme . . .
(Qur’an, Ale ‘Imran, 3:55)
“And behold Allah will say (on the Day of Judgment) Oh Jesus, the son of
Mary, did you say unto men: worship me and my mother as Gods besides
Allah? He will say: Glory be to Thee! Never could I say what I had no right
(to say). Had I said such a thing you would surely have known it. You know
what is in my heart, and I know not what is in Your heart. For You know in full
all that is hidden. Never did I say to them anything except that which You
ordered me to say, to wit: Worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord; and I was a
witness over them while I dwelt among them, but when You reclaimed me (i.e.,
took my soul – the word used is again Wafaat). You became the watcher over
them, and You are a witness to all things.
(Qur’an, al-Maida, 5:116-117)
If Allah Most High took the soul of Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salaam) and did not return it,
then that would have constituted Maut (death). But the Qur’an insists that he
was not killed (nor crucified):
“….for most certainly they did not kill him….”
(Qur’an, al-Nisa, 4:157)
Well then, what did Allah Most High do with the soul after He took it? Was it
possible, for example, that He returned the soul to the body? Can such a thing
take place?
The Qur’an affirms that Allah Most High does return some souls after having
taken them from the body:
“Allah reclaims the souls at (the time of) death; and those that die not He
reclaims (their souls) during sleep (i.e., those whose souls are not taken while
they are awake will experience it while they are asleep). Then for those on
whom He has passed the decree of death (maut), He keeps back (i.e., the soul
is not allowed to return to the body): but the rest He returns (to their bodies)
for a term appointed. Verily in this are Signs for those who reflect.”
(Qur’an, al-Zumar, 39:42)
Did this take place in the case of Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salaam)? The answer is to be
found in the next two statements of the Qur’an.
Fourthly the Qur’an stated that Allah, the All-Powerful, made it
‘appear’ that Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salaam) was killed. This was made possible either
by replacing ‘one thing’ with ‘another’, or by replacing ‘one person’ with
‘another’ (tashbih). Thus those who were observing the event were convinced
that Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salaam) had, in fact, died (Maut):
“…. but so it was made to appear to them….” (Yusuf Ali)
“….but it only seemed to them (as if it had been) so….”(M. Asad)
(Qur’an, al-Nisa, 4:157)
It is now possible for us to answer the question: Well then, what did Allah
Most High do with the soul after He took it? One possible answer to that
question is that Allah Most High substituted one thing for another (tashbih):
· Allah Most High took the soul of Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salaam) while he was
still on the cross,
· Allah Most High thus convinced those who were observing the event
that Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salaam) was dead,
· Allah Most High then returned the soul of Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salaam) after
he was taken down from the cross and when no one was around to
observe. He was then taken up into the heavens from whence he
would descend one day.
The only difference from the accepted Christian belief and the above
interpretation of the Qur’an is that the period of time which elapsed between
the event on the cross and the ascension of Jesus was one in which Christians
recognized him as dead. In the above interpretation of the Qur’an, however, he
was not recognized as dead precisely because the soul was returned to the
body.
Those who object to the above possible explanation of the Qur’an argue that
Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salaam) was never placed on the cross. They interpret the
Qur’anic statement “they did not crucify him” to imply that he was never
placed on the cross. They come to this conclusion on the basis of their view
that crucifixion (in the sense in which the Qur’an uses the term) implies
simply being put on the cross and does not necessarily require such a person to
actually die on the cross. Commenting on Surah al-Maidah, 5:36, the
commentator of the Qur’an, Ibn Kathir, holds the view that crucifixion
necessarily implies death.
The alternative interpretation to the above is that Allah Most High substituted
one person for another (tashbih) so that someone else replaced Jesus (‘alaihi al-
Salaam) on the cross, and that person was crucified in place of Jesus (‘alaihi al-
Salaam). This is the theory of ‘substitution’. It is an opinion and, like all
opinions, is subject to the qualification: Allahu ‘alam (Allah, the Supreme,
knows best!). There are many distinguished scholars of Islam, however, who
subscribe to the theory of substitution. Those who object to this interpretation
argue that it ascribes to Allah Most High a manifest act of injustice since it
declares of Him that He caused an innocent man (i.e., innocent of any of the
charges leveled against Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salaam)) to be crucified in place of Jesus
(‘alaihi al-Salaam). But Allah Most High has repeatedly declared that no soul
would bear the burden of another soul (al-‘Anam, 6:164; Banu Israil, 17:15;
al-Fatir, 35:18; al-Zumar, 39:7; al-Najm, 53:38).
Fifthly the Qur’an makes a statement to the effect that Allah Most High raised
Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salaam) unto Himself:
“Nay, Allah raised him up unto Himself; and Allah is Exalted in Power,
Wise.”
(Qur’an, al-Nisa, 4:158)
The Qur’an then went on to explain that every soul (Nafs) must taste death
(Arabic - Maut):
“Every soul must taste death (maut). And only on the Day of Judgment shall
you be paid your full recompense (for your works)...”
(Qur’an, Ale ‘Imran, 3:185)
Since Allah Most High has declared that every soul (Nafs) must taste death, it implies
that Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salaam), also, if he possessed a soul (Nafs) must taste death (Maut).
The question therefore arises: Did Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salaam) possess a soul (Nafs)? Was he
a human being? And since we know that he was the son of Mary, we must also ask:
Was Mary a human being?
The Qur’an responds with an emphatic declaration of the ‘humanity’ of both Jesus and
Mary:
“The Messiah, the son of Mary, was no more than a Messenger (of Allah). Many were
the Messengers who passed away before him. His mother was a woman of integrity
and truth. They both ate food. Notice how We make signs clear to them (i.e. they who
blaspheme by claiming that God is a Trinity, that Jesus is also God, and that Mary is
also God). And then notice how they remain deluded away from the Truth.”
(Qur’an, al-Maidah, 5:75)
With one startling declaration “They both ate food” the Qur’an dismisses any notion
that Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salaam) and Mary could have been anything but human.
The Qur’an also declares of Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salaam) that he was no more than a servant
and slave (of Allah, Most High):
“Oh People of the Scriptures (i.e. Christians and Jews), do not commit excesses in
your religion; nor say of Allah aught but the truth. The Messiah, Jesus, the son of
Mary, was (no more than) a Messenger of Allah, and His Word, which He cast on
Mary, and a Spirit from Him. So believe in Allah and His Messengers. Say not Trinity,
desist, it will be better for you. For Allah is One God. Glory be to Him. (Far exalted is
He) above having a son…”
(Qur’an, al-Nisa, 4:171)
“Surely he (Jesus) was no more than an ‘abd (slave, servant) (of Allah)…”
(Qur’an, al-Zukhruf, 43:59)
It is thus clearly demonstrated that Jesus was, in the Qur’anic view, a human being.
Hence Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salaam) also, is subject to the universal law of death. He also, has
to taste death.
JESUS (‘alaihi al-Salaam) WILL RETURN
The Qur’an emphatically declared that Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salaam) did not die (i.e., he was
neither killed, nor was he crucified). It further declared that he was raised unto Allah,
the Most High. And since the Qur’an declared that every soul (including Jesus) must
taste death (Maut), it follows that Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salaam) must return and experience
death like every other human being.
But the Qur’an also delivered an ominous warning when it spoke about the death of
Jesus. The warning was that Jews and Christians would all have to believe in Jesus
(i.e., as the Qur’an has established Jesus’ status and position as the Messiah and as a
Prophet of Allah) before ‘Jesus’ dies. This verse therefore clearly established the
Divine plan that Jesus would one day return and that this event would occur prior to
his death:
“And there is none from the People of the Book (i.e., not a single Jew who rejects
Jesus as the Messiah and Prophet of Allah, and not a single Christian who insists that
Jesus must be worshipped as God and as son of God) but must believe in him (Jesus)
before his death (i.e., before the death of Jesus). And on the Day of Judgment he
(Jesus) will be a witness against them.”
(Qur’an, al-Nisa, 4:159)
Hence on that day every Jew will have to accept Jesus as the Messiah and believe in
him, and every Christian will have to abandon belief in Jesus as the ‘son of God’ and
the third person in a divine trinity.
Prophet Muhammad (‘alaihi al-Salaam) has declared as emphatically as it is possible
for anyone to declare, that Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salaam) will return:
“Narrated Abu Hurairah: Allah’s Messenger said: ‘By Him in Whose Hand is my soul (I swear
that) the son of Mary will shortly descend amongst you as a just ruler. He will break the cross
and kill the pigs and abolish Jizyah (a punitive tax imposed upon Jews and Christians resident
in the territory of Islam). Then there will be abundance of money and nobody will accept
charitable gifts.’ ”
(Sahih, Bukhari)
Indeed the return of Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salaam) is one of the ten major Signs of the Last
Day mentioned by the Prophet (‘alaihi al-Salaam):
“Narrated Hudhayfah ibn Usayd Ghifari:
Allah’s Apostle (‘alaihi al-Salaam) came to us all of a sudden as we were (busy in a discussion)
He said: What do you discuss about? (The Companions) said: We are discussing about the Last
Hour. Thereupon he said: It will not come until you see ten signs before and (in this
connection) he made a mention of the smoke, Dajjal, the beast, the rising of the sun from the
west, the descent of Jesus son of Mary (‘alaihi al-Salaam), Gog and Magog, and landslides in
three places, one in the east, one in the west and one in Arabia at the end of which fire would
burn forth from Yemen, and would drive people to the place of their assembly.
(Sahih, Muslim)
Thus the ten Signs are as follows:
Ø the release of Dajjal – the False Messiah,
Ø the release of Gog and Magog,
Ø the return of Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salaam) – the True Messiah,
Ø the appearance of dukhan (smoke),
Ø the emergence of d’abbatul ard (a creature of the Land, i.e., Holy Land),
Ø the sun would rise from the West,
Ø a landslide or movement of the earth in the East,
Ø another one in the West,
Ø a third one in Arabia,
Ø a fire comes out of Yemen and drives people to their place of assembly.
(Please note that these Signs are not necessary listed in chronological order of their happening)
The Qur’an affirmed the return of Jesus as the ‘Sign of all Signs’ of the Last Day:
“And surely he (i.e., Jesus) is the Sign of the Hour”.
(Qur’an, al-Zukhraf, 43:61)
Jesus himself gave a list of signs to look for at the time when he is to return:
Ø men would arise calling themselves Messiah, but they would be false,
Ø there would be wars and rumors of wars,
Ø there would be an outbreak of unprecedented global famine,
Ø plagues would sweep the world,
Ø there would be a great increase in lawlessness and inhumanity to man,
Ø earthquakes would increase in intensity and frequency.
We now have the explanation for the two conflicting portraits of the Messiah in the
scriptures – the first a meek and humble Messiah who would suffer immensely, and
the other a mighty conqueror. When Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salaam) returns he would fulfill the
second portrait of him.
But Prophet Muhammad (‘alaihi al-Salaam) went on to reveal that prior to the return of
Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salaam) Allah Most High would release a False Messiah (al-Masih al-
Dajjal) into the world in the Last Age.
WHO IS DAJJAL?
The greatest dream of the Jews for more than 2000 years has been the dream of
returning to the Holy Land as rulers over the land so that they might restore the State
of Israel established by the Prophet-Kings, David (‘alaihi al-Salaam) and Solomon (‘alaihi
al-Salaam), rebuild the Temple that was built by Solomon (‘alaihi al-Salaam) in Jerusalem,
and worship the God of Abraham in that Temple. That must be considered to be a very
noble dream indeed. A people who dream such a dream as the greatest of all their
dreams must be a people who would achieve spiritual greatness. They should be a
people who would prefer the ‘hereafter’ to the ‘dunya’ (world), and whose spiritual
insight would penetrate ‘external’ appearances to recognize the ‘reality’ of things. At a
very minimum, therefore, they should be able to realize that such a noble dream cannot
possibly be fulfilled through the creation of an essentially godless State of Israel, and
through a reign of terror and oppression in the Holy Land that has now lasted for more
than 50 bloodstained years. It is unlikely that the oppression can continue for another
50 years before they face the horrible consequences.
Now the Israelite-Jews all believed that their greatest dream could not and would
not be fulfilled until that special Prophet called the Messiah would appear. He would
“bring salvation at the end of the ages, when he would be enthroned as king of the
world”. This reign of the Messiah is repeated elsewhere in the scriptures. (I Enoch:
45:3; 105:2; 28:29; 13:32–35; 14:9). Of course European Jews who established the
Zionist Movement hardly share that sacred attachment to prophecies pertaining to the
Messiah.
Allah Most High ordained that the False Messiah (al-Masih al-Dajjal) would deliver
to the Jews by deception that which they would embrace as the fulfillment of their
greatest dream, i.e., return to their Holy Land, restoration of the State of Israel, the
appointment of a king to rule over them: (Appoint for us a king that we may fight in the
cause of Allah – Qur’an, al-Baqarah, 2:246) and the reconstruction of the Temple.
The fact that they have been so utterly and completely deceived by the Impostor State
of Israel is indicative of their continuing spiritual blindness:
“But the deeds of those who disbelieve (in this Qur’an and this last Prophet – among
other things) are like a mirage in sandy deserts which the man parched with thirst
mistakes for water until when he comes up to it, he finds it to be nothing: but he finds
Allah (present there) with him, and Allah will pay him his account: and Allah is swift
in taking account.”
(Qur’an, al-Nur, 24:39)
The State of Israel is today in precisely that situation of the man who is parched for
thirst and mistakes a mirage for water.
“Verily this Qur’an explains to the Israelites most of the matters in which they
disagree. And it certainly is a Guide and a Mercy to those who believe.”
(Qur’an, al-Naml, 27:76-7)
The ‘appearance’ today is that the ‘greatest dream’ is almost completely fulfilled.
The Israelite Jews have returned to the Holy Land, or are free to do so, from wherever
in the world they may be. The State of Israel was created in 1948 and is now a reality.
All that remains for the dream to be completed is the appointment of a king and the
destruction of Masjid al-Aqsa to permit the reconstruction of the Temple:
“When you come unto the land which God your Lord gives you, and shall possess it, and shall
dwell therein, and shall say: ‘I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are round about
me,’ you shall then appoint the king that God your Lord shall choose (implied is the belief that
he will be from the House of David).”
(Deuteronomy , 17:14-15)
In addition Israel must become the Ruling State in the world and the King of Israel
must rule the world from Jerusalem.
The compelling implication is that all of this could not have been achieved without
the Messiah. This is the ‘appearance’. What is the ‘reality’?
The ‘reality’ of all of this, when viewed from Islam, is that Dajjal, the False
Messiah, has deceived the Jews into believing that divine grace has brought them this
close to the complete fulfillment of their greatest dream. The ‘reality’ is that their
spiritual blindness has led them into a divine trap from which there is now no escape.
They denounce oppression and injustice in the world but justify their own oppression
and injustice to others. They do so on the grounds that they have a special status with
the Divine Being that others do not have. Since they believe that the Holy Land
belongs to them, they also believe that they have the right to liberate it from those who
lived on it for hundreds of years. The ‘end’ justifies the ‘means’. The ‘reality’ is that
they have been misled and misguided and thoroughly deceived by Dajjal.
Dajjal, the False Messiah, is a being created by Allah Most High, who would
impersonate the Messiah and deceive the Jews into believing that he is the true
Messiah. Dajjal was endowed by Allah, Most Wise, with awesome power, versatility
and with great capacity for deception and guile. The Christians know him as the Anti-
Christ. Dajjal, the evil being created by Allah Most High will one day appear in the
world as a human being. When he does so, he would be a Jew and, in addition, he
would be a young man who would be powerfully built with curly hair. Prophet
Muhammad (‘alaihi al-Salaam) suspected a Jewish youth, Ibn Sayyad, who was resident
in Madina, to have been the Dajjal. In doing so he confirmed that Dajjal had already
been released into the world and would one day appear as:
Ø a human being,
Ø a Jew,
Ø a young man.
The True Messiah, like Solomon (‘alaihi al-Salaam), would rule the world from the
throne of David (‘alaihi al-Salaam) i.e., Jerusalem. In order for him to do so it would be
necessary for him to first accomplish the following:
Ø liberate the Holy Land of the rule of those who do not worship the God of
Abraham,
Ø bring the ‘chosen people’ (who, at the time of the announcement of the divine
promise were Jews) back to the Holy Land,
Ø restore the State of Israel established by David (‘alaihi al-Salaam) and Solomon
(‘alaihi al-Salaam),
Ø cause Israel to become the ‘Ruling State’ in the world.
Only then would it be possible for the True Messiah to rule the world from the
throne of David (‘alaihi al-Salaam), i.e., from Jerusalem.
If Dajjal, the False Messiah, were to successfully impersonate the true Messiah it
follows from the above that he, also, would have to do all of the above.
The question may arise in consequence of the statement made above: If Dajjal, the
False Messiah, or Anti-Christ, is responsible for this grand deception of the Jews, and
so much more, and if he is already released and already on earth, then where is he?
The Prophet spoke (in what may be recognized as the ‘mother of all puzzles’) and said
the following about Dajjal, the False Messiah:
“Narrated al-Nawwas ibn Sam'an: ….We said: Allah’s Messenger (peace be upon him), how
long will he stay on Earth? He said: For forty days, one day like a year, one day like a month,
one day like a week, and the rest of the days will be like your days….”
(Sahih, Muslim; Sunan, Tirmidhi)
It will only be at the very end of his life on earth, therefore, that Dajjal’s day will be
like our day. Secondly, Dajjal, the False Messiah, will be in ‘our’ dimension of time
when ‘his day’ would be like ‘our day’. Hence he would be in ‘our’ world only at the
very end of his life when he enters into ‘our’ world in order to complete his mission of
impersonating the Messiah. The promise of Allah Most High was that the Messiah
would rule the world from the throne of David (‘alaihi al-Salaam), i.e. from a Jerusalem
that would be the heart of the State of Israel. And so it is clear that Dajjal will be
physically located in Jerusalem at the very end of his life on earth, and at that time,
since ‘his day would be like our day’, it would be possible for us to see him. At that
time we would see him as a Jew, a young man, powerfully built, with curly hair etc.
He would also have to be the Ruler of the world who would rule the world from
Jerusalem. Here is the answer to the question concerning the strategic role that
Jerusalem is destined to play in the end of history.
Prior to that he will be around us in much the same way that angels and Jinn are
always around us and yet they are not in ‘our’ world (in a day like our day) and hence
are not visible. He will constantly attack us to test our faith. He will be weaving his
web of deception, but we will not be able to observe him with our normal faculties of
observation since ‘his day’ will not be like ‘our day’. Where on earth will Dajjal be
when he is released by Allah on earth in a day which would be like a year, and then in
a day which would be like a month, and then finally in a day which would be like a
week? We know that he will be on earth, but where on earth?
Fortunately we have an answer to the first question, and that answer, in turn, opens
for us the possibility to find answers to the other two questions. The answer to the first
question is located in the Hadith that is known as the Hadith of Tamim al-Dari. Tamim
al-Dari was a Christian who embraced Islam in Madina. He came to the Prophet (‘alaihi
al-Salaam) and narrated to him something that he had experienced concerning Dajjal. It
is not clear whether he had a dream or a vision or an actual real-life experience. The
Prophet (‘alaihi al-Salaam) responded by asking the people to keep sitting after the prayer
in the Masjid so that he could narrate to them what Tamim had experienced
concerning Dajjal. He went on to declare that what Tamim al-Dari had narrated to him
confirmed what he, the Prophet (‘alaihi al-Salaam), had himself been saying concerning
Dajjal. Here is the Hadith:
“Narrated Fatimah bint Qays, sister of ad-Dahhak ibn Qays:
Amir ibn Sharahil ash-Sha'bi said: Fatimah bint Qays was among the first emigrant women. I
asked her to narrate to me a Hadith which she had heard directly from Allah's Apostle (peace
be upon him) and there was no extra link between them. She said: Very well, if you like, I am
prepared to do that. He said to her: Well, do so and narrate it to me. She said: … So I set out
towards the mosque and observed prayer with the Allah's Apostle (peace be upon him) and I
was in the row of the women which was near the row of men. When Allah’s Apostle (peace be
upon him) had finished his prayer, he sat on the pulpit, smiling, and said: Every worshipper
should remain sitting in his place. He then said: Do you know why I have asked you to
assemble? They said: Allah and His apostle know best. He said: By Allah, I have not made you
assemble for exhortation or for a warning. I have detained you here because Tamim Dari, a
Christian who came and accepted Islam, told me something which agrees with what I was
telling you about the Dajjal. He narrated to me that he had sailed in a ship with thirty men of
Banu Lakhm and Banu Judham and had been tossed by waves in the ocean for a month. Then
these (waves) took them (near) the land within the ocean (island) at the time of sunset. They sat
in a small rowing boat and landed on that island. There was a beast with long thick hair (and
because of this) they could not distinguish his face from his back. They said: Woe to you, who
can you be? Thereupon it said: I am al-Jassasah. They said: What is al-Jassasah? It said: O
people, go to this person in the monastery as he is very much eager to know about you. He (the
narrator) said: When it named a person for us we were afraid of it lest it should be a Devil.
Then we hurried on till we came to that monastery and found a well-built person there with his
hands tied to his neck and iron shackles gripping his legs by the ankle. We said: Woe to you,
who are you? He said: You soon come to know about me, but tell me who you are. We said:
We are people from Arabia and we embarked upon a boat but the waves had been driving us
for one month and they brought us near this island. We took to the rowing boats and landed on
this island. Here a beast with profusely thick hair met us and because of the thickness of his
hair, his face could not be distinguished from his back. We said: Woe be to thee, who are you?
It said: I am al-Jassasah. We said: What is al-Jassasah? It said: You go to this very person in the
monastery for he is eagerly waiting for you to know about you. So we came to you in hot haste
fearing that that might be the Devil. He (that chained person) said: Tell me about the date-palm
trees of Baysan. We said: In which respect do you seek information about it? He said: I ask you
whether these trees bear fruit or not. We said: Yes. Thereupon he said: I think these will not
bear fruit. He said: Inform me about the lake of Tabariyyah? We said: What do you want to
know about it? He said: Is there water in it? They said: There is an abundance of water in it.
Thereupon he said: I think it will soon dry up. He again said: Inform me about the spring of
Zughar. They said: What do you want to know about it? He (the chained person) said: Is there
water in it and does it irrigate (the land)? We said to him: Yes, there is an abundance of water
in it and the inhabitants (of Medina) irrigate (land) with its help. He said: Inform me about the
unlettered Prophet; what has he done? We said: He has left Mecca and has settled in Yathrib
(Medina). He said: Do the Arabs fight against him? We said: Yes. He said: How does he deal
with them? We informed him that he had overcome those in his neighbourhood and they had
submitted themselves before him. Thereupon he said to us: Had it actually happened? We said:
Yes. Thereupon he said: If it is so, that is better for them that they show obedience to him. I am
going to tell you about myself. I am the Dajjal and will be soon permitted to leave. So I shall
leave and travel in the land, and shall not spare any town where I shall not land within forty
nights except Mecca and Tauba (i.e., Medina). These two (places) are prohibited (areas) for me
and I shall not attempt to enter either of them. An angel with a sword in his hand will confront
me and bar my way and there will be angels to guard every road leading to it. Then Allah's
apostle (peace be upon him) striking the pulpit with the help of the end of his staff said: This
implies Tayba meaning Medina. Have I not told you an account (of the Dajjal) like this? The
people said: Yes, and this account narrated by Tamim Dari was liked by me for it corroborates
the account which I gave to you in regard to him (Dajjal) at Medina and Mecca. Behold he
(Dajjal) is in the Syrian sea (Mediterranean) or the Yemen sea (Arabian sea). Nay, on the
contrary, he is in the east, he is in the east, he is in the east, and he pointed with his hand
towards the east. I (Fatimah bint Qays) said: I preserved it in my mind (this narration from
Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him).
(Sahih Muslim)
It is very clear from this Hadith that when Dajjal was released into the world he
would have to be geographically located on that island, and it would be from that
island that he would launch his effort to impersonate the Messiah by liberating the
Holy Land of non-Jewish rule etc. Which island was it?
THE ISLAND IS BRITAIN
Our view is that the island referred to in the Hadith was Britain. The evidence that
supports our claim is truly startling. Consider the following. In 1917 the government
of the ‘island’ of Britain issued the Balfour Declaration in which it announced to a
startled world the intention of the British Government to support the establishment of a
Jewish National Home in the Holy Land. Then in 1917-8 it was a British army led by
General Allenby which defeated the Turkish army and liberated the Holy Land of
Muslim rule. From 1919 to 1948 Britain ruled over the Holy Land on the basis of a
Mandate conferred by the League of Nations. During this period of time the world
witnessed the massive emigration of European Jews to the Holy Land. The tremendous
German hatred of the Jews for their betrayal in the first world war (the German Jews
made a deal with Britain that they would get USA to enter the war in support of
Britain if Britain, in turn, would promise to give them the Holy Land when the war
was won) and the resultant rise of Hitler led to such wholesale persecution of the Jews
as dramatically increased the Jewish emigration from Europe to the Holy Land.
Finally, in 1948 Britain acted as the ‘midwife’ for the baby to be born, i.e., for the
declaration of independence of the State of Israel. We may note, in addition, that the
island of Britain is located across the Mediterranean Sea about one month’s journey
from the Arab world! It is also important to note that the British have excelled in
spying and espionage. Sherlock Holmes and James Bond movies are the fictional
equivalent to Lawrence of Arabia .
It is quite possible that there would still be some who would disagree with our view
in which we have identified Britain as the island mentioned in the Hadith. To such
people we respond very respectfully with the invitation to kindly correct us. In order to
do so they must, themselves, identify the island and provide the evidence that validates
their claim and invalidates ours.
And so we have concluded that the Hadith has informed us that when Dajjal was
released on earth and he commenced his mission of impersonating the Messiah in ‘a
day that was like a year’ it was from the island of Britain that he did so. We have also
noticed that during this period of time Britain functioned as the ‘Ruling State’ of the
world. Secondly we noticed that when it was the ‘Ruling State’ of the world Britain
exercised control over the money of the world. This was done through the Bank of
England. Indeed London was the financial capital of the world.
But we then noticed that there was a moment in time when, in a strange and
mysterious way, Britain ceased to be the ‘Ruling State’ in the world and was replaced
by USA. This process of change appears to have commenced with one war, i.e., the
First World War, and ended with another, i.e., the Second World War. Our view is that
the period between the First and Second World Wars witnessed the movement of
Dajjal from a day that was like a year to a day that was like a month. It is very
important that we observe that process of change with great insight since it provides us
with the clues with which to recognize that moment in time when Dajjal would move
from a day that is like a month to a day that is like a week.
An act of terrorism in the summer of 1914 in the city of Sarajevo resulted in the
assassination of the Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand of Austria -Hungary. The perpetrator
was a Serb but the footprints that were left led to Russia . Whoever planned the
assassination, and left those footprints leading to Russia, wanted Austria -Hungary to
declare war on Russia. The real target of the assassination was not Russia but the ally
of Russia, namely Britain. The Ottoman Islamic State was the other target. It had to be
destroyed and Britain had to do the job of destruction. When Austria -Hungary
declared war on Russia, Britain and France promptly entered the war in support of
Russia. And Germany responded by entering the war in support of Austria -Hungary.
The plan behind the event of the assassination was to so weaken the British economy
through war that Britain would eventually lose its status as the Ruling State in the
world and would be replaced by another State. The perpetrators of the act of terrorism
were so devilishly cunning that they were able to simultaneously attack the Ottoman
Islamic Empire. That State still constituted a formidable obstacle to the liberation of
the Holy Land, the return of the Jews to the Holy Land, and the restoration of the State
of Israel. The best possible way of removing that obstacle was war. And so the
Ottoman Islamic Empire was forced, by way of skillful internal intrigue, to enter the
war in support of Germany. Britain was then eventually used for attacking and
destroying not only the Ottoman Islamic State but, also, the Islamic Caliphate.
But from 1914 to 1916 the war was a disaster for Britain. Firstly, German
submarines wrested from Britain control over the seas. Secondly, Germany occupied
France and installed a pro-German government in Paris. Thirdly, Russian troops were
deserting and retreating. And finally, by 1916 Britain was in such dire straits that she
was marooned and was threatened by starvation. Then came dramatic change in 1916.
The Jews approached the British Government and offered to get USA to enter the war
in support of Britain if Britain would, as a quid pro quo, promise to give the Holy
Land to the Jews at the end of the war. Britain accepted the offer. The Jews then put
their tremendous propaganda machinery in USA to work and pulled every possible
string until they succeeded in getting USA to enter the war in 1916 in support of
Britain. Britain responded one year later by issuing the Balfour Declaration. 1916 also
marked the successful conclusion of excellent espionage by British spies in the
Arabian Peninsula.
Britain succeeded in achieving two very important objectives both of which
constituted strategic blows delivered against the Ottoman Islamic State. The first was
the conclusion of a Treaty of Mutual Assistance and Benevolent Neutrality between
Britain and ‘Abdul ‘Aziz Ibn Saud (then ruling over Riyadh). The cost to Britain was a
mere 5000 Sterling pounds a month that Abdul Aziz would receive from the British
Treasury. The second was the success in inducing Sharif Husain, the Ottoman appointed
Sharif of Makka and the Hejaz, to rebel against the Ottoman Caliph and
declare his independence. The cost to Britain was a princely sum of 7 million Sterling
pounds.
And so 1916 changed the course of the war and eventually delivered victory to the
USA, Britain and the Jews. Not only was Germany defeated but, more importantly, the
Ottoman Islamic State was dismembered and in its place emerged the secular State of
Turkey. Indeed the secular leadership of Turkey promptly negotiated an offensive and
defensive alliance with the same Britain that had played the leading role in the
dismemberment of the Ottoman Islamic State. But Britain was so devastated by the
war that the USA replaced Britain as the Ruling State in the world. This was confirmed
during the period between the two world wars and then after the Second World War.
For example, during the Second World War it was an American General, Dwight
Eisenhower, who led the allied troops. Then in 1944 the Bretton Woods conference on
the establishment of a new international monetary system delivered a convincing
statement on Britain’s new diminished status when it selected the US dollar as the new
international currency replacing the Sterling pound. The International Monetary Fund
and the World Bank replaced the Bank of England as the premier financial institutions
in the world. And Washington replaced London as the financial capital of the world
thus controlling the money of the world. After the war was over it was USA that had to
rebuild the British and European economies through the Marshall Plan. In the 1956
Suez crisis and again in the Cuban missile crisis of 1963, USA convincingly
demonstrated its new status as the Ruling State in the world.
In the same way that Britain, the Ruling State in the world, was strangely obsessed
with the Holy Land (e.g., the Balfour Declaration) and the British people were
themselves incapable of explaining this strange obsession, so too was the new Ruling
State, USA, strangely obsessed with the Holy Land, and so too were the American
people themselves incapable of explaining this strange obsession. For example, USA
was the first State in the world to ‘recognize’ the new State of Israel when it declared
its independence in 1948. Since then USA has acted as the chief Patron of Israel
‘through thick and through thin’! USA has provided Israel with massive financial,
economic and military aid. In fact the total aid to Israel almost exceeds the total US aid
to the rest of the world. Some of the US aid has gone to Israel through the US
government but a substantial amount of aid has also gone from USA to Israel through
Jews who are resident in USA. In so far as military aid is concerned some has gone
through the ‘front door’ and some through the ‘back door’ (the case of Jonathan
Pollard who passed on to Israel US nuclear secrets is the most well known). As a
consequence Israel became a nuclear and a thermo-nuclear power on par with the
nuclear States in the world.
Our conclusion is that Dajjal is geographically located in USA during that stage of
his life on earth when ‘his day is like a month’. We go on to argue in this book that we
are now located at a moment in time when Dajjal is about to move to that stage of his
life on earth when his ‘day would be like a week’, which would witness USA being
replaced by Israel as the Ruling State in the world. In fact we have located the
September 11th attack on USA as the opening round of the process through which this
change in Ruling States would be accomplished.
By virtue of the fact that the Qur’an declared of itself that it “explains all things”
(Qur’an, al-Nahl, 16:89), it is capable of explaining this most amazing of events ever
witnessed in the religious history of mankind, i.e., the restoration of the State of Israel
in the Holy Land almost 2000 years after it was destroyed by Allah, Most High.
Our purpose in turning to the Qur’an to locate that explanation is to direct attention
to that divine guidance which will assist the Muslim people around the world to
respond appropriately to the strange events unfolding in the Holy Land.
Before we return to an examination of this most ominous of divine prophecies that
has already been fulfilled, i.e., that Allah Most High will bring the Jewish people back
to the Holy Land in the ‘End Time’, it is necessary for us to address the subject of
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, who is the greatest hoax the world has ever known in response
to the prophecy of the return of the Messiah.
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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.
