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CONTENTS
Preface | 1
Chapter 1 GOD | 9
Existence of God | 11
Creation of Man | 14
Messengers of God | 17
What Will It Take to Believe? | 18
Does Every Religion Have Its Own God? | 19
The Need to Follow the Rules of the Game | 21
Chapter 2 THE QUR’AN | 25
The Bible, the Qur’an, and Science | 27
Mathematical Miracle of the Qur’an | 29
Number Nineteen | 30
Qur’anic Initials | 31
What the Qur’an Says | 35
Chapter 3 THE PROPHECIES OF THE MESSENGER OF GOD | 41
The Messenger of God Foretold Future Events | 42
Downfall of Muslims and Its Causes | 42
Phases of Muslim Rule | 46
World Wars | 47
Conflicts in the Middle East | 49
Two Roman Armies | 51
Iran-Iraq War | 54
The Gulf War | 54
Sanctions on Iraq and Syria | 56
Arab-Israeli Conflict | 56
Iraq War | 57
Iraq, Syria, Egypt, and the Arabian Peninsula | 57
War of the Euphrates | 59
Fight for the Caliphate | 60
The Tyrant | 60
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Health | 199
Communications | 200
Low Barrier to Entry | 200
Resistance to the Caliphate | 200
Realistic Expectations | 202
New United Nations | 203
Conclusion | 243
Glossary | 245
Books Cited or Recommended | 247
Web Sites Cited or Recommended | 248
Index | 250
Preface
These are interesting times for Muslims. A global crusade has been
declared on Islam that is predicted to last for several decades. At the
same time, the Islamic world is finally waking up from a deep slumber
that has lasted for centuries.
Some Islamic countries are being invaded, occupied, and destroyed,
while others are making windfall profits from rising oil prices. Even
as the former are fighting for their lives, the latter are happily raking
in the dollars while they can — before their own turn comes for regime
change and democratic reform by means of aerial bombardment.
Almost all Muslims are affected in some way. Either they are
directly suffering the misfortunes, or they are mourning for those who
are. There is confusion in the minds of people about what is going on
and how it will all end.
Most Muslims would be amazed to know that most of the events
that are currently unfolding were predicted by Prophet Muhammad,
the Messenger of God (God bless him).
If we study the sayings of the Messenger of God, we find that a
large number of his sayings pertain to current times — which implies
that the present days are very important in terms of Islamic history.
In fact, the sayings we present in this book cannot apply to any
time other than the present as they form part of an interrelated series
of events that have either already taken place or are in the process of
happening. These prophesied events have not occurred in the past, and
the chance of the same set of circumstances arising together with the
same set of participants at any other time would be slim or nonexistent.
If we read the sayings of the Messenger of God that we have com-
piled in this book and then watch the news on a major television news
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This book is really one that I had wanted to read myself, and since
I was unable to find it, I took it upon myself to write it. The process
has been very inspiring because it has made me realize that some
truly amazing events are about to occur, and good days are very near.
This is why it can be said with confidence that the future truly belongs
to Islam.
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those readers who would prefer none. While we want to keep things
simple for the sake of readability, we don’t want to totally do away
with a good practice, either.
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*Please see “Web Sites Cited or Recommended” at the end of this book.
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God
It is He Who hath sent His Messenger
with Guidance and the Religion of Truth,
to proclaim it over all religion, even though
the Pagans may detest (it).
Qur’an 9:33
Islam is built on the foundation of belief in one God, and the expec-
tation of God’s help is the basis of every Muslim’s hope of success in
this world as well as in the next. A belief in God is necessary before
one will believe in His messengers. A belief that Muhammad (God
bless him) was one of the messengers of God is necessary to believe
that the Qur’an is the word of God. A belief in the sayings of the
Messenger of God (hadith) is necessary to believe that what he proph-
esied will actually come true. If you don’t believe in the prophet, you’re
not likely to believe in his prophecies.
When discussing the future of the Muslim world, it is imperative
that we start with a discussion of the existence and nature of God
before we discuss what is in the Qur’an and before we look at what the
Messenger of God said about future events.
The question is whether God exists, and if He does, then whether
Islam is the religion that He revealed and wants us to follow. If the
answer to either of these questions is in the negative, then the Muslim
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world may as well give up all hope because the Darwinian theory of
the survival of the fittest will apply to them. In that case, with the
Muslims currently in the role of the hunted prey, the predators are
likely to finish them off in the near future, as they have embarked
upon doing. Indeed, the lack of belief in God and lack of belief in Islam
as the religion of God are the reasons why its opponents think that they
can finish off the Muslims and steal their resources. A shaky belief
among many Muslims is the reason why they’ve found themselves in
a situation where others think they can do that.
However, if God does exist, and Islam is indeed the religion that has
been revealed and approved by Him, then the situation changes com-
pletely, and God’s promise applies that He will make Islam prevail over
all religions, no matter how much the nonbelievers may hate the idea.
Indeed, the Islamophobes, who have gained control of many
Western countries, are trying to implement a strategy of wiping out
Islam and totally subjugating the Muslims. But this has been the
declared aim of the enemies of Islam from the lifetime of Muhammad,
the Messenger of Allah (God bless him), so there’s nothing new about
it. What is new, however, is that until recently, and ever since the
earliest days of Islam, no one dared to embark on such a quest.
In fact, some of the techniques and arguments the enemies of Islam
used 1,400 years ago are the same as those they are using now. For
example, the Jews of Arabia were among the foremost opponents of
Islam during the time of the Prophet. They rallied the various non-
Muslim Arab tribes and incited them to attack and finish off the newly
created Muslim state in Medina, which led to the Battle of the Trench
in 627 AD, during which the Muslims came close to being totally anni-
hilated. Fourteen centuries later, we again have the Jews inciting
others — this time the West — to attack and finish off the Muslims
once and for all.
They failed then and, needless to say, they’re going to fail now.
The reason they will fail is the same as it was then and boils down
to the existence of God and the fact that He has promised victory to
those who believe in Him and follow Him.
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EXISTENCE OF GOD
The fact is that all the scientists in the world, a large number of whom
are atheists, have as of yet not provided any proof that God does not
exist. During their extensive investigations, all they have managed to
do is discover the laws of nature. They have made remarkable strides
in extending human knowledge, for which they deserve great credit.
However, nothing amongst the vast accumulated fields of knowledge
has proven that God does not exist, nor has it proven that the existence
of God is in any way beyond the realm of scientific possibility.
Of course, the lack of proof of the nonexistence of God does not
prove the existence of God, either.
The lack of belief among many scientists raises doubts in the
minds of those people who don’t realize that this lack of belief is due
to the particular cultural background of these scientists. The real
reason that many scientists are atheists is because Western science
has its roots in Europe, which was ruled during the Dark Ages by the
Christian Church that was very much against scientific inquiry. In 1633,
when Galileo, the “father of modern physics,” insisted on the idea
that it was the earth that revolved round the sun instead of the other
way round, he was declared a heretic by the Church and imprisoned
for the rest of his life. This was due to the fact that the Bible is cate-
gorical about the earth being in the center and the sun going around
it, and any other idea was contrary to what the Bible clearly states.
For the next several hundred years, scientists had to struggle with a
resistant Church as new discoveries went against something or the other
in the Bible. Coming from this background, the scientists in the West
developed an aversion to religion and stopped being believers in
Christianity or any other religion. This led to the Age of Enlightenment,
which was an intellectual movement that proposed that rationality was
the means of establishing a system of ethics, aesthetics, and knowledge,
and was by and large in conflict with the Church and religion.
The reason for this great clash between rationality and religion
can be attributed in great part to the political role the Church played
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at that time and to the fact that the Bible is littered with scientific
inaccuracies, having been subjected to centuries of editing by groups
and individuals to fit their understanding of reality.
By contrast, all through the several hundred years during which
Muslims were the leaders in science and learning, they never had to
go through a similar experience of conflict with a written scripture.
The end result of the centuries of tension in the West between
rationality and the Church is that rationality won and religion lost, and
today in Europe, the traditional heartland of Christendom, Christianity
has largely been abandoned and churches are lying empty and being
sold off to be converted to dwellings, offices, and nightclubs.
Science and rationality have not proven the nonexistence of God,
but rather brought down the edifice of Christianity. Nonbelievers in the
West assume that exactly the same set of arguments applies against
Islam that was used in their battle against Christianity.
It is being said that Islam also needs to go through its own age of
enlightenment, just like Christianity, before it will catch up with the
times. But the main difference is that the Qur’an does not contain a
single scientific inaccuracy, so it cannot be judged by the same yardstick
as the Bible.
However, that is not to say that everything in the Islamic world is
perfect, because there is certainly a need for reform in the mountain
of traditions that has built up over the centuries beyond the original
scriptures.
The Muslim world has many pressing problems, but a religious text
full of inaccuracies is not one of them, as we will discuss in chapter
two, The Qur’an.
So, how can the existence of God be proven beyond doubt? There
are two ways that this may happen. One is that scientists discover God
through their experiments and confirm His presence, and the other is
that God reveals Himself.
It seems unlikely that scientists will be able to “discover” God
either through an experiment or through a mathematical formula, at
least with the current state of human knowledge. Increasing knowledge
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If we cannot see God in this life, then are there other ways for God
to prove His existence? God says in the Qur’an that if He wanted to, He
could send a sign that would make every single one of us believe in Him:
CREATION OF MAN
Satan, was upset and challenged God for authority over the universe.
Satan was in the company of angels but was himself a jinn, a different
creation. In challenging God, Satan was behaving like some men today
who expound the theory that with the exponential growth of knowl-
edge, in the near future, when we have full knowledge of how everything
works, we would be able to act like God and be able to create whole
universes comparable to the one we have now. These people, with an
exaggerated opinion of their own capabilities, feel that they can be
equals of God and therefore consider the idea of submitting to God’s
will as beneath their dignity.**
Because of his arrogance, when Satan found out that God was
going to create man and give him a status higher than Satan’s, he
decided to rebel and challenge God with the help of those who followed
him. God knew about the brewing rebellion and Satan’s disdain for
humans, so when He created Adam, He asked all the angels to bow
down to Adam, presumably to expose Satan in front of all those pres-
ent in the heavenly assembly. As expected, Satan refused to bow and
argued that he was superior to this “lump of clay,”*** and therefore
God cursed him. Satan asked to be allowed respite until the Day of
Judgment and said that he would lead most humans astray to defeat
the purpose of God. God granted him this respite and said that He
would fill hell with Satan and those who follow him, both jinn and
men, and also decreed that Satan would have no power over the true
believers in God.
Thus God made a deal with Satan that Satan could try to mislead
whomever he was able to. If God then forced the belief in His exis-
tence, He would be breaking this deal. This is because, if God proved
His existence beyond all doubt, then everyone would believe in Him
and would very likely obey Him, no matter what Satan suggested, and
therefore Satan would not get a level playing field. As the saying goes,
“a deal is a deal.”
In fact, if God proved His existence and also meted out instant
punishment for wrongs and provided immediate rewards for good,
then every human would act like an angel. This would be a complete
negation of free will.
Would it be correct to say that God entrapped Satan and had
preplanned the whole thing? No, because while the angels, created
out of light, only follow God’s orders, Satan was a jinn created with
fire, or energy, and had the power to choose between right and wrong,
just like humans. Free will is just that, free will. If God was going to
choose what a being with free will should decide to do, then it would
not be free will.
Time is just another creation of God, and the past, present, and
future are the same from God’s vantage point, and He knows the con-
sequence of everything He does. So, He would have known what Satan
was going to do. But should that have stopped God from creating
Satan or other beings with free will because He knew the mischief they
would cause? If God had chosen to create only those beings that do
good deeds and had not created those He knew would do bad deeds,
then this would have been tantamount to restricting free will. In effect,
free will would not exist.
So why did God create beings with free will in the first place?
MESSENGERS OF GOD
One way God has helped man is by sending prophets to all communi-
ties in the world. All the prophets taught that we should believe in one
God, but after they passed away, the followers of the prophets started
worshipping the prophets themselves instead of God. This is apparently
a universal behavior pattern, as the Hindus worship Rama and Krishna,
the Buddhists worship Buddha, and the Christians worship Jesus.
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So, the reality of human nature is that even miracles don’t convince
most people, especially if they don’t see the miracle performed right
in front of their eyes.
At this point, let us try to figure out what it will take to convince
everyone to believe in God.
It is likely that the minimum requirement for everyone to believe
in God would be to see Him personally, and it would be even better
to have a small chat, during which we could ask a few trick questions
that we know only God could answer.
This would mean that for all people to believe in God, we would
need to have a permanent location where God is visible all the time.
Nowadays many children don’t even believe what their parents tell
them; therefore every child would have to be shown God. When they
come of age, let’s say at the age of 18, they would be led to a place
where God would be visible. Since there would be millions of people
lining up to see God, there would have to be some sort of booking
arrangement and crowd-control mechanism, maybe even a moving
walkway, so that some people wouldn’t hang around gawking and
chatting with God more than their fair share of time.
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If God exists, does each religion have a different god? And if there are
many, then whose god is the most powerful?
idols of Jesus that the churchgoers pray to, while mosques do not
have any idols, not even any pictures of living things.
The fact is that only the Muslims believe in one God, and “Allah”
is a generic Arabic term for the Supreme Being equivalent to the
English word “God.” In the Qur’an, God has ninety-nine names, each
of which describes his qualities. Different words for God in one or
many languages do not imply that each god is different.
The Christians, who are the main challengers to Muslims for God’s
favors, actually believe in the Trinity — the Father, the Son, and the
Holy Ghost. God is one part out of a three-way split. While I don’t know
how many Christians pray to the Holy Ghost, it certainly seems that
they have divided loyalties between the Father and the Son, while
others pray to Mary, the mother of Jesus. Although Christians claim
to be monotheists, they are in reality tri-theists or quad-theists if Mary
is taken into account.
In actual fact, there is only one God — call Him God, call Him Allah,
or call Him by any other name — and He is with those who believe in
Him and don’t divide their loyalties. If someone who’s not a Muslim
wanted to challenge the statement that only Muslims believe in one God
and argue that, in fact, they too believe in one God, then no one would
be happier than the Muslims. But the proof of the truth of this claim
would be to renounce ascribing any partners with God. If they can’t do
that, then they don’t worship one God and are therefore not monotheists.
We don’t even want to get into the discussion of whether there’s
a chance of there being multiple gods in this universe or beyond it.
Suffice it to say that if there were multiple gods, then there would be
an almighty row between them for power, and the universe would not
be as harmonious as it is. And why would these gods all hang around
in the same universe and not create their own? If some humans can
talk about creating their own universe some day,* then why wouldn’t
each god create his or her own universe?
Nothing I’ve said here may convince anyone who does not believe in
God to start believing in Him. As I’ve stated, if God exists, then He
chooses to remain hidden so no one can possibly provide a formula to
prove His existence, although using pure logical reasoning should tell us
that the immense complexity and perfection of all that exists couldn’t
have been randomly generated out of nothing. If you tell a scientist
that a supercomputer sitting on a mountaintop appeared out of thin air,
he would never believe you and would then try to come up with a the-
ory of who built it and how it was transported to the top of the mountain,
and yet that same man will argue till kingdom come that the whole
universe, which is a million times more complex than the supercom-
puter, actually appeared not only out of thin air but out of absolute
nothingness. Some theorize that the right mix of ingredients — a few bil-
lion years, a tiny amount of intelligence, and some primeval matter —
would have been sufficient to create the universe. The counterargu-
ment would ask who created time and matter, and where that tiny bit
of intelligence came from in the first place. This may then prompt the
atheist to throw his trump card. If God exists, then who created God?
At this, the believer would have to give up, as this question has
been asked for millennia, and the only answer is: “To you, your belief —
and to me, mine.” Another answer would be that wherever God came
from, the question is moot because, as far as we’re concerned, we
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come under the domain of one single God, and this is the only God
we have to deal with as long as each one of us is alive, and we might
as well be on good terms with Him as our scope of existence doesn’t
extend beyond this universe and is not likely to in the future. In the
term of our existence, we have to deal with this one God in whatever
terms He establishes because not only can we not change the rules of
the game, but also by not accepting the rules we cannot escape from
the consequences of our actions, whether we like the rules or not.
The reach of the human mind is vastly greater than the human
body. Our eyes can see only for a few miles and our bodies can only
go a few hours before needing to eat and drink. Our mind, however,
knows no bounds in its capacity to imagine. It is quite easy for us to
speculate, as scientists do nowadays, that there may be countless
universes out there — a multiverse with billions, zillions of universes.
Similarly, it is possible to imagine a gigallion gods out there, all of whom
would be totally useless to us if they existed, apart from the one we
need to deal with.
All the religious texts combined, including the Qur’an, encom-
pass only a small amount of knowledge compared to all there is to
know. Therefore, it is given that God has only revealed a tiny fraction
of knowledge about Himself and left out most information, including
the answer to where He comes from. But while, in human relations,
it is considered impolite to ask a lady her age, nevertheless we expect,
or rather demand, for God to lay bare His soul to us as a precondition
for our believing in Him. Indeed, man has an exaggerated opinion
of himself.
Most of the world does not believe in God, but as far as Muslims
are concerned, they choose to believe. Both the believer and the
nonbeliever will die one day, and then all questions will be answered.
Denying reality in no way changes the facts. If you’re blind and deny
there’s a brick wall because you don’t see it and run into it at full
speed, you’ll break your head. Denying the wall’s existence won’t make
it go away.
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As the Muslims are the only true believers in one God, then it
follows that the Muslims are the rightful claimants to His help. In the
high stakes game of life on this planet, the Muslims have placed their
bets on the existence of God.
If you believe in one God, then you should be with those who
believe the same. Islam is the home country of the belief in God.
CHAPTER 2
The Qur’an
And if ye are in doubt as to what We have
revealed from time to time to Our servant, then
produce a Sura like thereunto; and call your
witnesses or helpers (If there are any) besides
Allah, if your (doubts) are true.
Qur’an 2:23
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Here, we will discuss only two qualities of the Qur’an: one is its
conformity with scientific knowledge, and the other is the numerical
code that pervades the book.
Many in the Muslim world are familiar with the work of French sur-
geon Dr. Maurice Bucaille, The Bible, the Qur’an, and Science, in which
he studied the Bible and the Qur’an from a scientific point of view. In
the conclusion of his book, he states:
It says that both the sun and moon follow a circular orbit. Anyone
reading it in olden times would continue to believe that the sun goes
around the earth, but someone reading it now will know that the sun
follows a circular orbit not around the earth but around the Milky
Way galaxy. This is an example of the Qur’an masterfully sidestepping
making a statement that is factually incorrect.
The above two verses from the Qur’an state the following facts:
The first four points describe the Big Bang theory of the creation
of the universe, and the last one describes the creation of life. All
these facts have been confirmed only recently. Today, scientists look-
ing for life on other planets always try to find out if there is water on
those planets.
These are just a few examples of the Qur’an mentioning natural
phenomena. There are many more, and they’re all scientifically correct.
While many Muslims are familiar with the work of Dr. Bucaille, far fewer
know about the work done by the late Dr. Rashid Khalifa to discover
the Mathematical Miracle of the Qur’an.
This is totally different from the “Bible Code,” which extracts
hidden messages from the text of the Bible.
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Dr. Khalifa entered the text of the Qur’an into a computer and
found that there is a code that permeates the whole book that is based
on the number 19. This discovery explains the meaning of the myste-
rious letters at the beginning of many Qur’anic chapters, which have
been found to play a role similar to checksums that are widely used
in computer science to validate the accuracy of data. The end result
of this is to prove that the Qur’an is perfectly preserved down to the
last letter, confirming God’s promise that:
NUMBER NINETEEN
Here are some verses from Chapter 74 of the Qur’an, where God is
talking about someone not believing in the divine nature of the Qur’an:
Verse 74:31 quoted above gives five reasons for the miracle of the
Qur’an based on the number 19:
QUR’ANIC INITIALS
Until recently, no one knew the reason for the mysterious initials at
the beginning of many chapters of the Qur’an, but now the puzzle has
finally been solved. When a Qur’anic chapter starts with those letters,
and you count the number of times those letters occur in that chapter,
it is always a multiple of 19.
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There are 29 chapters in the Qur’an with prefixed initials. All the
initials are linked to the common denominator — 19.
• “Q” (Qaaf) is initialed in surahs 42 and 50. In both the surahs, “Q”
is repeated 57 times, or 19 × 3.
• “N” (Noon) is initialed in surah 68, and the total count of “Noon”
is 133 or 19 × 7.
• “S” (Saad) is initialed in surahs 7, 19, 38, and the total occurrence
in the three surahs is 152, or 19 × 8.
• “Y.S” (Ya Seen). These two letters are prefixed in surah 36 and
the total occurrence for both of them is 285, or 19 × 15.
• “H.M” (Ha Mim). These letters prefix surahs 40 through 46 and
their total occurrence in the seven “H.M”-initialed surahs is
2147, or 19 × 113.
• “A.S.Q” (‘Ayn Seen Qaf). These initials constitute verse 2 of
surah 42 and are repeated in the surah 209 or 19 × 11 times.
• “A.L.M” (Alef Laam Mim). These most frequently used letters in
the Arabic language are prefixed in six surahs — 2, 3, 29, 30, 31
and 32, and the total occurrence of the three letters in each of
the six surahs is 9899 (19 × 521), 5662 (19 × 298), 1672 (19 × 88),
1254 (19 × 66), 817 (19 × 43), and 570 (19 × 30), respectively.
This is just a sample, and there are a great many more 19-based
facts, most of them more complex than the ones presented above.
Additional discoveries continue to be made as Dr. Khalifa’s work
is carried on by the many dedicated students of the Qur’an that he
left behind.
As far as God’s challenge to create comparable verses of the
Qur’an is concerned, the rules for the competition would include
adding verses to the Qur’an that don’t break the code that pervades
the whole book or to produce another book that has a similar math-
ematical structure, while telling stories, providing moral guidance,
and talking about natural phenomena that cannot be challenged
by science.
The above certainly proves beyond reasonable doubt that the
Qur’an is a miraculous book revealed by the creator of the universe.
Furthermore, it proves that every single letter in the Qur’an is exactly
in the correct order as God meant it to be and has not been added to,
deleted, or moved about in any way.
This is so, apart from two verses that, according to the formula of
the mathematical miracle, should not be there. These two verses did
not occur in some early versions of the Qur’an, but appeared in later
ones. These are verses 128 and 129 in chapter 9.
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The above verses talk about God uniting the Muslims. Each Muslim
has a role to play in the overall scheme of things and should compete
in doing good works and fulfilling their role, and God will bring unity
among Muslims.
One of the greatest issues facing the Muslims is a lack of unity,
which occurred because of their not following God’s will, as a result
of which the Muslim world went into a catastrophic decline. However,
if Muslims come back to God, as they’re in the process of doing now,
God will restore their unity.
The Muslim community is a very diverse group spread over multi-
ple continents with great diversity in race, ethnicity, language, culture,
etc., but everyone knows how, even at the worst of times, they always
maintain an almost mystical sense of interconnectedness. This is
explained by the saying of Prophet Muhammad (God bless him) that
the Muslim community is like a single body in which, if any part feels
any pain, then the whole body feels the pain.
In the above two verses, God states quite categorically that the
religion acceptable to him is Islam, and if anyone follows another
religion, then it will not be acceptable. This is not only because
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Muslims are the only ones who believe in one God, but also because
once God sends a new message, the assumption is that the old one is
beyond repair, and if someone insists on following the old contami-
nated, and thus discarded, message then he is in a state of rebellion
against God. This implies that God has rejected the concept of “mul-
tiple paths to God” — the idea that you can do pretty much anything
you want and believe whatever you wish and everything is acceptable
to God.
Here, God has promised that if Muslims believe and also put their
religion into practice, then God will establish them and their religion
securely in the land. Previously, the state of security for the Muslims
lasted well over a thousand years, during which no one could seriously
challenge them, at least in the core Islamic lands. As they are again
living in a state of fear and insecurity at the present time, it follows that
if they come back to the correct way, then their power and security
will be reestablished.
The thing to notice here is that the promise is made only to those
who believe in God and practice Islam — in other words, those who
follow the Qur’an and Sunnah. The promise does not apply to those
who only believe in God but don’t follow up with good actions, or to
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those who are weak of faith. It also does not apply to those who are
Muslims in name only because they were born as such.
This is an amazing verse because you can witness the truth of what
is says right now, in the present. Check out the security wall the Israelis
are building around themselves to which they withdraw after attacking
the Palestinians, just like the crusader castles that are still in existence
from times long past. The Green Zone in Baghdad is another example
of the enemies of Islam fighting from behind fortified walls.
The Qur’an is not a book of prophecies, and there are very few
verses regarding actual worldly events. For this, we need to turn to the
sayings of the Messenger of God.
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in the world today and who is looking at current events and making
predictions for the future. Yet, these sayings are almost 1,400 years old.
The extraordinary correlation of these prophecies with today’s
events points to the fact that the current era is one of the most impor-
tant times in Islamic history, and some truly amazing things are
happening already or are due to happen in the near future.
It is almost as if the Messenger of God were sending us the message
that Muslims going through this time of tribulations should keep up
their spirits as the events happening to them are destined to happen.
God is with them, and ultimate victory will be theirs.
The narratives we have included here start from the time of the
First World War in 1914 and end with the end of the world.
To look up the sources of the following hadith, please go to the
Hadith References at the back of the book.
at that time, but you will be scum and rubbish like that carried
down by a torrent, and Allah will take fear of you from the breasts
of your enemy and instill enervation into your hearts. Someone
asked, “What is enervation?” The Apostle of Allah replied, “Love
of the world and dislike of death.”2
4. Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet said: The Jews were split up
into seventy-one; the Christians were split up into seventy-two
sects; and my community will be split up into seventy-three sects.4
5. Auf bin Malik reported that the Prophet said: “The Jews split into
seventy-one sects; one will enter Paradise and seventy will enter
Hell. The Christians split into seventy-two sects; seventy-one will
enter Hell and one will enter Paradise. By Him in Whose hand is
my soul, my Ummah will split into seventy-three sects; one will
enter Paradise and seventy-two will enter Hell.” Someone asked,
“O Messenger of Allah, who will they be?” He replied, “The main
body of the Muslims.”5
The mainstream Muslims are the good people, and the sects and
splinter groups with their strange extremist ideas are the ones destined
for hell.
This saying of the Messenger of God tells us that the only righteous
Muslim is one who does not belong to any subdivision of Islam. He is
neither a Sunni nor a Shia, nor is he a Wahabi or a Hanafi, nor anything
else. He is simply a Muslim and follows the commandments of God
and leads a righteous life.
tainted with Dakhan (i.e., a little evil).” I asked, “What will its
Dakhan be?” He said, “There will be some people who will lead
(people) according to principles other than my tradition. You will
see their actions and disapprove of them.” I said, “Will there be any
evil after that good?” He said, “Yes, there will be some people who
will invite others to the doors of Hell, and whoever accepts their invi-
tation to it will be thrown in it (by them).” I said, “O Allah’s Apostle!
Describe those people to us.” He said, “They will belong to us and
speak our language.” I asked, “What do you order me to do if such
a thing should take place in my life?” He said, “Adhere to the group
of Muslims and their Chief.” I asked, “If there is neither a group
(of Muslims) nor a chief, what shall I do?” He said, “Keep away
from all those different sects, even if you had to bite (i.e., eat) the
root of a tree, till you meet Allah while you are still in that state.”6
should realize that this has never happened without Allah making
them into groups and making them fight one another.”7
WORLD WARS
10. A hadith reported by Imam Ali, Abu Huraira, and Ibn Abbas states:
The war of the end of time is the war of the world. There will be
a third war after two great wars in which many are killed. He
who will light the fires of the Second World War will be known
as the “Great Leader.”10
Thirteen hundred years after the Hijra, count a few decades.
At that time, the Greek King wants to wage a war against the entire
world. Meanwhile, Allah commands the war for that man.
A short while later, that is, in two decades, a man whose name
is associated with a cat name from the German lands appears as
a scourge on the Romans. He starts to bother people and wants
to hold control over the world. He wages war against the entire
world, both the warm and cold lands. After years filled with severe
war fires, he meets Allah’s punishment. Then, he is killed as the
Russians’ mystery.
As is quite evident from this hadith, there would be two major world
wars in the End Times. The world wars in the first half of the 20th cen-
tury were indeed two of the most momentous events in history. Again,
as revealed in the hadith, Hitler, who started the Second World War and
virtually declared war on the whole world, was known as the “Führer,”
meaning leader, guide, commander. Under National Socialism, this
word took on a new significance: the Führer was the “undisputed
leader,” or even the “deified leader.” The German people regarded
Hitler, who initiated World War II, as their undisputed and great leader.
In this part of the narration, the expression, “the Greek King wants
to wage a war against the entire world,” calls attention to a great war
that would spread all over the world. The Arabic word for the “decades”
is “ukud,” the plural form of the Arabic word “akd,” which implies the
meaning of “at least three.” In this case, when we add three decades
to the 1300 of the Hijra, we have 1330. The First World War started in
1332 of the Hijra, that is 1914, in the Gregorian calendar.
In early Islamic times, the Byzantine Empire was ruled from
Constantinople, which was part of ancient Greece. All European
Christians were referred to as Romans, and “Greek King” would also
mean a European Christian — probably Emperor Franz Joseph of the
Habsburg Dynasty whose country, Austria, initiated World War I by
declaring war on Serbia in 1914.
To say that “Allah commands war for that man” implies that God
may make use of the wars that men start to further His own purpose.
This idea is confirmed in the Qur’an, where it states that God sent His
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12. The inhabitants of Egypt and Sham will kill their ruler and his
commands…12
This hadith predicts that the rulers of Egypt and Syria will be killed
before the coming of the Mahdi. When we examine Egypt’s recent his-
tory, we see that a ruler was killed: Anwar al-Sadat, who ruled Egypt
13. The people of Sham will take prisoner the tribes of Egypt…13
14. Count five or six or seven or eight decades after 1300 of Hijra. At
that time, a man “Nasser” rules Egypt. Arabs call him “succa-ul
Arab,” the “brave of the Arabs.” Allah despises him twice, once in
a war, and then in another one. That “Nasser” can never attain
victory…”14
The dates related in this particular hadith are between 1350 and
1380 Hijra. This is the time Gamal Abdul-Nasser came to power in
Egypt. In 1952, Abdul-Nasser came to power and led the movement
of Arab Nationalism. During the period of Nasser, two wars erupted
between Arabs and Israelis, and in both cases, Arabs were defeated.
15. …Upon this, Allah, the Lord of the House, makes a dark-colored
person, whose father is more enlightened than himself, the leader
of the Egyptian people and the Arab nation. But, he makes an
agreement with the thieves of the Masjid al-Aqsa…15
16. Narrated Auf bin Malik: I went to the Prophet during the expedi-
tion of Tabuk while he was sitting in a leather tent. He said, “Count
six signs that indicate the approach of the Hour:
The last prediction may be in reference to the Gulf War, Great War,
or the current crusade of conquest in the Middle East. The number of
nations that were part of the coalition against “terrorism” after the
September 11 attacks was 80. However, if the “truce” is the seven-year
peace treaty between these nations and the Mahdi, then it obviously
is yet to happen.
17. Dhu Mukhammar said: The Prophet said: “You will make a peace
treaty with the Romans, and together you will invade an enemy
beyond Rome. You will be victorious and take much booty. Then
you will camp in a hilly pasture; one of the Roman men will
come and raise a cross and give victory to it, so one of the Muslims
will come and kill him. Then the Romans will break the treaty,
and there will be a battle. They will gather an army against
you and come against you with 80 flags, each flag followed by
12,000 men.”17
18. Narrated with sound chains from Dhu Mikhbar al-Najashi: You
will make a firm truce with the Romans until you and they wage
a campaign against an enemy that is attacking them. You will be
granted victory and great spoils. Then you will alight in a plain
surrounded by hills. There, someone among the Romans shall say,
“The Cross has overcome!” Whereupon someone among the
Muslims shall say, “Nay, Allah has overcome!” and shall go and
break the cross. The Romans shall kill him, then the Muslims
shall take up their arms, and the two sides shall fall upon each
other. Allah shall grant martyrdom to that group of Muslims. After
that, the Romans shall say to their leader, “We shall relieve you
of the Arabs,” and they shall gather up for the great battle. They
shall come to you under 80 flags (nations), each flag (nation)
gathering 12,000 troops.18
IRAN-IRAQ WAR
20. Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger’s many hadith and one
of them was this: The last Hour will not come until the two
parties (of Muslims) confront each other and there is a large-
scale massacre amongst them and the claim of both of them is
the same.20
21. A nation/tribe will be coming forth from the Farsi direction, say-
ing, “You Arabs! You have been too zealous! If you don’t give them
their due rights, nobody will have alliance with you… It must be
given to them one day and to you the following day, and mutual
promises must be kept…” They will be going up Mutekh; Muslims
will be coming down to the plain… Hypocrites (non-believing
“Muslims”) will be standing over there on the bank of a black
river called Rakabeh on the other side. There will be a war between
them. Allah will deprive both armies of a victory…”21
22. Then a cruel man appears in Iraq, which is located in the Damascus
region. This man, with a slight injury in his eye, is a Sufyaan. He
24. And war in a country smaller than the end bone of the spinal cord,
the world will gather for its sake, as if it were the richest nation in the
world for which the world has gathered to feast around. Its leader
will surrender the banner to the leader of all evil, who will come
from the furthest Western shores, then the beginning of the end
as it wails to all the world to come to its aid. The leader will regain
his throne, and Iraq will be destroyed in the confrontation at the
end of time. The leader of the tiny nation will fight the Army of the
Mahdi, and the same tiny nation is again threatened with destruc-
tion because its leader is the cause of its corruption…the Mahdi
orders his execution and the small bone returns to the main
body again.24
The Romans (Americans) did indeed prevent food from going into
Iraq, in the form of “sanctions,” which started after the Gulf War I. Also,
this hadith says that Syria would suffer the same fate. Syria most likely
means Palestine, as it was part of historical Syria.
ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT
26. Son of Hajr Al-’Asqalani related that Abu Idris Al-Khaulani heard
from Nahik son of Surim Al-Sakuni that the Messenger of Allah,
Muhammad (God bless him), said: “You will fight the unbelievers
until the remnant of you fights on the River Jordan, you to the east
of it and they to the west of it.” Al-Sakuni said that at that time he
did not know where the River Jordan was.26
What are the odds that the State of Israel would arise and have
as its eastern border the very dividing line of the River Jordan that
the Prophet said would be the demarcation line between the Muslim
armies and the Judeo-Christian armies! This is a prophecy fulfilled
indeed!
IRAQ WAR
28. The people of Kufa will be divided into three parts. One part will
join the Tyrant’s army. These are the most wicked people Allah
created. Another group will wage war against them, and these peo-
ple are the honorable servants of Allah. Another part will join the
pillagers, and they are sinners.28
Iraq has indeed been divided into three parts as part of the divide-
and-conquer strategy. As far back as the 1970s, the Bernard Lewis map
of the Middle East had proposed that Iraq be split into three parts.
29. Doomsday will not come until Iraq is attacked and innocent people
in Iraq will seek shelter in (Syria). (Syria) will be reconstructed
and Iraq will be reconstructed.29
30. Our Prophet said: There will be such troubles and calamities that
nobody will be able to find a place of shelter. These woes will
move around Syria, fall upon Iraq, and tie the hands and feet of
31. Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah’s Apostle said: Iraq will withhold its
dirham and qafiz; Syria will withhold its mudd and dinar and
Egypt will withhold its irdab and dinar and you will recoil to that
position from where you started and you will recoil to that posi-
tion from where you started and you will recoil to the position
from where you started, the bones and the flesh of Abu Huraira
will bear testimony to it.31
32. There will be ruins all around the world. Ultimately, Egypt will
also be ruined, but until Basra is destructed, Egypt will remain
secure. Basra will be in ruins because of Iraq’s destruction.
Meanwhile, the downfall of Egypt will come with the drying of
the Nile…32
33. The tribulation in Sham will calm down on the one hand and
flare up again on another. This corruption will not end until an
angel from the sky calls, ‘The Mahdi is your leader. The Mahdi is
your caliph.”33
34. The halting of the Euphrates is one of the portents of the Mahdi. 34
35. Abu Huraira said: The Prophet said: “The Hour will not come
before the Euphrates uncovers a mountain of gold, for which
people will fight. Ninety-nine out of one hundred will die, but
everyone among them will say that perhaps he will be the one who
will survive (and thus possess this gold).”35
36. Narrated Ubayy ibn Ka’b: I heard Allah’s Apostle say: The Euphrates
will soon uncover a mountain of gold, and when the people will
hear of it, they will flock towards it, but the people who will pos-
sess that treasure will say: If we allowed these persons to take
out of it, they would take away the whole of it. So, they will fight,
and ninety-nine out of one hundred will be killed.36
The fight between one group with three banners and another
group with seven banners seems to refer to a civil war between Muslim
antagonists, none of whom will win, and it is only when both groups
are destroyed that Muslim unity will be restored.
THE TYRANT
38. “The Mahdi will not come until The Sufyaani is established.”38
39. Reported by Abu Huraira: “A man named the Sufyaani will come
from the center of Damascus. The majority of his followers will
be from the tribe of Kalb. He will kill until he rips women open and
kills children. So, the tribe of Kays will rise up in retaliation,
and he will slaughter all of them! Then, a man from the Family
of my House will come in Al Hirrah and the news will reach
the Sufyaani. Then he will send his army, but it will suffer defeat.
The Sufyaani will march with his followers to him until they reach
a desert, and the ground will swallow them up. None will be saved,
except the one bearing the news.”39
40. Imam Ali said: “The horses of the Tyrant will go to Kufa (Iraq),
and he will send his army against the dwellers of Khurasan. (At
that time) the people of Khurasan will demand the Mahdi. He
that meets with the Hashimi with the Black Banners at his front
is Shuayb, the son of Salih, who will engage the Tyrant at the
Gate of Istakhr (Shiraz in Iran) — between them, there will be a
tremendously fierce battle and the Black Banners will win, but the
horses of the Tyrant will escape. It is at that time that the people
will wish for the Mahdi, because they will need him.”40
It also mentions a failed attack on Iran (Istakhr), and that this will be
the time when people start wishing for the Mahdi.
Khurasan is an ancient name for an area that includes northeastern
Iran, Afghanistan, and parts of Central Asia. There is a province
nowadays in Iran called Khurasan that borders on Afghanistan.
If Khurasan refers to Iran, then it means that after the invasion of
Iraq, there will be an attack on Iran, which, as of this writing, is being
talked about in the media.
41. Imam Ali said: “The Tyrant will overcome Syria, then between
them, there will be a battle in Kurkisa until the birds of the air are
filled and the savage animals of the earth are filled from their per-
ishing. Then, an opening will occur at their rear, and a group will
come from them until they enter the land of Khurasan. The horses
of the Tyrant will come demanding the people of Khurasan, and
they will slay the followers of the Family of Muhammad in Kufa;
then the people of Khurasan will come seeking the Mahdi.”41
42. “There will be a city called Zawra between the Tigris and the
Euphrates. There will be a great battle there. Women will be taken
prisoner, and men will have their throats cut like sheep.”42
41 Unconfirmed source.
42 Muntakhab Kanzul Ummal, vol. 5, p. 38
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43. “Between the Tigris and the Euphrates, a city will be built where
the children of Abbas will reign. It is called Zawra (Baghdad)…”
“O leader of the believers, why is it called Zawra?” “It is called
Zawra because the war surrounds it, expanding to the borders.”43
During the Abbasid Dynasty, the seat of the caliphate was shifted
from Damascus in Syria to Baghdad in Iraq. Baghdad was purpose-built
by the Abbasids as the capital city.
44. Narrated Abdullah, son of Umar: The Prophet said: “The Muslims
will soon be besieged up to Medina, so that their most distant
frontier outpost will be Salah.”44
Salah is a town about 200 miles north of the city of Medina. This
will be how close the anti-Islamic armies will come to the heart of the
Muslim world.
This also suggests that Saudi Arabia will be invaded — a possibility
that is being very openly and casually discussed by some neoconser-
vative thinktanks in the West.
45. Narrated Na’im, son of Hammad: Allah Almighty will send the
Mahdi after despair has reached the point that people will say,
“There is no Mahdi.”45
46. Ammar, the son of Yasir, said: “When the Tyrant reaches Kufa
and kills the supporters of the family of Muhammad (God bless
him), the Mahdi will come and the bearer of his Banner will be
Shuayb, the son of Salih.”46
47. A star with a luminous tail will rise from the east before the
Mahdi emerges.47
48. The rise of that star will occur after the eclipse of the sun and
the moon.48
50. “When this comet first appeared, the people of Prophet Noah per-
ished, Prophet Abraham was cast into fire, Pharaoh and his people
who fought against Prophet Moses perished, and John (Yahya)
passed away. When you see that comet, take refuge in God from
the evil of tribulation.”50
51. In its section on the signs of the Mahdi’s emergence, the book Iqd
al-Durar states: “There will be the emergence of a big flare, which
is seen in the east, in the sky for three nights; the sighting of an
extraordinary redness, not as red as the usual color of the dawn,
and it is spread over the horizon.”51
46Unconfirmed source.
47Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Rasul Barzanji, Al-Isha’ah li Ashrat as-Sa’ah, p. 200
48Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi ‘Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir az-Zaman, p. 32
The flares could be from huge fires ignited by bombing of the oil
fields. The oil-producing region of Dhahran in Saudi Arabia is directly
east of Medina, where the Messenger used to live.
52. Amr, son of Shamer, quoted Jabir, who quoted Muhammad, son
of Ali, to have said: “For our Mahdi, there are two signs. Since the
birth of the Universe, these events have never taken place. Those
two signs are that there will be a lunar eclipse on the first night
of Ramadan and a solar eclipse in the middle of Ramadan.”52
The Mahdi will come when innocent Muslim children are being
killed. This is happening now and is referred to as “collateral damage.”
This is clearly angering those on earth, and it would certainly anger
those in heaven.
55. The Mahdi will only appear at a time when people are experienc-
ing great fear and are afflicted by disturbances, civil war, and
other disasters.55
BATTLES IN MINA
Although in the past, some incidents of violence have occurred during
and after Haj in Mecca at the Ka’ba and in Mina, these may not be the
ones that are implied here as the hadith appears to be saying that there
will be battles in Mecca during or just after Haj and the Mahdi will
appear while this is still going on.
56. The year in which he (the Mahdi) will emerge, people will perform
Haj together and gather without an imam. The Hajis will be looted,
and there will be a battle at Mina, in which many will be slain and
blood will flow until it runs over the Jamra al-’Aqaba.56
57. “People pay pilgrimage without an imam leading them. Big wars
break out when they come down to Mina, and they are entwined
just the way dogs entwine and tribes will attack each other. It is
to such an extent that legs are buried in lakes of blood.”57
58. “There come the cries of war in Shawwall (tenth Islamic month)
with the outbreak of a war and massacre and carnage in Dhu al-
Hijja (twelfth Islamic month) and again the plundering of pilgrims
in Dhu al-Hijja, and the crossing of streets is not even possible
because of bloodshed, and religious prohibitions are violated. Big
sins are committed near Beyt-ül Muazzam (Ka’ba).”58
The Battle of Badr was the first armed conflict that the Muslims
fought, and there were 313 people in the Muslim army, apart from
the Prophet.
This saying seems to connect the events at Mina during the Dhu
al-Hijja (twelfth Islamic month) with the coming of the Mahdi the
following month in Muharram (first Islamic month). So, the Mahdi
appears after a Haj during which there will be much violence.
THE MAHDI
62. Ibni Munavi said that Danyal (Daniel) reported in his book that
“There are 3 Tyrants and 3 Mahdis. When the first Tyrant appears
and his name and fame become widespread, the first Mahdi will
confront him, the second Mahdi will confront the second Tyrant,
and the third Mahdi will confront the third Tyrant, and Allah, the
Exalted, will send him (the third Mahdi) to save the ones who have
suffered mischief, and the believers. The Sunnah will be revived
through him, and oppression, injustice, and cruelty will come to
an end through him. The people will be highly prized and become
victorious over their opponents at his time. A beautiful life will
be lived, and the earth and the heavens will increase their blessing.62
This hadith exists in a handwritten copy of the book titled Al-Burhan fi Alamat
62
63. Son of Masood said: When commerce and roads are blocked and
trials increase, seven knowledgeable people will come from dif-
ferent directions without previous appointment. Each will receive
the allegiance of over three hundred men until they meet in Mecca.
The seven will meet and ask one another; “What brought you
here?” They will reply, “We are in search of the man upon whose
hand the trials will be calmed, and for whom Constantinople
will be opened. We know him by his name, his father’s name, his
mother’s name, and his army.” So, the seven will agree upon this
and search for him, then find him in Mecca. They will ask him,
“Are you so and so, son of so and so?” He will reply, “No, I am a
man from the supporters.” He will escape from them, so they will
describe him to people in their midst that are both righteous and
knowledgeable, and it will be said to them: “The one whom you
seek was in your company, and he went to Medina.” So, they will
search for him in Medina, but at that time, he will be in Mecca.
They will search for him in Mecca and say to him: “You are so and
so, son of so and so, and your mother is so and so, daughter of so
and so, and in you are the signs of such and such, and such and
such. You escaped from us once, so stretch out your hands, and
we will pledge our allegiance to you.” But he will say, “I am not
your companion.” Then he will escape from them, and they would
search for him in Medina while he would have returned to Mecca,
then they will find him in Mecca beside Al Rukn and say to him:
“Our sins will be upon you and our blood upon your neck if you
do not stretch out your hand so that we may pledge our allegiance!
The army of the Tyrant is coming demanding from us a man from
Jurm.” So, he will sit between Al Rukn and Al Makam and stretch
out his hand, and allegiance will be pledged to him. Allah will sow
love of him in the chests of the people, and he will lead a nation
of those who are lions during the day and worshippers at night.63
65. “Count two or three decades after the year/decade of Hijri 1400.
At that time, the Mahdi emerges…”65
Beirut, 1979)
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the seat of government was moved to the area of Iraq referred to as the
“Jazeera,” and once Baghdad was built, the capital was moved there.
The Abbasid Caliphate was abolished in 1258, when the Mongols
sacked Baghdad. After that period, various dynasties have laid claim to
the title of the caliphate, but none have been universally acknowledged
by Muslims.
When the new caliphate returns with the appearance of the Mahdi,
it is going to be based in Medina. At some point during his rule, the
Mahdi is predicted to migrate to Jerusalem and would thus fulfill
the prophecy for the final location of the Caliphate.
67. Narrated by Hudhaifa, The Prophet said: “Woe to this nation from
the dictatorship of kings! Why do they kill and make pious people
fear except those who obey them, and the pure believer soothes
them with his tongue but resists them with his heart? If Allah
wishes to revive Islam in might, He will break the back of every
stubborn tyrant — He is able to do anything and can reform the
nation after its corruption. O Hudhaifa, if there remains but one
day left in the world, Allah will prolong that day until a man from
the Family of my House will govern and fierce battles will be in his
hands, and Islam will spread. Allah does not change His Promise,
and He is quick to recompense.”67
68. Reported by Abu Sa’id al-Khudri: “A man from my nation will come
who speaks with my Sunnah, and Allah, the Mighty, the Glorified,
will send showers of rain from the heavens so that the earth will
produce its blessing. Through him, the earth will be filled with
fairness and justice, just as it had been filled by oppression and
injustice. He will govern this nation for seven years, and go to
Jerusalem.”68
69. Ali said that The Prophet said, ‘The Mahdi is one of us, from among
the people of my household. In one night, Allah will inspire him
and prepare him to carry out his task successfully.69
70. Ali said that the Prophet said: “The birth place of the Mahdi will
be in Medina. He is from the family of the House of the Prophet,
and his migration is to the House of Jerusalem. His beard is thick,
his eyes naturally mascaraed, his teeth are radiant, and upon his
face is a mole, and upon his shoulder is the Sign of the Prophet.
And he will come out under the Banner of the Prophet made from
a marked woolen black square that will not have been unfolded
since the Messenger, and it will not be unfolded until the Mahdi
comes. Allah will support him with three thousand angels who
will beat the faces and buttocks of those that oppose him. He will
be sent between the age of thirty and forty.”70
71. Abu Is-haq told that Ali, son of Abu Talib, looked at his son Hassan
and said: “This son of mine is a sayyid (chief) as named by the
Prophet, and from his loins will come forth a man who will be
called by the name of your Prophet and resemble him in conduct,
but not in appearance. He then mentioned the story about his
filling the earth with justice.”71
72. Hadhrat Abdullah, son of Masood, reports from the Prophet, who
said: “The world will not come to pass until a man from among
my family, whose name will be my name, rules over the Arabs.”72
73. Hadhrat Ali narrates that the Messenger of Allah said: “Even if only
a day remains for doomsday to come, yet Allah will surely send a
72Tirmidhi Sahih, Vol. 9, P. 74; Abu Dawud, Sahih, Vol. 5, p. 207; also narrated by
Ali, son of Abu Talib, Abu Sa’id, Umm Salma, Abu Huraira
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man from my family who will fill this world with such justice and
fairness, just as it initially was filled with oppression.”73
74. Umme Salmah, the Prophet’s wife, narrates that she heard the
Prophet say: “The promised Mahdi will be among my progeny,
among the descendants of Fatima.”74
76. Narrated Abu Sa’id al-Khudri: The Prophet said, “The Mahdi
will be of my stock, and will have a broad forehead and an
aquiline nose. He will fill the earth will equity and justice, as
it was filled with oppression and tyranny, and he will rule for
seven years.”76
78. “There have been four great kings on the Earth: Two were believers
and two were unbelievers. The believers were Dhu’l-Qarnayn
(thought to be Alexander the Great) and Solomon, and the unbe-
lievers were Nimrod and Nebuchadnezzar. There will be a fifth king
to rule the world, who will be from the people of my House.”78
79. “The Mahdi will rule the world like the Prophet Dhu’l-Qarnayn
and the Prophet Solomon.”79
81. “The Mahdi will invade all the places between East and West.”81
The above two hadith demonstrate that the Mahdi’s rule will span
the entire world, and previous hadith show that his rule will be like that
of the Prophet and King Solomon.
the state of your sleep which you never did before?” Thereupon
he said: “Strange it is that some people of my Ummah (community)
would attack the House (Ka’ba) (to kill) a person who would
belong to the tribe of the Quraish, and he would try to seek pro-
tection in the House. And when they would reach the plain ground,
they would be sunk.” We said: “Allah’s Messenger, all sorts of
people throng the path.” Thereupon he said: “Yes, there would be
amongst them people who would come with definite designs and
those who would come under duress, and there would be travel-
ers also, but they would all be destroyed through one (stroke)
of destruction, though they would be raised in different states
(on the Day of Resurrection). Allah would, however, raise them
according to their intention.82
property, and will govern the people by the Sunnah of the Prophet.
He will remain seven years, then die, and the Muslims will pray
over him.”
84. An army comes to fight. Once they enter the desert, the one in the
front and the back disappear, and the ones in the middle cannot
save themselves.84
85. Tubay said: “A man will seek refuge in Mecca and will be killed,
then after that, a long period of time will pass, then another man
(the Mahdi) will seek refuge in Mecca, but if you meet him, do not
fight him, for if you do, you will be part of the army that will be
sunk and destroyed.”85
Nu’aym ibn Hammad, Kitab Al Fitan, “Sinking and Destruction of the Army of
85
“The army from Khurasan” that will come to help the Mahdi has devel-
oped a legendary status in Islamic prophecy circles. Khurasan is most
likely to be Iran, but can also be Afghanistan or, as an outside chance,
even Pakistan, as ancient Khurasan may have included parts of north-
western Pakistan. When the black banners — the army — from
Khurasan are referred to, it does not necessarily mean that they will
constitute the whole fighting force of the Mahdi, but that they will be
among its constituents. Their coming to support the Mahdi will be one
of the signs that the Mahdi is here.
The historical region of Khurasan extended along the north from
the Amu Darya (Oxus River) westward to the Caspian Sea and, along
the south, from the fringes of the central Iranian deserts eastward to
central Afghanistan. Arab geographers even spoke of its extending to
the boundaries of India.
The people from Khurasan could be Iranians, Afghans, or even
Arabs, as a large number of Arabs went to Afghanistan to fight the
Soviet invasion, and they are known as the “Afghans.” In addition,
almost half a million Pakistanis fought in the Afghanistan war at var-
ious times and would support the Mahdi. In short, there will be far
more people rushing to support the Mahdi than he would be in need of.
86. Abdullah, son of al-Harith, son of Juz’ al-Zubaydi, said: The Prophet
said: “A people will come out of the East who will pave the way
for the Mahdi.”86
87. “Pity poor Taliqan (a region in Afghanistan) that at that place are
treasures of Allah, but these are not of gold and silver. There are
people who have recognized Allah, as they should have. They are
the supporters of the Mahdi in the End Times.”87
86 Ibn Majah
87 Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir al-zaman, p. 59
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90. Narrated Ali, son of Abu Talib: The Prophet said: “A man called
al-Harith ibn Harrath will come forth from Transoxiana. His army
will be led by a man called Mansur, who will establish or consolidate
things for Muhammad’s family as Quraish consolidated them for
the Apostle of Allah. Every believer must help him, (or he said:
respond to his sermons).90
92. Narrated Abdullah ibn Hawalah al-Azdi: The Apostle of Allah sent
us on foot to get spoil, but we returned without getting any. When
he saw the signs of distress on our faces, he stood and said: “O
Allah, do not put them under my care, for I would be too weak to
care for them; do not put them in care of themselves, for they
would be incapable of that; and do not put them in the care of
men, for they would choose the best things for themselves.” He
then placed his hand on my head and said: “Ibn Hawalah, when
you see the Caliphate has settled in the holy land (i.e., Palestine),
earthquakes, sorrows, and serious matters will have drawn near,
and on that day, the Last Hour will be nearer to mankind than this
hand of mine is to your head.92
94. Said son of Al Musayyab reported: “The Black Banners will come
from the East from the children of Al Abbas. Then there will remain
whatsoever Allah wishes. Then, small Black Banners will come
to fight a man from the children of Abu Sufyaan from the East.
They will give their allegiance to the Mahdi.”94
95. Al Hasan Al Basri said: “A man of medium stature will come from
Ar-Ray (Tehran, Iran). He will be dark and from the children of
Tamim — a Wasaj, named Shuayb, son of Salih, with four thou-
sand men. Their clothes will be white and their banners black, and
in front of Shuayb is the Mahdi. He meets no one that he does not
defeat and scatter.”95
96. The Messenger of Allah was among a group of migrants and sup-
porters. Ali, son of Abu Talib, was on his left side and Abbas on
his right side, when Abbas and a man from the supporters started
to debate with one another. The supporter spoke harshly to Abbas,
then the Prophet took the hand of Abbas and the hand of Ali and
said: “From the loins of this (indicating Abbas) will come a youth
who will fill the earth with transgression and injustice and from
the loins of this (indicating Ali) a man who will fill the earth with
fairness and justice. If you see this, pay attention to the Tamimi
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youth who will come from the direction of the east — he is the
owner of the Banner of Al Mahdi.”96
97. Abdullah, the son of Shuraykh, said: “With the Mahdi is the marked
Banner of the Messenger of Allah.”97
98. Ammar, the son of Yasir, said: “The bearer of the Banner of the
Mahdi is Shuayb, the son of Salih.”98
99. “When the Ethiopians come after the Arabs, they will be defeated
and thrown into the lowest part of the earth. While these circum-
stances exist, the Tyrant will come with three hundred and sixty
riders until he reaches Damascus. After a month, he will be fol-
lowed by thirty thousand from Kalb, so he will send an army to
Iraq and kill a hundred thousand in Az-Zawra (Baghdad). Then
they will go to Kufa (Iraq) and pillage. When this occurs, a banner
will come from the east led by a man from Tamim called Shuayb,
the son of Salih, who will restore what is in their hands from the
captured people of Kufa, and he will kill them. Then, another army
from the Tyrant will go to Medina and pillage it for three days and
thereafter proceed towards Mecca until they find themselves in
a desert. Then, Allah will send Gabriel and say to him, ‘Chastise
them!’ So, he will beat them with his leg once and Allah will cause
them to be swallowed up. None will remain except two men who
will return to the Tyrant to inform him of the swallowing-up of his
army, but this will not scare him. Several men from the Quraish
will escape to Istanbul and the Tyrant will send to the leader of
the Romans who will return them to him and he will slit their
throats together with their followers. At that time, a voice will
96Reported by Abdullah, the son of Omar ibn Al Khattab and found in the references
of At-Tabarani, Abu Nuaym, Al Kidji and Al Khatib
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The children of Kalb or Bani Kalb are a Syrian tribe. The Nahr al-
Kalb is a river located in Lebanon. The Tyrant and his followers, the
99 Found in the references of Abu Nuaym, At-Tabarani, and Abu Amru Ad Dani
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Bani Kalb, are those local collaborators of outside powers who are
helping to crush the Iraqi resistance.
An army consisting of the same people who are killing and pillag-
ing in Iraq is expected to attack Medina and then proceed to Mecca
to try to catch the Mahdi, but will sink into the earth just like the
elephants of Abraha were annihilated by God before they could reach
Mecca during the year that the Messenger of God was born.
Az-Zawra is Baghdad. Kufa is a city in Iraq, about 170 km south
of Baghdad.
There is a war going on in Darfur, Sudan, and the West, along with
the Ethiopians, is supporting the rebels against the Muslim Arab North.
This war, also called the Battle of Kalb, is different from the final con-
flict (Armageddon), as this battle will be fought soon after the Mahdi
appears and will be meant to fend off an assault on the Muslims by
the Romans. The Muslims will win, and then the Mahdi will spend the
next few years consolidating the new caliphate. Armageddon will
occur near the end of the Mahdi’s term after the Antichrist has appeared
and God has sent Jesus to destroy the Antichrist.
According to a previously noted saying: “…Then a man from
Quraish, whose mother is from Kalb, will appear and send against
them an army, which will be overcome by them, and that is the Battle
of Kalb. Disappointed will be the one who does not receive the booty
of Kalb. He will divide the property, and will govern the people by the
Sunnah of the Prophet. He will remain seven years, then die, and the
Muslims will pray over him.” (Abu Dawud)
100. Reported by Abu Huraira: The Prophet said: “The Romans will
surround a leader from my pure-musked children (i.e., the Mahdi).
His name will be the same as mine. They will fight each other at
a place called Al-A’maq (near Aleppo in Syria) and one third, or
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The above can be seen as evidence supporting the fact that during
the Mahdi’s reign, the Romans will be defeated and Istanbul will be
re-conquered, the Antichrist will appear, and Jesus will descend. This
further supports the fact that the Antichrist emerges after the Mahdi
and not before.
101. Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah’s Apostle said: The Last Hour will
not come until the Romans land at al-A’maq or in Dabiq (two
cities near Aleppo in Syria). An army consisting of the best
(soldiers) of the people on the earth at that time will come from
Medina (to oppose them). When they arrange themselves in
ranks, the Romans will say, “Do not stand between us and those
(Muslims) who took prisoners from among us. Let us fight them.”
The Muslims will say, “Nay, by Allah, we shall never turn aside
from you and from our brethren so that you may fight them.”
They will then fight and a third (part) of the army, whom
Allah will never forgive, will run away. A third (part of the army),
which will be constituted of excellent martyrs in Allah’s eyes,
will be killed. The third, who will never be put on trial, will win,
and they will be the conquerors of Constantinople.
As they are busy in distributing the spoils of war (amongst
themselves) after hanging their swords by the olive trees, Satan
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will cry: The Antichrist has taken your place among your fami-
lies. They will then come out, but it will be of no avail. When
they reach Syria, he will come out while they are still preparing
themselves for battle, drawing up the ranks.
Certainly, the time of prayer will come and then Jesus, son
of Maryam, descends and will lead them in prayer. When the
enemy of Allah sees Jesus, he will disappear, just as salt dis-
solves in water, and if he (Jesus) were not to confront them (the
Antichrist and his forces) at all, even then he would dissolve
completely. Allah would kill them by his hand, and he (Jesus)
would show them their blood on his lance.101
102. Yusair, son of Jabir, reported: Once there blew a red storm in
Kufa, and there came a person who had nothing to say but (these
words): “Abdullah, son of Mas’ud, the Last Hour has come.” He
(Abdullah, son of Mas’ud) was sitting reclining against some-
thing, and he said: “The Last Hour will not come until the people
no longer divide inheritance and rejoice over booty. Then He
said, pointing towards Syria, with a gesture of his hand: “The
enemy will muster strength against the Muslims, and the Muslims
will muster strength against them (Syrians).” I (Yusair) said: “You
mean Rome?” He said: “Yes, and there will be a terrible fight. The
Muslims will prepare a detachment (for fighting unto death),
which will not return unless victorious. They will fight until dark-
ness intervenes. Both sides will return without being victorious,
and both will be wiped out. The Muslims will again prepare a
detachment for fighting unto death, so that they may not return
unless victorious. When it is the fourth day, a new detachment
from the remnant of the Muslims will be prepared, and Allah
will decree that the enemy will be routed. They will fight such a
fight, the like of which has not been seen, so fierce that even if
a bird were to pass their flanks, it would fall down dead before
reaching the other end. (There will be such a large scale mas-
sacre) that, when counting will be done, (only) one out of a
hundred men related to one another would be found alive. So
what can be the joy at the spoils of such war, and what inheri-
tance can be divided? They will be in this very state when they
will hear of a calamity more horrible than this. A cry will reach
them: The Antichrist has taken your place among your offspring.
They will therefore throw away what is in their hands and go
forward, sending ten horsemen as a scouting party.” Allah’s
Apostle said: “I know their names, the names of their forefathers
and the color of their horses. They will be the best horsemen on
the surface of the earth on that day, or among the best horsemen
on the surface of the earth on that day.”102
This narrative implies that the Antichrist will appear after the
Battle of Kalb; therefore this battle is not the final one during which
Jesus will appear. After this battle, there will be a gap of a few years
and then Turkey will be liberated from anti-Islamic forces, followed
soon after by the arrival of Antichrist and finally Jesus.
103. Narrated Mu’adh, son of Jabal: The Prophet said: “The Great
War, the conquest of Constantinople, and the coming forth of
the Antichrist (False Messiah) will take place within a period
of seven months.”103
104. Narrated Abdullah, son of Busr: The Prophet said: “The time
between the Great War and the conquest of the city will be six
years, and the Antichrist (False Messiah) will come forth in the
seventh.”104
105. Narrated son of Hawalah: The Prophet said: “It will turn out that
you will consist of armed troops; one in Syria, one in the Yemen,
and one in Iraq. Son of Hawalah said: “Choose for me, Messenger
of Allah, if I reach that time.” He replied: “Go to Syria, for it is
Allah’s chosen land, to which his best servants will be gathered,
but if you are unwilling, go to your Yemen, and draw water from
your tanks, for Allah has on my account taken special charge of
Syria and its people.”105
108. Hadhrat Abu Umamah says that the Messenger of Allah said:
“There will be four peace agreements between you and the
Romans. The fourth agreement will be mediated through a person
who will be from the progeny of Hadhrat Haroon (Aaron) and will
be upheld for seven years.” The people asked: “O Messenger of
Allah, who will be the Imam (leader) of the people at the time?” The
Messenger of Allah said: “He will be from my progeny and will be
forty years of age. His face will shine like a star, and he will have
a black spot on his left cheek. He will don two “Qutwaani” cloaks
and will appear exactly as a person from the Children of Israel. He
will rule for 20 years and will conquer the cities of the Idolaters.”108
In the above hadith, it says that the Mahdi will rule for 20 years,
instead of the traditional seven years. The hadith mentioning the
seven-year rule are far more numerous and more authentic than this
one, so, if the 20-year rule cannot be reconciled with the seven-year
rule, then the seven-year rule should be the accepted term.
It is interesting to note that the Mahdi is predicted to resemble
the “children of Israel,” that is, he will look Jewish. In addition, he will
be wearing a ‘Qutwaani” cloak that is supposed to look like the Jewish
Tallit prayer shawl.
110. Ka’b al-Ahbar says: “He will be called ‘Mahdi’ because he will
guide to something hidden and will bring out the Torah and
Gospel from a town called Antioch.”110
112. The Messenger of Allah said: “He is called the Mahdi because he
will guide people to a mountain in Syria, from which he will bring
out the volumes of the Torah to refute the Jews. At the hands of
the Mahdi, the Ark of the Covenant will be brought forth at Lake
Tiberias and taken and placed in Jerusalem.”112
113. Ad-Dani said: “He is called the Mahdi because he will be guided
to a mountain in Syria, from which he will bring forth the volumes
of the Torah with which to argue against the Jews, and at his
hand, a group of them will become Muslim.113
114. The reason he will be known as the Mahdi is that he will go to one
of the mountains in Sham. From there, he will unearth the (true)
books of the Torah and bring forth evidence against the Jews.114
115. Reported by Abu Huraira: The Prophet said: “If there only remains
but one day left in the world, Allah will prolong it until a man
116. Nafi’, the son of ‘Utbah, said, “You will attack Arabia and Allah
will enable you to conquer it; then you will attack Persia and
He will make you to conquer it. Then you will attack Rome
and Allah will enable you to conquer it; then you will attack the
Antichrist and Allah will enable you to conquer him.”116
117. Narrated Mu’adh son of Jabal: “The Prophet said: The flourishing
state of Jerusalem will be when Yathrib 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 Antichrist comes
forth.” He (the Prophet) struck his thigh or his shoulder (a
gesture of exclamation) with his hand and said: “This is as true
as you are here or as you are sitting (meaning Mu’adh son
of Jabal).”117
115Ibn Hibban, At-Tirmizi, Abuya’li, At-Tabarani, Al Bazaar, Abu Nuaym and Al Hakim
116Muslim Book 41, Number 6930
117Sunan Abu-Dawud, Battles (Kitab Al-Malahim), Book 37, Number 4281
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This sequence is the exact opposite of the last one and fits better
with other hadith. Again, we see here that in the sequence of events,
the Great War is not the one in which Jesus kills the Antichrist and
his supporters, but takes place before the liberation of Turkey and the
appearance of the Antichrist. The Great War referred to here is
the Battle of Kalb that occurs soon after the appearance of the Mahdi,
when the Romans attack him.
119. When the Great War occurs, a group from the masters will come
from Damascus. They are the most honorable horses (horse is the
symbol of honor) among Arabs, and they have the best weapons
among them (Arabs). Allah will support The Religion (Islam)
with them.119
120. Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Apostle saying: “You have heard
about a city, the one side of which is in the land and the other
is in the sea (Istanbul).” They said: “Allah’s Messenger, yes.”
Thereupon he said: “The Last Hour will not come unless seventy
thousand persons from Bani, Israel, will attack it. When they
will land there, they will neither fight with weapons nor shower
arrows, but will only say: ‘There is no god but Allah and Allah is
the Greatest’ then one side of it will fall.” Thaur (one of the nar-
rators) said: I think that he (the Prophet) said: “The part by the
side of the ocean. Then they would say for the second time: ‘There
is no god but Allah and Allah is the Greatest’ that the second
side would also fall, and they would say: ‘There is no god but
Allah and Allah is the Greatest’ that the gates would be opened
for them and they would enter therein and they would be collect-
ing spoils of war and distributing them amongst themselves that
a noise would be heard and it would be said: ‘Verily, Antichrist
has come.’ And thus they would leave everything there and would
turn to him.”120
CONQUEST OF INDIA
121. Thawban narrated that the Messenger of Allah said: “Two groups
of my Ummah (community) Allah has protected from the hell-
fire — a group that will conquer India and a group that will be
with Jesus, son of Mary.”121
122. Na’im, son of Hammad in al-Fitan, reports that Abu Huraira said
that the Messenger of Allah mentioned India and said: “A group
of you will conquer India. Allah will open (India) for them until
they come with its kings chained — Allah having forgiven their
sins — when they return (from India), they will find the son of
Mary in Syria.”122
124. Narrated Ibn Umar: Once Allah’s Apostle stood amongst the
people, glorified and praised Allah as He deserved, and then
mentioned the Antichrist saying: “l warn you against him (the
Antichrist), and there was no prophet but warned his nation
against him. No doubt, Noah warned his nation against him, but
I tell you about him something of which no prophet told his
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nation before me. You should know that he is one-eyed, and Allah
is not one-eyed.”124
126. It was reported from Abu Huraira that the Prophet said: “There
are three things, which, if they appear, ‘No good will it do to a
soul to believe them then, if it believed not before nor earned
righteousness through its faith.’ They are: the rising of the sun
from the west, the Antichrist, and the Beast from the Earth.”126
For that reason, I have decided to add that verse from the Qur’an in
reference to the Antichrist, as well as in reference to the sun’s rise from
the west.
127. Narrated Umm Sharik: I heard Allah’s Apostle say that the Anti-
christ would be followed by seventy thousand Jews of Isfahan
(Iranian Jews) wearing Persian shawls.127
130. Jabir, son of Abdullah, said: The Prophet said: “The Antichrist
will appear at the end of time, when religion is taken lightly.
He will have 40 days in which to travel throughout the earth. One
of these days will be like a year, another will be like a month,
and another will be like a week, and the rest will be like normal
days. He will be riding a (white) donkey (an airplane); the width
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131. Abu Huraira narrated that the Messenger of Allah said: “The False
Messiah will appear from the east heading towards Medina until
he reaches (the area) behind (the mount of) ‘Uhud. Afterwards,
the Angels will (force him to) turn his face towards al-Sham
(Syria, Israel), and there he will perish.”131
132. Abu Huraira narrated that the Messenger of Allah said: “On every
pass near Medina, there are Angels (guarding it). Plagues and
the Antichrist will not enter Medina.”132
133. Anas, son of Malik, said that the Messenger of Allah said: “There
is not a city but will be overwhelmed by the Antichrist, except
Mecca and Medina. Every pass that leads to them will be sur-
rounded and guarded by Angels. He (Antichrist) will make camp
close to the Sabkhah (salty marsh). Then, Medina will experience
three earth tremors, after which every disbeliever and hypocrite
will leave Medina to join the Antichrist.”133
him and they will say to him, “Where do you intend to go? “ He
will say, “I intend to go to this one who is coming forth.” They will
say to him, “Don’t you believe in our Lord?” He will say, “There
is nothing hidden about our Lord.” They will say, “Kill him.” Then
some amongst them will say, “Has your master (Dajjal) not for-
bidden you to kill anyone without (his consent)?” And so they
will take him to the Dajjal, and when the believer will see him, he
will say, “O people, he is the Dajjal about whom Allah’s Messenger
has informed (us).” The Dajjal will then order to have his head
broken and utter (these words), “Catch hold of him and break
his head.” He would be struck even on his back and on his stom-
ach. Then the Dajjal would ask him, “Don’t you believe in me?”
He will say, “You are a false messiah.” He will then order him to
be torn (into pieces) with a saw from the parting of his hair up
to his legs. After that, the Dajjal will walk between the two pieces.
He will then say to him, “Stand!” and he will stand erect. He will
then say to him, “Don’t you believe in me?” And the person
will say, “It has only added to my insight concerning you (that
you are really the Dajjal).” He will then say, “O people, he would
not behave with anyone amongst people (in such a manner)
after me” (the Antichrist will not be able to perform this trick
anymore). The Dajjal would try to catch hold of him so that he
should kill him (again). The space between his neck and collar
bone would be turned into copper and he would find no means
to kill him. So he would catch hold of him by his hand and feet
and throw him (into the air) and the people would think as if he
had been thrown in the Hell-Fire whereas he would be thrown
in Paradise. Thereupon Allah’s Messenger said: “He will be the
most eminent amongst persons in regard to martyrdom in the
eye of the Lord of the world.”134
135. Narrated Umm Sharik: I heard Allah’s Apostle say: “The peo-
ple will run away from the Antichrist, seeking shelter in the
mountains.” She (Umm Sharik) said, “Where would the Arabs
then be on the day?” He said, “They would be small in number.”135
136. It was reported that Ibn Umar said: The Prophet said: “The
Antichrist will come to this pond in Marriqanaat — a valley in
Medina — and most of those who go out to him will be women,
until a man will come to his mother-in-law, his mother, his
daughter, his sister, and his aunt, and will tie them up strongly
for fear that they will go out to him.”136
“By Allah, we never thought that that man would be any other
than Umar ibn al-Khattab, until he passed away.”
Al-Muhdribi said: Then we referred to the Hadith of Abu
Rafi’i, which said, “Part of his tribulation will be the fact that he
will pass through an area whose people will deny him, and none
of their livestock will remain alive. Then he will pass through a
second area whose people will believe in him; he will order the
sky to rain and the earth to bring forth crops, and their flocks
will return from grazing fatter than they have ever been, with
their flanks stretched, their udders full. He will pass through
every place on earth, except Mecca and Medina, which he will
never enter, for there are angels guarding every gate of them with
unsheathed swords, until he reaches al-Zarib al-Ahmar and camps
at the edge of the salt-marsh. Medina will be shaken by three
tremors, after which every hypocrite will leave it, and it will
be cleansed of evil, as iron is cleansed of dross. That day will be
called Yawm al-Khalas (The Day of Purification).”
Umm Sharik bint Abi’l-’Akr said: “O Messenger of Allah,
where will the Arabs be at that time?” He said: “At that time they
will be few; most of them will be in Bayt al-Maqdis (Jerusalem),
and their Imam will be a righteous man. Whilst their Imam is
going forward to lead the people in praying Salat al-Subh (the
morning prayer), Jesus, son of Mary, will descend. The Imam will
step back, to let Jesus lead the people in prayer, but Jesus will
place his hand between the man’s shoulders and say, ‘Go forward
and lead the prayer, for the call for prayer was made for you.’ So
the Imam will lead the people in prayer, and afterwards Jesus
will say, ‘Open the gate.’ The gate will be opened, and behind it
will be the Antichrist and a thousand Jews, each of them bearing
a sword and shield. When the Antichrist sees Jesus, he will begin
to dissolve like salt in water, and will run away. Jesus will say,
‘You will remain alive until I strike you with my sword.’ He will
catch up with him at the eastern gate of Ludd (near Tel Aviv,
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Israel) and will kill him. The army of the Antichrist will be defeated
with the help of Allah. There will be no place for them to hide; they
will not be able to hide behind any stone, wall, animal or tree —
except the boxthorn — without it saying, ‘O Muslim servant of
Allah! Here is a Jew, come and kill him!’” The Prophet said: “The
time of the Antichrist will be forty years; one year like half a year,
one year like a month, and one month like a week. The rest of his
days will pass so quickly that if one of you were at one of the gates
of Medina, he would not reach the other gate before evening fell.”
Someone asked, “O Messenger of Allah, how will we pray
in those shorter days?” He said, “Work out the times of prayer in
the same way that you do in these longer days, and then pray.”
The Prophet said: “Jesus, son of Mary, will be a just administrator
and leader of my Ummah. He will break the cross, kill the pigs,
and abolish the Jizyah (tax on non-Muslims). He will not collect
charity, so he will not collect sheep and camels. Mutual enmity
and hatred will disappear.
“Every harmful animal will be made harmless, so that a small
boy will be able to put his hand into a snake’s mouth without being
harmed, a small girl will be able to make a lion run away from her,
and a wolf will go among sheep as if he were a sheepdog. The earth
will be filled with peace as a container is filled with water. People
will be in complete agreement, and only Allah will be worshipped.
Wars will cease, and the authority of Quraish will be taken away.
The earth will be like a silver basin, and will produce fruit so abun-
dantly that a group of people will gather to eat a bunch of grapes
or one pomegranate and will be satisfied. A bull will be worth so
much money, but a horse will be worth only a few dirhams.”
Someone asked, “O Messenger of Allah, why will a horse
be so cheap?” He said, “Because it will never be ridden in war.”
He was asked, “Why will the bull be so expensive?” He said,
“Because it will plough the earth. For three years before the Anti-
christ emerges, the people will suffer severe hunger. In the first
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year, Allah will order the sky to withhold a third of its rain, and
the earth to withhold two-thirds of its fruits. In the third year, He
will order the sky to withhold all of its rain, and the earth to
withhold all of its fruits, so that nothing green will grow. Every
cloven-hoofed creature will die, except for whatever Allah wills.”
Someone asked, “How will the people live at that time?” He said,
“By saying La ilaha illa Allah, Allahu Akbar, Subhan Allah, and
Al-Hamdu-li’llah (praising God). This will be like food for them.”137
61. And (Jesus) shall be a Sign (for the coming of) the
Hour (of Judgment): therefore have no doubt about
the (Hour), but follow ye Me: this is a Straight Way.
Qur’an 43: 61
The white minaret of the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, where Jesus will
descend. It is called the “Minaret of Jesus.”
140. Jesus, son of Maryam, will descend, rule for 40 years with the
book of Allah and my Sunnah, and die.140
141. “In the meantime, when the Antichrist will be busy doing this
and this, Allah will send down the Messiah, son of Maryam, and
he will descend in the eastern part of Damascus, near the white
minaret (tower), dressed in the two yellow garments, with his
hands resting on the arms of two angels. When he will bend down
his head, water drops will appear trickling down; and when he
will raise it, it will appear as though pearl-like drops are rolling
down. Any disbeliever whom the air of his breath reaches — and
it will reach up to the last limit of his sight — will fall dead. Then
the son of Maryam will go in pursuit of the Antichrist, and will
overtake him at the gate of Lod, and will kill him.”141
Muslim, Dhikr Dajjal; Abu Dawud, Kitab ul-Malahim, Bab Khuruj Dajjal; Tirmidhi,
141
Abwab-ul-Fitan, Bab Fi Fitna al-Dajjal; Ibn Majah, Kitab ul-Fitna, Bab Fitna al-Dajjal
The Prophecies of the Messenger of God 109
142. “The Antichrist will appear in my community, and will live for
forty (I do not know whether he said 40 days, or 40 months, or
40 years). Then Allah will send Jesus, son of Mary. He will closely
resemble Urwah, son of Masud (a companion). He will pursue
the Antichrist and kill him. Then, for seven years, the people will
live in such a state that no ill-will and enmity will exist between
any two of them.”142
143. “How will you be when the son of Mary (Jesus) descends amongst
you, and he will judge people by the law of the Qur’an and not
by the law of Gospel?”143
145. “Since the world came into existence, at the beginning of every
century, an important event occurred. At the beginning of one
century, the Antichrist will emerge and Jesus, the son of Mary,
will descend and kill him.”145
146. “Jesus, son of Mary, shall descend; then he will kill the swine
and destroy the Cross; and a congregation will be held for him
for the Prayer; and he will distribute so much wealth that people
will be satiated with it; and he will abolish the tribute; and he will
encamp at Rauha, and from there will go to perform Haj or
Umrah, or both.”146
148. Allah’s Apostle said, “By Him in Whose Hands my soul is, son of
Mary will shortly descend amongst you people (Muslims) as a
just ruler and will break the Cross and kill the pigs and abolish
the Jizya (a tax taken from the non-Muslims who are in the pro-
tection of the Muslim government). Then there will be abundance
of money and nobody will accept charitable gifts.”148
149. “There is no prophet between me and him (i.e., the Messiah, Jesus,
son of Mary), and he shall descend. So, recognize him when you
see him. He is a man of medium height, of ruddy and fair com-
plexion; he will be dressed in two yellow garments; the hair of
his head will appear as though water was going to trickle down
from it, whereas it will not be wet. He will fight people in the
cause of Islam, will break the Cross and kill the swine and will
abolish jizyah (tax on non-Muslims); and Allah will put an end to
all communities in his time except Islam; and he will slay the
Antichrist; and he will stay in the world for forty years; then will
die, and the Muslims will offer the funeral Prayer for him.”149
150. Prayer behind the Mahdi: “What will be your reaction when the
son of Mary (Jesus) descends and your Imam is from among
yourselves?”150
151. “What would be your situation if the son of Mary (Jesus) descends
upon you and your Imam is from among you?”151
152. “Jesus, son of Mary, will descend. The leader of the Muslims will
say to him, ‘Come, lead us in the prayer,’ but he will say, ‘No; you
yourselves are leaders over one another.” This he will say in view
of the honor that Allah has bestowed on this community.”152
This refers to the moment Jesus will first appear. The Muslims
would be about to begin the morning prayer led by the Imam Mahdi.
Jesus will ask them to continue, and he will join the prayer as a
participant, although his rank would be higher than that of the Mahdi.
Muslims will consider this as a great honor.
154. “He (the Mahdi) will fight the whole world, and both the ones
who have gone astray (Christians) and the ones who have earned
Allah’s anger (Jews) will join against him with the hypocrites
in the land of Isra and Miraj at Mount Megiddo, and there will
come out against him the Queen of the world and deception, an
adulteress called America, who will incite the world to deviation
and infidelity…and the Jews of the world at that time will have the
upper hand and will rule Jerusalem, the holy city. And all nations
will come to fight by sea and air, except those in the land of
extreme cold and the land of extreme heat. And the Mahdi will
see that all the world does plot against him, but he will see that
Allah’s plan is stronger than all, and he will see that the World
belongs to Allah and to Him it will return, and that the World
is but a tree that Allah wills him to rule from its roots to its
branches… and Allah will throw down on them (unbelievers)
with a disastrous punishment and burn their land and seas and
skies and the sky will rain down a harmful shower; the people of
the Earth will curse the infidels, and Allah shall will the defeat
of the unbelievers.”154
In this prophecy, it says that the battle between the Mahdi and
the Romans takes place on the plain of Megiddo, which implies that
it may be the same as the battle of Armageddon mentioned in biblical
prophecy.
Megiddo is a kibbutz in Israel. It is located on the route going
south from Haifa to Samaria. Traveling from Syria to the Tel Aviv
airport (Al Ludd), one would pass by Megiddo.
155. The Prophet said: “The place of assembly of the Muslims at the
time of the Great War (Armageddon) will be in al-Ghutah near a
city called Damascus, one of the best cities in Syria.”155
156. Exactly at the time when the Imam (leader) of the Muslims will
have stepped forward to lead them in the Morning Prayer, Jesus,
son of Mary, shall descend upon them. The Imam will step back,
so that Jesus may step forward (to lead the prayer), but Jesus,
placing his hand between his two shoulders, will say, “No, you
should lead, for the congregation has assembled to follow you.”
So, the Imam will lead the Prayer. After the salutation, Jesus will
say, “Open the gate”; so the gate will be opened. Outside there
will be the Antichrist along with 70,000 of the armed Jews. As
soon as he will look at Jesus, he will start melting like the salt
in water, and will flee. Jesus will say, “I shall strike you a blow
which will not let you live.” And he will overtake him at the east-
ern gate of Lod, and Allah will cause the Jews to be defeated…
And the earth will be as filled with the Muslims as a vessel is
filled with water. The entire world shall recite and follow one
and the same Kalimah (word), and none shall be worshipped
except Allah.”156
157. The Holy Prophet (while relating the story of the Antichrist) said:
“At that time, suddenly, Jesus, son of Mary, shall appear among
the Muslims. Then the people will stand up for the prayer, and
he will be asked, ‘Step forward, O Spirit of Allah (and lead us in
the prayer)’; but he will say, ‘No. Your own leader should step
forward and lead the prayer.’ Then, after offering the morning
prayer, the Muslims shall go forth to fight the Antichrist.” He
said, “When the liar will see Jesus, he will start dissolving like
salt in water. Then Jesus will advance towards him and will slay
him; and it will so happen that the trees and the stones will cry
out: ‘O Spirit of Allah, here is a Jew (and/or disbeliever) hiding
behind me.’ None will be left from among the followers of the
Antichrist, whom he (Jesus) will not kill.”157
158. Then, in the morning, Jesus, son of Mary, will join the Muslims,
and Allah will cause the Antichrist and his hosts to be routed,
until the walls and the roots of the trees will call out: “O believer,
here is a disbeliever hidden behind me; come and kill him.”158
159. Then Jesus will descend, and Allah will cause the Antichrist to
be killed near the mountain pass of Afiq.159
be chasing the Antichrist all the way from Damascus to Tel Aviv, and
on the way they will pass through the mountain pass of Afiq.
160. Abu Huraira said: The Prophet said: “The Last Hour will not come
unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims will
kill them until the Jews will hide themselves behind a stone or a
tree, and a stone or a tree will say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah,
there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad
(boxthorn) will not say that, for it is the tree of the Jews.”160
161. Allah’s Apostle said: After his descent on earth, Jesus will marry.
He will have children, and he will remain on earth 19 years after
marriage. He will pass away, and Muslims will perform his (funeral
162. Allah’s Prophet said: The Messiah will die after completing the
duration he was destined to pass in the world and that Muslims
would offer his funeral prayers and bury him next to the grave
of the holy Prophet and his companions Abu Bakr and Umar.162
Who the Gog and Magog are is a subject of speculation. Gog and Magog
are generally believed to be the wild tribes of Central and Northeast-
ern Asia, including the Tartars, Mongols, Huns, and Scythians. Some
believe them to be Russians, while others think that they may be extra-
terrestrials. We’ll find out who they are when they invade the holy land
while Jesus is present there.
163. Narrated Zainab bint Jahsh: The Prophet got up from his sleep with
a flushed red face and said: “None has the right to be worshipped
161 Tirmidhi
162 Mishkat, p. 480
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but Allah. Woe to the Arabs, from the Great evil that is nearly
approaching them. Today a gap has been made in the wall of Gog
and Magog like this.” (Sufyaan illustrated this by forming the
number 90 or 100 with his fingers.) It was asked, “Shall we be
destroyed though there are righteous people among us?” The
Prophet said, “Yes, if evil increased.”163
164. On the authority of Jabir: Gog and Magog would walk until they
would reach the mountain of al-Khamar, and it is a mountain of
Jerusalem, and they would say: “We have killed those who are
upon the earth. Let us now kill those who are in the sky and they
would throw their arrows towards the sky and the arrows would
return to them besmeared with blood.”164
forth its fruit and restore its blessing and, as a result thereof,
there will grow (such a big) pomegranate that a group of people
will be able to eat it and seek shelter under its skin, a dairy cow
will give so much milk that a whole party will be able to drink it.
The milking camel will give such (a large quantity of) milk that the
whole tribe will be able to drink from it, and the milking-sheep
will give so much milk that the whole family will be able to drink
from it. At that time, Allah will send a pleasant wind, which will
soothe (people) even under their armpits. He will take the life of
every Muslim and only the wicked will survive who will commit
adultery like asses and the Last Hour would come to them.”165
166. The Messenger of Allah said: “For seven years, Muslims will build
fires with Gog and Magog’s bows and arrows.”166
167. Narrated Abu Sa’id al-Khudri: The Prophet said: “The people will
continue performing the Haj and Umrah to the Ka’ba, even after
the appearance of Gog and Magog.”167
168Ibn Majah
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170. Allah will give so much power to the Mahdi. He will remove
cruelty from the world overnight, religion will be established, and
Islam will be revived. The Mahdi will restore its lost value to it,
and it will come to life after its apparent demise. Ignorant people,
misers and cowards alike, will be very knowledgeable, generous,
and brave. They will practice religion as in the time of Prophet
Muhammad (God bless him).170
171. Like the cup fills with water, so will earth fill with peace. There
will be no enmity left between any people. All hostility, fighting,
and envy will disappear.171
172. The warriors will abandon their weight (weapons and kits).172
THE QAHTAANI
173. The Prophet said, “The Hour will not come until a man from
Qahtan (Yemen) appears and rules the people.”173
174. Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah’s Apostle said: “The Hour will not
be established till a man from Qahtan appears, driving the people
with his stick.”174
176. Imam Ahmad reports from the hadith of Dhi Mikhbar, the son of the
brother of an-Najaashi, that the Prophet said: “This matter used to
be amongst the red-skinned people, but Allah removed it from them
and placed it amongst the Quraish, but it shall return to them.”176
177. Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger as saying: The day and
the night would not come to an end before a man called al-Jahjah
would occupy the throne.177
The Qahtaan are a tribe from Yemen. It is they who are probably
referred to as a red-skinned people. The caliphate will go to them after
the time of the Mahdi and Jesus.
THE SMOKE
There is no deity save Him: It is He Who gives life
and gives death — the Lord and Cherisher to you and
your earliest ancestors.
175At-Tabarani (in his large dictionary), Ibn Mandah, Abu Nuaym and Ibn Asakir
176Ahmad
177Muslim Book 41, Number 6955
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“Fog or smoke will cover the skies for forty days. The non-
believers will fall unconscious while Muslims will fall ill (develop colds).
The skies will then clear up.”
“A night three nights long will follow the fog. It will occur in the
month of Zil-Haj after Eidul-Adha (end of Haj celebration), and cause
much restlessness among the people.”
“After the night of three nights, the following morning the sun
will rise in the west. People’s repentance will not be accepted after
this incident.”
181. Abu Huraira said: The Prophet said: “The Hour will not come
until the sun rises from the west. When the people see it, whoever
is living on earth will believe, but that will be the time when, ‘No
good will it do to a soul to believe in them then, if it believed
not before.’”181
182. Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger as saying: “He who seeks
repentance (from the Lord) before the rising of the sun from
the west (before the Day of Resurrection), Allah turns to him
with Mercy.”182
183. “The hijra (Islamic calendar) will not stop until the end of
repentance, and repentance will not stop until the sun rises in
the west.”183
THE BEAST
The Beast is also a figure of biblical prophecy, and is also given the
title “Antichrist” in some passages of the Bible; however, the characteris-
tics between the two seem to be very different, as the Biblical Beast, the
“Antichrist,” is very much like the “Dajjal” mentioned in the prophetic
hadith. The similarity between the two is that they both lay claim to
divinity at some point. At the same time, the other Biblical figure, the
“False Prophet,” is also very much like the Antichrist, as they both
travel through the earth, performing miracles to mislead the people.
183Al-Musnad”, Vol.4/99; Abu Dawud, Kitab al-Jihad, Vol.3/7, Hadith 2479; ad-Darami,
Kitab as-Siyyar, Vol.2/239
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186. It was reported from Abu Huraira that the Prophet said: “The
Beast of the Earth will emerge and will have with it the rod of
Moses and the ring of Solomon.”186
It was also reported that he said: “(The Beast) will destroy
the noses of the unbelievers with the ring, so that people seated
around one table will begin to address one another with the words
“O Believer!” or “O Unbeliever!”
187. “Smoke will appear all over the earth which will cause believers to
catch something similar to a slight cold, whereas the unbelievers
will be hit harder by it. Finally, a cold wind will come and kill all
believers, leaving only unbelievers on the earth, who will then
witness the last hour. The angel Israfil will blow a trumpet, and
the resurrection of all human beings will begin.”187
188. It was reported from Abdullah, son of Amr, that the Prophet said:
“The Hour will not come until Allah takes away the best people
on earth; only the worst of people will be left; they will not know
any good or forbid any evil.”188
189. Abdullah, son of Amr, said: “The Hour shall come only when the
worst type of people are left on the earth. They will be worse
than the people of pre-Islamic days. They will receive whatever
they ask of Allah.”
Uqbah said: “He knows better; so far as I am concerned, I
heard the Messenger of Allah say: ‘A group of people from my
Ummah (community) will continue to fight in obedience to the
Command of Allah, remaining dominant over their enemies. Those
who oppose them shall not do them any harm. They will remain
in this condition until the Hour overtakes them.’”
(At this) Abdullah said: “Yes. Then Allah will raise a wind,
which will be fragrant like musk and whose touch will be like
the touch of silk; (but) it will cause the death of all (faithful) per-
sons, not leaving behind a single person with an iota of faith in his
heart. Then only the worst of men will remain to be overwhelmed
by the Hour.”189
190. Abdullah, son of Amr said: The Prophet said: “The Antichrist will
appear in my Ummah, and will remain for forty — I cannot say
whether he meant forty days, forty months, or forty years — then
187http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/pillars/signsofthelasthour.html
188Ahmad
189Muslim Book 20, Number 4721
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Allah will send Jesus, son of Mary, who will resemble Urwah, son
of Masud. He will chase the Antichrist and kill him. Then the
people will live for seven years, during which there will be no
enmity between any two persons. Then Allah will send a cold
wind from the direction of Syria, which will take the soul of
everyone who has the slightest speck of good or faith in his
heart. Even if one of you were to enter the heart of a mountain,
the wind would reach him there and take his soul. Only the
most wicked people will be left; they will be as careless as birds,
with the characteristics of beasts, and will have no concern for
right and wrong. Satan will come to them in the form of man
and will say, ‘Don’t you respond?’ They will say, ‘What do you
order us to do?’ He will order them to worship idols, and in spite
of that, they will have sustenance in abundance, and lead
comfortable lives.’”190
192. Hudhaifa said: The Prophet said: “Islam will become worn out
like clothes are, until there will be no one who knows what fast-
ing, prayer, charity, and rituals are. The Qur’an will disappear in
one night, and no Ayah (verse) will be left on earth (in the hearts
of the people). Some groups of old people will be left who will
say, ‘We heard our fathers saying La ilaha illa Allah (there is no
god but Allah), so we repeat it.’” Silah asked Hudhaifa, “What will
saying La ilaha illa Allah do for them when they do not know
what prayer, fasting, ritual, and charity are?” Hudhaifa ignored
him; then Silah repeated his question three times, and each time
Hudhaifa ignored him. Finally he answered, “O Silah, it will save
them from Hell,” and said it three times.192
194. Narrated Abu Sa’id al-Khudri: The Prophet said: “The people will
continue performing the Haj and Umrah to the Ka’ba, even after
the appearance of Gog and Magog.” Shu’ba added: “The Hour
191Tabrani in Fath-ul-Bari
192Ibn Kathir, Ibn Majah
193Bukhari Book 88, Number 187
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(Day of Judgment) will not be established till the Haj (to the Ka’ba)
is abandoned.”194
195. “What will become of you when you do not enjoin the right and
forbid the wrong?” he asked. Those around him asked in amaze-
ment: “Will that truly happen?” “Yes, and even worse!” he replied,
and went on to ask: “What will become of you when you enjoin the
wrong and forbid the good?” Those around him were astonished:
“O Prophet! Will that also happen?” “Yes, and even worse!” he
replied, and continued: “What will become of you when you regard
good as evil and evil as good?” The people around him asked: “O
Prophet! Will that also come to pass?” “Yes, it will,” he replied.195
196. Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger as saying: The Last Hour
would not come until the women of the tribe of Daus would be
seen going round Dhi al-Khalasa (for worship), and Dhi al-Khalasa
is a place in Tabala, where there was a temple in which the people
of the tribe of Daus used to worship the idol.196
197. Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah’s Apostle said: “The Hour will not
be established till the buttocks of the women of the tribe of
Daus move while going round Dhi al-Khalasa.” Dhi al-Khalasa
was the idol of the Daus tribe, which they used to worship in the
pre-Islamic period of ignorance.197
when Allah revealed this verse, ‘It is He Who hath sent his Mes-
senger with Guidance and the Religion of Truth, to proclaim it over
all religion, even though the Pagans may detest (it)’ (Qur’an 9:33),
it implies that (this promise) is going to be fulfilled.” Thereupon
he (Allah’s Apostle) said: “It would happen as Allah would like.
Then Allah would send the sweet fragrant air by which everyone
who has even a mustard grain of faith in Him would die and
those only would survive who would have no goodness in them.
And they would revert to the religion of their forefathers.”198
ABANDONMENT OF MEDINA
199. “People will leave Medina in good condition; no one will inhabit
it except for wild beasts and birds. Then, two shepherds from
the tribe of Muzainah will come hoping to enter Medina with
their goats, but upon finding it full of wild beasts, they will turn
away. When they arrive at Thaniat Al Wada, they will fall on their
faces (die).”199
200. Abdullah, son of Amr, said: I heard the Prophet say: “Dhu’l-
Suwayqatayn from Abyssinia will destroy the Ka’ba and steal its
treasure and Kiswah (cloth covering). It is as if I could see him
now: he is bald-headed and has a distortion in his wrists. He will
strike the Ka’ba with his spade and pick-axe.”200
201. Son of Abbas narrated that the Prophet said: “It is as if I can see
him now: he is black and his legs are widely spaced. He will
destroy the Ka’ba stone by stone.”201
201Ahmad 1/227
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202. It is reported from Abdullah, son of Umar, that the Prophet said:
“Leave the Abyssinians alone so long as they do not disturb you,
for no one will recover the treasure of the Ka’ba except Dhu’l-
Suwayqatayn from Abyssinia.”202
204. Umar ibn al-Khattab, reported that he heard the Prophet say:
“The people of Mecca will leave, and only a few people will pass
through it. Then it will be resettled and rebuilt; then the people
will leave it again, and no one will ever return.”204
206. Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah’s Apostle said: “The Hour will
not be established till a fire will come out of the land of Hijaz,
and it will throw light on the necks of the camels at Busra
(in Iraq).”206
207. Narrated Abu Huraira: The Apostle of Allah said: “The best day
on which the sun has risen is Friday; on it Adam was created, on
it he was expelled (from Paradise), on it his contrition was
accepted, on it he died, and on it the Last Hour will take place.
On Friday, every beast is on the lookout from dawn to sunrise in
fear of the Last Hour, but not jinn and men, and it contains a
time at which no Muslim prays and asks anything from Allah, but
He will give it to him.” Ka’b said: “That is one day every year.” So
I said: “It is on every Friday.”207
208. “The Hour will not come upon anyone who says, ‘Allah, Allah’;
it will only come upon the most evil of men.”208
At the time of the last hour, there will be no one who believes
in God.
209. It was reported from Abu Huraira that the Prophet said: “The
hour will not come until there has been rain which will destroy
all dwellings except tents.”209
211. Abu Huraira reported so many hadith from Allah’s Apostle, and
amongst them was that Allah’s Messenger said: “There is a bone
in the human being that the earth would never consume and it
is from this that new bodies would be reconstituted (on the Day
of Resurrection).” They said: “Allah’s Messenger, which bone is
that?” Thereupon he said: “It is the spinal bone.”211
208Ibn Kathir
209Ahmad, 2/262
210Muslim Book 41, Number 7056
213. Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, would fold the Heavens on the
Day of Judgment and then He would place them on His right hand
and say: “I am the Lord; where are the haughty and where are
the proud today?” He would fold the Earth, placing it on the left
hand and say: “I am the Lord; where are the haughty and where
are the proud today?”213
214. It was narrated that Sahl, son of Sa’d, said: I heard the Prophet
say: “The people will be gathered on the Day of Resurrection on
reddish white land like a pure loaf of bread (made from pure
fine flour).” Sahl or someone else said: “It will have no landmarks
for anyone (to make use of).”214
Interpretation
of Events
This chapter compiles the sayings of the Messenger of God and endeav-
ors to arrange them in the chronological sequence in which events
are likely to occur. Because we are mostly working with the same
material as in the last chapter, almost everything here is a repetition.
The main difference is that instead of dividing the text between the say-
ings of the Prophet and the explanations, we are presenting the same
information in one continuous narrative.
Since this chapter offers my own personal interpretation of the
prophecies, the hadith being quoted and the opinions regarding their
meaning all appear together, and the fine line between what is in the
hadith and what is my opinion has intentionally been blurred.
Please note that whenever the Messenger of God mentioned a
person or a group, he would usually refer to the tribe that they came
from, as was the custom in Arabia at that time. Everyone belonged to
one tribe or the other, and when reference was made to someone, the
tribe to which they belonged was also mentioned.
Since that time, over 1,400 years and nearly 50 generations have
passed, and people have moved around from the original location of
their tribe. For the purpose of identifying these people or groups in
the present context, we must assume that whenever the tribe of a per-
son or group is mentioned, it is the tribe from which they originally
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descended and not necessarily the current location of where they live.
For example, the tribe of Bani Kalb was originally from Syria, but may
now be living in Iraq.
The term “Children of Israel” could refer to Jews no matter where
they are, but could also refer to Muslims who are descended from
those Jews who converted to Islam and are still living in Palestine and
the surrounding areas.
The Pathan people of Afghanistan and Pakistan claim to consist
of several of the ten lost tribes of Israel and could correctly be referred
to as Children of Isaac or Children of Israel. Aramaic inscriptions
have been found in Afghanistan, and many customs among the Pathans
predate Islam and are more akin to the laws of Moses.
Names of locations have also changed over time. For example,
what was called Ar-Ray in the seventh century would refer to Tehran
in Iran now. Ray was an ancient town that was located near present-
day Tehran. It was a great Islamic center of learning during the golden
age of Islam. The town was severely damaged during the Mongol inva-
sions and supplanted by Tehran. Therefore, when Ar-Ray is mentioned
in the sayings of the Messenger of God, we can assume that it refers
to today’s Tehran.
Syria is one country that is mentioned frequently in relation to
prophecies that pertain to current times. However, when the Messenger
of God refers to Sham (Syria), it is obviously the area known as Syria
during his time, and this area would now include present-day Syria as
well as Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, and parts of Turkey and Iraq.
So, when he refers to “Antioch in Syria,” he obviously means present-
day Antioch in Turkey. When he says that Syria will take the tribes of
Egypt prisoner, he is likely to mean that the Israelis will take Egypt-
ian prisoners. When he says that the people of Syria will get no food
because of the Romans, he means that the Palestinians will get no
food because of the Americans. Syria could mean any of Israel, Lebanon,
Jordan, etc., depending on the context in which it is referred to.
We will start the narrative from the time of the First World War,
as the prophecies that can clearly be matched with present-day
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conflicts appear to start at the beginning of the 20th century. And this
is indeed a very valid starting point as, after all, the root cause of
the present clash between the West and Islam is the creation and
perpetuation of the state of Israel, the seeds of which were laid when,
as an aftermath of the First World War, the Muslim Ottoman Empire
was disbanded and Britain pledged Palestine to the Zionists in the
infamous Balfour Declaration.
I have arranged the prophecies in chronological order. The start-
ing point of events mentioned in this chapter lies in the past, and we
subsequently move on to events that have not occurred yet and
consequently will be occurring in the future. Therefore, it is logical
that at some stage in the narrative, we should arrive at a point in time
that represents the present days. When this occurs, I will mention it.
So, until you see the marker, you may assume that the events being
discussed have already occurred, and events after the marker have
yet to occur and represent the future prophecies.
It was prophesied that a great war near the end of time (the Third
World War) would be preceded by two other great wars during which
many people would be killed.
The first of the three major wars would start a few decades after
the year 1300 AH (1883 AD), when God would incite a Greek king (a
Christian European) to make war on the world. This was the First
World War.
A short while later, that is, two decades after the first war, a man
whose name would be associated with a cat name* from the German
lands would start to bother people and would want to seize control
*The man from the German lands is obviously Adolf Hitler. However, to refer to
him as someone with a “cat name” is not as apt as referring to him as some-
one with a “wolf name,” because the name Adolf is derived from the old German
name Adalwuf, which means “noble wolf.” This mistake may have occurred
because of an error in the transmission of the hadith.
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over the whole world. He would light the fires of the Second World
War and would be known as the “Great Leader.” He would wage war
against the entire world, both the warm (southern) and cold (north-
ern) lands. After years filled with severe war fires, he would meet
God’s punishment.
them (Russia). The Soviets invaded Afghanistan and there was sub-
sequent collaboration between Muslims and America to evict them.
During this time, a nation/tribe would come forth from the direction
of Iran. Muslim armies would be coming down to the Iranian plains.
Hypocrites (Muslims of weak or no faith, probably the Iraqi army)
would be standing on the bank of a black river called Rakabeh on the
other side in an area where oil wells are concentrated. There would
be a war between them. God would deprive both armies of victory.
This was, of course, the Iran-Iraq war that lasted from 1980 to 1988 and
ended inconclusively.
Meanwhile, the Muslims, as well as their Roman ally (America),
would be granted victory and great spoils, and they would alight in a
plain surrounded by hills (Afghanistan).
Then a cruel man would appear in Iraq. This man, with a slight
injury in his eye, would be a tyrant and would be violently aggressive
against his opponents. The Byzantines and the Franks (the West) would
gather their forces together against this man, whose name would be
Saddam, to fight over a wasteland. This wasteland region would be small
Kut (which includes Kuwait), the region to which he had come previ-
ously because he was deceived. This deception actually occurred when,
before Iraq’s invasion, Saddam was told by the Americans that they
didn’t care what he did against Kuwait.
A country smaller than the end bone of the spinal cord (Kuwait)
would wail for the world to come to its aid. Its leader would surrender
the banner to the leader of all evil, who would come from the furthest
western shores. The leader would regain his throne, and Iraq would
be destroyed in the confrontation. The leader of this nation would also
fight the army of the Mahdi and would be ordered by the Mahdi to be
executed and then the country would return to the main body of Islam.
Iraq would be sanctioned thereafter, causing its people to receive
neither food nor money because of the non-Arabs, and the Romans
(Americans) would start installing their bases up to Khaiber, near
Medina.
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When Saddam emerges, the war between him and America will be the
beginning of World War III. Iraq will be destroyed and withhold its
currency (be occupied or cut off from the Muslim community).
Then a Tyrant who descends from Abu Sufyaan, and whose mother
is from the tribe of Kalb, will come from Damascus. This implies that
the corroborators helping the U.S. in Iraq are descendants of people
from the greater Syria region.
This Tyrant will probably be a post-Saddam ruler of Iraq who will
be installed by the foreign-occupation forces.
The Tyrant and his forces will move on to Kufa (Iraq) and pillage
it, killing the descendants of the Prophet and attacking to the point
where they will kill children and rip open women. There will then be
a great battle, killing 100,000 in the city of Az-Zawra (Baghdad), located
between the Tigris and the Euphrates. Basra will be ruined. In retali-
ation, the tribe of Qays will rise up against the Tyrant, but they will be
defeated by him, and he will slaughter them in Kurkisa.
Kurkisa is present-day Kirkuk in Iraq, and the Qays is an Iraqi tribe
living in the Kirkuk region.
The people of Iraq will then be divided into three parts. One part
will join the Tyrant’s army. These will be the most wicked people God
created. Another group will wage war against them, and these people
are the honorable servants of God. Another part will join the pillagers
(those who fight and kill), and they are sinners, while the innocent
people in Iraq will seek shelter in Syria. The Mahdi will come while
this is occurring, and he will restore what had been stolen from the
people of Iraq, and the country will be rebuilt.
As predicted, Iraq has been divided into three parts by the occu-
pation forces — Shia, Sunni and Kurd and made to fight each other as
part of a policy of divide and rule.
Also, as was prophesied, the American invasion of Iraq has led to
over a million Iraqis to seek refuge in Jordan and Syria. There are also
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and then to Medina. Similarly, al-Harith will be part of this group, along
with Mansur, who will be leading the army. Or Shuayb could possibly
be an Iranian leader.
The black flags that come from the east will be carried by mighty
men with long hair and beards who wear black turbans and white
clothes and whose surnames are taken from the names of their
hometowns.
Palestine will also be sanctioned, causing its people to receive
neither any money nor grain because of the Romans, and the Pales-
tinians will be conquered and then be cut off from the Islamic
mainstream (or, as the hadith says, “withhold their currency”).
Muslims are told not to rebuke the people of Syria (Palestine,
Syria, Jordan, Lebanon) because there are Al Abdal among them. The
Al Abdal (servants of God) are a group of eminent saints, said to be
40 in number, known only to God and appointed by Him. It is through
their goodness that the world continues to exist.
A flood of troubles will come upon the people of Syria (Palestine
or Iraq), which will disperse their groups in such a way that if foxes
attacked, they would be beaten.
The people from Syria (probably meaning Israel) will take prisoner
the tribes of Egypt. Egypt will be conquered and will be cut off from
the Muslim mainstream, and the Muslims will then recoil to the posi-
tion from which they came (i.e., Arabia). Following Iraq’s destruction,
the Nile River will dry up, and Egypt will also be ruined.
Then the Ethiopians will come after the Arabs, and they will be
defeated and thrown into the lowest part of the earth. There is a con-
flict underway in Darfur, Sudan, between the northern Muslim Arabs
and the animist rebels in the south, who are supported by the Ethiopians
and the West. These same Ethopians are also attacking Somalia under
western supervision.
Meanwhile, severe trials and tribulations will befall all the Muslims.
Their rulers will cause them severe trouble in such a way that there
will be no comfort for Muslims anywhere. These cruel rulers will
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frighten even the silent and submissive ones, in addition to those who
disobey them. There will be no home that strife will not enter, and no
Muslim will remain untouched by it. This will continue until a man of
gnosis and illumination from the household of the Prophet appears
(i.e., the Mahdi).
ATTACK ON IRAN
The forces of the Tyrant will attack Iran. Shuayb, the son of Salih,
will engage the Tyrant in Shiraz, Iran. Between them, there will be a
tremendously fierce battle, and the black banners of Shuayb with his
4,000 men will win, but the forces of the Tyrant will escape.
This obviously sounds like an attack on Iran that is nowadays (as
of May 2007) being publicly debated in the West, urged on by the rulers
of Israel. This attack is destined to fail in achieving its objectives.
Around that time, the people of Khurasan will cry for the Mahdi
because they need him. There will be an alliance between the black
banners of the Children of Al Abbas from Iraq and the black banners
of the people of Khurasan. The Muslim forces in Iraq and Afghanistan
will link up with each other, and Iran will be the facilitator or a party
to this alliance.
The “Children of Al Abbas” are descendants of Abbas ibn Abd al-
Muttalib, uncle of the Messenger of God and founder of the Abbasid
dynasty of Baghdad. The group with the large black banners will be
Iraqis, and the people with the small black banners will be from
Khurasan, two countries that are currently under U.S. occupation.
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Disagreement will occur at the death of a ruler, and three groups will be
fighting over the (possibly Saudi) kingdom before the Mahdi appears.
None of these three will win.
The year in which the Mahdi will emerge, people will perform Haj
together and gather without a leader.
There will be tumult in Shawwal (tenth Islamic month), talk of
war in Dhu al-Qi’dah (eleventh Islamic month), and the outbreak of
war, massacre, and carnage in Dhu al-Hijja (twelfth Islamic month),
as well as the plundering of pilgrims in Dhu al-Hijja, and it will not be
possible to cross a street because of bloodshed. Religious prohibitions
will be violated, and big sins will be committed near the Ka’ba.
There will be battles at Mina, during which many will be slain, and
blood will flow until it runs over the Jamra al-’Aqaba (pillar representing
Satan that the pilgrims stone), and legs will be buried in lakes of blood.
In Muharram (first Islamic month), when an innocent child (or
children) of the community of Muhammad will be killed, those in the
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heavens and those on earth will be angry, and an angel from the sky
will cry: “God is with him (the Mahdi) and with those who are with him.
Take heed. Such a person is of the auspicious ones of the people of
God. Listen to and obey him.”
Nowadays, the large-scale killing of innocent Muslim children is
an almost daily occurrence in Palestine, Iraq, and Afghanistan and is
considered absolutely justifiable by some countries and is referred to
as “collateral damage.”
Signs of the appearance of the Mahdi include:
1. The Tyrant reaches Iraq and kills the supporters of the family of
Muhammad. The Children of Al Abbas appear with black banners
in Iraq.
2. The Tyrant attacks Afghanistan. Harith appears with Mansur
leading the army.
3. The Tyrant attacks Iran. Shuayb, son of Salih, appears.
4. A comet with a luminous tail will rise from the east.
5. The emergence of a big flare, which is seen in the east, in the
sky for three nights. Sighting of an extraordinary redness, not as
red as the usual color of the dawn, and it is spread over the hori-
zon. This may be the result of oil fields in eastern Saudi Arabia
being ignited.
6. The purified soul, that is one or more innocent children, are killed.
7. Muslims will be experiencing great fear, disturbances, civil war,
and other disasters.
8. Chaos and violence during Haj, with fighting in Mina.
Most the above things have already happened or are in the process
of occurring. As of this writing, the attack on Iran is being talked about,
and when that happens, it would only leave the violence during Haj as
the last sign of the coming of the Mahdi.
During the Haj in 1987, there was a conflict when Iranian pilgrims
held a demonstration in which over 400 people died. But this did not
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happen in Mina, and it was not a conflict for control of the country,
so that event is not the one that is predicted.
The messenger of God said regarding the comet that will be a
sign of the coming of the Mahdi: “When this comet first appeared, the
people of Prophet Noah perished, Prophet Abraham was cast into fire,
Pharaoh and his people who fought against Prophet Moses perished,
and John the Baptist passed away.” This could refer to Halley’s Comet
that last appeared in 1986, or to another comet.
We are advised to count two or three decades after the year/decade
of Hijri 1400 before the Mahdi emerges. While there is fighting going
on in Mina during Haj, seven knowledgeable men from Egypt, Syria,
Palestine, and Saudi Arabia will search for the Mahdi.
The Imam Mahdi (the guided one) Muhammad., son of Abdullah
(this will be the Mahdi’s name), the promised deliverer, will be inspired
by God, and preparations will be made for him in one night to carry
out his task successfully. God will assure him of his goal and impor-
tance. He will be tall with a medium complexion, having a broad
forehead and a prominent nose, with a mole on his right cheek. He
will have been born and raised in Medina and will be 40 years old or
less at the time of his appointment. He will be of the family of the
Messenger of God, from the descendants of his daughter Fatima, her
husband Ali, and their sons Hassan and Hussein.
During that night, when the seven men meet, they will ask one
another what brought them to Mecca, and each will say they have come
seeking the Mahdi. Their followers will search for him in Mecca, and
when they find him, they will ask if his name is Muhammad, son of
Abdullah. However, he will be overcome by the implications, and
through sincere humility he will say no, and then leave Mecca for
Medina. The followers will return to their knowledgeable leaders and
describe the man they met, whereupon these leaders will confirm that
the person with whom they spoke was the one they were searching
for. By then, however, the Mahdi will have left for Medina, and so they
will go to Medina to look for him, but he will already have returned
to Mecca.
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Upon their return to Mecca, they will search for him and will catch
up with him whilst he is standing beside Al Rukn, near the Ka’ba, and
say: “Our sins will be upon you and our blood upon your neck if you
do not stretch out your hand so that we may pledge our allegiance!
The army of the Tyrant is coming demanding us because there is a
wanted person (man from Jurm) amongst us.” So, he will humbly sit
between Al Rukn and Al Makam and receive their allegiance, even
though he will dislike the idea of being put in this situation.
There is an area around Mecca that is called Umm al Jurm, where
the Jurm tribe lived. Jurm could also refer to Jurm District in Bad-
akhshan Province, Afghanistan, where people from the Jurm tribe
could have settled. The people who forcibly pledge allegiance to the
Mahdi may be the “Afghans,” as those Arabs who fought in Afghanistan
are called.
At this time, God will sow love of the Mahdi in their chests, and
he will lead a nation, the people of which are like lions during the day,
but worshippers at night. They will lead him by the hand towards the
Hajare Aswad (the Black Stone attached to the Ka’ba), where people
will then formally pledge their allegiance to him as the Caliph. This
pledge will take place in front of The Holy Ka’ba, between the Black
Stone and the Maqaame Ibraheem (Station of Abraham, adjacent to
the Ka’ba), during or just after the days of Haj.
Initially, the number of people to pledge allegiance to the Mahdi
that night will be 313, which is the number of the companions of the
Messenger who took part in the Battle of Badr. This will all take place
in the month of Dhu al-Hijjah, the month of Haj (or the next month
in Muharram).
The Mahdi will then emerge as the new Caliph of the Muslim commu-
nity in the following year. Shuayb, son of Salih, Harith, and Mansur
will learn of the coming of the Mahdi and will march to join him from
Talakaan, Afghanistan, or from Iran under three black banners, under
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leave Mecca for Medina, where he will offer respects at the grave of
the Messenger of God. Then the Mahdi will come out with the Banner
of the Prophet made from a marked woolen black square that will not
have been unfolded since the Messenger, and it will not be unfolded
until the Mahdi comes. Shuayb, son of Salih, will become the bearer
of the banner. The Mahdi will say his prayer and when he finishes, he
will go out and say: “O people, continuous trials came to the nation of
Muhammad, especially to the family of his House, and we have been
conquered and wronged.”
The supporters of the Mahdi will then seize control of Arabia
instead of the three claimants who were fighting over it. When this
happens, an unprecedented amount of bloodshed will occur. Muslims
are advised to support the army from Khurasan, as this is the army
of the Mahdi, and no one will be able to stop them until they have
captured Jerusalem.
Here, let us step aside from the narrative and discuss an issue
that is critical towards understanding the sayings of the
Messenger of God and to put them in the correct context.
When the Messenger of God mentions “The Great War” (Al-
Malhamah Al-Kubrah), is he talking about what is referred to
as Armageddon or is he talking about the Battle of Kalb? Or
are they all the same? There are clearly two distinct battles, as
the Battle of Kalb happens soon after the Mahdi appears and
another final conflict takes place near the end of his Caliphate,
when Jesus kills the Antichrist and destroys his army.
In all the sayings of the Messenger of God, the bigger war
by far appears to be the Battle of Kalb, for which the Muslims
gather in Damascus and the Romans gather troops from all
over the world, including the tribe of Kalb from Iraq under
the Tyrant. This battle is fierce and devastating for both sides,
with the Muslims eventually prevailing.
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Soon after the Mahdi appears and Muslims gather to support him,
and they’ve taken control of Arabia, the Mahdi and the forces with him
will march from Medina towards Damascus in Syria with the archangels
Gabriel, at his front, and Michael, at his middle. In other words, they
will have the support of God in their mission.
The Romans will muster strength against the Muslims. The Roman
coalition will consist of Christians and Jews and all anti-Islamic nations
of the world who will come to fight by land, sea, and air. The exceptions
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will be countries with climates of extreme cold and extreme heat. This
will be very much like Gulf War I, when the Americans gathered the
whole world to fight against Iraq. The difference between the two is
that God did not support a secular Iraq at that time, whereas now, He
will be supporting the Muslims.
The Muslim army consisting of the best soldiers of the people on
earth at that time will gather in Damascus to oppose the Romans.
Muslim troops will also be gathered in Iraq and Yemen. The Messenger
of God advised Muslims to go to Syria at that time as it is God’s cho-
sen land, to which His best servants will be gathered, armed with the
best weapons.
The Mahdi will see the whole world plot against him, but he will
see that God’s plan is stronger than all, and he will see that the world
belongs to God and to Him it will return, and that the world is but a tree
that God wills him to rule from its roots to its branches.
It is predicted by the Messenger of God that all Muslims in the land
of the Romans will be killed, or that hardships will befall them. It may
be around this time in the narrative that this would happen. This means
that Muslims in America and Europe will be severely persecuted, so
Muslims would be better off leaving before things get really bad. Perse-
cution of Muslims is already happening and will only get worse once
the serious battles get underway in the Middle East. Muslims living in
those countries that have the most anti-Muslim sentiments should
make plans to move to safe locations. The lesson of recent European
history is that once an ethnic group is vilified, then concentration
camps and large-scale massacres are not far behind. In America, the
Japanese were transferred to concentration camps during the Second
World War, and after the events of 9/11, there was open talk of doing
the same to Muslims. There are rumors of very large concentration
camps being built in America.
The Romans will surround the Mahdi and his followers and say:
“Do not stand between us and those Muslims who took prisoners from
among us. Let us fight them.” The Muslims will say: “No, by God, we
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shall never hand you our brethren so that you may fight them.” In other
words, they will refuse to hand over fellow Muslims to be transferred to
Guantanamo Bay, unlike what the present-day rulers have been doing.
Thus, the battle will begin near Aleppo in Syria. The Muslims will
prepare a detachment for fighting to the death, which will vow not to
return unless victorious. They will fight until darkness intervenes. Both
sides will return without being victorious, and one third of the Muslims
will be killed. They will fight again on the second day, and again one
third or thereabouts of the Muslims will be killed. On the third day,
they will fight again, and there will still be no result. On the fourth day,
a new detachment from the remnant of the Muslims will be prepared
and God will decree that the enemy will be routed. They will fight a
fight the like of which has not been seen, so fierce that even if a bird
were to pass their flanks, it would fall down dead before reaching the
other end. The Roman forces will be decimated and the Muslims will
be victorious, but there will be little joy because so many will have
fallen in battle.
The Muslim fighters under the Mahdi will capture the Tyrant and
execute him under a tree, the branches of which grow in the direction
of Lake Tiberias. The tribe of Kalb will suffer the same fate. Syria
(maybe Palestine) and Iraq will thus be liberated from the tyrannical
rule of the Tyrant.
It is possible that the Muslims will capture all or part of Jerusalem
during this battle, as it is predicted that Jerusalem will be captured
some time during the Great War. The city of Medina will be in great
danger, as it has been prophesied that it will be damaged or destroyed
during the Great War after Jerusalem comes into the hands of Muslims.
It is possible that the enemies of Islam will attack Medina with weapons
of mass destruction, possibly nuclear. Whatever happens to Medina, it
will be rebuilt, as the later prophecies talk of Jesus being buried besides
the grave of the Prophet, so at least that area would survive intact.
During the battle, one-third of the Muslim army will run away,
whom God will never forgive. Another third of the army will fall in
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allies, who are deeply involved in the struggle against Islam and are
the main supporters of Israel.
After the Battle of Kalb, there is no more mention of the Romans
in the sayings of the Messenger of God, although there is a lot of men-
tion of them before this battle. After the peace treaty is signed between
the Mahdi and the Romans, they cease to be in any way involved in any
further conflict with the Muslims until the end of the world. Maybe
they will keep up their support of Israel, but are unlikely to continue
fighting on its behalf as they’re doing now.
There could be many reasons for the Romans (America and
Europe) no longer being mentioned:
Its contents will include the Torah, Staff of Moses, Stone Tablets with
the Ten Commandments, and the Table of Solomon. The Mahdi will
hold a debate with the Jews based on this original copy of the Torah,
and many of them will become Muslims, and they will pledge allegiance
to the Mahdi in Jerusalem.
The remaining Jews will later become followers of the Anti-
christ when he appears. Under the Mahdi, the city of Jerusalem will
flourish, and the Temple Mount (Bayt al-Maqdis/Masjid al-Aqsa) will be
repaired and rebuilt. The rebuilding of the mosque on the Temple Mount
implies that it will have been damaged or destroyed during the
Great War.
In the sixth year of the Mahdi, he will dispatch 70,000 soldiers of the
clan of the Bani Israel (new converts or Muslim descendants of Jews)
to re-conquer Istanbul, liberating it from Roman rule. They will enter
Turkey, and Istanbul will fall without a fight. The Muezzins of the
Muslims will then establish the five-times-daily calls to prayer through-
out the city. The Mahdi will also arrive at Istanbul and set up the
structure for his rule, appoint people to govern there, and, most impor-
tantly, make arrangements for the implementation of Islamic law. This
liberation will deliver untold fortunes into the hands of the Muslims.
As the Madhi and his men are busy celebrating the liberation of
Istanbul, a rumor will spread that “the Antichrist has broken loose in
Syria (Israel) and is wreaking havoc among your families.” This news
will be very disturbing to the Imam, and consequently, he will hurriedly
leave for Syria. In the meantime, 10 scouting parties will be sent ahead
to ascertain the truth. One of them will report that the story is false.
The Antichrist has not yet emerged. This was a lie fabricated by Satan
to try and disrupt the progress of the Muslims. The Mahdi will resume
his return journey to Syria with greater ease and comfort once he
learns that the Antichrist is not yet loose. He will stop over in all the
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towns and cities along the route to survey the situation and make
the necessary arrangements for government.
Around this same time, a group of Muslims will be involved in a
war with either India or Pakistan, which they will conquer, and liber-
ate the Muslims from the oppressive rulers. The ending of this war is
predicted to coincide with the arrival of Jesus.
Seven years after the war with the Romans will have begun in Syria,
in the seventh year of the Mahdi, after he returns to Damascus, the
great imposter, the Masih-ad-Dajjal (False Messiah/Prophet, “Anti-
christ”), will now truly emerge from the east and begin his campaign
of mischief and corruption between Syria and Iraq (probably Israel).
He will remain to do his mischief for forty days, one day like a year,
one like a month, one like a week, and the rest like regular days, so
these days will, in fact, cover the length of 428 normal days. The Dajjal
will have a large following of mainly Iranian Jews, Bedouins, and ille-
gitimate people (those born outside of marriage). He will be a young
man, short and stocky, with twisted, cropped hair and a bulging (maybe
glass) eye. He will appear to be driven by a fit of rage.
The same interests that promote the New World Order and who
would be witnessing their dreams of world domination being ruined
by the Mahdi will likely bring the Antichrist forth. It is also likely that
they will try to depict the Mahdi as the Antichrist or the False Prophet
of Judeo-Christian prophecies, while the real Antichrist will be pre-
sented as the Jewish Messiah. It is very easy to imagine the Western
media depicting the Mahdi as a terrorist and the Antichrist as the great
savior. In fact, many websites run by the pro-war elements in America
are already claiming this.
Later, in order to bring the Christians on side, the Antichrist may
be elevated to the status of being either Jesus Christ himself or a
god. He will start by saying that he is a prophet, and then he will say,
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“I am your Lord.” Not only will he claim to be the Messiah of the Jews,
but maybe also that of the Christians. Since the Christians worship
Jesus, therefore the Antichrist would expect to be worshipped. To
back up his claims, he will perform miracles, either by technological
or supernatural means. The Antichrist will know about his own reality
as an imposter, but will be putting on a show on behalf of the people
behind the scenes that will be his sponsors. He will be an actor putting
on a big-budget media extravaganza backed up by some very good
special effects.
The special effects team that gave us the 9/11 spectacular will
also bring us the Antichrist Superstar show. The evangelical Christian
crowds in America are likely to be ecstatic supporters of the Antichrist.
As the Messenger of God said, most of the followers of the Anti-
christ will be Jews, at least his army will be, and therefore the strategy
of bringing in outside powers may not entirely work, leaving the Israelis
alone to fight on behalf of the Antichrist. To cut off the Antichrist and
his followers from the mainstream Christian world and to neutralize
and destroy him, God will send the real Jesus.
The Antichrist will build up his power insidiously, rather than with
a dramatic appearance. His power and arrogance will rise in stages as
he builds himself up from a prophet to a god.
According to the Messenger of God, no tribulation on earth since
the creation of Adam will be worse than the tribulation of the Antichrist.
Every prophet since Noah has warned his people about him. He will
be a test by God to see if they believe in Him or in the Antichrist.
He will go everywhere except Mecca and Medina, which have
been forbidden to him by God. Medina will be shaken by three tremors,
after which every person of weak faith will leave, and it will be cleansed
of evil, as iron is cleansed of dross. That day will be called Yawm
al-Khalas (“The Day of Purification”).
His influence will enter into Muslim homes and especially affect
the women who are disbelievers or weak of faith to the point that
people will have to tie up their women to stop them from following
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The Muslims, along with the Mahdi, will flee from Jerusalem to
Damascus in Syria, and the Antichrist with his followers will come
and besiege them. The siege will intensify, and they will suffer great
hardship.
RETURN OF JESUS
The Muslims will make preparations to fight the Antichrist and his
army in Damascus under the Mahdi. After the 40th day of the Antichrist
(near the end of his term), at the end of the eighth year of the Mahdi,
exactly at the time when the Mahdi will have stepped forward to lead
them in the morning prayer, the Messiah (Anointed One), Jesus, son
of Mary, shall descend upon them near the white minaret in the eastern
part of Damascus, Syria.
The location of Jesus’ expected appearance is the Umayyad Mosque
in Damascus, an impressive structure with three minarets (towers),
one of which is called the Minaret of Jesus, so named because this is
where Jesus is expected to appear.
He will be of medium height, ruddy-fair/brown complexion with
straight hair (not curly or wavy) and a broad chest, wearing two yellow
garments dyed with saffron, with his hands leaning on the arms of two
angels. The hair of his head will appear as though water was going to
trickle down from it, whereas it will not be wet. He will descend on a
group that will be righteous at the time and be comprised of 800 men
and 400 women.
He will call the people at dawn: “O people, what prevented you
from coming out to fight this evil liar?” They will say about Jesus, “He
is a jinn.” Then they will go out, and find Jesus, son of Mary. Upon his
reaching the congregation of the Muslims who are about to begin the
morning prayer, the Imam Mahdi will step back, so that Jesus may
step forward to lead the Prayer, but Jesus, placing his hand between
his two shoulders, will say, “No, you should lead, for the congregation
has assembled to follow you.”
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So, the Imam Mahdi will lead the Prayer. After the salutation, Jesus will
say, “Open the gate”; so the gate will be opened. Outside, there will be
the Antichrist along with 70,000 of the armed Jews (Israeli army). He will
indicate with his hand to move away between him and the Antichrist.
The Antichrist will then see Jesus. The Muslims will then come down
from the mountains and break loose on the army of Antichrist, and an
intense battle will erupt.
During the battle, any disbeliever whom the air of Jesus’ breath
reaches — and it will reach up to the last limit of his sight — will fall
dead. As the Antichrist will look at Jesus, he will start melting like the
salt in water, and will flee. Jesus will pursue the Antichrist. He will have
two flexible swords and one shield with him. Jesus will overtake the
Antichrist at the eastern gate of Lod, near Tel Aviv airport, and then
say to him, “I shall strike you a blow which will not let you live,” and
will then kill him. That day will be known as the “Day of Salvation.”
Thus God would cause the Antichrist and his followers to be defeated
and killed. The Israeli soldiers fighting for the Antichrist will have no
place to hide, and they will be hunted down and annihilated.
Jesus will go and show the blood of the Antichrist on his sword
to the Muslims. Then people whom God had protected will come to
Jesus, son of Mary, and he will wipe their faces and inform them of
their ranks in Paradise. Following this, Jesus will “break the cross”
and “kill the swine,” calling everyone back to Islam.
The implication of “breaking the cross” and “killing the swine” is
that Christianity will become defunct as a religion. The whole edifice
of the Christian religion is based on the belief that God crucified His
only son on the cross and caused him to suffer this “accursed” death,
so that he might thus expiate for the sins of man.
However, when Jesus proclaims, “I am not the Son of God; I did
not die on the cross, nor did I expiate for the sins of anyone,” the whole
basis of Christian belief will be demolished.
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All the prophets have declared the swine unlawful, but the
Christians have made it lawful. The consumption of pork was allowed
hundreds of years after Jesus in order to make Christianity more palat-
able to the pagan Romans, and no one can claim that Jesus permitted
it. This distinctive characteristic of Christianity will vanish when Jesus
will say: “I never declared the swine lawful for my followers, nor did
I proclaim them free from the restraints of Divine Law.”
A few days later, Jesus came back to see his mother and
his followers to confirm to them that it really was not him on
the cross. Then he left again in plain sight of his companions,
accompanied by angels and with the promise that he would
return near the end of time.
This information is in conformity with the Qur’an,
which states that Jesus did not die although it appeared so.
in Syria. Jesus will then travel to Mecca, and perform Haj (pilgrimage)
or Umrah or both.
A few months will elapse and the great Imam, the Mahdi, will pass away
in Jerusalem (Bayt al-Maqdis/Masjid al-Aqsa) at the age of between 47
and 49. The Muslims will perform his funeral prayers, which Jesus the
Messiah leads, and then they will bury him there. The Messiah, son
of Mary, will then become the Caliph of the Muslims, and thus the
Caliphate authority will be taken away from the Quraish. He will rule
in accordance with, and judge people by, the law of the Qur’an and the
Sunnah (traditions of the Messenger of God). Then, for seven years,
the people will live in such a state that no ill will and enmity will exist
between any two of them.
Then God will reveal to Jesus these words: “I have brought forth from
among My servants such people against whom none will be able to
fight; take these people safely to Mount Sinai,” and then God will send
Gog and Magog, and they will swarm down from every slope. The first
of them will pass Lake Tiberias and drink out of it. And when the last
of them passes, he will say: “There was once water there.” They will
drink all the water, and the people will entrench themselves in their
fortresses. Gog and Magog will fire their arrows into the sky, and they
will fall back to earth with something like blood on them. Gog and
Magog will say, “We have defeated the people of earth, and overcome
the people of heaven.” They will rush out in all directions, spreading
corruption, uprooting plants, and killing people.
The Haj at Mecca will continue during the time of Gog and Magog;
therefore, at least Mecca will be safe, and life in many places will go
on as usual, while Gog and Magog are rampaging in the Holy Land.
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It is possible that God would set Gog and Magog loose as punish-
ment for those people who had been supporters of the Antichrist but
may have been forgiven by Jesus and allowed to remain in the Holy
Land. The reason for this thought is that the Qur’an says that when
the Gog and Magos are let loose, then the unbelievers will “stare in
horror” and be sorry for their lack of belief. It does not say that the
Muslims will “stare in horror.” It is likely that the remnants of the sup-
porters of the Antichrist will be wiped out by the Gog and Magog.
Jesus and his companions will then be besieged at Mount Sinai,
and they will be so hard pressed that the head of the ox will be dearer
to them than 100 dinars. God’s Apostle, Jesus, and his companions will
supplicate to God, Who will send to the armies of Gog and Magog
insects or worms, which will attack their necks, and in the morning
they will perish as one single person. Jesus and his companions will
then come down from the mountains, and they will not find on earth
as much space as a single span that is not filled with putrefaction and
stench. God’s Apostle Jesus and his companions will then beseech
God, who will send birds whose necks would be like those of Bactrian
camels, and they will carry the corpses away and throw them where
God wills. This seems to imply that cargo aircraft will take the bodies
and drop them somewhere, maybe at sea.
It is unclear who the Gog and Magog are. Some say that they are
wild tribes of Central and Northeastern Asia, including the Tartars,
Mongols, and Huns, or maybe even the Chinese. Some say they are
Russians. A wild guess could be that, because the Antichrist is said to
have supernatural beings with him, the Gog and Magog may be extra-
terrestrials or jinns coming to avenge his death. However, jinns do not
have physical bodies. Whatever the truth is, we’ll find out when they
come. What we can say for sure is that whoever it is that invades
Palestine after Jesus has killed the Antichrist will be Gog and Magog.
Obviously, someone will be unhappy about Jesus’ being around, and
Jesus may be the target of Gog and Magog, or they may want to steal
the oil resources of the region for themselves.
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Then, the people will be burning the weapons of Gog and Magog for
seven years. Large cargo airplanes will be used to remove the dead
bodies of the Gog and Magog and dump them in the ocean. God will
send rain, which no house of mud-bricks or tent of camel hair will keep
out, and it will wash the earth until it resembles a mirror.
Then the earth will be told to bring forth its fruit and restore its
blessing and, as a result thereof, there will grow such big pomegran-
ates that a single one will be sufficient for a group of people and they
would be able to take shelter under its skin; a dairy cow will give so
much milk that a whole party will be able to drink it. The milking-camel
will give such a large quantity of milk that the whole tribe will be able
to drink from it, and the milking-sheep will give so much milk that the
whole family will be able to drink from it.
Another seven years of peace will elapse. After this, Jesus the
Messiah will marry, and have children. Another 19 years of peace will
pass, and then Jesus will pass away after completing his 40-year term
on earth, and the Muslims will perform his funeral prayers and bury
him next to the Messenger of God in Medina.
For this very purpose, during the last 1,400 years, a space has been
reserved for Jesus right next to the grave of the Messenger of God
inside the Masjid Nabvi (the Prophet’s Mosque).
Following the death of Jesus, after many years have passed, the people
of Mecca will leave, and only a few people will go there anymore. The
Caliphs will fail to maintain the religion (possibly coupled with the
discontinuation of the Haj), and consequently a man named Jahjah
from the tribe of Qahtaan in Yemen will seize control of the Caliphate
from them, thus restoring the authority of religion to the Qahtaan tribe
from Yemen (red-skinned people). The city of Mecca will then be
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resettled and rebuilt. He will rule the people, driving them with a
stick. His rule as the Caliph of the Muslims will be with great justice
and piety. Eventually, he will pass away, and several more Caliphs will
succeed him.
DECAY OF SOCIETY
Islam will remain dominant for a while, and Muslims will try to main-
tain the situation. However, as years go by, the situation will deteriorate,
and disbelief will start to settle back into the hearts of the people. The
people will leave the city of Mecca again, and never return to it. Islam
will have become worn out like clothes are, until there will be no one
who knows what fasting, prayer, charity, and rituals are and the Haj
pilgrimage will be abandoned. The Qur’an will disappear in one night,
and no verse of the Qur’an will be left in the hearts of the people.
Some groups of old people will be left who will say, “We heard our
fathers saying ‘La illaha illa Allah’ (there is no God but Allah), and so
we repeat it.”
A man named Dhu’l-Suwayqatayn from Abyssinia (Ethiopia) will
emerge at the time of Caliph Muquad, and come against the Ka’ba. He
will climb onto the top of the Ka’ba and tear it down brick by brick,
and there will be no one to stop him.
A Smoke will appear all over the earth lasting for 40 days, which will
cause the believers to catch something similar to a slight cold, whereas
the unbelievers will be hit harder by it and fall unconscious. Then
there will be a night that is unusually long, and it will cause much rest-
lessness among the people. Travelers will become frustrated, while
children and adults will be overtaken by extreme anxiety, and they
will resort to repentance. Even the animals will become restless. After
a length of three nights, this night will finally come to an end. The
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following morning, the Sun will rise from west, with its rays being
extremely dull, and then set in the east. When the people see it, they
will all believe in God, but it will do them no good to believe now if they
did not believe before. God will not accept repentance anymore.
It is reported in the sayings of the Prophet that the two events — the
appearance of the smoke and the rising of the sun from the east —
will happen in short consecutive sequence. It is easy to speculate that
the smoke may occur because of a large meteor hitting the earth.
According to scientists, a meteor impact 65 million years ago caused
dust to envelop the whole planet and the sun to be blocked for a period
of time long enough to cause a severe drop in temperature and crops
to fail; this led to the extinction of dinosaurs all over the world. Sim-
ilarly, a meteor strike in the future may cause the whole world to be
enveloped by dust/smoke again and may also disturb the rotation of
the earth and cause it to reverse its direction of spin. If this happened,
then the sun would appear to rise from the west.
Some time later, at the forenoon, the word will be fulfilled against the
unjust; the Beast will come from the Earth, between Safaa and Marwaa
in Mecca. It will speak to mankind because they had no faith in the
signs of God. It will proceed towards the area between Hajr-ul Aswad
and Maqaam-ul Ibraheem by the Ka’ba. The people, on seeing it, will
flee in all directions, except for one group of people. It will approach
this group and illuminate their faces like shining stars. Thereafter, it
will set out and travel throughout the world at a great speed. It will
mark the foreheads of the believers with “Believer” and will mark the
foreheads of the unbelievers with “Unbeliever.”
The significance of the Beast is that it is mentioned in the Qur’an,
whereas the Antichrist is not. God will send the Beast as some kind of
punishment for the unbelievers; it will speak to them such that they
will regret not believing in God. But, as is mentioned in the hadith, the
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God will send a fragrant wind (the “Rapture”) from the direction of
Syria, which will take the souls of everyone who has the slightest speck
of faith in his heart. Even if a believer were to enter the heart of a
mountain, the wind would reach him there and take his soul, leaving
only the disbelievers on the earth.
Thus, the few Muslims who will be scattered all around the world
at that time will be taken away by God once He is convinced that there
is no more chance of the revival of faith in God. The removal of the
last remaining believers will save them from witnessing the horrors
of the destruction of the earth and the whole universe by God.
The logic of the “Rapture” is easy to figure out. Throughout his-
tory, God has destroyed those people who were totally evil, while
saving the good believers. In the past, the punishment was usually
a localized affair; however, in the future, when there are only a few
scattered believers in an overwhelming majority of billions of unbe-
lievers, then any punishment meted out to them will necessarily
entail the destruction of the whole earth. In that case, it would be
more convenient for God to first remove the believers in a more gen-
tle manner by way of a “pleasant musk-scented wind” and then to let
the evildoers experience the full horror of the subsequent destruction
of the earth.
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Now only the most wicked people will be left; they will be as care-
less as birds, with the characteristics of animals, and will have no
concern for right and wrong. Satan will come to them in the form of
a man and will say, “Don’t you respond?” They will say, “What do you
order us to do?” He will order them to worship idols, and in spite
of that, they will have sustenance in abundance, and continue to lead
comfortable lives.
The people will have reverted to the pre-Islamic days; worshipping
the idols Lat and Uzza, women of the tribe of Daus will be seen once
again going around Dhi al-Khalasa, and people will once again engage
themselves in the worship of multiple gods.
There will be abundant wealth at that time but also wide-
spread killing, corruption, and treachery. There will be commerce,
but people will not trust each other. There will be warfare, during
which once great cities will cease to exist. Earthquakes and other nat-
ural calamities will occur with increasing frequency. Illegal sexual
intercourse will be practiced openly in public. Homosexuality will be
widespread. Cross-dressing will be common. It is predicted that the
number of men would decrease and males would be a tiny fraction of
the population.
These and other signs of the last days seem to be very much like
what is already happening in many places around the world. The dif-
ference at that time compared to today would be that nowadays there
are millions of believers in God, and there is still potential of good
triumphing over evil, whereas at that time, there won’t be a single
believer in God left on earth, and there will be no hope of improvement.
Whatever evil will be happening will be getting worse, not better.
A few decades later, there will be landslides in three places; one
in the east, one in the west, and one in Arabia, at the end of which fire
will burn forth from the Yemen. Then the fire, which could be a super
volcano eruption, will stop.
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COMMENCEMENT OF DOOMSDAY
What they may not appreciate is that the resurrection will appear to
occur no more than a few hours after they die.
Even if our doomsday is a localized affair and the earth survives,
at some point in the future, the whole universe will be destroyed by
God and recreated. In this case, the people who experience the destruc-
tion may not even be our descendants, but an entirely different species
of humans.
So, after 100 years from when the believers’ souls were taken,
130 years after the sun rose from the west, and possibly around 530
to 930 years after the death of Jesus, the Messiah, when no one will
remain on the earth who says “Allah” or worships Him, and about four
to five years after the fire, Doomsday will begin, and it will occur on
a Friday.
Some will be busy plastering the walls, some eating food; in brief,
people will be busy with their chores when the angel Israfil will receive
the command to blow the Soor (Trumpet). Initially, its sound will be
very faint, but gradually it will become louder. All the people will hear
the sound everywhere at the same time, and there will be nowhere to
escape from it. As it grows louder, people will become increasingly
terrified and fearful. They will appear to swoon as if drunk. Soon it
will be louder than thunder, causing a great convulsion, and people
will flee from their homes out into the jungles in the hope of escap-
ing from it, while the animals of the jungle, who will also be terrified
of it, will come into the living areas of the people to escape it. Soon
all the creatures, large and small, will die because of the sound. It will
destroy everything and cause the earth to split all over. The seas will
burst forth, covering the nearby mountains in water, and it will not be
long that the mountains, too, will break up, and the pieces thereof will
crash against each other, totally disintegrating and flying into the air.
As the sound grows louder yet, the skies will split and the heavenly
bodies, the stars, the moon, and the sun will all crumble.
When all of mankind is destroyed, the Angel of Death will now
proceed towards Satan, who will be running helter-skelter, because that
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life which he had requested from God will now have finally come to
an end. The Angels will apprehend him and beat him up with fiery rods,
and thus extract his soul. The extent of pain suffered by Satan in his
agonizing moments of death will be the sum total of all the pain that was
suffered by all of mankind during their respective moments of death.
The Soor will be blown for a period of time, after which nothing
will remain, except for eight things: The Arsh (Throne), Kursi (Chair),
Lowh (Tablet/Database), Qalam (Pen), Jannat (Paradise), Jahannam
(Hell), The Soor (Trumpet), and the Souls. The souls will lapse into a
state of unconsciousness. One by one, all of these things, including the
angels, will also be annihilated until they’re all gone. Finally the last
remaining angel — Israfil — too, will die.
Nothing will then exist anymore but the Face of the One and
Only God the Almighty. He will then say: “Limanil Mulkul Yaum” (Whose
is the Kingship today? — where are the oppressors, the arrogant?)
There will be no one to answer Him. He Himself will say: “Lillaahil
Waahidil Qahhaar” (Only [that of] God the One and Only the ever
Dominating One).
One bit of information for scientists to ponder is that the destruc-
tion of the universe and its subsequent resurrection appear very similar
to the Big Bang theory of the universe. According to this theory, the
universe is expanding and will one day collapse back to nothingness
and then (some say) a new Big Bang will occur and a new universe will
emerge out of the resultant singularity.
The sound of the Soor (trumpet) is mentioned as the means of
the destruction of the present universe and the creation of a new one.
Therefore, it is implied here that sound is the basic building block
of everything, including matter. This is something for scientists to
investigate further.
THE RESURRECTION
After a period known to God alone, He will bring Israfil and the
Soor back to life, and the command will be given to blow the Trumpet
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a second time, through which God will repeat creation and bring
everything back into existence, including the angels and the whole
universe.
After a period of time, that may be billions of years from now, the
earth will be recreated. It will be flat, pink, featureless, plain, and there
will be no trees, mountains, or seas. Then it will rain, and the bodies
of humans will grow in the ground from cells containing their DNA
taken from their spinal columns. Then, in one blast, everyone will come
back to life and rise up from the earth naked and in a state of fright.
People will begin to talk to each other; some will say that they’ve woken
up after sleeping for a day, while others will say that they’ve slept only
for a few hours. The wise among them will guess correctly that they
have slept till the Day of Judgment.
For those who try to figure out when the Day of Resurrection will
be, they should know that, as far as any individual person is con-
cerned, the Day of Resurrection occurs on the day that they die. This
is because when they wake up, after what would seem like a few hours
of sleep, it would be the Day of Judgement. On that day, good people
will be nervous, but will not suffer pain; however, for evil people, it
will be the most horrible experience imaginable.
The beloved of God, Prophet Muhammad (God bless him), will
be the first to come out of his blessed grave, followed by Jesus
(God bless him), and then the Prophets, the martyrs, and the pious,
who will be followed by the believing sinners and finally the
unbelievers.
The Messenger of God will lead all the Muslims to the Plain of
Hashr (The Plain of Judgment), upon which all others will also assem-
ble. The Messenger of God was shown a vision in which he saw that
his followers on that day would be so many that they would fill the
plains as far as the eye could see.
People will be in groups, and the true followers of other prophets
will follow them, and unbelievers will follow their own leaders.
The sun will be low overhead, causing people to drown in their
own sweat according to their sins, and thus the sky would be red like
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molten brass, cleft asunder. God will be as plainly visible to the good
people as the sun is to us. God will gather all of creation there for
their reckoning on that day, the length of which is 50,000 years.
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THE POTENTIAL
Figure 2 (continued)
23 Iraq 28 437,072 94 46
24 Jordan 6 92,300 27.8 44.6
25 Kazakhstan 15.2 2,717,300 133 43
26 Kuwait 2.4 17,820 53 56
27 Kyrgyzstan 5.2 198,500 9 2
28 Lebanon 3.88 10,400 20 20
29 Libya 5.9 1,759,540 48 33
30 Malaysia 24 329,750 248 121
31 Maldives 0.36 300 1.25 n/a
32 Mali 11.7 1,240,000 11.8 5.4
33 Mauritania 3.2 1,030,700 6.2 1.36
34 Morocco 33 446,550 141 52
35 Mozambique* 20 801,590 25.66 5.8
36 Niger 12.5 1,267,000 10.22 3.43
37 Nigeria 132 923,768 133 96
38 Oman 3.1 212,460 40.22 25.42
39 Pakistan 166 803,940 385 120
40 Palestine 3.9 5,641 5.8 4.5
41 Qatar 0.86 11,437 22.5 30
42 Saudi Arabia 27 1,960,582 340 273
43 Senegal 12 196,190 20 8
44 Sierra Leone 6 71,740 5 1.1
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Figure 2 (continued)
CHALLENGES
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people who have not evolved to a level where they would not make
some matters into issues of life and death.
The major dilemma is that if much of the organization of the
Caliphate has yet to be decided, and if the same people that run Muslim
countries now are the ones who create this structure, what will prevent
them from running it to the ground before it even takes off?
There are ways of ensuring a successful outcome. The Caliphate
structure has to be visualized and created by people who have the
following basic qualities:
all over the world, as well as specialists from many fields of expert-
ise. Together, they would come up with a recommendation for how to
move forward.
As progress is made, ideas would need to be publicized and opened
to public debate, as general acceptance by the public will be critical to
the successful implementation of the Caliphate. The planning would
not need to be secret or conspiratorial in any way, as there will be noth-
ing to hide, and it would be for the benefit of all Muslims, including
the ruling classes, and would not be a threat to anyone else.
The benefit of publicizing the plans for the Caliphate and getting
public opinion to back the idea outweighs the danger of inimical forces
trying to subvert the process.
This organization needs to be privately funded and independent
of governments, as that would give rise to conflicts of interest. In addi-
tion, all methodologies outlined for the establishment of the Caliphate
would need to be based on entirely peaceful and just means, as Islamic
values don’t allow for unjust means to be employed, even for just ends.
Having the master plan of the Caliphate ready and waiting to be
implemented will have the beneficial result that when the fortune
of the Muslims turns, which, as we have seen, is very close to happen-
ing, then the blueprint will be in place for bringing the Caliphate into
existence very quickly.
Based on the sayings of the Messenger of God, the time for the
establishment of the Caliphate is almost here, and time is of the essence
in completing preparations for it. While the first new Caliph, the Mahdi,
would be able to make many major decisions, there is nevertheless
an immense amount of work that still needs to be done to ensure a
smooth transition.
The detractors will do everything they can in order to stop it, but
we don’t need to worry too much about them as they cannot beat God
and can do absolutely nothing to prevent the new Caliphate from
coming into existence on the schedule planned by God and prophesied
by His Messenger.
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Federal Structure. The highest executive post will be that of the Caliph,
who will be elected for a specific term by an electorate consisting of
all adult citizens of the territories in the jurisdiction of the Caliphate.
One innovative idea may be to extend the voting rights of the Caliph to
all the Muslims in the world. This will ensure that the Caliph is looked
upon not only as a secular chief executive, but also as the spiritual
head of all Muslims in the world. This would make him a combination
of both Caesar and the Pope.
There will be one or more legislative assemblies elected from
throughout the territories. Whether to have a single or bicameral
legislature is open to debate.
The Caliphate will be based on a federal structure with a division
of responsibilities between three tiers of government. The central
government will be in charge of guaranteeing the correct application
of Islamic laws, foreign policy, monetary policy, and defense.
The first and foremost responsibility of the Caliphate would be
to ensure that God’s laws, as revealed in the Qur’an, are followed.
The Caliphate will be responsible for conducting a unified foreign
policy on behalf of all the territories. However, different territories
may be given the flexibility of establishing economic relations with
foreign entities, as long as these don’t contradict or clash with the
policies of the central government.
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Judiciary. The Caliphate will be based on the rule of law and an inde-
pendent judiciary. This will be the cornerstone upon which the state
structure will be built.
The laws will be based on the will of God as expressed in the Qur’an
and the Sunnah of the Messenger of God. On those matters where
there is more than one religious interpretation, a majority vote in the
legislature will decide. Secular laws will be enacted by the legislatures
at the various levels of government and enforced by the courts at the
appropriate level.
The Supreme Islamic Court will be at the federal level and will be
the final arbitrator for all judicial decisions.
The provision of justice is the most important element for the long-
term survival of any form of government. The Ottoman Empire that
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lasted for over 500 years owed its longevity in large part to the fact that
it provided impartial justice to all its citizens.
Laws in the Caliphate will be uniformly applied regardless of
ethnicity, gender, creed, or social or economic status of a person.
was the state of penury to which the British had reduced them. The
current rulers and their future generations will fare no better once
the present-day neocolonialists are finished with them.
The final thing to understand is that by cooperating with the estab-
lishment of the Caliphate, the ruling classes would ensure their place
within it and preserve their wealth, and would be able use their funds as
investment capital in the unprecedented economic boom that will occur
once the Caliphate is established. They would then be able to create
far more wealth than they would have otherwise been able to generate.
On the other hand, if they resist, then they would either cause
resentment among the people and risk violent overthrow or face being
gobbled up by hostile foreign powers. In both cases, they would stand
to lose everything.
Another vital reason for the need for the existing establishments
to cooperate is that they are often the most educated and experienced
people in the Muslim world. If there is revolution and chaos, then the
services of these people may be lost. In addition, a chaotic change
would cause unnecessary destruction and allow inept and overzealous
radicals to fill the gap. These radicals are often as destructive as the
Islamic world’s worst enemies.
then outsiders will not be in a position to do much about it. They will
try their best, though, and Muslims will need to come up with a plan
to resist their interference.
The pressure that America, Britain, and Israel are applying on
Islamic countries is having an effect that is exactly the opposite of
what they desire. This has become the major reason for increasing
Muslim unity. The more they try to thwart the establishment of the
Caliphate, the sooner it will materialize with the will of God.
REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS
It can be said with a fair measure of certainty that if today there were
referenda in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia, and
Indonesia for the establishment of the Caliphate, overwhelming majori-
ties of people would vote in favor of it and so would the people in
most other Islamic countries.
On the other hand, the likelihood of the rulers of these countries
giving their people this choice is near zero.
That the ruling elites will see the futility of resisting what is
inevitable is unlikely in the current circumstances. In their minds, the
short-term loss of power, wealth, and privilege overrides any gains that
they can imagine. That is why they would rather wait out the current
world situation with the hope that their turn for regime change will
never come, and they imagine that even if it does, they could try to
escape at the very last moment, leaving the public to enjoy the fruits
of democracy that the foreign invaders bring.
There is currently a wide gap between the aspirations of the people
and the interests of the rulers. The situation is therefore primed for
sudden and explosive change.
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This change will occur when God sends a man who will become
the leader of the Muslims as promised by the Messenger of God. This
will fulfill the following promise of God:
disease, pollution, and drugs. They are the major cause of envi-
ronmental degradation, but have taken no significant steps towards
fixing this problem. No major conflict in the world has been fairly
resolved, while new wars are being threatened and massive military
buildups are occurring. These countries have very clearly failed in
their duty to the international community, and the world has to start
looking elsewhere.
The Caliphate will sponsor, host, and fund a new United Nations
organization that will either take over the functions of the current one
or be built from the ground up with international consensus.
The new United Nations will be democratic, and every country
will have equal voting rights without anyone having the right to over-
rule the majority. Each member state will get one vote per citizen,
giving each country voting power in proportion to its population.
All international laws will be reviewed, amended, and voted on
based on the new voting rights, thereby removing all anomalies that
exist in order to protect the interests of past powers.
The foremost priority of the new United Nations would be to
resolve all conflicts in the world by means of sponsoring the just
resolution of disputes and the vigorous enforcement of peace treaties
that are decided upon. Implementation would be ensured by means of
forces drawn from neutral countries.
The other priority would be to help in complete military disarma-
ment, not just nuclear disarmament. A 10-20 year plan would be agreed
upon for all countries to systematically reduce their military spending,
disband personnel, and decommission weapons to near zero by the
end of the term. After that, no weapons would be allowed apart from
the minimum required for law enforcement. All weapons of mass
destruction, including nuclear weapons and all heavy armaments, will
subsequently be banned, and a joint force of the United Nations would
enforce this. Any country that resists would be declared a rogue
nation, and the international community would be required to cease
all dealing with such a country, regardless of cost, until it complies.
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The West
To begin with, we need to define what constitutes “the West.” In Samuel
Huntington’s book The Clash of Civilizations, the West is defined as the
countries of the European Union and North America, minus Mexico.
What these countries have in common is the West European ancestry,
classical heritage of ancient Rome, and the religion of Catholic or Protes-
tant Christianity. They were part of the European renaissance and are
now western liberal democracies. In terms of religion, most of these
societies, especially European ones, are now “post-Christian,” as they’ve
become mostly secular and are reverting to the ancient Roman freewheel-
ing hedonistic lifestyle of a time they consider to have been a golden
age. In non-politically-correct terminology, they’ve dumped Christianity.
In Huntington’s view, the Eastern European Slavic countries are
not part of the West, as they have a different history and are thus part
of the Orthodox Christian civilization led by Russia. Latin America,
which is mainly Catholic, has gone its separate way and is now only
loosely affiliated with the West. In addition, they have too much Native
American blood to be considered truly western anymore.
This way, three out of eight current civilizations identified by
Huntington are Christian. The other five are Islamic, Sinic (Chinese),
Hindu, African, and Japanese.
Even though an ocean divides America and Europe, nevertheless
they share the same culture and racial background, since America
consists mainly of West European immigrants.
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There are still many Muslims who cling to the view that somehow they
cannot survive without the West and are willing to forget or ignore
every insult and forgive every injury. However, what the West has given
the Islamic world in the past or what it can give the Islamic world in
the future is highly debatable. Also debatable is whether the negative
consequences outweigh the benefits from the relationship in the past
and whether they will do so in the future.
While discussing the past, the answer to this question will be
based on a lot of “what if” questions, such as, What if the British had
not subverted the Mogul Empire, would the Muslims have imported
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technology and good business practices from outside, like Japan, and
maintained parity with the developed world? What if the West had not
destroyed the Ottoman Empire, would there have been an advanced
and united Islamic Caliphate today? The answers to these questions
would be based on hypothetical scenarios about what may have hap-
pened if the Muslims had been left to their own devices to develop
peacefully at their own pace.
If I were to hazard a guess, I would say that the Muslims have lost
more than they have gained. Their countries have been invaded and
occupied, colonized, and robbed. The Muslims have been divided into
tiny countries, and worst of all, have suffered a loss of self-respect
and pride in their own culture.
As if the job had not been properly finished previously, the West
has taken it upon itself to apply more of the same medicine to the
Islamic world. Again they are on the move, invading Muslim countries
to reoccupy and recolonize them, rob their resources, divide them into
even tinier factions, destroy their culture, and make them lose any
remaining sense of self-confidence or self-respect.
Iraq is a classical example of all these methods being applied. It
was occupied, its infrastructure was destroyed, its museums were
systematically stripped of artifacts, its communities were made to fight
each other, its people were deliberately and publicly humiliated in the
infamous Abu Gharib prison so as to shame and frighten the popu-
lation. These are examples of methods that have not been invented
recently, but are tried and tested and have been used effectively for
the last couple of centuries by the British and other Western powers
all over the world.
There should now be little doubt that if the West is not stopped,
it will apply these methods to whatever remains of the Islamic world
until it consists of an ever larger series of tiny squabbling states totally
dependent on the West for protection from outsiders and from each
other. When its people are totally helpless, they will be informed that
the Islamic God — Allah — is an idol that cannot help them and that
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abroad, but none of that comes to any Muslim country where it could
help in developing the economy. Rather, the Muslims are net exporters
of investments into the West that keep their factories running and
their workers employed, while Muslim workers sit jobless.
Whatever foreign investments the West makes go to East Asia,
Latin America, and now India, while Muslims sit twiddling their thumbs
waiting for crumbs to be tossed their way.
Whatever benefits were doled out in the past have been severely
restricted further, and Muslims have found themselves unwelcome
to even invest in the West anymore, or to go there for an education or
even to visit. Apparently, most Arab businessmen who want to do
business in America have to conduct it from London, England, as that
is the nearest to America that they’re allowed to come.
Muslims don’t need to obsess too much about these people, as
they don’t have anything to give to the Muslims that is not available
elsewhere. In fact, if tomorrow there were a grand rapture and every-
one in the U.S. and its allies were lifted up to heaven in bodily form,
leaving their clothes behind, then no one would miss them, and if
anything, there would be a collective sigh of relief by everyone who
is left behind. There would probably be a big party with lots of used
clothes to give away as presents.
The only relevance the West has for the Islamic world today is for
Muslims to figure out how to get rid of Western influences from their
midst and protect themselves from their violence.
It is high time that Muslims get over their guilt about what happened
on September 11th, 2001. This was an inside job carried out by rogue
elements of the American government and had nothing to do with
Muslims, apart from their being the chosen scapegoats for it.
The purpose of this book is to talk about the future of the Muslim
world and not about the West or America or how these countries
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are organized or how they operate, so we will not spend too much time
on this topic. However, we have briefly discussed those countries
that have had some negative impact on the Muslims in the past and
will do so again in the near future. In the longer run, they will be of
no relevance.
9/11 was an event organized by those with twisted dreams of an
Israeli-controlled American World Empire with a secure Israel in
control of Middle Eastern resources.
The prime purpose of this event and the series of events that
followed was to provide everlasting security to Israel. Control of oil
is only a secondary benefit that is being used to justify things to those
who do not believe that America is occupying countries to free them.
If there had not been a single drop of oil in the Middle East, the whole
scenario would nonetheless have unfolded just as it did, as long as
Israel was under threat from the surrounding countries. Afghanistan’s
lack of oil did not save it.
Suffice it to say here that the official version of the 9/11 tale has
holes big enough to fly a jumbo jet through, piloted by a nine-year-old.
The only people who still believe this fairy-tale are the diehard
fans of CNN and FOX News who have no knowledge of the fact that
the mainstream Western media, particularly the American media, is
more highly controlled than the media in the former Soviet Union was.
These kinds of acts are called Black Operations, “black-ops” for
short, and they are conducted by one group and set up to look as if
another group were responsible. The West, particularly Israel, is a
master of carrying out black-ops, and surely has many more planned
for the future.
Similarly, the underground bombings in London, the train bombs
in Madrid, and the killing of Australians in Fiji all served the purpose
of shoring up public opinion in these countries to support the War on
Terror and commit their troops for various invasions. These and many
other terrorists acts blamed on Muslims fall under the category of
black-ops.
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to prevent it, then the Muslims will establish the Caliphate even sooner
as a backlash against the West’s mechanizations.
Indeed, God also plans and His plans are the best.
Civilizations rise and fall, and the West is in a state of terminal decline
in relation to the rising powers of tomorrow. China and India are gen-
erally accepted as countries of the future, but the purpose of this book
has been to show that the Islamic world will become the foremost
civilization of the future.
The West’s greatest power in relation to the rest of the world was
at the end of the First World War. At that time, a few old men from
Europe could sit down and decide the fate of the whole world, includ-
ing drawing up boundaries of countries they created. Since then, their
relative power has been declining, as other nations of the world have
caught up.
Now the West is facing a dead end as their mature economies
stagnate, their population ages, and social deterioration sets in. As
the people in the West have lost their faith in Christianity, they seem
to have lost their moral compass. Where Christianity used to provide
answers to questions about what was right and what was wrong, now
everything is up for debate. Extramarital sex, abortion, homosexuality,
gay marriage, pornography — it is all acceptable. No wonder, then, that
no one blinks an eye at killing women and children, as long as it saves
them a few dollars in gasoline prices.
The Western propaganda against Islam is mostly based on lies,
the chief one being that Muslims attacked America on 9/11. Another
one is that somehow the people in the West are more civilized, pre-
cisely because they have gone beyond primitive religious belief.
However, if crime figures are a measure of being civilized, then the
reality shows otherwise.
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The First Crusade was launched 1095 AD, and for the next 200 years,
the European Christians kept invading Islamic lands, despite being
defeated repeatedly.
In 1099 AD, the Christians managed to seize control of Jerusalem.
In one day, the crusaders murdered almost every inhabitant of
Jerusalem — Muslims, Jews, and even Eastern Christians. In 1187,
Saladin, Sultan of Egypt, recaptured Jerusalem after 88 years of cru-
sader rule. In contrast to the Christian slaughter of Muslims, Saladin
spared the lives of the Europeans and allowed them to go home.
This European Christian tendency to invade other countries and
kill women and children never really ended throughout history
and continues to this day, as can be witnessed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
When he marched into Jerusalem captured from the Turks in 1917,
a British general, Sir Edmund Allenby, put his foot on Saladin’s grave
and proudly declared: “Today the wars of the Crusaders are completed,”
and the British press celebrated his victory with cartoons of Richard
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Of the nearly two billion Christians in the world, most have a benign,
if not positive, attitude towards Islam in accordance with God’s mes-
sage in the Qur’an that of all the people in the world, the Christians
will prove to be the best friends of Muslims.
However, the evangelical Christians of America that make up the
Christian Right are among the bitterest enemies of Islam. They make up
the core support for the Republican Party, and the President of America,
George Bush, holds values that reflect core evangelical beliefs.
The evangelicals give great importance to biblical prophecies
and are diehard supporters of Zionism and Israel. It is their belief that
turmoil leading up to Armageddon will trigger the Second Coming of
Christ, so they are very enthusiastic backers of all wars in the Middle
East. They would like to speed up events if it seems to them that they
are not unfolding fast enough.
The main evangelical preachers, or televangelicals as they’re called,
have huge audiences running into tens of millions, and they all preach
hatred towards Islam. On their websites, inflammatory material can be
found against Allah, whom they call in idol, and against the personality
of the Messenger of God. Billy Graham, who is close to the President
of the United States, publicly called Islam an “evil religion.” What he
may have been telling the President in private may be even worse.
The actual knowledge that these preachers have about Islam is
very limited — actually almost none. Jerry Falwell, one of the big-ticket
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CHRISTIANITY
and customs, known as the Talmud, which the priests had developed
over time.
Therefore, anything that Jesus taught that was different from the
teachings of the Jewish priests was because he was following the cor-
rect form of Judaism, as opposed to the priests who were following
the corrupted form.
Even during the time of Jesus, his disciples had differing views
about his teachings, but after his time, a great variety of opinions
developed in the way Jesus’ teachings were interpreted and taught.
The founder of Western Christianity was a Jew by the name of
Saul, who had never met Jesus, was initially opposed to his teachings,
and had, in fact, persecuted the followers of Jesus. Later, he converted
and became known as Paul and went on to establish many of the
ideas that Christians follow today. It is considered that many beliefs
about Jesus later adopted by Christianity came from the writings of
Paul: Jesus’ being a descendant of King David, the Resurrection
of Jesus, the Ascension of Jesus after his crucifixion, original sin,
and Jesus’ return from heaven, all make their first appearance in the
letters of Paul.
One of the contemporaries of Paul, who was an actual compan-
ion of Jesus, and one of the apostles, Barnabas, developed a dispute
with Paul about his teachings, and they parted ways. According to
the Gospel of Barnabas, Jesus rejected the idea that he was the
Son of God, but predicted that people would believe this after him.
Christians reject the Gospel of Barnabas, as it goes against their
Pauline beliefs.
It was perhaps more than 200 years after Jesus that his followers
began calling themselves Christians and started establishing a sepa-
rate religion. By the time of the Roman Emperor Constantine, around
300 AD, there was still neither a single Christian text nor a single opin-
ion about Christian theological beliefs. Rather, there were pockets of
Christians scattered in many places throughout the Roman Empire,
and there was a wide variety of opinions amongst them about Jesus
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and his teachings. Some thought that he was a man and a prophet of
God; some thought he was the Son of God, and some thought that he
was God. There were dozens of gospels and writings about the life of
Jesus that existed at that time, and different groups taught different
versions of the story of Jesus.
Roman Emperor Constantine became a Christian in 312 AD after
he won a critical battle and associated it with the vision of the cross
that he had seen in the sky. He proclaimed Christianity to be the state
religion and decided to codify a Christian text and adopt one version
out of the many opinions being propagated about Jesus.
For this purpose, Constantine called all 1,800 bishops of the
Christian Church to the First Council of Nicaea in 325 AD. The purpose
of the council was to resolve disagreements over the nature of Jesus
in relationship to the Father; in particular whether Jesus was of the
same or of similar substance as God, the Father. Nicaea is a town in
present-day Turkey.
There was a great debate, during which some argued that Jesus
was a man and a prophet of God, while others argued that he was the
Son of God. The argument at times got so heated that it is said that
hundreds of bishops were killed in the combat that followed.
Ultimately, this council and the subsequent ones decided that Jesus
was the Son of God and gave official endorsement to the concept of
the Trinity. They also decided on what content was to be included in
the New Testament and chose four Gospels out of the dozens that
existed at that time.
Christianity as it exists now was therefore codified during this
time into an approved official version and any opinion or text that
differed from the consensus was banned under pain of death.
Thus, Christianity as we know it today came into being as a new
religion independent of Judaism and subsequently spread all over the
Roman Empire that controlled most of Europe.
Since Jesus never claimed to have brought a new religion, it would
be correct to state that Christianity was really an artificial creation that
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took Judaism as its foundation and then added layers of new ideas on
top to create a new religion.
The Christian Bible includes the Hebrew Scriptures as the Old
Testament and adds the New Testament that was finally compiled dur-
ing the Third Council of Carthage in 397. Even this council did not settle
the matter, however, and certain books continued to be questioned
until the late 16th century.
Even though Christians claim to be monotheists, the strangest
concept in Christianity is the claim that Jesus is the Son of God and
worthy of worship in addition to, or instead of, God. This raises more
questions than can ever be answered. Is the son a replica of God who
would one day become as great as God? Will the son ever grow up?
Would the father god be supplanted? If so, then would there be two
gods? Does God have more than one son, and if not, will He have more
in the future? These and a hundred other questions come to mind that
no one can answer, and there is no logic in them. Many Christians agree,
and that’s why Western scientists and philosophers gave up Christianity
a long time ago, and most Europeans gave it up more recently.
It is suggested by some Muslim scholars that if the Christians had
only believed in one God, as originally taught by Jesus, then God would
have never sent another prophet after Jesus. In that case, Christianity
would have been the final religion of God.
Islam teaches that there is only one God who is beyond compre-
hension and is not made from anything that we can imagine, as all
matter is a creation of God, including light, time, and subatomic par-
ticles. Anything that humans are capable of touching, sensing, seeing,
or imagining is a creation of God, and therefore God is not made of
that substance. In addition, God does not tolerate any competition to
His power and is unlikely to create a being that will one day challenge
him. Satan challenged Him and will suffer the consequences when the
time granted to him runs out.
According to the Gospel of Barnabas, Jesus knew that he would
be called the Son of God and said that he would be answerable to God
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about it, even though God knows that Jesus is innocent of this claim.
To refute this point is one of the reasons that he will be sent back to
earth one day.
Those who follow Jesus are the Muslims as they hold him in the
highest honor and don’t attribute to him things that he did not claim.
When he comes back in the near future, he will make this point clear,
and it will be the Muslims who will be his supporters.
Jesus (God bless him). Because Muhammad (God bless him) was the
last prophet, therefore the Mahdi would not be a prophet but a leader,
and Jesus will be a previous prophet who will reappear and follow
Islam, the religion of the last prophet.
The expectation of the coming of the Antichrist is common to
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. According to the Messenger of God,
all prophets, including Noah, warned their followers about him.
Similarly, there are several other ideas like Armageddon, The
Beast, and the Rapture that are common to Judeo-Christianity and
Islam. However, their interpretations are different.
We will look at a few things from the past starting with the biblical
account of Abraham and what happened to Ishmael and his mother
Hagar when Abraham left them in the desert, according to the Bible.
The well of water that Hagar found is still flowing and is called
the well of Zamzam located in the Ka’ba complex in Mecca.
In Islamic tradition, Hagar ran seven times between two hills, Safa
and Marva, to see if she could spot anyone who could help her and
her son. It was then that the well appeared. In commemoration of this
event, Muslims run between these same two hills as part of the Haj
rites every year and also during the lesser Haj, the Umrah that happens
all year round.
After the appearance of the well, a tribe that was passing by set-
tled in the locality, and Hagar and Ishmael lived with them. Abraham
used to visit his wife and son in Mecca, and he and Ishmael built the
Ka’ba that is the center of Islamic worship.
The great nation that is mentioned in the Bible consists of the
Arabs who are the descendants of Abraham’s son Ishmael.
The Bible’s description of the “New Jerusalem” sounds very much like the Ka’ba
All the above descriptions fit the Ka’ba, where the one and only
God is worshipped 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and this has
never come to a stop for the last 1,400 years. And today, almost a
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quarter of humanity faces the Ka’ba every day when praying to God
in every corner of the world.
MILLENNIALISM
Blessed and holy are those who have part in the first
resurrection. The second death has no power over
them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ
and will reign with him for a thousand years.
NIV Bible Revelation 20:6
America are bent on starting wars that will bring about the second
coming of Jesus and start the thousand-year-long reign of Christ.
An Islamic viewpoint on Millennialism would support the idea of
Postmillennialism, as Muslims would argue that the Islamic empire
lasted over 1,000 years and this was, in fact, the golden millennium
referred to. The worship of God in the New Jerusalem in Mecca has
lasted over a thousand years, and now Jesus is due back at the end of
that to fight the final conflict with the Antichrist.
In Islamic belief, no one can know for sure the date of the end of the
world, except God, but it is predicted that when Jesus appears, there
will be very little time left. Because advances in technology are causing
the world to shrink, time is passing ever faster and events are hap-
pening ever more quickly; ideas and technologies that may have taken
hundreds of years before now take days to spread all over the world.
As a result, not only do good things happen at a faster pace, but
bad things do as well. According to Muslim belief, the end of the world
will come neither because of a natural nor man-made disaster, but it
will happen when there is no longer anyone left who believes in God,
and people will have become evil. The remaining humanity will be of
no more use for God, and He will then finish off the world.
God expects people to worship Him as the one and only God.
Today, Muslims are the only people who meet this criterion, therefore
it follows that the earth will continue to exist until no more Muslims
remain, and then God will put an end to it.
Since there are over 1.5 billion Muslims today and they are increas-
ing in number, we may have a few hundred years left before they all
lose their faith. But because Muslims have as much of a propensity as
anyone else to degenerate and lose their belief, especially if given a
long-enough period of prosperity, we are most likely to have much less
than 1,000 years left. This is especially so because time is passing at a
faster pace.
Therefore, the millennium of the golden age can be said to have
passed already, and it was the thousand-year-long golden age of Islam.
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TRIBULATION
THE ANTICHRIST
The passages in the Bible that are cited for the belief in the Second
Coming of Christ refer to the “Son of Man” coming in latter times and
reviving the Kingdom of God. There is ambiguity in this term, as Jesus
was born without a father, so the description of “Son of Man” does not
appear suitable. Nevertheless, the vast majority of Christians believe
that Jesus will return in the End Times.
Many Muslims would argue that the Son of Man that Jesus referred
to was the next great prophet that was due, and it was the Messenger
of God. This would be in keeping with the belief that every prophet
described the next prophet that is due to appear, in order to enable
people living at the later time to recognize him.
In the Gospel of Barnabas, which is rejected by Christians, it is
very clearly stated by Jesus that a great Messenger of God is due after
him, and that near the end of time, he himself will return.
In quite a few authentic sayings of the Messenger of God, it is
declared very unambiguously that Jesus will be coming back in the last
days, and he will kill the Antichrist.
The main twist in the Muslim version of the second coming of
Jesus is that he will be a Muslim and become the leader of the Islamic
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community, the Caliph. He will refute the belief that he is the son of
God and invite the Christians to Islam.
One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came
and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punish-
ment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters.
With her the kings of the earth committed adultery
and the inhabitants of the earth were intoxicated
with the wine of her adulteries.”
NIV Bible Revelation 17:1-2
ARMAGEDDON
Blessed and holy are those who have part in the first
resurrection. The second death has no power over
them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ
and will reign with him for a thousand years. When
the thousand years are over, Satan will be released
from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations
in the four corners of the earth — Gog and Magog —
to gather them for battle. In number they are like the
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upon which God will send a disease or insects to attack the Gog and
Magog, and they will all die as one. After that, their bodies will be taken
away by birds (or cargo planes) and thrown away.
The interesting thought here is that the Qur’an says that the unbe-
lievers will stare in horror when Gog and Magog appear. Based on this
Qur’anic verse and the hadith mentioned earlier we know:
1) Gog and Magog will invade Palestine after Jesus has returned and
defeated the Antichrist.
2) Jesus will take his followers to Mount Sinai.
3) Gog and Magog will not be attacking Muslims in general, as the
pilgrimage in Mecca will continue as normal.
4) It is the unbelievers who will stare in horror when the Gog and
Magog attack, and will wish that they had taken heed and not
done wrong.
THE BEAST
The Beast, also called “The Beast from the Earth,” is believed to refer
to an entity controlled by the Antichrist. Beyond this, speculation about
who or what the Beast is, is a debatable subject open to conjecture,
as is the meaning of the number 666.
In the Qur’an, the Beast is mentioned; it is uncertain whether the
reference points to the same thing as Christian prophecies do..
THE RAPTURE
Beyond these main points, we are free to debate the details, such
as which battle will be fought first, which country will play what role,
in what year exactly the events will occur, etc.
It is safe to say that the most exciting thing that the Muslims look
forward to is the coming of the Mahdi. Once that happens, then all the
rest of the prophecies will fall into place, and the light at the end of
the tunnel will become visible.
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So when will the Mahdi come? While God says that no one knows
the exact time of the end of the world, the Prophet did say that some
Muslims would, in fact, know the exact time and location for the com-
ing of the Mahdi. That is why they will travel to Mecca looking for him,
and will forcibly pledge allegiance to him.
My own conclusion is that the state of the Muslim world will
deteriorate much beyond what it is now, if that is at all possible. The
final piece of news to watch out for is massive violence during the Haj
pilgrimage in one particular year. Once that happens, then expect the
Mahdi to be revealed and the rest of the events to unfold.
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WEB SITES CITED OR RECOMMENDED
Islamic Sites
Harun Yahya : http://www.harunyahya.com/
The Future is for Islam (The inspiration for this book): http://
www.geocities.com/muslimapocalyptic/future_is_for_islam.htm
Sufi interpretation of End Time events:
http://www.muhammadan reality.com/
The Caliphate: http://www.caliphate.eu/
Dinar Standard: http://www.dinarstandard.com/
Islamic City: http://www.islamicity.com/
Online Bookstores
http://islamicbookstore.com/
http://soundvisioncanada.com/
http://www.astrolabe.com/
Qur’an
MP3 Arabic Recitation: http://www.al-quran.ca/en_index.html
Three different English translations:
http://cwis.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/
Translations in various languages:
http://www.islamicity.com/mosque/Quran/
Translation in English by Abdullah Yusuf Ali:
http://www.islamicity.com/mosque/surai.htm
Hadith
A searchable database of Hadith:
http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/reference/searchhadith.html
Christian Sites
Gospel of Barnabas: http://www.barnabas.net/
Christian Writings: http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/
Bible: http://www.biblegateway.com/
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Christian Prophecies
Rapture Ready: http://www.rr-bb.com/
Lampholder publications: http://www.lampholderpub.com/
Mission of Maitreya: http://www.maitreya.org/
Texe Marrs: http://www.texemarrs.com/
Israeli Sites
http://www.templemountfaithful.org/
http://www.templeinstitute.org/
http://www.donmeh-west.com/
Information Sites
CIA World Factbook:
https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
Mapping the Global Future:
http://www.dni.gov/nic/NIC_globaltrend2020.html
Bernard Lewis map of the Middle East:
http://cloakanddagger.de/media/Tarpley/lewis%20plan%20map.htm
INDEX
A Antioch:
Abdul-Nasser, Gamal caves in, location of Muslim
Egyptian leader referenced in treasures referenced in
hadith, 50 hadith, 90
Abu Dawud: Arab-Israeli conflict, referenced in
hadith scholar, 41 hadith, 56-57
Adam: Ark of the Covenant:
creation of, discussed in Gospel of contents of, 161
Barnabas, 15 to be brought forth by the Mahdi,
Afghanistan, 91, 160
invasion of, possibly referenced in Armageddon:
hadith, 53, 61-63 end of the Antichrist, 112-116
Al Abdal (servants of God), 146 in Christian prohecy, 238
Allah. See God Ar-Ray. See Tehran
Al-Aqsa Mosque, as the Third
Temple, 233 B
Antichrist, the: Babylon, Whore of:
appearance of, 85, 129, 162 referring to America, 237
in sequence of events, 92-93 Baghdad:
army of, 114 destruction of, referenced in
in Islamic and Christian prophecy, hadith, 57
235-236 Bani Israel. See Children of Israel
killing of, by Jesus, 104-105, 114, Barnabas, Gospel of:
130, 166, 236 report of Jesus’ discussing the
cutting a person in half and restoring creation of man, 14-15
to one piece, 101-102, 164 rejected by Christianity, 236
deceptive actions employed by, 99 Battle of Kalb:
details regarding, 96-107 different from Armageddon, 84, 153
physical description, 97, 99, 103, See also Great War
119, 162 Beast, the, 127-128
possessing supernatural appearance of, 173-174
powers, 164 in Christian and Islamic prophecy,
pursuit of, by Jesus, 154 240-241
referenced by the Prophet mentioned in Qur’an, 173
Muhammad, 118-120 different from Antichrist, 127-128
time of appearance of, 88 marking foreheads of believers and
tribulation of, 163 unbelievers, 173
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L Medina:
Landslides: abandonment of, 13
as one of the signs of the Last cleansed of evil on Yawm al-Khalas
Hour, 134 (Day of Purification), 163
in three places, 175 destruction of, in sequence of
Lod: events, 92-93
city near Tel Aviv where Jesus kills experiencing earth tremors, 100,
the Antichrist, 107, 115 104, 163
safe from the Antichrist, 100
M Messenger of God:
Mahdi, the (Muhammad, son of sayings of,
Abdullah), 62-74, 147 See Hadith
as supreme leader and reformer See also Muhammad, Prophet
of Muslim community, 160 Middle East:
banners from the west, as signs of conflicts in, discussed in hadith,
appearance of, 55 49-51
caliphate established by, 80, 160 Millennialism (in Christianity), 230-232
death of, 169 Mina:
emerging with banner of the battles in, during year of appearance
Prophet, 153 of the Mahdi, 66, 148
expected length of rule, 89, 160 Minaret of Jesus:
golden age during reign of, 121-122 location of expected descent of
physical description, 72, 73, 89, Jesus, 108
112, 150 white minaret of Umayyad Mosque
meaning of name, 90 in Damascus, 108
peace treaty signed by, with Miracles:
Romans, 159 failure to convince people to
signs of coming of, 63-66, 148-150 believe in God, 18
sinking of the army that comes to performed by prophets through
kill him in the desert, 74-75 history, 26
time of appearance, 115 Muhammad, Prophet, the:
wars to be fought by, 154-155 confirmed the coming of Jesus, 110
year one of, 151-159 received revelation through the
years two to five of, 160-161 angel Gabriel, 13
year six of, 161-162 referenced Gog and Magog,
year seven of, 162-165 117-118
Mecca: sayings of, See hadith
free of abominations, 233 Multiple heavens and earths:
safe from the Antichrist, 100 mentioned in Qur’an, 176
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