     Alyisa | Thursday, November 30, 2000 - 02:36 pm
asalaama alaykum,
This is an excerpt from a book Imran Hosien, who is a muslim scholor from Brooklyn New York, is working on. ManshAllah, I sat in on one of his lectures last week, he's very knowledgeable. I hope you take the time to read it.
btw Ramadan Karim everybody.
wa alaykum salaam
A QUR’ANIC EXPLANATION OF THE ‘RESTORATION’ OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL
-author Imran Hosien
We live in an age in which the Jews have succeeded in returning to rule over Jerusalem after a divinely imposed exile of almost 2000 years. Jerusalem flourishes today. It exercises a power and influence over the entire region in which the Holy Land is located. Israel has secured ‘peace’ treaties with Egypt and Jordan and has made several incremental agreements with the PLO that have progressively diluted their opposition to the establishment of the Jewish State in the land of Palestine. Syria and Lebanon seem likely to follow the Egyptian and Jordanian example in the not-too-distant future. Madina, in the meantime has returned to being a backwater city wielding no influence whatsoever on developments in the region. The Saudi State which emerged on the ruins of the Caliphate and which controls Madina, is a client-State of the West and is increasingly dependent on the West for its security and survival.
The Prophet (s) prophesied that this day would come. But it would hold an ominous promise for Israel:
Narrated Mu'adh ibn Jabal: The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: The flourishing state of Jerusalem will be when Yathrib 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 Dajjal (the false Messiah or Antichrist) comes forth. He (the Prophet) struck his thigh or his shoulder with his hand and said: This is as true as you are here or as you are sitting (meaning Mu’adh ibn Jabal).
(Sunan Abu Daud)
The Qur’an prophesied this return of the Jews to the Holy Land and explained its implications. Daniel Pipes appears not to have understood the Qur’an, for how else do we explain the fact that he ignored Qur’anic prophesies which establish the Islamic position regarding the destiny of Jerusalem.
Here is the first prophecy pertaining to the final return to the Holy Land which has now been fulfilled through the establishment of that essentially secular and nationalist entity which is the imposter State Israel:
“And We said thereafter to the Children of Israel: dwell securely in the (Holy) Land (on condition that you remain faithful to Allah and you are righteous in your conduct); but (know that) when the last of the warnings come to pass (i.e. when the Last Age arrives), We (shall) gather you together in a mingled crowd (i.e., you will all be brought back to the Holy Land complete with all the heterogeneity which you would have accumulated from long years of exile in the Jewish diaspora).”
(Qur’an: Banu Israel:- 17:104)
The prophecy in the Qur’an declared that the Last Age would witness the return of the Jews to the Holy Land.
The expression lafeef denotes a human crowd composed of innumerable heterogeneous elements. This is precisely the description of Jewish society in today’s Israel. It is a ‘motley crowd’ of Jews from so many different parts of the world, including different parts of the Arab and Muslim world, speaking in different slangs, and in different languages, with different accents, wearing different clothes, eating different food, worshipping in different ways, in different synagogues, etc. The most amazing difference of all is the racial. Modern Israel comprises large numbers of Jews who are a pure European people with blue eyes and blond hair. The racial homogeneity of a people who should all have descended from Abraham (s) through Isaac (s) and Jacob (s), has now evaporated. Finally the belief system of what constitutes Judaism has also suffered through the disease of sectarianism, - a disease which went on to afflict Christians and, finally, Muslims. There so many different and conflicting beliefs amongst Jews that civil war can eventually break out in Israel as it did more than 2000 years ago.
This destruction of the homogeneity of the Jews and the creation of such diversity was, in fact, an act of divine punishment. Allah, Most High, declared as such when He said:
“And We dispersed them as separate communities all over the earth . . .”
(Qur’an: al-‘Araf: 7:168)
What is the meaning and implication of the fulfillment of the Qur’anic prophecy pertaining to the return of the Jews to the Holy Land in the Last Age? There are at least three verses of the Qur’an that point distinctly in the direction of divine punishment for the Jews. The problem for those who approach the Qur’an with only ‘one’ eye is that understanding of the reality of matters pertaining in particular to the Last Age, cannot be achieved except when internal ‘spiritual insight’ (i.e., the inner eye) complements ‘external vision’. Here are two of these three verses:
“But there is a ban on a city which We destroyed: that they shall not return (to that city), unless and until Gog and Magog are released, and they swiftly descend from every height.”
(Qur’an: al-Anbiyah:-21-95-6)
While the identity of the city has not been explicitly stated, it is quite clear that it cannot be other than Jerusalem. There is an indirect Qur’anic identification of the city as follows. The Rabbis in Madina responded to the appeal of the Quraish for a means whereby they could determine whether Muhammad (s) was indeed a Prophet. Their response was to pose three questions! If he could answer them all correctly then he was, indeed, a Prophet.
Allah, Most High, responded by revealing the answers to all three questions in Qur’anic revelation. The answers to the first two questions, i.e., the young men who fled into the cave and the great traveler who traveled to the two ends of the earth, were placed in Surah al-Kahf. (See Al-Kahf:18:9-26; 83-98) But the answer to the third question concerning the ruh was placed in Surah Banu Israel:- 17:85. The implication of this strange arrangement was the establishment of a principle of interpretation that linked together the two Surahs of the Qur’an as a pair. Dr. Israr Ahmad, the eminent scholar of the Qur’an, has presented an abundance of evidence that confirm the pairing of the two Surahs.
And so, in order to locate the identity of the young men in the cave as well as the identity of Dhul Qarnain, Y’ajooj and M’ajooj and the Qaryah (city), we need to turn to Surah Banu Israel for assistance. When we do so we find that the Surah deals with only one Qaryah (city), Jerusalem.
The ahadith of Prophet Muhammad (s), on the other hand, directly establish the identity of the city. Not only is Jerusalem mentioned by name in the ahadith concerning Y’ajooj and M’ajooj but no other such city, destroyed by Allah, is mentioned. The following hadith which describes and narrates the event of the return of Jesus (s) would suffice to establish the link between Y’ajooj and M’ajooj and the Holy Land, as well as Jerusalem, and hence identity of the qaryah (city):
Narrated An-Nawwas ibn Sam’an: “. . . It will be under such conditions that Allah will reveal to Jesus (s) these words: I have brought forth from among My servants such people against whom none will be able to fight; you take these people safely to Tur, and then Allah will send Gog and Magog and they will swarm down from every slope. The first of them will pass the lake of Tiberius (i.e., the Sea of Galilee) and drink out of it. And when the last of them passes, he will say: There was once water there. Jesus and his companions will then be besieged here (at Tur, and they will be so hard pressed) that the head of the ox will be dearer to them than one hundred dinars . . . . . .”
(Sahih Muslim)
The Sea of Galilee is in the Holy Land. Secondly, the Tur (mountain) mentioned in the hadith is a mountain in Jerusalem. This is mentioned in another version of the same hadith on the authority of the same chain of transmitters:
“Gog and Magog would walk until they reach the mountain of Al- Khamr, and it is a mountain of Bait al-Maqdis (i.e., Jerusalem) and they would say: We have killed those who are on the earth. Let us now kill those who are in the sky. They would shoot their arrows towards the sky and the arrows would return to them smeared with blood.”
(Sahih Muslim)
We are now in a position to recognize the return of the Jews to Jerusalem in the end time as a Sign, revealed in the Qur’an, which confirms the release of Y’ajooj and M’ajooj. Now Y’ajooj and M’ajooj are agents of universal fasad. (See Qur’an: al-Kahf:-18:94). Fasad means “corruption, decay, wickedness, viciousness, immorality, pervertedness, etc.” When Y’ajooj and M’ajooj embrace a people they lead that people into the hell-fire. The hadith reveals that globalization, in the age of Y’ajooj and M’ajooj, will culminate with 999 out every 1000 entering the hell-fire!
“Narrated Abu Said Al Khudri: The Prophet said: On the day of Resurrection Allah will say: O Adam! Adam will reply: Labbaik our Lord, and Sa’daik. Then there will be a loud call (saying): Allah orders you to take from among your offspring a mission for the (Hell) Fire. Adam will say: O Lord! Who are the mission for the (Hell) Fire? Allah will say: Out of each thousand, take out 999. At that time every pregnant female shall drop her load (have a miscarriage) and a child will have gray hair.
“And you shall see mankind as in a drunken state, yet not drunk, but severe will be the torment of Allah”. (Qur’an: al-Hajj:-22:2)
“(When the Prophet mentioned this), the people were so distressed (and afraid) that their faces got changed (in color) whereupon the Prophet said: From Y’ajooj and M’ajooj nine hundred and ninety-nine will be taken out, and one from you. You Muslims (compared to the large number of other people) will be like a black hair on the side of a white ox, or a white hair on the side of a black ox, and I hope that you will be one-fourth of the people of Paradise. On that, we said: Allahu-Akbar! Then he said: I hope that you will be one-third of the people of Paradise. We again said: Allahu-Akbar! Then he said: (I hope that you will be) one-half of the people of Paradise. So we said: Allahu Akbar.”
(Sahih Bukhari)
The Jewish return to Jerusalem, and the restoration of the State of Israel, effected by Gog and Magog (Y’ajooj and M’ajooj), and by the (False) Messiah (al-Masih al-Dajjal), thus constitute the greatest possible danger to which Jews have ever be exposed in all their history. But they are not even aware of it. Only by embracing the Qur’an as the divinely revealed word of the God of Abraham, and the teachings of Muhammad the Prophet (s), the Last Prophet, would it have been possible for the Jewish people to realize this. Unfortunately for them the sun has already risen from the West, and it is now too late for them to repent (i.e., to make Taubah), to accept the Truth revealed by the God of Abraham (s) in the Qur’an, and to believe in Muhammad (s) as the Final Messenger of Allah, Most High.
“Are they waiting to see if the angels come to them, or thy Lord (Himself), or certain of the ‘Signs’ of thy Lord! The day that certain of the ‘Signs’ of thy Lord do come (i.e., Dajjal, Y’ajooj and M’ajooj, the Rising of the Sun from the West, the Beast from the Earth which would wound mankind, the Smoke, the Return of Jesus, etc.) no good will it do to a soul to believe in them then, if it believed not before nor earned righteousness through its Faith. Say: “Wait! We, too, are waiting.”
(Qur’an: al-’Anam:-6:158)
The Qur’an gave as clear and as plain a warning as was possible to the Jews that they would one day face the reality that now confronts them, i.e., Y’ajooj, M’ajooj and Dajjal. They refused to believe in the Qur’an as the revealed word of the God of Abraham and, in consequence, they are incapable of recognizing that reality:
“Behold! thy Lord made it known that He would send against them (i.e., the Jews) to the Day of Resurrection people who would afflict them with great suffering. Thy Lord is quick in retribution, but He is also Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.”
(Qur’an: al-‘Araf: 7:167)
Allah, Most High, has Himself ensured that they will never be able to perceive the reality of their own condition:
“I will turn away from My signs the eyes of those who are unjustly arrogant in the land, so that even if they see each and every sign they will not believe in it. If they see the Right Way before them they will not follow it; but if they see a crooked way they will follow it; this is because they denied Our revelations and were heedless of them.”
(Qur’an: al-‘Araf: 7:146) |
