Methodology of study

An Islamic View of Gog Magog in the Modern World

 

METHODOLOGY OF STUDY

 

“The conformability however, signifies in the estimation of the best Qur’anic authorities, not only uniformity of teaching but also the principle that all the verses of the holy book are inter-related as parts of an intelligible system whereby the existence of a system of meaning in the Holy Qur’an is positively established, as also the technique of the exposition of that system.” 

(Ansari, FR: ‘Qur’anic Foundations and Structure of Muslim Society’, Volume 1, p. 192)

 

Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah Most High be upon him) declared that ‘the rising of the sun from the west’ would be one of the ‘Signs’ of the ‘Last Day’ (Sahih Muslim). This ‘Sign’ poses a number of questions such as: 

• Is the ‘sun’ that would one day rise from the west be the same one always rising from the east, or would it be another sun? 

• Would the sun literally rise from the west one day or is this a case of religious symbolism that must be interpreted? 

• Would the perception of the sun rising from the west constitute an optical illusion? 

• Can the ‘Sign’ of the sun rising from the West have more than one application all of which would be correct? For example, can it be explained symbolically as a false Western sunrise as suggested by this writer, as well as an actual Western sunrise to occur at that time when the material universe would be transformed into ghair al-ard or a different earth (Qur’an, Ibrahim, 14:48)? 

 

We hasten to dismiss any interpretation of the prophecy requiring recognition of a ‘sun’ other than the ‘sun’ described in the Qur’an. Such would constitute deception. For the same reason we dismiss the theory of an optical illusion as a possible fulfillment of the prophecy. 

 

The Qur’an has declared that the ‘sun’ rises from the East (al Baqarah, 2:258) and that is daily confirmed by visual observation even from here in our native Caribbean island of Trinidad where this book is being written. The ‘sun’ to which it refers is of course, the one which we see daily in the sky. The Qur’an has also declared (Rum, 30:30) that Allah’s creation does not change, implying that the ‘sun’ must always rise from the east and can never literally rise from the West.

 

Abraham (‘alaihi al-Salam) disputed with a king concerning the worship of the One God and challenged him as follows: “It is my God who causes the sun to rise from the east. You cause it to rise from the west!” Here is the passage in the Qur’an:

“Are you not aware of that (king) who argued with Abraham about his Lord-God, (simply) because Allah had granted him kingship? Lo! Abraham said: "My Lord-God is He who grants life and deals death."(The king) replied: "I (too) grant life and deal death!" Said Abraham: "Verily, Allah (Most High) causes the sun to rise in the east; cause it then to rise in the west!" Thereupon he who was bent on denying the truth remained dumbfounded: for Allah (Most High) does not guide people who (deliberately) do wrong.”  (Qur’an, al-Baqarah, 2:258)

 

Despite this clear declaration from the Qur’an that:

• Allah causes the sun to rise from the East, and 
• Allah’s creation does not change, 

there is a Hadith with a declaration generally interpreted to the effect that the ‘sun’ (i.e. the one that the Qur’an refers to as the ‘sun’) would one day literally rise from the West, and it is generally assumed that the Western sunrise referred to in the Hadith would be the same as that which would be a ‘Sign of the Last Hour’ prophesied by Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alahi wa sallam):

 

Narrated Abu Dharr: I entered the Masjid while Allah's Messenger was sitting there. When the sun had set, the Prophet said, "O Abu Dharr! Do you know where this (sun) goes?" I said, "Allah and His Messenger know best." He said, "It goes and asks permission to prostrate, and it is allowed, and (one day) it, as if being ordered to return whence it came, then it will rise from the west." Then the Prophet recited, "And the sun runs on its fixed course (for a term decreed)," (36.38) as it is recited by 'Abdullah. (Sahih Bukhari)

 

The Qur’an sits in judgement on the hadith and not vice-versa

Our first methodological response to the above is to recognize at least the appearance of a conflict, if not an actual conflict, between the Qur’an and a literal interpretation of the Hadith to the effect that a western sunrise would occur prior to the return of Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salam), and to respond to such conflict by holding firmly to the Qur’an in preference to such a misinterpretation of the Hadith. This methodology, which was articulated by Islamic scholar, Maulana Dr Ansari, recognizes that “it is the function of the Qur’an to sit in judgement on the hadith and not vice-versa” (Qur’anic Foundations and Structure of Muslim Society Volume 1, p xxiv). 

 

We accept that a Western sunrise as described in the Hadith can occur at the time of the end of the world since Allah Most High has declared that a Tabdil or change in the Samawat and Earth would take place at that time (Qur’an, Ibrahim, 14:48). However a literal Western sunrise occurring at the time of the end of the world would have no relevance whatsoever to the end of history – the key to which is located in the return of Jesus (‘alaihi alSalam) (See next chapter for difference between the ‘end of the world’ and the ‘end of history’). Hence such a possible literal Western sunrise cannot function as one of the ten major Signs of the Last Hour. Secondly such a literal Western sunrise would be possible only at that time of Tabdil or change of the Samawat and Earth mentioned above, and cannot occur before that event because of the declaration in the Qur’an that Allah’s creation does not change!  

 

We consequently recognize the Sign of ‘the sun rising from the west’ to be allegorical in nature and we insist that it has to be interpreted. We recognize the emergence and triumph of modern Western secular civilization with its scientific and technological revolution and its ever-increasing dominance over the whole world, to symbolize that (false) Western sunrise that is a major ‘Sign of the Last Hour’. And Allah Knows best!

 

If there is allegory in the ‘sun rising from the west’ it follows that other ‘Signs of the Last Hour’ as well can be allegorical, hence we need a methodology with which to interpret such allegory in the Qur’an and Ahadith.

The Qur’an has described its verses to be comprised of Muhkamat and Mutashabihat: 

“He it is who has sent the Book (i.e. the Qur’an) down upon thee (O Muhammad), containing verses that are muhkamat - and these are the essence of the Book – as well as others that are mutashabihat. Now those whose hearts are given to swerving from the truth go after that part of the Book which has been expressed in tashabbuh (allegory) seeking a (mis)interpretation of their meaning that sows confusion and discord. But none save Allah, as well as those who are deeply rooted in knowledge, know the interpretation (of such mutashabihat verses). They (i.e. the learned scholars) say: "We have faith in it; the whole (i.e, both the muhkamat and mutashabihat verses) are from our Lord-God”. But none takes this to heart save those who are endowed with insight."  (Qur’an, Ale ‘Imran, 3:7)

 

There are those who have arbitrarily inserted a waqf lazim (i.e. a mark of punctuation equivalent to a full-stop) after the word ‘Allah’ in the text of the above passage. As a consequence of this arbitrary punctuation they understand the verse to declare that ‘only’ Allah, and no one else beside Him, knows the meaning of the mutashabihat verses of the blessed Qur’an. While this is undoubtedly true of verses such as those that refer to the moment when the world would end, etc., which no one knows but Allah, there are other verses whose interpretation by the learned scholars is both possible and permitted. In the case of such verses the insertion of waqf lazim punctuation would be wrong. 

 

What could possibly have been the divine intent for the revelation of verses in the blessed Qur’an which are mutashabihat? Our view, and Allah Knows best, is that divine wisdom and grace would so continuously manifest itself that believers would be capable of distinguishing between learned scholars who correctly interpret such verses and others such as the misguided Mirza Ghulam Ahmad who create Fitnah with their misinterpretations of such verses of the blessed Qur’an. Thus the continuous correct interpretation of the blessed Qur’an by learned scholars would not only be a sign of divine grace but would also assist believers in recognizing and avoiding false sects.

 

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to be continued . . . .

 

 

Islamic Modernism

An Islamic View of Gog Magog in the Modern World

 

 

Islamic Modernism

This is a sect of secularized Muslims who are enamored by the scientific and technological achievements of modern Western secular civilization and by its political and military power and economic prosperity. They recognize and interpret this power and these achievements as a validation of secular Western civilization’s claim to truth. Indeed some of them actually claim that modern Western secular civilization emerged out of Islam and represents the blossoming of all that is best in Islam. The sect made its debut  in post-Caliphate Turkey.  

 

‘Islamic modernists’ wish to see the world of Islam so modernized that Muslims could comfortably embrace the Western way of life complete with its political Shirk, economic and monetary Riba, feminist revolution, and the like. Islamic modernists usually come to terms with the State of Israel and enter into friendship and alliance with that state. Modernist Turkey did so, and Musharraf’s modernist regime in Pakistan attempted to do the same. Other Islamic modernists find it expedient to maintain a convenient silence in response to oppression in the Holy Land.

 

They accept Israel’s moral and legal right to exist. They do so despite Israel’s record of continuing oppression from the moment of its tortured immoral and unjust creation and throughout its bloodstained existence. Some Islamic modernists even criticize mainstream Islam in its conflict with the Ahmadiyyah Movement. Others identify themselves with the West to the extent that when they reside in USA, UK, Australia, Canada, etc., they refer to members of the US and British armed forces engaged in brutal occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan as ‘our’ troops. They function as sponges that readily soak up all that they receive at the altar of the West. They can be easily identified through their denunciation of Jihad and those whom they demonize as Jihadists. They adopt terminology as “Islamists” and “Islamism” and hurl abuses against “Mullas”, “Islamic obscurantism” and “Islamic fundamentalism”. The late, Oxford-educated, Benazir Bhutto, was a typical product of Islamic modernism. 

 

They are quick to lecture Muslims against committing acts of terrorism but in doing so these Islamic modernists actually deliver false unspoken recognition of Muslim responsibility for such acts of terrorism as the 9/11 attack on America. In doing so they subliminally advance a sinister agenda on behalf of the Jewish-Christian alliance that now controls power in the world. They never recognize and denounce the greatest terrorist-States that the world has ever known, since if they were ever to criticize Israel, USA, UK and Europe for state-sponsored terrorism and for genocide in occupied Gaza in the Holy Land for example, and extend tangible support to the oppressed Palestinian Muslims and Christians, their modernist platform and alliance with the West would not survive. They close their ears and eyes and refuse to join the majority of American people in rejecting as lies the official US government explanation of the 9/11 terrorist attack on America.

 

Such misguided ‘Islamic modernists’ lack the capacity to recognize that while both civilizations have benefited from each other, the foundation of modern Western civilization is the anti-thesis of Islam. The religion of Islam is founded on truth, absolute moral values and a spiritual interpretation of the universe which transcends the visible material world. On the other hand this godless and decadent rival to Islam rejects belief in any reality beyond material reality, and constantly creates its own secular values in which, for example, homosexuality and lesbianism are no longer morally evil. There can be no synthesis between truth on the one hand, and godlessness, decadence, ethical relativism and metaphysical materialism on the other, yet the raison d’etre of Islamic modernism is located in the effort to realize precisely such a synthesis. 

 

This writer has recognized Dajjal as the mastermind responsible for bringing modern Western secular civilization into being, and just as Dajjal has the word Kafir (disbeliever) written between his eyes on his forehead so too is Kufr (disbelief) indelibly imprinted on the face of this civilization. Islamic Modernism is emphatically entrenching itself in the modern West in countries such as USA and UK. But it has also raised its ugly head in the Muslim world as was evident from recent events in Malaysia for example. Prime Minister Ahmad Abdullah Badawi has championed the cause of Islamic Modernism with his Islam Hadari movement.

 

Common to all these misguided sects is their reluctance to teach or write on the subject of ‘Signs of the Last Day in the Modern Age’. They also share with many in the rest of the world of Islam a curious, highly regrettable and utter lack of interest in seeking to locate the iron barrier that Dhul Qarnain had built which must necessarily be still standing if Gog and Magog have not as yet been released into the world. 

 

Also common to these sects is their demonization of those Muslims who pursue the authentic path of al-Ihsan or Tasawwuf (i.e. Islamic spirituality) despite the fact that this is a path and a struggle which can eventually deliver Nurullah (i.e. light from Allah Most High) and with it a capacity to see with two eyes (the internal and external) while Dajjal the false Messiah and his many disciples see with only one eye (i.e. the external eye). 

 

The world continues to wait for a scholarly work from Islamic modernists on the subject of ‘Signs of the Last Day in the Modern Age’. 

 

Elitist sectarian Sufism

Finally we must make mention of certain modern-day elitist Sufis who wield a magical pen in proclaiming the gospel of Islamic spirituality yet remain amazingly blind and incapable of recognizing the reality of much of what was described above, or are mysteriously silent on the subject. Neither can they recognize that the Hajj in the Saudi-American Kingdom is now controlled by the enemies of Islam and has therefore lost much of its validity, nor that modern non-redeemable paper currencies, as well as the cashless electronic money that is now poised to replace paper money, to be bogus, fraudulent and hence Haram. They cannot recognize the bogus nature of much of so-called Shariah-compliant Islamic Finance (the so-called Murabaha center-piece transaction of modern so-called Islamic finance is, in fact, Riba disguised as a sale), nor can they recognize voting in elections of the modern secular State to be an act of Shirk, and the list goes on and on. Most significant of all however is their non-participation, even with the pen, in the struggle of the contemporary world of Islam for liberation from western political and economic oppression. Yet many of these so-called Sufis constitute themselves as condescending elitist Muslims while others participate in sectarian rivalry with gusto. 

 

In demonstrating its capacity to use the Qur’an and Ahadith to accurately explain the strange world today, Islamic scholarship would not only validate truth in Islam but also distinguish itself from such elitist and sectarian Islamic scholarship. In explaining the subject of ‘Signs of the Last Day in the Modern Age’ Islamic scholarship would blaze a trail that would benefit Muslims who seek to distinguish between the very many spurious sectarian claims to authenticity in Islam on the one hand and the true faith on the other. 

 

Finally let us remind readers that many ‘Signs’ of the ‘Last Day’ are directly linked to the worst forms of oppression that are constantly escalating in the Holy Land. True Muslims can be recognized and distinguished from their counterfeit sectarian rivals through their determined resistance of the godless decadent oppressors who now rule the world on behalf of the imposter Euro-Jewish State of Israel. The rightly-guided community of Muslims (i.e. Jama’ah) would be those blessed with the capacity to locate that explanation of ‘Signs of the Last Day’ in the blessed Qur’an and Ahadith which explains events now unfolding in the Holy Land, and which guides to a proper response. They would be those who, as a consequence, wage a courageous struggle to realize in that Holy Land the triumph of truth and justice over falsehood, injustice and barbaric oppression.

 

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to be continued . . . .

 

 

Responding to Islamic sectarianism

An Islamic View of Gog Magog in the Modern World

 

Responding to Islamic sectarianism

There are many today who beat their sectarian drums with fury while portraying themselves as the only rightly-guided believers. They also relish in exposing their sectarian rivals, particularly the people of Tasawwuf, as misguided, while splitting hair over trivia and pouncing upon issues of peripheral importance. This book directs attention to that sectarian rivalry with dogmatic claims to truth, and challenges those sects to produce scholarly works on ‘Signs of the Last Day in the Modern Age’ in which are located Dajjal as well as Gog and Magog. 

 

There would be some readers who would probably have no knowledge whatsoever of Islamic sectarianism, hence the need to provide information about at least some of those sects. And then there would be other readers who, despite the above paragraph, would still be curious about the identity of Islamic sects. Since the blessed Prophet (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) himself prophesied the emergence of Islamic sectarianism and warned Muslims to stay away from such sects, Muslims need a criterion by which they can identify such sects. The subject of ‘Signs of the Last Hour’ and the method of response to those Signs provides such a criterion. Dajjal as well as Gog and Magog are most certainly located within the ‘Signs of the Last Hour’, hence the relevance of this subject as a response to Islamic sectarianism. 

 

The Shia sect

Islamic sectarianism emerged within a few decades of the Prophet’s death when the Shia sect was born. The most cherished of all their beliefs concerning prophecy is that a descendent of the Prophet (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) known as Imam al-Mahdi would eventually emerge and lead Muslims to victory over those waging war on Islam. The Prophet himself clearly prophesied that such would occur and both Sunnis and Shias have held firmly to this prophecy. Shias also believe that the advent of Imam al-Mahdi would validate their sectarian claim to truth within Islam.

 

However Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) clearly located the advent of Imam al-Mahdi to occur at a time that would be contemporaneous with the return of the true Messiah, Jesus the son of Mary:

“How would you be (i.e. how wonderful a time that would be for you) when the son of Mary descends amongst you and your Imam (i.e. Imam al-Mahdi) would be from your own (ranks).” (Sahih Bukhari)

 

This prophecy concerning a time when the Imam (i.e. ruler) of the Muslims would be from within their own ranks indicates that for some time prior to that event they would be ruled by non-Muslims. In other words the world of Islam would lose its freedom to rule itself. Perhaps the entire post-Caliphate Sunni world is today ruled (by proxy) by the European Jewish-Christian rulers of the world. They force so-called Muslim (Sunni) governments into such a state of submission that those countries become client-states of the West. It is almost impossible for any Sunni Muslim community today to escape from their vicious grip and recover such independent self-rule that would free them from Judeo-Christian political and economic influence and control.

 

Shia Iran, on the other hand, has claimed that the successful Iranian Islamic revolution has taken that country out of the sphere of influence and control of the non-Muslim rulers of the world. So long as Shia Iran continues to successfully defy the West (Imam al Khomeini demonized USA, appropriately so, as the “Great Satan”) while maintaining

a credible claim to independent self-rule, Shias would have to concede that a valid Imam or ruler from within their community rules over them. The implications for the Shia claim to truth in the context of the above Hadith concerning the advent of Imam al-Mahdi and the return of Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salam) should be obvious.

 

The above Hadith also makes it clear that the advent of Imam al-Mahdi cannot take place until the time draws close for the return of Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salam). But Jesus cannot return until Dajjal the false Messiah has completed his mission of impersonation of the true Messiah. And Dajjal cannot complete that mission of impersonation until the Holy Land is liberated for the Jews and the Israelite Jews are brought back from exile to the Holy Land to reclaim it as their own. 

 

The Qur’an itself has declared in Surah al-Anbiyah’, 21:94-95 that a return to the “town” from which they were expelled (we recognize that town to be Jerusalem) would take place only when two things have occurred:

• when Gog and Magog are released, and

• they have spread out in all directions.

 

Now that the Israelites have returned to reclaim the Holy Land as their own, it should be clear that a Shia sectarian claim to represent the true Islam cannot be validated in the absence of demonstration of understanding and penetration of the subjects of Gog and Magog as well as Dajjal. The world continues to await scholarly Shia works on those subjects as they impact upon the modern world. 

 

Ahmadiyyah 

Pride of place in the galaxy of deviant sects in the contemporary world of Islam belongs however, and mysteriously so, to the most-favored of modern Western secular civilization and of the State of Israel, i.e. the Ahmadiyyah Movement. A remarkable feature of this manifestly and dangerously misguided sect is that its founder, a man named Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, correctly located Gog and Magog in the nations of modern Western civilization. Indeed this false Prophet was amazingly correct on several other very important issues. However, despite the fact that he so exposed modern European nations, his movement yet continued to find abiding favor with them. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad deceptively corrupted the subject of ‘Signs of the Last Hour’ by falsely identifying Dajjal the false Messiah with Gog and Magog. (See ‘The Antichrist and Gog and Magog’, Muhammad Ali. No date. www.aaiil.com)

 

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad also startled the world with the equally false claim that the Hadith prophecy concerning the return of the true Messiah, Jesus the son of Mary (‘alaihi al-Salam), was fulfilled in him. Even while he accepted the truth of the blessed Prophet’s prophecy pertaining to the return of the true Messiah, he argued that Jesus died in Kashmir, was buried there, and will not himself return. Rather, he claimed, Prophet Muhammad was actually referring to him, i.e. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, when he made that prophecy. Mirza made that false claim in shameless denial of the fact that he was the son of a Punjabi woman while Prophet Muhammad clearly identified the Messiah who would return to be son of the Virgin Mary:

“ .  .  .  It will be at this very time that Allah will send the Messiah, the son of Mary. He will descend at the white minaret on the eastern side of Damascus, wearing two garments lightly dyed with saffron and placing his hands on the wings of two Angels. When he lowers his head, there will fall beads of perspiration from his head, and when he raises it up, beads like pearls will scatter from it. Every Kafir (i.e. disbeliever) who smells the odour of his body will die and his breath will reach as far as he is able to see .  .  .  .”  (Sahih Muslim)

 

In another Hadith, also prophesying that momentous return, the blessed Prophet made mention of Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salam) by name: 

“Hudhaifa bin Usaid Ghifari reported that Allah’s Messenger came to us all of a sudden as we were (busy in a discussion). He asked: “What are you discussing about?” They (the Companions) said, “We are discussing about the Last Hour”. Thereupon he said: “It will not come until you see ten signs” and (in this connection) he made mention of the ‘smoke’, ‘Dajjal’, ‘the beast’, ‘the rising of the sun from the west’, ‘the descent of Jesus the son of Mary’, ‘Gog and Magog’, and sinking of the earth in three places, one in the east, one in the west and one in Arabia at the end of which fire would burn forth from Yemen, and would drive people to their place of assembly.”  (Sahih Muslim)

 

An Ahmadiyyah claim to represent true Islam (and this applies to both sections of the Ahmadiyyah movement) should have provoked Ahmadi scholars to respond to ‘Jerusalem in the Qur’an’ published in 2002. 

 

The Wahhabi sect

Among the strange and misguided sects is one that mysteriously emerged out of the region of Najd in Arabia to declare all its Muslim rivals to be Mushrikun (i.e. a people who blaspheme against the one God), and to further declare it obligatory to kill all such rivals. Members of that Najdi Wahhabi sect entered into an alliance with a Saudi clan in order to win control over first, the Nejd, and then the Hejazi Arabian heartland of Islam. They sought this control over the Hejaz in order to cleanse it of what they considered to be Shirk (blasphemy) and to thus restore the true faith. When they succeeded in winning that control they proceeded to slaughter thousands of innocent Muslims. 

 

The raison d’etre for the mysterious emergence of the SaudiWahhabi alliance was clearly revealed when both the Saudi clan and the Wahhabi sect conspired in the creation in Arabia of a Saudi Anglo-American client-State that they audaciously named Saudi Arabia. In the process of creating that client State they destroyed Dar al-Islam and the Caliphate (i.e. Khilafah State) that the blessed Prophet had himself established. They were duped by Dajjal since their betrayal of Islam paved the way for Gog and Magog to fulfill their mysterious role described in the Qur’an (al-Anbiyah’:95-6). The Saudi-Wahhabi alliance also joined Europe’s mysterious Judeo-Christian alliance in preference to fraternal solidarity with those who proclaimed their faith in Islam. 

 

The final and formal consummation of this momentous deal with the very heartland of Islam was of such critical importance to the Judeo-Christian alliance that an American President had to travel himself on an American warship to meet personally with the Saudi King. The USS Murphy secretly took King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud from the Arabian port of Jeddah to the Great Bitter Lake in Egypt’s Suez Canal where the USS Quincy waited with US President Roosevelt on board. The two leaders met on February 14, 1945, to seal their alliance. The Saudi Wahhabis reaped the bitter  fruit of that alliance just three years later when the State of Israel was born and USA was proud to be the first State to recognize Israel.  

 

The fact that the Saudi-American alliance has not only survived but also prospered since that cataclysmic event in 1948 clearly indicates that the Wahhabi sect is complicit in the betrayal of Islam.   

 

So long as the Saudi-Wahhabi alliance maintained its client-State relationship with the European Jewish-Christian alliance which ruled the world, it remained impossible for any Muslim or combination of Muslims to dislodge them from control over the Hejaz, the Haramain and the Hajj. The predictable result was that this upstart sect with a claim to represent the true religion of Islam actually played a crucial role in delivering to the Jewish-Christian alliance the capacity to eventually rule over the entire world of Islam. (See ‘The Caliphate the Hejaz and the Saudi-Wahhabi Nation State’, www.imranhosein.org).

 

Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) clearly anticipated this betrayal when he declared of Najd, in a Hadith recorded in Sahih Bukhari, that from it would emerge “earthquakes trials tribulations and the ‘Qarn’ (i.e. age) of Satan” (the Saudi clan and leadership of the Wahhabi sect have both emerged from Najd). There was much debate in early Islam concerning the geographical location Najd. Some argued that it was located in Iraq rather than in Arabia. Sufficient time has now elapsed, however, for concrete evidence on the ground to confirm that the blessed Prophet’s prophecy has today been fulfilled. The courageous Muslims of Iraq are waging a magnificent armed struggle to liberate that territory from American/Israeli occupation while the Najdi religious and political leadership of Saudi Arabia slavishly and religiously preserve their ‘satanic’ alliance with those oppressors.  

 

A curious feature of Wahhabi religious thought in the modern age is its insistence on a literal interpretation of verses of the Qur’an as well as Ahadith that deal with the subject of ‘Signs of the Last Hour’. As a consequence the Wahhabi scholars (with few exceptions) remain handicapped by a methodology which renders them incapable of penetrating and correctly interpreting religious allegory and hence the reality of both Dajjal and Gog and Magog in the modern age. On the other hand Shia religious scholarship seems to be more willing to interpret allegory in the Qur’an and Hadith, and hence we hope to find them more receptive than others of such interpretations found in this book.   

 

Tableegh Jamaat (i.e. Jama’ah al-Tableegh)

Yet another strange and mysterious Indian sect declared those within its fold to be a people of Tabligh (i.e. missionary preaching). Their methodology of reaching out and leading people back to the non-strategic Sunnah of the blessed Prophet has succeeded in many peripheral parts of the Muslim world. Many of their members are sincere Muslims who do lead lives of overt piety. Hence it is quite mysterious that members of this apolitical sect would oft-times rather close their ears than join in a conversation or discussion that questions the truth of the American Government’s false claim that Arabs and Muslims planned and executed the 9/11 attack on America. 

 

The blessed Prophet (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) indicated very clearly that Muslims should respond in a different way to oppression. He declared about Dajjal: An-Nawwas b. Sam'an reported that the Prophet said (concerning Dajjal):

.  .  .  If he comes forth while I am among you, I shall argue with him on your behalf (i.e. I shall respond with arguments against him), but if he comes forth while I am not amongst you, then each must himself argue (i.e. respond with arguments against him) . . .” (Sahih Muslim)

 

Members of this sect betrayed their sectarianism by establishing their exclusive control over the Masajid of Allah Most High and then stubbornly excluding all others from preaching or teaching in Masajid under their control. They have stubbornly insisted on monopolizing knowledge imparted in the Masjid. Even so, this sect also adopted ‘an ostrich with its head in the sand’ policy in responding to the political, economic and other forms of oppression inflicted on Muslims by modern Western secular civilization. It was certainly not a question of defective methodology that has rendered scholars of this sect incapable of penetrating the reality of Dajjal as well as Gog and Magog in the modern age – rather this subject has been avoided as a matter of policy and principle, or rather as a plague. 

 

The only concern that the enemies of Islam harbor in respect of this strange and mysterious sect appears to be the fear that it can be infiltrated by Muslims (inspired by the likes of Malcolm X) who embrace the strategic Sunnah and respond courageously and fearlessly to the European Judeo-Christian alliance’s unjust war on Islam, and to their racism and oppression in the modern world.

 

The world continues to wait for a scholarly work from the Tableegh Jama’at on the subject of ‘Signs of the Last Day in the Modern Age’. 

 

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to be continued . . . .