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.
