Water in the world and in the Sea of Galilee

 

An Islamic View of Gog Magog in the Modern World

 

 

Water in the world and in the Sea of Galilee

There is additional evidence supporting our conclusion derived from the above Ahadith, for example, Gog and Magog have a profile already described, of such great consumption of water that rivers and lakes would run dry. The world is already experiencing precisely such a phenomenon of diminishing sweet water resources and evidence of such continues to increase as nations and tribes threaten to wage wars over increasingly scarce water resources. 

 

Dramatic evidence related to water confirming the release of Gog and Magog is also located in the Hadith describing them passing by the Sea of Galilee on their way to Jerusalem and drinking the water in that sea to such an extent that it would eventually dry up:

 

“.  .  .  It will be under such conditions that Allah will reveal to Jesus 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 by Lake Tiberias (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 here .  .  .  .’” (Sahih Muslim)

 

The water level in the Sea of Galilee is now so low that it is considered essentially dead, i.e. it is only a matter of time before it dries up. As we write this book, the water-level in the Sea is fast approaching the “black line” level of -214.4 meters below sea level. When it reaches that level, removing water from the lake, which is one of Israel's major water resource, will no longer be possible because the pumps will be above the water level. This is almost certain to occur before this book is published and reaches our readers. Readers are advised to keep abrest of the situation through Google search using ‘Lake Kinneret Black Line’.   

            

Additional dramatic proof of the release of Gog and Magog can be found in the growing evidence of the world’s great lakes now drying up. Canada’s Lake Superior for example, the greatest Great Lake and the world's largest freshwater reservoir, is now at its lowest water level ever.

 

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to be continued . . . .

 

Qard hasana

THE PROHIBITION OF RIBA IN THE QUR’AN AND SUNNAH

QARD HASANA

Assisting someone to pay his or her debt can take two forms. The debtor can be assisted with a grant or a loan. Loans in turn, are of two kinds: dain i.e. a debt contracted with some definite term fixed for repayment (of principal sum without interest), and qard hasana i.e. a loan given without any fixed term for repayment (of principal sum without any interest).

The Qur’an makes mention of dain in the following:

Oh you who believe, when you contract a debt (dain) for a fixed period, put it in writing . . .So do not fail to put your debts (dain) in writing, be they small or big, together with the date of payment. This is more just in the sight of Allah. . .

(Qur 'an; al-Baqarah:-2:252)

The Qur’an also makes mention of qard hasana (a generous loan) in several verses. Although the reference is always to making a generous loan to Allah the Most High, (2:245) (5:12) (57:11) (57:18) (64:17) (72:20), the term qard hasana has been used to designate a loan which is given without any fixed term for repayment: it being also understood that if the debtor has difficulty in repaying the loan it will be written off: Qard hasana therefore constitutes a charitable loan.

Who will grant Allah a generous loan (qard hasana)? He will repay him many times over. It is Allah who enriches and makes poor and to Him shall all return.

(Qur’an: al-Baqarah :- 2:145)

A qard hasana which is extended to assist someone to pay a dain will still constitute a charitable loan and will thus bring a manifold reward from Allah the Most High!

ON SEEKING HELP AND ENTERING INTO DEBT

Even though one may be in great need, a Muslim should still hesitate to take a loan or to ask for help:

Ibn Abbas reported Allah's Messenger as saying: If anyone is hungry or in need and conceals it from others, it will be due from Allah Who is great and glorious to give him a year’s provision from what is lawful.

(Baihaqi)

Imran bin Husain reported Allah's Messenger as saying: Allah loves His poor believing servant who refrains from begging and yet has children. (I understand this to mean: who refrains from begging even though he has (hungry) children).

(Ibn Majah)

Abu Kabsha al-Anmari said that he heard Allah's Messenger say: There are three things which l swear to be true and I shall tell you something else so keep it in memory. The three things which I swear to be true are that a man's property does not become less on account of sadaqa, that when a man is wronged and bears it patiently Allah will give him greater honor on that account, and that when a man opens a door towards begging Allah opens for him a door towards poverty.

The thing I am going to tell you which you must keep in memory is this. The world has four types of people, 

• a man whom Allah provides with property and knowledge in which he fears his Lord and joins ties of relationship, acting in it towards Allah as is due to Him, this man being in the most excellent station; 
• a man whom Allah provides with knowledge but not with property, who says with sincere intention that if he had property he would act as so and so does, their reward being equal; 
• a man whom Allah provides with property but not with knowledge, in which he acts in a random manner ignorantly, not fearing his Lord respecting it or using it to join ties of relationship or dealing with it in a right way this man being in the worst station; 
• a man whom Allah provides with neither property nor knowledge, who says that if he had property he would deal with it as so and so does, (i.e. the third man) and has this Intention, the load they have to bear being equal.

(Trmidhi)

Source: IMRAN N. HOSEIN

to be continued . . . . 

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