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Dajjāl, Thee Qur’ān and

Awwal Al-Zaamān

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ANSĀRĪ MEMORIAL SERIES

DAJJĀL
(the Anti-Christ)

THE QUR’ĀN
AND AWWAL AL-ZAMĀN

(the Beginning of History)

IMRAN N. HOSEIN

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© Imran N. Hosein, Safar 1439 (Hijri); 2017 (Gregory)

All rights reserved by the Author.

Published by
Imran N. Hosein Publications

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Email:  inhosein@hotmail.com
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For my beloved son

Mujāhid
with the hope and prayer that he will be inspired

to reach for the stars—and then to travel on—
for beyond the stars there are many more worlds!

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ْلُقْرآِن َمن َخيَاُف َوِعيدِ  .  .  ِ   .  .َفذَكِّْر

(Qur’ān, Qāf, 50:45)

Remind, through this Qur’ān,
those who fear Allah’s warning.

[This is an explanation, rather than a translation, of the Qur’ān,
since the Arabic Qur’ān cannot be translated to another
language.]

 َفَال ُتِطِع اْلَكاِفرِيَن َوَجاِهْدُهم ِبِه ِجَهاًدا َكِبريًا
(Qur’ān, al-Furqān, 25:52)

Do not submit to and obey those who are hostile to
Islam. Rather, wage a mighty Jihād against them by
means of this Qur’ān.

َِِْْم َِْويُلُه َكَذِلَك   بُواْ ِمبَا ملَْ حيُِيُطواْ ِبِعْلِمِه َوَلمَّا  َبْل َكذَّ
 َكذََّب الَِّذيَن ِمن قـَْبِلِهْم فَانظُْر َكْيَف َكاَن َعاِقَبُة الظَّاِلِمنيَ

(Qur’ān, Yūnus, 10:39)

They rejected a scripture in which there is knowledge
that they could not compass, and with verses whose
Ta’wīl or interpretation had not as yet come unto
them. There were others before them who also
responded similarly; so they should remember the fate
which befell such people.

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“And there shall be signs in the sun,
and in the moon, and in the stars;

and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;
the sea and the waves roaring;”

(Gospel, Luke: 21:25)

And I will show wonders in heaven above,
and signs in the earth beneath;

blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke:
(Gospel, Acts: 2:19)

“And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars:
see that ye be not troubled:

for all these things must come to pass,
but the end is not yet.”

(Gospel, Matthew: 24:6)

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Contents

Preface .................................................................................. xiii

Ansārī Memorial Series ........................................................ xv

Chapters

Introduction Dr. Burhān Ahmad Fārūqī
— the philosopher of history .................................................. 1

Islamic scholarship and Eschatology ...................................... 6

Outline of book .......................................................................... 13

The Arabic Text of the Qur’ān ............................................... 14

For the Christian and Jewish Reader .................................... 24

1. Introducing Dajjāl, The Jasad
(a Human Body without a Soul) ........................................... 29

A Gentle Warning ..................................................................... 29

The Basic Description ............................................................... 29

The Complexity of the Subject—Dajjāl is One-Eyed....... 34

The Qur’ān and Internal Sight ............................................... 38

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Deducing Dajjāl’s Further Profile ......................................... 46

Profile of the Two Great Prophet-Kings ............................. 49

An Impostor on Solomon’s Throne ..................................... 53

Dā’bbatul Ard (i.e., a beast or creature of the earth) ....... 58

David and Solomon—the Miraculous Profile ................... 69

2. Methodology of Connecting  the Beginning
of History with the End ........................................................ 79

History Begins and Ends with Allah Most High ............... 79

The Beginning, the End, and Dajjāl ..................................... 89

Jesus, the Jews and the Chosen People ................................ 95

Epistemology and Methodology .......................................... 102

3. The Human Rūh, The Divine Rūh,  The Rūh Al-Qudus
and The Messiah Who Is Himself Rūh ............................... 111

Relevance of this subject ........................................................ 111

What is the Rūh? ...................................................................... 114

How can the Divine Rūh be bestowed on all and sundry
when we are the Chosen People of the Lord-God? ........ 123

The Holy Spirit (al-Rūh al-Qudus) ..................................... 128

The Messiah is himself a Rūh or Spirit .............................. 138

4. The Angels Prostrate before Ādam
 in Awwal Al-Zamān ........................................................... 143

Why Prostration? ..................................................................... 143

Is Prostration before a human being an act of worship?151

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5. Arrogance in Awwal Al-Zamān ...................................... 157

A Khalīfah (or Ruler) on Earth ............................................ 157

The Angels Respond to a Khilāfah State on Earth.......... 166

The Amānah or Trust was a mission to rule justly (in
accordance with Truth) .......................................................... 170

Arrogance at the beginning of history and a false claim to a
birth-right of superiority ....................................................... 174

The Parallel between the End and the Beginning of History
 ....................................................................................................... 181

Another event in Awwal al-Zamān .................................... 184

What is the Forbidden Tree? ................................................ 185

Conclusion .......................................................................... 197

Appendix

1. Qur’ān, Sūrah al-Māidah: 5:51
Being a commentary by Hasbullah Shafi’iy to Maulānā
Imran N. Hosein’s interpretation of the verse. .................. 201

2. Summary of views on the Jasad by the classical
commentators of the Qur’ān By Hasbullah Shafi’iy .......... 253

3. Rabbi Rabinovich’s Speech of January 12th, 1952 ......... 265

Index ................................................................................... 277

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Preface

I kept waiting for ten years before I could write this pioneering
book on Dajjāl, the false Messiah or Anti-Christ, but this long
wait was a blessing in disguise since my knowledge of the
subject and, more importantly, my understanding of
methodology for the study of the subject, has matured
significantly over this time. Hence I suggest to those who now
venture to write on the subject, to allow the river of thought
and understanding to flow at its own speed.

I am grateful to a brother resident in New Zealand who
was the first to assist in sponsoring the writing this new book,
and to another Pakistani brother whose kind sponsorship
allowed me to write a significant part of the book. Sponsors in
UK then took over the sponsorship until, Alhamdu lillah, this
first book on Dajjāl was completed. I am also grateful to those
who generously assisted in meeting the cost of printing this
book. May Allah, Most High, bless them all for their kind
assistance. Āmīn!

I will now resume work on my second book on Dajjāl

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entitled: From Jesus the True Messiah to Dajjāl the False
Messiah—A Journey in Islamic Eschatology. I propose to write
an additional three books on Dajjāl on the topics of Dajjāl and
‘Money’, Dajjāl and the modern ‘Feminist Revolution’, and
finally, Dajjāl, the Qur’ān and Ākhir al-Zamān, or the end of
history.  May Allah Most Kind make it possible for me to
accomplish this task Insha’ Allah.

I know that these five books will not exhaust the subject of
Dajjāl, but I hope and pray that they will provoke others Insha’
Allah, to take up the challenge to write on those subjects which
are yet to be explained.

I am grateful to those who read the manuscript of this
book and assisted with valuable comments, as well as with
proof-reading, and to my Assistant, Hasbullah, who was always
there to assist me in searching for the texts of many Hadīth as
well as references in the Sīrah, i.e., history of the life of Prophet
Muhammad لمصلى الله عليه وس .

I have dedicated this book to my son, Mujāhid Fazlur
Rahman, who was named after his grand-father, Maulānā Dr.
Muhammad Fazlur Rahman Ansārī (rahimahullah). Mujāhid is
also the great grand-son of Maulānā Muhammad Abdul Aleem
Siddique (rahimahullah). I hope and pray that this dedication
might inspire him to follow in their noble footsteps in serving
the mission of Islam. Āmīn!

Imran N. Hosein
Safar1439 / November 2017
San Fernando in the Caribbean island of Trinidad.

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Ansārī Memorial Series

The Ansārī Memorial Series of books is published in loving
memory of Maulānā Dr. Muhammad Fazlur Rahmān Ansārī
(1914–1974) who was a Sufi Shaikh of the Qāderiyyah Sufi
Order, a philosopher, an outstanding Islamic scholar of the
modern age, a roving missionary of Islam, and my teacher and
spiritual mentor of blessed memory. My love for him, and my
continuously increasing admiration for both his Islamic
scholarship as well as his philosophical thought, more than 40
years after his death, is such that I cherish the very dust on
which he walked.

I began writing the books of the Ansārī Memorial Series in
1994 while I was still resident in New York, and functioning as
Director of Islamic Studies for the Joint Committee of Muslim
Organizations of Greater New York. I started the Series of
books in Maulānā’s honor because I wanted to offer a gift to
my teacher on the 25th anniversary of his death. The first six
books of the Series were launched in the Masjid of the Muslim
Centre of New York in Flushing Meadows, Queens, New York,
in 1997, and in the years which have since passed, many more

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books were added to the Series. A complete list of books in the
Series can be found at the end of this book.

The next book in the Series, entitled From Jesus, the True
Messiah, to Dajjāl, the False Messiah—A Journey in Islamic
Eschatology, promises to be the most difficult and challenging
of all. The subject is both difficult and challenging because,
among other things, it takes a scholar directly inside the
Zionists’ hornet’s nest, and as a consequence there are few
scholars who are prepared to risk writing or speaking on this
subject. But let us recall that the blessed Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم
said:

يْطَاِن مِْن َألِْف عَا  بِدٍفَقِيهٌ وَاِحدٌ َأَشّدُ عَلَى الّشَ
“One learned (scholar) is harder on Satan than a
thousand worshippers”.

(Sunan Ibn Mājah)

Hence scholarly books and lectures on Dajjāl,
whose Fitnah (evil) is described by Prophet Muhammad
 as greater than that of Satan, will surely be a means صلى الله عليه وسلم
through which our readers would be able to identify true
scholars of Islam. I pray that my present humble pioneering
book on Dajjāl entitled Dajjāl the Qur’ān  and Awwal al-
Zamān, i.e.,  the beginning of History, might pass the test of
scholarship, and if it does do so, Insha’ Allah, that it might
encourage the learned scholars of Islam of the modern age to
also address this important subject.

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I recognize the subject of Dajjāl to be the ultimate test of
Islamic scholarship, and that implies that it constitutes the
ultimate test of methodology for study of the Qur’ān and for
assessment of Hadīth. I am convinced that only an authentic
Sufi scholar can write credibly on the subject of Dajjāl, because
only he has the proper methodology for the study of the Qur’ān
and the assessment of Hadīth, the Sufi epistemology of spiritual
insight with which to interpret religious symbolism, as well as
the tangible vibrating spiritual bond with Nabī Muhammad
 which are all indispensable for penetrating the صلى الله عليه وسلم
subject; and this is why I have to devote attention to the
religious thought of Maulānā Ansārī, the authentic Sufi Shaikh.
I could never have written my book on Dajjāl without the
benefit of his religious thought. The methodology of the
scholars of ‘Islamic Modernism’, of the Salafi, Shia, Deobandi,
Brelvi or of a Tablīgh Jamaat, for example, will not allow a
scholar whose primary identification is with those sects, to
successfully penetrate the subject of Dajjāl. I invite them, gently
so, to prove me wrong.

I met Maulānā Ansārī for the first time in 1960 in my
native Caribbean island of Trinidad when I was just 18 years of
age. I had done some studies in science, and I was quite
surprised to learn that a Maulānā (an Islamic religious scholar
of a very high rank) would be visiting Trinidad from Pakistan,
and that he would lecture at my Montrose Village Masjid on
the subject of ‘Islam and Science’. (The Masjid was
subsequently named after him as Masjid al-Ansārī.) My
response to the news was quite skeptical, since at that young

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age I knew of no possible link between Islam and science.

On the night of the lecture he astonished me with his
scientific scholarship, as well as with knowledge of Islam of
which I was hitherto quite ignorant. I was surprised to learn
that the Qur’ān had, time and again, appealed to ‘observation’
and to ‘inductive reasoning’, and hence to what is today called
‘scientific enquiry’, as the method through which one should
seek to penetrate and understand the reality of the material
universe. I was also surprised to learn that knowledge which
had come to the world these last few hundred years from some
of the discoveries of modern science, such as in embryology,
had already been present in the Qur’ān.

I was even more surprised when Maulānā lectured at
Woodford Square in the capital city of Port of Spain, on ‘Islam
and Western Civilization’ before an audience which filled the
large Square to capacity, and with the Oxford University–
trained Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Dr. Eric E.
Williams, sitting on the platform beside him. Dr. Williams had
himself already dealt a severe blow to Western Civilization in
his PhD thesis at Oxford entitled ‘Capitalism and Slavery’. The
learned Prime Minister was clearly impressed by Maulānā’s
scholarship as he dissected the godless pagan foundations of a
barbaric and oppressive civilization that had arrogantly and
deceptively presented itself as the best that the world had ever
experienced, and would ever experience.

Maulānā’s dynamic Islamic scholarship, and the spiritual
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inspired me to such an extent that I, also, wanted to become a
scholar of Islam. By November 1963, and at the age of twenty-
one, I became a student of Al Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt,
which was the most famous institution of higher Islamic
learning in the world. But I could not find in Al Azhar
University the dazzling Islamic scholarship to which I was
exposed three years earlier in Maulānā Ansārī. The scholars of
Al Azhar appeared to me to have been stuck in time, and could
not compare with Maulānā in their scholarly understanding of
the reality of the strange and challenging modern age, nor in
their capacity to offer an Islamic response for example, to
challenges posed by the modern scientific and technological
revolution, the feminist revolution, etc.

I left Egypt and travelled to Pakistan in August 1964 to
become Maulānā’s student at the Aleemiyah Institute of
Islamic Studies in Karachi, and that was the best decision that I
have ever taken in life. [The Institute still exists to this day at the

Islamic Center in Block B of the Karachi suburb of North Nazimabad.]

I remained his student until I graduated from the Institute
seven years later in 1971 at the age of twenty-nine with the
degree of Al-Ijāzah al-‘Āliyah, and returned to Trinidad. I
never met him again in life, since he died three years later in
1974 in Pakistan at the age of 60.

There are many things about Maulānā that I would love to
write and to record for history, but by far the most important
of all aspects of his rich and multi-faceted life was his religious
thought, and that is what I have attempted to explain in my

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brief essay on the subject. It was crucially important for me to
do so, not only because his exceptional scholarship offers some
assistance for modern Islamic scholarship to extricate itself
from its present sorry and miserable plight (one cannot find a
single prominent Islamic scholar today who dares to declare
the present paper-money monetary system to be bogus,
fraudulent and Harām), but also because his scholarship has
played such an important role in guiding and assisting me in
writing my present pioneering book on Dajjāl, the false
Messiah, which is the latest book in the Ansārī Memorial
Series.

That essay can be found in the Appendix to my book on
‘Methodology for Study of the Qur’ān’.

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Introduction
Dr. Burhān Ahmad Fārūqī
– the philosopher of history

No one can possibly write a book concerning Dajjāl, the Anti-
Christ, and the beginning of history, without a knowledge of the
philosophy of history. The seed of this book may have been
planted in the 1930s, at the Aligarh Muslim University in India,
when two students, who were dear friends, Muhammad Fazlur
Rahmān Ansārī and Burhān Ahmad Fārūqī, pursued studies
for their PhDs in Philosophy under the guidance of Prof. Dr.
Syed Zafar-ul-Hassan.

Dr. Fārūqī eventually wrote a masterpiece of ‘Ilm al-
Kalām, or Islamic Philosophy, entitled ‘A Mujaddid’s
Conception of Tauheed’, and Maulānā Dr. Ansārī wrote a
masterpiece of ‘Ilm al-Akhlāq’ or Islamic Moral Philosophy,
entitled The Quranic Foundations and Structure of Muslim
Society (in 2 vols.).

This writer was blessed, thirty years later in the 1960s,
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scholarly lives, to have them both as his teachers at the
Aleemiyah Institute of Islamic Studies in Pakistan.  Dr. Fārūqī
taught the philosophy of history, and Dr. Ansārī taught the
Qur’ān and, vastly more importantly, the methodology for
study of the Qur’ān. That methodology was explained in his
‘Quranic Foundations’ book, but was simplified and expanded
in this writer’s recent book entitled ‘Methodology for Study of
the Qur’ān’.

More than fifty years have passed since that dazzling
moment in scholarly time at the Aleemiyah Institute of Islamic
Studies in Pakistan, when two truly gifted scholars of Islam
taught and inspired just a handful of students, and built the
foundation on which this pioneering book on Dajjāl, as well as
the others which will now follow Insha’ Allah, now rests.

How do we explain an Aleemiyah Institute of Islamic
Studies with a curriculum of studies and a methodology for
study of the Qur’ān that differed so significantly from the
traditional Dār al-‘Ulūm, or the Jāmi’ah, i.e., Islamic seminary
or university? The answer lies in the intellectual response of
part of the Indian Muslim community to the challenge of
modern western civilization. One part of the Indian Muslim
community recognized that the traditional Islamic education
imparted in the Dār al-‘Ulūm was woefully inadequate for a
student to even understand the modern world that had come
into being in consequence of the dramatic emergence of
modern western civilization on the stage of the world. Dr.
Muhammad Iqbal, for example, mourned over the fact that,

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according to him: “During the last five hundred years religious thought

in Islam has been practically stationary” (Reconstruction of Religious

Thought in Islam; Essay entitled ‘Knowledge and Religious Experience’).

Iqbal was referring, of course, to the religious scholarship that
was emerging from the Dār al-‘Ulūm.

That part of the Indian Muslim community which
recognized the inadequacy of the Dār al-‘Ulūm education,
proceeded to establish an academically independent institution
of higher Islamic learning which would not only teach the
religion of Islam, but would also introduce the student to the
modern world of knowledge that had emerged from western
civilization. And so the seed of this book was planted when the
Aligarh Muslim University was established in the rural town of
Aligarh in India. It was truly an academic institution, since it
was free of government control.

We will demonstrate Insha’ Allah, that it was Dajjāl who
brought the new modern western world into being, and it is he
who is constantly changing it—and with it, the rest of the world
—to bring stranger new worlds into being. Since Dajjāl is
Allah’s supreme test for mankind, surpassing everything that
preceded him, Dajjāl is also the supreme test for the Dār al-
‘Ulūm. Not only has the Dār al-‘Ulūm continuously failed that
test for the last few hundred years, but these books on Dajjāl
will conclusively demonstrate that it continues to fail that test
even to this day. Indeed, the book on Dajjāl and Money would
suffice, Insha’ Allah, to remove any lingering doubts
concerning that subject.

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Not only has the Dār al-‘Ulūm failed the test, but even the
graduates of western universities and government-sponsored
Islamic universities as well as government-paid Muftis and
other such scholars of Islam, have also failed, sometimes
miserably so, in responding adequately and appropriately  to
the intellectual challenges posed by the modern west.

Aligarh-trained Dr. Fārūqī was an intellectual rebel who
defied conventional thought as he waved and thrust his
scholarly sword with nary a concern for conventional
sensibilities in the world of knowledge, and in the pursuit of
truth. He built the foundation of his philosophy of history on
‘perennial truth’, with which history commenced, and insisted
that history must end with the triumph of that same truth. But
in-between the beginning of history with ‘truth’, and the end of
history with the ‘re-realization of that truth’, he declared that
history moves up and down in what he described as ‘the zig-zag
movement of history’.

The conclusion that emerged from that philosophy of
history was that the arrogant Zionist Western world, and
Dajjāl’s Impostor State of Israel, could weave their full-
spectrum dominance on the world on whichever cloth they
chose, it would make no difference to the end of history. Truth
would still triumph over falsehood, lies, injustice, oppression
and false-flag acts of terrorism in which the alleged Muslim
terrorist is always killed, or commits suicide, hence
conveniently avoiding, again and again, the possibility of a
court case.

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Without Maulānā Dr. Ansārī’s amazing methodology for
study of the Qur’ān however, it would not have been possible
for the Aleemiyah Institute of Islamic Studies to offer a higher
Islamic education which allowed the student to integrate all
knowledge into a coherent whole while critically assessing with
the Qur’ān, all knowledge that came from the west. Without
that critical intellectual effort at integration of knowledge, the
student would have emerged with a split personality as he
straddled dual intellectual worlds without a bridge with which
to cross between them. He would have studied Islam with one
mind, and studied the modern world with a second mind that
was disconnected from the first. Such a scholar would have
been, and would still be, a misfit in both worlds.

It was not possible for Dr. Fārūqī’s philosophy of history to
be grounded in the Qur’ān without the application of Dr.
Ansari’s methodology for the study of the Qur’ān. And so it
was with the combined thought of these two amazing scholars
that this book on ‘Dajjāl the Qur’ān and the Beginning of
History’ could be written.

A serious book written at this time—the late afternoon of
history—on the subject of Dajjāl the false Messiah or Anti-
Christ, and firmly grounded in the Qur’ān, is sure to attract the
attention of many Christians and Jews, in addition, of course,
to the scholars of Islam and the literate world of Islam. This
initial book on Dajjāl however, as well as the books on the
subject which will now follow this book, might very well be
judged to be a pioneering attempt to present the scholarly

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viewpoint of Islam on this subject. As such it may attract even
more attention. For this reason we invite serious comments,
and even critical responses which can be published in a second
edition Insha’ Allah.  Responses can be sent by email to
inhosein@hotmail.com, or to our website www.imranhosein.org where
this text will be placed for free download and for comments.

Islamic scholarship and Eschatology

Islamic scholarship should not be blamed for ignoring
eschatology; rather, it would be more appropriate to recognize
that Islamic eschatology could not properly be developed as a
branch of knowledge until events had unfolded sufficiently in
the historical process to allow the discerning scholar to
penetrate and recognize the meaning and implication of several
verses of the Qur’ān as well several prophecies of Prophet
Muhammad صل هللا عليه و سلم pertaining to Ākhir al-Zamān or the
End-time.

The Qur’ān has given notice that the world is yet to know
the Ta’wīl or ‘interpretation’ of certain of its verses perhaps
because ‘interpretation’ would be possible only with the passage
of time and the unfolding of events in history:

.  .  .     ُ يلُه ا يَْأتِهِْم تَْأوِ .  .  . وَلَمَّ
(Qur’ān, Yūnus, 10:39)

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Allah Most High, discloses above that there are verses
of the Book whose interpretation have not as yet come
unto them .   .   .

It would be helpful to the gentle reader if we were to
provide an example of such an event which had to occur before
an important prophecy located in Islamic eschatology, i.e.,
pertaining to the End-time, could be interpreted and explained.

Prophet Muhammad صل هللا عليه و سلم prophesied more than
1400 years ago, in a Hadīth recorded in Sahīh Bukhārī: that the

River Euphrates would uncover a mountain of gold, and that people would

fight for that gold. He declared that 99 out of every 100 who fight for

that gold would be killed, but that each would believe that he would be the

one who would survive. He ended by warning the believers that
they must not touch that gold.

Here is the Arabic text of the Hadīth:

هِ صلى الله عليه  َّ َيْرَةَ، َأّنَ رَُسوَل الل عَْن َأبِي هُر
ى َيحْسِرَ الْفُرَاُت  ” وسلم قَالَ  َّ اعَةُ َحت لاَ تَقُومُ الّسَ

اُس عَلَيْهِ فَيُْقتَُل  َّ عَْن َجبٍَل مِْن ذَهٍَب يَْقتَتُِل الن
يَقُوُل كُّلُ رَجٍُل  مِْن كُّلِ مِائَةٍ تِْسعَةٌ وَتِْسعُونَ وَ

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   .مِْنهُْم لَعَلِّي َأُكونُ َأنَا الَّذِي َأْنجُو
There are those who, in consequence of using a defective

methodology of study, await a mountain of the metal that
would one day emerge from underneath the River. They have
already waited in vain for the fulfillment of this prophecy for
more than 1400 years, and our view is that they will still wait in
vain for another 1400 years. We, however, have recognized the
Hadīth to be Mutashābihah, i.e., allegorical, and that it must
hence be interpreted in order for its meaning to be penetrated.

Our interpretation of the Hadīth is that when US Secretary
of State, Henry Kissinger, succeeded in making a satanic deal
with Saudi Arabia’s King Faisal in 1974, for oil to be sold for
only USD, the US dollar became a petrodollar, and an ocean of
oil underneath the ‘river’ began to function as a mountain of
gold supporting the US dollar. This event was the fulfillment of
the Prophet’s ominous prophecy; and Allah Knows best!

If our interpretation of the Hadīth is correct, then the
current rival BRICS monetary system represents an attack on
the mountain of gold petrodollar monetary system that will
lead, inevitably so, to that Great War in which 99% of
combatants will be killed. Only a nuclear war, or a war in which
weapons of mass destruction are used, can result in such a great
percentage of fatalities.

Most of the Hadīth pertaining to Dajjāl are similar to the
above Hadīth since they have to be interpreted in order to be

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understood; and it was not possible for anyone to interpret that
Hadīth until certain events had unfolded in the world of
money. First there was the birth of modern Western
civilization with an agenda of perpetrating universal Fasād on
earth (Fasād is that which corrupts to the extent that it can destroy). The
Qur’ān identified Gog and Magog as the perpetrators of that
universal Fasād. It did so by first identifying Gog and Magog
with Fasād on earth:

 ْ   نِ ِإّنَ يَْأُجوَج وَمَْأُجوَج قَالُوا يَا ذَا الْقَرْنَي
  مُْفِسدُونَ فِي اْلَأْرِض فَهَْل َنجْعَُل لَكَ

ا  بَيْنَهُْم َسّدً  خَْرجًا عَلَى َأن َتجْعََل بَيْنَنَا وَ
(Qur’ān, al-Kahf, 18:94)

After they solved the language problem of
communication, those people informed Dhūl Qarnain
that Gog and Magog were inflicting Fasād, i.e., that
which corrupts to the extent that it can cause
destruction, in their territory. They then asked
whether they could pay him to build a barrier that
would protect them from Gog and Magog.

The Qur’ān then said that Gog and Magog would one day
be released into the world, and that the world would then be

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subjected to their Fasād as a universal phenomenon:

هُْم لَا يَرِْجعُونَ  َاهَا َأّنَ يَةٍ َأهْلَْكن ْ   وَحَرَامٌ عَلَى قَر
ى ِإذَا فُتَِحْت يَْأُجوُج وَمَْأُجوُج وَهُم مِّن  َّ   َحت

 كُّلِ حَدٍَب يَنِسلُونَ
(Qur’ān, al-Anbiyāh, 21:95–6)

Allah Most High, disclosed that there was a Divine
ban on the people of a Town (which we identify as
Jerusalem) which was destroyed and from which those
people were expelled by Divine decree, that they could
never return to reclaim that town as their own until
Gog and Magog were released, and they then spread
out in all directions and hence take control of the
world in the world-order of Gog and Magog.

Since it is the West which made possible the return of the
Jews to Jerusalem to reclaim it as their own, it is as clear as
daylight that Gog and Magog are located within modern
Western civilization. Russia, incidentally, is not a part of the
decadent West. A man cannot marry another man in Russia
and get a marriage certificate. Rather the decadent West is now
preparing to wage nuclear war on an Orthodox Christian
Russia which they have hated from the day that the modern

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West was mysteriously born.

No one could have understood the prophecy of the
‘mountain of gold’ until the decadent West had corrupted the
world of money by printing paper and using it as money. They
then waged wars of naked aggression in order to colonize the
rest of the world and to impose, through the Bretton Woods
Accord, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), a
monetary system in which one paper-money, i.e., the US dollar,
became the ruling money in the world.  However France had a
great ruler in General Charles De Gaulle, and he could see
through the deception and injustice of that monetary system.
The French challenge to the system eventually forced the US to
abandon it in 1971, and to replace it in 1974 with the
petrodollar monetary system that was made possible through
the ‘mountain of gold’.

The Hadīth concerning the ocean of oil functioning as a
mountain of gold is also connected to Dajjāl since this book
argues that Dajjāl will have to demonstrate his capacity to
succeed the Prophet-Kings David and Solomon, i.e., Nabī Dāud
and Nabī Sulaimān عليهما السالم, for whom Allah caused the earth to
bring forth its treasures:

 .  .  .  وََأَسلْنَا لَهُ عَيْنَ الْقِْطرِ  .  .  .
(Qur’ān, Saba’, 34:12)

Allah Most High caused a lake of molten copper to

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flow at David’s behest.

Prophet Muhammad prophesied (as only a true Prophet
can prophesy) that the earth would one day bring forth its
treasures for Dajjāl:

He would then walk through the waste land and say to
it: Bring forth your treasures, and the treasures would
come out and collect (themselves) before him like the
swarm of bees.

(Sahīh Muslim)

Hence, there is a direct connection between Dajjāl and the
bogus Bretton Woods monetary system which was eventually
replaced by the petrodollar monetary system in which the earth
sent forth its treasures to help Dajjāl to continue, and even
expand, his control over the world of money.

For more information and analysis on this subject readers
may wish to view the following of my lectures:

 Islam, the Petrodollar and Beyond:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTdYyt05qLU;

 Beyond the Petrodollar—An Islamic Response to the
Bogus Monetary System:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cgq6V4xWIIk;

 Islam, the Petrodollar and Russia’s Tryst with Destiny:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-ZGAaTXEj0;

 Islam, the Petrodollar and the Great War:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzYe3BS71oY.

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Outline of book

We commence, in Chapter One, our explanation of the subject
of Dajjāl, or the Anti-Christ, appropriately so, with a
description of his profile. This includes data concerning him
which has to be literally understood, as well as other data which
must be interpreted. It is in that latter exercise that we are led
to the startling discovery in the Qur’ān that Dajjāl is a Jasad,
i.e., a human body without a spirit. This leads us to important
conclusions which will intrigue the reader as well as the Zionist
Judeo-Christian world.

We then go on to recognize, through a process of logical
deduction, that the Jews must await a Messiah who would
match the Prophet-Kings David and Solomon, i.e., Nabī Dāud and

Nabī Sulaimān عليهما السالم, in respect of power, as well as in respect
of divinely-bestowed miraculous capacities. Solomon was
blessed, for example, with a measure of control over the
weather, and Dajjāl will therefore have to demonstrate that he
has a similar capacity.

Chapter Two is devoted to our methodology for study of
the subject in which we demonstrate that there is a link
between the beginning and the end of history.

In Chapter Three we take up our subject with the response
of the Rabbis in Yathrib to the query of the Quraish asking how
they could determine whether or not Muhammad, the Arab
from Makkah, was indeed a true Prophet of the Lord-God. In
their response, the Rabbis had posed three questions which,

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according to them, only a Prophet could answer. One of the
questions was about the Rūh or Spirit. This chapter is devoted
to the subject of the Rūh and in doing so it exposes the Jewish
claim to be the chosen people of the Lord-God, to be false.

Chapter Four is devoted to an analysis of the most
important event that occurred at the beginning of history, i.e.,
the Divine Command to the Angels, as well as to a Jinn named
Iblīs, to bow down in prostration before Ādam عليه السالم. The
analysis of this event further confirms our conclusion that the
Jewish claim to be the chosen people of the Lord-God is false.

The substance of this book is located in Chapter Five in
which we describe and analyze other events occurring at the
beginning of history which have a direct link with Dajjāl’s
mission at the end of history to seek to replicate Solomon’s
Holy State of Israel.

Our readers should note that neither the Qur'ān nor
the Hadīth have referred by name to the Holy State which was
created by David, i.e., Nabi’ Daūd ه ال علي  and over which his ,مالس
son also ruled. When we use the name, 'Holy State of Israel', we
refer to that Holy State for which Solomon, i.e., Nabi'
Sulaimān ه ال علي  prayed to Allah Most High, that "it can ,مالس
belong to none after him". Hence this book reminds Dajjāl and
his Zionist followers, that it can never be restored.

The Arabic Text of the Qur’ān

This book, on Dajjāl and the Beginning of History, is based on

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the Qur’ān, and hence the very substance of the book is located
in the verses of the Qur’ān which we have quoted extensively.
We hasten to remind readers that the Qur’ān was not revealed
in English, French or Swahili. It was revealed in Arabic, and we
have come to the conclusion, after a life-time of study, that the
Qur’ān cannot be translated to another language. Rather, the
most that we can do is to try to explain the Qur’ān with the
caveat that no one explanation can possibly exhaust its
meaning. Readers must also be made aware that whenever an
effort is made to translate the Arabic text to another language,
the scholarship of the translator as well as his limited
understanding of the Arabic text, always influences his
translation.

For the above reasons it is necessary for us to always quote
the Arabic text of every verse of the Qur’ān quoted in this book.
That text has been Divinely-preserved since the Book was
revealed more than 1400 years ago, and it remains today
beyond the reach of those who may still wish to pursue a futile
effort to challenge its claim to absolute authenticity and
integrity.

Whenever a verse of the Qur’ān is quoted in this book we
make an effort to explain its meaning in the English language.
It should not surprise the reader, nor those who will translate
this book to other languages, that an explanation sometimes
conveys a meaning of a verse that is different from a
translation.

It would benefit the reader if we now provide an example

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of a translated verse in which our explanation differs in
meaning from translations of the verse. It pains us that wrong
understanding of the Qur’ān derived from some translations,
has caused, and continues to cause, great damage to those who
are thereby misguided. We provide an example of such in verse
51 of Sūrah al-Māidah in which Allah Most Wise has ordered
(in Arabic) as follows:

َصارَى  َّ خِذُواْ الْيَهُودَ وَالن هَا الَّذِيَن آمَنُواْ لاَ تَّتَ يَا َأّيُ
هُم مِّنكُمْ  َّ   َأْولِيَاء بَعْضُهُْم َأْولِيَاء بَعٍْض وَمَن يَتَوَل

الِمِينَ   َّهُ مِْنهُْم ِإّنَ اللّهَ لاَ يَهْدِي الْقَوْمَ الّظَ  فَِإن
Almost all translations of this verse to the English language

could lead the reader, Christian, Jewish, Muslim or otherwise,
to believe that the Qur’ān has prohibited Muslim friendship
and alliance with Christians and Jews. But such an
understanding of the Qur’ān would be false. The Qur’ān has
most certainly not prohibited Muslims from being friends and
allies of all Christians and all Jews; rather, it has prohibited
friendship and alliance with specific Christians and specific
Jews.

The gentle reader may wish to judge for himself the
conclusion that can be arrived at from reading fifteen different

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translations of the above verse 51 of Sūrah al-Māidah:

Muhammad Asad: O you who have attained to faith!
Do not take the Jews and the Christians for your allies:
they are but allies of one another and whoever of you
allies himself with them becomes, verily, one of them;
behold, God does not guide such evildoers.
Sahīh International: O you who have believed, do not
take the Jews and the Christians as allies. They are [in
fact] allies of one another. And whoever is an ally to
them among you—then indeed, he is [one] of them.
Indeed, Allah guides not the wrongdoing people.
Pickthall: O ye who believe! Take not the Jews and the
Christians for friends. They are friends one to another.
He among you who taketh them for friends is (one) of
them. Lo! Allah guideth not wrongdoing folk.
Yusuf Ali: O ye who believe! Take not the Jews and
the Christians for your friends and protectors: They
are but friends and protectors to each other. And he
amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of
them. Verily Allah guideth not a people unjust.
Shakir: O you who believe! Do not take the Jews and
the Christians for friends; they are friends of each
other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a
friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does
not guide the unjust people.

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Muhammad Sarwar: Believers, do not consider the
Jews and Christians as your intimate friends for they
are only friends with each other. Whoever does so,
will be considered as one of them. God does not guide
the unjust people.
Hilāli and Muhsin Khan: O you who believe! Take
not the Jews and the Christians as Auliya' (friends,
protectors, helpers, etc.), they are but Auliya' to one
another. And if any amongst you takes them as
Auliya', then surely he is one of them. Verily, Allah
guides not those people who are the Zālimūn
(polytheists and wrongdoers and unjust).
Allama Nooruddin:  O you who believe! Do not take
these Jews and the Christians for allies. They are allies
of one to another (when against you), and whoso from
amongst you takes them for allies, is indeed one of
them. Verily, Allah does not guide the unjust people
to attain their goal.
Arberry: O believers, take not Jews and Christians as
friends; they are friends of each other. Whoso of you
makes them his friends is one of them. God guides not
the people of the evildoers.
Muhammad Ali:  O you who believe, take not the
Jews and the Christians for friends. They are friends of
each other. And whoever amongst you takes them for
friends he is indeed one of them. Surely Allah guides

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not the unjust people.

Talāl Itāni: O you who believe! Do not take the Jews
and the Christians as allies; some of them are allies of
one another. Whoever of you allies himself with them
is one of them. God does not guide the wrongdoing
people.

Rashad Khalīfah: O you who believe, do not take
certain Jews and Christians as allies; these are allies of
one another. Those among you who ally themselves
with these belong with them. God does not guide the
transgressors. (This writer has inserted the italics
above)

Abdul Mājid Daryabādī: You who believe! Do not
take the Jews and the Nazarenes for friend; friends
they are to each other, and if any of you befriends
them, verily he is one of them. Surely Allah does not
guide a transgressing people.

Abdal Haq and Aisha Bewley: You who have Imān!
do not take the Jews and Christians as your friends;
they are the friends of one another. Any of you who
takes them as friends is one of them. Allah does not
guide wrongdoing people.

Sher Ali: O ye who believe! take not the Jews and the
Christians for friends. They are friends one to another.
And whoso among you takes them for friends is
indeed one of them. Verily, Allah guides not the

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unjust people.

It should be readily apparent that, other than the
translation of Rashad Khalīfa, all these well-known translations
of the Qur’ān to the English language translate the verse the
same way: i.e., prohibiting Muslims from taking Christians and
Jews as their friends and allies. None of the translators, other
than Rashad Khalīfa, seem to have realized that such
translation of the verse has placed it in conflict with another
verse of the Qur’ān which recognizes certain Christians as a
people who will be closest in love and affection for Muslims (al-
Māidah, 5:82), and with another verse which permits marriage
with Christian and Jewish women, and which also permits
Muslims to eat food which has been made Halāl or permissible
for Christians and Jews (al-Māidah, 5:5). But the Qur’ān itself
declares that is free from all inconsistencies or contradictions:

رُونَ الْقُرْآنَ وَلَوْ كَانَ مِْن عِندِ  َّ   َأفَلاَ يَتَدَب
 غَيْرِ اللّهِ لَوَجَدُواْ فِيهِ اْختِلاَفًا َكثِيرًا

(Qur’ān, al-Nisa’, 4:82)

Allah Most High, invites an examination of the
credentials of the Qur’ān as Divine revelation. He
boldly declares that if the Qur’ān had come from any
but Allah, they would surely have found in it many
contradictions!

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Hence no verse of the Qur’ān contradicts any other verse.
There would be a manifest contradiction if the same
Qur’ān were to declare that certain Christians would be closest
in love and affection for Muslims, and also declare that
Muslims are prohibited to be friends and allies of all Christians
and all Jews.

There is yet another problem with the several translations
of this verse of the Qur’ān since the translators make the
Qur’ān declare something which is factually false!  According
to Asad, the Qur’ān declares of Christians and Jews that they are

but allies of one another; Sahīh International: they are [in fact] allies of

one another; Pickthall: they are friends one to another; Abdullah Yusuf
Ali: they are but friends and protectors to each other; Shākir: they are

friends of each other; Sarwar: for they are only friends with each other;
Mohsin Khan: they are but Auliya' to one another; Noorddin: they are

allies of one to another (when against you); Arberry: they are friends of

each other; Muhammad Ali: they are friends of each other; etc.

The Qur’ān was revealed more than six hundred years
after the Jews boasted that they had crucified Jesus, and so the
Qur’ān appeared in a world in which, for almost six hundred
years, Christians and Jews had hated each other. That Christian
hatred for Jews continued for more than a thousand years after
the revelation of the Qur’ān. It is therefore manifestly false for
anyone to declare, at the time when the Qur’ān was revealed
and for more than a thousand years after, that Christians and
Jews are friend and allies of each other. In fact, Christian-Jewish
friendship and alliance emerged as a clearly visible

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phenomenon of contemporary history only after the birth of
the Zionist Movement in 1897.

The proper understanding of the verse of the Qur’ān is that
it anticipates such a Jewish-Christian reconciliation and
friendship as would pave the way for  a certain part of the
Christian world, and a certain part of the Jewish world, to
reconcile and to then establish friendship and an alliance.
Whenever that alliance were to come into being or is
established, Muslims are prohibited to be friends and allies
with such Christians and such Jews. That alliance has now
appeared in the world in the form of the Judeo-Christian
Zionist alliance which has brought the State of Israel into
existence, and which continues to work to ensure that Israel
will one day rule the whole world with a Pax Judaica. (See my
two books entitled Jerusalem in the Qur’ān, and Explaining
Israel’s Mysterious Imperial Agenda.)

Those who attempted to translate the verse (al-Māidah,
5:51) made the mistake of breaking it into parts or sentences,
and to then translate each part or sentence separately. In this
way they arrived at a first sentence which was translated to
prohibit friendship and alliance with Jews and Christians. They then
proceeded to a second part or sentence which was understood
in isolation, or stand alone, from what preceded it. They thus
declared the Qur’ān to say, falsely so, that Jews and Christians are

friends and allies of each other. If they had studied the verse as a
whole, they would have understood that their second part or
sentence in the verse, was not a second part or sentence at all.

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Rather it was a phrase which qualified what preceded it. Hence
what the Qur’ān actually did, and which escaped the
understanding of those who translated the verse, was to
prohibit Muslim friendship and alliance with Jews and
Christians who were friends and allies of each other, and hence with a

Judeo-Christian alliance.

Here is my explanation of the verse which removes all
possible contradiction with other verses of the Qur’ān and
which does not attribute a manifest falsehood to the Qur’ān:

َصارَى  َّ خِذُواْ الْيَهُودَ وَالن هَا الَّذِيَن آمَنُواْ لاَ تَّتَ يَا َأّيُ
هُم مِّنكُْم  َّ   َأْولِيَاء بَعْضُهُْم َأْولِيَاء بَعٍْض وَمَن يَتَوَل

َّهُ مِْنهُْم ِإّنَ  الِمِينَ فَِإن  اللّهَ لاَ يَهْدِي الْقَوْمَ الّظَ
(Qur’ān, al-Māidah, 5:51)

Allah Most High addresses those who believe in this
Qur’ān as the Word of Allah and commands them not
to take ‘such’ Jews and ‘such’ Christians as their
friends and allies who are, themselves, friends and
allies of each other. The verse then goes on to declare
that whoever from among the Muslims were to take
‘such’ Christians and Jews as their friends and allies,
would be recognized to belong to them, or would

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eventually belong to them, rather than to the
community of Muslims. It ends by declaring that
Allah surely or certainly does not guide wicked people.
I urge readers to study the scholarly analysis of this very

important verse of the Qur’ān by the young and brilliant
Singaporean scholar, Hasbullah Shafi’iy, which we have
included in this book as Appendix 1.

We have shared the above with our readers in order to
alert them concerning the dangers posed by translations of the
Qur’ān to other languages, and hence the absolute need to
quote and to study the actual Arabic text of the Qur’ān
whenever we turn to that Book for information or guidance.

For the Christian and Jewish Reader

While we expect that this book will be read by many Muslims,
it is also written for the benefit of those to whom the Torah of
Moses, i.e., Mūsa عليه السالم, and the Gospel of Jesus, i.e., ‘Īsa عليه السالم,
was sent, and who, today, refer to themselves as Christians and
Jews.  They will find in this book a view from the Qur’ān of the
beginning of history, which differs sometimes from the
Christian and Jewish view of that subject.  How should a
Christian or a Jew respond when faced with conflicting views
emerging from revealed scriptures? The Qur’ān itself answers
that question when it declares that Truth that was sent down in
the Qur’ān was supported by rational proofs (Bayyināt min al-
Huda). Hence it is with the rational faculty—which receives its
data both externally and internally—that judgment must be

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made.

The Qur’ān presents excellent credentials with which its
claim to be a divinely-revealed scripture can be judged. It
presents a text that is absolutely authentic and uncorrupted.
We have presented in our book entitled Methodology for Study
of the Qur’ān, the credentials of the Qur’ān to be recognized as
absolutely authentic. We urge our Christian and Jewish readers
to examine those credentials.

This book will surely test the patience of the English-
speaking reader who is unfamiliar with the Arabic language,
since we have insisted in using Arabic terms that are essential
for a presentation of the view of the Qur’ān. However we
always hasten to provide an English equivalent to each Arabic
term. As the reader becomes familiar with the Arabic words,
the book will hopefully become easier to be read and
understood.

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َاَب تِبْيَانًا لِّكُّلِ شَْيءٍ   لْنَا عَلَيَْك الْكِت َّ   وَنَز
 وَهُدًى وَرَْحمَةً وَبُشْرَى لِلْمُْسلِمِينَ

(Qur’ān, al-Nahl, 16:89)

The Qur’ān was sent down as Divine revelation which
would explain all things, would provide guidance, and
as grace, and glad tidings unto all who submit to Allah
Most High.

مَا يَهْتَدِي َّ   وََأْن َأتْلُوَ الْقُرْآنَ فَمَِن اهْتَدَى فَِإن
ينَ لِنَْفِسهِ وَمَن ضَ   مَا َأنَا مَِن الْمُنذِرِ َّ  ّلَ فَقُْل ِإن

(Qur’ān, al-Naml, 27:92)

Allah Most High has ordered that the Qur’ān be
conveyed to mankind. Whoever then chooses to
follow the right path, would follow it for his own
good. A warning must be given to those who choose
to go astray that: I am only a warner.

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Chapter One

Introducing Dajjāl, The Jasad
(a Human Body without a Soul)

A Gentle Warning

The subject of Dajjāl is perhaps the most difficult that a student
or scholar can ever encounter, hence readers are gently
cautioned to be patient whenever the understanding of any part
of the subject becomes difficult, and not rush to premature
judgment on the basis of doubt. As knowledge of the subject
expands, it would become easier to connect the many parts of
the subject and eventually grasp the subject as a harmonious
whole.  At that time, and not before, many doubts will be
cleared up Insha’ Allah, i.e., if Allah so Wills.

The Basic Description

Christians know him as the ‘Anti-Christ’, but Prophet
Muhammad  سلمصل االل عليه و  referred to him as al-Masīh al-Dajjāl,
i.e., the Dajjāl the Messiah. It is important for our readers to
understand that the Prophet has not given to the Anti-Christ,
the name—‘Dajjāl’, for it is not a name! Rather it is a descriptive

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term which describes him as a ‘liar’, or as one who ‘deceives’.
Hence whenever he is referred to in this book as Dajjāl, readers
are advised to remember that he should properly be referred to
as the Dajjāl.

Since the Qur’ān has identified Nabī ‘Īsā, or Jesus, the son of

the Virgin Mary عليهما السالم, as the Messiah, the implication of the
description ‘al-Masīh al-Dajjāl’ used by the Prophet, is that
Dajjāl is someone who would seek to impersonate the Messiah
by claiming, falsely so, to be the Messiah. It is for this reason
that he is referred to in this book as Dajjāl the false Messiah.

Prophet Muhammad صل هللا عليه و سلم prophesied that Nabī ‘Īsā
or Jesus عليه السالم the true Messiah, would one day return to this
world, and that his miraculous return would be a major sign of
the End-Time. This writer intends to demonstrate in his
second book on Dajjāl entitled ‘From Jesus the True Messiah to
Dajjāl the False Messiah—A Journey in Islamic Eschatology’,
that the Qur’ān supports this prophecy of a miraculous return
of the true Messiah. But the Prophet went on to prophesy that
Dajjāl, the false Messiah, would appear in person in the world
just before the return of the true Messiah, and would seek to
convince the Jews in particular, that he is indeed the true
Messiah. Since Dajjāl, or the Anti-Christ, is a being who
belongs to the evil which was created by Allah Most High (see

Qur’ān, Sūrah al-Falaq,113:2), and he was thus programmed by
Allah Most High to fulfill that evil mission of impersonation,
one can expect that he will do so with astonishing accuracy.

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It is with this fact constantly in mind that we can now
proceed to attempt to deliver to the reader a profile of that
extraordinary being, i.e., Dajjāl, the false Messiah, who,
according to our interpretation, is described in the Qur’ān as a
Jasad, i.e., a human body without a soul. He was placed by Allah
Most High to sit on Solomon’s throne so that, as Solomon
feared, he would seek to rule over Holy Israel. This subject is
explained later in this chapter.

The Qur’ān confirms that the Messiah, Jesus the son of
Mariam, was a human being, and that both he and his mother
ate food (the Lord-God, however, does not eat food and indeed,
is free from any such need):

َّ رَُسوٌل قَْد خَلَْت  يَمَ ِإلا ا الْمَِسيُح ابُْن مَْر   مَّ
هُ ِصّدِيقَةٌ كَانَا  ُسُل وَُأمُّ ُّ   يَْأكُلاَنِ مِن قَبْلِهِ الر

عَامَ انظُرْ َكيَْف نُبَيِّنُ لَهُمُ الآيَاتِ     الّطَ
َّى يُؤْفَكُونَ   َّ انظُرْ َأن  ثُم

(Qur’ān, al-Māidah, 5:75)

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The Christ, son of Mary, was but a messenger of Allah
Most High, and hence he was not God—nor was he
the son of God! All those who preceded him as
messengers of Allah Most High, have died. His
mother was someone who never deviated from the
truth; and they both ate food like other
mortals; Behold how Allah makes clear these
clarifying statements for them: and then behold how
perverted are their responses!

It is clear therefore, that the Jews expected a Messiah who
would be a human being.

Prophet Muhammad صل هللا عليه و سلم gave a description of the
Anti-Christ or Dajjāl, as follows: “He would be a Jew, a young man,

powerfully built, and with curls in his hair . . .”  (Sahīh Muslim).
Orthodox Jews, and, it appears, no others besides them, wear
these curls in the form of sideburns (Payot) because of a
Biblical injunction against shaving the “corners” of one's head:

Do not cut off the hair on the sides of your head.

(Leviticus: 19:27)

Although he is a Jasad, i.e., a human body without a soul, it
should be obvious to our readers that the Anti-Christ or Dajjāl
would have to appear as a human being, and as a Jew, since his
mission is to convince the Jews that he is indeed the Messiah
whom they await. Unless he is a Jew, they would not accept
him as the Messiah. Hence when Prophet Muhammad
 described Dajjāl in the way that he did, i.e., as a صل هللا عليه و سلم

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being who would appear as a ‘person’, and a ‘Jew’, the Islamic
view is that the above description of Dajjāl has to be
understood literally. This view from Islam differs dramatically
from other well-known and sometimes frivolous views which
identified the Anti-Christ, for example, with the Roman
Catholic Christian Pope in Rome, or former US President
Barak Obama, or with a system rather than a person, etc.

Christians face some difficulties in identifying the Anti-
Christ or Dajjāl as a person, and as a Jew, because of several
scriptural references to him which depart from the single most
important fact which emerges from Islamic eschatology, to wit,
that he is someone who will seek to impersonate the true
Messiah. Consider the following:

Many deceivers have gone out into the world, those
who do not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the
flesh; any such person is the deceiver and the
Antichrist!

— 2 John 1:7

Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the
Christ? This is the Antichrist, the one who denies the
Father and the Son.

— 1 John 2:22

By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that
confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is
from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus
is not from God. This is the spirit of the Antichrist,

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which you have heard is coming and now is in the
world already.

1 John 4:2–3

Despite the above, this writer urges the gentle reader to
seriously consider the arguments and evidence now presented
in this book for understanding and recognizing the Anti-Christ
as someone who was created by the Lord-God and was sent
into the world with an evil mission to impersonate Jesus, the
True Messiah; as someone who would be a Jew and who would
claim to be the true Messiah, and as someone who should
therefore be known, properly so, as the false Messiah!

The Complexity of the Subject—Dajjāl is One-Eyed

While it is true that Prophet Muhammad صل هللا عليه و سلم did
declare that there would be many Dajjāl’s who would appear in
the world as liars (he said they would number close to thirty)
before the appearance of al-Masīh al-Dajjāl himself (Ref. Sunan

Tirmīdhī, Sahīh Muslim, etc.), it remains true that he did deliver a
basic Prophetic description of al-Masīh al-Dajjāl as a Jew, a
young man who would be powerfully built and who would
have the curls required by the law of the Torah, etc. This book
has already argued that the above description has to be
understood literally. The complexity of this subject becomes
apparent when we now proceed to argue that a further part of
the description of the Anti-Christ or Dajjāl, given by the
Prophet, cannot be understood literally but, rather, must be
interpreted in order to be understood. Indeed, the Christian or

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Jewish reader would readily show understanding when told
that a significant amount of information in the religion of
Islam concerning the Anti-Christ or false Messiah, is presented
in language that is allegorical and symbolic. Indeed this is true
for the most important Hadīth of all, concerning Dajjāl.
Prophet Muhammad صل هللا عليه و سلم said:

هِ بِْن عُمَرَ  َّ هِ .  .  .  . عَْن عَبْدِ الل َّ قَامَ رَُسوُل الل
هِ بِمَا  َّ اِس فََأثْنَى عَلَى الل َّ مَ فِي الن َّ هُ عَلَيْهِ وََسل َّ َصلَّى الل
اَل فَقَاَل ِإنِّي ُأنْذِرُكُمُوهُ وَمَا  جَّ َّ ذَكَرَ الدَّ هُوَ َأهْلُهُ ثُم

ا وَقَْد َأنْذَرَهُ قَوْمَهُ لَقَْد َأنْذَرَهُ نُوحٌ  قَوْمَهُ  مِْن نَبِّيٍ ِإلَّ
وَلـَِكنِّي َسَأقُوُل لـَكُْم فِيهِ قَوْلًا لَْم يَقُلْهُ نَبِّيٌ لِقَوْمِهِ

 َ هَ لَيَْس بَِأْعوَر َّ َّهُ َأْعوَرُ وََأّنَ الل  .تَعْلَمُونَ َأن
Abdullah ibn 'Umar said: .  .  .  .  The Messenger of
Allah then stood up in front of the people, praised
Allah with words worthy of Him and then he
mentioned Dajjāl and said: I warn you about him, and

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there is no Prophet who has not warned his people
about him. Noah warned his people about him. But I
will say to you something about him that no Prophet
has ever said to his people. You should know that he is
one-eyed, and Allah is not one-eyed.

(Sahīh Bukhārī)

اُس   .   . . . َّ هَا الن هِ َأّيُ َّ فَاثْبُتُوا فَِإنِّي  يَا عِبَادَ الل
َّهُ  اهُ نَبِّيٌ قَبْلِي ِإن يَّ َسَأِصفُهُ لـَكُْم ِصفَةً لَْم يَِصْفهَا ِإ

َّ يُثَنِّي فَيَقُوُل  يَبْدَُأ فَيَقُوُل َأنَا نَبِّيٌ وَلاَ نَبِّيَ بَعْدِي ثُم
كُْم  ُّ َب َّهُ َأْعوَرُ   . َأنَا ر ى تَمُوتُوا وَِإن َّ كُْم َحت َّ َب وَلاَ تَرَْونَ ر

 َ كُْم لَيَْس بَِأْعوَر َّ َب َّهُ مَْكتُوٌب بَيْنَ عَيْنَيْهِ  وَِإّنَ ر وَِإن
 . . . كَافِرٌ يَْقرَؤُهُ كُّلُ مُؤْمٍِن كَاتٍِب َأْو غَيْرِ كَاتِبٍ

(The Prophet warned) Oh people, be firm! I describe
him, i.e., Dajjāl, to you as no Prophet before me ever
did. He will commence by declaring: “I am a Prophet”,

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but there will be no Prophet after me (hence he will
lie). Then he will praise himself and declare “I am
your Lord-God”, but you will not see your Lord-God
until you die. And (in addition) he is one-eyed, and
your Lord-God is not one-eyed. And between his eyes
is written (the word) KAFIR, i.e., disbeliever, which
every believer (who has faith in his heart) will be able
to read—whether he be literate or illiterate.

(Sunan Ibn Mājah)

In another Hadīth recorded in Sahīh Bukhārī, the Prophet
declared that Dajjāl sees with one eye—the left eye, and that he
is so blind in the right eye:

ُمْنَى َّهُ َأْعوَرُ عَيْنِ  الْي  وَِإن
that it looks like a bulging grape:

 َأّنَ عَيْنَهُ عِنَبَةٌ َطافِيَةٌ
In yet another Hadīth, also recorded in Sahīh Bukhārī, the

Prophet again made mention of Dajjāl’s blind right eye:

While sleeping near the Ka’aba last night, I saw in my dream a

man of brown color, the best one can see amongst brown color

and his hair was long that it fell between his shoulders. His hair

was lank and water was dribbling from his head and he was

placing his hands on the shoulders of two men while

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circumambulating the Ka`aba. I asked, Who is this? They

replied: This is Jesus, son of Mary. Behind him I saw a man who

had very curly hair and was blind in the right eye, resembling Ibn
Qatān, i.e. an infidel, in appearance. He was placing his hands on

the shoulders of a person while performing Tawāf around the

Ka`aba. I asked: Who is this? They replied, al-Masīh al-Dajjāl.

How can it be possible for someone who has ‘faith’, but is
‘illiterate’, to be able to read what is written between the eyes—
on the forehead of the Anti-Christ? Our response is that such
would be impossible if we were to understand the act of
reading literally. As soon as we dismiss a literal understanding,
and we turn consequently to search for an interpretation, it
becomes readily apparent that the illiterate believer would have
the capacity to read because he would be reading with ‘eyes’
other than those located on the face. The epistemology of the
Qur’ān, like that of all other divinely-revealed scriptures,
recognizes that the heart can see. In other words, human beings
have a capacity for internal sight, i.e., in addition to external
sight. It is with internal sight therefore, that the illiterate
believer would be able to read what is written on the forehead
of the Anti-Christ.

The Qur’ān and Internal Sight

In the following verses in which the Qur’ān directs attention to
a fate which can await those who are blind, it is quite obvious
that the reference to blindness is not to be understood literally.
Rather, the verses of the Qur’ān obviously refer to internal

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blindness:

  قُْل هَْل يَْستَوِي الَأعْمَى وَالْبَِصيرُ .  .  .
رُونَ  َّ  َأفَلاَ ٺَتَفَك

(Qur’ān, al-An’ām, 6:50)

Allah Most High asks whether someone who is blind,
can be deemed equal with someone who can
see. Obviously they cannot be equal—hence, will
people not think?

بِّكُْم فَمَْن َأبْصَرَ  رُ مِن رَّ   قَْد جَاءكُم بََصإٓىِ
 فَلِنَْفِسهِ وَمَْن عَمَِي فَعَلَْيهَا وَمَا َأنَاْ عَلَيْكُم ِبحَفِيظٍ

(Qur’ān, al-An’ām, 6:104)

The Qur’ān declares above, that means of insight have
now come unto mankind from their Lord-God
through this revealed Book.

Whoever, therefore, chooses to ‘see’ and recognize the
Truth, does so for his own good; and whoever chooses to
remain ‘blind’ to the Truth, does so to his own detriment. And
(say unto the blind): I am not your keeper.

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دَتَهُْم وََأبَْصارَهُْم َكمَا لَْم يُؤْمِنُواْ بِهِ    وَنُقَلُِّب َأفْٕىِ
ةٍ وَنَذَرُهُْم فِي ُطغْيَانِهِْم يَعْمَهُونَ  َل مَّرَ  َأّوَ

(Qur’ān, al-An’ām, 6:110)

Those who reject this Qur’ān will pay a price for that
rejection. Allah Most High will keep their hearts and
their eyes turned away from the truth, even as they did
not believe in it in the first instance; and so they will
be left in their overweening arrogance blindly
stumbling to and fro.

بُوهُ فََأنجَيْنَاهُ وَالَّذِيَن مَعَهُ فِي الْفُلِْك وََأْغرَقْنَا  فَكَذَّ
هُْم كَانُواْ قَوْماً عَمِينَ  ِنَا ِإّنَ بُواْ بِآيَات  الَّذِيَن كَذَّ

(Qur’ān, al-‘Arāf, 7:64)

When his people rejected Noah and Allah Most High
responded to punish them, Allah saved him and those
who stood by him, in the Ark, the He caused those
who had rejected the Truth sent with Noah to drown.
The Qur’ān then declared that they were a people who
were ‘blind’!

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ن   يَنظُرُ ِإلَيَْك َأفََأنَت تَهْدِي وَمِنهُم مَّ
 الْعُْمَي وَلَوْ كَانُواْ لاَ يُبْصِرُونَ

(Qur’ān, Yūnus, 10:43)

Among the people there are those who pretend to look
towards the Prophet: but can he show the right way to
the ‘blind’—when they are a people who cannot ‘see’?

يقَيْنِ كَالَأعْمَى وَالَأصَّمِ وَالْبَِصيرِ    مَثَُل الْفَرِ
رُونَ   َّ يَاِن مَثَلاً َأفَلاَ تَذَك مِيِع هَْل يَْستَوِ  وَالّسَ

(Qur’ān, Hūd, 11:24)

The Qur’ān directs attention to two kinds of men who
may be likened to the ‘blind’ and ‘deaf’, on the one
hand, and the ‘seeing’ and ‘hearing’, on the other. Can
these two be deemed alike in their nature? Will people
not, then, keep this in mind?

َبَِّك اْلحَّقُ  مَا ُأنزَِل ِإلَيَْك مِن ر َّ   َأفَمَن يَعْلَمُ َأن

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  َ رُ ُأْولُواْ الَألْبَابِ كَمَْن هُوَ َأعْم َّ مَا يَتَذَك َّ  ى ِإن
(Qur’ān, al-R’ad, 13:19)

The Qur’ān asks whether one who knows and accepts
that whatever has been bestowed from on high upon
the Prophet by the Lord-God is the Truth, be deemed
equal to one who is ‘blind’? Only they who are
endowed with insight keep this in mind.

  وَمَن كَانَ فِي هَـذِهِ َأعْمَى فَهُوَ فِي
  ً  الآِخرَةِ َأعْمَى وََأَضّلُ َسبِيلا

(Qur’ān, al-Isra’, 17:72)

The Qur’ān declares that whoever is ‘blind’ in this
world will be ‘blind’ in the life to come as well, and
still farther astray from the path of truth.

We can now conclude that Dajjāl’s capacity to see with his
left eye, and his blindness in his right eye, ought to be
recognized as information that is Mutashābihah, i.e., allegorical,
and hence subject to Ta’wīl, or interpretation. Our interpretation
of the description given by Prophet Muhammad صل هللا عليه و سلم is
that Dajjāl has external sight, but he is internally blind!

There is an ominous implication which follows from the

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above interpretation. All those from amongst mankind who
follow Dajjāl will all eventually be similar to him, i.e.,
internally blind; and since he has the word Kāfir or ‘disbeliever’
written on his forehead, the further implication is that all those
who follow him would become Kuffār (plural of Kāfir) or
‘disbelievers’, and thus be debarred from entering into Jannah
or paradise.

It is, perhaps, because of this implication that the Qur’ān
has delivered a truly ominous warning to those who remain
internally blind, that the hellfire can await them, since Dajjāl
can get them to dance to every tune he plays:

مَ َكثِي َّ رًا مَِّن اْلجِّنِ وَالِإنِس لَهُْم وَلَقَْد ذَرَْأنَا ِلجَهَن
َّ يُبْصِرُونَ بِهَا  َّ يَْفقَهُونَ بِهَا وَلَهُْم َأعْيٌُن لا قُلُوٌب لا
َك كَالَأنْعَاِم بَْل  َـٕىِ َّ يَْسمَعُونَ بِهَا ُأْول وَلَهُْم آذَاٌن لا

َك هُمُ الْغَافِلُونَ  َـٕىِ  هُْم َأَضّلُ ُأْول
(Qur’ān, al-‘Arāf, 7:179)

Allah Most High has warned that huge numbers of
Jinn and men who have hearts with which they fail to
grasp the truth, ‘eyes’ with which they fail to ‘see’, and

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‘ears’ with which they fail to ‘hear’, are destined to
enter the Hell-fire. He considers them to have a status
like unto cattle—nay, they are even less conscious of
the right way: it is they, they who are the truly
heedless!

Protestant Islam, which seems, mysteriously so, to be
a carbon-copy of Protestant Christianity, may remain
unconvinced by our argument in favor of an interpretation that
Dajjāl’s blind eye should be interpreted to mean internal
blindness, and may consequently remain steadfastly adamant in
their literal understanding of his ‘blind’ right eye. Such a people
would obviously refuse to recognize Dajjāl when he eventually
appears in Jerusalem with the claim to be the Messiah, unless
he is literally blind in the right eye.

Protestant Islam should reflect over the mysterious
incapacity of all disbelievers, regardless of how perfect their
eyesight may be, to be able to read what all believers would be
able to read, namely the word Kāfir which would be written
between Dajjāl’s eyes—on his forehead! Such die-hards, who
cling to a literal understanding of Dajjāl’s blind right eye, and
to the word Kāfir written on his forehead, must explain to us
why the Prophet singled out the Mu’min, i.e., believer, and hence
excluded the Kāfir, i.e., disbeliever, when he declared that the
believer would be able to read what was written on Dajjāl’s
forehead? Why can the believer read what the disbeliever
cannot read? Protestant Islam must either deliver an answer
which is convincing, or abandon its defective methodology.

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Indeed, unless they change their defective methodology they
will never be able to explain why Tamīm al-Dāri, who saw
Dajjāl (who is so blind in his right eye that it looks like a
bulging grape), failed to mention anything about his blind right
eye when he reported the event to the Prophet:

It was narrated that Fatimah bint Qays (may Allah be
pleased with her) said:  .  .  . (what follows are the
words spoken by Tamīm al-Dāri) ... Then we set off,
rushing, until we came to that monastery, where we
found the hugest man we had ever seen, bound
strongly in chains with his hands tied to his neck and
his legs bound from the knees to the ankles with iron
shackles ...

(Sahīh al-Bukhārī)

Protestant Islam has an even greater obstacle to overcome
when they attempt to offer a credible explanation how Prophet
Muhammad صل هللا عليه و سلم could suspect Ibn Sayyād, a Jewish
youth in Medina, to be Dajjāl, when he was not blind in the
right eye?

While the above exhausts our physical description of
Dajjāl, the false Messiah, derived from a literal understanding
of scriptural texts in Islam, there is more information
concerning Dajjāl’s unique profile which can be discovered
through a process of deduction from those texts; and it is to
that process of deduction that we now direct attention.

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Deducing Dajjāl’s Further Profile

The historical record reveals that a large number of Jewish
tribes were resident in Yathrib (a city located north of Makkah
in Arabia) prior to the birth of Prophet Muhammad
 We know that they were present in Yathrib when  .صل هللا عليه و سلم
the Prophet arrived in that city—having migrated from his
native Makkah, since the Mīthāq or constitutional agreement
successfully negotiated by the Prophet upon his arrival in
Yathrib, with which he brought into being (a plural model of) a
state, makes mention of several Jewish tribes who were party to
the agreement. Muhammad Hamidullah mentions in his book
entitled ‘First Written Constitution in the World’ (Ashraf, Lahore

1994) that “ .  .  .  the Arab section of the population was divided into

twelve tribes of Aws and Khazraj, the Jews were divided into the ten tribes of

Banū Nadir and Banū Qurayzah”. It should thus be clear that Jews,
who were a non-Arab people who considered themselves
superior to Arabs, constituted a substantial proportion of the
population of an Arab city located close to the very heart of
Arabia, i.e.,  close to Makkah.

It is quite appropriate that we enquire what brought so
many Jewish tribes to the city of Yathrib. It is not enough to
claim, as some do, that they were expelled by the Christians
from Jerusalem and hence they fled to Yathrib. Refugees, who
considered themselves, arrogantly so, to be superior to a native
population, would be courting grave danger if they allowed
themselves to grow in numbers to such an extent that they
approached half the size of the whole population. There had to

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be a compelling reason which would justify such growth in
numbers of an arrogant alien population in an Arab city.

We recall that they had rejected the claim of Jesus, the son
of the Virgin Mary, who claimed that he was their Promised
Messiah. They had rejected that claim on the grounds that his
mother had conceived him without being married (which was,
of course, true) and they had concluded, falsely so, that he was
born in sin. They therefore remained adamantly in wait of the
Messiah promised to them by the One God.

They were privy to information conveyed to them through
the many Prophets who were raised from their midst, that a
divinely-appointed person would appear in Yathrib. It was
clear that they perceived it possible that he could be their
Messiah since they even boasted to the Arabs in Arabia that he
would so empower them that they would then have the upper-
hand against the Arabs. This fact is mentioned in several books
of Sīrah, i.e., biographies of the Prophet.

When Prophet Muhammad صل هللا عليه و سلم arrived in Yathrib
with the startling claim that he was a divinely-appointed
Prophet and Messenger, they were shocked and rattled since he
did not conform to their profile of the expected Messiah, or even
of a Prophet.

Is it possible for us to deduce what kind of person the Jews
were expecting, and are still expecting, who would be their
Messiah? If we can discover that profile, we would then know
more of the profile of Dajjāl who is divinely-programmed to

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impersonate the Messiah. What was, and is, that profile?

Firstly, the Jews believed, and still believe, that they are the
chosen people of the One God to the exclusion of the rest of
mankind. The Qur’ān rejected this (false) belief of theirs. It did
so in verses which challenged them to seek death if they really
believed they were Allah’s chosen people. Here is one such
verse:

هِ  َّ كُْم َأْولِيَاء لِل َّ هَا الَّذِيَن هَادُوا ِإن زَعَمْتُمْ َأن قُْل يَا َأّيُ
وُا الْمَوَْت ِإن ُكنتُمْ َصادِقِينَ  َّ اِس فَتَمَن َّ  مِن دُوِن الن

(Qur’ān, al-Jumu’ah, 62:6)

The Qur’ān addresses the Jews and invites them,
bluntly so: If you believe that you are the chosen people
of Allah, to the exclusion of all other people, then why
do you not long for death—if what you say is true?

In consequence of their (false) belief that they are the
chosen people of the Lord-God, it was clear to them that the
Messiah had to belong to the chosen people, hence he had to be
a Jew. Muhammad صل هللا عليه و سلم was not a Jew!

Secondly, they believed that the advent of the Messiah
would result in a return of the golden age of power that they
had enjoyed when the Lord-God chose David, i.e., Nabī Dāud

 as a King and ruler, and bestowed on him a mighty ,عليه السالم

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kingdom. That kingdom subsequently became a ruling State in
the time of his son, Solomon, i.e., Nabī Sulaimān عليهما السالم. It is
possible for us to deduce that the Jews awaited a Messiah who
would restore Holy Israel as a ruling State, and whose lineage
could be traced to David, the divinely-appointed King of Israel.
The Jews would also expect him to display the unique powers
that both David and Solomon possessed. The Messiah could
not be just another King; rather he would have to possess a
unique stature and status comparable to that of David and
Solomon, and he would also have to possess divinely-bestowed
miraculous powers comparable to that which they possessed.

If the above deduction is correct, then it would be essential
for us to carefully study the profile of those two Prophet-Kings
who were the founding fathers of Holy Israel, since it would be
that profile which Dajjāl would have to emulate or match.

Profile of the Two Great Prophet-Kings

The Qur’ān confirmed that David, i.e., Nabī Dāud عليه السالم, was
chosen by Allah Most High as the ruler on earth who was given
a kingdom (or State) over which he was required to rule or
govern on the basis of Truth:

فَهَزَمُوهُم بِِإْذِن اللّهِ وَقَتََل دَاوُدُ جَالُوَت وَآتَاهُ اللّهُ
ا يَشَاء َّ مَهُ مِم َّ  .  . .الْمُلَْك وَاْلحِْكمَةَ وَعَل

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(Qur’ān, al-Baqarah, 2:251)

And thereupon, by Allah’s leave, the Israelites routed
them, and David slew Goliath; and Allah then granted
him a Kingdom or State, and wisdom, and imparted to
him the knowledge of whatever He willed.  .  .

It is universally recognized that when the Qur’ān referred
in the above verse to a Mulk which was granted to David, i.e.,
Nabī Dāud عليه السالم, it meant a kingdom or State which eventually
became known as Holy Israel.

We deduce from the above that the Anti-Christ, or Dajjāl,
the false Messiah, must also be a man (and not a woman) who
would rule over a Mulk, i.e.,  kingdom or State, which will lay claim
to be Holy Israel, and that he must also possess knowledge and
wisdom.

ا َجعَلْنَاكَ خَلِيفَةً فِي اْلَأْرِض فَاْحكُم  َّ يَا دَاوُودُ ِإن
َك عَن  َّ بِـِع الْهَوَى فَيُِضل َّ اِس بِاْلحَّقِ وَلَا ٺَت َّ بَيْنَ الن

 ِ ه َّ هِ لَهُْم  َسبِيِل الل َّ ُّونَ عَن َسبِيِل الل ِإّنَ الَّذِيَن يَِضل
 عَذَاٌب َشدِيدٌ بِمَا نَسُوا يَوْمَ اْلحِسَابِ

(Qur’ān, Sād, 38:26)

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Allah Most High addressed the Prophet David and
informed him that he was appointed as a ruler who
would rule or govern on Allah’s behalf on earth. David
was then ordered to judge between men on the basis
of Truth. Hence he had to judge on the basis of the
Law which came from Allah Most High, and he
should not follow vain desire by adopting a substitute
secular law of his own. If he did so, it would lead him
astray from the path of Allah: verily, for those who go
astray from the path of Allah, there is suffering severe
in store for having forgotten the Day of Reckoning!

In consequence of this divine appointment, David, i.e., Nabī
Dāud عليه السالم, established in the Holy Land the Holy State of
Israel as a Khilāfah State, i.e., a State in which rule and governance was

based on divinely-revealed truth, and in which Allah’s Law was
enforced as the supreme law.

We can deduce from the above that Dajjāl would also have
to establish what  he would claim to be a Khilāfah State, in the
Holy Land, and that such a State would have to (appear to)
enforce the Divine Law as the supreme law. Dajjāl’s Israel
cannot, therefore, be a member-State of a United Nations
Organization and be subject to the supreme authority of the
UN Security Council. It cannot, also, be a member-State of the
International Monetary Fund which prohibits the use of gold as
money. The Jews would expect the Messiah to rule or govern
on the basis of Truth. For this reason Dajjāl, the false Messiah,
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Israel is using fake money in the form of paper, plastic or
electronic money. Israel will thus have to return to the
monetary system of gold and silver coins. Every Jew in the
world knows that the present monetary system is bogus,
fraudulent and Harām, i.e., prohibited. Perhaps, the only ones
now left on earth who cannot recognize what every Jew
recognizes, are the learned scholars and leaders of the world of
Islam—both in and out of the (hitherto) American Republic of
Pakistan!

Both David and Solomon, i.e., Nabī Dāud and Nabī Sulaimān

 became kings who were raised by Allah Most High to a ,عليهما السالم
very high status in His creation, and who ruled over a mighty
kingdom:

هِ  َّ وَلَقَْد آتَيْنَا دَاوُودَ وَُسلَيْمَانَ عِلْمًا وَقَالَا اْلحَْمدُ لِل
لَنَا عَلَى َكثِيرٍ مِّْن عِبَادِهِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ   الَّذِي فَّضَ

(Qur’ān, al-Naml, 27:15)

Allah Most High granted true knowledge unto both
David and Solomon, and they both responded with
praise for Allah Who favored them above many of His
believing servants!

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كَهُ وَآتَيْنَاهُ اْلحِْكمَةَ وَفَْصَل الْ  ـْ  خِطَابِ وََشدَْدنَا مُل
(Qur’ān, Sād, 38:20)

Allah Most High caused David’s Kingdom, i.e., the
Holy State of Israel, to become a very powerful State
or Kingdom. Allah also gave him wisdom and sound
judgment in speech and decision.

In consequence of the above, Jews would expect the
Messiah to rule over a Holy State of Israel that would compare
positively with the mighty Kingdom of Israel under the rule of
David and Solomon, i.e.,  Nabī Dāud and Nabī Sulaimān عليهما السالم. We
can now deduce from the above that Dajjāl would have to seek
to establish today’s Israel as precisely such a mighty kingdom
and ruling State—hence Pax Judaica!

An Impostor on Solomon’s Throne

The Qur’ān proceeded to reveal a truly astonishing event in
religious history, the likes of which one can hardly, if ever, find
a parallel. The description of the event has led us to the view
that Solomon had a vision from Allah Most High in which he
saw that a soulless impostor would one day sit on his throne,
and hence seek to establish a bogus State with a claim that he
has restored Holy Israel; and it was precisely because of his
knowledge of that ominous future event that he immediately
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the two relevant verses of the Qur’ān:

ا ُسلَيْمَانَ وََألْقَيْنَا عَلَى َّ   وَلَقَْد فَتَن
َّ َأنَابَ    كُرِْسيِّهِ َجسَدًا ثُم

(Qur’ān, Sād, 38:34)

Allah Most High caused distress to Solomon when He
placed upon his throne a Jasad, i.e., a human body
without a soul; and when Solomon saw what was
shown to him, he thereupon turned penitently
towards Allah and made a prayer.

In the very next verse of the Sūrah Allah Most High
described Nabī Sulaimān’s response to the Jasad which he saw
sitting on his throne:

ا يَنبَغِيقَاَل    رَّبِ اْغفِرْ لِي وَهَْب لِي مُلْكًا لَّ
ابُ   َّ ََّك َأنَت الْوَه  لَِأحَدٍ مِّْن بَعْدِي ِإن

(Qur’ān, Sād, 38:35)

Solomon responded with the prayer that Allah Most
High might forgive him his sins, and ordain that his
Holy State of Israel could never belong to any after

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him: verily, Thou alone can grant such a thing.

Proper methodology for studying this subject, in order to
understand and identify the Jasad, requires that these two
verses be studied as a whole. It is indeed regrettable that Islamic
scholars failed to apply proper methodology in their efforts to
explain the Jasad and, as a consequence they have delivered
very strange explanations of the subject.

When the two verses are studied as a whole, the entirely
plausible deduction can be derived that the human body that
was devoid of a soul, and hence described as a Jasad, which was
placed on Solomon’s throne, terrified him into making the
prayer that he made because he could see that it would attempt
to usurp his throne—which is his rule over Holy Israel, and to
create an unholy State in the Holy Land—in Holy Israel’s
name—that would seek to compare with Holy Israel.

Our view, therefore, is that Nabī Sulaimān saw the Anti-
Christ or Dajjāl, the false Messiah, sitting on his throne in
Jerusalem, with a mission of eventually ruling over a State of
Israel that would claim to be Holy Israel, and hence he made
the prayer to Allah Most High in order to ensure that such an
effort should never succeed. The Jasad who was sitting on the
throne was Dajjāl!

We can now recognize that Dajjāl is not an angel, nor a
Jinn, but, rather, a Jasad, i.e., a human body that is without a
soul.

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the Jasad of the Qur’ān with Dajjāl, and hence it is possible that
such an identification has been made in this book for the first
time. Since this is the most important of all our views presented
in this book, our readers would naturally be interested in
knowing what were the explanations and interpretations of the
verse that were given in particular, by the classical
commentators of the Qur’ān. For this reason we have included
a summary of those views in Appendix Two.

Since this writer is of the view that Dajjāl, or the Anti-
Christ, is the Jasad that Allah placed on Solomon’s throne, it
would follow that he is a special one-of-a-kind created being
who would appear as a human being because he has a human
body, but who would not be a complete human being since he
would be without a soul (Nafs). Since he does not possess a
soul, he would not have a free will, or a self-directed-will, and
hence he would not be responsible for his conduct. It would
follow therefrom that he would not be judged on Judgment
Day as would all other human beings. It may be difficult, if not
impossible, for some readers to even understand, much less to
eventually accept, this view of Dajjāl expressed above.  Hence
we advise that such readers should move on with the subject
and not allow this view of Dajjāl to become a bone that sticks
in the throat.

We need to make one more comment concerning the
Jasad however, before we can move on with our subject.

If Dajjāl is, indeed, a Jasad, i.e., a human body without a
soul or spirit, then it would follow that Dajjāl does not possess

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intrinsic intelligence. He does not, and cannot think for
himself. Rather his intelligence and his process of thinking is
externally programmed. He is similar to a robot, and we can
thus better understand Dajjāl, and sometimes even recognize
his footprints, in whatever functions through artificial
intelligence. Nowhere are the Dajjāl’s footprints more visible
today than in the world of money where real money in the
form of gold and silver have been replaced by a monetary Jasad
of artificial money.  This will be the subject of a subsequent
book, Insha’ Allah.

The Qur’ān went on to describe the success of that Jasad in
getting the Jinn to continue to work for him and to serve him
for long years while believing that they were working for
Solomon. The explanation for Dajjāl’s success in that act of
deception is that, upon the death of Solomon, the Jinn saw only
the Jasad sitting on the throne and holding on to Solomon’s
staff, and assumed that it was Solomon. The Jinn were bonded
to Sulaimān by divine decree, and hence did not have the
freedom to observe what was occurring in the world (see Qur’ān,

Saba, 34:12–14).They were unaware that Sulaimān was dead and
buried. They had no knowledge of Ākhir al-Zamān and, as a
consequence, there was no way that they could realize that they
were working as slaves for an impostor. Thus the unholy State
of Israel would receive the continuous support of the Jinn
during the long struggle for its eventual creation, upon the
birth of Israel, and all through its life, so long as Dajjāl
continued to sit on Solomon’s throne while holding on to his
holy staff.

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Dā’bbatul Ard (i.e., a beast or creature of the earth)

Allah Most Wise created those who would incrementally chip
away at the authority of Dajjāl’s Israel—symbolized by
Solomon’s Minsa’ah—until the Minsa’ah loses its Fitrah, i.e.,

divinely-bestowed constitution, and then collapses. It would only be
when it collapses that the Jasad would lose his ability to
convince the Jinn that it was Solomon who was sitting on the
throne. At that moment when this fact dawns upon the Jinn,
Dajjāl’s unholy State of Israel will lose the support of the Jinn
with consequences that must terrify every Zionist Jew and
Zionist Christian supporter of that Israel. Here is the verse of
the Qur’ān which has delivered this extra-ordinary
information:

ا هُْم عَلَى مَوْتِهِ ِإلَّ َّ ا قََضيْنَا عَلَيْهِ الْمَوَْت مَا دَل َّ   فَلَم
نَتِ   َّ ا خَرَّ تَبَي َّ َّةُ اْلَأْرِض تَْأكُُل مِنسََأتَهُ فَلَم   دَاب

َّوْ كَانُوا يَعْلَمُونَ الْغَيَْب مَا لَبِثُوا    اْلجِّنُ َأن ل
 فِي الْعَذَاِب الْمُهِينِ

(Qur’ān, Saba, 34:14)

When Allah Most High decreed that Solomon should

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die, the Jinn never realized that he was dead, and that
there was an impostor sitting on his throne in his
place in possession of his Minsa’ah, until Dā’bbatul
Ard consumed the Minsa’ah. And when it
consequently collapsed in the sense that it lost its
miraculous powers, the Jinn, who were subservient to
Solomon by Allah’s command, then realized that he
was dead and that they had been working all this time
since his death for an impostor sitting on his throne
and in possession of his Minsa’ah. Allah Most Wise
then commented that if they had the knowledge of al-
Ghaib, i.e., knowledge of events located beyond their
capacity to perceive or observe while they remained
bonded to Sulaimān, they would not have continued
to toil in the shameful punishing servitude doing all
the evil things the impostor decreed that they must do
on Israel’s behalf.

It is clear that it was because of his possession of Solomon’s
Minsa’ah that the Jasad, who was sitting on Solomon’s throne,
could succeed in having the Jinn continue working for him.
Solomon’s Minsa’ah had to possess certain divinely-bestowed
miraculous powers or properties to have that effect on the Jinn.
We can recall to advantage that it was with his staff (which also
possessed similar divinely-bestowed power and properties) that
Nabī Mūsa, i.e., Moses عليه السالم, struck the Red Sea, which then
parted miraculously to make a track of dry land through which
the Israelites could pass to safety  (See Qur’ān, al-Shurā, 26:23).  It
was also with his staff that Moses struck the rock and twelve

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streams of water then flowed miraculously from the rock—one
stream for each of Israel’s twelve tribes (See Qur’ān, al-Baqarah,

2:160). It was with that same staff that Moses defeated Pharaoh’s
magicians when his staff became a serpent which miraculously
swallowed all that they produced as magic (See Qur’ān, al-‘Arāf,

7:107–117). But it was with Yusuf’s shirt which was thrown on
his father, Yakūb’s face, that his sight was miraculously
restored.

The commentators of the Qur’ān are universally agreed
that the word Minsa’ah above means ‘staff’ or ‘walking stick’.  If
we accept this explanation of the meaning of the word
Minsa’ah, then the implication would be that the Jasad was
holding on the Solomon’s staff and benefitting from its
miraculous powers which prevented the Jinn from knowing
that Solomon was dead, and that there was someone else sitting
on his throne.

Dā’bbatul Ard would then have to be something which
incrementally dismantles and eventually succeeds in nullifying
or destroying the miraculous properties of Solomon’s staff. The
above verse of the Qur’ān suggests the analogy of termites
eating away at the base of a standing staff which then,
eventually loses its balance and collapses. Our view is that one
of the possible ways of identifying Dā’bbatul Ard would then be
the invisible electronic waves emitted from cellular phones and
wireless internet which pollute the atmosphere. Perhaps it is
these electronic waves which eventually cause Solomon’s staff
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the Qur’ān as a collapse—and Allah Knows best!  Already bees
have difficulty in navigating their way to and from the pollen in
flowers, and as a consequence the production of honey in the
mysterious modern world is in constant and alarming decline.

But proper methodology requires that the Qur’ān itself be
used to explain the meaning of the word Minsa’ah. We must
begin the application of proper methodology by recognizing
that the Qur’ān has always used another word for ‘staff’, i.e.,
Asāh. Why then should Allah Most High depart from a word
Asāh which He has consistently used to mean ‘staff’, and in this
solitary instance, use another word, Minsa’ah, to mean the
same thing? This would be a strange and mysterious departure
from the principle of literary consistency.

When we proceed to apply proper methodology in
searching the Qur’ān for any other instance in which the
Minsa’ah occurs, we find one solitary instance in Sūrah al-
Taubah as follows:

ـْكُْفرِ يَُضّلُ بِهِ الَّذِيَن  يَادَةٌ فِي ال سِيءُ زِ َّ مَا الن َّ ِإن
ةَ كَ  فَرُواْ ُيحِلِّونَهُ عَامًا وَُيحَرِّمُونَهُ عَامًا لِّيُوَاطِؤُواْ عِّدَ

ُيَِّن لَهُْم ُسوءُ  مَ اللّهُ ز واْ مَا حَرَّ ُّ مَ اللّهُ فَيُِحل مَا حَرَّ

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ينَ   َأعْمَالِهِْم وَاللّهُ لاَ يَهْدِي الْقَوْمَ الْكَافِرِ
  (Qur’ān, al-Taubah, 9:37)

Allah Most High has denounced in the above verse the
Arab practice of  interfering with ‘time’ and has
declared such to be one more instance of their refusal
to acknowledge the truth—a means by which those
who are bent on denying the truth are led astray. They
declare this practice of adding an extra month every
third year in order that the lunar year may
synchronize with the solar year to be permissible in
one year and forbidden in another year, in order to
conform outwardly to the number of months which
Allah has hallowed: and thus they make permissible
what Allah has prohibited. Goodly seems unto them
the evil of their own doings, since Allah does not grace
with His guidance people who refuse to acknowledge
the truth.

The above verse of the blessed Qur’ān has very clearly used
the word to mean ‘time’. In this case it is the change in the
system of measurement of the passage of time in which Allah
Most High, has ordained that a year should comprise of twelve
lunar months.

When the Prophet صل هللا عليه و سلم used the same word, he also
used it to mean ‘time’ in the sense of ‘life-time’:

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هُ عَنْهُ قَاَل  َّ   :عَْن َأنَِس بِْن مَالٍِك رَضِيَ الل
مَ يَقُوُل   َّ هُ عَلَيْهِ وََسل َّ هِ َصلَّى الل َّ  :سَمِعُْت رَُسوَل الل

هُ َأْن يُبْسََط لَهُ فِي رِْزقِهِ َأْو يُنْسَأَ    مَْن سَرَّ
  ُ  لَهُ فِي َأثَرِهِ فَلْيَِصْل رَِحمَه

Whoever wishes that he be granted more wealth and
that his lease of life be pro longed, he should keep
good relations with his kith and kin.

(Bukhārī, Muslim)

Hence neither does the Qur’ān, nor does the Prophet
 support the meaning of ‘staff’ which has been صل هللا عليه و سلم
given by the Commentators of the Qur’ān to the word
Minsa’ah.

We are now left with only one alternative, i.e., that
Minsa’ah refers to some miraculous capacity in Solomon’s
relationship with ‘time’.

It is possible that Dā’bbatul Ard destroys the miraculous
capacity of the ‘staff’ to permit simultaneous travel back and
forth through different dimensions of time. It was through this
back and forth travel that the young men who were asleep in

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the cave could remain in two dimensions of time
simultaneously (See Qur’ān, al-Kahf, 18:16–20). If the Jasad could
manipulate different dimensions of time, he could thereby
present to the Jinn a Solomon who is still alive, while
concealing from them, Solomon’s death.

If Dajjāl, the Jasad, can manipulate different dimensions of
time through his possession of Solomon’s staff, and hence
advance his agenda of eventually ruling the world from Holy
Jerusalem, we will have to accept that the major function of
Dā’bbatul Ard is to eventually check-mate Dajjāl, the Jasad by
depriving him of that miraculous staff. They do so by
consuming the staff and thereby depriving the staff of its
miraculous properties and functions. And Allah Knows best!

In another verse, the Qur’ān further describes Dā’bbatul
Ard as something which will ‘speak’ (or injure):

 ْ ً وَِإذَا وَقََع الْقَو ة َّ   ُل عَلَْيهِْم َأْخرَْجنَا لَهُْم دَاب
اَس   َّ   مَِّن اْلَأْرِض تُكَلِّمُهُْم َأّنَ الن

ِنَا لَا يُوقِنُونَ   كَانُوا بِآيَات
(Qur’ān, al-Naml, 27:82)

Now, as for the deaf and blind of heart, when the word

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of truth stands revealed against them, We shall bring
forth unto them out of the earth a creature, which will
speak to, or injure them, because mankind had no real
faith in Our messages. The emergence of the beast or
creature of the earth i.e., Dā’bbatul Ard, is therefore
directly linked to the negligence of a world of people
who allow themselves to become brain-washed.

The same Arabic word تكلمهم can have two different
meanings based on different punctuation. If it is written as
 then it would mean ‘speak to them’. But (tukallimuhum) تُكَلِّمُهُمْ
if it is written as  ْتَكَلِمُهُم (taklimuhum) it would mean ‘wound
them’. Both meanings would appear to apply if we interpret
Da’butul Ard in the manner which we have just done. The
learned companion of the blessed Prophet صل هللا عليه و سلم, Ibn
Abbas, held this view. (See Tafsīr al-Qurtubi)

Already electronic communication through so-called
‘Smart Phones’ and other such cellular phones is rapidly
transforming much of the thus ‘connected world’ into a virtual
talk city in which the ‘cattle’ of the world spend endless, hours,
days, weeks—and eventually a lifetime, communicating with
each other in what may best be described as a ‘Talk City’.
Eventually the ‘cattle’ become so addicted to what is sometimes
known as ‘Bla Bla’, that they cannot bear to live without those
devices. They remain unaware that this explosion in ‘talk’ is not
happening by accident. Rather a divine plan is unfolding in
which the electronic waves emitted into the atmosphere, and
into the human ear-drum and brain, will not only cause the

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miraculous properties of Solomon’s staff to be consumed
electronically, but will also damage peoples’ brains to such an
extent that brain cancer, dementia and a form of dementia
known as Alzheimer would become common-place. Indeed
there may be an epidemic in the making.    Alzheimer’s is a
brain disease that causes a slow decline in memory, thinking
and reasoning skills. One of the most common signs
of Alzheimer's is memory loss, especially forgetting recently
learned information. It should be a cause for major concern
that children as young as six and eight years of age are now
falling victims to childhood dementia—i.e., Alzheimer’s.

Our view is that Dā’bbatul Ard can be identified with this
electronic storm which has emerged out of the earth and is
sweeping all of mankind into its deadly embrace in which the
human mind itself, is being dismantled. Instead of living in the
real concrete world, negligent mankind is being swept into the
deadly embrace of what is called the virtual world. They
eventually lose contact with spiritual reality, and they lose the
consciousness of their own status as beings in whom reside the
Divinely-breathed Rūh, or Spirit.

The Qur’ān has delivered an ominous warning on precisely
such a state of affairs:

هَ فََأنسَاهُمْ  َّ   وَلَا تَكُونُوا كَالَّذِيَن نَسُوا الل

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َك هُمُ الْفَاِسقُونَ    َأنفُسَهُْم ُأْولَٕىِ
(Qur’ān, al-Hashr, 59:19)

Allah warns mankind not to be like those who are
oblivious of Allah, and whom He therefore causes to
become oblivious of their own status as human beings:
for it is they, they who are truly depraved!

Those who are not comfortable with the above
identification of Dā’bbatul Ard, may choose instead to await a
Beast described elsewhere as follows:

Its head is like the head of a bull, its eyes are like the
eyes of a pig, its ears are like the ears of an elephant, its
horns are like the horns of a stag, its neck is like the
neck of an ostrich, its chest is like the chest of a lion,
its color is like the color of a tiger, its haunches are like
the haunches of a cat, its tail is like the tail of a ram,
and its legs are like the legs of a camel.

This function of Dā’bbatul Ard must be very convenient
for Dajjāl, who has precisely the same goal of incrementally
dismantling every rival to Israel that now exists in the world—
hence the explanation for the fate which is now embracing such
great States of the modern West as USA, UK, France, Germany,
etc. These ruling States and their greatest allies which gave to
the world the likes of Pax Britannica and Pax Americana, are

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being incrementally dismantled by hidden forces akin to
termites which are constantly nibbling away at the staff that
maintains the balance of a soulless body sitting on the throne
reserved for the ruling State. The rivals to Israel’s status as
ruling State in the world will one day collapse. It is just a matter
of time.

This writer pauses to advise all those who have faith in the
One God (Muslim, Christian, Jew or otherwise) and who are
living within the embrace of Dajjāl’s electronically-connected
world, to seek protection and healing through continuous
recitation (of the Arabic text) of the blessed Qur’ān.  This is
particularly important for those who continuously use
(foolishly so) their so-called Smart Phones and other cellular
phones. This writer pauses to remind such people of the divine
declaration that the Qur’ān can ‘heal’:

ِن مَا هُوَ ِشفَاء وَرَْحمَةٌ لِّلْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَنُنَزُِّل مَِن الْقُرْآ
َّ َخسَارًا الِمِينَ إَلا ِيدُ الّظَ  وَلاَ يَز

(Qur’ān, al-Isra’, 17:82)

Thus, step by step, has Allah Most High bestowed
through this Qur'ān that which heals, and is a grace
unto those who believe in the One God, the while it
only adds to the ruin of evildoers.

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David and Solomon—the Miraculous Profile

David, i.e., Nabī Dāud عليه السالم, was more than just a King who
ruled over a kingdom. Both he, and his son Solomon, i.e., Nabī

Sulaimān عليهما السالم, were unique in Allah’s creation since the
Qur’ān disclosed that Allah Most High caused the mountains
and the birds to sing with David in His divine praise, and that
Solomon was taught the language of the birds:

رْنَا مََع دَاوُودَ اْلجِبَاَل يُسَبِّْحَن .  .  . َّ   وََسخ
َّا فَاعِلِينَ  يْرَ وَكُن  وَالّطَ

(Qur’ān, al-Anbiyāh, 21:79)

…  And Allah Most High, caused the mountains to
join David in extolling His limitless glory, and likewise
the birds:  for Allah is able to do all things.

اُس  وَوَرَِث ُسلَيْمَانُ دَاوُودَ وَقَاَل يَا َّ هَا الن   َأّيُ
يْرِ وَُأوتِينَا مِن كُّلِ شَْيءٍ ِإّنَ     عُلِّمْنَا مَنطَِق الّطَ

 هَذَا لَهُوَ الْفَْضُل الْمُبِينُ
(Qur’ān, al-Naml, 27:16)

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And in respect of this miraculous profile, Solomon
was truly David’s heir; and he would say: Oh people!
We have been taught the speech of birds, and have
been given in abundance of all good things: this,
behold, is indeed a manifest favor from Allah!

Not only were these two Prophet-Kings blessed as
described above but, in addition, Solomon could control the
weather:

وَلِسُلَيْمَانَ الرِّيحَ عَاِصفَةً َتجْرِي بَِأْمرِهِ ِإلَى اْلَأْرِض
َّا بِكُّلِ شَْيءٍ عَالِمِينَ  َا فِيهَا وَكُن َّتِي بَارَكْن  .   .   .  ال

(Qur’ān, al-Anbiyāh, 21:81)

And Allah made the stormy wind subservient unto
Solomon, so that it sped at his behest towards the land
which Allah had blessed, i.e., the Holy Land:  for it is
Allah Who has knowledge of all things.

When the ants spoke, Solomon, i.e., Nabī Sulaimān عليه السالم

could understand what they said:

هَا  َّمِْل قَالَْت نَمْلَةٌ يَا َأّيُ ى ِإذَا َأتَوْا عَلَى وَادِي الن َّ َحت

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َّمُْل اْدخُلُوا مَسَاِكنَكُْم لَا  كُْم ُسلَيْمَانُ الن َّ َيحْطِمَن
 وَُجنُودُهُ وَهُْم لَا يَْشعُرُونَ

(Qur’ān, al-Naml, 27:18)

Solomon and his forces travelled until they came upon
a valley full of ants. An ant then exclaimed: Oh ants!
Go quickly into your dwellings, lest Solomon and his
hosts crush you without even being aware of you!

The Qur’ān disclosed that even the Jinn were divinely
bonded, at the pain of great punishment for deviation from
Allah’s command, to work for Solomon, i.e., Nabī Sulaimān عليه السالم

in the manufacture of numerous items of copper that were of
use to Holy Israel in the Temple, i.e.,  Masjid, which he had built.
They obtained that metal from a fountain of copper which
Allah Most High bestowed on him. As a consequence the Jews
will expect their Messiah to do the same:

يَعْمَُل وََأَسلْنَا لَهُ عَيْنَ الْقِْطرِ وَمَِن اْلجِّنِ مَن .  .  .
َبِّهِ وَمَن يَزِْغ مِْنهُْم عَنْ    بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ بِِإْذِن ر

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عِيرِ    َأْمرِنَا نُذِقْهُ مِْن عَذَاِب الّسَ
(Qur’ān, Sabā, 34:12)

Allah caused a fountain of molten copper to flow at
Solomon’s behest; and among the Jinn there were
some that had been constrained to labour for him by
his Lord-God’s leave and whichever of them deviated
from Allah’s command, him would Allah let taste
suffering through a blazing flame.

 َ يَب وَت حَارِ ِيلَ يَعْمَلُونَ لَهُ مَا يَشَاء مِن ّمَ   مَاث
اِسيَاٍت اعْمَلُوا آَل   وَِجفَاٍن كَاْلجَوَاِب وَقُدُوٍر رَّ

 ُ كُور  دَاوُودَ ُشكْرًا وَقَلِيٌل مِّْن عِبَادَِي الّشَ
(Qur’ān, Sabā, 34:13)

The Jinn made for Solomon whatever he wished of
sanctuaries, and statues, and basins as large as great
watering-troughs, and cauldrons firmly
anchored. Allah said: Labour, Oh David’s people, in
gratitude towards Me, and remember that few are the
truly grateful—even among My servants!

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  اْصبِرْ عَلَى مَا يَقُولُونَ وَاذْكُرْ عَبْدَنَا
ابٌ  َّهُ َأّوَ  دَاوُودَ ذَا اْلَأيْدِ ِإن

(Qur’ān, Sād, 38:17)

Allah Most High advised Prophet Muhammad to bear
patiently with whatever those opposed to him may
say, and to remember His servant David who was
endowed with so much inner strength! He, verily,
would always turn unto Allah.

Perhaps one of the events in the life of Nabī Sulaimān  عليه

 that was revealed in the Qur’ān allows us to anticipate the السالم
kind of assistance that the Jinn can provide to Dajjāl in Ākhir
al-Zamān. The event concerns the wondrous throne of the
Queen of Saba’, i.e., Sheba. Nabī Sulaimān عليه السالم wanted the
throne to be brought to his court prior to the Queen’s arrival at
his court. A Jinn offered to bring it in the twinkling of an eye.
Here is what the Qur’ān has to say concerning the assistance
provided by the Jinn in this matter:

كُْم يَْأتِينِي بِعَرْشِهَا قَبَْل َأن  ُّ هَا المَلَُأ َأي قَاَل يَا َأّيُ
  قَاَل عِْفريٌت مَِّن اْلجِّنِ َأنَا ◌ۖ  يَْأتُونِي مُْسلِمِينَ

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قَامَِك وَِإنِّي عَلَيْهِ   ِيَك بِهِ قَبَْل َأن تَقُومَ مِن مَّ آت
َاِب  ◌ۖ  لَقَوِّيٌ َأمِينٌ  قَاَل الَّذِي عِندَهُ عِلْمٌ مَِّن الْكِت

ا رَآهُ  َّ ِيَك بِهِ قَبَْل َأن يَرْتَّدَ ِإلَيَْك َطرْفَُك فَلَم َأنَا آت
ا عِندَهُ قَاَل هَذَا مِن فَْضِل رَبِّي لِيَبْلُوَنِي  ًّ مُْستَقِر
 َ مَا يَْشكُرُ لِنَْفِسهِ وَم َّ ن َأَأْشكُرُ َأْم َأْكفُرُ وَمَن َشكَرَ فَِإن

 ٌ يم ِ قَاَل نَكِّرُوا لَهَا عَْرشَهَا  ◌ۖ  َكفَرَ فَِإّنَ رَبِّي غَنِيٌّ كَر
 نَنظُرْ َأتَهْتَدِي َأْم تَكُونُ مَِن الَّذِيَن لَا يَهْتَدُونَ

 (Qur’ān, al-Naml, 27:38–41)

When Solomon learned that the Queen of Sheba was
coming to visit him, he said to his council: Oh you
nobles! Which of you can bring me her throne ere she
and her followers come unto me in willing surrender
to Allah?  An ‘Ifreet of the Jinn said: I shall bring it to
you before you rise from your council-seat—for,

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behold, I am powerful enough to do it, and worthy of
trust! Thereupon one of the Jinn who had knowledge
of the Book said: I will bring it to thee within the
twinkling of an eye! Then when Solomon saw it placed
firmly before him, he said: This is by the Grace of my
Lord, to test me whether I am grateful or ungrateful!
And if any is grateful, truly his gratitude is a gain for
his own soul; but if any is ungrateful, truly my Lord is
Free of all Needs, Supreme in Honor! Solomon then
requested that the throne be so altered or disguised
that she may not know it as hers: let us see whether
she allows herself to be guided [to the truth] or
remains one of those who will not be guided.

The assistance provided to Solomon by the Jinn who,
according to the Qur’ān, had ‘knowledge of the book’,
anticipates modern television, and the holographic casting of
three-dimensional objects in mid-air without using any kind of
screen, and other such seemingly miraculous things beside.

While the Qur’ān does not identify the ‘book’ which
provided the knowledge which, in turn, made it possible for a
Jinn to relocate an object instantaneously to a new location
thousands of miles away, it does confirm the existence of such a
book. But we must consider the possibility that the word ‘book’
may have been used to represent a branch of knowledge. If so,
then the possibility exists that Dajjāl may have access to that
branch of knowledge and hence, that the modern scientific and
technological revolution is assisted by the Jinn, and that there

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are scientific and technological miracles waiting to occur in
history which will attempt to replicate this event described
above.

We conclude by observing that the profile of the Messiah
whom the Jews await, must compare favorably with what has
been described above of the profiles of both David and of
Solomon, i.e., Nabī Dāud and Nabī Sulaimān عليهما السالم. There is an
abundance of evidence which convincingly demonstrate that
Dajjāl has already made substantial progress in establishing for
himself precisely such a profile.

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 ُ اهِرُ وَالْبَاطِنُ ه ُل وَاْلآِخرُ وَالّظَ ◌ۖ  وَ اْلَأّوَ

  ٌ وَهُوَ بِكُِلّ شَْيءٍ عَلِيم
(Qur’ān, al-Hadīd, 57:3)

He—Allah Most High—is the First and He is the Last.
He is the outwardly manifest as well as the inwardly
hidden, and He has full knowledge of all things; from
first to last, as well as from outward to inward.

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Chapter Two

Methodology of Connecting
 the Beginning of History with the End

History Begins and Ends with Allah Most High

The Qur’ān has, time and again, affirmed that with Allah
resides both the beginning and the end of all affairs, and that
His Will prevails both at the beginning as well as at the end.
Here are some relevant verses:

.  .  . ُ هِ تَِصيرُ الأمُور َّ  َألَا ِإلَى الل
(Qur’ān, al-Shūra, 42:53)

.  .  .   verily, with Allah is the beginning and the end of
all affairs and events!

.  .  . ُ هِ تُرَْجُع الأمُور َّ  وَِإلَى الل
(Qur’ān, al-Hajj, 22:76)

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.  .  .  for all affairs return to Allah as their source.

َبَِّك الْمُنتََهى.  .  .  وََأّنَ ِإلَى ر
(Qur’ān, al-Najm, 53:42)

And that with thy Lord-God is the beginning and the
end of all that exists, and this includes history.

.  .  . َ َبَِّك مُنتَهَاهَاِإل  ى ر
 (Qur’ān, al-Nāziāt, 79:44)

With thy Lord-God alone rests the beginning and the
end of all knowledge pertaining to the End-time.

 َكمَا بَدََأكُْم تَعُودُونَ .  .  .
(Qur’ān, al-‘Arāf, 7:29)

.  .  .  As it was, when He who brought you into being
at the beginning, so also it shall be when you return to
it.

When we view all the verses of the Qur’ān that connect the
‘beginning’ with the ‘end’, and when we locate the system of
meaning which binds them into a harmonious whole, we arrive
at a marvelous philosophy of history in which we recognize—
not only that Truth is One—but that the same One Truth

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pervades the totality of the historical process as it weaves or
meanders its way through history from sunrise to sunset. In
other words, history commenced with that One Truth and will
end with the same Truth. Hence there is no linear ascent or
descent of history (i.e., in the movement of history) from
‘falsehood’ to ‘truth’ or vice versa; nor is the movement of
history cyclic.  Rather, it is movement from Truth to Truth
despite all the meanderings of history.  This should be known as
the Islamic philosophy of history.

Nowhere, perhaps, has the Qur’ān delivered a more
eloquent declaration of that unity and harmony in the
historical process which both locks and binds ‘beginning’ with
‘end’ in a harmonious whole, than in the following verse:

 َ ا خَلْقُكُْم وَل ا َكنَْفسٍ مَّ   ا بَعْثُكُْم ِإلَّ
  ٌ هَ سَمِيٌع بَِصير َّ  وَاِحدَةٍ ِإّنَ الل

(Qur’ān, Luqmān, 31:28)

The creation of mankind, as well as the resurrection of
mankind, is in no wise but as that of an individual
soul: for Allah is He Who hears and sees all things.

Another verse of the Qur’ān has declared that the stamp of
Allah’s authority is established both in the beginning, as well as
in the end; i.e.,  in events which occurred previously, and this

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necessarily includes the beginning of history, and that which
will occur subsequently, and this, also, necessarily includes the
end of history. The Āyah, i.e., verse, which has made this
declaration concludes, significantly so, with ‘good news’ at that
end for those who have faith in the One God:

هِ اْلَأْمرُ مِن قَبُْل وَمِن بَعْدُ  َّ   لِل
ذٍ يَْفرَُح الْمُؤْمِنُونَ  يَوْمَٕىِ  وَ

(Qur’ān, al-Rūm, 30:4)

.  .   .  with Allah resides all authority in respect, for
example, of events that will occur in history previously,

which includes the beginning, as well as later, which includes the

end of history, and on that day at the end, when Allah’s
authority will prevail, those who have faith in the One
God will celebrate.

While the immediate context of the revelation of the above
Āyah, i.e.,  verse, with its dramatic declaration of victory with
Allah’s help, was the (Orthodox) Christian Byzantine victory
over pagan Persia (pagan in the same sense in which Arabia
was also pagan at that time), the Āyāt or verses of the Qur’ān
have a universal import and cannot be restricted to a specific
historical context; hence this verse of the Qur’ān has actually
delivered a declaration that the beginning and the end of history
are connected and impressed with Divine authority in such wise

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that history will end with the triumph of truth over all rivals,
and of faith and justice over injustice and oppression. Orthodox
Christian Russia, which today leads the Orthodox Christian
world, must find great comfort in this assurance in the Qur’ān
of victory again at the end of history. Muslims also, will surely
be pleased to celebrate that victory once again, as they did the
first time, the only difference being an alliance with Rūm, i.e.,
the Orthodox Christian world, the second time around. The Prophet
himself prophesied that alliance:

 “You will make peace with the Romans, i.e. Christians/‘Rum’, in

a secure truce/alliance, and you and they will fight an enemy who

is behind you, and you will be victorious” (We omit the rest of

this Hadīth since the rest is in conflict with the part which we

have quoted, in addition to being in conflict with the Qur’ān.)

(Sunan Abū Dāud)

Victory for Truth at the end of history was affirmed in the
following thrice-repeated Āyah (verse) of the Qur’ān:

هُوَ الَّذِي َأْرَسَل رَُسولَهُ بِالْهُدَى وَدِيِن اْلحَّقِ
هِ شَهِيدًا َّ  لِيُْظهِرَهُ عَلَى الدِّيِن كُلِّهِ وََكفَى بِالل

(Qur’ān, al-Fath, 48:28); (al-Saff, 61:9); (al-Taubah, 9:33)

He it is who has sent forth His Messenger, i.e.,
Prophet Muhammad, with the task of spreading

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guidance and the religion of truth, to the end that He
make it prevail over every false religion; and none can
bear witness to the truth as Allah does.

Muslims and Orthodox Christians, who both share many
eschatological similarities, are assured of victory at the end of
history. We are, in fact, on firm foundations when we
anticipate a Muslim-Orthodox alliance in the military struggle
for the conquest of Constantinople which, according to the
prophecy of Prophet Muhammad عليه و سلم صل هللا , will follow
immediately after the Malhama or Great War (Christians refer
to it as Armageddon) in which 99 out of every 100 combatants
will be killed. (Sahīh Bukhārī, Sahīh Muslim)

It is important for us to note at this juncture that Islam has
never claimed that Truth came to the world for the first time
with Nabī Muhammad صل هللا عليه و سلم, nor has the Qur’ān ever
claimed a monopoly on Truth! Rather the Qur’ān has
consistently affirmed that the Truth which came to the world
with Nabī Muhammad, also came with previous Prophets of
the One God such as Nabī Ibrahīm, i.e., Abraham, Nabī Mūsa, i.e.,
Moses, Nabī Dāud, i.e., David, Nabī Īsa, i.e., Jesus, etc. عليهم السالم, and
in the scriptures such as the Taurāt, i.e., Torah, and the Injīl, i.e.,
Gospel, which were divinely-revealed to them. Indeed the
Qur’ān declared that it came to not only confirm and validate
that previously–revealed truth, but to also guard and protect it
(See Qur’ān, al-Māidah, 5:48). And so, it is ‘perennial truth’ which
was revealed for the last time in the last scripture, i.e., the
Qur’ān, and it is that truth which will triumph in the end of

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history. Only two communities of people (in addition of course
to individual Jews, as well as other individuals) will be holding
on to that truth at the end of history—i.e., the community of
true Muslims and the community of true Christians.

Truth does not require an army, navy and air force, in
order to prevail over all rivals. Truth does not ever wage
endless wars to establish full-spectrum political, economic and
military dominion or rule over the whole world in order to
prevail over all rivals; hence the arrogant blood-stained Zionist
claim to Truth is manifestly bogus and false. Rather Truth
requires believers to resist oppression, and to respond to the
oppressor by all means lawful and necessary, in order to liberate
the oppressed and to ensure that justice triumphs in the world.
The Judeo-Christian Zionist alliance and its allies around the
world, pursue their claim to Truth with an oppression that is
unprecedented in history, and with a mountain of lies. The
modern Judeo-Christian West also sought to brain-wash the
non-Western world which they attacked and colonized, into
believing that they were a civilization of people who had been
raised with a divine mission of civilizing the peoples of the
non-Western world. They pursued this so-called divine
mission with an arrogant belief that they were created superior
to all other people. This book recognizes Dajjāl as the master-
mind who brought into being the arrogant Zionist Judeo-
Christian Western civilization.

Islam is not imperialism, and it was not an imperial Islam
which spread so rapidly in its early history. Rather, the

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oppressed of the world welcomed Islam. Whenever Muslims
fought and conquered territory for reasons other than
liberating the oppressed and resisting aggression, as they did in
Hindu India as well as in the Orthodox Christian world in the
Balkans, and perhaps elsewhere as well, such wars were bogus
Jihād, and they naturally left in their trail eternal hatred for
Islam!

It was a bogus Islam which made a deal with Henry
Kissinger to sell oil for only US dollars and to thus force upon
the world a bogus and fraudulent petrodollar monetary system.
It is bogus Islam which now forces upon the world of Islam a
Harām so-called Islamic Banking system, and which legalizes
Harām Bit-coin as money. And it is bogus Islam which dances
with every tune that comes out of Dajjāl’s feminist revolution,
to prohibit the marriage of a girl who is seventeen years of age,
and to thrust women forward to occupy every possible public
office until the ominous prophecy of Prophet Muhammad
concerning ‘Dajjāl and women’ is fulfilled, as ‘night’ becomes
‘day’.

The Qur’ān has linked the beginning of history with the
end, in another Āyah (or verse) as follows:

 ُ اهِرُ وَالْبَاطِنُ ه ُل وَاْلآِخرُ وَالّظَ   وَ اْلَأّوَ
    ٌ  وَهُوَ بِكُِلّ شَْيءٍ عَلِيم

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(Qur’ān, al-Hadīd, 57:3)

He, Allah, is the First and He is the Last. He is the
outwardly manifest as well as the inwardly
hidden: and He has full knowledge of all things.

The above verse again suggests a connection between the
beginning and the end of history—to wit, that the end of history
cannot be fully understood without a study of events that
occurred at the beginning of history.

If the Qur’ān declares that Allah Most High, is the first,
last, manifest and hidden, and if the verse concludes with the
statement that “He has (full) knowledge of all things”, the implication
is that references to first, last, manifest and hidden were all
made in the context of knowledge; hence, when the Qur’ān
declared that Allah Most High, is the first, and that He has
knowledge of all things, it indicates that with Him is the
knowledge of the beginning of history; and when it declared that
He is the last, the implication is the same; hence, with Him,
also, is the knowledge of the end of history. When first and last
are juxtaposed together, as in the above Āyah, i.e., verse, it
logically indicates a Divine connection between knowledge of
the end of history and knowledge of the beginning. Since the
Qur’ān addresses the subject of the beginning of history, the
implication is that Islamic scholarship has a capacity to make
an eschatological contribution to the understanding and
explanation of history, the historical process and the movement
of history.

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My teacher of the philosophy of history, Dr. Burhān
Ahmad Fārūqī (rahimahullah) taught an Islamic philosophy of
history which recognized the purpose and end of history in
“the re-realization of perennial truth”. In other words, Truth
was established at the beginning of history, and will again be
established at the end. By ‘establishment’ of Truth, he meant
the triumph of Truth over all rivals. The world got a taste of
that conclusion of the historical process when history witnessed
the advent of the last of the Prophets or Messengers of Allah
Most High, i.e., Nabī Muhammad صل هللا عليه و سلم. Truth
triumphed over all rivals in Arabia 1400 years ago, and Truth
will again triumph over all rivals at the end of history.

The Book of ‘Revelation’ of the Gospel of Jesus, i.e.,  Nabī ‘Īsa
 has a statement concerning the Lord-God which is ,عليه السالم
almost identical to the verse of the Qur’ān, quoted above,
which connected the ‘beginning’ with the ‘end’ of history:

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end,
the first and the last. (‘Alpha’ and ‘Omega’ are the first
and last letters of the Greek alphabet).

(Revelation, 22:13)

The Torah that was sent to Nabī Mūsa i.e., Moses عليه السالم,
also says the same thing:

“This is what the Lord says—Israel’s King and
Redeemer, the Lord Almighty: I am the first and I am
the last; apart from me there is no God.”

(Isaiah, 44:6)

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Our readers may wish to examine Jewish and Christian
eschatology to locate what connections have been made by
Christian and Jewish scholarship between the ‘beginning’ and
the ‘end’ of history, and with what results.

The Beginning, the End, and Dajjāl

The main events that occur in our subject of the advent of al-
Masīh al-Dajjāl, or Dajjāl, the false Messiah (some refer to him
as the Anti-Christ), and the return of Nabī Īsa, i.e., Jesus the true

Messiah عليه السالم, are both located at the end of history. Muslims
and Christians are the only two people among mankind who
believe in these two events as a matter of religious faith. As a
consequence both Muslims and Christians must seek to
determine whether these End-time events are in any way
connected with events which may have occurred at the
beginning of history.

Muslims can embark on that effort with confidence of
positive results since Prophet Muhammad صل هللا عليه و سلم declared
that “every Prophet before him (and he is the last of them all) warned his

people about Dajjāl, or the Anti-Christ”. He even went on to make it
quite clear that he included the Prophets who were located at
the beginning of history. He did so when he made specific
mention of Nabī Nūh, i.e., Noah عليه السالم, in that connection:

هِ بِْن عُمَرَ  َّ هِ .  .  .  . عْن عَبْدِ الل َّ قَامَ رَُسوُل الل

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اِس فََأثْنَى عَلَى  َّ مَ فِي الن َّ هُ عَلَيْهِ وََسل َّ ِ َصلَّى الل ه َّ   الل
اَل فَقَاَل ِإنِّي ُأنْذِرُكُمُوهُ   جَّ َّ ذَكَرَ الدَّ بِمَا هُوَ َأهْلُهُ ثُم

 ُ ا وَقَْد َأنْذَرَهُ قَوْمَهُ لَقَْد َأنْذَرَه   وَمَا مِْن نَبِّيٍ ِإلَّ
ُ  نُوحٌ    .  .  . قَوْمَه

Abdullah ibn 'Umar said: .  .  .  .  The Messenger of
Allah then stood up in front of the people, praised
Allah with words worthy of Him and then he
mentioned Dajjāl and said: I warn you about him, and
there is no prophet who has not warned his people
about him. Noah warned his people about him  .  .  .

(Sahīh Bukhārī)

If every Prophet warned his people about Dajjāl, it follows
that there must be information about him, or connected to
him, at the beginning of history. Let us therefore turn to the
first pages of history in an effort to understand a most
momentous event located close to the end of history and
without which there would be no Dajjāl.

If there had been no Jewish rejection of Jesus, the son of
the Virgin Mary, as the promised Messiah, no demand for his

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crucifixion, and no boasting when they saw him crucified before
their very eyes, there would have been no need for an advent of
a false Messiah or Anti-Christ prior to a return of the true
Messiah, or of a world-order of Gog and Magog to work for the
Anti-Christ to assist him in realizing his mission, and no return
of the true Messiah, at the end of history.

Since the return of the true Messiah, and the advent of a
false Messiah prior to that miraculous return, are located at the
very heart of the end of history, the implication for Christians
and for Muslims, i.e., the two people who believe that Jesus will
one day return, is that the dramatic conclusion of the historical
process itself cannot be explained unless we can locate the
explanation for the Jewish rejection of Jesus عليه السالم.  Our view
is that the main reasons for that rejection are located in the
beginning of history—hence the need for us to address this
subject.

Jesus عليه السالم was born into an Israelite community, and
hence belonged to a people who claimed, and still claim to this
day, that they are a special people with the Lord-God who chose
them from amongst all of mankind and conferred upon them a
special status with Himself. They were expecting a Messiah who
was promised to them by the Lord-God, and who when he
came, would restore the golden age when Jews ruled the world.
When Jesus claimed to be that Messiah, and it was well-known
that he was born to a mother who was not married, they
rejected his claim to be the Messiah on the basis of their charge
that he was a ‘bastard’ child. They were also very angry when

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they saw him performing miracles as a boy despite his alleged
‘bastard’ status; for example he took mud, shaped it in the form of

birds, blew into them, and, by Allah’s leave, they became living birds

(Qur’ān, Ale ‘Imrān, 3:49). But they were also very angry with him
for other reasons. The Qur’ān has consistently accused them of
having corrupted Divine revelation by changing and rewriting
the word of the One God. It has identified, for example, a
change which made Halāl, i.e., permissible, what Allah had made
Harām, i.e., prohibited. They took Ribā or usury, even though
they had been prohibited from doing so (Qur’ān, al-Nisa’, 4:161).

It was also a scriptural crime for them to claim, arrogantly
so, that they are the chosen people of the Lord-God to the
exclusion of the rest of mankind, and hence no gentile could
ever be the equal of even the lowest of the Jews. They do not
believe that they will be judged individually on Judgment Day,
but rather believe in their unique collective judgment as a
people (all others being judged individually), and that heaven is
reserved for them.

Here is what the Torah has to say concerning their status
as a chosen people:

“For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and
God has chosen you to be His treasured people from
all the nations that are on the face of the earth.”

(Deuteronomy, 14:2)

“Now therefore, if you will obey My voice indeed, and
keep My covenant, then you shall be a peculiar

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treasure unto Me from all the peoples, for all the earth
is mine.”

(Exodus, 19:5)

“And I will establish My covenant between Me and
you and your descendants after you in their
generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to
you and your descendants after you.”

(Genesis, 17:7)

“And you shall be unto Me a kingdom of priests, and a
Holy nation.”

(Exodus, 19:6)

“The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose
you, because you were more in number than any
people; for you were the fewest of all people; but
because the Lord loved you, and because he would
keep the oath which he had sworn unto your
ancestors.”

(Deuteronomy, 7:7–8)

“You only have I singled out of all the families of the
earth: therefore will I visit upon you all your
iniquities.”

(Amos, 3:2)

It is quite strange and, indeed, mysterious, that modern
western civilization emerged in history with unprecedented

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power, and then went on a rampage of oppression around the
world, subjugating untold millions to western colonial and
imperial rule while raising the same claim to superiority over
the non-European peoples of the world. They also used this
same claim to justify western slavery over Africans. The
outstanding West Indian scholar and politician, Dr. Eric E.
Williams, has documented and exposed the western slave-
master’s claim to racial superiority in his masterly-written book
entitled ‘British Historians and the West Indies’ (Andre Deutsch,

London. 1966).

It was because Jesus challenged this Jewish belief that they
firmly and vehemently rejected him as the promised Messiah,
and demanded his execution by crucifixion. When they saw
him crucified before their very eyes, it conclusively validated
their rejection of his claim to be the true Messiah since the
Torah itself had declared that “anyone who is hung on a pole is under

God’s curse (Deuteronomy, 21:22–23). Since he was the “cursed of the

Lord-God” it followed logically that he could not have been the
Messiah.

If history is to end with a validation of the Jewish claim to
Truth, and if that Truth recognizes the Jews as God’s chosen
people, chosen eternally and unconditionally to the exclusion of
all of mankind, then this astonishing and ethically questionable
supposedly Divine preference must find support in the
beginning of history. If it has no support in the beginning of
history, then this claim to truth must be questioned! If the
Jewish claim to truth is to be validated, then history must end

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with the advent of a Messiah other than Jesus عليه السالم since they
rejected him as the Messiah.

Jesus, the Jews and the Chosen People

The Jews had a major problem with Nabī ‘Īsa, i.e., Jesus عليه السالم,
because he condemned them with very powerful language
while dismissing their claim to have a special status with Allah
Most High as His chosen people.

Jesus declared of the Jews that the Devil was their father. In
other words, instead of recognizing them as the chosen people
of the Lord-God, he declared that they were, in effect, the
chosen people of Satan since their conduct was satanic. He
considered them to be one-eyed, i.e., internally blind, and
declared them to be “a nation of vipers”:

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your
father ye will do. He was a murderer from the
beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is
no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh
of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

John 8:44

You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say
anything good? For the mouth speaks what the heart
is full of.

Matthew 12:34

For this people's heart has become calloused; they

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hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their
eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear
with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn,
and I would heal them.'

Matthew 13:15

The Qur’ān supported the response of Nabī ‘Īsā, i.e., Jesus

 In fact it not only rejected the Jewish claim to that .عليه السالم
special status with the Lord-God as false, but went on to
challenge them to seek or desire death if they were convinced
of the truth of their claim:

كُْم َأْولِيَاء َّ هَا الَّذِيَن هَادُوا ِإن زَعَمْتُمْ َأن   قُْل يَا َأّيُ
وُا الْمَوَْت ِإن ُكنتُمْ   َّ اِس فَتَمَن َّ هِ مِن دُوِن الن َّ لِل

َّ  ◌ۖ   َصادِقِينَ  َمَن مَْت َأيْدِيهِْم وَلَا يَت   وْنَهُ َأبَدًا بِمَا قَّدَ
الِمِينَ  هُ عَلِيمٌ بِالّظَ َّ قُْل ِإّنَ الْمَوَْت الَّذِي  ◌ۖ  وَالل

ونَ ِإلَى عَالِِم  َّ تُرَدُّ َّهُ مُلَاقِيكُْم ثُم ونَ مِنْهُ فَِإن ُّ تَفِر
هَادَةِ فَيُنَبِّئُكُم بِمَا ُكنتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ  َّ   الْغَيِْب وَالش

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 (Qur’ān, al-Jumu’ah, 62:6–8)

Say: O you who follow the Jewish faith! If you claim
that you alone are close to Allah, i.e., chosen by Allah
Most High, to the exclusion of all other people, then
you should be longing for death—if what you say is
true!  But never will they long for it, because they are
aware of what their hands have wrought in this world,
i.e. their sinful evil conduct; and Allah has full
knowledge of evildoers.  Say: Behold, the death from
which you are fleeing is bound to overtake you—and
then you will be brought back unto Him Who knows
all that is beyond the reach of a created being's
perception as well as all that can be witnessed by a
creature's senses or mind, whereupon He will make
you truly understand all that you were doing in life.

The Qur’ān again challenged them concerning their belief
that heaven is reserved for them:

ارُ الآَِخرَةُ عِندَ اللّهِ    قُْل ِإن كَانَْت لـَكُمُ الدَّ
وُاْ الْمَوَْت ِإن  َّ اِس فَتَمَن َّ   خَالَِصةً مِّن دُوِن الن

مَتْ  ◌ۖ  ُكنتُمْ َصادِقِينَ  وْهُ َأبَدًا بِمَا قَّدَ َّ َمَن   وَلَن يَت

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الِمينَ    َأيْدِيهِْم وَاللّهُ عَلِيمٌ بِالّظَ
 (Qur’ān, al-Baqarah, 2:94–5)

Say: If an afterlife with Allah, i.e., the abode of heaven,
is to be for you alone, to the exclusion of all other
people, then you should long for death—if what you
say is true! But never will they long for it, because
(they are aware) of what their hands have sent ahead
in this world: and Allah has full knowledge of
evildoers.

The Qur’ān asked with great logical compulsion, if the
Lord-God chose you to be His ‘special’, ‘chosen’ and ‘beloved’
people, why then, does He punish you for your sins?

اؤُهُ  َّ َصارَى َنحُْن َأبْنَاء اللّهِ وََأِحب َّ وَقَالَِت الْيَهُودُ وَالن
ْن خَلََق يَغْفِرُ قُْل فَلِمَ يُعَّذِ  َّ بِكُم بَْل َأنتُم بَشَرٌ مِّم بُكُم بِذُنُو

مَاوَاِت  يُعَّذُِب مَن يَشَاء وَلِلّهِ مُلُْك الّسَ لِمَن يَشَاء وَ
 ُ  وَالَأْرِض وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا وَِإلَيْهِ الْمَِصير

(Qur’ān, al-Māidah, 5:18)

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And both the Jews and the Christians say: We are
Allah’s children, and His beloved ones. Say: Why,
then, does He cause you to be punished for your sins?
Nay, you are but human beings of His creating. He
forgives whom He wills, and He causes to be punished
whom He wills: for Allah’s is the dominion over the
heavens and the earth and all that is between them,
and with Him all journeys end.

The Qur’ān laid this alleged Divine preference for the Jews
to rest when it declared that the Divine classification of human
beings is based on piety rather than on lineage:

ا خَلَْقنَاكُم مِّن ذَكَرٍ وَُأنثَى  َّ اُس ِإن َّ هَا الن يَا َأّيُ
َل لِتَعَارَفُوا ِإّنَ َأكْرَمَكُْم  بًا وَقَبَإىِ وََجعَلْنَاكُْم ُشعُو

ٌ عِندَ ال هَ عَلِيمٌ َخبِير َّ هِ َأتْقَاكُْم ِإّنَ الل َّ  ل
(Qur’ān, al-Hujurāt, 49:13)

O men! Behold, We have created you all out of a male
and a female, and have made you into nations and
tribes, so that you might come to know one another,
i.e., in respect of classification of humankind. Verily,
the noblest of you in the sight of Allah is the one who
is most pious. Behold, Allah is all-knowing, all-aware.

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Prophet Muhammad صل هللا عليه و سلم also dismissed that
Jewish claim to a special (birthright) status with Allah when he
declared:  ٌ الْمُْشطِ  كأسنانِ  الناُس سواء  i.e., that all of mankind are as equal in

His sight as are the teeth of a comb”. (Sahīh Bukhārī)

We must now ask,—wherefrom came this arrogant Jewish
claim to a birthright of superiority over all of mankind?

The Qur’ān confirms that the Israelite people descended
from Nabī Ibrāhīm, i.e., Abraham عليه السالم, and also confirms that
Allah Most High conferred on Abraham the status of Imām, i.e.,
spiritual or religious leader, of mankind. Abraham responded,
however, with a request that his seed should also share in that
status conferred upon him. As a consequence the Jews came to
the conclusion that since they were from the seed of Abraham,
they had a special status divinely conferred upon them. But the
Qur’ān explained that Allah’s response to Abraham’s request
was to grant it conditionally:

 َ بْرَاهِيم هُّنَ قَالَ  وَِإذِ ابْتَلَى ِإ َّ ُّهُ بِكَلِمَاٍت فََأتَم َب   ر
تِي  َّ ي اِس ِإمَامًا قَاَل وَمِن ذُرِّ َّ   ِإنِّي جَاعِلَُك لِلن

الِمِينَ    قَاَل لاَ يَنَاُل عَْهدِي الّظَ
(Qur’ān, al-Baqarah, 2:124)

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And remember that event when his Lord-God tried
Abraham by His commandments and the latter
fulfilled them. He said: Behold, I shall make thee an
Imām, i.e., leader, of men. Abraham asked: And will
You make leaders of my offspring as well? Allah
answered: My covenant does not embrace the wicked.

The condition was that this status would not be conferred
on those of his seed who were unjust, wicked in conduct, or
oppressors. Allah Most High went on to fulfill that favor unto
Abraham by choosing Imams from his seed, hence the
phenomenon of a continuous line of Prophets chosen from the
seed of Abraham who were all sent to the Israelite people. The
most that the Jews could claim, therefore, is that Allah Most
High accepted the request of Abraham and blessed his
righteous seed by choosing a continuous line of Imams or
Prophets from that righteous seed. Believing Israelites, who are
righteous, can therefore claim that Allah Most High chose
Prophets from ‘our’ ranks.

Hence it was that Prophets of Allah were always chosen
and appointed from the righteous seed of Abraham (since the
Covenant excluded those who were wicked). This continued
uninterruptedly until the birth of the Messiah, Jesus the son of
the Virgin Mary عليهما السالم. Mary’s mother is referred to in the
Qur’ān as a woman of the House of ‘Imrān, and Mary herself is
called “sister of Harūn” who, himself, is the son of ‘Imrān.

It is very strange indeed that there is no evidence of ‘Imrān
having the status of a Nabī, i.e., Prophet of Allah Most High. Yet he

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is a father of two Prophets—Mūsa, i.e., Moses, and Harūn, i.e.,
Aaron عليه السالم. The Qur’ān mentioned the names of Ādam  عليه

 as Prophets who were raised to a special عليه السالم and Noah السالم
status over all of mankind. It then mentioned that the same
status was conferred on the progeny of Abraham عليه السالم, but it
then went on to provide the additional information that this
status was also conferred, strangely so, on the progeny of an
unknown Israelite named ‘Imrān, who resided in Egypt. The
Qur’ān is otherwise silent on this strange subject.

Epistemology and Methodology

When the Āyah, or verse, of the Qur’ān declared that Allah
Most High, in addition to being the first and last, is also the
outwardly manifest as well as the inwardly hidden, and that He
has full knowledge of all things, it implies that knowledge of the
beginning, and of the end, and of that which connects them
together, can be accessed only through an epistemology which
harmoniously integrates Zāhir, i.e.,  the externally observable

historical process, with Bātin, i.e.,  the internal reality of that
externally observable historical process. Hence it integrates
visible historical events with their hidden or concealed
eschatological reality.

The verse of the Qur’ān (al-Hadīd, 57:3) has thus provided a
quartet of ‘beginning’, ‘end’, ‘observable’ and ‘hidden’ which
have to be fully integrated by the research student into a
harmonious whole for the proper study of both history and
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can therefore penetrate and grasp the movement of history and
the events which unfold at the end of history.  This explains
why we cannot attempt to understand Dajjāl, the False
Messiah, who is a major actor at the end of history, without
studying the beginning of history to attempt to locate at the
beginning, that which connects to our subject in the end of
history. This, perhaps, explains why so few are even conscious
of the implications of such monetary events as the IMF ban of
the use of gold as money. There are many Christians who
cannot see the mark of the beast in the present bogus monetary
system of paper, plastic and electronic or digital money!

The Qur’ān has directed attention to the epistemology with
which this subject must be studied. It has done so in a passage
in Sūrah al-Kahf of the Qur’ān which describes the encounter
between Nabī Mūsa (Moses) and an elusive mystical sage
known as Khidr (عليه السالم). The word Khidr in Arabic means
Green. An Orthodox Christian friend once commented to this
writer that Khidr bears an uncanny resemblance to Jesus. We
have analyzed that passage of the Qur’ān in our book entitled
Sūrah al-Kahf and the Modern Age.

There is another reference in Sūrah al-Kahf to the
importance of epistemology in respect of methodology for
study of history. Two major evil actors in the historical process
are to be released into the world in the end-time. They are Gog
and Magog. (See my book entitled An Islamic View of Gog and Magog in

the Modern World). The Qur’ān informs us that when the time
comes for their release, Allah Most High will destroy a barrier

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built by Dhūl Qarnain, which effectively contained them and
protected mankind from their evil. When that happens, then
disbelieving people who suffer from an incapacity to see and to
hear, would find themselves living in a hellish world spread out
before them:

يَن عَْرًضا ذٍ لِّلْكَافِرِ مَ يَوْمَٕىِ َّ   ◌ۖ  وَعَرَْضنَا َجهَن
  الَّذِيَن كَانَْت َأْعيُنُهُْم فِي غِطَاء عَن ذِكْرِي

 تَطِيعُونَ سَمْعًا وَكَانُوا لَا يَْس

(Qur’ān, al-Kahf, 18:100–101)

On that day Allah Most High will present hell to the
disbelievers, plain to view; those whose eyes were
hoodwinked from His reminder, and who could not
bear to hear the truth which He sent down.

It should be obvious that the Qur’ān has referred in the
above to internal sight as well as to an internal capacity to hear.

We now return to Sūrah al-Hadīd to note that the first two
verses of the Sūrah, which precede the third verse concerning
the first and last, expand a conception of the philosophy of
history to include a vertical dimension, i.e., above with below,
which complements the horizontal dimension of first with last:

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 َ مَاوَاِت وَاْلَأْرِض وَهُو هِ مَا فِي الّسَ َّ َح لِل َّ   َسب
  ُ يزُ اْلحَِكيم مَاوَاِت وَاْلَأْرِض  ◌ۖ   الْعَزِ لَهُ مُلُْك الّسَ

 ٌ ُمِيُت وَهُوَ عَلَى كُّلِ شَْيءٍ قَدِير  ُيحْيِي وَي
(Qur’ān, al-Hadīd, 57:1–2)

All that is in the heavens or parallel universes, and on
earth or the material universe, glorify Allah; for He
alone is Mighty and Wise!  To Him belongs
sovereignty over the heavens, or the parallel universes,
and the earth, or the material universe; He gives life
and He takes life, i.e., He causes death; and this should
provide evidence enough that He has power over all
things.

The implication of the above two verses of the Qur’ān,
when studied in the context of the third verse, is that
cosmology continuously impacts upon the historical process in
such wise that events here-under cannot be fully understood
without reference to cosmological reality located in the world
above, i.e.,  al-Ghaib or the unseen world. The most dramatic
evidence of the relationship between these two worlds can be
found in true dreams and visions,—and hence the abiding
importance of Sūrat Yūsuf of the Qur’ān.

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But even more important for our subject is the need for us
to recognize that it is not possible to connect the dots of
history—from the beginning to the end—without such
interaction with the world above that would deliver both
spiritual ‘strength’ and ‘spiritual light’. Unless we can see with
the ‘internal eye’ we would not recognize an even more
important eschatological implication with which, we hope,
Orthodox Christian eschatology will agree,—to wit, that there
is more to the end of history than the mere unfolding of events
already prophesied. Rather, the Lord-God can intervene in the
historical process with events that will occur at the end of
history concerning which neither Islamic nor Christian
eschatology have any information or knowledge at this time.

If anyone is to have any knowledge of coming events, it
can only come through true dreams or visions. This reconfirms
the strategic importance of dreams and visions which is the
topic of one of my books.  At the request of one of my students,
I now disclose precisely such a dream which I saw when I was
26 years of age and still studying at the Aleemiyah Institute of
Islamic Studies in Pakistan. I saw a mighty river which was in
very high flood and with dangerous currents, and I saw all my
fellow students (as well as many others) struggling in the
dangerous currents of the river, and in great danger of
drowning; and I saw myself swimming to them one by one, and
taking hold of them, and swimming with them to safety.  I went
to Maulānā Ansārī next morning and narrated to him my
dream. He responded immediately to declare that I was
destined to do precisely that in real life.

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In consequence of this dream, and my teacher’s
interpretation of the dream, I have consistently persisted in my
mission in the cause of truth all through life, even though I
have so often been a lone voice crying in the wilderness!

We now turn to the description in the Qur’ān of enigmatic
events that occurred at the beginning of history which, we
believe, have significant eschatological implications,—
significant for Judaism, Christianity and Islam, as well as all the
rest of mankind. All these events occurred in a transcendental
realm of existence before the commencement of man’s
biological or material life on earth, i.e., in the material universe.

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وِحي  يْتُهُ وَنَفَْخُت فِيهِ مِن رُّ  .  .  .ِإذَا َسوَّ
(Qur’ān, al-Hijr, 15:28–29)

…  So when Allah Most High has formed him fully,
and breathed into him of His Divine Rūh, i.e., Divine
Spirit …

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Chapter Three

The Human Rūh, The Divine Rūh,
The Rūh Al-Qudus and

The Messiah Who Is Himself Rūh

Relevance of this subject

This chapter deals exclusively with the Rūh or Spirit. It is
relevant to our subject of Dajjāl and Awwal al-Zamān, i.e.,  the

beginning of history, since, without an explanation of this subject,
we cannot proceed to our next chapter in which we analyze
what must be recognized as the most important event to have
occurred in Awwal al-Zamān, to wit: Allah’s command to the
Angels to prostrate themselves before Nabī Ādam عليه السالم, and
the implications of the arrogant refusal to prostrate by an Iblīs
who believed that he possessed a birth-right of superiority over
Ādam.

The subject is also of importance because of the three
questions which the Rabbis of Yathrib chose for the Prophet to
be asked to answer in order for his claim to be a Prophet to be
validated or invalidated (see my book entitled ‘Surah al-Kahf and the

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Modern Age’ p. 91). The third of the three questions was: Ask him
about the Rūh, or Spirit?

The question was difficult since the Rūh, or Spirit, could
refer to the Divine Rūh, or to the Rūh that was breathed into
Nabī Ādam عليه السالم, or it could refer to the Rūh al-Qudus or
Holy Spirit. But, surprisingly so, the Rūh could also refer to the
Messiah himself.

Our initial view was that the Rabbis had posed the
questions concerning the Rūh as a distraction, since we could
see no eschatological connection to the question—as was
readily discernible in the other two questions (which we
understood to be connected to Gog and Magog, and to the
interaction between the different dimensions of ‘space’ and of
‘time’ that is the key to understanding an important part of the
subject of Dajjāl).  It was only subsequently that we realized
that there were more implications to the subject of the Rūh
than we had initially understood.

There is an abundance of evidence that some of the most
learned Jews of all times believed that the Divine Rūh, i.e.,  soul

or spirit, was breathed into only the so-called ‘chosen people’, and
that, while other human beings may be said to possess a soul, it
was akin to an animal soul rather than a divine soul.

(See the scholarly essay written by the Jewish scholar,
Hanan Balk, entitled: The Soul of a Jew and the Soul
of a Non-Jew—An Inconvenient Truth and the Search
for an Alternative. Published in ‘�akirah’, the

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Flatbush Journal of Jewish Law and Thought.
http://www.hakirah.org/. There are several other
quotations from the views of prominent Jewish
scholars which confirm their belief in a birth-right of
Jewish supremacy over mankind, and which can be
found in the following essay:

https://stopcg.wordpress.com/jewish-supremacism.)

Hence the question concerning the Rūh may have been
posed by the Rabbis in order to tease a view out of the Prophet,
while forcing him to respond to this popular Jewish view.

Perhaps, also, the Jews had secret knowledge that the Rūh
al-Qudus or Holy Spirit had a special End-time role to play in
the advent of the Messiah, and they wanted to test Muhammad
 to see whether he had any knowledge of that صل هللا عليه و سلم
subject. It is quite possible that prior to revelations that were
subsequently sent down in the Qur’ān on the subject of the
Rūh, no one knew, for example, that Nabī Īsā, i.e.,  Jesus, the true

Messiah عليه السالم, was strengthened with the Rūh al-Qudus or
Holy Spirit, or that he was himself, a Rūh or spirit that Allah
Most High had breathed into Maryam, in consequence of
which he became known as Rūhullah or Allah’s Spirit (Qur’ān,

al-Anbiyāh’, 21:91).

Perhaps, also, other than the Jews, no one knew that Allah
Most High had ordered the Angels at the dawn of creation to
prostrate themselves before Ādam عليه السالم, in an act of respect
for him, and that the order to prostrate was made only after the

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Divine Rūh was breathed into him.

It has therefore become necessary for us to devote
attention to explaining what the Qur’ān has to say on this
subject of the Rūh, or spirit.

What is the Rūh?

When the Qur’ān described the event of the creation of the
human being, it located that event in the spiritual realm, before
human beings were excluded from al-Jannah, i.e., heaven, and
sent down to the material universe. Even so, it declared of that
event that man was created from ‘humble clay’:

َّ قَضَى   هُوَ الَّذِي خَلَقَكُم مِّن طِينٍ ثُم
َّ َأنتُمْ تَمْتَرُونَ   ى عِندَهُ ثُم سمًّ  َأجَلاً وََأجٌَل مُّ

(Qur’ān, al-An’ām, 6:2)

He it is who has created man out of clay, and then has
decreed a term for him—a term known only to Him
Most High.  And yet people doubt.

كَةِ ِإنِّي خَالٌِق بَشَرًا مِّن  َٕىِ َُّك لِلْمَلا َب وَِإْذ قَاَل ر

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ْسنُونٍ َصلَْصاٍل مِّْن   حَمَإٍ مَّ
(Qur’ān, al-Hijr, 15:28)

Allah Most High declared to the angels that He was
about to create mortal man out of potter’s clay, out of
dark mud molded into shape.

The only way that mankind could have been created of
‘clay’ in a spiritual realm, prior to being transformed to
material form in this world of space and time, is if that ‘clay’
was, itself, spiritual in nature and form, i.e.,  ‘clay’ which existed
as spiritual substance, and which had not as yet been
transformed to material form. Can there be such a thing as
‘spiritual’ clay?

When the Qur’ān declared of Allah Most High that He is
the Nūr (light) of the Samawāt (or the parallel universes, i. e.,
the seven worlds of space and time that exist beyond our
materiel universe) and the earth (or the material universe), (al-

Nūr, 24:35) the implication is that all of creation is ultimately
resolvable or reducible to Nūr, i.e., light, and that all of creation
must have emerged from Nūr. Hence, at the level of spiritual
substance all things must exist as Nūr or ‘light’. It is that ‘light’
which is, perhaps, heated up to become ‘smokeless fire’, from
which the Jinn were created, and then cooled down to be
transformed to ‘material clay’, in which form human beings
emerged in this material universe. (For a better explanation of this

complex subject see Dr. Muhammad Fazlur Rahman Ansari’s two books

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entitled ‘Foundations of Faith’ and ‘Quranic Foundations and Structure of

Muslim Society’. World Federation of Islamic Missions, Karachi.)

We may conclude from the above that all human beings
existed in the form of spiritual clay before emerging in the form
of material clay in the material universe. Hence all human
beings existed in the spiritual realm with a spiritual body prior
to emerging in this material universe with a material body. We
may recall, in support of the above, that the Qur’ān has
declared that all human beings—including those who have not
as yet been born in the material universe—were created at the
dawn of creation (i.e.,  in the spiritual realm) and endowed
with the means with which to ‘see’, to ‘hear’ and to
‘understand’:

َُّك مِن بَنِي آدَمَ مِن ُظهُورِهِمْ  َب   وَِإْذ َأخَذَ ر
َبِّكُم  تَهُْم وََأشْهَدَهُْم عَلَى َأنفُسِهِْم َألَْسُت بِر َّ ي   ذُرِّ

 ِ َلَى شَهِْدنَا َأن تَقُولُواْ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَة   ْ◌ قَالُواْ ب
َّا عَْن هَذَا غَافِلِينَ   ا كُن َّ  ِإن

(Qur’ān, al-An’ām, 7:172)

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brought forth from the progeny of Ādam, at the dawn
of creation, their offspring, generation after
generation until the last, and caused them to bear
witness to their divinely-ordained status, He asked
them: Am I not your Lord-God? They replied: Yea,
indeed, we do bear witness thereto! Allah has
reminded us about this event lest some people
complain on the Day of Resurrection that they were
unaware of this.

We may now also recall to advantage an incident which
occurred in the Battle of Uhud when the companions saw the
Prophet صل هللا عليه و سلم  looking up in the sky while uttering the
words ”Subhān Allah” (سبحان هللا  i.e.,  glory be to Allah)! A
companion of his, Sayyiduna Hanzalah bin Abī `Āmir
Rāhib رضي هللا عنه, was killed in the fighting while he was still in a
state of Janāba (the state of ritual impurity that exists after
sexual intercourse, and which requires a Ghusl or bath to be
taken in order for a state of ritual purity to be restored), and the
Prophet observed the Angels in the sky giving Ghusl, i.e., a bath,

to the body of that companion.

While the material dead body with its distinctive shape
and form, was lying on the battlefield, a spiritual body of
identical shape and form as the material body, was observed in
the sky, and that is why it could be recognized as the
Companion who had just been killed. Both bodies were created
from the same original clay; but the body in the sky appeared in
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battlefield was comprised of clay in its material form.

The supra-rational bond which connected the spiritual
body with the material body was such that when some
Companions who had heard the comment of the Prophet, went
to examine Hanzala’s material body on the battle-field, they
found drops of water on the body. (See Kitāb al-Maghāzi by al-
Wāqidi; edited by Rizwi Faizar, translated to English by Rizwi Faizer, Amal

Ismail and Abdul Kader Tayob, and published in Routledge Studies in

Classical Islam, Routledge. Oxford. 2011. p. 134).

There is a similar incident which revealed to us that the
spiritual body of Uwais al-Qarni lingered on in Yathrib
(renamed Madina despite the fact that the Qur’ān refers to it as
Yathrib), even after his material body had left Yathrib on a
sorrowful return to his native Yemen. He had travelled all the
way from Yemen to Yathrib just to see the Prophet صل هللا عليه و سلم,
but when he arrived in Yathrib he learnt to his sorrow that the
Prophet had travelled out of the city. Since he could not stay in
Yathrib long enough to await his return, he had to leave
without seeing the Prophet. Shortly after Uwais’s departure the
Prophet returned to Yathrib and experienced a heavenly
fragrance. When he subsequently learnt about the visitor from
Yemen, the Prophet identified that fragrance to belong to
Uwais. The fragrance came from Uwais’s spiritual body, even
though his material body had already departed.

Visions also provide data which assist us to understand
how the spiritual can be connected to the material. I once
delivered a lecture many years ago on the subject of ‘Dreams

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and Visions in Islam’ at the Pertapis Hall in Singapore (prior to
the Government of Singapore banning my entry into that
country), and when the program was over, a young man
approached me to confide in me the following vision which he
had experienced.  He said that he was asleep in Yathrib, the city
of the blessed Prophet صل هللا عليه و سلم when he saw the Prophet
entering his room. There was a heavenly fragrance which
enveloped the room while the Prophet remained in the room in
which he was sleeping. The young man then confided in me
that when he woke up from his sleep, that wonderful fragrance
still lingered in the room for some time.

We have provided sufficient evidence above to confirm
both the creation of a spiritual human body prior to its
emergence in material form in this world of space and time,
and of the existence of a supra-rational connection between the
spiritual human body and the material body.

Having created man from spiritual clay, the Qur’ān
provided further information concerning the process through
which he developed into a sentient and rational being. The
Qur’ān declared that Allah Most High then proceeded to
fashion him and, astonishingly so, to breathe into him of His
own Rūh or Divine spirit:

كَةِ ِإنِّي خَالٌِق بَشَرًا مِّن  َٕىِ َُّك لِلْمَلا َب وَِإْذ قَاَل ر

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ْسنُونٍ  ُ  ◌ۖ  َصلَْصاٍل مِّْن حَمَإٍ مَّ يْتُه َّ   فَِإذَا َسو
وِحي    .  .  .وَنَفَْخُت فِيهِ مِن رُّ

(Qur’ān, al-Hijr, 15:28–29)

Allah Most High declared to the angels that He was
about to create mortal man out of potter’s clay, out of
dark mud molded into shape; Then, when Allah Most
High formed him fully, He breathed into him of His
Rūh, i.e., Divine Spirit .  .  .

The Rūh, or Divine Spirit, is not a created thing. It is not a
‘thing’ that exists apart from Allah Most High, even though it
belongs to Him and it proceeds from Him. While the Rūh can be
breathed into a ‘thing’, but it is not a ‘thing’. Rather it is with
Rūh that ‘life’ is activated, and when Rūh is withdrawn, death
occurs. It is necessary for us to offer this explanation in order
to prevent any pantheistic interpretation to be attributed to the
breathing of the Divine Rūh into the human being. Allah says
in the Qur’ān that to Him belongs al-Khalq, i.e. the created world,
and al-Amr, i.e., the world of command through which events occur:

 َألاَ لَهُ اْلخَلُْق وَالَأْمرُ تَبَارَكَ اللّهُ رَّبُ الْعَالَمِينَ
(Qur’ān, al-‘Arāf, 7:54)

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 Verily, to Allah belongs all creation, i.e., the world of
creation, and all command, i.e., a world of command
which does not belong to the created world. Hallowed
is Allah, the Lord-God of all the worlds!

And He then went on to explain that the Rūh belongs to
the world of Amr (and hence, does not belong to the world of
Khalq):

وُح مِْن َأْمرِ رَبِّي  .  .  . ُّ  .  .  . قُِل الر
(Qur’ān, al-Isra’, 17:85)

When the Jews question you Oh Muhammad, about
the Rūh. Say to them that the Rūh is from Allah’s
Command;

Unlike the Nafs, i.e., the human ‘self’, and the physical human
body, which both belong to the world of Khalq or creation, the
Rūh does not belong to that world of ‘creation’, rather it
belongs to the world of Amr or command.

The world of created things emerges through a divine
command—‘Be!’:

مَا َأْمرُهُ ِإذَا َأرَادَ َشيْئًا َأْن يَقُوَل لَهُ ُكْن فَيَكُونُ  َّ  ِإن

(Qur’ān, Yasīn, 36:82)

Allah’s Command is such that when He wills a thing

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to be, He but says unto it, Be!—and it is.

مَا يَقُولُ  َّ  لَهُ ُكن فَيَكُونُ  فَِإن
(Qur’ān, al-Baqarah, 2:117)

He is the Originator of the heavens and the earth: and
when He Wills a thing to be, He but says unto it, Be!—
and it is.

Similarly the Rūh manifests itself in a human being
through the Divine command: The Rūh is from Allah’s Command

(see 17:85 above).

The human Rūh proceeds therefore from the Divine Amr
through which creation takes place. Hence the human Rūh
partakes in the Divine capacity to create, and this explains why
the Qur’ān recognizes Allah Most High as the best of those who
create:

َالِقِينَ  .  .  . هُ َأْحسَُن اْلخ َّ  فَتَبَارَكَ الل
(Qur’ān, al-Mu’minūn, 23:14)

Hallowed, therefore, is Allah, the best of those who
create!

Since the Divine Rūh was breathed into man, the
implication is that he now possessed creative capacity in a
creative faculty of rational thought potentially enriched

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(because of the Rūh) by intuitive internal spiritual insight:

 ُ وِحهِ وََجعََل لـَكُم اهُ وَنَفََخ فِيهِ مِن رُّ َّ َسوَّ   ثُم
ا تَْشكُرُونَ   دَةَ قَلِيلًا مَّ ْمَع وَاْلَأبَْصارَ وَاْلَأفْٕىِ  الّسَ

(Qur’ān, al-Sajda, 32:9)

And then Allah formed him in accordance with what
he is meant to be, and breathed into him of His Divine
spirit: and thus, O men, did He endow you with
hearing, and sight, and hearts as well as minds
through which you can acquire knowledge, yet how
seldom are you grateful!

How can the Divine Rūh be bestowed on all and
sundry when we are the Chosen People of the
Lord-God?

We tried the patience of the readers in offering the above
explanation of the subject of the Rūh, in order that they might
understand the question that must now be asked: How could it
be possible that Allah Most Wise could choose a people as His
chosen people with a status far superior to all the rest of
mankind, and then bestow this supreme Divine gift of the Rūh
to all of mankind while making no distinction between the so-
called chosen people and the rest of mankind?

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The Rabbis were convinced that such was not possible, and
they wanted to know whether Nabī Muhammad صل هللا عليه و سلم

would confirm it; and that is why they asked the third of three
questions: Ask him about the Rūh? (See my book entitled Sūrah al-

Kahf and the Modern Age p. 91).

A study of the subject in the Qur’ān indicates that at no
time did Allah Most High ever declare that the Divine Rūh was
breathed into only the Israelite people, to the exclusion of all
other human beings. Rather, all human beings possess the
Divine Rūh within them. However, when the Divinely-revealed
answer to that third question was sent down in the Qur’ān, it
was humiliatingly curt, and it must have left the world of
Jewish scholarship in a state of agony and frustration:

وُح مِنْ  ُّ وِح قُِل الر ُّ   وَيَْسَألُونََك عَِن الر
ً  َأْمرِ   َّ قَلِيلا ِيتُم مِّن الْعِلْمِ ِإلا  رَبِّي وَمَا ُأوت

(Qur’ān, al-Isra’, 17:85)

And they, the Jews, question you Oh Muhammad,
about the Rūh. Say to them in reply that the Rūh is by
Allah’s command, and you, the Jews, have been
granted but little knowledge of this subject.

This revelation was sent down while the Prophet was still
in Makkah, i.e., prior to the Hijrah or migration to Yathrib. It

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represented the initial response in the Qur’ān to the questions
posed by the Rabbis. Subsequent revelations which came down
after the Hijrah to Yathrib, delivered more information of the
subject. The Qur’ān went on to inform us, for example, that
Allah Most High not only created every human being at the
dawn of creation, and breathed into each of them of His Divine
Rūh, but also endowed them with the capacity to recognize
Him as their Lord-God:

َُّك مِن بَنِي آدَمَ مِن ُظهُورِهِمْ  َب   وَِإْذ َأخَذَ ر
َبِّكُم  تَهُْم وََأشْهَدَهُْم عَلَى َأنفُسِهِْم َألَْسُت بِر َّ ي   ذُرِّ

ِ ْ◌ قَالُواْ  َلَى شَهِْدنَا َأن تَقُولُواْ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَة   ب
َّا عَْن هَذَا غَافِلِينَ   ا كُن َّ  ِإن

(Qur’ān, al-An’ām, 7:172)

And you must know that when your Lord-God
brought forth from the progeny of Ādam their
offspring, generation after generation until the last,
and caused them to bear witness to their divinely-
ordained status, He asked them: Am I not your Lord-
God? to which they replied: Yea, indeed, we do bear

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witness thereto! We remind you of this lest you say on
the Day of Resurrection, Verily, we were unaware of
this.

After having disclosed all of the above (perhaps for the first
time in a divinely-revealed Book that could be read by all,
rather than by a select few) the Qur’ān then proceeded to
deliver the coup-de-grace in demolishing the claim of a so-
called chosen people to have a special status with the Lord-God
to the exclusion of the rest of mankind. It did so when it
declared that Allah Most High honored all the progeny of
Ādam عليه السالم, hence all of mankind (without exception—and
this includes the Africans who were enslaved by the West, and
the native Indians who were to be robbed of their land, in order
for bright and shining America to be established in that land)
were honored, and that they had all thereby been raised to a
status above most of Allah’s creation. Here is the declaration
honoring all human-beings:

 ِّ ْمنَا بَنِي آدَمَ وَحَمَلْنَاهُْم فِي الْبَر َّ   وَلَقَْد كَر
يِّبَاتِ   لْنَاهُمْ  وَالْبَْحرِ وَرَزَقْنَاهُم مَِّن الّطَ   وَفَّضَ

  ً ْن خَلَْقنَا تَْفِضيلا َّ  عَلَى َكثِيرٍ مِّم
(Qur’ān, al-Isra’, 17:70)

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Now, indeed, Allah Most High has conferred honor
and dignity on the progeny of Ādam, hence all of
mankind without exception, and borne them over
land and sea, and provided for them sustenance out of
the good things of life, and favored them far above
most of His creation.

The honor that was bestowed on all of mankind had to be
the Rūh which was breathed into every human being. This had
to be so since it was after Ādam عليه السالم had received that divine
gift that the Angels were ordered to prostrate (in honor and in
respect) before him. This subject is explained in greater detail
in the chapter which follows.

Before we proceed further with this discussion however, it
is interesting to observe the remarkable similarity which has
existed between this Jewish claim to be the chosen people of the
Lord-God, and hence their preoccupation with the subject of
whether non-Jews possessed a Divine Rūh, and a modern
western civilization which emerged in history with the
jingoistic agenda of civilizing non-European humanity.  When
the West declared its manifest destiny in waging wars of
continuous territorial expansion (and military dominance)
which continue to this day, and in dragging all mankind into
an age which they described as one of unprecedented progress,
democracy and freedom, their undeclared belief which
explained that manifest destiny was that they were the chosen
people of the Lord-God.

While Popes in Rome issued (infallible) ‘Bulls’ concerning

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the possession of a soul by American Indians (and Africans)
and then revoked them, the enslavement of Africans in the
western slave trade flourished because of the general western
Christian belief that slavery was religiously permitted since the
slaves were not truly human beings. They did not possess the
divinely-bestowed Rūh or spirit which made them truly
human. Not only was it permissible to enslave the Africans and
sell them to plantation-owners in the Americas, but it was
similarly permissible to enslave the American Indians since
they, also, did not possess a Rūh.  In addition, since the divine
Rūh was conferred on Ādam, who was male, there were many
who believed that women did not have a Rūh or soul.

The Holy Spirit (al-Rūh al-Qudus)

There are four verses of the Qur’ān which make mention by
name of someone called the Rūh al-Qudus or Holy Spirit. In
the other verses, the same Rūh al-Qudus is referred to simply as
the Rūh.

In the first verse we are informed that Allah Most High
strengthened Nabī Īsa, i.e., Jesus عليه السالم, with the Holy Spirit.
This verse is repeated twice in the Qur’ān:

ْدنَاهُ  . . . َّ يَمَ الْبَيِّنَاِت وََأي وَآتَيْنَا عِيسَى ابَْن مَْر
 .  .  .بِرُوِح الْقُدُِس

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(Qur’ān, al-Baqarah, 2:87, 2:253)

Allah Most High gave to Jesus, the son of Mary
revelation which functions as evidence of the truth,
and strengthened him with the Holy Spirit.

Who or what is the Holy Spirit? Is the Holy Spirit of the
Qur’ān the same as the Holy Ghost in the Christian belief in a
third person in a Divine Trinity?

In the third reference in the Qur’ān to the Holy Spirit we
are informed that, as a consequence of being strengthened with
the Holy Spirit, Jesus was able to perform miracles:

يَمَ اذْكُرْ نِعْمَتِي عَلَيَْك  ِإْذ قَاَل اللّهُ يَا عِيسى ابَْن مَْر
َُّك بِرُوِح الْقُدُِس تُكَلِّمُ  دت َّ وَعَلَى وَالِدَتَِك ِإْذ َأي
َاَب  مْتَُك الْكِت َّ اَس فِي الْمَْهدِ وََكْهلاً وَِإْذ عَل َّ الن

وْرَاةَ وَالِإنجِيَل وَِإْذ َتخْلُُق مَِن الّطِينِ وَاْلحِْكمَةَ  َّ وَالت
يْرِ بِِإْذنِي فَتَنفُُخ فِيهَا فَتَكُونُ َطيْرًا   َكهَيْئَةِ الّطَ

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بِِإْذنِي وَتُبْرِىءُ الَأكْمَهَ وَالَأبْرََص بِِإْذنِي وَِإْذ
 .  .  .ُتخْرُِج الْمَوتَى بِِإْذنِي

(Qur’ān, al-Māidah, 5:110)

Lo! Allah Most High would say: O Jesus, son of Mary!
Remember the blessings which I bestowed upon you
and your mother—how I strengthened you with Holy
Spirit in consequence of which you could speak unto
men miraculously while you were a baby in the cradle,
and again speak miraculously as a grown man having
returned to the material universe after departing more
than 2000 years earlier; and how I imparted unto you
revelation and wisdom, including the Torah and the
Gospel; and how by My leave you created a bird out of
clay, and then breathed into it, and by My leave, it
miraculously became a living bird; and how you
healed the blind by miraculously restoring their sight,
and the leper by miraculously curing the leper of his
leprosy, and how you raised the dead by My leave . . .

When the Qur’ān referred for a fourth and last time to the
‘Holy Spirit’, it finally gave us the means with which to identify
him as the Archangel who brought down divine revelation
upon Prophet Muhammad صل هللا عليه و سلم:

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بَِّك بِاْلحَّقِ لِيُثَبَِّت  لَهُ رُوُح الْقُدُِس مِن رَّ َّ قُْل نَز
 لِلْمُْسلِمِينَ الَّذِيَن آمَنُواْ وَهُدًى وَبُشْرَى

(Qur’ān, al-Nahl, 16:102)

Say: A Holy Spirit has brought the Qur’ān down from
thy Lord-God by stages, setting forth the truth, so that
it might give firmness of resolve, conduct, speech, etc.,
to those who have faith, and provide guidance and a
glad tiding unto all who have surrendered themselves
to Allah Most High.

The Qur’ān went on to declare that it was the Angel
Gabriel عليه السالم who brought down the divine revelation (i.e.,
the Qur’ān) from Allah Most High:

لَهُ عَلَى َّ َّهُ نَز يَل فَِإن جـِبْرِ ا ّلِ   قُْل مَن كَانَ عَدُّوً
  قَلْبَِك بِِإْذِن اللّهِ مَُصّدِقاً لِّمَا بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ

 وَهُدًى وَبُشْرَى لِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ
(Qur’ān, al-Baqarah, 2:97)

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Say Oh Prophet: Whosoever is an enemy of Gabriel—
who, verily, by Allah’s leave, has brought down upon
thy heart this divine writ which confirms the truth of
whatever there still remains of earlier revelations, and
is a guidance and a glad tiding for the believers.

It is quite clear that when the Qur’ān referred to a Rūh al-
Qudus or Holy Spirit, it was referring to the Archangel Gabriel.
This was again made clear when the Qur’ān referred to the Rūh
coming down on Lailatul Qadr, i.e., the night of power, to perform
all errands (assigned to it by Allah Most High):

 ُ كَةُ  ◌ۖ  الْقَْدرِ خَيْرٌ مِّْن َألِْف شَْهرٍ  لَيْلَة ُل الْمَلَإىِ تَنَزَّ
َّبِهِم مِّن كُّلِ َأْمرٍ  وُح فِيهَا بِِإْذِن ر ُّ  .  .  .وَالر

(Qur’ān, al-Qadr, 97:3–4)

The Night of Destiny is better than a thousand
months because, among other things, the Angels
descend in hosts by Allah’s leave during that night,
and so too the Rūh, with all decrees.

But the verse also disclosed that there were those who
considered that Archangel to be their enemy. It was of course,
the Jews (i.e., the Israelites who rejected Jesus as the Messiah),
who considered Gabriel to be their enemy, and it should be
obvious that their hatred for Gabriel arose from the fact that he

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played a crucial role in the test to which they were subjected
when the Messiah appeared in the world as the son of a virgin
mother,—and it was a test which they failed (this will be explained

in greater detail in my next book on Dajjāl entitled ‘From Jesus the True

Messiah to Dajjāl the False Messiah—A Journey in Islamic Eschatology).

He also brought down the Qur’ān which confirmed and
validated that which had previously been revealed to the
Israelite people in the Torah and Gospel, and in so doing,
exposed whatever had been concealed or corrupted over time.

Perhaps the most glaring example of such corruption of
divinely-revealed scripture was the verse of the Torah which
permitted money being lent on interest to those who were not
Jews, while upholding the prohibition of such transactions with
fellow Jews (Deuteronomy, 23:19–20). The Qur’ān denounced them
for their money-lending (to non-Jews of course) in the
strongest language. (See al-Nisa’, 4:161).

And finally, the Angel Gabriel brought the Qur’ān down to
an Arab (i.e.,  Prophet Muhammad) when they, the Jews,
believed that only an Israelite could qualify to receive divine
revelation since the Israelites believed (falsely so) that they were
the chosen people of the Lord Most High to the exclusion of all
of the rest of mankind. As a consequence they hated Angel
Gabriel (see Qur’ān, al-Baqarah, 2:97–98).

While it is outside of the scope of this book to examine the
hypothesis, it nevertheless remains worthy of study to
determine to what extent did Jewish hatred for Gabriel provoke
an attack on Christianity which culminated in the Holy Ghost

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or Holy Spirit (i.e., Gabriel) being worshipped as the third
person in a divine trinity (i.e., God the Father, God the Son and
God the Holy Ghost).

More importantly, we must determine whether the Holy
Spirit can descend on human beings who are not Jews. If such
is possible, it would further expose the falsehood of the Jewish
claim to an exclusive status with the Lord-God in which they
are recognized as His chosen people.

The Qur’ān confirmed that Allah Most High can bless any
of His true servants by strengthening him with a Rūh, or spirit,
from Him:

يمَانَ  .  .  .   بِهِمُ اْلِإ َك َكتََب فِي قُلُو ُأْولَٕىِ
دَهُم بِرُوٍح مِّنْهُ  َّ  .  .  .وََأي

(Qur’ān, al-Mujādilah, 58:22)

As for the true believers, it is they in whose hearts
Allah Most High has inscribed faith, and whom He
has strengthened with a Spirit from Himself .  .  .

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 َ وِح مِْن َأْمرِهِ عَل ُّ كَةَ بِالْر   ىيُنَزُِّل الْمَلإٓىِ
 .  .  .مَن يَشَاء مِْن عِبَادِهِ

(Qur’ān, al-Nahl, 16:2)

Allah Most High causes the angels to descend with the
Rūh or Spirit which is bestowed at His behest upon
whomever He wills of His servants .  .  .

The Qur’ān makes yet another mention of the Rūh which
comes down with the Angels on a certain night of the year (i.e.,
Lailatul Qadr or the night of power) to perform whatever
errand is assigned to them. Most commentators of the Qur’ān
recognize this Rūh who comes down to the believers on that
night to be the Rūh al-Qudus or Holy Spirit:

وُح فِيهَا بِِإْذنِ  ُّ كَةُ وَالر ُل الْمَلَإىِ   تَنَزَّ
َّبِهِم مِّن كُّلِ َأْمرٍ    ر

(Qur’ān, al-Qadr, 97:4)

The angels and the Spirit descend during that night,
by the permission of their Lord, with all decrees.

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Mariam عليها السالم so that she, who was still a virgin, could
miraculously conceive a child. The Rūh, which is an entirely
spiritual being, was made to appear before her in the material
form of a man:

خَذَْت مِن دُونِهِْم ِحجَابًا    فََأْرَسلْنَافَاّتَ
ا  ًّ ي َل لَهَا بَشَرًا َسوِ َّ  ِإلَْيهَا رُوَحنَا فَتَمَث

(Qur’ān, Mariam, 19:17)

Mariam, or Mary, kept herself in seclusion from her
people, whereupon Allah Most High sent unto her His
Rūh, who appeared to her in the shape of a well-made
human being.

Our examination of the event of the creation of mankind
at the beginning of history has thus allowed us to recognize that
all human-beings are divinely-blessed with a Rūh that is
breathed into them by the Lord-God Himself, and that selective
human beings who have faith in their hearts and whose
conduct is righteous can be chosen by Allah Most High, to be
blessed to receive a visit from the ‘Holy Spirit’. The beginning
of history did not confer on the Jewish people any special
Divine status through which they were recognized as a chosen
people of the Lord-God to the exclusion of the rest of mankind!

When Allah Most High breathed His Rūh into the human

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being, He gave to every human being a divine capacity to
create. That creative capacity finds concrete expression in
man’s creative intellect aided with internal intuitive spiritual
insight through which he can forge new knowledge or thought
and new ideas with which to extend the frontiers of knowledge.
Unless the human mind or intellect flies with the wings of the
Rūh it will not be able to penetrate and discover new
knowledge in the scriptures—especially the last scripture or the
Qur’ān, and will not be able to even understand and hence can
never respond, to the trials of Dajjāl, the false Messiah, or Anti-
Christ, in Ākhir al-Zamān.

In the previous chapter we found nothing in the Qur’ān
supporting the view that Jews, who claim to be a chosen people
of the Lord-God, are the only people into whom a Divine Rūh
or spirit was breathed, and hence the only people so honored
by the Lord-God and endowed with a Divine capacity to create.
Now we find further evidence which exposes as false the Jewish
belief that Jews are the chosen people of the Lord-God, since
they declare their enmity against Angel Gabriel, who is the
Holy Spirit and, as a consequence, have no access to the Holy
Spirit.

Allah Most High strengthened Nabī Īsā, i.e.,  Jesus عليها السالم

with the Holy Spirit, yet the Jews rejected him, and Allah sent
the Holy Spirit to his mother Mariam so that she could
conceive a baby while yet unmarried and untouched by any
man, and the Jews responded by slandering her. Finally Allah
sent the Holy Spirit to Nabī Muhammad صل هللا عليه و سلم

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continuously for a period of twenty-three years and sent down
upon him, through the Holy Spirit, the blessed Qur’ān, and yet
the Jews rejected him and rejected the Qur’ān. Finally, Nabī
Muhammad صل هللا عليه و سلم is reported to have invoked the
blessing of the Rūh al-Qudus, i.e., the Holy Spirit, on his
companion, the poet Hassān ibn Thābit (Bukhārī, Muslim, Abū

Daūd, and Tirmīdhī). Hassan ibn Thābit was an Arab, as was Nabī
Muhammad صل هللا عليه و سلم, and so they both belonged to that part
of mankind whom the Jews refer to as Ummiyūn, hence an
inferior gentile people. It should be clear from the prayer of the
blessed Prophet on behalf of his companion Hassan al-Thābit,
that the Prophet, also, rejected the Jewish belief that they were
the chosen people of the Lord-God with a birth-right of
superiority over the rest of mankind.

It is possible that the Jews knew from their own sources
that the Messiah would be empowered with the Holy Spirit and
it was for this reason that they posed that question to the
Prophet. If this was so then we can expect that Dajjāl would
have to demonstrate such miraculous powers as would be
adequate to convince the Jews that he is indeed empowered by
the Holy Spirit. We can therefore look forward to his scientific
and technological revolution delivering many more gadgetries
than would render even today’s so-called smart phone less than
really smart!

The Messiah is himself a Rūh or Spirit

The Qur’ān disclosed one more thing concerning the Rūh

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which must have rattled the Rabbis. Allah Most High declared
of Jesus the son of the Virgin Mary that he was, himself a Rūh,
or Spirit:

َّتِي َأْحَصنَْت فَرَْجهَا فَنَفَْخنَا فِيهَا مِن   وَال
وِحنَا وََجعَلْنَاهَا وَابْنَهَا آيَةً لِّلْعَالَمِينَ    رُّ

(Qur’ān, al-Anbiyāh’, 21:91)

And remember Mariam, or Mary, who guarded her
chastity, whereupon Allah Most High breathed into
her of His Rūh, or   spirit, and caused her, together
with her son, to become a Sign unto all people—to be
read by those who can read Signs of Allah Most High.

Perhaps it was in consequence of what was disclosed in the
Qur’ān, that Prophet Muhammad once described Jesus as
Rūhullah or Allah’s Spirit. It is therefore possible for us to
deduce that the Rabbis had secret information concerning the
Messiah that he would be a Spirit who would appear in human
form, and this is precisely what happened when Jesus came to
them with the claim to be the Messiah.

When Dajjāl appears therefore, we can conclude that he
would seek to appear to the Jews as a Spirit in human form.
The reality, however, would be the opposite, since Dajjāl would
be just a Jasad, or a human body, with no Rūh, or Spirit.

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يْتُهُ وَنَفَْخُت فِيهِ مِن    فَِإذَا َسوَّ
وِحي فَقَعُواْ لَهُ   َساِجدِينَ رُّ

(Qur’ān, al-Hijr, 15:28–29)

So when Allah Most High has formed man fully, and
breathed into him of His Rūh, or Divine Spirit, bow
down before him in prostration!

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Chapter Four

The Angels Prostrate before Ādam
in Awwal Al-Zamān

Why Prostration?

The Rūh or spirit, is life. It is a capacity or a force which is
breathed into a thing. When the Rūh is breathed into a human
being, the human Nafs, i.e., soul or self, can then be activated (for
want of better language). Allah Most High breathed the Rūh
into the first human being, i.e., Ādam عليه السالم. However in a
Hadīth recorded in Sahīh Bukhārī Prophet Muhammad  صل هللا

 explained that it is an angel (rather than Allah Most عليه و سلم
High) who breathes the Rūh into the unborn fetus:

Verily, each of you is brought together in his mother’s abdomen

for forty days in the form of a drop of fluid. Then it is a clinging

object for a similar period. Thereafter, it is a lump looking like it

has been chewed for a similar period. The angel is then sent to

him and he breathes into him the Rūh or spirit.

Who or what is ‘I’?  Where is my personal identity?

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‘I’ is my Nafs or self. It is my personal identity. ‘I’ is not my
body of clay, nor is ‘I’, my Rūh or spirit.

The Qur’ān has warned of the day when the human body
will be given the capacity to speak, and would then give
evidence against the Nafs or person to whom the body
belonged. Consider the following ominous verses of the
Qur’ān:

  الْيَوْمَ َنخْتِمُ عَلَى َأفْوَاهِهِْم وَتُكَلِّمُنَا َأيْدِيهِمْ
 وَتَشْهَدُ َأْرجُلُهُْم بِمَا كَانُوا يَْكِسبُونَ

(Qur’ān, Yāsīn, 36:65)

On that Day Allah Most High will set a seal on their
mouths, but their hands will speak unto Him, and
their feet will bear witness to whatever they have
earned in life.

ى ِإذَا مَا جَاؤُوهَا شَهِدَ عَلَْيهِْم سَمْعُهُمْ  َّ   َحت
   ◌ۖ  بِمَا كَانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ  وََأبَْصارُهُْم وَجُلُودُهُمْ

مْ عَلَيْنَا قَالُوا َأنطَقَنَا ُلُودِهِْم لِمَ شَهِدّتُ   وَقَالُوا ِلج

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لَ   هُ الَّذِي َأنطََق كُّلَ شَْيءٍ وَهُوَ خَلَقَكُْم َأّوَ َّ   الل
ةٍ وَِإلَيْهِ تُرَْجعُونَ     وَمَا ُكنتُمْ تَْستَتِرُونَ  ◌ۖ  مَّرَ
َأْن يَشْهَدَ عَلَيْكُْم سَمْعُكُْم وَلَا َأبَْصارُكُْم وَلَا

 ُ هَ لَا يَعْلَم َّ   جُلُودُكُْم وَلـَِكن َظنَنتُمْ َأّنَ الل
ا تَعْمَلُونَ   َّ  َكثِيرًا مِّم

(Qur’ān, Fussilāt, 41:20–22)

When they come close to the fire on Judgment Day,
their hearing and their sight and their very skins will
bear witness against them, speaking of what they were
doing on earth.  And they will ask their skins, Why did
you bear witness against us?—and these will reply:
Allah, who gives speech to all things, has given speech
to us as well: for He it is who has created you in the
first instance—and unto Him you are now brought
back.  And you did not try to hide your sins lest your
hearing or your sight or your skins bear witness
against you: nay, but you thought that Allah did not
know much of what you were doing.

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، قَاَل قَاَل رَُسوُل    عَْن َأبِي َسعِيدٍ اْلخُْدرِّيِ
هِ صلى الله عليه وسلم  َّ َ  - الل قُوا فِرَاَسة َّ   ات

هِ   َّ ِنُورِ الل َّهُ يَنْظُرُ ب   الْمُؤْمِِن فَِإن
The Prophet warned: Fear the Firāsah of the one who
has faith, for he surely sees with Allah’s Nūr, or light.

(Tirmīdhī, Kitāb Tafsīr al-Qur’ān)

The Qur’ān confirmed this capacity as follows:

مِينَ   ِإّنَ فِي ذَلَِك لآيَاٍت لِّلْمُتَوَّسِ
(Qur’ān, al-Isra’, 15:75)

Surely in this are messages or portents for the
Mutawassimīn, i.e., those who can read the Signs of
Allah.

Thus the human being, by virtue of a Divine-endowment,
now occupied an elevated position in creation that was second
to none, and this was permanently engraved at the very
beginning of history in the most dramatic event ever to have
occurred in history, i.e., the Angels prostrating themselves

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before Nabī Ādam عليه السالم as an act of honor, and in recognition
of that Divine spark with which every human being was now
endowed. (See verses below).

The Qur’ān has declared that the material human being,
created from humble clay, did not occupy the status of highest
in creation. Indeed, the creation of the Samawāt, i.e., the parallel

universes—or the other worlds of space and of time, and the earth or
material universe, is recognized in the Qur’ān to be greater
than the creation of human-kind:

مَاوَاِت وَاْلَأْرِض َأْكبَرُ مِنْ    لَخَلُْق الّسَ
اِس لَا يَعْلَمُونَ   َّ اِس وَلـَِكّنَ َأْكثَرَ الن َّ  خَلِْق الن

(Qur’ān, al-Ghāfir, 40:57)

Greater indeed than the creation of man, is the
creation of the heavens and the earth: yet most men do
not know of this.

Here now, are the verses of the Qur’ān which inform us of
the most dramatic event that occurred in Awwal al-Zamān, i.e.,
at the beginning of history:

كَةِ ِإنِّي خَالٌِق بَشَرًا مِّن  َٕىِ َُّك لِلْمَلا َب وَِإْذ قَاَل ر

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ْسنُونٍ   َصلَْصاٍل مِّْن حَمَإٍ مَّ
(Qur’ān, al-Isra’, 15:28)

Allah Most High said unto the angels: Behold, I am
about to create mortal man out of potter’s clay, out of
mud molded into shape:

يْتُهُ وَنَفَْخُت فِيهِ مِن   فَِإذَا َسوَّ
وِحي فَقَعُواْ لَهُ َساِجدِينَ    رُّ

(Qur’ān, al-Hijr, 15:28–29)

So when I have formed him fully, and breathed into
him of My Rūh, i.e., Divine Spirit, fall down before
him in prostration!

بَدََأ خَلْقَ    الَّذِي َأْحسََن كُّلَ شَْيءٍ خَلَقَهُ وَ
َّ َجعََل نَْسلَهُ مِن ◌ۖ  اْلِإنسَاِن مِن طِينٍ     ثُم
هِينٍ   اء مَّ اهُ وَنَفَخَ  ◌ۖ  ُسلَالَةٍ مِّن مَّ َّ َسوَّ   ثُم

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ْمعَ   وِحهِ وََجعََل لـَكُمُ الّسَ   فِيهِ مِن رُّ
ا تَْشكُرُونَ   دَةَ قَلِيلًا مَّ  وَاْلَأبَْصارَ وَاْلَأفْٕىِ

(Qur’ān, al-Sajdah, 32:7–9)

Allah Most High makes most excellent, everything
that He creates.  Thus, He begins the creation of man
out of clay; then He causes him to be begotten out of
the essence of a humble fluid; and then He formed or
fashioned him in accordance with what he is meant to
be, and breathed into him of His Rūh or Spirit, and
consequently He endowed mankind with hearing, and
sight, and hearts: yet how seldom are they grateful!

In consequence of the Divine Rūh or Spirit being breathed
into him, the human being was endowed with both sensory
perception as well as a rational faculty. But that was not all! In
going on to disclose that the Divine Rūh or Spirit also bestowed
on the human being a heart, the implication was that every
human being was divinely endowed with a capacity to see—
both externally and internally—and hence to possess both
external sight and internal sight, to hear, both externally and
internally, and to process externally acquired information and
thus acquire knowledge with the rational mind, as well as to
receive knowledge internally with the spiritual heart.

This gift was divinely-conferred on all human beings, and

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it raised their status to such an extent that the Qur’ān declared
it to be an honor:

 َ ْمنَا بَنِي آدَمَ وَل َّ  .  .  .  .قَْد كَر
(Qur’ān, al-Isra’, 17:70)

Indeed, Allah Most High has conferred honor and
dignity on the progeny of Ādam, and hence on all
human beings . . . .

The Qur’ān has thus delivered a beginning of history in
which every human being, by virtue of being a human being,
held an honored status in Allah’s creation. Every human being
was honored when he was given the divine capacity for
knowledge, both externally-acquired and internally received. It
was because of this epistemological gift to man that the Angels
were ordered to bow down and prostrate before Nabī Ādam  عليه
  .السالم

The link between this gift to man, and the End-time, can
be readily perceived when we ponder over the Hadīth of
Prophet Muhammad صل هللا عليه و سلم that “Dajjāl sees with the
right eye, and that he is blind in the left eye—but your Lord-
God is not one-eyed”. Dajjāl, who is internally blind, is
incapable of acquiring knowledge other than externally, i.e.,
through the scientific method of observation, experimentation
and rational enquiry, and all those who follow Dajjāl suffer the

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same fate of internal blindness!

The claim of the Israelite people to a unique spiritual status
with the Lord-God to the exclusion of all the rest of mankind,
is thus manifestly false, since all of mankind were honored by
the Angels when they prostrated themselves before Ādam
 All of mankind, including the Israelite people, have .عليه السالم
originated from the same father—Ādam, and the Lord-God has
Himself honored all the progeny of Ādam.

Is Prostration before a human being
an act of worship?

We have described the prostration (Sijdah) of the Angels before
Nabī Ādam عليه السالم as an act of respect and honor, but the claim
can be made that it was an act of worship. Indeed the Qur’ān
has ordered that prostration be made only to Allah Most High:

 ُ ْمُس وَالْقَمَر هَارُ وَالّشَ يُْل وَالنَّ َّ   وَمِْن آيَاتِهِ الل
هِ   َّ ْمِس وَلَا لِلْقَمَرِ وَاْسجُدُوا لِل   لَا تَْسجُدُوا لِلّشَ

اهُ تَعْبُدُونَ  يَّ  الَّذِي خَلَقَهُّنَ ِإن ُكنتُمْ ِإ
(Qur’ān, Fussilāt, 41:37)

Among Allah’s signs are the night and the day, as well

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as the sun and the moon: do not prostrate before the
sun, neither the moon, but prostrate yourselves in
worship (only) before Allah, who has created them—if
it is Him and only Him, whom you (really) worship.

The above verse of the Qur’ān has very clearly prohibited
prostration before any but Allah Most High. How then, could
Allah command the Angels to prostrate before Nabī Ādam  عليه
 bow down in ,عليه السالم And how could Nabī Yaqūb, i.e., Jacob ?السالم
prostration before his own son Nabī Yūsuf, i.e., Joseph عليه السالم?

The answer is that bowing and prostrating, at that early
stage in the historical process, was an act through which one
showed reverence, respect and honor for someone. It was not
necessarily an act of adoration or worship. It was in this context
that the Angels were ordered to prostrate before Nabī Ādam  عليه

 عليه السالم and in this context as well that Nabī Yaqūb ,السالم

prostrated before his son, Nabī Yūsuf عليه السالم.

However, when the Qur’ān was revealed, the previous law
permitting bowing and prostration before a human being as an
act of respect and honor, was cancelled or abrogated for all
those who accepted the Qur’ān as the (revealed) Word of the
One God.

It was for this reason that when the Prophet’s cousin, Ja’far
 and the refugee Muslim slaves or semi-slaves whom he ,ر  عنه
accompanied to Abyssinia, were brought before the Orthodox
Christian King (the Negus of Abyssinia), and the entire court
bowed down before the King in respect, Ja’far and the rest of

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the Muslims did not bow down. While it was still permissible
for the Christians to bow down or prostrate to honor their
King, it was no longer permissible for Muslims to do so. The
Muslims meant no disrespect to the King in restraining
themselves from bowing down before a King in accordance
with court protocol. Rather, they conducted themselves with
fidelity to the religion of Islam as it had come from Nabī
Muhammad صل هللا عليه و سلم.

The Christian King was gifted with such amazing spiritual
insight that he was able to both understand and appreciate that
there was something sacred in the scene before his eyes, and he
not only took no action against the Muslims for this highly
visible breach of court protocol, but went on to refuse the
Makkan request that the runaway slaves be repatriated to
Makkah.

One can only imagine how Queen Victoria of Britain
would have responded if a Muslim had refused to bend on one
knee before the Queen, in accordance with British court
protocol, when he presented himself to be honored with the
highest honor bestowed by Britain, in consequence of which he
was knighted and became, for example, a Sir Muhammad Iqbal.
If Jeremy Corbyn, a British politician who is the leader of
Britain’s Labour Party, today finds it beneath his dignity to
bend his knee before the Queen of England, it defies
understanding that so many Muslims bent their knees to
receive Britain’s highest national award.

One of the objections that Protestants had to Roman

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Catholic Christianity was the obligation which western
Christianity had imposed on those who were to receive the
Holy Communion that they had to kneel to receive it. Some
Protestants considered such an act to be idolatrous. The
Roman Catholics countered with the argument that kneeling in
Holy Communion was an act of reverence rather than
adoration.

Hinduism, also, has preserved this act of prostration as a
form of humility, reverence and respect (rather than adoration
or worship) since, to this day, a Hindu wife bends down and
touches her husband’s feet in order to show her humility,
reverence and respect.

It is now time for us to turn to the most famous act of
defiance in all of history, when Iblīs, or Satan, defied Allah
Most High, and arrogantly refused to prostrate himself before
Nabī Ādam عليه السالم. Iblīs was not akin to the Protestant in the
sense of arguing that prostration is due only to Allah. Rather
Iblīs suffered from the deadly disease of ‘arrogance’ since he
believed that he was born (or created) superior to Ādam. He
believed that he had a birth-right of superiority. Those who
claim that they are the chosen people of the Lord-God with a
birth-right of superiority over the rest of mankind, suffer from
the same deadly disease. As a consequence Allah Most High
created and fashioned Dajjāl, and then let him loose, so that
they might be taught a lesson in humility in Ākhir al-Zamān.
This subject is addressed in the next chapter.

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كَةِ ِإنِّي جَاعِلٌ  َٕىِ َُّك لِلْمَلا َب   وَِإْذ قَاَل ر
  ً  .  .  . فِي الَأْرِض خَلِيفَة

(Qur’ān, al-Baqarah, 2:30)

And Lo! Thy Lord-God said unto the Angels: Behold,
I am going to establish upon earth one who shall be a
Khalīfah, i.e., who would govern or rule .   .   .

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Chapter Five

Arrogance in Awwal Al-Zamān

A Khalīfah (or Ruler) on Earth

The Qur’ān has disclosed in the verse above, that Allah Most
High addressed the Angels in Awwal al-Zamān and informed
them that He was going to place on earth one who would be a
Khalīfah, i.e., he would rule or govern on earth (Qur’ān, al-Baqarah, 2:30).

This declaration constitutes the foundation on which the entire
edifice of Islamic political philosophy, as well as Islam’s model
of a State, is built.

The Qur’ān went on to disclose that when Allah Most
High appoints a Khalīfah on earth, his function would be to
govern or rule with al-Haq i.e.,  Divinely-revealed ‘Truth’, and hence
to establish a Holy Khilāfah State or Pax Dei, which would
enforce Allah’s Law as the Supreme Law. The modern West,
created by Dajjāl, effectively denies any State the freedom with
which to establish Allah’s Law as the Supreme Law. All States
must belong to the United Nations Organization and, as a
consequence of membership in that organization, must accede
to the UN Charter which has, in effect, imposed the UN

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Charter, and the resolutions of the UN Security Council, as the
Supreme Law. The modern West also demonizes the Khilāfah
State as a theocratic State, and indoctrinates all of mankind to
so despise and reject a theocratic State as to banish it to the
museums of history.

In its place the West has delivered to the world the modern
republican State in which the supreme law is the law of the
State rather than Allah’s law. A republican State, such as
Pakistan, cannot be a Khilāfah State, since the highest law in a
republican State is always the law of the State, and not Allah’s
Law. Dr. Muhammad Iqbal appears not to have been aware of
this elementary fact when he wrote the following in his
Magnum Opus, ‘The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in
Islam’:

The republican form of government is not only
thoroughly consistent with the spirit of Islam, but has
also become a necessity in view of the new forces that
are set free in the world of Islam.

(Essay entitled: The Principle of Movement

in the Structure of Islam)

A republican form of government requires the prior
establishment of a Republic, and the ‘new forces’ to which Dr.
Iqbal referred above were, of course, the modern secular
republican State which was created by Dajjāl, and was
introduced to the world through Dajjāl’s modern western
civilization.

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When viewed from the perspective of the less-than-dismal
scholarship that still exists in the world of Islam on the subject
of Dajjāl (who is the subject of this book), one cannot but
respond with a summary dismissal of the expected objections
and sarcastic comments that the above statement concerning
the republican State will inevitably provoke from secular
scholarship in and out of Pakistan.

Muslim India’s Khilāfat Movement, with all its defects and
deficiencies, represented the last effort on the part of Muslim
India as well as the rest of the world of Islam, to remain faithful
to the political philosophy and model of a State which was
located in the Qur’ān. Britain, on the other hand, wanted to
embrace all of British India, Hindu as well as Muslim, and then
the rest of the world, with the new model of a republican State
which had emerged in Dajjāl’s western civilization. One
misguided sentence (quoted above) from India’s most
illustrious Islamic scholar was sufficient to nail a final nail into
the coffin of Islam’s Khilāfah State, and pave the way for the
birth of a republican State of Pakistan, and for the subsequent
embrace of the rest of the world of Islam in Dajjāl’s secular
world-order of republican States. For this alone, Dr. Iqbal
richly deserved the knighthood which Britain conferred on
him—in consequence of which he became Sir Muhammad
Iqbal.

(Readers may wish to read my essay entitled: Can Muslims
Vote in Elections of the Modern Secular State?)

http://www.imranhosein.org/articles/islam-and-

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politics/85-can-muslims-vote-in-elections-of-the-modern-
secular-state.html

They may also wish to view my lecture entitled ‘Iqbal
Pakistan and the Khilāfah State’ at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL3K_gT9NT0)

The Qur’ān went on to warn that those, such as the
Republican secular State, who rule over the earth or any part
thereof, and do not do so with al-Haq, i.e.,  Truth, would face an
awful doom on the Day of Reckoning. This will be because any
rule, other than that based on al-Haq, would lead the ruler (and
hence the people as well) away from Sabīl Allah, i.e., the Divine

Way or Path:

ا َجعَلْنَاكَ خَلِيفَةً فِي اْلَأْرضِ  َّ   يَا دَاوُودُ ِإن
بِـِع الْهَوَى   َّ اِس بِاْلحَّقِ وَلَا ٺَت َّ فَاحْكُم بَيْنَ الن

ونَ  ُّ هِ ِإّنَ الَّذِيَن يَِضل َّ َك عَن َسبِيِل الل َّ   فَيُِضل
هِ لَهُْم عَذَاٌب َشدِيدٌ بِمَا  َّ   عَن َسبِيِل الل

 نَسُوا يَوْمَ اْلحِسَابِ

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(Qur’ān, Sād, 38:26)

And it was said unto him: O David! Lo! We have set
thee as a ruler in the earth; therefore govern or rule
over mankind with al-Haq, i.e., Truth, and follow not
your own secular agenda, for such would lead you
away from the way or path of Allah. Lo! Those who
depart from the way or path of Allah have an awful
doom, in consequence of having forgotten the Day of
Accounts, i.e., Judgment Day.

If a Khilāfah State, or Pax Dei, is to be established, and if it
is to survive, then it must have power to resist those who will
seek to attack and destroy it. Hence, when Nabī Daūd عليه السالم
established the Holy State of Israel, Allah Most High also
blessed it with power, thus clearly confirming that such a Holy
State must have the power with which to establish itself as Pax
Dei:

كَهُ وَآتَيْنَاهُ اْلحِْكمَةَ وَفَْصَل  ـْ  اْلخِطَابِ وََشدَْدنَا مُل
(Qur’ān, Sād, 38:20)

And Allah Most High strengthened his Kingdom,
hence Pax Dei, and bestowed upon him wisdom and
sagacity in judgment.

A Khilāfah State would thus have an obligation to build
military power to the maximum extent that it can be built. The
Qur’ān explains, however, that such power is to be used to deter

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aggression, and not to commit aggression or to establish a
hegemonic dominance over others:

ةٍ وَمِن  َّ ا اْستَطَعْتُم مِّن قُو واْ لَهُم مَّ   وََأعِّدُ
َيِْل تُرْهِبُونَ بِهِ عَْدّوَ اللّهِ وَعَدُوَّ  بَاِط اْلخ   رِّ

ِيَن مِن دُونِهِْم لاَ تَعْلَمُونَهُمُ اللّهُ    كُْم وَآخَر
  يَعْلَمُهُْم وَمَا تُنفِقُواْ مِن شَْيءٍ فِي َسبِيِل

 وََأنتُمْ لاَ تُْظلَمُونَ اللّهِ يُوَّفَ ِإلَيْكُْم
(Qur’ān, al-Anfāl, 8:60)

Hence, make ready against them whatever military
force and war mounts you are able to muster, so that
you might deter thereby the enemies of Allah, who are
your enemies as well, and others besides them of
whom you may be unaware, but of whom Allah is
aware; and whatever you may expend in Allah’s cause
shall be repaid to you in full, and you shall not be
wronged.

We can see quite clearly that if Korea had not faithfully

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followed this command of the Qur’ān, it would have already
become a client-State of the present Zionist Judeo-Christian
world-order—which is the fate that has already befallen the
southern part of the Korean peninsula. Dajjāl’s modern West
not only succeeded in embracing all of mankind in a United
Nations Organization with a Security Council dominated by
the oppressors of the modern world, i.e.,  Zionist western
Judeo-Christian alliance, but also forced upon the world a
Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NNPT) which prohibits
member States from building the power that the Qur’ān has
demanded. If India had not demonstrated integrity in resisting
membership in NNPT, it is certain that the so-called Islamic
Republic of Pakistan would have acquiesced with docility to
NNPT membership.

Whenever a Khilāfah State is established, and it struggles
to build power in conformity with Allah’s command, Divine
assistance will always come to such a State, as it came to
Solomon’s Holy Israel:

  وَاذكُرُواْ ِإْذ َجعَلـَكُْم خُلَفَاء مِن بَعْدِ .  .  .
  قَوِْم نُوٍح وَزَادَكُْم فِي اْلخَلِْق بَْسطَةً

كُْم تُْفلُِحونَ  فَاذْكُرُواْ آلاء ـَّ  اللّهِ لَعَل

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(Qur’ān, al-‘Arāf, 7:69)

.  .  .  and remember how Allah Most High made you
rulers on earth after Noah's folk, and gave you growth
of stature; and remember all the bounties of your
Lord, that you might be successful.

The Qur’ān reminded the Israelites that Allah responded
to their plight of suffering by extricating them from that
distress, and replacing it with rule on earth (through a Khilāfah
State):

يَْكِشُف َأمَّ  َّ ِإذَا دَعَاهُ وَ   ن ُيجِيُب الْمُْضطَر
عَ   وءَ وََيجْعَلـُكُْم خُلَفَاء اْلَأْرِض َأِإلَهٌ مَّ   الّسُ

رُونَ   َّ ا تَذَك هِ قَلِيلًا مَّ َّ  الل
(Qur’ān, al-Naml, 27:62)

Is not He best who responds to those who are
wronged when he such a person cries out unto Him
and he removes the evil, and has made you rulers on
earth? Is there any God beside Allah? Little do they
reflect!

The above verses of the Qur’ān disclosed that it was by
Allah’s leave that the Israelites remained on earth as rulers for

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long years. But at no time were they able to restore Holy Israel
as Pax Dei. This was because Nabī Dāud’s son, Nabī Sulaimān,
 prayed that his Holy State of Israel could not belong to ,عليهما السالم
anyone after him, i.e.,  none could succeed in restoring Holy
Israel after him. He made this prayer after he was shown the
vision of a Jasad sitting on his throne:

ا ُسلَيْمَانَ وََألْقَيْنَا عَلَى َّ   وَلَقَْد فَتَن
َّ َأنَابَ    كُرِْسيِّهِ َجسَدًا ثُم

(Qur’ān, Sād, 38:34)

Allah Most High caused distress to Solomon by
placing upon his throne a Jasad, or body without a
soul; and thereupon he turned to Allah in prayer.

The prayer was made because he recognized the Jasad to
be Dajjāl, and he knew that Dajjāl would attempt to rule over
Holy Israel. Hence he prayed as follows:

ا يَنبَغِي   قَاَل رَّبِ اْغفِرْ لِي وَهَْب لِي مُلْكًا لَّ
ابُ   َّ ََّك َأنَت الْوَه  لَِأحَدٍ مِّْن بَعْدِي ِإن

(Qur’ān, Sād, 38:35)

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Solomon prayed: O my Lord-God, forgive me my sins,
and bestow upon me a kingdom which cannot belong
to anyone after me. Verily, You are the one who
bestows such!

Allah Most High obviously answered his prayer since Holy
Israel collapsed after Solomon’s death and has never since been
successfully restored. Hence Dajjāl’s present effort to restore
Holy Israel in order to convince the Jews that he is the true
Messiah, is bound to fail.

The Angels Respond to a Khilāfah State on Earth

The response of the Angels to the Divine announcement that a
Khalīfah, or ruler, would be placed on earth, was to bluntly
question it in overt disagreement! The Angels already knew
that the subject of the establishment of rule, and of a ruling
State, on earth, would result in Fasād, i.e., that which corrupts to an

extent that can destroy, and the shedding of blood. The only source
from whom they could have acquired such knowledge was the
Lord-God Himself.

The dissenting view of the Angels was based on the
argument that their constant worship of the Lord-God, while
celebrating His Praise and glorifying His Holy Name, qualified
them, instead, to rule:

قَالُواْ َأَتجْعَُل فِيهَا مَن يُْفِسدُ فِيهَا وَيَْسفُِك  .  .  .

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 .  .  . الدِّمَاء وََنحُْن نُسَبُِّح بِحَمْدِكَ وَنُقَّدُِس لَكَ

(Qur’ān, al-Baqarah, 2:30)

The Angels asked Allah Most High: Will You place on
earth such as will commit Fasād thereon i.e., engage in
corruption which can destroy, and shed blood—
whereas it is we who extol Thy limitless glory, and
praise Thee, and hallow Thy name?

The enigmatic Divine response to the Angels was the
declaration:

 قَاَل ِإنِّي َأعْلَمُ مَا لاَ تَعْلَمُونَ  .  .  .
(Qur’ān, al-Baqarah, 2:30)

Allah answered: Verily, I know that which you do not
know.

Hence, while the Angels knew that the quest for
establishing rule over the earth would result in destructive
corruption and in bloodshed, they did not have complete
knowledge of the subject that justified the Divine
announcement. They did not have knowledge of two events
which were about to occur at this time, i.e., the beginning of
history, which were connected to the end of history, and which
offered an eschatological justification for the Divine
announcement.

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Allah Most High then proceeded to confer knowledge
directly on this ruler, i.e., into Ādam عليه السالم who would
establish his rule on earth. He could do so since He had already
breathed His Divine Rūh into him in such wise that he could
receive knowledge both externally and internally or spiritually:

 َ ه َّ مَ آدَمَ الَأْسمَاء كُل َّ َّ عَرَضَهُْم عَلَى وَعَل   ا ثُم
كَةِ فَقَاَل َأنبِئُونِي بَِأْسمَاء هَـؤُلاء ِإن َٕىِ   الْمَلا

َ  ◌ۖ  ُكنتُمْ َصادِقِينَ     قَالُواْ ُسبْحَانََك لاَ عِلْم
  ُ ََّك َأنَت الْعَلِيمُ اْلحَِكيم مْتَنَا ِإن َّ َّ مَا عَل  لَنَا ِإلا

(Qur’ān, al-Baqarah, 2:31–32)

And Allah Most High taught Ādam the knowledge of
the names of all things pertaining to the subject of rule
on earth; then He brought them within the ken of the
angels and said: Declare unto Me the names of these
things, if you are to be truthful in respect of your
knowledge of the subject of rule on earth.  They
replied: Limitless are You in Your glory! No
knowledge have we save that which You have
imparted unto us. Verily, You alone are all-knowing,

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truly wise.

The implication of the above was that rule on earth could
be established successfully only by those who received such
knowledge directly from the Lord-God which would qualify
them to rule. That knowledge is of course, located in the
divinely-revealed scriptures. This appears to be one of the
reasons why Allah Most High responded to the question posed
by the Angels with the declaration: I know that which you do not

know! Hence whoever does not turn to the Qur’ān for guidance
and for Law, is not qualified to rule over Muslims.

Allah Most High then asked Nabī Ādam عليه السالم to respond
to the question, and he did so:

هِْم  ا َأنبََأهُْم بَِأْسمَإٓىِ َّ هِْم فَلَم قَاَل يَا آدَمُ َأنبِئْهُم بَِأْسمَإٓىِ
كُْم ِإنِّي َأعْلَمُ غَيَْب  ـَّ مَاوَاِت قَاَل َألَْم َأقُل ل الّسَ

 وَالَأْرِض وََأعْلَمُ مَا تُبْدُونَ وَمَا ُكنتُمْ تَْكتُمُونَ
Qur’ān, al-Baqarah, 2:33)

Allah Most then said to Ādam: Oh Ādam, convey
unto them the names of these things. And as soon as
Ādam had conveyed unto them their names, Allah
said: Did I not say unto you, Verily, I alone know the

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hidden reality of the heavens and the earth, and know
all that you bring into the open and all that you would
conceal?

The conclusion to which we arrive from the above is that
mankind was placed on earth for the over-riding imperative of
establishing rule over the earth, and that such can be
accomplished only by those who act faithfully in accordance
with knowledge which has come to them from Allah Most
High, and pursue no other agenda while establishing their rule.
Those who rule otherwise will face an awful doom on Judgment
Day. We recognize this mission of ruling on earth on the basis
of Truth, to be the Amānah, or Trust, that Allah offered to
mankind, and which they accepted.

The Amānah or Trust was a mission to rule justly
(in accordance with Truth)

The very first event to have occurred in human history
following the creation of the human being and of the Divine
Rūh being breathed into him, was Allah’s offer of an Amānah,
or trust, that was made to all of creation—including the
mountains—but which they all refused to accept out of fear,
and which only mankind accepted. In accepting this Amānah,
or trust, however, some of mankind have misused it while
acting either unjustly or foolishly with it. Does the Qur’ān
identify any of those who betrayed the Amānah?

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مَاوَاِت وَاْلَأْرِض  ا عَرَْضنَا اْلَأمَانَةَ عَلَى الّسَ َّ ِإن
يَحْمِلْنَهَا وََأْشفَْقَن مِْنهَا وَحَمَلَهَا وَاْلجِبَاِل فََأبَيْنَ َأن

َّهُ كَانَ َظلُومًا َجهُولًا  اْلِإنسَانُ ِإن
(Qur’ān, al-Ahzāb, 33:72)

Lo! Allah Most High offered the trust unto the
heavens and the earth and the hills, but they shrank
from bearing it and were afraid of it. And man
assumed it. Lo! man hath proved a tyrant and an
ignorant fool.

The Amānah, or trust, which was divinely bestowed, and
which was accepted by mankind, had to be something which,
when misused, could lead to conduct which would be
oppressive and wicked, or to a display of ignorance and
stupidity, and it is the knowledge of precisely this betrayal of
the Trust to rule with justice and Truth that the Angels had,
and to which they referred, when they protested the Divine
announcement that a Khalīfah would be placed on earth.

At the very heart of the Amānah, therefore, there had to be
the offer of a free-will or a self-directed will with which a person
could make a free choice to either accept or to reject, to obey or
to disobey, to be grateful or to be ungrateful, to be just or

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unjust, etc.  Thus the bestowal of the Amānah resulted in the
emergence of a moral being who possessed the capacity for
ethically acceptable conduct, as well as for spiritual insight. Dr.
Iqbal identifies the Amānah with what he calls ‘the trust of
personality’ (see essay on ‘Knowledge and Religious Experience’ in his

book: The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam’). There are
many other distinguished scholars of Islam who hold the same
view. Our differing view is based, however, on our study of
Islamic eschatology.

The Jinn, who are a category of beings created from fire
(while mankind was created from clay), also possessed a free
will, and could choose to obey or disobey. However there is no
evidence that they also possessed the capacity to receive
knowledge internally, or directly from Allah Most High. There
is no evidence that Allah’s Rūh was breathed into them, hence
the Jinn did not possess the spiritual insight which only human
beings possessed.

The Angels had to be aware of the Jewish belief that they
were the chosen people of the Lord-God, and they had to also be
aware that this belief would lead them to conclude that they
had an exclusive claim to morality since they believed that they,
alone, are moral beings. Our view is that it was precisely this
false Jewish belief in exclusivity as a chosen people which led the
Angels to declare that it would lead to bloodshed and Fasād
(that which corrupts and destroys) on earth.

The Qur’ān has exposed the falsehood of this Jewish claim
to moral exclusivity. There are, says the Qur’ān, among the Ahl

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al-Kitāb, i.e., people of the Torah, those who, if you were to place a
Qintār, i.e., a treasure of about 1200 gold Dīnārs, for safe-keeping with
them, when you want your money returned, it would be
returned to you. But if someone who was not from that group
were to place even one Dīnār for safe-keeping, when he wanted
his money returned, it would not be returned to him unless and
until he struggled to get it back. The Qur’ān provided an
explanation for this ethically repugnant double standard as
follows:

َاِب مَْن إِ  ن تَْأمَنْهُ بِقِنطَاٍر يُؤَدِّهِ وَمِْن َأهِْل الْكِت
َّ يُؤَدِّهِ ِإلَيَْك  ْن ِإن تَْأمَنْهُ بِدِينَاٍر لا ِإلَيَْك وَمِْنهُم مَّ
هُْم قَالُواْ لَيَْس  مًا ذَلَِك بَِأّنَ َّ مَا دُْمَت عَلَيْهِ قَإٓىِ ِإلا

يَقُولُونَ عَلَى اللّهِ    عَلَيْنَا فِي الُأمِّيِّينَ َسبِيٌل وَ
 ُ ـْكَذَِب وَه  ْم يَعْلَمُونَ ال

(Qur’ān, Āle ‘Imrān, 3:75)

Among the followers of earlier revelation, i.e., the
Torah, there is many a one who, if you entrust him

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with a Qintār, which is a treasure of about 1200
Dinars, will faithfully restore it to you; and there is
among them many a one who, if you entrust him with
a single Dīnār, i.e., a gold coin, will not restore it to
you unless you keep standing over him demanding
your money back. The reason for this is because they,
the Jews, claim: We have no moral obligations to these
Ummiyūn, i.e., Gentiles or non-Jews, but they tell a lie
about Allah, being well aware that it is a lie.

Since they believed that the divinely-revealed Moral Law
was applicable only to Jews, there was no sin on them if they
were to rip-off, or exploit, the rest of mankind who were not
Jews. It is remarkable that this same disease afflicted modern
western civilization since the West has no sense of moral guilt
at all in their exploitation and oppression of mankind through
their endless wars of oppression and their bogus monetary and
banking system which exploit, oppress and enslave all those
who are targets.

Arrogance at the beginning of history and a false
claim to a birth-right of superiority

After having announced to the Angels that He would place on
earth one who would rule, and then after Nabī Ādam عليه السالم
had explained to the Angels that part of the subject (of rule on
earth) which they did not know, Allah Most Wise ordered the
Angels to prostrate themselves before him, i.e.,  Nabī Ādam

 The Qur’ān then disclosed that they all obeyed the .عليه السالم

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Divine command except Iblīs, i.e., Satan:

 َّ كَةِ اْسجُدُواْ لآدَمَ فَسَجَدُواْ ِإلا َٕىِ ُلْنَا لِلْمَلا وَِإْذ ق
ينَ  بْلِيَس َأبَى وَاْستَْكبَرَ وَكَانَ مَِن الْكَافِرِ  ِإ

(Qur’ān, al-Baqarah, 2:34)

Allah ordered the angels to prostrate themselves
before Ādam!  They all prostrated themselves, except
Iblīs, who refused and gloried in his arrogance: and
thus he became one of those who deny the truth.

Angels cannot disobey (Qur’ān, al-Tahrīm, 66:6), and since
Iblīs disobeyed, he could not have been an Angel. In fact he was
a Jinn (Qur’ān, al-Kahf, 18:50). The reason which he gave for his
refusal to so prostrate himself, was his (false) belief in his birth-
right of superiority over Nabī Ādam عليه السالم. In consequence of
this false belief in a birth-right of superiority, he could not
tolerate anyone possessing more knowledge than he had, nor in
ruling over him anywhere in the universe. Rather he was
convinced that his (false) belief in his superior birth-right gave
to him the right to rule over all. Hence he could not bow down
in prostration to this divinely-educated and divinely-appointed
Khalīfah or ruler.

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 ْ َّ تَْسجُدَ ِإْذ َأمَْرتَُك قَاَل َأنَا   قَاَل مَا مَنَعََك َألا
اٍر وَخَلَْقتَهُ مِن طِينٍ   َّ  خَيْرٌ مِّنْهُ خَلَْقتَنِي مِن ن

(Qur’ān, al-‘Arāf, 7:12)

And Allah said: What has kept you from prostrating
yourself when I commanded you? Answered Iblīs: I
am better than he: You created me out of fire, whereas
him, You created out of clay.

The Qur’ān has here disclosed a beginning of history in
which someone’s false claim to a birth-right of a superior status
led to his arrogant refusal to obey the Lord-God who
commanded him to accept the superiority of someone else over
him. This arrogance resulted in a divine curse on him, and his
expulsion from heaven. The Lord-God then decreed that he
would hence-forth be reduced to a lowly state:

  قَاَل فَاهْبِْط مِْنهَا فَمَا يَكُونُ لََك َأن
اغِرِينَ  ََّك مَِن الّصَ رَ فِيهَا فَاْخرُْج ِإن َّ  ٺَتََكب

(Qur’ān, al-‘Arāf, 7:13)

Allah said: Down with you, then, from this state—for

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it is not meet for you to show arrogance here! Go
forth, then: verily, among the humiliated, disgraced,
degraded shall you be!

The significant implication of the above, significant most
of all in Ākhir al-Zamān or the end of history, is that any
people who consider themselves to have a birth-right of
superiority over others will similarly be cursed by the Lord-
God, and would be debarred from entering heaven. There is no
place in heaven for those who display this particular form of
arrogance. In addition, their arrogant claim to superiority
would end in the humiliation and disgrace of a lowly status: “.  .
. verily, among the humiliated shall you be!”

The arrogant Jewish claim, which was brazenly adopted by
Dajjāl’s modern western civilization, that they are the chosen
people of the Lord-God with a birthright of superiority over the
rest of mankind, is hence false. Any Jew, Christian, Hindu (or
even a Muslim) who makes such a claim of a birthright of
superiority over others, will have a divine curse on him, and
will eventually be brought down to a lowly status.

The Qur’ān has singled out the Jews for this false belief
that they are the chosen people of the Lord-God, and challenged
them as follows:

 َ هَا الَّذِيَن ه هِ قُْل يَا َأّيُ َّ كُْم َأْولِيَاء لِل َّ ادُوا ِإن زَعَمْتُمْ َأن

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وُا الْمَوَْت ِإن ُكنتُمْ َصادِقِينَ  َّ اِس فَتَمَن َّ  مِن دُوِن الن
(Qur’ān, al-Jumu’ah, 62:6)

Oh you who are Jews, if you believe that you are a
chosen people of the Lord-God to the exclusion of the
rest of mankind, then why do you not express a wish
for death—if you are convinced of the truth of your
claim? But No! They will never do such a thing since
they are well aware of their conduct. And Allah Most
High has knowledge of those whose conduct is
wicked.

The Divine challenge presented to the Jew, applies equally
to all others who consider themselves to possess a birthright of
superiority over others.

The Jew may respond to argue that the Lord-God had
made them an exceptional people by favoring them and
bestowing blessings upon them more than on any other of
mankind. The Qur’ān confirms that the Israelite people
received more of the divinely-conferred blessings than all of the
rest of mankind:

َّتِي َأنْعَْمتُ يَا  يَل اذْكُرُواْ نِعْمَتِيَ ال   بَنِي ِإسْرَإىِ

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لْتُكُْم عَلَى الْعَالَمِينَ    عَلَيْكُْم وََأنِّي فَّضَ
(Qur’ān, al-Baqarah, 2:47)

Oh People of Israel! Remember those blessings of
Mine with which I graced you, and how, in conferring
those blessings and favors, I favored you more than all
other people.

 َ   وَِإْذ قَاَل مُوسَى لِقَوْمِهِ يَا قَوِْم اذْكُرُواْ نِعْمَة
  اللّهِ عَلَيْكُْم ِإْذ َجعََل فِيكُْم َأنبِيَاء وََجعَلـَكُم
ا لَْم يُؤِْت أَ   لُوكًا وَآتَاكُم مَّ  حَدًا مِّن الْعَالَمِينَ مُّ

(Qur’ān, al-Māidah, 5:20)

AND, LO, Moses said unto his people: Oh my people!
Remember the blessings which Allah bestowed upon
you when he raised up Prophets among you, and
made you rulers/Kings, and granted unto you favors
such as He had not granted to anyone else in the
world.

The implication of this great Divine bestowal of favors on
the Israelite people was that if they betrayed the standard of

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righteous conduct, they would be judged and punished with
greater punishment than all of mankind. The Qur’ān
demolished their claim to being an exclusive or chosen people
when it denounced the false claim that heaven was reserved for
them:

َّ مَن كَانَ وَقَالُواْ لَن يَْدخَُل  ةَ ِإلا َّ َن   اْلج
هُْم قُلْ     هُوداً َأْو نََصارَى تِلَْك َأمَانِيُّ
 هَاتُواْ بُرْهَانَكُْم ِإن ُكنتُمْ َصادِقِينَ

(Qur’ān, al-Baqarah, 2:111)

Jews and Christians claim: None shall ever enter
paradise unless he be a Jew or a Christian. Such are
their wishful beliefs! Say: Produce an evidence for
what you are claiming, if what you say is true!

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The Parallel between the End and
the Beginning of History

The Qur’ān has hinted of a parallel between the beginning and
the end of history:

 َكمَا بَدََأكُْم تَعُودُونَ .  .  .
(Qur’ān, al-‘Arāf, 7:29)

.  .  .  As it was when Allah Most High brought you
into being in the first instance, so also you will return
in the end.

Prophet Muhammad صل هللا عليه و سلم declared that there was
never a Prophet but that he warned his people about Dajjāl:

 ُ ا وَقَْد َأنْذَرَهُ قَوْمَه  وَمَا مِْن نَبِّيٍ ِإلَّ
(Sahīh Bukhārī)

The implication is that Dajjāl is located at both the
beginning and the end of history. In declaring that Allah is the
First and He is the Last, and that He has knowledge of all things,
the Qur’ān has therefore confirmed an eschatological drama to
wit, that: as it was in the beginning of history, so will it be at the
end of history. This drama will unfold in the end of history in
such wise that the parallel with the beginning of history could
be discerned by those who employ an epistemology which

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harmoniously integrates al-Zāhir, i.e., the externally visible, with al-
Bātin, i.e., the internally discerned.

The study of the subject of Dajjāl requires an effort to
identify relevant data which is located at the beginning of
history, and to then locate the connection of that data with the
end of history.

What is the view of Islam of that end of history that will be
a parallel to the beginning of history depicted above?

The voice of Prophet Muhammad صل هللا عليه و سلم  is the most
powerful in history to have prophesied the return of the
Messiah, Jesus the son of Mary, peace and blessings of Allah Most

High be upon them both—blessed virgin mother, and blessed son.

(A man named Mirza Ghulam Ahmad from India sought
to identify himself with this prophecy of the return of the son
of Mary, claiming that he fulfilled in himself the prophecy of
that miraculous return; but this liar had an insurmountable
problem since he was the son of a Punjabi woman, whereas the
prophecy identified the return of one who would be the son of
Mary. Even if his Punjabi mother could be renamed Mary, that
would still not be enough to solve his problem since there is
only one Virgin Mary in all of history. Whoever claims that
Mary was not a virgin, would hold a view which would be in
manifest conflict with the Qur’ān, and hence would not be
recognized as a Muslim.)

The Qur’ān has confirmed that miraculous messianic
return, but has wisely chosen to do so in its Āyāt Mutashābihāt,

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i.e., allegorical verses, which must be interpreted in order for their
inner meaning to be discovered.

Prophet Muhammad  هللا عليه و سلمصل  went on to prophesy that
Jesus would return to the world as al-Hākim al-Ādil, i.e., a just

ruler; hence this prophecy establishes the Islamic eschatological
belief that history will end with the Pax Dei with which it
began:

ِيَدِهِ لَيُوِشَكّنَ َأْن يَنْزَِل      وَالَّذِي نَْفسِي ب
يَمَ حََكمًا مُْقِسطًا  .  .  . فِيكُمُ ابُْن مَْر

By Him in Whose Hands my soul is, the son of Mary will shortly

descend among you as a just ruler   .   .    .

(Sahīh Bukhārī)

The same prophecy is to be found elsewhere with a slightly
different text:

ى يَنْزَِل عِيسَى ابْنُ  َّ اعَةُ َحت   لاَ تَقُومُ الّسَ
  ً يَمَ حََكمًا مُْقِسطًا وَِإمَامًا عَْدلا  مَْر

The Last Hour will not occur until Jesus the Son of
Mary descends as a just ruler, i.e., over all of mankind,

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and as a just leader of individual believers.

  (Sunan, Ibn Mājah)

However let us recall that the beginning of history also
gave us another parallel ‘end of history’ when an effort is made
to establish a bogus Pax Dei by those who arrogantly consider
themselves, like Iblīs, i.e.,  Satan, to be superior to the rest of
mankind. They will also claim, like Iblīs, a birth-right of
superiority since (according to them) they were born, or
created superior! In other words, they will claim that the Lord-
God chose them as the elect of all of mankind, i.e., His chosen
people to the exclusion of all the rest of mankind. They will also
make a claim to be the intellectual elite of mankind since,
according to them, the Lord-God bestowed superior knowledge
on them, as He did to Nabī Ādam عليه السالم. Hence they alone
would be eligible to establish Pax Dei.

Such conduct was not tolerated in heaven, and it led to the
expulsion of Iblīs from heaven, and to a divine curse on him.
The Lord-God also declared that such arrogance will end in
humiliation and debasement. Hence the end of history which
will parallel the beginning, will witness the divine destruction
of an arrogant and bogus Pax Dei, and the humiliation and
debasement of those who attempt to establish it.

Another event in Awwal al-Zamān

A second event occurred at the beginning of history which
provided further information on that false Pax Dei which

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would appear at the end of history. Allah Most High told Ādam
 to dwell in heaven with his wife Hawwa, i.e., Eve, but عليه السالم
prohibited them both from approaching a certain tree, for such
would lead to Dhulm, i.e., wickedness, oppression, injustice:

ةَ  َّ َن ُلْنَا يَا آدَمُ اْسكُْن َأنَت وَزَْوجَُك اْلج   وَق
َبَا    وَكُلاَ مِْنهَا رَغَداً َحيُْث ِشئْتُمَا وَلاَ تَْقر

الِمِينَ هَـذِهِ ال َجرَةَ فَتَكُونَا مَِن الّْظَ  ّشَ
(Qur’ān, al-Baqarah, 2:35)

Allah Most High said: Oh Ādam, dwell thou and thy
wife in this garden of paradise, and eat freely thereof,
both of you, whatever you may wish; but do not
approach this tree, lest you become wicked.

What is the Forbidden Tree?

A tree has no free will, and hence cannot exhibit ‘conduct’. It
should therefore be quite apparent that the Lord-God has used
the ‘tree’ as a symbol to represent something quite
reprehensible.

We learn something about the symbol when Iblīs, i.e., Satan,
sought to seduce them to approach the tree while claiming that

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they would become like unto Angels who live eternally, i.e., for
a very long period of time. The objective which he was
pursuing in disclosing this information to them was to inject
into their spiritual heart a form of lust, i.e., the lust to live
forever. Such lust, like its sexual counterpart, i.e., sexual lust,
destroys spiritual innocence and reduces one to a state of
(spiritual) nakedness:

يْطَانُ لِيُبْدَِي لَهُمَا مَا وُورَِي  فَوَْسوََس لَهُمَا الّشَ
ُكمَا  ُّ َب   عَْنهُمَا مِن َسوْءَاتِهِمَا وَقَاَل مَا نَهَاُكمَا ر
َّ َأن تَكُونَا مَلـََكيْنِ  َجرَةِ ِإلا   عَْن هَـذِهِ الّشَ

َالِدِينَ   َأْو تَكُونَا مَِن اْلخ
(Qur’ān, al-An’ām, 7:20)

Satan whispered unto both Ādam and his wife
Hawwa, or Eve, with a view to making them conscious
of their nakedness, of which hitherto they had been
unaware; and he said: Your Lord-God has but
forbidden you this tree lest you two become as angels,
or lest you live forever.

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forbidden tree when he disclosed that it was not only the tree of
immortality, symbolizing ‘eternal life’ (angelic style), but also
‘eternal rule’. His objective in disclosing this information to
them was to inject into their spiritual heart another form of
lust, i.e., the lust to rule forever or eternally. In order to achieve
eternal rule they would have to establish a ruling State that
would rule eternally. The lust for such eternal rule, like the lust
to live forever, and sexual lust, destroys spiritual innocence and
reduces one to a state of spiritual nakedness:

 ْ يْطَانُ قَاَل يَا آدَمُ هَلْ فَوَْسوََس ِإلَي   هِ الّشَ
ا يَبْلَى  ُلْدِ وَمُلٍْك لَّ َك عَلَى َشجَرَةِ اْلخ ُّ  َأدُل

(Qur’ān, Tā Hā, 20:120)

Satan whispered unto (only) Ādam, saying: O Ādam!
Shall I lead thee to the tree of life eternal; and thus to a
kingdom that will never perish or decay?

Iblīs succeeded in deceiving them, in consequence of
which they both tasted the tree, i.e., they allowed their hearts to
lust for that which the tree symbolized. As soon as that lust
entered their hearts, i.e., the lust to live and to rule eternally,
they lost their spiritual innocence and became conscious of
their nakedness. They then sought, symbolically so, to cover
themselves with leaves from the trees of heaven:

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َجرَةَ بَدَْت لَهُمَا  ا ذَاقَا الّشَ َّ هُمَا بِغُرُوٍر فَلَم َّ فَدَلا
  َسوْءَاتُهُمَا وََطفِقَا َيخِْصفَاِن عَلَْيهِمَا مِن وَرَقِ

ُكمَا  ـْ هُمَا َألَْم َأْنهَُكمَا عَن تِل َّبُ ةِ وَنَادَاهُمَا ر َّ َن   اْلج
  َ يْطَآنَ لـَُكمَا ع ُكمَا ِإّنَ الّشَ ـَّ َجرَةِ وََأقُل ل بِينٌ الّشَ  دُّوٌ مُّ

(Qur’ān, al-An’ām, 7:22)

And thus Satan led them on with deluding thoughts,
guile and deception. But as soon as the two had tasted
the fruit of the tree, they became conscious of their
nakedness; and they began to cover themselves with
pieced-together leaves from the garden. And their
Lord-God called unto them: Did I not forbid that
tree unto you and tell you, Verily, Satan is your open
foe?

Since they lost their spiritual innocence, they no longer
qualified to dwell in heaven. This is so because heaven is
reserved for those whose hearts are Salīm, i.e., sound, healthy and

innocent:

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  ◌ۖ  يَوْمَ لَا يَنفَُع مَاٌل وَلَا بَنُونَ
هَ بِقَلٍْب َسلِيمٍ   َّ ا مَْن َأتَى الل  ِإلَّ

(Qur’ān, al-Shūra, 26:88–9)

On Judgment Day neither wealth nor children will be
of any benefit, rather, only he will automatically
qualify for heaven who comes before Allah Most High
with a heart which is Salim, i.e., sound, healthy, and
innocent, and hence free from the lust for life and the
lust to rule.

We learn from the passage below that both Nabī Ādam,  عليه

 and his wife were expelled from heaven and sent to reside ,السالم
on earth, as soon as they tasted the forbidden tree:

ا كَانَا  َّ يْطَانُ عَْنهَا فََأْخرََجهُمَا مِم هُمَا الّشَ َّ   فََأزَل
ُلْنَا اهْبِطُواْ بَعُْضكُْم لِبَعٍْض عَدُّوٌ وَلـَكُْم    فِيهِ وَق

 فِي الَأْرِض مُْستَقَرٌّ وَمَتَاعٌ ِإلَى ِحينٍ
(Qur’ān, al-Baqarah, 2:36)

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But Satan caused them both to stumble therein, and
thus brought about the loss of their erstwhile state of
spiritual innocence. And so Allah Most High said:
Down with you, and experience the plague of enmity
and hostility for one another as the lust for life and for
rule corrupts you; and on earth you shall have your
abode and your livelihood for a while!

They responded by seeking Allah’s forgiveness, and He, in
turn, forgave them:

بِّهِ كَلِمَاٍت فَتَابَ  ى آدَمُ مِن رَّ   فَتَلَّقَ
  ُ ِحيم َّ اُب الر وَّ َّ َّهُ هُوَ الت  عَلَيْهِ ِإن

(Qur’ān, al-Baqarah, 2:37)

Thereupon Ādam received words of guidance from
his Lord-God, and He accepted his repentance: for,
verily, He alone is the Acceptor of Repentance, the
Dispenser of Grace.

The order of expulsion from heaven was maintained
despite that Divine forgiveness. However they were informed
that adherence to Divine guidance which would come to
mankind from time to time, was the necessary condition for life
on earth, and for efforts to establish Pax Dei that would be free
from fear and grief:

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كُم مِّنِّي هُدًى فَمَن  َّ ا يَْأتِيَن ُلْنَا اهْبِطُواْ مِْنهَا جَمِيعاً فَِإمَّ ق
 تَبِـَع هُدَاَي فَلاَ َخوٌْف عَلَْيهِْم وَلاَ هُْم َيحْزَنُونَ

(Qur’ān, al-Baqarah, 2:38)

For although Allah Most High did say, Down with you
all from this heavenly state, there shall, none the less,
most certainly come unto you guidance from Me: and
those who follow My guidance need have no fear, and
neither shall they grieve.

The same event is described in the Torah quite differently.
We quote the Torah at length:

Now the serpent was craftier than any of the wild
animals the Lord God had made. He said to the
woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from
any tree in the garden’?”

The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit
from the trees in the garden, but God did say, ‘You
must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of
the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will
die.’”

“You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the
woman. ”For God knows that when you eat from it
your eyes will be opened, and you will be like

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God, knowing good and evil.”

When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was
good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also
desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate
it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with
her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were
opened, and they realized they were naked; so they
sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for
themselves.

Then the man and his wife heard the sound of
the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the
cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God
among the trees of the garden. But the Lord God
called to the man, “Where are you?”

He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was
afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”

and he said, “Who told you that you were
naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I
commanded you not to eat from?”

The man said, “The woman you put here with me—
she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this
you have done?”

The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I
ate.”

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So the Lord God said to the serpent: Because you have
done this, cursed are you above all livestock, and all
wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you
will eat dust all the days of your life. And I will put
enmity between you and the woman, and between
your offspring and hers. He will crush your head, and
you will strike his heel.

To the woman he said: I will make your pains in
childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will
give birth to children. Your desire will be for your
husband,     and he will rule over you.

To Adam he said: Because you listened to your wife
and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded
you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ Cursed is the
ground because of you; through painful toil you will
eat food from it all the days of your life. It will produce
thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants
of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat
your food until you return to the ground, since from it
you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you will
return.

Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become
the mother of all the living. The Lord God made
garments of skin for Ādam and his wife and clothed
them. And the Lord God said: The man has now
become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He
must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take

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also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever. So
the Lord God banished him from the Garden of
Eden to work the ground from which he had been
taken. After he drove the man out, he placed on the
east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a
flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the
way to the tree of life.

Genesis: 3–4 NIV

This book concludes with a warning to those who lust for
life, seeking to live for as long as possible, and who also lust to
rule over others with eternal rule, that such are a morally and
spiritually naked people whose nakedness will increasingly
become clearly visible to all of mankind (who have eyes with
which to see) as Truth is proclaimed in the world. This book,
which introduces the subject of Dajjāl or the Anti-Christ, is
written to assist readers to be able to see and to understand the
reality of the world today in which events which are ominously
unfolding, have a parallel in a forbidden tree in Awwal al-
Zamān.

The Qur’ān has exposed the Jewish lust for life:

اِس عَلَى َحيَاةٍ وَمِنَ  َّ هُْم َأْحرََص الن   وَلَتَِجدَّنَ
رُ َألَْف     الَّذِيَن َأشْرَُكواْ يَوَدُّ َأحَدُهُْم لَوْ يُعَمَّ

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  َسنَةٍ وَمَا هُوَ بِمُزَْحزِِحهِ مَِن الْعَذَاِب
رَ وَاللّهُ بَِصيرٌ بِمَا يَعْمَلُونَ   َأن يُعَمَّ

(Qur’ān, al-Baqarah, 2:96)

And thou wilt most certainly find that they, the Jews,
cling to life more eagerly than any other people, even
more than those who are bent on ascribing divinity to
other beings beside Allah: every one of them would
love to live a thousand years, although the grant of
long life could not save him from punishment in the
hereafter: for Allah sees all that they do.

There is also ample evidence of a Jewish lust to rule the
world eternally which, also, is a part of the forbidden tree.
Consider Rabbi Emanuel Rabinovich’s declaration:

“We will openly reveal our identity with the races of
Asia and Africa. I can state with assurance that the last
generation of white children is now being born. Our
Control Commissions will, in the interests of peace
and wiping out inter-racial tensions, forbid the Whites
to mate with Whites. The White Women must cohabit
with members of the dark races, the White Men with
black women. Thus the White Race will disappear, for
the mixing of the dark with the White means the end
of the White Man, and our most dangerous enemy

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will become only a memory. We shall embark upon an
era of ten thousand years of peace and plenty, the Pax
Judaica, and our race will rule undisputed over the
world. Our superior intelligence will easily enable us
to retain mastery over a world of dark peoples” Rabbi
Emanuel Rabinovich's summation of the progress of
his tribe, the Modern Tribe of Jews, toward their goal
of the One World under Jewry.

Emergency Council of European Rabbis

in Budapest on January 12, 1952

We have attached the full text of his speech as an
Appendix 3 to this book.

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Conclusion

Our effort in this book to locate Dajjāl at the beginning of
history has borne fruit. Had there been no arrogant Jewish
belief that Jews are the elect of mankind, or the chosen people of
the Lord-God, with a birth-right of superiority over all other
human beings, there would have been no cause for Dajjāl. It
was this false belief which led them to reject Jesus, the son of
the Virgin Mary, as the promised Messiah; and which
continues to drive their futile quest to re-establish Holy Israel,
by hook or by crook, as the End-time ruling State of the world.

The Qur’ān has not only rejected this false Jewish claim to
an exclusive status with the Lord-God, but has also provided us
with the means with which to identify Dajjāl’s false State of
Israel with the forbidden tree of heaven.

The most important discovery of this book is, without
doubt, our identifying Dajjāl as the Jasad of the Qur’ān.

Our study in the Qur’ān of the beginning of history also
now allows us to recognize and identify a strange new actor
who has mysteriously appeared on the stage of the world in the

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end-times.

History began with a display of arrogance when Satan
refused to bow and prostrate before Ādam on the basis of a
claim to a birth-right of superiority. History is ending with
precisely that arrogance, as the new actor on the stage of the
world proclaimed his birth-right of superiority over the rest of
mankind and then proceeded to wage wars of naked aggression
in order to establish his rule over mankind so that he could
civilize the rest of mankind—including this writer.

History began with Ādam عليه السالم and his wife displaying a
sense of shame when they became conscious of their
nakedness. They then took the leaves of the trees of heaven and
used them to cover their nakedness. History is ending with that
shameless new actor dismantling and destroying the inherent
sense of modesty and shame in the human being as he proceeds
to uncover the human body until people appear naked before
each other in public. This writer is a native of the Caribbean
island of Trinidad where, but for body paint, people now dance
naked in public in what is proudly proclaimed as a national
festival of Carnival. Around that actor’s world of tinsel-town
today, the glittering shopping malls are littered with women
competing with each other in making a public display of their
sexual assets.

History began with a Divine warning against approaching
a forbidden tree of lust. That lust appears in the form of sexual
lust. It should be clear that sexual lust is taking over the world
in the End-time. It is that mysterious actor who is driving the

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wagon of lust helter-skelter around the world today.

That lust also manifests itself in the lust for life—hence to
live for as long as is possible. It is that mysterious new actor on
the stage of the world who is assisting in wondrous medical
ways in fulfilling the lust of mankind to now live as long as is
possible, and hence to delay death for as long as is possible.

History began with a Divine warning not to approach a
forbidden tree of lust to rule over others. History is ending with
that new actor on the stage of the world displaying an
unprecedented imperial lust to rule the world. That new actor
possesses power unprecedented in human history and has
already used that power through Gog and Magog to spread
himself out in all directions as he took control of the world. He
then proceeded to liberate the Holy Land for the Jews, to bring
them back to the Holy Land to reclaim it as their own two
thousand years after they had been expelled from it by Divine
decree, and to restore in the Holy Land a State of Israel. That
mysterious new actor is now preparing the way for Israel’s Pax
Judaica to replace USA’s Pax Americana. This pioneering book
on Islamic Eschatology has identified that strange and
mysterious new actor who occupies center-stage in the world in
the End-time, and brought modern western civilization into
being, as Dajjāl the false Messiah.

We now end this first of our five books on Dajjāl, the false
Messiah or Anti-Christ, with Divine advice to those who would
seek knowledge and guidance from the Qur’ān. The Word of
Allah Most Wise, below, is in Arabic, followed by our

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explanation, rather than translation, of the two verses:

ِ مَِن الْوَعِيدِ  فْنَا فِيه ا وَصَرَّ ًّ ِي ب ُ قُرْآنًا عَرَ وَكَذَلَِك َأنزَلْنَاه
قُونَ َأْو ُيحْدُِث لَهُمْ  َّ هُْم يَت َّ هُ الْمَلُِك  ◌ۖ   ذِكْرًا لَعَل َّ فَتَعَالَى الل

اْلحَّقُ وَلَا تَعْجَْل بِالْقُرْآِن مِن قَبِْل َأن يُْقضَى ِإلَيَْك
ّبِ زِْدنِي عِلْمًا   وَْحيُهُ وَقُل رَّ

(Qur’ān, Tā Hā, 20:113-4)

Thus have We sent it down as a  Qur’ān in Arabic –
hence to be recited in Arabic and studied in Arabic,
and We have explained therein matters concerning
which We have warned (and the warning concerning
Dajjāl is the gravest of all) in order that they may be
conscious of Allah and fear Him, and also that it may
be a means through which they remember Him.

High above all is Allah. He is the Supreme Sovereign.
He is the Truth! Hence be not in haste with this
Qur'ān (either in reciting it, or in studying it to locate
knowledge and guidance therein) before its inspired
transmission to you is completed, but say, “O my
Lord! Grant me more knowledge (of this Qur'ān).”

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Appendix One

Qur’ān, Sūrah al-Māidah: 5:51
Being a commentary by Hasbullah Shafi’iy to Maulānā

Imran N. Hosein’s interpretation of the verse.

Introduction

 ُ بِعُوه َّ َاٌب َأنزَلْنَاهُ مُبَارَكٌ فَات   وَهَـذَا كِت
كُْم تُرْحَمُونَ   ـَّ قُواْ لَعَل َّ  وَات

(Quran, 6:155, 21:50)

The Qur’ān is a book which contains Barakah

ا  َّ ينَ ِإن َّا مُنذِرِ ا كُن َّ بَارَكَةٍ ِإن  َأنزَلْنَاهُ فِي لَيْلَةٍ مُّ

(Quran, 44:3)

The Qur’ān was sent down on a night of Barakah

Sayyiduna ‘Umar رضي اللّٰه عنه in his six-line description of the

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Qur’ān that we are unable to discuss here except one particular
word that is relevant to our subject, most aptly said that the
Qur’ān is Barakah. Now, this is not a simple word at all. This
word may be registered amongst the most frequently used
vocabulary of any Muslim from any part of the world, but only
that the meaning of this word is simply untranslatable into any
other language, at least not into English. The meaning of this
word can only be understood and explained by an event.

Sayyiduna Abū Hurayrah رضي اللّٰه عنه gripped by the pangs of
hunger, was waiting in Masjid an-Nabawi for someone to come
who could understand his state and feed him. Embarrassed to
ask directly for food, he had asked both Sayyiduna Abū Bakr
and Sayyiduna ‘Umar (رضي هللا عنهم), to teach him something from
the book of Allah, meaning to take him home as a guest. Not
realizing his state, both of them had passed by him. The poor
companion of the Prophet صل هللا عليه و سلم had to continue hoping
for someone else to come and take him home as a guest.

There came the Messenger of Allah
 the dearest of all to the poor. Abū (صل  عليه و سلم)
Hurayrah narrates, “Then Abul-Qasim passed, and he
smiled when he saw me (knowing his state), and said:
‘Abu Hurayrah?’ I said: 'I am here O Messenger of
Allah!' He said: ‘Come along.’ He continued and I
followed him, he entered his house, so I sought
permission to enter, and he permitted me. He found a
bowl of milk and said: ‘Where did this milk come
from?’ It was said: ‘It was a gift to us from so and so.’

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So, the Messenger of Allah said: ‘O Abu Hurayrah’ I
said: ‘I am here O Messenger of Allah!’ He said: ‘Go to
the people of as-Suffah and invite them.’ Now, they
were the guests of the people of Islam, they had no
people or wealth to rely upon. Whenever some charity
was brought to him  (صل  عليه و سلم), he would send it to
them without using any of it. And when a gift was
given to him, he would send for them to participate
and share with him in it. I became troubled about that,
and I said (to myself): ‘What good will this bowl be
among the people of as-Suffah and I am the one
bringing it to them?’ Then he ordered me to circulate
it among them (so I wondered) what of it would reach
me from it, and I hoped that I would get from it what
would satisfy me. But I would certainly not neglect to
obey Allah and obey His Messenger, so I went to them
and invited them. When they entered upon him they
sat down. He said: ‘Abu Hurayrah, take the bowl and
give it to them.’ I took the bowl and gave it to one man
who drank his fill and returned it to me, and I gave it
to the next and he did the same. I went on doing this
till the bowl reached the Messenger of Allah ( صل  عليه و

 By that time all had taken their fill. He took the .(سلم
bowl, put it on his hand, looked at me, smiled and
said, “Aba Hirr.” I said, “At your service, O Messenger
of Allah.” He said, “Now you and I are left.” I said,
“That is true, O Messenger of Allah.” He said, “Sit
down and drink.” I drank, but he went on saying,

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“Drink some more.” I said, “By Him Who has sent
you with the Truth, I have no room for it.” He said,
“Then give it to me,” so I gave him the bowl. He
praised Allah, uttered the Name of Allah and drank
the remainder.

[Bukhārī, Tirmīdhī]

It is said that there were about eighty of them on that day
at the blessed home of the Messenger of Allah.

This is a recorded miracle of the Prophet witnessed and
experienced by all the eighty Companions of as-Suffah. That
blessed container passed around and all of them drank from it
and Abū Hurayrah too drank from it to his fill. Yet there was
more milk in it.

By Allah, if the entire Madīna was there that day at the
Prophet’s house, all of them would have drank from it and milk
would still have remained in the bowl. This is Barakah. So is
the Qur’ān. The Qur’ān remains one Book but does flow
infinitely. In fact, every verse of the Qur’ān remains one, but
meanings flow infinitely because it is from Allah Who is the
Infinite.

There is not a single exegete (Mufassir) of the Qur’ān who
would have dared say that he had already exhausted the full
commentaries, interpretations and meanings of the Qur’ān and
that therefore nothing else could be added to them. That would
reflect the meanings of the Qur’ān as finite. How in that case
could hundreds of thousands of Tafāsīr have been published so

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far on the meanings of the Qur’ān? History has it that the
library of Libya alone once had preserved 20,000 commentaries
of the Quran. No one of the 20,000 different authors ever
claimed that no one could add on to the commentary he had
himself written and then put a full stop to the science of Tafsīr.
New knowledge comes out from the Qur’ān and what
meanings flow out from the ‘spring’ of the Qur’ān—that is the
Spring of Allah’s Kalām—has no limit. It continues and will
continue forever till the Last Day.

Having established that, we now turn to Maulānā Imran
N. Hosein’s commentary to the 51st verse of Sūrah al-Māidah.
It does not befit Islamic scholarship for someone to say that
Maulānā Hosein cannot add on to the existing commentaries
on this verse and it further demands that readers approach his
commentary with the meaning of Barakah in mind when it
comes to the interpretation of the Qur’ān because the Qur’ān is
ever fresh. It must explain every age, and Time is constantly in
change.

The Verse

صَرى  َّ خِذُوا الْيَهُودَ وَ الن هاَ الّذِيَن آمَنُوا لَا تَّتَ ياَ َأّيُ
هُمْ  َّ  َأْولِيآَءَ بَعْضُهُْم َأْولِيآَءُ بَعٍْض وَ مَْن يَتَوَل

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َّهُ مِْنهُْم   هَ لاَ يَهْدِى الْقَوْمَ الّظلِمِينَ مِنْكُْم فَِإن َّ َلل ِإّنَ ا
Translations

Before discussing the problems in the various published
translations of the verse, it is necessary first to look into the
literal translation of the verse without added parentheses:

O you who have Imān! Do not take the Yahūd and the
Nasārā as Awliyā. They are Awliyā of each other (or,
‘Some of them are Awliyā of others’). Whosoever
turns to them from among you, would then become
part of them. Certainly Allah does not guide the
Dzālimīn.

Our attention here is firstly directed to the word Awliyā
and the following phrase in the verse, “they are Awliyā of each
other,” and then secondly to the overall meaning of the verse.

Various translators of the Qur’ān have translated this verse
with only slight variations in the choice of words but not in the
meaning it has been understood to convey. All of the
translations that I have checked unanimously mention the
same meaning of the verse prohibiting alliance and friendship
with the Jews and the Christians because (by implication, as do
most of the classical commentators have pointed out) they are
friends, helpers, guardians, comrades, allies, confidants, and
protectors (different choice of words for translating the word
Awliyā) of each other. It is important to note here that in all of

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the existing English translations of this verse, there is an
implied “because” before the phrase ‘they are Awliyā of each
other’ for which reason it seems, from these translations, that
Allah has prohibited alliance and friendship with them.
Abdullah Yūsuf Ali, Pickthall, Asad, Maudūdī, Daryabādi
(whose commentary on the verse will be quoted later), Arberry,
Muhsin Khan, Zafrullah Khan, Syed Abdul Latīf, Maulānā
Muhammad Ali, Shaikh Abdalhaqq and Aisha Bewley, and a
number of others, have all translated the verse in the same
manner with only variations in the choice of words when
translating the word ‘Awliyā’. There seems to be no exception
to this. The overall meaning of the verse implied in all of these
translations is that the believers should not take the Jews and
the Christians as Awliyā because these two parties are Awliyā of
each other.

The translation of Amatul Rahman Omar and Abdul
Mannan Omar has a slight variation that deserves some
attention:

O you who believe! Do not take these Jews and the
Christians for allies. They are allies of one to another
(when against you), and whoso from amongst you
takes them for allies, is indeed one of them. Verily
Allah does not guide the unjust people to attain their
goal. [Emphasis mine].

Though the addition of the word ‘these’ may appear to
signify that the translator has considered a definite group
amongst the Jews and Christians—therefore not generally all of

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them—and though she further puts such a prohibition
conditional in parentheses (“when against you”) it does not still
satisfactorily address the problem. Here the implication of the
overall verse is: “Do not take these Jews and the Christians as
your Awliyā because when they turn against you they will
become Awliyā of each other…”

Some Tamil translations, including that of Maulānā S.S.
‘Abdul Qādir Sāhib have, “… (Amongst them) some are Awliyā of

others (in coming together against you, i.e. Muslims) …” This therefore
should mean some of them, not all, are enemies. But in
translating the first phrase of the verse, there is no such
distinction made. Instead, they too translate (in Tamil) as, “Do

not take the Jews and the Christians as Awliyā …” as if implying all
Jews and Christians. However, in the next phrase, they indicate
that some of them are Awliyā of others, not all, as if implying
that enmity from their quarters will come from one faction of
them, those who ally with each other, not all. This could have
been made clearer in the first phrase itself as it was done in the
second. Nevertheless, this Tamil translation is better than all
that we find in English.

If the prohibition is based on the condition of the Jews and
Christians turning against the Muslims, then the translation
should read: “You who have Īmān, do not take (those) Jews and

Christians (who turn against you) as Awliyā, (because when they turn

against you, they will become) Awliyā of each other …” This however
shuts the possibility of alliance with all Jews and Christians
because we may never know who will turn against the believers

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and who will not.

Here is Maulānā Imran Hosein’s explanatory translation
that is clearer and which differs quite largely in meaning from
the rest:

Oh you who have faith, do not take (such) Jews and
(such) Christians as your Awliyā (friends and allies)
who (themselves) are Awliyā (friends and allies) of
each other. And whoever amongst you turn to them
for friendship and alliance, would belong to them (and
therefore not to us). Surely Allah does not provide
guidance to a people who commit Dhulm.

The first point to note here is that this translation does not
nullify all other previous translations of the verse. Rather, it
adds on to the meanings of the verse; it has in fact opened a
new dimension in understanding the verse according to our
times; it sheds new guiding light for a political and communal
response to the modern world situation that Muslim
communities around the world find themselves in.

The differences in meaning between Maulānā Hosein’s
translation and others are:

1. Here the prohibition of taking the Jews and the
Christians as Awliyā does not apply to all Jews and
Christians, while in all other translations, the
prohibition applies to all Jews and all Christians.

2. Not all Jews and Christians are Awliyā of each other as
history testifies. There has been strong enmity between

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these two religious communities in the world. In fact
Jews and Christians have never been Awliyā of each
other except only until a certain period in history from
which moment onwards this new strange alliance has
persisted till today, and daily grows stronger. In the last
100 years this alliance/friendship (Wilāyah) has
intensified with certain clear objectives within the ranks
of this particular alliance. Not only that, even within the
Christian world, there persists till today a violent
enmity, particularly between Western (Catholic and
Protestant) and Eastern (Orthodox) Christendom. This
historical evidence is reflected here but not so in all
other translations.

3. The prohibition only applies to those Jews and
Christians who have formed an alliance amongst
themselves. It is this particular community that Allah
has prohibited us from taking as our Awliyā. This
difference is also comprehensible in Maulānā Hosein’s
translation compared to all others.

4. Since this Wilāyah between the Jews and the Christians
did not occur in the time of the Prophet ( سلمصل اللّٰه عليه و  )
and since it did not occur for some centuries after the
Prophet, this verse in fact was a foretelling at the time of
revelation that there will come a time in the future
(which we now have the records of history to testify)
when this would happen and at that time when this will
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attention and refrain from taking that particular group
as our Awliyā no matter what the circumstances
demand. This translation we present here sheds new
light into the meanings of the verse as a sign of the
Hour mentioned in the Qur’ān.

None of the above is reflected in any of the translations
that have been published so far. None of the above have been
dealt with in any Tafsīr that has been published so far except a
few that have very briefly touched on some of the above points,
though not clearly, but at least in passing.

The clear reasons, for such a translation that Maulānā
Hosein has rendered, are the following:

1. Due to the daily unfolding signs of the Last Day or
Islamic Eschatology pertaining to the end of history, or
‘Ilmu Ākhir al-Zamān—knowledge of the end times—
and due to what events have unfolded in the last few
centuries that alarmingly indicate the appearance of
Dajjāl the false messiah in our spatiotemporal
dimension, and the sequence of events that would lead
to the culmination of Nabī ‘Īsa عليه السلام ruling the world
from the throne of Nabī Dāud عليه السلام as, in the words
of the Messenger of Allah  سلمصل اللّٰه عليه و  Hakaman
Muqsitan and Imāman ‘Adlan—a Just Arbiter and
Leader—this particular verse shines as a warning for
believers to pay particular attention to those amongst
the Jews and Christians who would be Dajjāl’s foot
soldiers and who would facilitate Dajjāl’s mission on

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earth. These Jews and Christians, who have joined
hands putting aside their own political, social and
theological differences to prepare the grounds for the
world order of Dajjāl, have themselves betrayed their
own people and religion. It is this very verse of Sūrah
al-Māidah that has always indicated the appearance of
such a group of people from among the Jews and
Christians who would become allies of each other in
especially assisting Dajjāl, who on his part will come to
deceive both Jews and Christians to believe in him as
the true messiah they had been all the while waiting for,
in his mission on earth and demonstrate the apparent
return of the golden age of the Prophets Dāud and
Sulaimān عليهما السلام. It is ‘Ilmu Ākhir al-Zamān that
throws new light on the verse and demands a new
explanation to the verse. To be straightforward, this
verse is the only clearest verse in the Qur’ān, which has
foretold of the essentially European and Zionist Judeo-
Christian alliance.

2. The Jews and Christians have never been allies, friends,
protectors of each other ever since the advent of Nabī
‘Īsā عليه السلام and the consequent attempt of the Jews to
crucify him. The Christians have never forgiven the
Jews for this. The Jews have never lived under the
Christians in peace. This is the testimony of history. If
we translate what Allah has mentioned in this verse as
“they are Awliyā of each other” it would be a
contradiction to what has occurred in history for some

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two thousand years. The truth is, they have never been
Awliyā of each other. We cannot afford to allow this
contradiction with history due to our misinterpretation
of the Qur’ān. Furthermore, even within the ranks of
Christendom, there has been great enmity. We cannot
afford to overlook the impossibility of reconciliation
and alliance between Eastern and Western
Christendom at large.

3. The translation would contradict other verses of the
Qur’ān. For example, the 113th verse of Surah al-
Baqarah:

The Jews say, “The Christians have nothing (true) to
stand on,” and the Christians say, “The Jews have
nothing to stand on,” although they both recite the
Scripture. Thus those who have no knowledge (the
Arab polytheists and others) speak the same as their
words. But Allah will judge between them on the Day
of Resurrection concerning that over which they used
to differ.

This verse clearly establishes the conflict between the Jews
and the Christians. How then could they be Awliyā of each
other? The only exception to this is that during times of war
against a common enemy, two parties may politically postpone
their own conflicts in order to first defeat a more important
enemy common to them. Has this occurred between the Jews
and the Christians against the Muslims? No, not until a certain
time in history and that too, not all of Jewry and Christendom

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allied and came together against the Muslims. Only a certain
faction did so, and while they did so, there were other Jews and
Christians who opposed the formation of such an alliance.
Eastern Orthodox Christendom is an example of such
opposition within the Christian world against this alliance.

If we do not accept Maulānā Hosein’s translation of the
verse and then read further down the same Surah al-Māidah,
we will come across two more contradicting verses:

A. Verse 57: O you who believe! Choose not for
Awliyā such of those who received the Scripture
before you (Jews and Christians in particular but may
also refer to others who received revelation too), and
of the disbelievers, as make a jest and sport of your
religion. But keep your duty to Allah if you are true
believers. (Parentheses mine)

B. Verse 69: Lo! Those who believe, and those who are
Jews, and Sabaeans, and Christians—Whosoever
believes in Allah and the Last Day and does right—
there shall no fear come upon them, neither shall they
grieve.

How would Allah, Most High, first prohibit believers to
take the Jews and Christians as Awliyā and then immediately
thereafter within a matter of twenty verses down the same
Surah go on to prohibit believers from taking as their Awliyā
only those amongst the People of the Scripture (which is a term
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Christians) and the disbelievers who make a mockery and play
of Dīn al-Islām? Does this mean that believers are allowed to
take as Awliyā others among the Jews and the Christians who
do not make of Islam a mockery and play? How would Allah,
Most High, soon thereafter mention with honor that there are
also amongst the Jews, Sabaeans, and Christians believers in
Allah and the Last Day who will have no fear in the Dunyah or
grieve on the Day of Judgment? Are we believers, then allowed
to take these believers among their ranks as our Awliyā?

Similarly, Allah, Most High, declares later on in the 82nd
verse of the same Sūrah al-Māidah:

You will find the most vehement of mankind in
hostility to those who believe (to be) the Jews and the
idolaters. And you will find the nearest of them in
affection to those who believe (to be) those who say:
Lo! We are Christians. That is because there are
among them priests and monks, and because they are
not proud.

If we are prohibited from taking all Jews and Christians as
our Awliyā then we have before us yet another contradiction
with the above verse. How could it be that Allah, Most High,
declares those who say, “Lo! We are Christians”, and especially the
priests and monks among them who are not arrogant, to be the
closest in affection to the Muslims? How could it be that while
the Qur’ān clarifies that those who are closest in affection to the
believers will be the Christians, it also prohibits alliance and
friendship with them, political or otherwise?

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Though there are other examples, the above mentioned are
sufficient to clarify that the 51st verse of Sūrah al-Māidah
under discussion here has been translated in a way that
contradicts with some important verses of the Qur’ān, at least
three of which are in the very same Surah.

4. Other verses of the Qur’ān state plainly and clearly that
Muslim men are allowed to contract marriage with
Jewish and Christian women; that the food of the Jews
and Christians has been permitted to Muslims. If this
verse prohibits Muslims from friendship and alliance
with all Jews and all Christians, then it would be yet
another contradiction with the permission to contract
matrimony with their women and consuming their
food. How could Muslims not take them as friends and
allies and yet marry their women and break bread with
them? It is not logically coherent, unless the word
Awliyā does not mean friendship in this context but
rather a political alliance and protectorate as a
community of people beyond social interactions, to
support which meaning we would need further proof
from the Qur’ān and hadith. The reason for the
revelation of this verse (Sabab al-Nuzūl, which we will
come to, shortly) does not support this view. Even so,
such an alliance as a community, directly affects social
interactions at the individual level. How could an
individual belonging to a community that prohibits
friendship and alliance with another community of
people go to the latter and break bread with them and

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propose marriage to a woman from amongst them?
How would they look at him? In that case, we may have
to answer another question: Would a Muslim
individual who is in a situation of seeking political
protection from the Jews and Christians, but who
consequently refrains from doing so in submission to
the command of this verse, still be able to maintain
social friendship with them that would allow him to
propose marriage to one of their women or break bread
with them?

5. Translating the verse as “Do not take the Jews and the

Christians as your Awliyā” only implies all Jews and
Christians unless indicated otherwise which none of the
translations have done. Why can we not engage in such
an alliance? We cannot, because as the next phrase
indicates, they (the Jews and Christians) are Awliyā of
each other, and therefore will, by direct implication,
turn against us or betray us. If we take this meaning,
which is what all translations offer us, it will similarly
contradict the eighth and ninth verses of Sūrah al-
Mumtahinah, where Allah, Most High, clarifies:

Allah does not forbid you from those who do not fight
you (which includes the Jews and the Christians)
because of religion and do not expel you from your
homes—from being righteous toward them and acting
justly toward them. Indeed Allah loves those who act
justly. Allah only forbids you from those who fight

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you because of religion and expel you from your
homes and aid in your expulsion—(forbids) that you
make allies of them. And whoever makes allies of
them, then it is those who are the wrongdoers.
[Parentheses mine]

Hence according to this verse of the Qur’ān, it is clear that
this Wilāyah—alliance, friendship, and dependence on their
protection—is only forbidden with some of them—not all. It
cannot be that this verse is not referring to the Jews and the
Christians, because how is it that Allah, the Most Just, prohibits
Wilāyah with the Jews and the Christians, and then when it
concerns others who are not Jews and Christians, He only
prohibits Wilāyah with those who are hostile and ready to fight
while allowing it with others who are not hostile? It is not
befitting Allah’s Justice; it would be a grave error on our part to
say so. If this is not shown in the translation of the main verse
in discussion here, then there would be a clear contradiction
because while one verse prohibits Wilāyah generally with the
Jews and the Christians, another verse clearly points out who
we can actually maintain good ties, friendship and alliance
with.

Maulānā Hosein’s translation in fact clarifies all the
apparent contradictions with other verses of the Qur’ān, which
otherwise we will not be able to explain. It also clarifies the
seeming contradictions with history.

Now we turn to the Tafāsīr (commentaries) of this verse
that both classical as well as modern scholars have offered us so

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far. We shall begin with the reasons for the revelation of this
verse, because it is necessary to understand the context of its
revelation, and then move on to the discussion on the meaning
of the verse.

Asbāb al-Nuzūl

As far as the reasons for the revelation of this verse are
concerned, we find three narrations in the classical Tafāsīr.
From Tabari and Ibn ‘Atiyya, we summarize the following
three instances to be the reasons for revelation. In the Tafsīr of
Ibn Kathīr, we find a fourth incident, which is very similar to
the three in Tabari and Ibn ‘Atiyya and hence may be omitted
from our discussion.

It must first be borne in mind that according to Sayyidah
‘Āisha عنها رضي اللّٰه , Sūrah al-Māidah was the last Sūrah to be
revealed and that what is in this Sūrah holds the last say in
terms of the lawful and the prohibited. Consequently, when we
look at all the verses of the Qur’ān, which prohibit Wilāyah
with those who are outside the fold of Islam—and these verses
are numerous—we would quite easily understand that the
verses in Sūrah al-Māidah repeating the prohibition should be
taken as the final seal on the matter in case of any doubt in the
prohibition, or, as throwing new light on the prohibition. Let
us look at one verse in Sūrah al-Taubah to elaborate the matter.
Though this Āyah was revealed much later than the 51st verse
of Sūrah al-Māidah, it is necessary to discuss this here before
we look at the Sabab al-Nuzūl:

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O you who believe! Choose not your fathers nor your
brothers for Awliyā if they take pleasure in disbelief
(Kufr) rather than faith (Īmān). Whoever of you takes
them for Awliyā, such are wrongdoers. [Verse 23]

Now, the essential question to ask is: While Allah سبحانه و تعالى
had already made it abundantly clear that a believer is
prohibited from taking even his own brothers and fathers as his
Awliyā if they were to take pleasure in Kufr rather than Īmān,
that is, under a condition of enmity, why is there a need for yet
another verse to repeat the prohibition vis-à-vis Jews and
Christians who are anyway more distant than one’s own
brothers and fathers? Is it not understood that if one’s very own
brothers and fathers cannot be taken as Awliyā when they
prefer Kufr to Imān, what more the Jews and the Christians?
On the other hand, it is also necessary to ask: If the Jews and
Christians are closer in faith to a Muslim than his own brothers
and fathers can these Jews and Christians then be taken as
Awliyā? The verse in discussion here, therefore must have been
revealed to clarify something else more profound which is what
Maulānā Hosein’s explanatory translation has brought to light.

We may deduce from this that while Allah, Most High, had
already made it abundantly clear who believers are allowed to
take as their Awliyā and who not, this verse of Sūrah al-Māidah
was revealed to indicate of a new Judeo-Christian alliance to
come in the future that would draw clear lines to differentiate
who among the Jews and Christians could be allies, friends and
confidants of the believers and who categorically cannot be. If

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this verse were not revealed, we would not know of this
unprecedented and strange alliance within the ranks of the
People of the Scripture that believers as a polity would have to
be especially wary of not to engage with in a political and
economic relationship towards the end of history.

Secondly, it must be taken into serious consideration that
Madīna had from the People of the Book, a Jewish community
alone. As for the Christian community, though there were
individuals present, they were as a community or polity, all
mostly found in Bilād al-Shām, or Greater Syria.

Now returning to the reasons for the revelation of the
verse, we find the following:

1. It is reported from al-Zuhri that after the victory of
Badr, the Prophet صل االلّٰه عليه و سلم wanted to kill the Jewish
captives from Banū Qaynuqā’. ‘Ubādah ibn al-Sāmit
 came to the Prophet and said that he has many رضي اللّٰه عنه
allies and protectors (Awliyā) from among the Jews. He
then carried on to say that he now had turned away
from them towards Allah and His Messenger
 and had made himself free from depending صل االلّٰه عليه و سلم
on them for protection and help (Wilāyah). At that
point, Abdullah ibn Ubayy ibn Salūl, the Munāfiq
(hypocrite), came similarly to the Messenger of Allah
 and said that as for him, he feared that a صل االلّٰه عليه و سلم
change of fortune would befall him and therefore he
could not afford to give up his Wilāyah with the Jews,
implying that in case the Jews gain the upper hand in

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their battle for power against the Muslims, his retaining
them as his protectors and allies would only continue to
benefit him. The Messenger of Allah, Allah bless him
and grant him peace, then said: ‘O Abu’l-Hubāb, that which

you reserve to yourself of the guardianship of the Jews apart from

‘Ubādah ibn al-Sāmit is all yours and none of it is his’. In
another narration, it is reported that the Prophet
 said, “I have given them to you.” Abdullah ibn صل االلّٰه عليه و سلم
Ubayy replied: ‘I accept’. It was at this point that the verse
was revealed from “O you who believe!” to “It is the party of

Allah who will be victorious”. Most of the classical Tafāsīr
have recorded this as the reason for the revelation of the
verse.

2. The second instance was narrated by al-Sadiy to have
occurred just after the battle of Uhud. The situation had
become severe for a group of Muslims who had security
reasons to fear that the non-believers who were hostile
towards them may overpower them and put their
survival at risk. Therefore two men came out and
declared something similar to what Abdullah ibn Ubayy
had done in the above instance. One of them said that
he had chosen to maintain his Wilāyah with the Yahūd
(in Madina) and another said that he had chosen to
maintain his Wilāyah with the Christians in al-Shām.
The names of these two men are not mentioned in the
narrations. At this point the verse descended
prohibiting both of them from doing so. In this case the
verse would mean that one should not take the Jews (in

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Madīna) as one’s Awliyā  or the Christians (in al-Shām)
as one’s Awliyā, because they are Awliyā of each other,
meaning, the Jews (in Madīna) are Awliyā of each other
and the Christians (in al-Shām) are Awliyā of each
other. This further means that at the event of a Jewish
or Christian conflict with the Muslims, even though
those Muslims who were under the protection of the
Jews in Madīna or Christians in al-Shām had received a
contractual promise of protection from the respective
Jews and Christians, they would not be spared or
reserved, but would suffer the same enmity from their
(Jewish or Christian quarters) as would the rest of the
Muslims.

3. The third reason is reported from ‘Ikrimah to have
occurred just after the battle of Khandaq (trench). The
Jews of Banū Qurayzah who had breached their
contract with the Muslims by not only conspiring with
the Quraysh against the Muslims but also by fighting
alongside the Quraysh against the Muslims, found
themselves under siege by the Muslims at the end of the
battle. The siege lasted for fifteen to twenty days at the
end of which period they surrendered. While the
Muslims were deciding in a Shūra (council) how to now
deal with them—Banū Qurayzah—Abu Lubābah was
consulted who gave the clear statement that they should
be slaughtered. When Banū Qurayzah attempted to
negotiate by requesting Sā’d ibn Mu’ādh, who was their

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Halīf in Madīna on the side of the Muslims (a Halīf is
someone under the protection of a tribe but not
associated with them through kinship), to give the
ruling with the hope that perhaps he would be lenient
with them since they had once promised him protection
and security, Sā’d gave the same ruling as Abū Lubābah
that they should be slaughtered. It was at this moment
that the verse descended prohibiting any alliance with
them. Rasūlullah صل االلّٰه عليه و سلم then passed the verdict
and they were killed. In this case as it was in the first
instance, the verse was a command against the Jews in
Madīna who had breached their contract with the
Muslims. It is noteworthy that neither in the first
instance nor in this third instance were there any
Christians involved in the implication of the verse.

Which was the exact reason for revelation we do not know
and it is not our immediate concern here to decide on this
because on all three cases the Divine injunction was clearly
prohibiting Wilāyah with both the Jews and the Christians
(either jointly or separately). However, we may take the first
instance to be the most quoted amongst all the four, and due to
which, is the most accepted and confirmed by what we read in
the verse, i.e. verse 52, that follows: “You will see those, in whose

hearts is a disease, race to be with them (the disbelievers, Yahūd and

Nasāra) saying, ‘We fear that a turn in fortune may overtake us…’” This in
fact refers to Abdullah ibn Ubayy who used the same words
mentioned in the verse. The two verses were in fact revealed
together.

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Now we are able to turn to the classical commentaries on
the verse proper since we have understood the context of its
revelation.

Classical Tafāsīr on the verse

1. Prohibition is on taking them as one’s Awliyā. Most of
the discussion in the commentaries is on what it means
to take them as Awliyā, what constitutes this and what
is not included in taking them as Awliyā. What is not
mentioned in the classical commentaries is whether are
we allowed at all to take any from their ranks as Awliyā
if this does not refer to all Jews and Christians,
especially in case they are not hostile or rather friendly
and trustable. All implications of most classical
commentaries point to the prohibition of taking all of
them, regardless of whether they are hostile or not, as
Awliyā. Al-Nasafi, for example, states that this is due to
the reason that Kufr (disbelieve) is one Millah, pointing
to the Hadīth that bears these words. Prohibition
therefore is general, referring to all Jews and Christians,
for all times and unconditional because when it suits
them they may easily conspire and turn against the
Muslims even though they are against each other with
clear hatred within their own ranks.

2. Verse is generally referring to the Muslims but beneath
the general command it is in reality addressing the
hypocrites (Munafiqūn) who are hidden amongst the

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Muslims. This can be seen in the context of the verse,
which we will come to later. Imām al-Qurtubi, al-
Shawkāni, and al-Sāwi amongst others have mentioned
this.

3. Only English translations and commentaries show that
the prohibition is conditional—most probably based on
some classical Tafāsīr which I am unable to locate—and
therefore applies only in war or if the Jews and
Christians are hostile to the Muslims. If they are not
hostile, neutral or even friendly, no commentary has
pointed out whether there is a possibility of alliance
with them.

4. Ibn ‘Atiyyah states that Ubayy ibn Ka’b and Abdullah
ibn ‘Abbās رضي اللّٰه عنهما read the verse in a different Harf
(there were seven Ahruf that the Prophet صلى اللّٰه عليه و سلم
said the Qur’ān was revealed in, all of which were
destroyed during Sayyiduna Uthmān’s رضي اللّٰه عنه time
except for one which has reached us now). In this
reading, the two Sahābah mentioned above read
“Arbāban” instead of “Awliyā”. Arbāban means lords
and gods, or even masters to whom a slave submits. We
may therefore say that Awliyā in this verse takes on a
stronger meaning than protectors and friends.
However, we do not have this reading anymore.

5. Prohibition does not apply to trade, marriage or such
social dealings according to a clear statement of
‘Abdullah Ibn Abbās رضي اللّٰه عنهما, who said: “Eat from what

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they slaughter and marry from their women for Allah, Most High,

has said in His Book, ‘O you who believe, do not take the Jews and

the Christians as Awliyā …’ and one does not become part of them

except through Wilāyah, (only) then would one become part of

them.” (Al-Tabari) This is how the companions of the
Prophet understood the verse to mean. Such then
would be a clear prohibition of a political Wilāyah, and
that does not prohibit one from eating their food and
marrying their women.

6. Most of the Tafāsīr state that the justification (‘illah) of
such a prohibition is the following phrase “ba’duhum
Awliyā-u ba’d”—meaning the prohibition is because
they are Awliyā of each other. This opens the room for
discussion or raises the question that in case they (those
the verse prohibits Muslims from entering into
friendship and alliance) are not Awliyā of each other,
would the prohibition then be nullified? This in fact
confirms with Maulānā Hosein’s interpretation of the
verse. This is because if the ‘illah is that they are Awliyā
of each other, then when such an ‘illah is absent, the
prohibition should not be binding anymore. In that
case, there is room for alliance with those who are not
hostile to the Muslims and who are not Awliyā of each
other. However, the classical commentaries do not
mention what is the ruling in case the ‘illah is absent.

7. The phrase “They are Awliyā of each other” does not mean
Jews and Christians are Awliyā of each other because

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they have never been in such friendship and alliance. It
rather means the Jews are Awliyā of each to other Jews
and the Christians are Awliyā of each to other
Christians. Therefore the verse refers to each of the two
parties separately. Imām al-Sāwi said this clearly in his
commentary: “(This is) a new sentence; and the meaning is that

some within each party are Awliyā of others in that party, because

between the Jews and the Christians is a mighty enmity.” This
too, adds strength to Maulānā Hosein’s commentary to
the verse because here the historical enmity between the
Jews and the Christians is taken into account. However,
those commentaries that are of this opinion stop there
and continue to say that we are still prohibited from
taking all Jews and all Christians as Awliyā.

8. If you do so, you become one of them, means you have
left the fold of Islam—that is, Murtad, or joined their
Dīn. Ibn Abbās said, “If you join them in their Dīn, you have

entered their Kufr, if you join them in treaty, you have violated the

(Divine) command.”

9. No classical commentary, any one amongst all those
which I have referred to, has mentioned in any slight
manner if this verse is in any way a foretelling of a
future, mysterious alliance that would unfold between
Jews and Christians—who are by nature of their beliefs,
practices and historical relations—two conflicting
polities.

10. Journalist Asad made an error when he attempted to

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summarize the classical commentaries to this verse. He
wrote in his commentary to the verse: “As regards the

meaning of the “alliance” referred to here, see 3:28, and more

particularly 4:139 and the corresponding note, which explains the

reference to a believer’s loss of his moral identity if he imitates the

way of life, or—in Quranic terminology—“allies himself” with,

non-Muslims.” Despite a brief journalistic adventure with
Mujāhid and Shahīd Omar Mukhtār, Asad had
befriended ‘Abd al-Azīz ibn Sa’ūd, the man who
betrayed Allah and His Messenger and the Muslim
world, and had been influenced by the dubious Rashīd
Ridā, as is evident in his commentary to the Qur’ān,
and finally sat on a ministerial position in the secular
nation state of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. We
should therefore not expect him to have had the
capacity to read the political, economic and military
implications of the verse. He reduced everything to a
moral alliance since his friends had embraced the very
Judeo-Christian alliance politically, economically and
militarily. However, what needs to be clarified here is
that the classical commentaries did not register such an
interpretation of the verse even though Asad might
have wanted his readers to believe so. It is clearly
narrated (as quoted above) from our Master Abdullah
ibn Abbas, may Allah be pleased with him and his
father, that this is beyond a moral alliance since this
does not refer to imitating their way of life which
includes eating with them and marrying their women.

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Even if this verse were not revealed we would have still
understood from other verses of the Quran not to
embrace them in their Dīn. As is so wont of modern
western secular thought, when everything is reduced to
personal morality and morality blaming, then of course
all other important communal matters could be forced
out of the thinking process to finally make everything
circulate around the moral self. In that way of thought,
we will never be able to identify injustice and
understand events accurately and consequently not be
able to respond appropriately. When everything
becomes a simple moral issue, then the US will continue
to bomb the world and carry on their fasād and get
away with it while we will be forced to continue
pointing the finger at ourselves. This is certainly a
modern distortion of classical scholarship.

In order to explain the modern world using Allah’s Kalām,
and not fall into such errors, we must engage in Fikr. Allah says
in the Qur’ān that He sent down the Qur’ān for a people who
think, who reflect, who ponder. He, Most High, said in Sūrah
an-Nahl, verse 44: “…We have revealed unto you the Remembrance

(Qur’ān) that you may explain to mankind that which has been revealed for

them, and that they may engage themselves in thinking/reflection.” Fikr is
not only thinking, but thinking things through. In this case, we
are forced due to our world situation and the political state of
the Muslims vis-à-vis the Jews and the Christians, to think
things through and not entirely rely on the classical Tafāsīr
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the modern world. While thinking things through, we get fresh
knowledge and instruction from the Qur’ān. Maulānā Hosein
has done exactly this. In fact, Maulānā Hosein’s interpretation
of the verse in no way contradicts any of the classical Tafāsīr
that conservative scholars hold on tightly to as if saying that
what the scholars of the past have explained is enough and
there is no need to interpret the Qur’ān anew. While doing
that, they firstly restrict the knowledge of the Qur’ān to the
past, and secondly, fail to explain the modern world according
to the Qur’ān. How could they find what was expressed in the
past to explain what is happening today?

Well, what exactly is it regarding the modern world
situation that they fail to explain using the Qur’ān?

Before we answer that question, let us turn to two
important modern commentaries of the Qur’ān—written
within the last hundred years—that have thrown new light on
the verse, both of them adding more strength to Maulānā
Hosein’s interpretation.

Two Modern Commentaries
—Prof. Hamka and Maulānā ‘Abdul Mājid Daryabādī.

1. Professor Hamka’s Tafsīr al-Azhar, a commentary to
the Qur’ān in Malay. (2) Maulānā Abdul Mājid
Daryabādi’s English commentary to the Qur’ān.

Professor Hamka’s commentary paraphrased in my
own words:

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In 1964, Pope Paulus VI, declared an official Christian
(Catholic in particular) forgiveness for the Jews; that
they are free of their sins, one of it being their attempt
to crucify Nabī Īsā  السلامعليه . This is none other than
political forgiveness. It is the strength of the Jews, who
have a lot of wealth, to work together with the
Christians in fighting what they consider the threat of
Islam. Immediately after that, in 1967, Arab countries
were attacked by the Jews (Israel) for four days
(referring to the Six Day War) and Bait al-Maqdis was
seized from the hands of the Muslims even though
they—the Muslims—had control over Bait al-Maqdis
before this for 14 centuries. Perhaps during the time of
Rasūlullah صل االلّٰه عليه و سلم this was not yet seen because in
Madīna a large group of Jews were congregated as a
community but the Christians were in al-Shām. But due
to the miracles of the Qur’ān, we see today what has
happened in the passage of time and we see with crystal
clarity how the Christians and the Jews collaborate in
turning against the Muslims and Islam. The verse in
fact says that the two religious communities that were
enemies of each other will one day come together in
facing their enemy—that is Islam, until the state of
Israel will dominate the lands of Islam with the help of
the Christian communities who are actually supposed
to be more inclined to help the Muslims. This is because
the Jews oppose the Christians not only by rejecting
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he was an illegitimate child while Muslims affirm Nabī
‘Īsā عليه السلام. This makes Muslims closer to Christians
and therefore make Christians more inclined to help
Muslims. However, what has occurred is the opposite.

2. Maulānā Abdul Mājid Daryabādī:

“The Jews and Christians have much in common, and
can, and do, readily form a combination against Islam.
As the most recent instance of their animosity against
Islam, witness the Christian Britain’s zealous
sponsoring of ‘Zionism’ and ‘Jewish home in
Palestine.’”

Maulānā Daryabādī’s commentary sharply points out
that this verse refers to the Zionist efforts in establishing
the State of Israel. Though written in the context of his
time it is certainly more relevant to our time too.

Comparing both, it is Prof. Hamka’s commentary that
more strongly supports Maulānā Hosein’s interpretation of the
verse.

Now, in thinking things through, let us look at the context
of the verse in Sūrah al-Māidah. It is important to read the
verse together with what precedes it and what follows it.

Context

The passages throughout the Sūrah linked to our study here are
verses 5–19, 32, 41–88, 110–120. In these passages, Allah, Most
High, addresses the Jews, the Christians, the Muslims and the

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hypocrites. It is clear that while attempting to understand
Maulānā Hosein’s commentary on the verse, the whole Sūrah
should be read. It should also be clear in one reading that:

1. Not all Jews and Christians are enemies of the Muslims.

2. The Qur’ān came to affirm the Torah and the Gospel
and to complete Divine revelation for mankind through
Prophet Muhammad  عليه و سلمصل االلّٰه .

3. There are amongst the Jews and the Christians those
who are believers and therefore could be taken as
Awliyā.

4. There is a door of alliance and integrated living with the
Jews and Christians always open for the individual
Muslim as well as the Muslim polity.

5. There are intermittent warnings issued to the
hypocrites who are outwardly Muslim but who hide
their denial of truth, and thereby always incline to the
disbelievers in Nabī Muhammad صل االلّٰه عليه و سلم and the
Qur’ān which includes Jews and Christians.

6. Nabī ‘Īsā عليه السلام forms an important part of the subject
since the Sūrah not only speaks of him in the middle
but returns to his subject at the end. There are warnings
to the Christians as much as there are praises of the
Christians to the extent that Allah, Most High, in His
divine wisdom, confirms that there are some amongst
them whom believers will find to be closest in faith,
which Christians, Muslims can therefore take as their

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Awliyā. The Sūrah is named after an event in the life of
Nabī ‘Īsā عليه السلام. This is also important to consider
because Dajjāl whose role is to impersonate the Messiah
will rule the world from Jerusalem declaring himself to
be the Messiah while a Judeo-Christian alliance is what
will unite under him believing in him as the true
Messiah and facilitating his coming to and
establishment of power.

7. As much as Allah, Most High, has spoken of Nabī ‘Īsā
 in this Sūrah, so much has He also spoken of عليه السلام
Nabī Mūsa  عليه السلام . As Nabī ‘Īsā is for the Christians, so
is Nabī Mūsa for the Jews. They did not fight with Nabī
Mūsa to conquer the Holy Land by which they openly
rebelled against Allah and His Messenger, but there
would come a time when they would go and fight under
the sway of the false Messiah (Dajjāl) with a Christian
backing and the Christians too would go and fight
under Dajjāl’s sway with a Jewish backing (as it was the
case during the Crusades) to take control of the Holy
Land. This alliance revolving around controlling the
Holy Land and the Levant is directly founded on this
51st verse of the Sūrah.

From the context of the verse therefore, we should be able
to understand that the Euro-Zionist, Judeo-Christian alliance,
in their attempt to rule the Holy Land and dominate the
Levant, cannot include all Christians and all Jews. Those who
initially constituted its ranks were small in number in

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comparison to the whole of the Judeo-Christian world and did
not appear in history except about 500 years after the Qur’ān
was revealed. That community of people gradually grew
stronger and became superpowers of the world in the last
hundred years. More importantly, the people of this alliance
took control of the Holy Land, established the State of Israel
and have now successfully raised it to the level of a nuclear
superpower capable of defying any other power in the world.
They have done all of this while a large number of Christians
and a significant number of Jews not only loathed at them and
refused to join them, but were even so much as victimized by
them. The verses of Sūrah al-Māidah read in context will prove
beyond doubt that Muslims are not prohibited from allying
with such victimized Jews and Christians who recognize
injustice and who are courageously willing to defy the Judeo-
Christian Zionist alliance. All of this becomes clear only in
context. For that the whole Sūrah must be read.

The verses of the Qur’ān are interconnected. In Sūrah al-
An’ām, verse 114, Allah, Most Wise, describes the Qur’ān as
Mufassalan—joint together and fully explained, meaning all the
verses are well connected and explain each other. They are
neither isolated nor does each stand alone. In order to think
things through it is not correct to look at this verse alone. It is a
requisite to connect it with other verses of the Qur’ān.

It would be more enlightening, as is always the case with
the verses of the Qur’ān, if this verse is read as a finely arranged
part of the entire Sūrah of al-Māidah.

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Does the Qur’ān explain the world today?

Let us now return to answer the question: What exactly is it
regarding the modern world situation that Muslim scholars
trapped in religious conservatism fail to explain using the
Qur’ān?

In attempting to understand the modern world using the
Book of Allah, Most Wise, one must have a grasp over the trails
of history that has built up to the present world situation. If one
has no idea of the modern world and where it is leading, one
cannot turn to the Qur’ān to take fresh knowledge from it. The
opposite is also true. If one does not turn to the Qur’ān to
understand the modern world and take heed and warning on
what is unfolding today and what is to come tomorrow, one
will remain in the dark concerning them. All of this is to
understand the modern world accurately and respond to it
appropriately.

With that light, we must first remember that we are now
looking at the Judeo-Christian world. There is a faction within
this community of Jews and Christians who are waging war on
Islam and there is another faction amongst them who have
defied the former and have refused to join them in their
hegemonic rule, and as a consequence have been subjected to
economic and political victimization. In the words of German
legalist, Carl Schmitt, there is no justis hostis in the world
today. In other words, for those who rule the world today there
is no tolerable enemy; the enemy has no right to exist; he must
be demonized and depoliticized; he must be eliminated.

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Amongst those who are subjected to such victimization, are
Christians and Jews too. Not all Christians and all Jews are hell-
bent on a hegemonic control over the world. Here is where we
have to ask an important question: If Allah, Most Wise, has
prohibited believers from taking as their Awliyā all Jews and all
Christians, and even if this prohibition is conditional on the
count that this refers only to those who are hostile to Islam and
the Muslims, then how do we deal with those Jews and
Christians who not only defy the perpetrators of this political
and economic bullying, but who are similarly victimized
together with the Muslims and who have willingly opened their
doors to Islam and the Muslims? What will be our (Muslim)
communal relationship with such people?

The perfect example of this happened in the very blessed
lifetime of Rasūlullah صل االلّٰه عليه و سلم in the case of the Christian
King, Najjashi, of Abyssinia. He was not part of the Qurayshi
and Jewish hostility against Islam and the Muslims; he further
offered his territory as a place of asylum that the Muslims could
seek refuge in, and he finally defied the serpentine negotiations
from the part of the Quraysh to hand over the Muslims to
them. He continued to protect them until he died, long after
the 51st verse of Sūrah al-Māidah was revealed. The Messenger
of Allah, صل اللّٰه عليه و سلم, went to the extent of accepting him as a
believer and offered the Salāt al-Janāzah for him from Madīna
when the King passed away in Abyssinia. The most important
point to note here is that when this verse of the Qur’ān was
revealed, the Prophet صل االلّٰه عليه و سلم did not demand the Muslims
to give up the asylum they had sought in Abyssinia, which

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means to give up the Wilāyah under Christian Abyssinia, and
return to Madīna. If what was meant in this verse is referring to
all Jews and all Christians, the Prophetصل اللّٰه عليه و سلم would have
called the Muslims to give up their homes in Abyssinia and
return to Madīna. But Sayyiduna Ja’far رضي اللّٰه عنه, one of the
most beloved companions of the Prophet صل االلّٰه عليه و سلم
continued to remain in Abyssinia until just before the war of
Mu’tah, which occurred more than five years after this verse
was revealed.

Who are these people who have imposed their hegemony
over the rest of the world? They are surely Christians and Jews
who were themselves never allies of each other; they are
Christians and Jews whose alliance in the trails of history
commenced with their joint political and military objective to
liberate the Holy Land from Muslim rule.

In fact, the story could begin as early as the first Crusades
in which a Euro-Christian world was funded by Jews to gather
enough military strength to conquer the Holy Land—
Jerusalem—and establish a Jewish national home there. They
did not succeed but briefly until Sultan Salahuddīn Ayyūbi
courageously and brilliantly wrested control of Jerusalem again.
It is significant to register into our study the fact that while
Europe in her Judeo-Christian effort fought wars with the
Muslim world to conquer Jerusalem, they similarly perpetrated
such abominable crimes on Eastern Orthodox Christians, who
were part of the kingdom of Constantinople, that it would be
utterly unjust on our part to include the victims of that crime in

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the same Judeo-Christian alliance that commenced a hostile
religious struggle against the Muslims and Muslim lands. In
fact the story could even begin with the Khazars—also known
today as the thirteenth tribe of the Jews—who embraced
Judaism overnight when they clinically surveyed the world for
a religion to embrace. Or, we could come down in history to a
later time when soon after colonialism and mercantilism had
ravaged Muslim lands by a forceful storm as it were and
replaced their rule, when they left the lands in the hands of the
people, with what we today call the secular nation-state. These
colonial powers were made up of the same Judeo-Christian
alliance that commenced the Crusades.

However, such a historical narration would require
another separate book to be written. What would suffice here is
to look merely at what happened to Jerusalem—the blessed
land where the three Abrahamic faiths had existed under
Muslim rule for thirteen centuries—within the last hundred
years.

When Fir’aun’s body was discovered, something strange
occurred in history that appeared to reveal the real intention
behind the Zionist struggle to discover the body during the
desperate excavation projects in Egypt. Some 30,000 Jews
migrated to Jerusalem as a direct consequence of the discovery.
During these migrations, the Zionist movement was legally
established and launched. Within two decades came the
Balfour declaration—1917—which promised the Jews an
independent national home in Palestine. Those who did so

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were part of the same Christian world that had commenced the
Crusades with the same objective. It was Britain; Christian
Britain. America and Europe hopped onto the wagon and
constituted a joint alliance with their Jewish funders who were
primarily European Jews. By this time, the hatred the
Christians had for the Jews had already been done away with.
The Ottoman Empire was dismantled; the backbone of
Christian Russia—or the Third Rome—was similarly broken
and replaced with Communism.

It was this very same alliance that mysteriously shook
hands with Joseph Stalin, the Jew, just before the
commencement of the Cold War (in fact, even Lenin and
Trotsky, who were as Jew as Stalin, themselves originated from
the same ranks). At that moment, just when the Cold War
commenced, the Jewish state of Israel was established and their
independence declared as a follow up and success of the
Balfour Declaration. That Cold War was a sham because those
who were leading it were only two factions within the same
ranks of Gog and Magog who liberated the Holy Land from
Muslim rule, who shook hands when they wanted to and had
no qualms about fighting each other like waves crashing onto
each other when they deemed it necessary. In fact, they only
threatened to crash but never did. Only that some men of
admirable courage like Fidel Castro were unfortunately caught
in between.

During the Cold War, the secular nation-state of Israel
rose to power in the region and being armed to the teeth, ready

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for a display of her military strength was further supported by
the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which was
already established by that time as a response to the Cold War
sham. Then Pope Paulus VI declared a religio-political
forgiveness for the Jews from the part of the Catholic world, as
Prof. Hamka pointed out in his Tafsīr to the Quranic verse in
discussion, thereby cementing the alliance further. The
Protestants had no objection to it. They shook hands again. It
was at this time that the Six-Day War commenced as a
demonstration of the power that Israel—not baby Israel
anymore—possessed.

The persecuted Orthodox Christians and the persecuted
Orthodox Jews never joined this American-Euro-Israeli
alliance. They were victimized as much as they were during the
Crusades, and the victimization of them continued until
recently when they were challenged by the nuclear, economic,
political and military power that energy-rich Russia and her
allies possess.

Here it is necessary to point out that a spilt occurred in the
Christian world that drew a line between Western Christianity
and Eastern Christianity, and it requires experts in the history
of Christian polity, beyond the scope of this essay, to explain
why geography had a part to play in this, so much so that
Catholicism and Protestantism belonged to the geographical
West and Orthodox Christianity belonged to the geographical
East. African Christianity that always maintained friendly ties
with the Muslim world was hijacked by this Western

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Christianity in the last hundred years, so much so that today we
find brutal wars between Christians and Muslims in Africa
utterly unbefitting African history. These conflicts are funded,
fueled and even fanned by NATO in maintaining their strategic
hegemony over the natural resources and lands of Africa, and
that is population control too by implication. These forces are
the same that belong to the ranks of the American-Euro-Israeli
alliance.

For a complete study of the split that occurred in the
Christian world, please refer to Graham E. Fuller’s, A World
Without Islam, which explains the subject in a succinct
manner. Russia and the world of Orthodox Christianity are not
on the side of that Judeo-Christian alliance, which gave to
Israel her secular nation-state.

A new Cold War commenced with the Iraq War in the
year 2003. Russia and her allies have ever since been treated
like an untrustworthy and unwanted power in the United
Nations who is the only other power capable of challenging the
American-Euro-Israeli hegemony. The American-Euro-Israeli
alliance has not been able to deal with Russia and her allies the
way they would have wanted to. Furthermore, Russia and her
allies today, since after the commencement of the Iraq War in
2003, have proven to be an ally that Muslims can turn to in
these times, especially after Russia intervened in Syria and
turned the tables.

Today fourteen years have passed after the Iraq War
commenced. Fourteen years is enough time to test the waters

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for an effective political ally in challenging the political crimes
that have been visited on the Muslims for a hundred years now.
Those who are lusting to control the Levant today are biting
their fingers in frustration because of a Sino-Russian political,
economic and military presence in the region. They cannot
anymore conduct their regime change activities in Syria
without suffering serious consequences to their power. The
balance of power has already tilted.

That means, we cannot anymore hold on to the view that
the 51st verse of Sūrah al-Māidah is referring to all Jews and all
Christians. Those who say such a thing will have to remain
politically and historically uneducated for as long as they
continue to say so. They cannot then say that Allah, Most High,
said so and hide behind the Qur’ān for prohibiting them from
doing so, let alone putting the blame on Allah ُسبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى Himself.
This ignorance of history, especially the political history of the
world, even the political history of the first community of
Madīna al-Munawwarah, must be attributed to their own
incompetency, at least academic incompetency if not
incompetency in the capacity to think. Muslim scholarship in
our days has failed in this regard and has no solution to the
political problems of the Muslim world today. However, this
meaning that Maulānā Hosein has given to the verse is not
merely due to giving a solution to the political problems of the
world today. It is in fact the only way to be coherent in our
approach to the Qur’ān as a whole, to history and to the
modern world situation. This is to understand the world
accurately and to respond to challenges appropriately.

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As for now, what we see in the world today is that America
and her pool of allies dominate political and economic control
over the world. America remains the ruling state in the world,
and that means she has the capacity to defy any other political
challenger. Israel on the other hand, has risen to a nuclear
power capable of waging war against any other state; she defies
her very protectors—the United Nations Security Council,
Britain and America and many other states in Europe. She is
poised to become the ruling state in the world.

It is this verse in Sūrah al-Māidah that explains the powers
that dominate the world today. It is precisely this political
alliance that comprises of a mysterious Western Judeo-
Christian pool of hell-bent perpetrators of Fasād in the lands
and in particular the Holy Land, including the Muslim world,
that Allah, Most Wise, has referred to here. These are those
who have allied amongst themselves, while having been
enemies in all of history before, to facilitate for something more
ominous to yet unfold in the Holy Land not long from now. If
we understand this verse to mean all Jews and all Christians,
then we will never be able to explain the contradictions it will
create with the rest of the Qur’ān; the political turmoil that the
unsuspecting populations of the world is being churned in
today; we will never understand the new Cold War that is
unfolding before our very eyes; we will never understand and
be able to explain history; we will never understand what is
happening in the Holy Land after two thousand years. Most
importantly we will never be able to understand this mysterious

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Judeo-Christian alliance that controls the world today. This
alliance will then remain forever a mystery to us. This verse in
Sūrah al-Māidah is the most important verse that explains all
of this.

This verse in Sūrah al-Māidah is the most important verse
that explains what Allah, Most High, has mentioned in the
opening verses of Sūrah al-Rūm (31). He said that Rome will be
victorious and “on that day, the believers will rejoice.” Why would a
Roman victory against her enemies be a reason for Muslims to
rejoice? Why would Muslims rejoice over a Christian victory if
Allah has forbidden Muslims to enter into any kind of alliance
with all Jews and all Christians? It is this verse in Sūrah al-
Māidah that explains which part of the Judeo-Christian world
we are allowed to enter into an alliance with and which part of
that same Judeo-Christian world we are prohibited from
allying with. This verse does describe to us in parallel which
part of the Christian world will be closest in faith to the
Muslims mentioned in verse 82 of the same Sūrah al-Māidah.

Dajjāl and the destiny of Jerusalem

Let us now return to Israel and the Balfour Declaration before
we conclude. It would not be justified to conclude this essay
without including Dajjāl and his role towards the end of
history. This verse of Sūrah al-Māidah is certainly linked
strongly to Dajjāl’s role in impersonating the Messiah when he
comes into our dimension of existence, primarily because of
what we have witnessed of events unfolding in the last hundred

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years.

In order for Dajjāl to successfully deceive the world into
believing in him as the Messiah who would, according to
scriptural basis, rule the world from the throne of Nabī Dāud
  :in Jerusalem, he would have to do a number of things عليه السلام

1. Liberate the Holy Land from Muslim rule.

2. Establish the state and consequently kingdom of Israel.

3. Raise that power to the ruling state in the world.

4. Then appear and sit on the throne and declare that he is
the prophesied Messiah and that the throne of David
has returned.

Now, it is impossible for anyone to deny that it was
precisely this Judeo-Christian alliance that we have discussed
so far, that has successfully fulfilled numbers one and two
above. If Dajjāl is to come and declare himself the Messiah,
that cannot happen unless number three too comes to pass. It
therefore only remains for us to witness Israel taking over from
the United States of America as the ruling state in the world.
Whether India or China becomes the ruling the state in the
world as it has been of much debate, cannot be the concern of
those who study the modern world using the Qur’ān. It is Israel
that we would have to pay particular attention to.

More than two thousand years after Allah, Most Majestic
is He, expelled the Jews from the Holy Land for the crime they
committed against His Messenger, Nabī ‘Īsā, عليه السلام, they

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returned to the Holy Land gradually over a matter of about
three decades to reclaim it as their own. This occurred between
the Balfour Declaration in 1917 and the establishment of the
State of Israel in 1947. The reference to this has been
mentioned in the Qur’ān in the 91st and 92nd verses of Sūrah
al-Anbiyāh, where Allah laid down clearly that it would be the
function of Gog and Magog to cause the Jews to return to the
Holy Land. From the testimony of history, what we witnessed
in the world from 1917–47, it is clear that those who facilitated
the return of the Jews to the Holy Land were precisely those
very same Jews and Christians who allied amongst themselves
in the very beginning effort of the First Crusades. Though they
were not successful then, they eventually became successful in
1947. It should therefore be established from the clear and
distinct link between the two verses (95 and 96) of Sūrah al-
Anbiyāh and the 51st verse of Sūrah al-Māidah that Gog
Magog is located in the very Judeo-Christian alliance that
would cause the return of the Jews to the Holy Land and who
would, as we witness clearly unfolding now before our very
eyes—for those who have eyes to read the modern world using
the Qur’ān—raise that state of Israel to become the ruling state
in the world for Dajjāl to finally appear in our dimension of
existence and declare himself the King of the Jews, the
Promised Messiah.

If we fail to grasp the meaning behind the 51st verse of
Sūrah al-Māidah to be the very description of Gog and Magog,
then we will remain blind to Allah’s warning in the Qur’ān not
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other words Gog and Magog as our Awliyā. We will never
understand who Gog and Magog are and we will never
understand that after all that have already unfolded in the
political world today, what remains is only Israel’s rise to
become the ruling state in the world. We will never understand
that it is this Judeo-Christian alliance, in whose ranks will be
Dajjāl’s foot soldiers.

Conclusion

The problem with modern Islamic scholarship generally is that
anything new that comes out from a credible scholar is rejected
on the grounds that scholars of the past did not hold such
views. This is what may be called religious conservatism.
Secondly, anything new that comes out from a credible scholar
is rejected on the grounds that it contradicts the scholars of the
past, while it actually may not. Why should it not be taken as
something that adds on new knowledge to the scholarship of
the past?

The essential question now is: Are we going to understand
and attempt to explain the modern world using the Qur’ān or
remain in the dark of what has happened in history and what is
to unfold tomorrow because of our holding on obdurately to
what the noble scholars of Islam had written down in the past,
without allowing ourselves any room to think things through?
Consequently, we should also ask: Does the Qur’ān prohibit us
from doing that?

We cannot afford to reserve knowledge of Allah’s Book,

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Most Wise is He, to the noble scholars of the past. They could
not have seen what would unfold in the years 1917–47 for
example, simply because it did not happen in their time. Prof.
Hamka saw what happened in his time and gave new meaning
to the verse of Sūrah al-Māidah according to what he saw. He
did not put a full stop to the meanings of the verse there.
Similarly Maulānā Hosein has explained the same verse in a
better light now about four decades after Prof. Hamka, quite
simply because he was able to read all the world events that
occurred thereafter using the Qur’ān.

Let us now read Maulānā Hosein’s translation of the verse
again after having gone through all of the analysis above that
has led us to where we are now:

O you who have faith, do not take (such) Jews and
(such) Christians as your Awliyā (friends and allies)
who (themselves) are Awliyā (friends and allies) of
each other. And whoever amongst you turn to them
for friendship and alliance, would belong to them (and
therefore not to us). Surely Allah does not provide
guidance to a people who commit Dhulm.

This therefore is a modern attempt to translate the verse in
as coherent as possible a manner to all the other verses
mentioned above in our analysis that it would otherwise clearly
contradict. This translation explains our times; it explains
Ākhir al-Zamān. It is further an attempt to be as coherent as
possible to the trails of history. It is also a credible attempt of a
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the meanings of the verse that the noble scholars of the past
had explained and interpreted. Lastly it must be noted that the
Maulānā’s intention, as some would wrongly have it so, is not
to contradict the scholarship of the past. This does not
contradict previous explanations provided by the noble
scholars of the past; it does not nullify all other explanations of
the verse that have been given before. It has rather added on to
them.

Maulānā Hosein’s interpretation of the verse broadens
what is being misinterpreted as a moral alliance—in itself
ambiguous—to political, economic and military dimensions; it
also explains the times we are living in and clarifies the
prohibition in our times violating which has caused in the
Muslim world all the innumerable consequences of taking part
in the Dzulm (wrongdoing, oppression and injustice) of the
oppressor. Saudi Arabia’s, Morocco’s and Turkey’s alliance
with NATO are clear examples of this. This is clearly not a
contradiction of the scholarly work of the past but an
expansion of the meanings of the Qur’ān, most importantly
from an eschatological perspective.

Lastly, when we bring to mind the meaning of Barakah in
the Qur’ān, that the Qur’ān explains all times and that the
Qur’ān offers new and fresh knowledge in every age, we would
not look at Maulānā Hosein’s explanation of the verse as
something which contradicts the previous classical
commentaries to the Qur’ān. We would only look at it with
gratitude that a Muslim scholar, ripe of age, knowledge and

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experience, has added on fresh knowledge to the meanings of
Allah’s Kalām.

It now suffices to conclude that modern global events that
occurred in the last hundred years have demanded this
interpretation to come out from the Qur’ān and it had to be
Maulānā Hosein whom Allah, Most High, had chosen to bring
this forward to those who would now turn to the Qur’ān to
understand the ominous events unfolding in our world before
our eyes, especially in the Holy Land. This has only given a new
direction and meaning to the application of this verse in these
times, especially now that we are living in an important phase
of Ākhir al-Zamān.

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Appendix Two

Summary of views on the Jasad by the
classical commentators of the Qur’ān

By Hasbullah Shafi’iy

1. Many of the classical commentaries mention that Jasad,
linguistically, is a human body inclusive of the head and
flesh but without the Rūh. [at-Tafsīr al-Kabīr, at-
Tabarānī; Rūh al-Bayān, Ismā’īl Haqqī; Majma’ul
Bayān, at-Tabarsī; Anwār at-Tanzīl, Baidāwī; al-Bahr al-
Muhīt, Abu Hayyān; Gharāib al-Qur’ān, Nizām ad-Dīn
an-Naisāpūrī; al-Bahr al-Madīd, Ibn ‘Ajībah; at-Tas-hīl,
Ibn Juzayy al-Gharnātī; Rūh al-Ma’ānī, al-Alūsī]

2. Most modern commentaries in English, Tamil and
Malay have repeated most of the content mentioned in
the classical commentaries. The only exception appears
to be Maudūdi's commentary in which he mentions
that the Jasad could possibly also refer to Nabī
Sulaimān's عليه السالم son who ruled for a short time after
his father as a “good-for-nothing” since it is
linguistically compatible to name a weak ruler such. He

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then lost the kingdom soon after he assumed power.
Most of the modern commentators of the Qur’ān like
Prof. Hamkā seem to incline towards Imām al-Rāzī's
commentary (refer to No. 5 below).

Amongst the modern commentaries, al-Sha’rāwī’s
(d.1418H) is worth mentioning. He says in his
commentary to this verse that Fitnah is not something
reprehensible, and that the origin of the word Fitnah is
the smelting of gold to purify it: “Gold is mixed with
other materials and we want it to be pure; so what do
we do? We smelt the gold in fire so that impurities are
removed from it until it becomes clean and pure from
them. In like manner, Fitnah purifies mankind to clarify
the good from the bad, and Allah had caused Sulaimān
to go through Fitnah like he had caused his father Daūd
to go through Fitnah.” He further comments on Jasad,
“(it is) a body and structure outwardly visible that does
not contain in it a Rūh, and about which Allah says,
“And Behold in due proportion I fashioned it and
breathed into it…” (15:29) i.e. al-Jasad (“it”) and
referring to which He, Most High, mentioned in the
story of Sāmiriyy (al-Qur’ān, 20:88): “Then he
(Sāmiriyy) brought out (of the fire) before the (people)
the Jasad of a calf that seemed to low…” meaning: the
structure of a calf and its physical body, one that is
clearly visible but without a Rūh.”

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3. Amongst all the narrations mentioned in the classical
Tafāsīr, only one is a Marfu' Hadīth recorded in al-
Bukhārī and Muslim. Abu Hurayrah رضي هللا عنه narrated
that the Prophet Muhammad ل هللا عليه و سلمص  said that
Sulaimān عليه السالم went to all his wives on a particular
night with the hope that all of them will conceive a child
each and will bear him an army of horsemen who will
fight in the path of Allah, just that he did not say Inshā
Allah, therefore only one lady conceived and later she
gave birth to a deformed and dead child. The Prophet
then went on to say that if only he had said Inshā Allah,
he would have received an army of horsemen who
would have fought with him Fī Sabīlillāh. The
Mufassirūn say that this dead child was placed on his
throne and this could be the Jasad. However, the
Prophet صل هللا عليه و سلم did not mention that this is the
incident referred to in the verse and that it was the dead
child that was referred to as Jasad in the verse, which if
it was, he would normally specify, hence all the
commentators are unsure if this is the Jasad (the dead
child) that was placed on his throne. Imam al-Bukhārī
too did not record this Hadīth in his book of Tafsīr. It
therefore remains as an authentic incident that had
happened in Nabī Sulaimān's life but we are unable to
confirm this to be the incident referred to in the verse.
Al-Qushayrī, al-Zamakhsharī, Abū Hayyān, al-Tabarsī,
al-Rāzī, al-Qurtubī, al-Baidāwī, al-Māwardī, al-
Baghawī, Ibn ‘Abd as-Salām, al-Nasafī, Ismā’īl Haqqī,

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Ibn ‘Ajībah, ‘Abd al-Razzāq al-Kāshānī, al-Alūsī and
others have included this as a possible explanation of
the verse in their commentaries.

4. All other narrations lead back to ‘Abdullah ibn ‘Abbās
 and some other Tabi'īn and Tabi' al-Tabi'īn رضي هللا عنهم
but not to the Prophet; some to Ka'b al-Ahbār too.
These narrations are mostly only compiled as “it has
been narrated”, “so-and-so said” and “it is said” but not
as confirmed explanations of the event that is referred
to in this verse of the Qur’ān. Thousands of
commentaries were more often than not compilations
of narrations and interpretations unless otherwise
clearly stated by the Mufassir, or commentator of the
Qur’ān. In this case, no Mufassir has clearly state that
this is the incident referred to in the verse. They are in
summary as follows:

A. Nabī Sulaimān conquered an island kingdom called
Saidūn, killed the king who was a tyrant and
married his daughter who embraced Islām but
remained unhappy. Her name was Jarādah. Some
say she did not embrace Islām. She longed for her
father's company and missed his court, therefore
requested Nabī Sulaimān to instruct the Shayātīn,
i.e., Jinn who are Satans, to make for her a structure
of her father. He did so and she soon started to
prostrate to the image together with her maids in
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her king-father’s presence. This carried on without
the knowledge of the Prophet (according to some
for forty days). Later he found out this had been
happening and destroyed the image, burnt it and
dispersed its ash in the air. Jasad in this narration
therefore would refer to this image/idol of her
father. Al-Zamakhsharī has this with the comment
that Allah knows best about the soundness of this
narration. Al-Qurtubī narrates this from Wahb ibn
Munabbih and also records another version which
has it that Jarādah remained an idol-worshipper
even after the marriage, brought an idol made of
Ruby into the house of Nabī Sulaimān and had been
worshipping it in secret for forty days without his
knowledge until she eventually submitted in Islām.
Al-Qushayrī, al-Māwardī, al-Baidāwī, Ibn ‘Abd as-
Salām, as-Suyūtī, ‘Abd al-Razzāq al-Kāshānī, al-
Baghawī (with an extended version of this story
leading up to the loss of his ring to a Shaitān), ibn
‘Ajībah, al-Jawziy, al-Alūsī and others have narrated
this. Ibn Juzayy al-Gharnātī has also recorded this
with a note that this report is weak because of its
distant possibility that an idol could have been
worshipped in the house of a Nabī, or Prophet, and
also due to the distant possibility of a Nabī having
instructed an idol to be made.

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B. A child was born to Nabī Sulaimān عليه السالم. The
Shayātīn feared that they will be forced to labour for
the kingdom for another generation after the
Prophet so they plotted to kill him or make him a
handicap. Sulaimān عليه السالم feared that they would
achieve it so he concealed him for safety in the
clouds and the winds gave him the nourishment he
needed but Allah caused the child to die, according
to Ismā’īl Haqqī, due to his trusting the clouds and
the wind and fear for the harms from the Shayātīn.
This Jasad—dead body—was then placed on his
throne. Al-Qurtubī has paraphrased this from al-
Sha’biyy saying that he was made to suffer the ill
consequence because of his fear for the harm the
Shayātīn could cause his child and that he did
not realize this until the dead child fell on his
throne. Al-Qushayrī, az-Zamakhsharī, al-Nasafī, al-
Baidāwī, al-Māwardī, Ibn ‘Abd as-Salām, ibn
‘Ajībah, and others have included this in their
commentaries. Al-Alūsī has also recorded this but
argues that this is a false report by the very apparent
sequence of the verses that follow. He says that the
wind was subjected to Nabī Sulaimān only after the
Fitnah had occurred and therefore this could not
have been true. He says this is a fabrication.

C. Al-Suyūtī in his al-Durr al-Manthūr has reproduced
a Hadīth recorded in al-Awsat of al-Tabarānī with a
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 said, “A child was born to Sulaimān. He صل هللا عليه و سلم
said to (one) Shaitān, “Will you conceal him from
death?” They (the Shayātīn) said, “We will take him
to the East.” He said, “Death will reach him.” They
said, “Then to the West.” He said, “It will reach
him.” They said, “To the seas.” He said, “Death will
reach him.” They (then) said, “We shall place him in
between the heavens and the earth.” And then the
angel of death descended and said, “I was
commanded to take a soul; I looked for it in the
seas, I looked for it in all the boundaries of the earth
but I did not reach it, and while I was ascending I
found him and so I took his soul.” (The Prophet
then carried on to say) His Jasad came and fell on
the throne of Sulaimān عليه السالم. And that is the
mentioning of Allah, ‘We had certainly tested
Sulaimān and we placed on his throne a Jasad and
then he turned.’” al-Tabarānī however did not
record this in his Tafsīr to the verse even though he
had compiled it in his collection of hadith. This
Hadīth according to Ibn Kathīr, al-Jawziy and al-
Suyūtī himself in another of his books, is a
fabrication. It is said about this hadith that no one
doubts it is fabricated unless one entertains doubts
(in the tenets of Imān) that the Prophets of Allah
may peace be upon them are infallible.

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D. Sa’īd ibn Jubayr said that Nabī Sulaimān عليه السالم
went to the lavatory and left his ring with his most
reliable wife called Amīnah. A Shaitān took on his
form and appeared before the lady and took the ring
from her. The kingdom came under his control.
Qatādah said that Sulaimān gave the ring to the
Shaitān who then threw it into the sea. Sa’īd ibn al-
Musayyab said he put the ring under his bed when
going into the lavatory. A Shaitān took it and flung
it into the sea. These three reports are recorded in
the Tafsīr of al-Jawziy well summarized from al-
Tabarī, az-Zamakhsharī, al-Qurtubī and others.
Here the Jasad refers to the Shaitān who sat on the
throne of Nabī Sulaimān in his form.

E. Mujāhid said that Nabī Sulaimān عليه السالم asked a
Shaitān, “How do you cause Fitnah amongst
people?” He said, “Give me your ring, and I'll
inform you.” When he gave him his ring, the
Shaitān flung it into the sea. His kingdom left him
and the Shaitān, or Satan, sat on the Prophet’s
throne (as the Jasad mentioned in the verse). The
ring and the kingdom eventually came back to the
Prophet. Al-Suyūtī in his al-Durr al-Manthūr and
many others amongst the Mufassirīn have recorded
this. Here too the Jasad refers to the Shaitān, or
Satan, taking the form of Nabī Sulaimān and taking
over his rule.

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F. Nabī Daūd عليه السالم had another son who during
Nabī Sulaimān rule rebelled against him and took
his kingdom from him and stood as King in Nabī
Sulaimān’s place for a long period of time. When
Allah wished to return the rule to Sulaimān, he
made the usurper a lifeless body on the throne that
had no movement, meaning, from a king obeyed
and who had control over a vast dominion, Allah
snatched his power and made him one who had
absolutely no control over anything, even over
himself and his own limbs. His own people turned
against him and was eventually killed by them. Then
Nabī Sulaimān عليه السالم regained control over his
kingdom. Ash-Sha’rāwī has recorded this
attributing it to the classical Mufassirīn.

G. Nabī Sulaimān عليه السالم had withdrawn from public
life for three days and due to that Allah had placed a
Shaitān, or Satan, on his throne as a punishment for
his withdrawing from the people. Al-Rāzī and
others have included this in their commentaries.

The different possible names of the Shaitān are also
mentioned in these narrations, namely, Sakhr, Āsaf
or Hubqīq, as well as the reasons why Nabī
Sulaimān was put on this Divine trial. For example,
al-Qurtubī narrates from Ka’b al-Ahbār who said,
“When he (Nabī Sulaimān) wronged the horses by
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forty days”, and that it is also said he had taken an
oath not to marry anyone outside of Banū Isrāīl but
he broke his oath therefore made to suffer the trial.
They also state why and how he turned back to
Allah.

“Then he turned to Allah in repentance”, or “Then the
kingdom/power/his rule returned to him”. Ibn al-
Jawziy writes that the former is the view of Qatādah
and the latter that of ad-Dahhāk. Ibn ‘Abd as-Salām
mentions the above two and a third: “... or (he
“returned” meaning) he became free from his illness.”

5. Al-Rāzī divides all opinions on the matter into two
categories: (1) The opinion of those who have gathered
stuffing and mere stories and (2) the opinion of those
who have verified factual evidence. Under the former he
has collected A, D, a combination of A and D, E, and G.
He relates why the people of the latter category have
chosen to reject the stories of the former category.
Amongst these reasons are that Shaitān, or Satan,
cannot take the form of a Nabī and that a Nabī will not
allow an idol to be worshipped and even if that had
happened without his knowledge, how would Allah
have punished him for a deed done without his
knowledge? Under the latter category, he has collected
3, B and a third interpretation which is that Nabī
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made him appear like a Jasad in his physical capacity
and that was his trial based on the expression of the
Arabs to describe a person who is severely ill; they call
such a person a Jism (synonym for Jasad with a slight
difference) without a Rūh. Carrying on the linguistic
interpretation, he gives a fourth which is his own view:

“It is not dismissible to think that he could have been
tested with the imposition of fear in him at one point
in his rule, or trials caused by some of his officials and
institutions that could have caused him fear/worry
that weakened his power to the extent that made him
like a Jasad in his rule at one point.” He is of the
opinion that Sulaimān عليه السالم himself appeared like a
Jasad on his throne/in his rule. This then would mean
that Kursiyy, i.e., throne or chair, in the verse would
refer to his position of authority and Jasad would
mean his weakened capacity to handle the troubles he
faced from his own people.

6. Ibn 'Atiyyah says that the consensus is that the Jasad
refers to a certain Jinn (mentioned in these narrations)
because it had been appearing in the bodily form of
Nabī Sulaimān while in reality it was not the Prophet
whose form people saw. Al-Qādi Abu Muhammad said
this is the most correct view and the clearest in
meaning. This appears to be close to Maulānā Imran
Hosein’s interpretation except that the Jasad is Dajjāl,
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Jasad is clearer in meaning than to say Sulaimān عليه السالم
himself appeared as a Jasad in a metaphorical sense.

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Appendix Three

Rabbi Rabinovich’s Speech
of January 12th, 1952

A report from Europe carried the following speech of Rabbi
Emanuel Rabinovich before a special meeting of the Emergency
Council of European Rabbis in Budapest, Hungary, January 12,
1952:

“Greetings, my children; You have been called her to
recapitulate the principal steps of our new program.
As you know, we had hoped to have twenty years
between wars to consolidate the great gains which we
made from World War II, but our increasing numbers
in certain vital areas is arousing opposition to us, and
we must now work with every means at our disposal
to precipitate World War III within five years. [They
did not precipitate World War III but they did
instigate the Korean War when on June 25, 1950 they
ordered the North Korean army to launch a surprise
attack on South Korea. On June 26, the U.N. Security
Council condemned the invasion as aggression and

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ordered withdrawal of the invading forces.

“Then on June 27, 1950, our Jewish American
President Truman ordered air and naval units into
action to enforce the U.N. order.

“Not achieving their full goals, they then instigated the
overthrow of South Vietnam Ngo Dinh Diem,
Premier under Bao Dai, who deposed the monarch in
1955 and established a republic with himself as
President. Diem used strong U.S. backing to create an
authoritarian regime, which soon grew into a full scale
war, with Jewish pressure escalating U.S.
involvement].

“The goal for which we have striven so concertedly
FOR THREE THOUSAND YEARS is at last within
our reach, and because its fulfillment is so apparent, it
behooves us to increase our efforts and our caution
tenfold. I can safely promise you that before ten years
have passed, our race will take its rightful place in the
world, with every Jew a king and every Gentile a slave
(Applause from the gathering).

“You remember the success of our propaganda
campaign during the 1930's, which aroused anti-
American passions in Germany at the same time we
were arousing anti-German passions in America, a
campaign which culminated in the Second World
War.

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“A similar propaganda campaign is now being waged
intensively throughout the world. A war fever is being
worked up in Russia by an incessant anti-American
barrage while a nation-wide anti-Communist scare is
sweeping America.

“This campaign is forcing all the smaller nations to
choose between the partnership of Russia or an
alliance with the United States.

“Our most pressing problem at the moment is to
inflame the lagging militaristic spirit of the
Americans.

“The failure of the Universal Military Training Act
was a great setback to our plans, but we are assured
that a suitable measure will be rushed through
Congress immediately after the 1952 elections.

“The Russians, as well as the Asiatic peoples, are well
under control and offer no objections to war, but we
must wait to secure the Americans. This we hope to
do with the issue of ANTISEMITISM, which worked
so well in uniting the Americans against Germany.

“We are counting heavily on reports of anti-Semitic
outrages in Russia to whip up indignation in the
United States and produce a front of solidarity against
the Soviet power.

“Simultaneously, to demonstrate to Americans the
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sources large sums of money to outspokenly anti-
Semitic elements in America to increase their
effectiveness, and WE SHALL STAGE ANTISEMITIC
OUTBREAKS IN SEVERAL OF THEIR LARGEST
CITIES.

“This will serve the double purpose of exposing
reactionary sectors in America, which then can be
silenced, and of welding the United States into a
devoted anti-Russian unit.

(Note: Protocol of Zion No. 9, para. 2, states that anti-Semitism is controlled

by them. At the time of this speech they had already commenced their

campaign of anti-Semitism in Czechoslovakia).

“Within five years, this program will achieve its
objective, the Third World War, which will surpass in
destruction all previous contests.

“Israel, of course, will remain neutral, and when both
sides are devastated and exhausted, we will arbitrate,
sending our Control Commissions into all wrecked
countries. This war will end for all time our struggle
against the Gentiles.

“ WE WILL OPENLY REVEAL OUR IDENTITY
WITH THE RACES OF ASIA AND AFRICA.

I can state with assurance that the last generation of
white children is now being born. Our Control
Commissions will, in the interests of peace and wiping
out interracial tensions.

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“FORBID THE WHITES TO MATE WITH WHITES.
The White Women must cohabit with members of the
dark races, the White Men with black women.

“THUS THE WHITE RACE WILL DISAPPEAR, FOR
THE MIXING OF THE DARK WITH THE WHITE
MEANS THE END OF THE WHITE MAN, AND
OUR MOST DANGEROUS ENEMY WILL BECOME
ONLY A MEMORY.

“We shall embark upon an era of ten thousand years
of peace and plenty, the Pax Judaica, and our race will
rule undisputed over the world.

“Our superior intelligence will easily enable us to
retain mastery over a world of dark peoples.”

Question from the gathering: Rabbi Rabinovich, what
about the various religions after the Third World War?

Rabinovich:

“There will be no more religions. Not only would the
existence of a priest class remain a constant danger to
our rule, but belief in an afterlife would give spiritual
strength to irreconcilable elements in many countries,
and enable them to resist us.

“We will, however, retain the rituals and customs of
Judaism as the mark of our hereditary ruling caste,
strengthening our racial laws so that no Jew will be
allowed to marry outside our race, nor will any

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stranger be accepted by us.

(Note: Protocol of Zion No. 17 para. 2, states:

'Now that freedom of conscience has been declared
everywhere (as a result of their efforts they have
previously stated) only years divide us from the
moment of THE COMPLETE WRECKING OF
THAT [Hated] CHRISTIAN RELIGION. As to other
religions, we shall have still less difficulty with them.')

“We may have to repeat the grim days of World War
II, when we were forced to let the Hitlerite bandits
sacrifice some of our people, in order that we may
have adequate documentation and witnesses to legally
justify our trial and execution of the leaders of
America and Russia as war criminals, after we have
dictated the peace.

“I am sure you will need little preparation for such a
duty, for sacrifice has always been the watchword of
our people, and the DEATH OF A FEW THOUSAND
JEWS in exchange for world leadership is indeed a
SMALL PRICE TO PAY.

“To convince you of the certainty of that leadership,
let me point out to you how we have turned all of the
inventions of the White Man into weapons against
him. HIS PRINTING PRESSES AND RADIOS are the
MOUTHPIECES OF OUR DESIRES, and his heavy
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sends out to arm Asia and Africa against him.

“Our interests in Washington are greatly extending
the POINT FOUR PROGRAM (viz. COLOMBO
PLAN) for developing industry in backward areas of
the world, so that after the industrial plants and cities
of Europe and America are destroyed by atomic
warfare, the Whites can offer no resistance against the
large masses of the dark races, who will maintain an
unchallenged technological superiority.

“And so, with the vision of world victory before you,
go back to your countries and intensify your good
work, until that approaching day when Israeli will
reveal herself in all her glorious destiny as the Light of
the World.”

(Note: Every statement made by Rabinovich is based on agenda contained

in the “Protocols of Zion.”)

http://antimatrix.org/Convert/Books/ZioNazi_Quotes/Rabbis.html

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Ansari Memorial Series
(Books written by Imran N. Hosein)

1. The Prohibition of Ribā in the Qur’ān and Sunnah; 1997

2. The Importance of the Prohibition of Ribā in Islam; 1997

3. One Jamaat One Ameer: The Organization of a Muslim
Community in the Age of Fitan; 1997

4. The Religion of Abraham and the State of Israel—A View
from the Qur’ān; 1997.

5. The Strategic Importance of Isrā and Mirāj; 1997

6. The Strategic Importance of Dreams and Visions in Islam;
1997. Second edition 2014

7. The Caliphate the Hejaz and the Saudi-Wahhabi Nation-
State; 1997. Second edition 2013

8. Fasting and Power; 1997. Second edition 2011

9. The Quranic Method of Curing Alcoholism and Drug
Addiction; 2000

10. George Bernard Shaw and the Islamic Scholar; 2000

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11. A Muslim Response to the 9/11 Attack on America; 2002

12. Jerusalem in the Qur’ān; 2002, Second edition 2002

13. Sūrah al-Kahf Text Translation and Commentary; 2007

14. Sūrah al-Kahf and the Modern Age; 2007

15. Signs of the Last Day in the Modern World; 2007

16. The Gold Dīnār and Silver Dirham—Islam and the Future
of Money; 2007

17. The Islamic Travelogue; 2009

18. An Islamic View of Gog and Magog in the Modern World;
2009, Second edition 2011

19. Explaining Israel’s Mysterious Imperial Agenda; 2011

20. Iqbal and Pakistan’s Moment of Truth; 2011

21. Madīna Returns to Center-State in Ākhir al-Zamān; 2012

22. In Search of Khidr’s footprints in Ākhir al-Zamān; 2014

23. From Jesus the True Messiah to Dajjāl the False Messiah;
(not yet completed)

24. Methodology for Study of the Qur’ān; 2016

25. Dajjāl the Qur’ān and Awwal al-Zamān (i.e., the beginning
of History) 2017

Aleemiyah Memorial Series

1. Islam and Buddhism in the Modern Age; 1972

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World Federation of Islamic Missions

1. The Quranic Foundations and Structure of Muslim
Society in 2 Vols. By Maulānā Dr. Muhammad Fazlur
Rahmān Ansārī. First published 1973. Malaysian
Edition 2011

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Index

A

Abraham, 92, 108, 109, 110, 293
Abū Daūd, 149
Acts, 7
Ādam, xi, 16, 110, 120, 121, 123,

126, 135, 136, 137, 138, 155,
159, 162, 163, 164, 165, 167,
182, 183, 189, 190, 199, 200,
202, 203, 205, 206, 209, 214

Āhadīth, xix
Ākhir al-Zamān, xv, 7, 63, 80,

148, 167, 191, 228, 270, 272,
294

Al Azhar, xxii
Al Azhar University, xxii
al-‘Arāf, 44, 47, 66, 87, 130, 177,

190, 191, 196
al-Ahzāb, 185
al-Amr, 130

al-An’ām, 43, 44, 124, 126, 135,
202, 204, 255

al-Anbiyāh, 11, 76, 77, 123, 150,
267

al-Anfāl, 176
al-Baqarah, 54, 66, 106, 109, 131,

139, 142, 144, 168, 170, 181,
182, 183, 189, 193, 195, 200,
205, 206, 207, 210, 230

Aleemiyah, xxii, 294
Aleemiyah Institute of Islamic

Studies, xxii
al-Falaq, 34
al-Fath, 91
al-Furqān, 6
al-Ghāfir, 160
al-Ghaib, 65, 115
al-Hadīd, 84, 94, 111, 113, 114
al-Hajj, 86
al-Hashr, 73

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al-Hijr, 118, 124, 129, 153, 160
Al-Ijāzah al-’Āliyah, xxiii
al-Isra’, 46, 75, 131, 134, 137,

159, 160, 162
al-Jumu’ah, 52, 105, 192
al-Kahf, 10, 70, 112, 113, 121,

134, 190, 294
al-Khalq, 130
Allah, xix
al-Māidah, xi, 17, 18, 22, 24, 26,

35, 92, 107, 140, 194, 218, 222,
229, 231, 233, 237, 238, 252,
255, 257, 263, 264, 265, 266,
268, 269

al-Mu’minūn, 132
al-Mujādilah, 145
al-Nahl, 30, 142, 146
al-Najm, 87
al-Naml, 30, 57, 71, 76, 77, 81,

178
al-Nāziāt, 87
al-Nisa’, 22, 100, 144
al-Nūr, 125
al-Qadr, 143, 146
al-R’ad, 46
al-Rūm, 89, 265
al-Saff, 91
al-Sajda, 133, 161
al-Sajdah, 161
al-Shurā, 66

al-Tahrīm, 189
al-Taubah, 67, 68, 91, 237
al-Wāqidi, 127
Amānah, xi, 184, 185, 186
Amos, 102
Angels, xi, 15, 120, 123, 127, 137,

143, 146, 155, 159, 163, 164,
165, 168, 170, 180, 181, 183,
185, 186, 189, 201

Ansārī, ix, xv, xvii, xx, xxii, xxiii,
1, 2, 5, 116, 295

Anti-Christ, 3, xiv, 1, 6, 14, 32,
34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 42, 55, 61,
97, 99, 148, 210

Archangel, 141, 143
Arrogance, xi, 170, 189
artificial intelligence, 62
Asāh, 67
Awliyā, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227,

228, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234,
235, 237, 238, 239, 241, 243,
244, 245, 246, 252, 253, 256,
268, 270

B

Bātin, 111, 197
benefit, xx
birth-right, xi, 120, 122, 149,

167, 189, 190, 191, 199, 213,
214

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Brelvi, xx
Bretton Woods, 12, 13
BRICS, 9

C

Caribbean, xx
chosen people, 15, 16, 52, 53,

100, 103, 121, 133, 136, 137,
144, 145, 148, 149, 167, 186,
192, 194, 199, 213

Christians, 6, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22,
23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 32, 36, 51,
90, 91, 92, 97, 99, 107, 112,
165, 195, 223, 224, 225, 226,
227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232,
233, 234, 235, 236, 238, 240,
242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247,
249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254,
256, 257, 258, 260,맼 261, 262,
263, 265, 268, 270

clay, 123, 124, 125, 127, 129, 141,
156, 159, 160, 161, 186, 190

Constantinople, 91, 258
crucifixion, 98, 102

D

Dajjāl, 1, ix, x, xiv, xv, xviii, xix,
xxiii, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, 12, 13, 14,
15, 16, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38,

39, 40, 41, 42, 46, 47, 48, 49,
50, 52, 54, 55, 56, 58, 61, 62,
63, 64, 70, 74, 80, 82, 83, 93,
94, 97, 98, 111, 120, 121, 144,
148, 150, 151, 163, 167, 170,
172, 176, 179, 180, 192, 196,
197, 210, 213, 216, 229, 253,
254, 266, 267, 268, 284, 294

Dajjāl the False Messiah, 294
Dār al-‘Ulūm, 2, 3, 4
Dāud, 13, 15, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57,

58, 75, 83, 92, 178, 229, 266
David, x, 13, 14, 53, 54, 55, 56,

57, 58, 75, 76, 79, 80, 83, 92,
174, 267

Day of Reckoning, 56, 173
Deobandi, xx
Deuteronomy, 101, 102, 144
Dhūl Qarnain, 10, 113
Dinār, 294
Dirham, 294
Divine Command, 15
Divine Law, 56
Dr. Burhān Ahmad Fārūqī, ix, 1,

2, 4, 6, 95
Dr. Eric E. Williams, xxi, 102
Dr. Muhammad Iqbal, 3, 166,

171, 172, 173, 186, 294
Dr. Syed Zafar-ul-Hassan, 1

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E

Egypt, xxii
electronic waves, 67, 72
End-time, 7, 8, 87, 97, 122, 163,

213, 215, 216
epistemology, xix, 42, 111, 112,

197
Eric E. Williams, xxi
Eschatology, ix, xv, xviii, 6, 33,

144, 216, 228
Eve, 200, 202, 209
evil, xix
Exodus, 101

F

false Messiah, xiv, xxiii, 6, 33, 34,
38, 50, 55, 56, 61, 97, 99, 148,
216, 254

Fasād, 10, 11, 180, 181, 187, 264
feminist revolution, xxii
Feminist Revolution, xv
Fitan, 293
Fitnah, xix, 274, 279, 280
Forbidden Tree, xi, 201
free will, 62, 186, 201
Fussilāt, 157, 164

G

Gabriel, 142, 143, 144, 145, 149

Genesis, 101, 210
Gog and Magog, 10, 11, 99, 112,

121, 215, 260, 267, 268, 294
gold, 8, 9, 12, 56, 63, 112, 187,

188, 274
Goliath, 54
Gospel, 7, 27, 92, 96, 141, 144,

252

H

Hadīth, xix
Hanan Balk, 122
Harām, xxiii
Harūn, 110
Hawwa, 200, 202
heaven, 7, 100, 106, 123, 191,

194, 199, 200, 203, 204, 205,
206, 213, 214

Henry Kissinger, 9, 93
history, xxiii
Holy Ghost, 139, 145
Holy Land, 56, 60, 77, 215, 254,

258, 260, 264, 266, 267, 272
Holy Spirit, x, 121, 122, 139, 140,

141, 142, 143, 145, 146, 148,
149, 150

Hūd, 45

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I

Iblīs, 15, 120, 167, 189, 190, 199,
201, 202, 203

Ibn Mājah, xviii
Ibn Sayyād, 49
Ibrahīm, 92
ignorant, xxi
IMF, 12, 112
impostor, 58, 63, 65
inductive reasoning, xxi
Injīl, 92
internal blindness, 43, 48, 163
Internal Sight, x, 42
International Monetary Fund,

12, 56
interpretation, 6, xii, 7, 9, 34, 42,

46, 47, 48, 116, 130, 218, 222,
245, 247, 249, 252, 271, 283,
284

Īsa, 27, 92, 96, 97, 103, 139, 229
Islam and Science, xx
Islam and Western Civilization,

xxi
Islamic Modernism, xx
Islamic Moral Philosophy, 2
Islamic Philosophy, 1
Islamic religious scholar, xx
Islamic response, xxii
Islamic scholar, xvii, xxiii

Islamic scholarship, xvii, xix, xxi,
xxiii

Israel, 5, 16, 24, 34, 53, 54, 55,
56, 58, 59, 60, 61, 63, 64, 65,
66, 74, 78, 96, 174, 177, 178,
179, 180, 193, 213, 215, 250,
251, 254, 260, 261, 262, 264,
266, 267, 268, 288, 293, 294

Israelites, 54, 66, 110, 143, 144,
177, 178

J

Jannah, 47, 123
Jasad, ix, xii, 14, 32, 34, 36, 59,

60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 70,
151, 178, 179, 213, 273, 274,
275, 277, 278, 279, 280, 281,
283

Jerusalem, 11, 24, 48, 51, 61, 70,
253, 258, 259, 266, 294

Jesus, x, xv, xviii, 23, 27, 33, 34,
37, 41, 51, 92, 96, 97, 98, 99,
102, 103, 104, 110, 112, 122,
139, 140, 143, 149, 150, 151,
197, 198, 199, 213, 294

Jews, x, 6, 11, 14, 18, 19, 20, 21,
22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 33, 35,
36, 50, 52, 53, 56, 58, 78, 83,
92, 99, 100, 103, 107, 109, 110,

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121, 122, 123, 131, 134, 138,
143, 144, 145, 148, 149, 151,
180, 188, 192, 195, 211, 212,
213, 215, 223, 224, 225, 226,
227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232,
233, 234, 235, 236, 238, 239,
240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245,
246, 247, 249, 250, 251, 252,
253, 254, 256, 257, 258, 259,
261, 263, 265, 267, 270

Jinn, 15, 48, 61, 63, 64, 65, 66, 70,
78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 125, 186,
190, 277, 284

John, 37, 104
Judeo-Christian Zionist alliance,

24, 93, 255

K

Khalīfah, xi, 21, 168, 170, 180,
185, 190

Khidr, 112, 294
Khilāfah, xi, 56, 170, 171, 172,

173, 174, 175, 177, 178, 180
King Faisal, 9
knowledge, xx
Korea, 176, 285

L

Luke, 7

Luqmān, 88
lust, 201, 202, 203, 205, 210, 211,

215

M

Madīna, 294
Makkah, 15, 50, 135, 166
Malhama, 91
manifest destiny, 138
Mariam, 34, 147, 149, 150
mark of the beast, 112
Masjid, xviii, xx
Masjid al-Ansārī, xx
Matthew, 7, 104
Medina, 49
Messiah, xviii, 294
methodology, xiv, xix, 2, 5, 6, 9,

15, 49, 60, 67, 112
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, 197
Mīthāq, 50
modern age, xvii, xix, xxii
Modernism, xx
monetary system, xxiii, 9, 12, 13,

57, 93, 112
Money, xv, 4, 294
Montrose Village, xx
Moses, 27, 65, 92, 96, 110, 112,

194
movement of history, 5, 88, 95,

111

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Muhammad, xv, xvii, xix, 1, 3, 7,
8, 13, 15, 18, 19, 20, 23, 32, 33,
35, 36, 38, 46, 49, 50, 52, 53,
80, 91, 94, 96, 97, 108, 122,
125, 131, 134, 141, 144, 149,
151, 155, 163, 165, 166, 171,
173, 196, 197, 198, 224, 252,
253, 275, 284, 295

Muhammad Fazlur Rahmān
Ansārī, xvii, 295

Muhammad Hamidullah, 50
Mulk, 54, 55
Mūsa, 27, 65, 92, 96, 110, 112,

254
Muslim, xvii, 293, 294, 295
Mutashābihah, 9, 46

N

Nabī Muhammad, xix
Nafs, 62, 131, 155, 156
Negus of Abyssinia, 165
New York, xvii
Noah, 39, 44, 97, 98, 110, 177
Nūh, 97
Nūr, 125, 158

O

oil, 9, 12, 93
One-Eyed, ix, 38

Orthodox, 12, 35, 89, 91, 93, 112,
115, 165, 227, 231, 258, 261,
262

Oxford University, xxi

P

Pakistan, xx, xxii, xxiii, 294
paper-money, xxiii
paper-money monetary system,

xxiii
Pax Americana, 74, 216
Pax Britannica, 74
Pax Dei, 170, 174, 175, 178, 198,

199, 200, 206
Pax Judaica, 24, 58, 211, 215, 289
perennial truth, 4, 92, 95
petrodollar, 9, 12, 13, 93
Pharaoh, 66
philosophy of history, 1, 2, 4, 5,

6, 88, 95, 114
power, 15, 53, 65, 102, 114, 143,

146, 174, 175, 176, 177, 215,
239, 253, 254, 261, 262, 263,
264, 266, 274, 281, 282, 283,
287

pray, xix
Prophet, xviii, xix
Prophet Muhammad, xix
Prophet-Kings, x, 13, 14, 54, 76

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prostration, 16, 153, 161, 164,
165, 167, 190

Q

Qāderiyyah Sufi Order, xvii
Qāf, 6

R

Rabbis, 15, 120, 121, 122, 134,
135, 150, 151, 212, 285, 291

religious thought, xx, xxiii
Revelation, 96
Ribā, 100, 293
River Euphrates, 8
Rūh, x, xi, 15, 73, 118, 120, 121,

122, 123, 129, 130, 131, 132,
133, 134, 135, 137, 138, 139,
143, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149,
150, 151, 153, 155, 156, 160,
161, 162, 182, 184, 186, 273,
274, 283

Rūhullah, 123, 151
Rūm, 90
Russia, 12, 14, 90, 260, 261, 262,

287, 290

S

Sabā, 78, 79

Sād, 55, 58, 59, 60, 79, 174, 175,
179

Sahīh Bukhārī, 8, 40, 41, 91, 98,
108, 155, 196, 198

Sahīh Muslim, 13, 35, 38, 91
Salafi, xx
Samawāt, 125, 159
Satan, xviii, xix, 103, 167, 189,

199, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205,
214, 281, 283

Saudi, 293
scholar of Islam, xxii
scholars, xviii, xix, xx, xxii
scholars of Islam, xix
scientific enquiry, xxi
scientific scholarship, xx
Security Council, 56, 171, 176,

264, 285
Shia, xx
Sīrah, xv, 52
slavery, 102, 138
Solomon, x, 13, 15, 16, 34, 53,

57, 58, 59, 60, 62, 63, 64, 65,
66, 70, 72, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79,
81, 82, 83, 177, 179, 180

soul, 34, 36, 59, 60, 61, 62, 82, 88,
121, 138, 155, 179, 198, 279

Spain, xxi
Spirit, xi, 15, 37, 73, 118, 120,

121, 122, 130, 139, 140, 145,

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146, 147, 149, 150, 151, 153,
160, 161, 162

spiritual insight, xix, 132, 148,
166, 186

staff, 63, 65, 66, 67, 69, 70, 72, 74
State of Israel, 293
student, xxii
Sufi, xvii, xix, xxii
Sufi epistemology, xix
Sufi personality, xxii
Sufi scholar, xix
Sufi Shaikh, xvii, xx
Sulaimān, 13, 15, 53, 57, 58, 59,

61, 63, 65, 75, 77, 78, 80, 83,
178, 229, 274, 275, 276, 278,
279, 280, 281, 282, 283, 284

Sunan Abū Dāud, 90
Sunan Ibn Mājah, xviii, 41
Sunan Tirmīdhī, 38
Sunnah, 293
Sūrah, 294
symbolism, xix
system of meaning, 87

T

Tablīgh Jamaat, xx
Taurāt, 92
teacher, xvii, xviii

throne, 34, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63,
64, 65, 66, 74, 80, 81, 178, 179,
229, 266, 275, 278, 279, 280,
281, 283

time, xiv, xx, xxi, xxii, 2, 6, 7, 16,
24, 32, 53, 61, 65, 68, 69, 70,
74, 86, 89, 91, 112, 115, 121,
124, 125, 129, 134, 136, 141,
144, 159, 167, 178, 181, 201,
206, 220, 228, 231, 244, 250,
251, 254, 259, 260, 261, 263,
269, 274, 281, 286, 288

Torah, 26, 38, 92, 96, 100, 102,
141, 144, 187, 188, 207, 252

Trinidad, xx, xxi, xxiii
Trinity, 139
Truth, 294

U

Uhud, 126, 240
United Nations Organization,

56, 171, 176
universe, xxi
Uwais al-Qarni, 127

W

weather, 15, 76
Western civilization, 10, 12, 93
Western Civilization, xxi

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world, xxi, xxii

Y

Yaqūb, 164, 165
Yasīn, 131
Yathrib, 15, 50, 51, 52, 120, 128,

135

Yūnus, 6, 7, 45

Z

Zāhir, 111, 197
Zionist Movement, 24
Zionists, xviii

Contents

Preface

Ansārī Memorial Series

Introduction Dr. Burhān Ahmad Fārūqī— the philosopher of history

Introducing Dajjal - The Jasad(a Human Body without a Soul)

Methodology of Connecting the Beginningof History with the End

The Human Rūh, The Divine Rūh, The Rūh Al-Qudusand The Messiah Who Is Himself Rūh

The Angels Prostrate before Ādam in Awwal Al-Zamān

Arrogance in Awwal Al-Zamān

Conclusion

Appendix

Index