Dajjal - The Dark Messiah

Dajjal - The Dark Messiah
By
A Student of Darul Uloom, Bury, U.K.
‘…But I will tell you something which no Prophet has told his people.Verily he (Dajjal) is one-eyed and Allah is not one-eyed.’

(Bukhari)

The change in the weather had been sudden and dramatic, tossing the small fishing vessel around like a piece of flotsam; until it was no more than that. Its crew, a group of Sahaabah radiyallahu anhum (the companions of the Holy Prophet Muhammad , peace & blessings be upon him), were washed up onto the shore of a foreign beach.  When they regained consciousness, they found that they all had survived the wreck. They decided to explore the island to see whether they could find someone to help them, maybe supply them with a boat. 
It wasn’t long before they met a woman washing her hair in a rock pool. She directed them to a cave, managing to convey to them that there was someone there who wanted to speak with them. Intrigued, they entered the cave. 
Within, they found a short man with only one eye, chained to the cavern wall. Right away, he began to ask them questions, whether certain events had taken place or not. They answered truthfully because of their nature. They could feel the evil of this man like a physical presence. When they had confirmed all that he had asked, the man said, ‘Alas, my time is near.’ 
The companions managed to get off the island and returned home safely. Upon arriving, they told their story to the Prophet  (peace & blessings be upon him). It was then that they first heard of Dajjal, the Dark Messiah. 
There are three aspects of Dajjal:
1. The individual
2. A world wide social and cultural phenomenon
3. An unseen force. 
The latter two aspects of Dajjal have been explained and outlined brilliantly by Ahmed Thomas in his book ‘Dajjal - The King Without Clothes.’ Through intense research, he has managed to write a brilliant account of scary facts that bring home the full weight of reality. He explains the social and cultural phenomenon as a system that is being prepared by the minions and followers of Dajjal, through which he will operate and spread his evil. The Unseen Force is defined as the supernatural beings, such as Djinns and UFO’s, who abduct and posses humans to further his cause. Contemporary books such as ‘Omen’ and ‘Body Snatchers’, paint a frightening image of possibilities.
 
In this article, I intend to unveil the first aspect; the individual. The Book of Revelations by John (New Testament) contains prophecies regarding the Anti-Christ. However, over the times, many alterations have occurred in the original text and the commentaries have deviated from the actual meanings. That and the lack of consistency have left it in doubt of reliability and accuracy. Hence, there only remains the Hadith of the Noble Prophet Mohammed (peace & blessings be upon him) as the only accurate source of information. 
In a Hadith narrated by Imran ibn Hussain radiyallahu anhum, the Prophet  (peace & blessings be upon him) said, ‘Since the birth of Adam till the advent of Qiyaamah (Judgement Day) there is no fitnah (tribulation) much greater than that of Dajjal.’

(Muslim)

In anyone’s book, Dajjal is the embodiment of evil. A wise man once said, ‘Know your enemies and keep them close to you. By knowing them, you know your weakness, thus neutralising their potency.’ There are many Hadith which describe Dajjal’s appearance, his height and his powers.  Ubadah ibn Saamit radiyallahu anhu narrates that the Last Prophet  (peace & blessings be upon him) said, ‘I have explained Dajjal to you, but I fear that you might not have understood. Maseeh-ud-Dajjal will be short and his legs will be crooked. The hair on his head will be extremely twisted. He will have one eye, while his other eye will be flat. It will be neither deep, nor protruding.’ 
Ibn Umar radiyallahu anhuma narrates from the Last Prophet  (peace & blessings be upon him) regarding Dajjal, ‘…red complexioned, fat, curly haired man, blind in the right eye which looks like a bulging grape.’

(Bukhari)

According to the many Ahaadith describing Dajjal, the most distinguishing feature of his face besides the bulging eye will be the Arabic letters Kaaf (k), Faa (f), Raa (r), on his forehead. These letters spell Kufr (disbelief). All believers, regardless of their literacy will decipher these letters.  It has also been ascertained from the Hadith that he will emerge from between Syria and Iraq, and his emergence will become known when he is in Isfahaan, at a place called Judea. He will be of Jewish origin and the Jews of Isfahaan will be his main followers and they will refer to him as the Messiah. As he goes on through the world, Jews and a great number of non-Jewish women will flock to him upon witnessing his false miracles. 
Imran ibn Hussain radiyallahu anhu narrated from the Prophet Mohammed  (peace & blessings be upon him), ‘Those who hear about Dajjal should stay away from him. By Allah! A person will approach him thinking himself to be a believer. But on seeing his amazing feat he will become his follower.’

(Abu Dawood)

‘The Beast was taken and with him the false prophet who wrought miracles before him with which he deceived them.’

(Revelation:19)

The miracles and feats spoken of by the Prophet  (peace & blessings be upon him) and John, the writer of the Book of Revelations, are further clarified by the Hadith narrated by Hadhrat Huzaifah radiyallahu anhu:  ‘Dajjal will be blind in the right eye. He will have thick hair on his body and he will also have Paradise and Hell with him. Though his Paradise will appear as Jannah, in reality it will be Hell, and likewise, though his Hell will appear like Jahannnam, in reality it will be Paradise.’

(Muslim)

Those who obey the Dark Messiah will enter his Paradise (and thus enter Hell), and those who denounce him will enter his Hell (and so shall in reality be entering Paradise). He will travel by means of a gigantic mule, at impossible speeds. He will cause droughts and famine upon those who reject him. But the remembrance of the true Lord will satiate them.  Ubadah ibn Saamit radiyallahu anhu narrates from the Noble Prophet  (peace & blessings be upon him), ‘If you still have any doubts regarding him (Dajjal), then remember, your Sustainer is not one-eyed.’ 
Ibn Umar radiyallahu anhuma narrates from the Noble Prophet  (peace & blessings be upon him), ‘Allah is not one-eyed, while Maseeh-ud-Dajjal is blind in the right eye.’

(Bukhari)

He will remain on the Earth for a period of forty days, of which the first day will be as long as a year, the second day as long as a month, the third as a week and the rest will be normal in length. He will try to gain entry to the two holy cities Makkah and Madinah, but the angels who guard them will bar him from them. From there, he will flee to Syria, where he will meet resistance from the forces of Imam Mahdi, the leader of the Muslims. Then shall the battle between Good and Evil begin in earnest.  Imran ibn Hussain radiyallahu anhu narrates from the Noble Prophet Mohammed  (peace & blessings be upon him), ‘There will always be a group of people upon the path of Allah, overpowering their enemies until the Order Of Allah comes and Isa alaihis salaam (Jesus - peace be upon him) descends.’ 
Finally, when the spirit of the Muslims begins to ebb, Isa (Jesus - peace be upon him) will be commanded by Allah to descend from the heavens. He will not descend as a prophet, but as a follower of the Prophet Muhammad  (peace & blessings be upon him) and Islam. 
‘Anti Christ in Christian Theology, the opponent of Christ. The appearance of the Anti Christ is believed to signal the Second Coming, at which Christ would conquer his opponent. The concept may stem from the idea of conflict between light and darkness, which is present in Persian, Babylon and Jewish literature and which influences early Christian Theology.’

(Hutchinsons Encyclopaedia)

As before, through the medium of the Hadith, the event of Isa (Jesus - peace be upon him)’s return and all that follows has been accurately recorded. He will descend on Mount Afeeq, on the white Eastern Minaret of Damascus. He will descend from the heavens with his hands resting on the shoulders of two angels. His cheeks will be flat and his hair straight. When he lowers his head it will seem as if water is flowing from his hair, when he raises his head, it will appear as though his hair is beaded with silvery pearls.  He will descend during the time of Fajr and the leader of the Muslims will address him thus, ‘O`Roohullah, lead the salat.’ 
Isa (Jesus - peeace be upon him) will decline with the words, ‘The virtue of this Ummah is that they lead each other.’ 
After the prayer, Isa (Jesus - peeace be upon him) will prepare himself to do battle and shall take up a spear. An army shall return from a campaign launched before the arrival of Isa (Jesus - peeace be upon him). They shall bring glad tidings of victory over India, granted to them by the Lord Almighty. Isa (Jesus - peeace be upon him) shall set out in pursuit of Dajjal. All those who embraced the evil of Dajjal shall perish even as the breath of Isa (Jesus - peeace be upon him) touches them. The breath of Isa (Jesus - peeace be upon him) shall proceed him as far as the eye can see. Dajjal will be captured at Lydda. The Dark Messiah shall begin to melt, as lead melts in fire. The spear of Isa (Jesus - peace be upon him) shall plunge into Dajjal’s chest, ending his dreaded reign. The followers of Dajjal will be rooted out, for even the trees and rocks will speak out against them. Then all battles shall cease and the world will know an age of peace. Then truly the sheep will lie in the shadow of the wolf without fear. The rule of Jesus will be just and all shall flock to him to enter the folds of the one true religion, Islam.
see also:
Hazrat Isa (alayhis sallam) in the Islamic, Christian and Qadiani perspective
Imam Mehdi and the Signs that will precede him
Some Signs of Qiyahmah
Major Signs of the Day of Judgement

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Letter From The Leader

	Letter From The Leader
		The following letter was sent by Islamic Party leader David Pidcock to The Sunday Telegraph, contrasting the French hysteric phobia of late with Napoleon Bonaparte's admiration for Islam. An open letter to the Editor and owner Mr. Conrad Black Gentlemen, As an English convert to Islam, I feel bound to respond to your Editorial Comment, p.27, "The enemies within." (7/8/94). Your reference to Mr.Charles Pasqua, the French Interior Minister, is clearly in ignorance of the debt his Department owes to Islam. With the exception of French family law, 95 per cent of French law, i.e., The Code Napoleon is, in its entirety Islamic. Unlike the United Kingdom ... which only has Courts of Law ... the French have courts of Justice. Having recognised the divine nature of the Qur'an, Napoleon Bonaparte embraced the religion of Abraham in the latter half of 1798, taking  Ali as his Muslim name. And, having further recognised the wisdom and superiority of Islamic Jurisprudence, he authorised the translation of the rulings of Imam Malik from the Arabic, and the implementation of it throughout the Empire. So The Code Napoleon, which is universally proclaimed and admired by the likes of Monsieur Pasqua, owes its origins entirely to Europe's Islamic past. The Battle of Waterloo was, in fact, a battle of the usurers (represented by Wellington) and the opponents of debt - finance (represented by Napoleon Bonaparte). Unfortunately, the usurers won and wrote their account of history. On the 9th of February 1807, Napoleon had obtained the support of Rabbi David Sinzheim and the Grand Sanhedrin, in issuing a rabbinical Fatwa prohibiting usury. Napoleon clearly understood the root cause of Europe's problem. For, upon being shown a table of interest charges, he reflected for a while and made the following comment: "The deadly facts herein revealed, lead me to wonder that this monster, interest, has not devoured the whole human race. It would have done so long ago if bankruptcy and revolutions had not acted as counter poisons." (Lincoln: Money Martyred; Omni Publications 1935).  Which makes it clear, why he found the liberating theology of Islam so attractive. In one of the most valuable pieces of evidence, attesting to his grasp of the subject, he is reported as having given the following reasons for his love of the Islamic religion. In a recently acquired copy of Bonaparte et l'Islam by Cherfils from the Bibliotheque National De France, we find on pages 105 - 125 the following well kept secret: "Moses", Napoleon says, "has revealed the existence of God to his nation, Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent... Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Muhammad [re]introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, of Moses, and of Jesus Christ. The Arians and some other sects had disturbed the tranquillity of the East by agitating the question of the 'Father the Son and the Holy Ghost.' Muhammad declared that there was none but one God, who had no father, no son, and that the trinity imported the idea of idolatry... "The Parthians, the Scythians, the Mongols, and the Tartars and the Turks, had shown generally themselves to be enemies of science and the arts, but this reproach cannot be fastened onto the Arabs, no more than upon Muhammad. The first Omayad Caliph, was a poet and he granted peace to a Rabbi, because he prayed for grace in four beautiful Arabic verses... "Al Mansour, Harun al Rashid and Al Mamun cultivated Arts and Sciences. They were fond of literature, chemistry, and mathematics; they lived with savants, caused the Greek and Latin authors, the Illiad, the Odyssey, Euclid, etc., to be translated into Arabic, and founded schools and colleges for medicine, astronomy, and moral science. Ahmed corrected the tables of Ptolemy; Abbas was a distinguished Mathematician; Costa, Alicude, Thabit, and Ahmed measured one degree of meridian from Saana to Kufa. Chemistry, alembics, sun - dials, clocks and numerical signs owe their existence to Arab invention. Nothing is more elegant than their moral tales; their poetry is full of fervour... "Muhammad extolled everywhere the savants and such men as devoted themselves to a speculative life and cultivated letters... In the library of Cairo there were 6000 volumes on astronomy, and more than 100,000 on other subjects; in the library of Cordova there were 3,000,000 volumes... Sciences and Arts reigned under the Caliphs and made great progress, which was brought to naught by the Mongols... "I hope that the time is not far off when I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of all countries and establish a uniform regime based on the principles of the Quran which alone are true and which alone can lead men to happiness..." "Christianity preaches only servitude and dependence. A society of true Christians would not be a society of men." This, of course, all went down like a lead baloon in government, theological, and banking circles of London, Paris, Frankfurt, Vienna and Rome. Your leading article follows the well established tactic of Ricoldo Cydones, who advised all those involved in the Greco - Roman - Islamic polemic and religious dialogue which originated between the Byzantines and Turks during the Ottoman expansion that: "It is always easier to start by attacking the falseness of the Muslim faith than by proving the truth of Christianity ... in controversy with a Muslim. The Muslims are curious to hear something about the faith of the Christians, but the Christians must avoid supplying them with information."  Your Cecil B. De Millesque reference to  "their God", as if "their God" was any other than the same one mentioned in the Bible, continues in this reprehensible tradition, and is again evidence that: "Seldom does it occur that the opponents in strife attempt to comprehend or succeed in understanding the position of each other." On this particular occasion however, having been born and raised as a Christian, in the West, with a long family tradition in political satire (particularly Napoleonic) going back to at least 1769, I have the advantage of comprehending and understanding both sides of this particular argument very well indeed. Therefore, your mischievous attempt to cast doubt on the fidelity of the Qur'an and its compatibility with previous divine scriptures, will fall on stony ground along with the hopes of evangelical Christians for a reconversion of us back to the Church of Rome or the Church of England, and to "hear us abjure the Muslim God", once again demonstrates the complete ignorance of Who the God of the Muslims actually was and still is. To the best of our knowledge, the most ancient recorded Name of God is in Chaldean cuneiform tablets, and it corresponds with Allah's title: Al Alah, The Most High. (Source Scofield Reference Bible). In our prayers as Muslims we state, whilst prostrated: "Subhana Rabi al Ala" i.e, "Glory to my Lord The Most High". The Judeo - Christian concept of God, as a Father as opposed to the Creator of man, is based on a false, pagan understanding. Likewise the form Jehovah, on its own, according to the Rev. T. K. Cheyne of Balliol College Oxford,  "is unhesitatingly to be rejected due to a misunderstanding of comparatively modern origin." [Source - Variorum Teachers Bible, London 1880]. But the easiest way to demonstrate the fact that the God of The Children of Israel and the Children of Ishmael, and all the Semitic peoples was one and the same, is to read Exodus 18, verses 1 - 27 in the Old Testament. Which, surprisingly, still contains the most damning piece of evidence against the Judeo - Christian polemic, that the God of the Arabs and Islam, was different to the God of Isaac and the Children of Israel. If the followers of Judeo - Christianity were seriously wanting to please God, they would take more care in following his Ten Commandments, and the example of His Prophets and Messengers. It is very clear indeed, from Exodus, that Moses, the law - giver to Israel, was married to Zipporah, the Arab daughter of Jethro, the Imam and Judge of the Arab Midianites of northern Arabia, who re - taught Moses his religion and how to administer justice among the Children of Israel: The Qur'anic account is to be found in Surah 28, Verses 22 - 25. Furthermore, the promise in Deuteronomy to Moses, that a prophet like unto him would be raised up amongst his family brethren, like unto him, takes on more meaning when you realise that it literally meant his Arab family brethren. Medina was originally called Yathrib, taking its original name from Sheikh Yethro/Jethro. Muhammad was invited and raised up by the people of Yathrib to rule over them. Furthermore, Gershom and Eliezer, the half Arab sons of Moses are listed as Levites, the priestly line of the Israelites, regardless of their mother being a non - Israelite woman. Which should destroy, once and for all, the myth that inheritance and favour was only through the mother. The following extracts establish clearly and unequivocally that The Lord of the Arabs and Israel always was and always will be - Allah. "And Moses went out and to meet his [Arab] father- in - law, and did obeisance and kissed him, and they asked each other of their welfare; and they came into the tent... And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which The Lord had done to Israel... And Jethro said, blessed be The Lord... Now I know that The Lord is greater than all gods, for in the thing they dealt proudly He was above them... And Jethro, Moses' [Arab] father - in - law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' [Arab] father - in - law before God." (Exodus 18:7 - 12) In the Old Testament, the Ten Commandments are mentioned in Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5. The key commandment is:  "Thou shalt have no other gods before Me."  In Deuteronomy 6, verse 4 we read:  "Hear O Israel: The Lord Our God Is One".  The significance of this Oneness of God is of paramount importance. In Hebrew and its sister language Arabic, which, by the way, has an unbroken pedigree of continuous use: Achad or Ahad signifies an indivisible single entity with no possibility of it representing a triune or multiple godhead. Monotheism, by definition, is entirely incompatible with the ideas of Triunity and the Three - ology of the Athanasian creed, which was imposed on the Roman Empire by Constantine at the Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D. Of course, I hear your objections and understand the sense of outrage this iconoclastic view generates. But by what scriptural authority did Constantine overturn the orthodox - unitarian - concept of God? Apart from error, continuing to delighting its followers, I suggest, that in order to maintain the status quo, Constantine indulged in what I have come to call generic engineering - all he did was change the name of Mythra, the pagan son of god, into that of Christ, the son of god, and everything in the pagan state remained the same except, of course, the name of the crucified saviour. When we take a cold hard look at the facts, we find that the concept of an atoning death for the sins of man is far older than Christianity, and far older than Judaism. For example, we find a curious similarity between all the cults and myths of the ancient world. We also find that for every lie to succeed it must contain an element of truth within it. In my book Satanic Voices Ancient & Modern, I have made mention of the glaring similarities between all the redeeming sons of god. For example, if we were living in York or Chester and the date was March the 1st, 50 B.C., we would be preparing for the same Easter festival we have today, following the same Christmas festivities of December 25th. During which time we would have commemorated his birth to a virgin mother in a cave, of one who had 12 disciples; one who was called saviour; one who sometimes figures as a lamb; one whose disciples were initiated through baptism; and one in whose remembrance  sacramental feasts were held. The only difference you would notice, if you went back in time, would be his name; for then it was Mythra not Jesus Christ. At the time of the appearance of the real Messiah to the lost sheep of the House of Israel: Christ Jesus, the son of Mary, there were temples without end dedicated to redeeming gods like Appolo or Dionysus among the Greeks; Herculese amongst the Romans; Mythra among the Persians - A pre - Christian crucifix was found in County Cork with a Persian inscription on it, dedicated to Mythra; In Syria and Phrygia Attis & Adonis; in Egypt Osiris, Isis and Horus; in ancient Babylon Bel/Baal and Astarte. So you see, my question is - By what authority are we to accept these major departures from orthodox monotheism. The recent release of Dead Sea Scroll material confirms the Islamic view of what occurred at the time of Christ and after his alleged crucifixion. Eisenman and Wise have this to say in The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered. Having made mention of Paul's incipient theological approach to the alleged crucifixion of Christ, on which stands the basis of Christian theological understanding of it thereafter, they state on page 10:  "What we have here is a picture of what Christianity actually was in Palestine. The reader, however, probably will not be able to recognise it because it will seem virtually the opposite of the Christianity with which he or she  is familiar."  On page 234:  "Paul they considered an apostate from the Law... they are certainly the community that held the memory of James in the highest regard, whereas Paul they considered 'the Enemy', or Anti Christ... Such a stance is not unparalleled in crucial passages from the letter in James' name in the New Testament. We have already shown that this letter, in responding to some adversary who believes that Abraham was justified by faith alone, states that by making himself 'a friend of man', this adversary has turned himself into 'the Enemy of God'. This 'Enemy' terminology is also known in Matt. 13:25 - 40 'parable of the tares', perhaps the only anti - Pauline parable in the Gospels, where an 'Enemy' sows the 'tares' among the good seed...." The Gospel of Barnabas opens with a warning that Paul is preaching a most impious doctrine; repudiating the circumcision and other portions of the Covenant between God and Abraham, which Moses came to renew and Christ came to fulfil and announce the coming of the desired prophet, the "Himdah" or "Ahmed" of all nations - Mahmad, Mahamod, and Machammad in Hebrew and MuHaMmad, i.e. Muhammad, in Arabic; the one imbued with the Spirit of Truth; the Comforter - The Periqlyte, or Paraclete. The Old Testament mentions him in the following terms.  "And the Ahmed of all nations will come" (Haggai, ii.7). "And I will shake all nations, and the Himada / Ahmed/ Paraclete of all the nations will come; and I will fill this house with with glory, says the Lord of hosts. Mine is the silver, Mine is the gold, says the Lord of hosts, the glory of My last house shall be greater than of the first one says the Lord of hosts; and in this place I will give Shalom, says the Lord of hosts" (Haggai, ii.7 - 9). The Holy Prophet King Solomon  names this bringer of Peace / Shalom, as "Muhammadim" the suffix "im" is used to express absolute respect as with the "im" added to "Eloah" to make "Elohim" (Allahumma) which denotes absolute respect for God. Muhammadim is usually translated, intentionally or otherwise, as "altogether lovely", in itself not an unfitting tribute to the one who would come and renew Abraham's religion of Peace i.e., Salaam. The Hebrew, transliteration in Roman script from the Song of Solomon is as follows: "Hikko Mamittaqim Vikullo MAHAMMADIM Zeh Dudi Vezew Raai Benute Yarushalam" Meaning: "His mouth is most sweet; yet, he is Mohamad, altogether lovely. This is my beloved and this is My friend, o daughter of Jerusalem!" As with the rest of Islam's civilising influence on Europe, which, in its pride, Europe finds hard to admit, even grudgingly, Western gratitude, as usual, has a very short shelf - life. On the questions of who the real 'terrorists' and 'subversives' are, violent revolution has not only been the opium of 'intellectuals' but of 'bankers' also. Take for example, Montagu Norman, the overt Nazi Governor of the Bank of England, and step - father of Peregrine Worsthorne of Daily Telegraph fame, who went to the elected British Government and instructed them to lend Germany £90 million pounds. He is reported to have said:  "We may never be paid back, but it will be less loss than the fall of Nazism". Many of those who opposed him, were locked up under Regulation 18B, The Defence of the Realm Act, if I may be permitted to say so, a highly illiberal act, worthy of any fundamentalist terrorist state. ... The subversive Nazi Union Banking Corporation was co - founded and sponsored by Prescott Bush's father in law, George Walker in 1924, following a personal agreement between Skull & Bones member Avrell Harriman and Fritz Thyssen in 1922. In seizing the property of Prescott Bush, the authorities were, in fact, seizing the property of Fritz Thyssen, the man who boasted in his 1941 book  'I Paid Hitler', that his contributions to Adolph Hitler had begun in October 1923, with the payment of 100,000 marks for his attempted "putsch". One wonders, if French Interior Minister Pasqua is aware of the sinister, enemy within, background of the late husband of America's current Ambassador to France, Mrs. Pamela Digby Avrell Harriman? Having become the tools and vassals of rich men, it is evident that the job of today's journalist  is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, and to fawn at the foot of Mammon, and sell himself, his country, and his race for his daily bread to those who lend money to the state at interest.  Yours sincerely,  Author: David Pidcock Date Published: Jan 1995

Messianic Zionism

Messianic Zionism
		"Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment". (The Lamentations of Jeremiah, 2:14, 588 BC)  The Jews should have accepted Jesus as their Messiah, but they refused and suffered the consequences. The Jews and the Christians should both have accepted Muhammad as God's final Messenger. They did not, and as a result, the world is in turmoil. In the light of the above warning by Jeremiah of the folly of continuing to follow false prophets, and the failure to correctly analyse the ongoing cause of their failure to find lasting peace; we read in Nathan Ausubel's 'Pictorial history of the Jews', the following account of the origins of the false creed of Zionism: "The seeds of the Zionist movement were sown when the first grieving captive departed from Jerusalem for Babylon in 586 B.C.E. The Psalmist poet's ringing cry - "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its cunning!" - was echoed down the ages by every pious Jew of every generation. Thenceforth, the thoughts, dreams and prayers of the persecuted ended with the yearning and consoling words: "Next year Jerusalem!" The very concept of the Messiah and the prophetic expectation that his coming would signalize the climactic "ingathering" of all the wanderers of Israel was an intense form of Zionism expressed in terms of  the supernatural and the religious. This was the emotional nourishment upon which the brused consciousness of the Jew fed through the centuries... This expectation reached unendurable climaxes of tension  among the plain people with the appearance of such Messianic adventurers as David Alroy, Prince David Reubeni and Sabbatai Zevi. Even the disillusionment that followed these will - o - the - wisps of Jewish redemption intensified the emotional need for it... It was the secularist spirit of the nineteenth century, seeking social solutions in practical terms, that saw the rise of the modern Zionist movement." What is perhaps less well known is the origin of the use of the hexagram  as a symbol of Messianic Zionism. Regardless of the official explanation, it is a symbol of everything the Old Testament prophets abhorred. It is called the "Shield of David",  but certainly not king David the prophet; but, David El - Roy, an early false prophet, somewhat in the mould of Ibn Sayyad, the Jewish soothsayer who lived at the time of Muhammad, upon whom be peace, and who claimed that he also was a 'Messenger'. Arthur Koestler points out in his 'The Thirteenth Tribe' that, while the conversion to Judaism by the Khazars: "...was no doubt inspired by opportunistic motives - conceived as a cunning political manoeuver - it brought in its wake cultural developments which could hardly have been foreseen by those who started it. The Hebrew alphabet was the beginning; three centuries later the decline of the Khazar state is marked by repeated outbreaks of messianic Zionism, with pseudo - Messiahs like David El - Roi (hero of a novel by Disraeli) leading quixotic crusades for the re - conquest of Jerusalem." In the famous 'Khazar Correspondence' between Hasdai bar Isaak in Spain and the Khazar King, or 'Kagan' Joseph, the epistle to the king, says Koestler, gives a glowing account of prosperity of the Jews under Caliph Abd al Rahman,  "the like of which has never been known... And thus the derilict sheep were taken into care, the arms of their persecutors were paralysed, and the yoke was discarded. The country we live in is in Hebrew Sepharad, but the Ishmaelites who inhabit it call it al - Andalus".   According to Koestler Hasdai bar Isaak then explains that he heard of the existence of the Central Asian, Jewish kingdom of Khazaria from the merchants of Khurasan, then in more detail from Byzantine envoys: "I questioned them about it and they replied that it was true, and that the name of the kingdom is al - Khazar. Between Constantinople and this country there is a journey of fifteen days by sea ('This', he says, 'probably refers to the so - called 'Khazarian route: from Constantinople across the Black Sea and up the Don, then across the Don - Volga portage and down the Volg to Itil. The shorter route was from Constantinople to the east coast of the Black Sea') but they said, by land there were many other people between us and them. The name of the ruling king is Joseph. Ships come from their land, bringing fish, furs and all sorts of merchandise. They are in alliance with us, and honoured by us. We exchange embassies and gifts. They are powerful and have a fortress for their outposts and troops which go out on forays from time to time - (The fortress, was evidently Sarkel on the Don)." "The concluding passage", says Koestler, reads as follows:  "I feel the urge to know the truth, whether there is really a place on this earth where harassed Israel can rule itself, where it is subject to no body. If I were to know that this is indeed the case, I would not hesitate to foresake all honours, to resign my high office, to abandon my family, and travel over mountains and plains, over land and water, until I arrive at the place where my Lord, the [Jewish] King rules... And I also have one more request: to be informed whether you have any knowledge of [the possible date] of the Final Miracle [the coming of the Messiah] which, wandering from country to country, we are awaiting. Dishonoured and humiliated in our dispersion, we have to listen in silence to those who say: 'Every nation has its own land and you alone possess not even a shadow of a country on this earth.'" Koestler then observes:  "The beginning of the letter praises the happy lot of the Jews in Spain; the end breathes the bitterness of the exile, Zionist fervour and Messianic hope... these opposite attitudes have always co - existed in the divided hearts of Jews throughout their history." King Joseph's reply, says Koestler, "proudly", emphasises that the Khazar Kingdom gives the lie that 'the Sceptre of Judah has fallen from the Jews' hands' and 'that there is no place on earth  for a kingdom of their own'... Joseph then proceeds to provide a genealogy of his people. Though a fierce Jewish nationalist, proud of weilding the 'Sceptre of Juda', he cannot, and does not, claim for them Semitic descent; he traces their ancestry not to Shem, but to Noah's third son Japheth; or more precisely to Japheth's grandson, Togarma, the ancestor of all Turkish tribes.  'We have found in the family register of our fathers',  Joseph asserts boldly, 'that Togarma had ten sons, and the names of their offspring are as follows: Uigur, Dursu, Avars, Huns, Basilii, Tarniakh, Khazar, Zagora, Bulgars, Sabir. We are the sons of Khazar, the seventh...' ...the characteristic feature in this genialogical exercise is the amalgamation of Genesis with Turkish tribal tradition... It also throws a sidelight on the frequent description of the Khazars as the people of Magog. Magog, according to Genesis X,2 - 3, was the much maligned uncle of Torgarma." In response to the question about the coming of the Messiah, King Joseph replies:  "We have our eyes on the sages of Jerusalem and Babylon, and although we live far away from Zion, we have nevertheless heard that the calculations are erroneous owing to the great profusion of sins, and we know nothing, only the Eternal knows how to keep the count. We have nothing to hold on, only the prophecies of Daniel, and may the Eternal speed up our deliverance...." "About a century after the Khazar Correspondence... Judah Halevi wrote his once celebrated book, 'Kuzari', the Khazars.(The Book of Proof and Argument in Defence of the Despised - Faith) ... Halevi (1085 - 1141) was a Zionist who died on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem; the Kuzaria, written a year before his death, is a philosophical tract propounding the view that the Jewish nation is the sole mediator between God and the rest of mankind. At the end of  history, all other nations will be converted to Judaism; and the conversion of the Khazars appears as a symbol or token of that ultimate event".  This has been the perennial flaw in Judeo - Zionist thinking. The promise from Almighty God, was the result of the 'Everlasting Covenant' between Him and Abraham, upon whom be peace, which states that through his seed, all the world would be blessed. (Gen.10:18) The words 'Everlasting' and 'Covenant' are used in an unequivocal, absolute manner. Therefore, there could never be 'A New and Everlasting Covenant', and no abrogation of the law concerning circumcision (Gen.17:9), which is incumbent on anyone who decides to try and follow the religion of Abraham, which, of course, could not be Judaism, but, rather, 'Shalom', i.e 'Peace'. Peace, which was, and still is, only attainable through the willing 'surrender', to God's Will - in other words - Islam. Abraham was the first man in history to describe himself as a Muslim, 'one who has willingly bowed to God's better judgement, and on reflection has voluntarily, relinquished the option of utilizing his own free will in all important matters'. The honour of being 'The Chosen People', was always conditional. For a long while, the Children of Israel were deserving of that epithet, holding fast to the 'Everlasting Covenant'. However, as is evidenced by their own Scriptures, they became contentious and rebellious, suffering two ignominious expulsions from the Holy Land and various periods of captivity and persecution. The reason being, that they have consistently failed to recognize the real causes of their trials and tribulations, having put their faith in princes, Occult - Messianic - Zionism, and Cabalah, rather than in an unconditional return to the principles and practices of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as the prophet Jeremiah so clearly spelled out in his Lamentations. The replacement of the Children of Israel by the Children of Ishmael as the standard bearers and upholders of Abraham's 'Everlasting Covenant', has been strenuously resisted or denied, along with God's final words, placed in the mouth of the unlettered Prophet - Muhammad. The ersatz idea, that the Covenant was established to perpetuate the exclusive racial superiority of  the offspring of Sarah is patent nonsense. For example, Moses was black, and Zipporah, his wife was of non - Israelite, Arab stock; she was the daughter of Jethro, the Sheikh of Midian.(Exodus 18:2) Gershom, and Eliezer, their sons, were therefore half Arab; and yet, Shebuel, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses and a non - Israelite mother, is listed as a full blooded Levite in I Chronicles 26:20 - 24, where Shebuel is described as a Levite who "...was ruler of the treasures." This dispells the myth that inheritence and birthright could only come through an Israelite mother. Therefore, as Ishmael was the legitimate firstborn of Abraham, his progeny, as well as the Children of Isaac, form part of the legitimate 'seed of Abraham'. A point clearly demonstrated in Deuteronomy 21:15:  "If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated. Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn: But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated  for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is indeed the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his." This passage in Deuteronomy is said to be in relation to the marriage of Jacob to Leah and Rachel. Rachel was the one whom Jacob, peace be upon him, loved, and Leah the elder whom he did not. Leah the unloved, or less loved, had Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, then she bore Simeon, Levi, and Judah, and had no more children for a while. Rachel remained barren, and gave Bilhah her hand maid to Jacob who conceived a son (as it were by proxy) for Rachel, he was called Dan, and again she bore Jacob a second son who was called Napthali. Leah then gives Zilpah her handmaid  to Jacob, who had two sons named Gad and Asher. Leah then has a fifth son, who was called Issachar, and a sixth called Zebulun, and then a daughter called Dinah. Rachel then gave birth to Joseph and later Benjamin. Peace and blessings be upon them all. Jacob, like his great grandfather, Abraham, had several consorts. And it would seem that their situation was very similar. In the case of Abraham, peace be upon him, Sarah offers him her handmaid, Haggar, peace be upon her, and she conceives Abraham's firstborn, Ishmael, peace be upon them all. Sarah then gives birth to Isaac, peace be upon him, and then Abraham marries Keturah. (Gensis 25:1) We know from the Qur'an that there was no enmity between Ishmael and Isaac, that they were both prophets and righteous men. Why is it, that the 12 sons of Jacob, from four different mothers, two wives and two handmaids, are considered equal with one another and yet Ishmael and Isaac, born in exactly the same circumstances as Reuben, Dan, Gad and Joseph are not? The Laws and Statutes which applied to Abraham, were the same Laws which later applied to Moses. Therefore, Ishmael was not less in the eyes of God than Isaac, only in the eyes of rabid, blood and land nationalists. Furthermore, it was Ishmael who was taken to be sacrificed and not Isaac. The extent to which those propagating the myth of the chosen tribe went, in order 'to annul the Laws of God', included hiding or rewriting 'inconvenient' passages of scripture, and passing them off as 'divine revelations'; at times concealing entire books of Scripture, particularly laws prohibiting usury and fraudulent dealings, substituting in their stead biased commentaries and occult, magical, interpretations, which led on inexorably to the demise of Israel as 'The Chosen People'. This is clearly evident from a reading of II Kings, particularly chapters 21 and 22, dealing with the accession and reign of Manasseh at the age of 12, and his subsequent relapse into idolatry through the worship of Baal:  "And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger. And he set a graven image of the grove that he made in the house of which the Lord said to David and Solomon his son: 'In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put My Name forever: Neither will I make the feet of Israel move anymore out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them'. But they harkened not and Manasseh seduced them to more evil than did the nations whom the Lord destroyed before the Children of Israel... And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down. And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritence, and deliver them into the hands of their enemies..." (Kings 21:6 - 13) Following the deaths of king Menasseh and his son king Amon, king Josiah, a righteous king came to power:  "And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in all the ways of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left (he kept on the Sirat al Mustaqim - the straight way)". On reaching the age of 18 he sent Shapan the scribe with money gathered from the people to pay 'carpenters, and builders and masons'. This was paid over without the need for a detailed account because they were sincere and honest in undertaking the restoration work being carried out on the temple: 'because they dealt faithfully." (22:2-7)  During this work, The Law of Moses was discovered. The importance of this discovery cannot be stressed enough. For, only: "By the Law is the knowledge of Sin" obtained. Shaphan, having read "The Law" of Moses, went to the king and was instructed to recite it. "And it came to pass, when the king had heard  the words of the Book of Law, that he rent (tore) his clothes. And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest... Go ye, enquire of the Lord for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the Lord that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not harkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us." (22:11-12) He obtained the following answer from Huldah the prophetess:  "Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, tell the man that sent you to me, Thus saith the Lord, 'Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah hath read: Because they have foresaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the work of their hands; therefore my wrath will be kindled against this place, and shall be quenched. But to the king of Judah that sent you to enquire of the Lord, thus shall you say to him - Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, as touching the words which you have heard: Because your heart was tender, and you have humbled yourself before the Lord, when you heard that you would become a desolation and a curse, and have rent your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you, saith the Lord. Behold, therefore, I will gather you with your fathers, and you will be gathered into your graves in peace; and your eyes will not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place.' And they brought the king word again. And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem. And the king went up to the House of the Lord, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of  Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the House of the Lord. And the king stood by the pillar, and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep His commandments and his testimonies and His statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant. And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them to Beth'el. And put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah  had ordained to burn incense... unto Baal, the sun and to the moon, and to the planets and to all the host of heaven..." By his contrite submission, king Josiah obtained a stay of execution for Judah and Jerusalem. Ironically, the Zionist conference, which was largely responsible for the return of  the Zionists to Palestine, was convened at Baal (Basle) in Switzerland in 1897. As the saying goes - They never seem to learn. Which brings us back to the backdoor attempts of certain non - Torah observant Jews and their Masonic cohorts to retake the Holy Land by military conquest, under the guise of messianic and masonic Zionism. Following their last expulsion from the Holy - Land, it is well known, and widely recognized by Torah -observant Jews that, no obedient, God fearing Jew was to return to Palestine before the Messiah came, regardless of the fact that he has already been and we all await his second coming. To the less observant, and in many respects, atheistic Jews, this restriction to their fervent nationalistic aspirations was a constant source of irritation, which eventually found its mark in the fall of the Caliphate, World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, World War II, and finally the United Nations. Much of the inspiration came from having seen the success of the Central Asian kingdom of the Khazar Jews. According to Arthur Koestler:  "...as Poliak has pointed out, 'the point to retain is that in the eyes of the Russian people the neighbouring Khazariah in its final period was simply 'the Jewish State', and its army was an army of Jews... The legends which circulated among Western Jews in the Middle Ages provide a curious parallel to the Russian bylina (heroic epics).  To quote (A.N.) Poliak again: 'The popular Jewish legend does not remember a 'Khazar' kingdom but a kingdom of 'Red Jews'.' And (S.W.) Baron comments: 'The Jews of other lands were flattered by the existence of an independent Jewish state. Popular imagination found here a particularly fertile field. Just as the biblically minded Slavonic epics speak of 'Jews' rather than Khazars, so did western Jews long after spin romantic tales around those 'Red Jews', so styled perhaps because of the slight Mongolian pigmentation of many Khazars.'"  "Another bit of semi - legendary, semi - historical folklore connected with the Khazars", says Koestler, "survived into modern times, and so fascinated Benjamin Disraeli that he used it as material for a historical romance: The Wondrous Tale of Alroy. In the twelfth century there arose in Khazariah a Messianic movement, a rudamentary attempt at a Jewish crusade, aimed at the conquest of Palestine by force of arms. The initiator of the movement was a Khazar Jew, one Solomon ben Duji (or Ruhi or Roy), aided by his son Menahem and a Palestinian scribe. They wrote letters to all the Jews, near and far, in all the lands around them... They said the time had come in which God would gather Israel, His people from all lands to Jerusalem, and that Solomon Ben Duji was Elijah, and his son the Messiah. Though the movement started in Khazariah, its centre soon shifted to Kurdistan. Here David assembled a substantial armed force - possibly of local Jews, reinforced by Khazars - and succeeded in taking possession of the strategic fortress of Amadie north - east of Mosul. From here he may have hoped to lead his army to Edessa, and fight his way through Syria into the Holy Land... Among the Jews of the Middle - East, David certainly aroused fervent Messianic hopes. One of his messengers came to Baghdad and  - probably with excessive zeal - instructed its Jewish citizens to assemble on a certain night on their roofs, whence they would be flown on a cloud to the Messiah's camp... The rabbinical hierarchy in Baghdad, fearing reprisals by the authorities, took a hostile attitude to the pseudo- Messiah and threatened him with a ban. Not surprisingly, David al Roy was assassinated - But the cult did not stop there. According to one theory, the six - pointed 'Shield of David' which adorns the modern Israeli flag, started to become a symbol with David al Roy's crusade. 'Ever since', writes Baron, 'it has been suggested, the six -cornered 'shield of David', theretofore mainly a decorative motif or a magical emblem, began its career towards becoming the chief national - religious symbol of Judaism. Long used interchangeably with the pentagram or the 'Seal of Solomon', it was attributed to David in mystic and ethical German writings from the thirteenth century on, and appeared on the Jewish flag in prague in 1527'. Baron appends a qualifying note to this passage, pointing out that the connection between al Roy and the six - pointed star 'still awaits further elucidation and proof'. However that may be, we can certainly agree with Baron's dictum which concludes his chapter on the Khazaria: 'During the half millenium of its existence and its aftermath in the East - European communities, this noteworthy experiment in Jewish statecraft doubtless exerted a greater influence on Jewish history than we are as yet able to envisage'." In summing up, Koestler has this to say in Chapter 8, 'Race and  Myth': "The Jews of our times fall into two main divisions: Sephardim and Ashkenazim. The Sephardim are descendents of the Jews who since antiquity had lived in Spain (in Hebrew Sepharad) until they were expelled at the end of the fifteenth century and settled in the countries bordering on the Mediteranean, the Balkans, and to a lesser extent in Western Europe... In the 1960's the number of Serphardim was estimated at 500,000.  The Ashkenazim, at the same period, numbered about eleven million. Thus, in common parlance, Jew is practically synonymous with Ashkenazi Jew. But the term is misleading, for the Hebrew word Ashkenaz was, in medieval rabbinical literature, applied to Germany - thus contributing to the legend that modern Jewry originated on the Rhine. There is, however, no other term to refer to the non - Sepharad majority of contemporary Jewry. For the sake of piquancy it should be mentioned that the Ashkenaz of the Bible refers to a people living somewhere in the vicinity of  Mount Ararat and Armenia. The name occurs in Genesis 10,3 and I Chronicles 1 - 6, as one of the sons of Gomer, who was a son of Japheth. Ashkenaz is also a brother of Orarmah (and a Nephew of Magog) whom the Khazars, according to King Joseph, claimed as their ancestor. But worse was to come. For Ashkenaz is also named in Jeremiah 51,27, where the prophet calls his people and their allies to rise and destroy Babylon: 'Call thee upon the kingdoms of Ararat, Mini and Ashkenaz.' This passage was interpreted by the famous Saddiah Gaon, spiritual leader of Oriental Jewry in the tenth century, as a prophecy relating to his own times: Babylon symbolized the Caliphate of Baghdad, and the Ashkenaz who were to attack it were either the Khazars themselves or some allied tribe. Accordingly ... some learned Khazar Jews, who heard of the Gaon's ingenious arguments, called themselves Ashkenazim when they emigrated to Poland. It does not prove anything, but it adds to the confusion." Like British Israel, were the Ashkenaz led to believe that they also constituted one of the lost tibes of Israel? Furthermore, If we take literally the statement in the Qur'an, 2:65 that because of their 'contumacious defiance of the Law', some of the Children of Israel - who were, after all, the descendants of Shem, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob - were transformed into 'Apes despised and hated', then, is it not also possible, that some of the descendents of Japheth, such as Gog and MaGog, were similarly 'transfigured'? But in their case, they became, among other things, giants and creatures of abominable appearance?... Author: Islamic Party of Britain Date Published: Jan 1995

Selected Hadith

Selected Hadith
		On efficiency (note: Muslims are not exempted): Ibn Omar reported that the messenger of Allah said: "People are like a hundred camels amongst whom you hardly find one fit for riding." (Agreed) On our attitudes: Abu Sayeed reported that the messenger of Allah said: "You shall follow the practices of those before you, inch by inch and mile by mile, to the degree that if they enter into the hole of a lizard, you will follow them." He was asked: "O messenger of Allah, are they the Jews and Christians?" He replied: "Who else?" (Agreed) Ibn Omar reported that the messenger of Allah said: "When my nation will walk with vanity, and the sons of kings, the princes of Persia and Byzantine will serve them, Allah will give authority to the wicked over the good." (At - Tirmidhi) On our results: Thauban reported that the messenger of Allah said: "It is near that the nations will call one another against you just as the eaters call one another to their dishes." Somebody asked: "Is this because we will be few in numbers that day?" He said: "Nay, but that day you shall be numerous, but you will be like the foam of the sea, and Allah will take the fear of you away from your enemies and will place weakness into your hearts." Somebody asked: "What is this weakness?" He said: "The love of the world and the dislike of death." (Abu Daud) Abu Hurairah reported that whilst the prophet, Allah blessed him and granted him peace, was talking, a Bedouin came to him and asked: "When will the hour come to pass?" He replied: "Wait for the hour when trust will be destroyed." He asked, how it would be destroyed, and he said: "Wait for the hour when the rule will be entrusted to those who don't deserve it." (Bukhari) Anas reported that the messenger of Allah said: "The hour shall not come until time will be considered short, and a year will appear like a month, a month like a week, a week like a day, a day like an hour and an hour like a flash of fire." (Tirmidhi) Abu Hurairah reported that the messenger of Allah said: "Hasten the good works before the advent of tribulations like pieces of dark night. A man will get up a believer in the morning and end the day as an unbeliever, or end his day a believer and get up an unbeliever next morning, selling his religion for a share of this world." (Muslim) 'Auf bin Malik reported: "I came to the Prophet, Allah blessed him and granted him peace, during the battle of Tabuk while he was in a leather tent, and he said: 'Count six things before the last hour: my death, then the conquest of Jerusalem, then the pestilence that will overtake you like the disease of cattle, then the excess of wealth, so much that when a man shall be given a hundred dinars he shall remain dissatisfied, then revolution from which not a single house in Arabia shall be spared, then a treaty between you and the Westerners (Banu Asfar - the Romans), but they shall cheat you and march against you under 80 banners with 12000 soldiers under each banner. (Bukhari) What to expect next: Abdullah bin Amr reported that the messenger of Allah said: "There will come a calamity which will wipe out the Arabs. Their slain will be in hell. The tongue will be more severe in this than the blow of the sword." (Tirmidhi, Ibn Majah) Abu Hurairah reported that the messenger of Allah said: "The last hour shall not come to pass until two big parties will fight, and a great war will occur between them, and their claim will be one and the same; until nearly thirty lying Dajjals will be raised, each one of them claiming that he is the messenger of Allah; until knowledge will be held back and earthquakes will increase and time will become short and trials will appear, and killing will increase, and wealth will increase amongst you and overflow; until the owner of wealth will search to find somebody willing to accept charity, till when he gives it to somebody, that one will say: 'I have no need for it'; until people will compete with each other in building high buildings; until a man will pass by a grave and say: 'If only I were in his place'; until the sun will rise from its place of setting, and when the people will see it rise, they will all believe, and that will be when belief will not avail a soul that did not believe before or did good on account of its belief; and the hour shall come whilst two men have spread out their cloaks before them, but not yet sold them nor folded them up again; and the hour shall come whilst a man has taken the milk of his camel, but not yet tasted it; and the hour shall come when he repairs his container, but has not yet filled it with drink; and the hour shall come when he has raised a morsel to his mouth but not yet tasted it. (Agreed) On the alternatives: Ma'qal bin Yasar reported that the messenger of Allah said: "Prayer (Ibadah) at the time of turmoil is like migration (Hijrah) towards me." (Muslim) 'Omar bin al - Khattab reported that the messenger of Allah said: "Troubles will afflict my people in latter days from their rulers. None will escape from them except one who recognises Allah's religion and then fights for it with his tongue, hand and heart, and his reward will already be sure; and one who recognises the religion of Allah and holds on to it; and one who recognises the religion of Allah and keeps quiet about it - if he sees somebody who does good, he loves him, and if he sees somebody who does wrong, he is angry with him, he will be saved for all that he kept secret. (Baihaqi) 'Abdullah bin 'Amr reported that the prophet said: "How will it be with you if you are left amongst the scum of people whose covenants and trusts are loose and who will differ and become like this", and he interjoined his fingers. He asked: "What do you order me to do?" He said: "Keep to what you know, and reject what appalls you, and mind your own affairs and beware of public affairs." (Tirmidhi) On Dajjal: 'Imran bin Hussain said: "I heard the messenger of Allah, Allah blessed him and gave him peace, say: 'Between the creation of Adam and the last hour there is no greater matter than the Dajjal." (Muslim)  Nafe' bin 'Utbah reported that the messenger of Allah said: "You shall attack the peninsula of Arabia and Allah shall give you victory over it, and then Persia and Allah shall give you victory over it, then you shall attack Rome (Byzantine) and Allah shall give you victory over it, and then you shall attack the Dajjal and Allah shall give you victory over him. (Muslim) (Note: Here the Dajjal represents the ruling non - Muslim empire after the Persian and East - Roman ones.) Nawwas bin Sam'an reported that the messenger of Allah, Allah blessed him and gave him peace, mentioned the Dajjal, saying: "If he appears whilst I am amongst you, I shall argue with him on your behalf, but if he appears when I am not with you, every man will have to argue on his own behalf, and Allah will look after every Muslim instead of me. He will be a young man of curly hear, his eye will be floating, as if I compared it with 'Abd al 'Uzza, the son of Qatan. Whoever witnesses him, shall read against him the beginning of Surah al - Kahf, because it will protect you from his trials. He will come out from a place between ash - Sham (Syria, the Levant) and Iraq, and commit mischief to both the right and the left. O slaves of Allah, stand firm." We said: "O messenger of Allah, how long will he remain on the earth?", and he replied: "Forty days, a day like a year, a day like a month, a day like a week, and the rest of his days like your days." We asked: "O messenger of Allah, will on the day which is like a year a day's prayer be enough?", and he said: "No, measure it." We asked: "O messenger of Allah, how fast will he be on earth?", and he replied: "As fast as the cloud driven by the wind. He will come to people and call them, and they will believe in him. Then he will order the sky to rain on the earth and grow crops, and their cattle will graze as long as possible with large udders and full flanks. Then he will come to people who reject him, and he will turn away from them and they will face the morning bereft of any of their wealth. He will pass by a place of tribute and demand the surrender of its treasures, and its treasures will follow him like the chief of the bees. Then he will call a fat young man, strike him with the sword and cut him into two pieces like a shot at a target. Then he will call him, and he will come forward with a radiant and smiling face. Meanwhile Allah will send the Messiah, the son of Mary. He will descend near the white tower east of Damascus dressed in two red clothes, placing his hands upon the wings of two angels. When he bows his head, drops will fall from it, and when he raises it, drops like silver pearls will fall from it. Any unbeliever who breathes his air will have to die, and his breath will reach as far as his sight. He will search for him (Dajjal) until he overtakes him at the gate of Lydda where he will kill him..." (Muslim, Tirmidhi) Umm Sharik reported that the messenger of Allah said: "The people will flee from Dajjal till they will take shelter in the mountains." Umm Sharik said that she asked: "Where will be the Arabs at this time?" He answered: "They will be few." (Muslim) Abu Hurairah reported that the messenger of Allah said: "The Anti - Christ will come from the east, he will be after Madinah, and he will land behind Uhud. Then the angels will cause his face to turn towards the north (al - Sham), where he will be destroyed." (Muslim) Author: Islamic Party of Britain Date Published: Jan 1995