Imran Nazar Hosein was born in the Caribbean island of Trinidad in 1942 from parents whose ancestors had migrated as indentured labourer from India. He is a graduate of the Aleemiyah Institute in Karachi and has studied at sevaral instutions of higher learning including the University of Karachi,the University of the West Indies, Al Azhar University and the Graduate Institute of International Relations in Switzerland. He worked for several years as a Foreign Service Officer in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Trinidad and Tobago but gave up his job in 1985 to devote his life to the mission of Islam. He lived in New York for ten years during which time he served as the Director of Islamic Studies for the Joint Committee of Muslim Organizations of Greater New York. He lectured on Islam in several American and Canadian universities, colleges, churches, synagogues, prisons, community halls, etc. He also participated in many inter-faith dialogues with Christian and Jewish scholars while representing Islam in USA. He was the Imam, for sometime, at Masjid Dar al-Qur'an in Long Island, New York. He also led the weekly Juma'ah prayers and delivered the sermon at the United Nations headquarters in Manhattan once a month for ten years continuously. He is a former Principal of the Aleemiyah Institute of Islamic Studies in Karachi, Pakistan, Director of Research of the World Muslim Congress in Karachi, Pakistan, Director of the Islamic Institute for Education and Research in Miami, Florida, and Director of D'awah for Tanzeem-e-Islami of North America. Below are some excerpts from his book "An Islamic View of Gog and Magog".
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THE IMPORTANCE
OF ‘SIGNS OF THE LAST
DAY
IN THE MODERN AGE’
Prophet
Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah Most High be upon him) said:
“The world is like a
garment torn from end to end and hanging by a thread that would soon be cut
off.” (Sunan
Baihaqī)
A grasp of the subject of ‘Signs
of the Last Day’, or more precisely ‘Last Hour’, in which Dajjal the false Messiah and Gog and Magog are
located, is crucially important for a number of reasons. Most important of all,
it allows Islamic scholarship to expose the inadequacy of all rivals – secular
and religious, internal
and external – when they seek to
explain the strategic, political, economic, religious and spiritual reality of
today’s corrupted and collapsing world characterized by universal Fasad.
Can all of these
events be occurring by accident?
A grasp of the subject, ‘Signs of
the Last Day’, allows a believer to so penetrate reality to be capable of
responding appropriately to many other unique and mysterious events unfolding
in this strange age. That grasp of reality would explain:
1. Contemporary globalization in which all of mankind is being
absorbed into one essentially godless and decadent global society;
2. The emergence of world government and a universal political
dictatorship which makes a mockery of state sovereignty;
3. An interconnected global usury-based economy that spawns
unprecedented permanent global poverty and unheard of permanent wealth;
4. A bogus and fraudulent international monetary system of
non-redeemable paper currencies which makes it possible for some to
fraudulently enrich themselves at the expense of others when they thus create
wealth out of nothing. In addition, when currencies lose their (fictitious)
value they cause the loss of the many to become the gain of the few;
5. The imminent establishment of a new international monetary
system of one global cashless electronic currency, controlled by a universal
centrally-controlled banking system subservient to the State of Israel;
6. A feminist revolution transforming the ‘night’ (symbolizing
the female) into ‘day’ and in the process causing the disintegration of the
family;
7. Mega sporting and entertainment extravaganzas such as Olympic
Games, World Cup football and cricket, Miss World and Miss Universe beauty
contests and US Presidential elections that function as brilliantly conceived and
designed distractions which effectively detract attention from the ominous
reality of the modern age;
8. Television (including Islamic cable) that distorts
reality and brainwashes those who uncritically absorb lies and in the case of
Islamic cable television it’s 5% of skillfully delivered poison, etc.
Can all of these events be
occurring by accident? If not, what is it that explains them?
It is by far the most important
event remaining to occur in history and is now so close that children now at
school should live to witness it.
Prophet Muhammad’s (sallalahu
‘alaihi wa sallam) Ahadīth on the subject indicate that before
the true Messiah can return, Dajjāl the false
Messiah must first be released into the world and must then complete his
mission of impersonation of the true Messiah. As a logical consequence, Dajjāl would have to
attempt to rule the world from Jerusalem and to then declare “I am the
Messiah”. Only at that time, and not before, can Jesus the true Messiah return
to this world to confront, expose and destroy Dajjāl. Only then can
he pray to Allah, as prophesied by Prophet Muhammad, to bring an end to the
evil world-order of Y’ajūj (i.e. Gog) and M’ajūj (i.e. Magog).
It is this system of meaning
which allows us to recognize Dajjāl as the
mastermind who brought this Gog and Magog world order into being to function as
the basic instrument for achieving his rule over the world. Dajjāl launched his
attacks medieval European Crusades quite some time ago to eventually gain
control over the Holy Land, restore a State of Israel in that Holy Land, and establish
Pax Judaica i.e. a universal messianic Israeli dictatorship over all of
mankind. He could not do this without destroying the Islamic Caliphate (Khilāfah). He has
been using his people (i.e. Gog and Magog) from the very commencement of his
mission to fight his battles for him. .
We have previously explained in
‘Surah
al-Kahf and the Modern Age’ that this Surah holds the
key to the Qur’anic explanation of the ‘Signs of the Last Hour’. The blessed
Prophet asked believers to recite the first ten verses of the Surah for protection
from the tests and trials (Fitnah) of Dajjal the false Messiah,
and it was in this Surah that the Quran first
introduced and explained the subject of Gog and Magog.
It is quite significant that this
Surah
commenced with a verse directing attention to a people who declared that Allah
Most High took unto himself a son:
Furthermore, (this divine writ is
meant) to warn all those who assert, “Allah has taken unto Himself a son.” (Qur’ān, al-Kahf,
18:4)
The Surah then
proceeded to narrate the story in which some young men with faith in their
hearts (and who were thus not afraid to grow their beards) fled from enemies
who were waging war on Islam. Those enemies worshipped gods other than Allah
Most High. Today’s modern world that wages war on Islam is comprised of
precisely such people. They are Dajjal’s peoples and
they seize such young and ardent Muslims and subject them to states’ sponsored terrorism/torture
in places such as Guantanamo, the US military base in Cuba. Those young men in
Surah
al-Kahf fled for safety to a cave. They acted in that way in order to preserve
faith in Allah Most High. They then prayed to Allah for help. Allah Most High then
put them to sleep and they slept for 300 years. Divine intervention saved the
youths from harm. The Sūrah went on to establish a link between
this story and the Divine warning (Wa‘d) of a terrible age of trials and
tribulations (i.e. the age of Fitan) that was to come. When that age arrives it
would witness the continuous unfolding of Signs of the Last Hour (Sā‘ah):
“And in this way have We drawn
attention to their story, so that they (i.e. mankind) might know (whenever this
subject is studied or discussed) that Allah’s warning (concerning an age to
come that would be one of great trials and tribulations) is true, and that
there can be no doubt as to (the coming of) the Last Hour . . .” (Qur’ān, al-Kahf,
18:21)
That age of Fitan concerning
which both Allah Most High and His Messenger, Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu
‘alaihi wa sallam) had warned has already arrived! Muslims around the world are
now targeted and terrorized by a ‘war on terror’ — mearly a repetition of that
‘war on Islam’ described in the Surah. The story helps
our readers to recognize the reality of that war to be a ‘Sign’ of the ‘Last
Hour’. The Sūrah helps us to recognise those ‘people of
Dajjal’
who are now waging war on Islam to be Gog and Magog. They are a people who
declare that Allah Most High took unto Himself a son!
In order to survive that war on
Islam with faith intact, Muslims would have to follow the example of the youth
in Sūrah
al-Kahf. They responded to war on Islam at that time by avoiding a head-on confrontation
with that evil storm. Rather they opted for strategic withdrawal and sought
refuge in a cave.
Today’s war on Islam would
constantly intensify until an evil messianic Israeli political economic
financial and, of course, military dictatorship is eventually imposed upon the
whole world. But Israel must first wage a big war or wars. That war could involve
a US/ Indian attack on Pakistan’s nuclear plants simultaneous with an Israeli
attack on Iran’s nuclear installations. It is possible that nuclear weapons would be used in
those attacks.
When big wars succeed in
eliminating all such obstacles, a universal dictatorship would then be
successfully imposed upon all of mankind. At that time, the world would witness
such oppression that Muslims would eventually have to follow the same strategy
of strategic withdrawal from the path of the evil Gog and Magog storm while
retreating to places like the remote countryside. The blessed Prophet
anticipated the advent of precisely such a time and advised as follows:
Narrated Abū
Sa'īd Al-Khudri:
Allah's Messenger said, "There will come a time when the best property of a
Muslim will be sheep which he will take to the tops of mountains and the places
of rainfall so as to flee with his religion from trials and afflictions (i.e.
Fitan).” (Sahīh Bukhāri)
It is only in such remote
communities that freedom would exist in which young Muslims can be nurtured
into men and women with backbones made of iron and steel. Only such Muslims would
continuously resist oppression. Only they would refuse to submit to and make
peace with an evil messianic Israeli dictatorship that continues to oppress
innocent believers and to hold on to the blood-stained fruits of its oppression
in the Holy Land in particular.
Fourteen hundred years ago
Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) of Arabia, who could neither
read nor write and who never travelled out of his native Arabia except for two business
trips to Damascus, prophesied very strange things that would eventually happen
in the world. He explained that they would be ‘Signs of the Last Hour’. He
prophesied, for example:
“Women would
dress like men”.
They now dress with jackets and trousers and even a tie in ‘working clothes’
that are quite masculine. A woman who has worked in Trinidad’s Hilton Hotel (managed
by a Muslim) for fourteen years and was recognized for her good work, was
recently consigned to the ‘dog house’ because she resisted a new uniform
requiring her to dress like a man, tie and all! Women now wear ‘blue jeans’ that
appear to be an exact replica of men’s trousers. They do so in consequence of a
modern feminist revolution master-minded by Dajjāl the false Messiah.
He misled them into compromising their basic functional role in society as
wives and mothers while seeking to assume the functional role of men instead.
As consequences so many of the young have grown up with part-time mothers and that
has been something very grievous to them. Some women also dress like men
projecting masculinity, sometimes attracting other women and creating
opportunity for the establishment of lesbian sexual relationships;
“Women would be
dressed and would yet be naked”. Nakedness in dress has now become
commonplace amongst women influenced by Dajjāl’s modern
feminist revolution. Tight-fitting clothing left nothing for the imagination since
the ‘feminine assets’ were on display. The natural consequence of this feminine
nakedness has been a sexual revolution that eventually made sex as freely
available as sunshine. Marriage and marital vows constituted an obstacle to
such ‘sunshine sex’. As a consequence the institution of marriage was attacked
in such a way that it is now likely to eventually disappear. Sexual promiscuity
and the attack on marriage, in turn, wreaked havoc on the institution of the
family and is leading inevitably to the collapse of society. Whoever lowers his
gaze from what Allah has forbidden, may Allah give his inner sight abundant
light. Āmīn.
“Men would dress
like women”.
A man cannot dress as a woman and yet keep a beard on his face. The
disappearance of the beard from the face of the male that has already taken
place in modern Western civilization, and has already impacted on the rest of
the world of men, makes the eventual fulfilment of this amazing prophecy
connected to Dajjāl now possible. The Saudi ‘apology for a
beard’ made its appearance in the heartland of Islam, only to be rivaled by
Shuyukh of Al-Azhar University, Islam’s famous institution of higher Islamic
learning, who shaved off their beards completely. It is almost certain that a
man would want to dress like a woman so that he could attract other men.
Hence prevalence of homosexuality
would be a Sign of the Last Hour. Already the so-called democratic Western
world is shamelessly imposing its perverted homosexual agenda upon schools. It thus appears that a reconstruction and redefinition
of the male and female conduct and roles in sexual relations as well as in
society, as a prelude to the transformation of society, is a necessary
corollary of Dajjāl’s modern feminist revolution;
“People would
have sexual intercourse in public like donkeys”. Widespread
pornography with explicit sexual intercourse now publicly available just a
click away on the main Yahoo and Hotmail webpage banners on the internet, on
cable television and in video shops at street corners in cities around the
world did not appear by accident. Rather it represents dramatic fulfillment of
this prophecy. The prophecy also indicates that a time would come when people
who are under the control of Dajjāl would prefer
to engage in sex in public rather than in private. Sexual intercourse in places
like public parks or in motor cars etc., is already taking place in major
cities of the modern secular Euro-Western world in fulfilment of this prophecy.
It should not be long before Bombay, Dubai, Karachi, Jakarta, Ankara, etc., would
also be inundated with pornography and the youth of these places as well, would
join in the ‘fun’. It is also possible that diabolically clever genetic
re-engineering of food and drink as well as hormonal drugs (e.g., Viagra) can explain
the creation of uncontrollable sexual appetite;
“A slave woman
would give birth to her mistress”. This indicates that a form of slavery
would occur at the end of history in which the wombs of women enslaved in
permanent poverty and destitution would become factories to bear babies for
(mostly upper and middle class) women rendered infertile in consequence of Dajjāl’s feminist
revolution. That Ribā-based economy in which money is lent on
interest and bogus and utterly fraudulent non-redeemable paper-currencies
constantly lose value, has already imprisoned the masses in permanent and ever-increasing
poverty, while establishing permanently wealthy ruling elites whose wealth
constantly increase. The Ribā economy
originated in modern Western civilization and has already trapped all of
mankind in its poisonous embrace.
In addition, Dajjāl’s feminist
revolution causes women to become infertile as they seek to assume the
functional role of men in society and as a consequence, delay pregnancy until
it is too late, hence the need to rent-a-womb (i.e. a surrogate mother). The poor
surrogate mother is paid for her services after the baby is born and she then
returns to slavery while her daughter joins the slave-master class that rules
over the slaves, hence a slave woman gives birth to her mistress;
“Bare-footed
shepherds would compete with each other in the construction of lofty buildings” Already the
rest of the world is faithfully following the Manhattan model of skyscrapers.
They do so with dogmatic conviction that tall buildings are a symbol of
progress and a source of pride. They believe that tall buildings convey a
message to the world that non-Europeans, with their ‘Petronas’ twin towers in
Kuala Lumpur, the ‘Songdo Incheon’ tower in Seoul, the ‘Burj’ in Dubai, etc.,
are now equal to the modern Euro-West as “developed societies” and are no
longer a poor and backward people. In fact, such people have the intellectual
acumen of “naked barefooted shepherds”. In the Arab world the Bedouins of the
time of the blessed Prophet, who were sometimes described as “naked barefooted
shepherds”, are today competing with each other in Kuwait, the Emirates, Dubai and
Saudi Arabia in the height of their buildings in a literal fulfilment of the
prophecy;
“The worst
people would become leaders” and “the worst member of a tribe would become the
leader of the tribe. People would obey and follow him, not because of respect
for his leadership but because of fear of the evil he can do”.
“I see Harj
falling on your rooftops like rain”, said the Prophet. They asked, “what is
Harj?” He replied “killing and slaughter”. He went on to prophesy that this
explosion of killing and slaughter that would overtake society in the Last Age
would be so random and senseless that “the one who was killed would not know
why he was killed, and the one who was killing would not know why he was
killing”.
He also prophesied that each new
day would be worse than the one which preceded it. Around the world today
violent crimes have escalated and no government can control such crimes.
However it is modern Western civilization and, in particular, USA, that has the
evil distinction of being the greatest perpetrator of state-sponsored killing
and slaughter.
Beside prophecies that have been
mentioned above, there are many other prophecies of events that would take
place constituting ‘Signs of the Last Hour’, but the most important are those pertaining
to the destiny of Jerusalem and the Holy Land. The blessed Prophet prophesied,
for example, the miraculous return of the true Messiah, Jesus the son of the
Virgin Mary (peace and blessings of Allah Most High be upon them both):
Narrated Abu Hurairah:
Allah's Messenger said, "By Him in Whose Hands is my soul, surely (Jesus) the
son of Mary will soon descend amongst you and will judge mankind justly (as a
just ruler); he will break the cross and kill the pigs and there will be no
more Jizyah (i.e. punitive taxation of a subject people who have been defeated
in a just war and whose territory has been occupied). Money will be in
abundance so that nobody will accept it and a single prostration to Allah (in
prayer) will be better than the whole world and whatever is in it."
Abu Hurairah added "If
you wish, you can recite (this verse of the Holy Book): -- And there is none of
the people of the Scriptures (Jews and Christians) but must believe in him
(i.e. Jesus, as the true Messiah, as a Messenger of Allah, and a human being)
before his death. And on the Day of Judgment he will be a witness against
them." (4.159)
