Assalaam alaikum akhi
Kung Fu wrote:God willing this can be the catalyst that drives Muslims and the Middle East to ban together and work for the betterment of the Palestinians and the rest of the Muslims around the world being bombed indiscriminately.
Amen to that,
It's gonna get worse before it gets better though, from what I understand.
(sorry readers, this is referencing a scriptural narrative from the faith of Islam, I hope you don't mind)
The hadeeth:
Son of Hajr Al-'Asqalani related that Abu Idris Al- Khaulani heard from Nahik son of Surim Al-Sakuni that the Messenger of Allah; Muhammad said:
"You will fight the unbelievers until the remnant of you fights on the River Jordan, you to the east of it and they to the west of it." Al-Saukuni said that he did not know where on earth the Jordan was at that time. (Collection: Ahmad)
What are the odds that a State of Israel will arise and have as its Eastern border the very dividing line of the River Jordan that the Prophet pbuh said would be the demarcation line between the Muslim armies and the Judeo-Christian armies! This is a prophecy fulfilled indeed!
"And war in a country smaller than the end bone of the spinal cord, the World will gather for it's sake, as if it is the richest nation in the world for which the world has gathered to feast around. Its leader will surrender the banner to the leader of all Evil, which will come from the furthest Western shores, then the beginning of the end as it wails to all the world to come to its aid. The leader will regain his throne and Iraq will be destroyed in the confrontation at the end of time. The leader of the tiny nation will fight the Army of the Mahdi, and the same tiny nation is again threatened with destruction because its leader is the cause of its corruption....the Mahdi orders his execution and the small bone returns to the main body again".
(Ref: Asmal Masalik Lieyyam Mahdiyy Maliki Li Kull-id Dunya Biemrillah-il Malik, Qalda bin Zayd)
Note: The tiny nation mentioned in the above mentioned hadeeth,is said to be Israel.
Abu Nadhrah says:
"We were sitting in the company of Jabir son of Abdullah when he said: 'Soon the people of Iraq will neither receive any food (grain) nor any money.'" We asked,
"Why would such a thing happen?" He replied,
"Because of the non-Arabs." He then said:
"Soon the people of (Syria) will neither receive any money nor grain." We asked as to why this would happen. He replied:
"Because of the Romans." (At-Taj, Ali Nâsif al-Hussein)
Note: The Romans do indeed prevent food from going into Iraq, in the form of "sanctions" to this day, which started after the Gulf War. Also it says Syria would also suffer the same fate, as the United States has threatened to (if it hasn't already) put sanctions on them.
Our Prophet said:
'There will be such troubles and calamities that nobody will be able to find a place of shelter. These woes will move around (Syria), fall upon Iraq and tie the hands and feet of the Arabian Peninsula. Community of Islam will fight against troubles in the steppes. Nobody will feel any sympathy for them or even say, 'Alas!' As they try to remedy their woes on the one hand, they will emerge again on the other.'(Muntakhab Kanzul Ummal, vol. 5, pp. 38-39)
I can go ON AND ON AND ON AND ON. There are many many ahadeeth prophesying the end time events which play out like a well rehearsed drama in our own period of history which we believe is the end time.
These hadeeth are over 14 centuries old and perfectly applicable to what we are experiencing in the world today.
They are not up for interpretation, as their meanings are obvious.
None needs a scholar to explain these hadeeth.
They are not allegorical, metaphorical, mysterious, analogous or anything - they are plain to read and understand and it is left to you - the reader - to discern their accuracy.
God bless.
Scimi