Comment on The future, Islam, and Islam's future: resisting or surrendering to secularism. by q2025

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q2025 · 4/18/2025, 6:35:11 PM · permalink

Peace!  
I think @deletejuice has done a great job in detailing the prophecies.   
I found Islam a month before the start of the pandemic, and this concept of prophesied decline and defeat was almost impossible to decipher. Mainly because although this message has also been sent by God, through David and Jesus before, it's something that most westerners only hear in passing, without much explanation.   
  
Jesus (peace upon him) said nearly the same thing in Mathew 5:5 "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth" and David (peace upon him) said the same in Psalms 37:11 "But the meek will inherit the land and enjoy peace and prosperity". The Latin and Hebrew words for meek have also been translated as the humble, the gentle, the ones who mourn.   
  
Islam just gives more details so we see that it's not only in a spiritual sense of inheriting the earth after the day of judgment, but also in a literal sense, after the battle of Armageddon.  
  
According to prophesies in the hadith, the abridged version of the end of days goes something along these lines:  
  
Moral decline and excessive materialism in humanity, not just muslims. Glorification of immorality and public indecency, the inability to distinguish men from women, Arabs making tall buildings, tunnels around Mecca, and a few other very specific prophesies have already passed.   
The emigration of 70,000 jews from Iran to Israel, also already happened.   
  
An increase in the number of declared or born muslims but a decline in the number of muslims who live righteously. Muslim countries become helpless and weak. Attacked from outside and civil wars within muslim countries.  
  
When Jerusalem is constructed (probably a reference to when Solomons temple is rebuilt) it leads to the defeat of Medina, which, given its importance to Muslims means theres a large scale war on Muslim countries.  Medina is emptied for 40 years with grand building but no humans, and domesticated animals turn rabid. The last 2 humans in Medina will be dead by the time they reach the city borders. The way that it's described sounds similar to radiation poisoning to me.   
  
Around the same time, we are told to expect the anti-christ, or Dajjal as he's known is Islam. In Islam the anti-christ or Dajjal would perform magic like bringing rain to drought plagued areas, increasing crop yields, and cutting a man in two and then putting him back together and making him alive again. He would also seem to bring back to life the dead parents of some people. He would claim to be the promised Messiah and he will be blind in one eye. Due to his magic most jews would accept him as the Messiah and many Christians would think of him as the second coming of Christ. His will conquer the middle east and reign would last almost 1 year and 4 months.  
  
After this the real Jesus will return and kill the anti-christ Dajjal and all the surviving Christians, Muslims and other believers would accept Jesus as a prophet of the one creator God and become one nation of humanity under his leadership. And at that moment Gog and Magog will be unleashed and will conquer the lands and kill almost everyone other than people "living in fortresses" and hiding in mountains. There will a thousand of them to every human. (Some people think they're a subterranean race but I think they'll be aliens.)  
  
At some point Jesus will pray to God for relief and all the Gog and Magog will die simultaneously from a "worm" in their necks. Sounds to me like war of the worlds and world War X both copied this version for their story lines.   
  
Anyway, back to the prophecies. The death of Gog and Magog will usher in a new era with humanity living as one nation under the leadership of Jesus who will get married, have children and die a natural death. This will be a time of great prosperity and peace since all humans would be united. And this is the time frame when "the meek shall inherit the earth" for many years.  
  
(That was the Ahhhhhh moment for me right there.)  
  
So yes, true muslims, those of knowledge and faith, know that Muslims as a whole will face moral decay and then military defeat, followed by a horrific annihilation at the hand of non-muslims, the anti-christ and then gog and magog.  
  
And we know that just like good muslims suffer and get defeated, good people also suffer horribly. But in Islam its not because God needs human suffering for salvation. No, rather it's because it's a test of our faith. To have faith when confronted by the most irrational of evil, secure in the knowledge that no matter how bad it gets for us or for others, it's a test of our faith, our belief that this life is temporary and superficial and God is just and kind and will compensate the believers who have done good deeds.   
  
And understanding the last paragraph above... that made all the difference to me personally. Because my issue with God had always been how he could allow suffering of the innocents. And now I had an answer. Quran says that our entire lifespan will seem like a few hours when our souls are woken up from the sleep of death. And those that maintained their faith and did good deeds would be the ones who knew it was all temporary and superficial and what seems like defeat and suffering are just temporary tests.   
  
My apologies for such a long answer, but I thought it might shed more light on the grander concepts of the questions you asked.  
  
Peace 🙏

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