Ready on the Right, Ready on the Left, Ready on the Firing Line,
Waiting for the prophesied cry from the Islamic Messiah’s Throat
When He comes to issue his long awaited Cry: Commence Firing
Thereby beginning the future last prophesied Islam & Israel War
When Islamic King Of North Counterattacks Israel King Of South!
The Attack Appears Likely to Occur Sometime twixt 2014 & 2016!
May 10, 2012
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Daniel 11:40,41 – And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over. [41] He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown:
Revelation 13:1 – And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
The Concept of Messiah in Islam
By Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi
This is the transcript of the talk given on “Islam in Focus” TV program
In the name of Allãh, the Kind, the Merciful.
All praise is due to Allãh, the Lord of the universe.
May God shower His blessings upon Prophet Muhammad & his progeny.
INTRODUCTION
Islam, being the youngest of the three great revealed religions, shares many ideas and concepts with Christianity and Judaism because the origin of all three religions is the same God. One of those ideas is that of messianism, the idea of expecting someone who will came as the saviour to establish the Kingdom of God on earth.
In today’s talk, let us briefly look at the concept of messiah in Islam.
MESSIANISM IN ISLAM
Muslims believe that Muhammad was the last prophet and messenger of God. Muslims also believe that God will grant total and comprehensive victory to Islam over other religions. The holy Qur’ãn talks about this promise in three different verses. It says:
He (Allãh) is the one who sent His Messenger (Muhammad) with the guidance and the religion of truth so that He may grant victory to it over every religion.”
(The Qur’ãn 9:33; 48:28; 61:9)
When & how will this promise of God be fulfilled?
According to the unanimously accepted saying of the Prophet Muhammad, God will bring about a saviour before the end of time to establish the global domination of Islam over all religions. In other words, the saviour will establish the Kingdom of God on this earth. In Islamic traditions, that saviour is known by the name of “al-Mahdi”.
The establishment of God’s Kingdom on earth at the hand of the righteous people has been clearly mentioned in the holy Qur’ãn. God says:
We would like to bestow a favour upon those who have been oppressed in the earth and make them leaders and make them inheritors (of the world).” (The Qur’ãn 28:5)
He again says, Certainly, We wrote in the Psalms (Zabur)…`As for the earth, surely My righteous servants shall inherit it.’” (The Qur’ãn 21:105)
Even the present version of Psalms has this promise of God in chapter 37:1-29 where it says: “And just a little while longer, and the wicked ones will be no more…But the meek ones shall inherit the earth, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace…The righteous themselves shall inherit the earth.”
This shows that the belief in the saviour is not unique to the Muslims. The Christians and the Jews are also are waiting for him: the Christians are looking forward to the second coming of the Christ while the Jews are still waiting for the Messiah.
MAHDI IN ISLAM – The belief in al-Mahdi —as the embodiment of the messiah or the saviour who will appear at the end of time— is a belief in the fulfillment of God’s promise. It is a belief common to all Muslims based on the unanimously accepted sayings of the Prophet Muhammad (p.b.u.h.). Ibn Khaldun, the 14th century historian famous for his pioneering work in philosophy of history, writes in his Muqaddima:
“It has been (accepted) by all the Muslims in every epoch, that at the end of time a man from the family (of the Prophet) will, without fail, make his appearance, one who will strengthen Islam and make justice triumph. Muslims will follow him, and he will gain domination over the Muslim realm. He will be called the Mahdi.”
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Iran upgrades Palestinian Jihad Islami’s Gaza arsenal with coastal missiles, improved Qassams
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
May 7, 2012, 10:42 PM (+02:00)
Iran is working at speed to give the Jihad Islami, its radical Palestinian arm in the Gaza Strip, a strong military edge over the ruling Hamas which it no longer trusts, DEBKAfile’s exclusive military sources report. Tehran is motivated by two objectives:
1. Because of its growing distance from the Assad regime in Syria, Hamas can no longer be relied on to support the Islamic Republic’s cause and strike Israel or US Middle East targets if the latter go to war on Iran’s nuclear program.
2. One of Tehran’s top strategic priorities now is therefore to set Jihad Islami up as the spearhead of a potential attack on Israel instead of Hamas from the Gaza Strip and its Mediterranean coast.
Partly also as a rejoinder to the Qatari and Saudi arms shipments channeled to the Syrian rebels through Turkey, Iran is matching the level and quality of those arms deliveries by its own consignments through Sinai or by sea to the Gaza Strip and the Palestinian extremist group.
Those consignments have two parts:
The first entails the establishment of a line of radar-guided, shore-to-sea missiles along the Gaza coast – to prevent Israel’s missile ships getting near enough to the enclave from the Mediterranean to shell shore targets – and as a barrier against Israeli armored or special forces landings.
Iranian missile experts are on the spot setting up the missile deployments and organizing the logistics for their transfer from storage to preset launching sites. Scores of Jihad Islami fighters are undergoing special course in their use at Revolutionary Guards centers while Iranian instructors in Gaza are showing them how to use their radar systems.
For the second, Iranian and Hizballah missile engineers are working on magnifying the explosive punch, range and targeting precision of the estimated 15,000 Qassam missiles in the Jihad Islami’s armory.
To this end, they re building for the terrorists a military industry with production lines which for the first time will give them the capacity for the high-speed serial production of dozens of Qassam’s instead of producing them one at a time in small foundries.
Once those production lines are working, Jihad Islami can double the intensity of its missile attacks on Israeli locations from 100 to 200 per day. Their range has also been improved so as to bring Tel Aviv and its southern environs within reach of upgraded Qassams launched from the Gaza Strip.
According to DEBKAfile’s military sources, Iran and Jihad Islami welcome Israel’s sudden decision to hold an early election on September 4 because they believe its leaders will be too busy campaigning to interfere with the Iranian-Palestinian military buildup going forward apace in the Gaza Strip. By the time the next Israeli government is in place, most likely headed by the incumbent Binyamin Netanyahu, their new deployment and armaments will already be in place.
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May 7, 2012
By Elad Benari
Erodgan says Addad ‘Losing Grop’ on Syria
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Assad’s grip on Syria is getting weaker and “victory is close.”
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that President Bashar Assad’s grip on Syria is getting weaker by the day and “victory is close,” according to a report in The Associated Press.
Erdogan’s remarks were made in an address to thousands of cheering Syrians who fled a brutal crackdown on an anti-regime uprising.
“Bashar is losing blood day by day,” Erdogan was quoted by AP as having told a crowd at a refugee camp near the town of Kilis, just across from Syria. “Sooner or later, those who have oppressed our Syrian brothers will be accounted for before their nation. Your victory is close.”
Turkey hosts around 23,000 Syrian refugees, who live in several tent camps along the border. The camp Erdogan visited houses more than 9,500 refugees. Two were killed there by cross-border fire from Syria last month.
Erdogan’s comments came a day before Syria was to hold parliament elections. The regime has portrayed the vote for a 250-member parliament as a sign of its willingness to carry out democratic reforms.
Syria’s opposition, however, dismissed the election on Sunday as a cynical attempt to salvage Assad’s tattered legitimacy and asked voters to stay away.
Assad’s opponents say elections cannot be held under the threat of gunfire. Activists said at least five people were killed by army gunfire Sunday.
“We think the elections have no credibility at all in the middle of a situation where the regime is killing the population,” Bassma Kodmani, a spokeswoman for the Syrian National Council, the main opposition group in exile, told AP. “It is an insult to the democratic process.”
An April 12 truce that was part of a peace plan for Syria by special envoy Kofi Annan has failed to take hold. UN officials hope a wider deployment of up to 300 international truce monitors will gradually calm the situation. About 40 observers are currently in Syria.
According to the AP report, UN observers visited the towns of Zabadani and Dael on Sunday, and regime forces fired randomly into Dael after they left, wounding three people.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an activist group, said four people were killed by regime gunfire in the city of Homs and a fifth in an arrest raid in the capital of Damascus.
Monday’s elections come three months after the adoption of a new constitution that allows the formation of political parties to compete with Assad’s ruling Baath party and limits a president to two seven-year terms. Assad succeeded his father, and the two have been in power for a total of 42 years.
Opposition leaders said any reforms without their input are a farce.
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