Posted on 11/12/2005 8:55:59 PM PST by Dajjal
N.B. -- This is one of those column types where the author first summarizes a news item in one paragraph, and then expresses his opinion afterwards. The news item paragraph will be in bold type and Khaled Ahmed's comments in plain type (as they are at the source).
And thanks, AdmSmith, for showing me the article!
SECOND OPINION
Khaled Ahmed’s Review of the Urdu press
Friday, November 11, 2005
The Tradition of Imam Mehdi in Jeopardy
Maybe lawyer MD Tahir should take both Allama Qadiri and Dr Israr to court and seek some kind of decision or punishment for them. Imam Mehdi is no joke!
Pakistan is on an Imam Mehdi binge. Expatriate Pakistanis have especially requested TV channels to run the story of the ‘end of the world’ again and again. It is ominous that the October 8 earthquake came when the doomsday mood was already in full bloom because of the Imam Mehdi programmes. Now the people want more of the doomsday Dajjal fable to feed their philosophy of despair.
Quoted in daily Pakistan (October 8, 2005) Allama Tahirul Qadiri said in Lahore that in his next sermon he would precisely forecast the coming of Imam Mehdi. He said Imam Mehdi’s coming was foretold in 200 hadith reports and anyone who did not believe in his coming was not a Muslim. Imam Mehdi was to be the last ruler of the Islamic state, after which the world would be no more. He said the Sunnis believed that Imam Mehdi was yet to be born while the Shia thought he was born but had gone underground. He said some misled ulema were saying that Imam Mehdi had already been born in 1960. He was therefore to spend the month of Ramazan to explain the coming of Imam Mehdi. The first period of omens had passed and the second was unfolding but it is after the third period that he would come. He will meet Christ in Jerusalem where he will lead him at namaz of Fajr, after which they would open the door of the city to find Dajjal with his army of 30,000 confronting them. Imam Mehdi will put Dajjal to death. He will also kill 30 other Dajjals claiming to be prophets.
If there are 200 hadith reports on the coming of Dajjal and Imam Mehdi, they better be consistent or we will have chaos on our hands. Allama Tahirul Qadiri is clearly aroused by Dr Israr Ahmad’s pre-emptive discourse on Imam Mehdi. Dr Israr says Imam Mehdi is already among us having been born in 1962. Now Allama Sahib (since the above report) has predictably forecast the coming of Imam Mehdi hundreds of years from now. This creates a crisis bigger than the American attack on Iraq. If Imam Mehdi has not been born (which presumes that Dajjal is also not born perhaps as George Bush) then we might start considering living normally instead of calling off all bets and waiting for the Final Battle. Maybe MD Tahir, the Great Lawyer of Lahore, should take both Allama Qadiri and Dr Israr to court and seek some kind of decision or punishment for them. Imam Mehdi is no joke!
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Writing in daily Pakistan (October 2, 2005) Nasim Shahid expressed his shock and grief at reading The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in which the Jewish leaders planned to conquer the world in a secret meeting in 1897. The document said that Jews were spreading hatred and prejudice so that the world may fight. Another protocol said that Muslims were like sheep while the Jews were wolves. The columnist said he was greatly shocked and surprised at the effectiveness of the Protocols today, meaning that the plan to conquer the world was still on.
The world no longer listens to this. The Protocols were proved a forgery in the European courts when the Europeans were crazed by anti-Semitism. After killing six million Jews, Hitler, in his last will and testament, stated that he was most reluctant to inflict wars on other nations, but the Jews had made him do all the evil deeds. After writing the will, Hitler had shot himself through the head. *
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Pakistan is on an Imam Mehdi binge.
He may laugh about it, but it has been my warning that one of the reasons Muslims are strapping on explosives and walking into hotels and restaurants is that they see themselves as members of the Mahdi's army which is guaranteed victory over the Dajjal (Western civilization) by the hadith.
If there are 200 hadith reports on the coming of Dajjal and Imam Mehdi, If there are 200 hadith reports on the coming of Dajjal and Imam Mehdi, they better be consistent or we will have chaos on our hands.
The urbane Mr. Ahmed may laugh, because he knows that the 200 hadith (like 200 Nostradamus prophecies) are objectively inconsistent. But believers do read them in ways they believe to be consistent.
... If there are 200 hadith reports on the coming of Dajjal and Imam Mehdi, they better be consistent or we will have chaos on our hands.
What do you mean "or we will have chaos"??? We already have had chaos from Qiyamic jihad for many years now -- through 9/11 and now 11/9!!!
Mr. Ahmed seems to think Allama Tahirul Qadiri's preaching about the End Times is only about the earthquakes in Pakistan as a "tribulation." He should get his head out of the sand (as should our own reporters -- and politicians) and see what a serious problem Islamic expectations of the Qiyama really is!!!
See my FR homepage for more information on the subject. And I recommend everyone read Prof. David Cook's Contemporary Muslim Apocalyptic Literature. Buy extra copies and give them to your friends for Christmas & Hanukkah!
Islamic End-Times ping
Contemporary Muslim Apocalyptic Literature
by David Cook
x, 272 pages
Syracuse University Press, 2005
0-8156-3058-1 (hardbound) $34.95
...
I've done a bit of study on Islamic eschatology myself. It's interesting that the Madhi of Islam perfectly matches the profile of the Antichrist/Beast/Man of Sin of the Bible.
Quoted in daily Pakistan (October 8, 2005) Allama Tahirul Qadiri said in Lahore that in his next sermon he would precisely forecast the coming of Imam Mehdi. He said Imam Mehdi’s coming was foretold in 200 hadith reports and anyone who did not believe in his coming was not a Muslim. Imam Mehdi was to be the last ruler of the Islamic state, after which the world would be no more. He said the Sunnis believed that Imam Mehdi was yet to be born while the Shia thought he was born but had gone underground. He said some misled ulema were saying that Imam Mehdi had already been born in 1960. He was therefore to spend the month of Ramazan to explain the coming of Imam Mehdi. The first period of omens had passed and the second was unfolding but it is after the third period that he would come. He will meet Christ in Jerusalem where he will lead him at namaz of Fajr, after which they would open the door of the city to find Dajjal with his army of 30,000 confronting them. Imam Mehdi will put Dajjal to death. He will also kill 30 other Dajjals claiming to be prophets... Writing in daily Pakistan (October 2, 2005) Nasim Shahid expressed his shock and grief at reading The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in which the Jewish leaders planned to conquer the world in a secret meeting in 1897. The document said that Jews were spreading hatred and prejudice so that the world may fight. Another protocol said that Muslims were like sheep while the Jews were wolves. The columnist said he was greatly shocked and surprised at the effectiveness of the Protocols today, meaning that the plan to conquer the world was still on.
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