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Actually Islam has it's end-times prophecies too. It's been a long time since I've read them but they are detailed mostly in the hadith as I recall, and not in the Quran, although some of it certainly is in the Quran. It's pretty scary, graphy hellfire and brimstone stuff. Not for the faint of heart.

What I find intriguing about Islam is the concept of the "Satanic verses". (Salman Rushdie borrowed that term when he wrote the novel that triggered the infamous fattwa on his life.) The Satanic verses were originally believed to be part of the Quran but were later determined to have been inspired by Satan instead of Allah. The question that always got me into a LOT of trouble every single time I asked it was "then how does one know which verses were of Satanic inspiration and which were of divine inspiration." The response I was always given was that the distinction was handed down in the hadith.

I'm sure there are people here who have a much stronger knowledge of Biblical history than I, but I don't recall any of the Biblical prophets receiving Satanic revelations. In fact, I thought the test of a true prophet was that they ONLY spoke the word of God.

Anyway I digress. This passage you refer to could be one of the many Islamic tracts out there that are purely Islamic recruitment and educational tracts, it could be a message, or it could be both.

In other words, I have no clue. But hey - I contributed a trivia question for the day!