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
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