Posted on 01/04/2006 10:59:01 PM PST by Dajjal
This article represents a different interpretation of the Dajjal hadiths by a rather well-known Muslim preacher, Harun Yahya.
I do not share Mr. Yahya's POV, but believe it deserves a fair hearing, and a posting at Free Republic for informational purposes.
If I may summarize his opinion (and I hope I'm doing it justice) it goes something like this:
* The signs are all around us that the world is coming to an end, and that the Day of Judgment is near
* Isa (the Muslim version of Jesus) will be descending on a cloud soon for his second coming
* Materialism, atheism, lust, greed, hatred, etc. are becoming more and more powerful as the End Time approaches
* Some Muslims are misinterpretting the Qur'an and becoming terrorists
* Christians, Jews, Hindus, etc. are likewise turning to retaliatory violence against this terrorism
* This spiral of increasing violence is what Satan wants
* God wants us to sit down resolve our various disagreements peacefully
I hope I haven't mangled Yahya's beliefs too badly in that summary. It is a bit too Muslim-hippy-ish for my taste. But, frankly, I wish more Muslims were followers of Mr. Yahya, and fewer were aiming weapons at my countrymen and women.
It is important to point out that the belief that the Dajjal will appear on earth shortly before Judgment Day is part of Islamic dogma. Every faithful Muslim must believe it in some interpretation.
One crucial matter of interpretation is whether a Muslim believes that the End Times are coming soon, or whether they will come in the far-off, distant future.
Personally, I would prefer that people just project it into that distant future. But if a Muslim is going to believe that the End Times are coming soon, I'd rather he adopt some non-violent, anti-terrorist interpretation of the hadith, such as Mr. Yahya has developed.
Muslim End-Times ping
You were here earlier.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1551582/posts
Islamic Dragger
http://www.freerepublic.com/~islamicdragger/
Does it really take that many words to remind us that Moos suck?
I dunno.
This was already posted, and here it is tehexact same thing.
There is not enough hookah and ganja in the world to get me to plow through all that gibberish.
ping for later digestion.
I wish I had got to that thread earlier. It is extremely important for the US and our Allies to understand the Muslim End-Times beliefs. Many terrorists are motivated by their interpretation of them.
The beliefs of Muslims like Harun Yahya need to be understood seriously as the US develops its post-9/11 policy toward the Middle East and the Muslim world. Simply laughing at Muslim end-time beliefs may be okay for an individual American, but would truly be a mistake for American foreign policy.
The previous thread was beyond hope. There was no chance of having a serious discussion of the topic there.
The previous thread, where you said this: "Moderator: A newbie has not posted the correct title of the article.
The correct title is: "The Messiah Dajjal Has Secretly Started Work" by Harun Yahya." had its title changed due to the poster being a retread zot.
This is still a duplicate thread.
read later
"It is extremely important for the US and our Allies to understand the Muslim End-Times beliefs. Many terrorists are motivated by their interpretation of them."
As I recall, the leader of Iran is an "end-timer". Not good when you combine his/their threats against Israel and their progress towards nukes and missles.
Thanks for the summary too!
Dajjal said in part, "It is extremely important for the US and our Allies to understand the Muslim End-Times beliefs."
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OPINION: Thanks for sharing dajjal.
Now here is what is really important, in my opinion.
Short Version:
AMERICA IS FIGHTING A WAR AGAINST TERRORISM AND TERRORISTS.
It is not a good time to be a terrorist.
That's all a terrorist really needs to know as he/she faces the "End-Times."
Maybe so. I'll leave that to the mods. I thought about how to try to salvage the other guy's thread for a few hours before posting this one.
If the mods had corrected the title, as I asked in post #44, that might have been a good start. I could ping people over and try to get a discussion going amidst the others' ridicule.
But eventually the truth sunk in that it was the mods themselves who had altered the title of that thread, were ridiculing it themselves, and had no desire for a serious discussion on that thread. That's when I started working on creating this one.
As a general rule, I dislike duplicate threads, too. But I have seen occasions where the second thread was needed.
General rule of thumb is that duplicate threads are a bad thing.
Since this was restored, it seems that they have given a pass on this duplicate.
....Bunch of nonsense.
Here are a couple of recent FR threads on Ahmadinejad's millennialism.
Iran's Gov't Seeks Agreement with 12th Imam - in hiding since 13th century?
There's also a chap in Pakistan claiming to be the Mahdi and gathering a lot of followers.
Here’s the first Imam Mehdi for our eschatologists
(Although the author of the piece is wrong in thinking this guy is the first.)
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