The King of Babylon Nebuchadnezzar had a Dream which no one can interpret, finally the prophet Daniel (saws) is brought to him and interprets the dream for him.
The prophet Daniel (as) said, 31 “Your Majesty looked, and there before you stood a large statue—an enormous, dazzling statue, awesome in appearance. 32 The head of the statue was made of pure gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, 33 its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of baked clay. 34 While you were watching, a rock was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and smashed them. 35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were all broken to pieces and became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summer. The wind swept them away without leaving a trace. But the rock that struck the statue became a huge mountain and filled the whole earth.
36 “This was the dream, and now we will interpret it to the king. 37 Your Majesty, you are the king of kings. The God of heaven has given you dominion and power and might and glory; 38 in your hands he has placed all mankind and the beasts of the field and the birds in the sky. Wherever they live, he has made you ruler over them all. You are that head of gold (the first Empire Babylon).
39 “After you, another kingdom will arise (All the empires are successive, coming one after the other), inferior to yours (next after Babylon is the Persian Empire). Next, a third kingdom, one of bronze, will rule over the whole earth (This is the Geek Macedonian Empire of Alexander the Great who conquered Persia, eventually the Persians re-established their empire after him for another 800 years). 40 Finally, there will be a fourth kingdom (The Islamic Empire, established at the hands of the companions of the prophet (saws) who conquered Persia), strong as iron—for iron breaks and smashes everything—and as iron breaks things to pieces, so it will crush and break all the others (It conquered both Persia and Rome at the same time). 41 Just as you saw that the feet and toes were partly of baked clay and partly of iron, so this will be a divided kingdom (The Islamic Empire over history was made up of multiple Khalifah’s stretching from North Africa to China, each ruled by the people of that region); yet it will have some of the strength of iron in it, even as you saw iron mixed with clay. 42 As the toes were partly iron and partly clay, so this kingdom will be partly strong and partly brittle (The Empires warred with each other and supported each other against invaders). 43 And just as you saw the iron mixed with baked clay, so the people will be a mixture (African Muslim’s set up the African Khalifah’s, Arab Muslims set up the Arab Kbaifahs, Indian muslims set up the Indian Khalifahs, European Muslims set up the European Khalifah (Mamluks), and Turkish Muslims set up the turkish Khalifah) and will not remain united, any more than iron mixes with clay.
44 “In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed (Under Islam all Muslims view themselves as one single Ummah or nation which is how the prophet described them even though they are made up of different Empires and races), nor will it be left to another people (this is something Allah granted the prophet Muhammad in answer to a prayer of his with these exact words of the prophet Daniel, the Islamic Empire was not defeated by a foreign power conquering it, it was defeated by muslims from within it, as was the custom of the British they defeated the last Islamic Empire by making false promises to various ethnic groups, who revolted all at the same time in different parts of Islamic lands, they then betrayed nearly every promise to them). It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end (Persia and Rome), but it will itself endure forever (anything that lasts more than 1000 years can have this term applied to it, otherwise no kingdom not even the one christians think Jesus will set up forever will literally last for ever, hence it is a figure of speech common in the ancient tongue). 45 This is the meaning of the vision of the rock cut out of a mountain (Which spread around the world as did Islam and the Islamic Empires), but not by human hands—a rock that broke the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold to pieces (The Islamic Dynasties (the rock) established themselves on the back of the first Islamic Empire which the companions of the Prophet (saws) established, this is how the rock smashed all the older Empires and was also part of the iron and clay Empire). “The great God has shown the king what will take place in the future. The dream is true and its interpretation is trustworthy.”
The Dream is first and foremost about the Empires that will take over from the King of Babylon, in those same lands, which are present day Iran and Iraq and the surrounding regions, this makes identifying the Empires easy since the Empires are all successive one after the other and in the same land; The Head of the statue is the Babylonian Empire, the Chest is Persia, the Thighs of Brass is Greece, Alexander the great conquered Persia, and the legs of Iron is the initial Islamic Empire established by the companions of the prophet (saws) because the legs are described by the nature of the feet and Daniel doesn’t differentiate between them, the rock is the later Islamic dynasties that took over from the first Islamic Empire.
The Islamic Empire conquered the Persian and Roman Empires ending both, some christian commentators claim the iron legs are Rome but Rome did not succeed Persia they existed along side it and almost alongside the Babylonian Empire (509BC) just before them, we have also seen in a number of other prophecies that the Arabs and islamic Dynasties are almost always described with iron in the bible. Babylon was founded in 1894BC, the Persian Empire conquered Babylon in 550BC, Alexander the Great conquered Persia in 330BC, after his death his empire was partitioned among his generals and the Seleucid Empire was established, it was taken over by the Persian Parthian Empire and the Persians remained in control, through successive Persian dynasties, until conquest by Islam in 651 AD, nearly 900 years later, Rome never took Persians lands.
Finally the words of Daniel are exactly the words of the prophet muhammad (saws) in a dua, for his Ummah, He prayed to Allah that his ummah won’t be uprooted by an external enemy.
Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: Allah drew the ends of the world near one another for my sake. And I have seen its eastern and western ends. And the dominion of my Ummah would reach those ends which have been drawn near me (as the dream of Daniel said) and I have been granted the red and the white treasure (both Persia and Rome) and I asked my Lord for my Ummah that it should not be destroyed because of famine, nor be dominated by an enemy who is not amongst them to take their lives and destroy them root and branch (defeat them from their core and heart of power, Makkah and Madina), and my Lord said: Muhammad, whenever I make a decision, there is none to change it. I grant you for your Ummah that it would not be destroyed by famine and it would not be dominated by an enemy who would not be amongst it and would take their lives and destroy them root and branch even if all the people from the different parts of the world join hands together (for this purpose), but it would be from amongst them that some people would kill the others or imprison the others”. (Muslim)
It should be noted that when ever christian’s interpret their own text, no mention is ever made of the Islamic Empire that dominated the world after Jesus (as) until the 19th century, as if Allah did not notice their existence, there is literally a collective blindness in christian texts which is both funny to witness and frustrating at how an answer can be both in front of you and not visible. For example if a prophecy mentions the lands east of Europe, so often the case regarding wars at the end of time, mention of Asia is made, automatically skipping the entire Arabian peninsula in favor of Buddhist China and Hindu India, what is directly east of Europe is not China!
Other similar assertions exist in their history books as well, when mention is made of Islamic conquest into Europe they literally boast that ‘muslim’s only reached as far as France then they were pushed back’, implying in no way could they reach actual Europe, the assertion was made by a famous historian which is why it is blindly repeated today, the only thing North of France is the Ocean there is no more of Europe left, no doubt access to maps were limited a few hundred years ago, not so today, yet the blindness still remains.