America In Previous Scriptures
“Then ask those who read the scripture before you” (10:94)
It is surprising that even though the prophet (saws) mentioned everything that would occur towards the end of time, year after year, decade after decade, century after century that when the Great War, Armageddon, finally comes America is not mentioned at all. Prior to this point in time there are direct and indirect references to it in quite a few ahadith.
The Great War will be fought between Imam Mahdi (ra) and Europe, this is stated clearly in many narration’s, some are mentioned later in this work, this alone tells us that regardless of who the dominant power in the world is today by the time the promise of this end arrives a switch in power will occur and Europe will dominate the world by that time, in fact not only Islam indicates this but previous scriptures as well, looking at the world today we can see that process has already started with the creation of the European Union.
The prophet (saws) primarily mentioned the events that would impact the Muslims directly, He (saws) did not mention the rise and fall of all the world empires in history, hence a more complete picture of America is missing. Had we lived 100 years ago we would have instead been searching the Ahadith for what the prophet (saws) said about the British Empire because it was the dominant empire in the world, what we see in Ahadith are the things these Empires were involved in which impacted on us, but not a complete outline of their time on earth.
This is slightly different in previous scriptures, in them are accounts of what was the end of the Christian and Jewish Empires and the Pagan Empires they interacted with such as Babylon, Egypt, Rome and Persia.
The bible speaks about them because these events were more relevant to the Ummah (nation) of Jesus (as) and Moses (as), if we read previous scriptures we will see that many of the prophecies begin with statements like ‘this is what will happen to your people’, or ‘this Empire will replace your Empire followed by this Empire’ and so on until the return of Isa (as) which gives us an opportunity to see what will happen in the world before Isa (as) returns.
The Book of Revelations in the Bible is a book which mentions our time in vivid detail, it was written by the companion of Jesus (as), John (ra), in it He writes that towards the end of his life on earth Allah showed him what would occur to the world after him right to the end of time, these events chronologically revolve around the Islamic empire which ended the Roman Empire that ruled the world in his time, the British Empire that took over from the Islamic Empire, and the American Empire that took over from the British, these are the three super powers that succeeded each other in history.
This book is relevant to muslims not just because it talks about events in our life time and future filling in many gaps, it is a book that addresses muslims directly as the descendants of Ishmael and it is quite literally intended for our benefit seen from the many pieces of advice through out it explicitly addressed to us along with the fact it begins with how Iblis (satan) tried to stop Allah’s promise to Ibrahim (Genesis 17) to give His son Ishmael (ra) many nations that would rule the earth, it is very literally the story of how Iblis (Allah’s curse be upon him) attacked Islam throughout History and what happened to the world after the last Khalifa fell to the British and ends with Imam Mahdi (ra) fighting Europe in the Great War.
The Book of Revelation is divided into 22 chapters, the companion John (ra) was shown events before his time, then into the future ending with the return of Isa (as) and finally the day of resurrection. So just like the prophetic narrations of the prophet Muhammad (saws) the book has a definite and clear timeline which we can identify with ease because of this chronology.
Chapter 12 of the book begins with events relevant to the first of these empires, the Islamic Empire, in this chapter Iblis (Satan, Allah’s curse be upon him) goes to the wife of Ibrahim (as), Hagar (as) when she is pregnant with Ishmael (as) and waits for his birth. As the Bible states his intention was to stop the birth of the Islamic Empire he saw would come from him that Allah promised to Ibrahim (as) earlier (Genesis 17), Ishmael is the father of the Arabs and Islam while Isaac his brother (as) was the father of the Jews.
John (as) is shown symbolic images in a vision representing these events, these images aren’t like watching events on a television, symbolic means that the images He is shown take on the qualities of the event in life and what they mean, symbolic images are like taking a shortcut to understanding the nature of what we are looking at, in movies today music and specific camera angles are used to add drama and emphasis, here Allah uses animals and beasts whose qualities are understood by people living thousands of years ago to pass on that information.
John (as) says “A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun (married to a prophet, this is what clothed means while the sun refers to the light of a prophet), with the moon under her feet (the moon reflects the light of the sun, it is a symbol relevant to Islam whose main symbol through history is the crescent moon, it means a people who reflect the light of a prophet, under her feet means will descend from her, they will be her descendants) and a crown of twelve stars on her head (which means the rulers and empires that will come from her). 2 She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. 3 Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon (Satan) with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads (as the bible later explains a head means a nation or people, the horn is a king and the crown means the beast they come out from, a Dragon in this case, controls these kingdoms, so the verse is saying the Dragon, satan controlled these Empires most of which were pagan). 4 Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth (he would attack the empires that existed at the same time as the Islamic empires, these are the remainder of the stars in the sky, flung them to the earth means they will no longer follow religion properly, they are no longer heavenly). The Dragon (in the old world a giant snake was called a dragon) stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that it might devour her child (Ishmael) the moment he was born. 5 She gave birth to a son, a male child, who “will rule all the nations with an iron sceptre.” (He was the father of the Islamic Dynasties that ruled the world, the sceptre relates to another prophecy in the bible about Imam Mahdi the last prince, or star, that would come from this lineage) And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne (Allah granted him prophethood). 6 The woman fled into the wilderness to a place prepared for her by Allah, where she might be taken care of for 1,260 days (3.5 years).”
The stars on Hagar’s (as) crown are a reference to the Islamic rulers and empires she was the mother of, just like the horns and crowns on Iblis’s head. The Dragon sweeping away a third of the stars out of the sky was his attack on the world empires throughout History, he would be successful in destroying a third of them completely. The stars on the crown in the general sense refer to the Islamic Empires but their number, 12 specifically refers to twelve Islamic rulers.
The entire chapter relates the Story of Hagar (as) the wife of Ibrahim (as) the mother of the prophet Ishmael (as), Ibrahim was instructed by Allah to take her and Ishmael into the desert wilderness of Makkah and leave them there to be looked after by Allah, “The woman fled into the wilderness to a place prepared for her by Allah”, the place was desolate with no water, Hagar had given birth to Ishmael (as) and Allah wanted to protect her and Him. The dragon as the Bible later clarifies was Iblis (Allah’s curse be upon him), Allah made a promise mentioned in the bible to Ibrahim (as) to grant Ishmael (as) a vast kingdom that would rule the earth, “who will rule all the nations with an iron sceptre”, while the Jews had an empire they were not vast enough to rule the earth it was located in modern day Palestine.
In the book of Genesis (17) Allah said to Ibrahim (as) about his descendants “I am Allah the All-Powerful. If you obey me and always do right, 2 I will keep my solemn promise to you and give you more descendants than can be counted”. 3 Abram bowed with his face to the ground, and Allah said: 4-5 I promise that you will be the father of many nations (a reference to the many Islamic Empires, the Jewish Empire was one empire and is included in the promise but it cant fulfill it alone). That is why I now change your name from Abram to Abraham.6 I will give you many descendants, and in the future they will become great nations (meaning more than one and strong, while the Islamic empires spread around the entire earth the Jewish Empire was isolated to a small region that was dominated by the Roman and other Empires). Some of them will be kings (this is in contrast to princes, it refers to a type of rule and it’s quality). 7 I will always keep the promise I have made to you and your descendants, because I am your God and their God.
In the next passages of the book of Genesis Allah promises a Kingdom to Isaac, the father of the Jews and in verse 20 he promises a kingdom to Ishmael, “I have heard what you asked me to do for Ishmael, and so I will also bless him with many descendants. He will be the father of twelve princes (the rulers or stars mentioned earlier), and I will make his family a great nation.”
So each son was promised a kingdom by Allah, it was from Ishmael (as) that the Arabs descended, and in the vision of John the women had twelve stars on her head these are the twelve rulers promised to come from her son Ishmael, the prophet (saws) used similar expressions He (saws) would say “My Companions are like the stars, whichever of them you follow you will be rightly guided” (Baihaqi and others)
The prophet in many ahadith spoke about the twelve rulers that would come, the first four rulers of Islam were from among the twelve and Umar ibn Abdul Aziz (ra) was another such ruler, his life is a testament to this, scholars have named a few more and the last one will be Imam Mahdi (ra) just before Isa (as) returns.
The tribe of Quraysh was the prophets tribe and they were descendant from Ishmael, the Prophet Muhammad (saws) said: “Islam shall neither pass away nor be deviated while there are my 12 Khalifahs (successors in this context) from my nation in it, all of them will be from Quraysh. When the last of them passes away, the Hour will be established and the earth will be destroyed (swallowed) with all its inhabitants” the last of them will be Imam Mahdi (ra), the Bible speaks about him later in revelations as the prince of princes who will rule before Jesus returns with an iron sceptre which is part of the prophecy about Ishmael mentioned above. The Prince of Princes is a term christians in a convoluted explanation confuse for Jesus (as) but the bible is literal and straight forward on this point, all of which is clear from the passage, the prophets are like the sun in their light and kings in their rule they are not referred to as princes because no one is above them, the prince of princes means the prince of these twelve princes so the precedent for the phrase comes from these earlier verses in the same book of revelations while their commentators say it has no precedent.
The Messenger of Allah said “This affair (Islam) shall neither pass nor will come to an end while my twelve Khaliphs (princes) pass in it. All of them will be from Quraysh” (Muslim). Because the prophet (saws) connected this matter to the hour we know the rulers are not chronological but through out Islam’s entire time on earth.
The Messenger of Allah said “This religion shall survive till the Hour is established, and there are twelve Khaliphs (Princes) upon you. All of them will be from Quraysh.” (muslim)
The Messenger of Allah said: “This affair (Islam) shall always remain upright till there are twelve chiefs. All of them will be from Quraysh. (Ahmad)
Iblis (Satan) from the earlier promise of Allah to Ibraheem knew about these religious nations and wanted to stop this from ever coming about so He tried to attack the child, but “her child was snatched up to Allah and to his throne” which means He was made a prophet of Allah who was now protected. When Iblis (Allah’s curse be upon him) saw he could no longer do anything “17 Then the dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to wage war against the rest of her offspring—those who keep God’s commands and hold fast their testimony about Jesus.” This is another clear reference to the Muslims because the Jews did not “hold fast their testimony about Jesus”, Hold fast means they will be tested about who He (as) is and they will stay firm, because we are talking about the descendants of Abraham today this is the place of muslims in the world, this verse is also another affirmation of how Allah viewed the Arabs.
There is a reason why the book of revelations begins with the story of Hagar and her descendants the Arabs, it is because the rest of the book is about the Islamic people and what will happen to them over time. This specific phrase “those who keep God’s commands and hold fast their testimony about Jesus” is used a number of times in the book to show the events being mentioned revolve around the muslims and the decedents of Hagar, this is how Allah refers to muslims as those who “hold fast their testimony about Jesus”.
Before Islam came to the Arabs Iblis (Allah’s curse be upon him) attacked Her descendants by first turning them away from the religion of Ibrahim (as) to paganism hoping that would stop Allah’s promise, but through the prophet Muhammad (saws) Allah turned them back to worshiping Him and it was only after this occurred that Allah granted the Arabs the many Empires He promised Ibrahim (as), Allah fulfilled His promise to Abraham under Islam “because I am your God and their God”.
The next chapter in the book of revelations chapter 13 shows that after Iblis (Allah’s curse be upon him) could not stop the birth of the Islamic Empire, He then went to the Empire that came after it in history, the British Empire.
John (as) says, “The dragon (satan) stood on the shore of the sea. And I saw a beast coming out of the sea (the next empire to rise up after the Khalifah). It had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on its horns, and on each head a blasphemous name (the empires that the British conquered and ruled around the world where blasphemous, many were pagan or idol worshipers). 2 The beast I saw resembled a leopard, but had feet like those of a bear and a mouth like that of a lion (they will dominate through speech, and devour). The dragon (Iblis) gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority. 3 One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed. The whole world was filled with wonder and followed the beast. 4 People worshiped the dragon (satan) because he had given authority to the beast, and they also worshiped the beast and asked, “Who is like the beast? (the wonders amazed people) Who can wage war against it?” (who is as strong as it, the world was in awe of the British war machine).
The prophet (saws) said “Iblis places his throne upon water; he then sends detachments (for creating dissension); the nearer to him in rank are those who are most notorious in creating dissension.” (Muslim)
Both the prophet Daniel (as) and John had visions in which they saw empires being represented by beasts with multiple heads, in the book of Daniel verse 7 (the dream is related in it’s entirety at the end of this book) the prophet (saws) describes how Allah sent him a dream in which he saw the rise of the last four empires that would rule this earth before the day of judgment, the Romans, then the Ottomans who ended them, then the British who ended them and then the Americans who took over from them, each empire was represented by a Beast and the character of the Beast represented the character of the Empire and it’s actions in History, the Ottomans were represented by a Bear, the prophet Daniel (saws) said “And there before me was a second beast, which looked like a bear. It was raised up on one of its sides (almost standing), and it had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth (it ate other beasts). It was told, ‘Get up and eat your fill of flesh!’ (the Ottomans were expansionists they warred against other empires ending them) (Daniel:7)
In both Daniels (as) dream and this vision the British were represented by a leopard, the feet of the British leopard were like a bear because it means they walked in the footsteps of the Ottomans, the British along with the rest of Europe feared and looked up to them emulating their advancements for a few hundred years before their defeat, they mimicked their expansionist nature setting up their own world empires to challenge them, hence the feet of the British empire are like the empire of the bear that came before. The British leopard in that dream also had four wings like the beast of the Roman Empire and this is the other Empire the British emulated, the dream of Daniel is very similar to what the companion John (as) saw.
The Islamic Empire was the dominant empire of the world after the Roman Empire which John lived in, it spread from West Africa all the way to China, they conquered the Romans and Persians the worlds two super powers, it was the British with the help of their allies that ended the Last Islamic Khalifah the Ottomans, this Islamic Dynasty had been the world super power until 1919 for 600 years.
The British island literally built a world empire from the sea through naval expeditions “And I saw a beast coming out of the sea”, at the end of their conquests they boasted that their Empire was so large “the sun did not set upon it”, as the book of revelations would show it was because “Allah did not trust them in the Dark”. They continuously sent forward naval expeditions one after the other around the world sowing dissension and establishing colonies in the aftermath, most of the people they ruled were pagan or idol worshipers in origin, from Africa to India to the Americas, “with ten crowns on its horns, and on each head a blasphemous name”.
In the dream of the prophet Daniel (as) the Angels explain to him that the Heads, Horns and Crowns of the beast represent Kings and nations controlled by the beast which itself means a large Empire made of many nations, here in this vision of John (as) they represented the British Empires many colonies around the world, in this vision is the chronology of world empires through history which the dream of the prophet Daniel (saws) agrees with.
“The dragon (Iblis) gave the (British) beast his power and his throne and great authority”, it is now a matter of historical record that British society at the turn of the century was heavily involved in the occult, many of the occult societies we hear about today were created or came to power during this period, at the time it was largely seen as a form of entertainment by the masses like people would play a video game today or watch a movie, but to some and many in places of authority, it was a form of control and a means to wealth and dominance which they used freely.
The verse affirms that Sihr (Dark Magic) and the occult was a part of the way the British built their empire, by using Iblis’s “power and his throne” which he freely gave them, just as he set up his throne upon water and sent out detachments around the world to sow dissension the British built a naval empire by sending out detachments around the world to sow dissension. His throne means what ever He controlled was theirs which means the devils of the world and every evil they controlled. This was how a small island at the of the earth could rule and enslave such a multitude of people around the world, much larger and stronger than them.
“People worshiped the dragon (Iblis) because he had given authority to the beast (British)” people around the world literally turned to the occult because it gave Authority to the British Empire, today we openly see this influence on society in business and the entertainment industry, were people don’t care so much about hiding it. What the verse is referring to by people are other societies worshiping the Dragon (Iblis) because it gave Britain authority, the main empire to challenge the British which gave them a fatal would they would recover from was Nazi Germany.
A sign of occult practice is to take a religious symbol and turn it upside down or backwards, like the upside down cross that represents satanic practice, the main symbol for Nazi society was the swastika, this was originally a Buddhist symbol turned backwards and much has been written and documented about the horrific occult practices of Nazi society, most of which was human sacrifice, all this was nothing more than a continuation in Europe of what occurred in Britain, although with far worse abuses.
Each european society mimicked and competed with the other for power and dominance hence they came to rely on the same methods to achieve results. The Prophet (saws) himself affirmed that occult practice would spread to Arabia and that we would follow the ways of the christians and jews at this time even if they crawled into a lizards hole, turning from a religion of Allah to the occult is the equivalent of going into a lizards hole. Many of Arabia’s tribes, large portions of Arab society, would go back to worshiping devils, evil Jinn and eventually they would set up idols for them. This is in an age of technology hence it isn’t out of ignorance of science like in the days of the prophet (saws) but because dark magic is being practiced and relied on for wealth and power.
John (as) says describing the rise of the British Empire, “5 The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise its authority for forty-two months (3.5 years). (Because of their occult practice) 6 It opened its mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander his name and his dwelling place (introduction of secularism and evolution) and those who live in heaven (Britain claimed that through it’s technology, it’s “wonders”, it could solve everything and religion was redundant, the entire society became Atheist and secular, the Church and religion were no longer relevant).
7 It was given power to wage war against Allah’s holy people and to conquer them (they ended the last Islamic Khalifah which was also the last Abrahamic Empire, they then warred against all organised religions around the world. The Prime Minister of England Benjamin Disraeli (d.1881) said before this accomplishment; what “they want…is an end to ecclesiastical (religious) establishments”… this is because If Sihr (dark magic) could be used to gain power and control, then religion is what corrects it and destroys it, hence it was a threat to their power. Proper religion isn’t any less effective in the same spiritual sphere that sihr works in…if dark magic twists and destroys, religion straightens and builds up, it creates strong human beings who aren’t easily susceptible to influence…so now they attacked every religion and all people of religion around the world ending any possible redress to the wrongs they created, then they moulded the earth into their image for their benefit). And it was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation (China, India, Africa, the Americas the list of civilizations they ended is too great to enumerate, it was a unique event that never occurred before in world history).
8 All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast (the British way of Life).”
Allah says “Have you seen him who chooses, for his god his own lust?” (25:43), the word worship in the verse is used in this sense, people around the world were enslaved by British culture, which used sihr (dark magic) to achieve this, and as the Bible will later state America followed suit in this regard taking what the British did and ‘turning the dial up to ten’, in the words of the bible becoming “the great prostitute” of the world the second and greater Babylon, “Babylon the Great”, who mixed it’s filth (sihr) with it’s trade.
“The whole world was filled with wonder and followed the beast” Their advances in science, “wonders”, at the turn of the previous century resulted in every region of the world following and worshiping the British way of life.
“People worshiped the dragon (Iblis) because he had given authority to the beast” people began to turn to Iblis (Allah’s curse be upon him) and the occult because they saw the power the British Empire gained, they worshiped the beast and asked, “Who is like the beast?”, fascination with British society lasted for many decades until WW2, “Who can wage war against it?” the worlds sense of amazement and hopelessness at the British war machine was ingrained in peoples minds through out this time, from the American indians who earlier saw them as an endless wave to the Muslim’s of Africa who later echoed their words, their last conquest was the largest empire on earth the Islamic Khalifah.
By 1922 the British Empire held sway over 458 million people, one-fifth of the worlds population at the time and covered almost a quarter of the Earth’s total land mass. After the defeat of Napolian-france in 1815, who first showed Europe they could challenge the might of the worlds largest Empire the Ottomans by taking Egypt from them, Britain enjoyed a century of almost unchallenged dominance, the Empire achieved it’s largest territorial extent immediately after WW1 with the conquest of the Ottoman Khalifah. But in WW2 Nazi Germany challenged them, they understood how Britain gained power and thought occultist should rule the world, it was their right to control the masses and sought every way to achieve this, they began this effort with a new schooling system that ensured every one in the society from the their first years of life was “educated” (indoctrinated), they nearly dealt Britain a death blow because of the efficiency they achieved by turning humans into living mindless machines.
It is not a coincidence that the same schooling system first developed by the Prussians then twisted by Nazi Germany, is the same schooling system dominating the world today because of the West that learnt from the power of Nazi Germany, every region on earth has adopted it.
The British Empire began to erode as other world powers began to dominate it’s colonies and America gained control of the worlds economy, by 1997, with the transfer of Hong Kong a former British subject, back to China, this to many marked the end.
Chapter 13 of the Book of Revelations begins to then speak about the Nation which would replace the British Empire in the world, “One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed.” WW2 almost ended England completely, Hitler dealing them a fatal blow save for the involvement of America in the war which changed the balance of power, prior to their involvement America preferred to exercise soft power, particularly its financial clout, to pursue its interests in the world, Germany took the path of Communism while America found the answers to it’s place in the world in Capitalism, the very thing that would come to enslave the entire world as John (ra) would later warn in the book of revelations.
John (as) goes on to say “11 Then I saw another beast rising out of the earth (America). It had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon (soft horns on top of the head, it’s rulers appeared soft but acted like devils, wolves in sheep clothing, this was America’s preferred Capitalist method for domination). 12 It exercises all the authority (methods) of the first beast (Britain) in its presence,3 and makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose mortal wound (by Nazi Germany) was healed (by America). 13 It performs great signs (displays of power in the media), even making fire come down from heaven to earth in front of people (it’s might through it’s air force), 14 and by the signs that it is allowed to work (in the media) in the presence of the (first) beast it deceives those who dwell on earth (watching it), telling them to make an image for the beast (an image means to imitate it, become an image of British society) that was wounded by the sword and yet lived. 15 And it was allowed to give breath to the image (culture) of the beast (the British Empire), so that the image (culture) of the beast might even speak (convert people to their occult way of life) and might cause those who would not worship the image of the beast (would not follow them) to be slain (become isolated in the world and defeated). 16 Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, 5 to be marked on the right hand or the forehead (marked here means to use a mark in their lives), 17 so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark (the barcodes on their products, a reference to their capitalist system), that is, the name of the beast (Capitalist) or the number of its name (The names is used to identify it and it’s system of trade). 18 This calls for wisdom (advice): let the one who has understanding calculate the number (sum up the system) of the beast, for it is the number of a man (human, man made), and his number is (looks like) six hundred three score and six (six hundred and sixty six).”
The passage is speaking about America rise to power and the capitalist system it would spread around the world to enslave it, as well as how power switched from British society to American society and what occurred as a result. Although the language is of 2000 years ago, Islamic society isn’t to different from it, we have preserved our way of life for the past 1400 years so we are better situated to understand this passage than people who don’t come from this culture or region of the world.
It shouldn’t be difficult to understand it’s meaning because the Angels who spoke to John (as) were not trying to confuse people, it was a message intended for a distant future whose context in the world had not yet existed, once it did it became easy to understand because the world and time it is meant for had arrived, this explains why previous generations of christians and scholars had trouble looking at it and went of on tangents in explaining it, we should also understand the book of revelation is chronological the three empire it spoke about came one after the other, so it isn’t hard to figure out which one is the capitalist empire dominating the big and small both rich and poor with a barcode Capitalist system of trade that everyone must use.
During WW2 Britain received a fatal wound from Nazi Germany, America rescued them from death by entering the war. America was then seen as the dominant force that ended WW2, but it still looked up to the British way of life at that time, being the allies of the British and because the world was not ready to change they made the world worship the British way of life (image) until they where better established in the world, essentially biding their time by spreading their capitalist ideology around the world. Eventually they took over completely with this system, as the book of revelations states, this was the name of the beast they set up to control and enslave the worlds nations, the process essentially began when the sterling pound (British currency) was no longer the world currency and it switched to the U.S Dollar.
Prior to WW1 Britain was the dominant economy in the world, and the pound was the global reserve currency, after WW2 in 1949 Britain was forced to devalue the pound by 30%, and from then the U.S dollar anchored the international economic system, the pound was devalued again in 1967, significantly in 1971 America suspended the convertibility of the dollar into gold, ending the Bretton woods System set up after WW2, taking complete control of world economies as they where no longer tied to material resources but the printing press.
In Sharia and all other religious Law’s including christianity as long as the paper notes we carry can still be exchanged for gold the system was accepted by Allah because this stopped complete monopoly and manipulation of the currency, since you had to back it up with actual wealth that tied it’s value to reality. Our notes were called promissory notes, the promise they fulfilled was that it was worth something tangible, i.e gold, but once this stopped the money we carry is no longer actual wealth it has what ever value man wants it to have, the value we placed on it is defined by the system invented around it and those who control it, hence you could devalue an entire country with any number of methods, especially during war as Saddam hussein and the people of Iraq whose wealth it was that vanished, found out.
So now the system has gone from making wealth according to tangible assets like gold, to making money from money, which is entirely Riba or interest. The prophet (saws) prohibited making a profit by trading money for money. This is the system the prophet (saws) said we won’t be able to get away from towards the end of time, He (saws) said towards the end of time riba (interest from money) would creep into every person’s house like dust, even if you avoid it everything you use is created from it. Everything has a spiritual impact on the world and wealth created from riba spreads corruption to peoples hearts it spiritually impacts, this is what the prophet (saws) meant by dust it is a simile for the spiritually negative effects of objects, the tahreem (making haram) of Riba is entirely for spiritual reasons.
To put this into perspective, if dark magic can corrupt a person in a tangible way the effects of riba on products purchased with it are like smearing filth itself to the product and expecting a healthy outcome in life as we live with it, there is a real reason why Allah didn’t allow it, the capitalist system has spiritually strangled the entire world and stopped it from achieving real growth and it’s main weapon is interest based loans which everything runs on, (we have written about what the spiritual part of this universe is in the research notes at the end of this work).
The messenger of Allah (saws) said the old world will be swept away and controlled by newly invented ideologies and systems; Abu Hurairah narrated that the Messenger of Allah (saws) said: “In the end of time there shall come men who will swindle the world (Dunya in Arabic, comprehensively meaning the entire globe) with Deen (a general word which mean’s “a way of life”), deceiving the people in soft skins of sheep, their tongues are sweeter than sugar and their hearts are the hearts of wolves. Allah
Their view of the world overtime became increasingly wrapped and myopic as successive generations where continuously raised in a convoluted society, they have crawled down a lizards hole they can’t get out of and forced everyone to follow; Allah’s messenger (saws) said “You will indeed follow the ways of those before you, hand span by hand span, and an arms length after another. Even if they enter into a lizards hole, you will follow them.” We asked, “Is it the Jews and Christians?” He (saws) replied, “Who else!” (Bukhari).
“telling them to make an image for the beast”, Allah says He created man in his image, this means a likeness in terms of qualities, hence the image of the beast here means the likeness of British or western society, in other words America made the world imitate western society.
Much of the language employed in religious texts is understood by knowing the vocabulary of the Prophets, Angels and Allah, we will find that the same kind of vocabulary is employed from the oldest revelations to the later ones.
The first beast rose from the sea, its power was gained from naval expeditions, but the second beast rose from the earth, its power was in its Army, the American military and Air force which dominated the entire world, this is a contrast being given to john (as) about both nations.
“It had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon”, the second beast looked soft like a lamb but spoke like a satan, in other words it is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, capitalism disguised as profit, the difference being that under capitalism everything is up for sale even the family. While making a profit is a persons effort in business, Capitalism is an ideology and a way of life, everything becomes permitted regardless of any price others have to pay, under Islam business has social and environmental responsibilities if it brakes these the government has the authority to take the companies wealth and redistribute it to the people it hurt or to fix the environmental damage it caused, business is not allowed to work against society or create monopolies.
Capitalism is destructive and can’t be sustained, this is witnessed today by the state the American economy is in and the fact the world is moving away from this “lifestyle” towards sustainability because the secular Capitalist system burnt up the worlds resources in a short period of time, less than 100 years.
It’s fine for secularists to talk about religious wars in Europe as if the history of every culture on earth was like this, but as long as you have a planet to live in. You can cut down the Amazon forest for huge profits by selling wood or you can study it’s rare plants and discover life changing technology, by definition Capitalism is shortsightedness, it is driven by one single thing that decides how people view the world and live in it, Capital gain.
In this verse the beast literally spoke like Iblis (Satan), the British by comparison had a mouth like a Lion, it “was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies”, so the emphasis here is on deception being America’s greatest weapon, the ideology they sell to people, “the American dream” is a deception they use.
“It exercises all the authority of the first beast in its presence” the second beast had all the Authority of the first beast, which the dragon (Iblis) gave them. America similarly practiced the occult seen in the fact occult societies are in charge, and it dominated the world with it. Just as the torch of world power was passed on from England to America, history has shown that it simply passed on from one occult society to another.
After WW2 they exercised the same cultural and occult dominance England had until they perfected it, then they let go of those old ties more openly during the 70’s when the sterling pound was finally no longer relevant.
“It performs great signs, even making fire come down from heaven to earth in front of people” This is first a reference to American technological advances, just like the British scientific “wonders” but here they are referred to as signs because of the medium they are displayed on, television, radio and the internet. Allah’s signs are seen and understood by man through his heart and mind, in contrast to wonders which referred to machinery at the turn of the last century, this is more closely related to the mediums through which they showed the world their military power and cultural dominance.
The American Air force made “fire come down from heaven (the sky)” and they threatened and dominated the entire world with it over the last century, it’s superiority was paraded (their signs) on television, radio and the internet to convince people of their power, this verse is more than likely a primary reference to the Vietnam war (1962-1975) and that period because that is when America first asserted itself onto the world. The Air force used large amounts of napalm bombs, an incendiary device during this war, it was used by them during WW2 on Japanese cities but England was still in charge then.
“and by the signs that it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast it deceives those who dwell on earth, telling (threatening) them to make an image for the beast that was wounded by the sword and yet lived.” America paraded it’s military power to threaten the world into accepting the British way of life as an inevitability for other non white cultures around the world. When America first took power from England for many decades they upheld the British way of life everything was done publicly according to British custom, this is “the image”, it refers to the western culture they were forcing onto people.
“allowed to work in the presence of the beast”, because we are talking about Empires this is a subtle reference to technology and the medium through which the work was done, how people were able to see it, they deceived the world about the nature of western society through propaganda in their entertainment industries, while capitalism created wealth because that was it’s focus the greed and corruption it created poisoned society as a consequence and because it wasn’t spiritually or psychologically healthy for mankind and they knew this perfectly coming from a christian society which they turned away from, this was their deception about their way of life they did it because they could control other nations with it and didn’t care about the consequences which everyone is living today.
The book of revelation’s literally says America fooled people with English culture forcing people to become ‘the image of western society’.
“And it was allowed to give breath (life) to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might even speak (propagate) and might cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain”, they spread their English society and forced the world to emulate it so the entire world would be one single culture controlled by them.
America single handedly fulfilled almost every minor sign of the Hour, the overwhelming majority of the minor signs revolve around the moral degradation and destruction of society and culture around the world and here the book of revelations is rightfully placing this destruction at the feet of one nation, because that is how it occurred in history one culture destroyed all the others.
“might cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain”, Allah here is saying this was their intention from the start, those who didn’t adopt their way of life would be killed of by those who did adopt it, it is easier to defeat people if you can isolate them from the rest of the world first.
The prophet (saws) said towards the end of time we would see “the Civilization of Destruction” emerge a civilisation that would destroy others and there would be campaigns to kill and weed out good people, all people of religion. This in fact is the main theme through out the later chapters of the book of revelations. Allah said He will take revenge on America for killing his people and when the punishment of America is complete, John (as) said, “After this I heard what sounded like the roar of a great multitude in heaven shouting: “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God, 2 for true and just are his judgments. He has condemned the great prostitute (America) who corrupted the (entire) earth by her adulteries (cheating and betrayal). He has avenged on her the blood of his servants.”
“Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead”. Like many Ahadith of the prophet this is an old manner of speaking, Marked here means to use and the next sentence affirms this because this context makes the most sense to it, so the sentence would read “Also it forces all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be use the mark on their products so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark.”
“marked on the right hand or the forehead” is a reference to products worn or used on the wrist or on the head, it doesn’t literally mean people will have a mark on either, because the mark is directly associated with all people on a personal level regardless of status it is a reference to the products worn by all people, the right hand in old language refers to what is given with the right hand “when you give to the poor, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving will be in secret” the prophet (saws) said this as well as Mathew (as) in the bible. The one thing that all people give with the right hand that has a mark on it are credit cards, it is a direct result of the capitalist system the bible is talking about and today the banks are trying to rid the world of paper currency so that all people will only use cards (the mark) to pay for things.
The prophet (saws) said towards the end of time people will have musical instruments on their heads, and that a person will leave his home and his hip will tell him what is happening with his family. The first reference as scholars stated is to portable music devices and earphones (earbuds) worn on peoples heads and the second reference is to mobile devices, phones, carried in our pockets these are examples of how people used to speak to describe things.
The entire verse is talking about a world system that will be created which will dominate societies around the world, all people both rich and poor, each item or product, tangible or intangible will be in this system and marked with a number, a barcode so it can be tracked and societies will be controlled by it. This is the system America created, no country today can trade without the approval of the WTO, no company can trade internationally without obtaining ISO certification and number, and no student can get a higher education without doing an O level and A level exam, everything receives a tracking number or mark.
This verse is talking about barcodes and other similar recording systems used to track every single item on earth, it is saying America will set up this system and they will force it onto all people in order to control them. Any country that ever resisted America in history and it’s a long list from Africa, Arabia, Asia to south America they dominated them through their economic system by isolating them from the rest of the world first, if that did not work they went to war with them directly or indirectly.
This is the same system that the prophet (saws) said would be set up for the Dajjaal (Allah’s curse be upon him) to manipulate the world through, he will use it to squeeze the countries of the world even further than America did and place sanctions on anyone who doesn’t accept him.
“so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark (barcode), that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name.” This verse is even clearer on this point, the entire reason for the mark is trade and to dominate the different societies on earth through trade, no country can buy or sell unless they join the club. This modern reality is entirely Unique to America throughout history and as the bible clearly says, from the start it was set up to dominate people, they then fooled the world into accepting it through the old image of British society that people already knew.
The bible here is entirely talking about the birth of capitalism in the language of people who lived thousands of years ago, and what capitalism will do to the world, no system in the history of the world was named in literal terms after making money or capitalizing and monetizing every aspect of life, so we can’t expect the bible to use newly invented words that no one would understand, people who have insight should be able to see what is meant from the description the verse is giving.
“that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name.” this verse is saying America will be named after this system it just described, or its name will come from the system itself, the name this verse refers to is Capitalism and America is called a capitalist society “the name of the beast” Capitalism is also the “image”of the beast they want followed. The word barcode refers to the capitalist system it is a part of and that is the mark the passage is talking about, so If we simplify it the literal sentence would read “capitalist, that is the name of the beast and barcode is the number of it’s name”.
“This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast” calculate in the old world means sum up it’s parts, to measure a person and see who he is, “for it is the number of a man” the barcodes only comes from humans, it is only a human system created by men, in other words don’t place it on a pedestal, don’t idolize it, see that it is fallible and has faults.
“and his number is six hundred three score and six (in biblical words, which ads up to 666).” This verse removes the hollywood myth of 666 and shows these people never even read this book they built up an entire notion on word of mouth because it is the advice given to John by the Angels speaking to him about the weak nature of the system, its isn’t something satanic or has anything to do with the antichrist, how can wisdom from the Angels be satanic yet they have been force feeding this idea through the media for decades now. Those who have wisdom shouldn’t be afraid of this system, they should sum it up and see that it is man made, invented and has limits.
The number itself is unusual and may be a latter alteration or corruption of the bible because numerology is not practiced or taught by the Angels and varying manuscripts of the bible record different numbers, the oldest manuscript has 616, while others have 328, on the other hand it may be entirely accurate but the specific number is not as relevant just what it is trying to show because the system which it refers to is a barcode system and one barcode looks just like any other.
Because it is a system of numbers for recording things not divining them as christian commentators believed, hence it’s relevance is not to numerology but capitalism and this is something previous commentators of the bible could not have foreseen.
If we translate the advice, the sentence would read, “sum up the capitalist system of America by the normal manner of men today, and you will find it is man made, the barcodes look like this 666”.
In the original language the comparison is between the entire Empire, the beast, and the image of man, in other words judge the economic system of America as you would judge any man, you will find it is just created by men, the phrase ‘the number of a man’ means the image of a man, it is human or something men conjured up, and this system it’s barcodes look like this 666, or 616 or 328.
The numbers are presented to show what the barcode and other similar recording systems will look like in the future to remove the mystery around it which is the purpose of the entire advice, don’t be in awe of it, it’s just a system of numbers like 666 or 616 or 328.
The prophecy in the wisdom given to John (as) is about what barcodes will look like 2000 years into the future, because the bible just took an entire passage to warn against it and capitalism. How would anyone at the end of this passage show people living at the time of John (as) what this system would come to look like ?
The book of revelations is also teaching man how to free himself from the enslavement of the system, because it is inevitable that the system will dominate the world it is giving man another alternative to freeing himself; “This calls for wisdom (advice): let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast (look at it clearly), for it is the number of a man (human).” The advice is that man should not give any respect to the system, corporations, banks utilising it and the countries employing it, because the act of giving respect is the act of submitting you mind to their influence, will and control, for them to abuse which gives them power over your life and society ultimately, this is a spiritual reality that will afflict people if they show respect to morally corrupt people disguising themselves as upstanding business men, they are holding their opinions up higher than themselves psychologically so anything they say has increased influence over you “subconsciously” because you’ve switched of your critical thinking once respect is given. So the advice is to remove even the smallest traces of respect from within ourself by doing the acts that will destroy it, we need to raise ourself by lowering them because it isn’t enough to just decide we no longer respect them, we spent our lives inadvertently giving respect so this has to be spiritually balanced with the opposite before it can disappear and stop affecting us.
In the old days when a society wanted to demonise, remove any place of respect and show contempt to a ruler or criminal they used to march them through the main street allowing the crowds to throw garbage at them, so likewise for each person the expression of removing respect from within our self has to be expressed clearly, this could be as simple as taking a logo and throwing garbage at it, each person is different but the power we gave them unknowingly as children has to removed, this is the advice of Allah in the book of revelations.
Christian commentators essentially understood the exact same things we have mentioned in this chapter about this entire passage, but they could not understand who it was referring to they couldn’t place it in a historical context, this is more than likely because if you belong to any of these societies you can’t view them objectively, and John (as) did not belong to these modern societies He came from an ancient culture very similar to the Islamic one from the exact same region.
Christian commentators essentially understood the exact same things we have mentioned about this entire passage, but they could not understand who it was referring to they couldn’t place it in a historical context, this is more than likely because if you belong to any of these societies you can’t view them objectively, and John (as) did not belong to these modern societies He came from an ancient culture very similar to the Islamic one from the exact same region.
The book of revelations is like a timeline, beginning with the earlier prophets (as) and ends with the return of Jesus (as). It isn’t to difficult to see who set up the modern capitalist system that the entire world was forced to adopt or which empire they took over from and used as a model society the rest of the world had to emulate.
Who these empires of the world are is a matter of historical record, one empire taking over from the other, the Ottomans took over from the Romans, the British took over from the Ottomans and the Americans took over from the British there is no guess work but christians don’t like to acknowledge the presence of Islam in anything let alone the bible, you would struggle to have them even acknowledge Allah made a promise to Ibrahim about them.
America as most people agree is the corrupting force in the world today and the corrupting force of the end times, profiting from every kind of vice, it is dominating other world cultures with it’s entertainment industries and has the biggest gambling and pornographic industries on earth.
Every other civilization clings onto it’s heritage that is ancient while this 232 year old country established in 1783 paid the Jizya tax to the Ottoman Khalifah for the next 15 years after it’s war of independence, seeking protection from British and European reprisals in order to protect it’s commerce and way of life, this amounted to 20% of US revenue in 1800 and it is the one now destroying the entire world with it’s capitalist “anti-culture” that isn’t actual culture at all, it’s simply what ever the corporate machine can think up to make a profit and it is constantly changing having no real value in peoples lives, it is destroying every other cultural “image” on earth.
Once we know who the passage is talking about it is astonishing to see how people living thousands of years ago described modern events, which phrases they chose to picture a modern world history that is this technical, the description is amazing to read and even more impressive in it’s simile’s.
Here is ‘Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary’, a christian commentary, regarding this passage:
13:11-18 Those who understand the first beast to denote a worldly power, take the second to be also a persecuting and assumed power, which acts under the disguise of religion, and of charity to the souls of men. It is a spiritual dominion, professing to be derived from Christ, and exercised at first in a gentle manner, but soon spoke like the dragon. Its speech betrayed it; for it gives forth those false doctrines and cruel decrees, which show it to belong to the dragon, and not to the Lamb. It exercised all the power of the former beast. It pursues the same design, to draw men from worshipping the true God, and to subject the souls of men to the will and control of men. The second beast has carried on its designs, by methods whereby men should be deceived to worship the former beast, in the new shape, or likeness made for it. By lying wonders, pretended miracles. And by severe censures….It is made a qualification for buying and selling, as well as for places of profit and trust, that they oblige themselves to use all their interest, power, and endeavor, to forward the dominion of the beast, which is meant by receiving his mark. To make an image to the beast, whose deadly wound was healed, would be to give form and power to his worship, or to require obedience to his commands. To worship the image of the beast, implies being subject to those things which stamp the character of the picture, and render it the image of the beast. The number of the beast is given, so as to show the infinite wisdom of God, and to exercise the wisdom of men. The number is the number of a man, computed after the usual manner among men, and it is 666. What or who is intended by this (passage), remains a mystery.
