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An Early Warning
System
However, besides pointing to
the general destiny of all creation, there are more precise pointers to
the course of events mankind will have to go through
before all comes full circle. There have been numerous predictions
about events which we know have come true, like
the Muslim conquest of Constantinople, for example, now known as Istanbul. The
treachery played on the Muslims by the League of
Nations and the destruction of the Islamic Khalifat are also alluded
to. As it is always easier to be wise with hindsight, the
linking up of prophecies with events which have already come
to pass, whilst still fraught with problems of accurate interpretation, is much
easier achieved than the mapping out of the future based on
those warnings that we know have still
been
unfulfilled.
The purpose of prophetic predictions is not
to provide a looking glass into the future, but serves more
like a map of reference points to help us make sense of
events. Based on this understanding, we appear to have reached
the age of the Dajjal, the great liar, the one-eyed king, the
anti-Christ of whom all prophets from the days of Noah (pbuh),
peace be with them all, have warned
their
followers.
[Next: The Story of the
Antichrist]
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