MembersEnd of Days Conference and the Prophecy of Israel’s Doom

Looking to the prophecies of the Koran, the Palestinians are busy planning for the “day after” Israel’s destruction

By Edy Cohen | | Topics: Islam, Hamas, Prophecy, Sheikh Jarrah
For Muslims, the "end of days" is punctuated by Israel's demise.
For Muslims, the "end of days" is punctuated by Israel's demise. Photo: Atia Mohammed/Flash90

The term “End of Days” appears in the Koran, the holy book of Muslims, twice, in two different verses in Sura [Chapter] Al – Isra [17], which has two different names: “The Night Journey” and “The Children of Israel.”

And it is precisely this chapter that refers to the Children of Israel, that is, today’s Jews, in these two verses:

“If you do good, you do good for yourselves; and if you do evil, [you do it] to yourselves.” Then when the final promise came, “[We sent your enemies] to sadden your faces and to enter the temple in Jerusalem, as they entered it the first time, and to destroy what they had taken over with [total] destruction. [7]

and thereafter We said to the children of Isrā’īl, ‘Live in the land. So, when the appointed time of the Hereafter will come, we shall bring you all joined together.’” [104]

According to the accepted interpretation of the two verses, Allah warns the sons of Shiral not to stray from the path of...

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