In the words of a Hadith, Islam today has become an alien
religion, latter-day interpretations having totally veiled the true
religion. What has to be done today is to rid the original religion
of human interpolation and to present it to the people in its
pristine form. The religion based on man-made interpretations
has to be converted back into the original, revealed religion.
This will be of incalculable value to both Muslims and non-
Muslims.
We learn from the traditions that, during the last stage of
the Muslim community, Christ’s role will be repeated only when
doomsday has drawn very near. Circumstances tell us that with
the beginning of the 21
st
century all the signs of the approaching
doomsday have already appeared. From the religious point of
view, one sign is that human perversion has gone beyond all
limits, thus causing man to lose all justification for being allowed
to inhabit this earth created by God. During the last period of
the Prophet Noah’s time, such conditions prevailed that he felt
constrained to pray thus to God: “If You leave any, they will
misguide Your servants, and they will beget none but sinners
and deniers of truth.” (71:27). Given this kind of extreme
situation, God destroyed the people of Noah by a great flood.
Only a tiny minority who had believed in the admonitions of
the Prophet Noah were saved from the general annihilation.
Once again perversion has set in across the world on a vast
scale and the words of Noah, “They will beget none but sinners
and deniers of truth” have become applicable to the world at
large. It is almost certain that soon a flood greater than Noah’s
flood will engulf the world, totally destroying man and human
civilization. That will be the Day of Judgement for all
mankind. At that time, all human beings will be produced for
the final reckoning before the Almighty, the Lord of the
Universe.
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