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CHAPTER ONETHE IMPORTANCE OF ‘SIGNS OF THELAST DAY IN THE MODERN AGE’Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah Most High be upon him)said: “The world is like a garment torn from end to end and hanging by athread that would soon be cut off.”(Sunan Baihaqī)A grasp of the subject of ‘Signs of the Last Day’, or moreprecisely ‘Last Hour’, in which Dajjāl the false Messiah and Gogand Magog are located, is crucially important for a number ofreasons. Most important of all, it allows Islamic scholarship toexpose the inadequacy of all rivals – secular and religious, internaland external – when they seek to explain the strategic, political,economic, religious and spiritual reality of today’s corrupted andcollapsing world characterized by universal Fasād.The test of the pudding is in the eating, hence if this writer’sviews on subjects such as the return of Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salām), Dajjālthe false Messiah or Anti-Christ, and Gog and Magog, correctlyexplain the reality of yesterday’s Pax Britannica and today’s PaxAmericana, and correctly anticipates tomorrow’s Pax Judaica(some may say that ‘tomorrow’ has already arrived), a summaryrejection of his views by befuddled doctrinaire critics, Jewish,Christian, Muslim or otherwise, would indeed be foolish.‘Jerusalem in the Qur’an’ was published six years ago in 2002 and39