For a lot of Palestinians, 2022 is a really particular 12 months because it marks the start of the “downfall” of the Israeli occupation. This perception is broadly unfold by some Muslim spiritual students, Palestinian and non-Palestinian, particularly the well-known Sheikh Bassaam Jarrār. Jarrār delivers his speeches at an area mosque within the outskirts of Ramallah within the West Financial institution. He was amongst greater than 200 Palestinian leaders deported to south Lebanon by the Israeli occupation authorities within the early nineties.
Upon the orders of the Israeli prime minister, then Yitzhak Rabin, they have been rounded up, placed on buses and brought throughout the border to Lebanon, the place they have been thrown, in the course of the chilling winter, below the eyes of the watchful worldwide media. They stayed in a camp product of tents and insisted on returning to their homeland. For months, their tragedy was broadly coated by main media businesses and represented an enormous embarrassment for Israel, till lastly, Israel needed to take them again.
Jarrār claims that he may decipher one of many Holy Quran secrets and techniques foretelling the approximate date of the liberation of Palestine and the top of Israel. Nonetheless, he doesn’t declare it as a certainty; he claims that his inferences are logical, supported and 97 per cent true. His idea is, certainly, not new. He began voicing his concepts within the nineties, based mostly on an previous mathematical calculation system generally known as Hisāb alJummal, which is 1000’s of years previous. It’s a numerical system utilized by Arabs earlier than the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and recognized by different civilisations and religions, together with Judaism.
In response to a specialised website: “The Abjad numerals, additionally known as Hisab al-Jummal, are a decimal alphabetic numeral system/alphanumeric code, wherein the 28 letters of the Arabic alphabet are assigned numerical values,” higher recognized in English as Arabic Geometric Numerology. In response to Jarrār’s calculations, based mostly on many Quranic texts, 2022 represents the precise starting of Israel’s downfall. On 5 March, 2022, in keeping with Jarrār, an enormous occasion will mark the start of the “Israeli downfall”. The way it will occur shouldn’t be but clear.
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One other well-known Muslim scholar, this time from Iraq, Sheikh Mohammed Ahmed Al-Rashed, listed seven explanation why Israel will collapse this 12 months. Considered one of them is a narrative narrated by an previous Jewish girl who was his neighbour when he was a baby in Baghdad in 1948. In response to him, the woman rushed into their home wailing, and his mom requested her what was unsuitable. The previous girl advised her that Jews had declared a state in Palestine, and there’s a Jewish prophecy that acknowledged that if Jews established a state, it could be an indication of their destruction and wouldn’t final greater than 76 years.
I heard the same story from an previous girl who was a pal and neighbour of my grandmother within the seventies. The previous girl claimed that when she was residing in Tiberias earlier than the Israeli occupation pressured them out of their houses, an previous Jewish paddler advised her that there could be a state for Jews in Palestine, however it could solely final for 78 years.
Al-Rashed bases his idea on Sheikh Ahmad Yassin’s prediction in an interview with Al Jazeera information channel, the place Yassin mentioned Israel will stop to exist in 2027. Yassin claims that that is based mostly on the story of 40 years of wilderness wandering talked about within the Holy Quran and Torah. This tells us that there’s a era change, consisting of two phases. Every section is forty years, and upon the completion of two generations, Israel will lose its foundations and collapse.
Al-Rashed hyperlinks his conclusions to Jewish astronomy and astrology, indicating that Jewish rabbis connect a lot significance to astrological occasions. He references Halley’s comet, which happens each 76 years, as its look in 164 BC signalled the destruction of the Jewish presence in Palestine. But, the celestial occasion is meant to occur in 2061, so I’m not positive how it could relate to this case.
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These tales are so frequent that some individuals even wrote books on them, reminiscent of Mohammed Al-Nobani, a Palestinian engineer I as soon as met in Malaysia. He discusses sure Quranic calculations made by an Islamic scholar who lived within the twelfth century, Ibn Barrajan Al-Andalusi, one of many best Sufis of Andalusia and a hadith scholar. He’s most well-known for his prediction of the conquering of Jerusalem from the crusaders by Salahudeen Ayyubi. Al-Nobani claims that he utilized Ibn Barrajan’s methodology, and the outcome was the 12 months 2022. This occasion, alleged to begin the downfall cycle, is meant to happen between March and June.
In the meantime, Israeli officers and media often discuss normalising their relations with extra Arab and Muslim nations. Gaza’s state of affairs is changing into worse by the day, and the Israeli occupation is snapping up the established order in Jerusalem, opposite to worldwide regulation. Al-Aqsa Mosque was stormed by 63,000 Israeli settlers final 12 months, and discontent in West Financial institution is simmering, ready to blow up. Lots of of Palestinians misplaced their lives attempting to illegally immigrate to Europe.
How these prophecies may have an effect on the attitudes and behaviours of the individuals who imagine in them could possibly be the correct query. But, we’ll discover many within the traumatised Arab World who would watch for them to return true.
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