Calling the Pakistani People — Yemen & the Signs of the Last Day | Imran N. Hosein

Summary

Speaking from Kazan, Sheikh Imran N. Hosein addresses the people of Pakistan, urging them to oppose any Pakistani military involvement in Yemen. He recalls the Prophet Muhammad’s prayer for blessings upon Sham and Yemen, emphasizing Yemen’s importance in the prophetic tradition and the Pakistani public’s affection for the Prophet.

Hosein discusses reports about major signs of the Last Day, including the Dajjal, Gog and Magog, Jesus’s return, smoke, the beast of the earth, the sun rising from the west, three events in which the earth swallows what is above it, and a fire emerging from Yemen. He offers his own interpretations, arguing that Gog and Magog are human beings who control power in the modern West and Israel, and linking their release to the return of Jews to Jerusalem. He also interprets the sun rising from the west symbolically, as a “false sunrise,” rather than literally. He criticizes what he sees as insufficient reflection on the Qur’an and questions the silence of the scholar Muhammad Iqbal on some of these subjects.

The address focuses especially on the prophecy of a fire coming from Yemen. Hosein interprets it as a warning relevant to the country’s present suffering and condemns Saudi Arabia’s long-running war against Yemen, alleging that it has caused widespread deaths and destruction. He says Pakistan’s parliament previously rejected a request for military assistance against Yemen and calls on Pakistanis to pressure their government and armed forces not to support military action against the Houthis. He also alleges that Saudi Arabia is seeking to use a military alliance involving Pakistan and Turkey for that purpose.

Presenter/contributor: Sheikh Imran N. Hosein