Page 217 - The Prophet Muhammad (saas)

What the Prophet (saas) Said of the Future

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As these verses reveal, the Children of Israel were to experience
two victories. Following the first of these, and their "reaching to a degree
of great haughtiness," Allah then sent a powerful army against them.
Indeed, when the Jews killed the Prophet Yahya (as) and set a trap to kill
the Prophet 'Isa (as), in other words, after their "reaching to a degree of
great haughtiness," they were exiled shortly afterwards from Jerusalem
by the Romans in 70 A.D. The Temple of Solomon in the city was com-
pletely demolished.
Following their exile from Palestine in 70 A.D., the Jews wandered
all over the world. Since they were seen as the killers of 'Isa (as), they
were generally despised in European countries, had to live under op-
pressive conditions, and even most of the time had to practice their reli-
gion in secret. When that verse was revealed to the Prophet (saas), the
Jews were living under very difficult conditions and had no state of their
own. Yet, Allah told them that they would one day recover their strength.
That looked like a particularly remote possibility when the Prophet
(saas) was alive, yet it later came about. They returned to Palestine and
established the State of Israel in 1948. Israel's military and political
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