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Adnan Oktar
Harun Yahya

glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls! In one hour such great
wealth has been brought to ruin!" Every sea captain, and all who travel
by ship, the sailors, and all who earn their living from the sea, will stand
far off. When they see the smoke of her burning, they will exclaim, "Was
there ever a city like this great city?" They will throw dust on their
heads, and with weeping and mourning cry out: "Woe! Woe to you, great
city, where all who had ships on the sea became rich through her wealth!
In one hour she has been brought to ruin!" ... "With such violence
the great city of Babylon will be thrown down... Your merchants
were the world's great men." (Revelations, 18:11-23)
The invasion of Iraq by various countries, the slaughter that will

result in Iraq, the fighting that will come to Sham, in other words Syr-
ia, and the Battle of Armageddon in the Middle East are described
down to the finest detail in the hadiths:
In the End Times Baghdad will be destroyed by flames … (Risalat al-
Khuruj al-Mahdi, Vol. 3, p. 177)

Baghdad was one of the cities exposed to the most intense bomb-
ing from the day the invasion of Iraq began. This heavy bombing
caused Baghdad to burn in flames, just as described in the hadith. Im-
ages of Baghdad in newspaper and television reports exactly matched
the situation noted in the hadith.

The Messenger of God (pbuh) said: "… There will be such scourges and
afflictions that nobody will have a place to shelter. These scourges will
prowl around Sham and settle on Iraq. They will tie the hands and feet
of the Arabian peninsula … As people try to eliminate these scourges in
one place, they will spring up in another." (Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Kanz al-
Ummal, Qitab-al Qiyama qism al-Afal, vol. 5, pp. 38-39)

The reference in the hadith to "... scourges prowling around Sham
and settling on Iraq" emphasizes unending conflict in Syria and Iraq.
Indeed, Syria and Iraq are today the scenes of the worst turmoil in the
Middle East.

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