بِسۡمِ
اللّٰہِ الرَّحۡمٰنِ الرَّحِیۡمِ
In
the Name of Allah, the Rahman, the Merciful
Unlike
the heretical Roman Catholic Church, Islam is a Millenarian
(Chiliastic) faith. We believe in a coming Messianic Age that shall
be established on Earth before the final Judgment and Resurrection.
The most holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him and his family, and
my my mom and dad be sacrificed for his sake) is reported to have
said:
يَنْزِلُ
ابْنُ مَرْيَمَ إِمَامًا عَادِلًا
وَحَكَمًا مُقْسِطًا فَيَكْسِرُ الصَّلِيبَ
وَيَقْتُلُ الْخِنْزِيرَ وَيُرْجِعُ
السَّلْمَ وَيَتَّخِذُ السُّيُوفَ
مَنَاجِلَ وَتَذْهَبُ حُمَةُ كُلِّ ذَاتِ
حُمَةٍ وَتُنْزِلُ السَّمَاءُ رِزْقَهَا
وَتُخْرِجُ الْأَرْضُ بَرَكَتَهَا حَتَّى
يَلْعَبَ الصَّبِيُّ بِالثُّعْبَانِ
فَلَا يَضُرُّهُ وَيُرَاعِي الْغَنَمَ
الذِّئْبُ فَلَا يَضُرُّهَا وَيُرَاعِي
الْأَسَدُ الْبَقَرَ فَلَا يَضُرُّهَا
The
Son of Mary will descend as a just Imam and ruler. He will break the
Cross and slay the swine. Peace will return, swords will be taken as
ploughshares, and the poison of every poisonous creature will be
removed. Provisions shall descend from Heaven and blessings will come
out of the Earth, until a baby plays with a snake and no harm will
come to him. The wolf shall look after the sheep without harming them
and the lion shall look after the cattle without harming them (Musnad
Ahmad; v.16, p.182, #10261)
فَيَكُونُ
عِيسَى ابْنُ مَرْيَمَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَمُ
فِي أُمَّتِي حَكَمًا عَدْلاً وَإِمَامًا
مُقْسِطًا يَدُقُّ الصَّلِيبَ وَيَذْبَحُ
الْخِنْزِيرَ وَيَضَعُ الْجِزْيَةَ
وَيَتْرُكُ الصَّدَقَةَ فَلاَ يُسْعَى
عَلَى شَاةٍ وَلاَ بَعِيرٍ وَتُرْفَعُ
الشَّحْنَاءُ وَالتَّبَاغُضُ وَتُنْزَعُ
حُمَةُ كُلِّ ذَاتِ حُمَةٍ حَتَّى يُدْخِلَ
الْوَلِيدُ يَدَهُ فِي فِي الْحَيَّةِ
فَلاَ تَضُرَّهُ وَتُفِرُّ الْوَلِيدَةُ
الأَسَدَ فَلاَ يَضُرُّهَا وَيَكُونُ
الذِّئْبُ فِي الْغَنَمِ كَأَنَّهُ
كَلْبُهَا وَتُمْلأُ الأَرْضُ مِنَ
السِّلْمِ كَمَا يُمْلأُ الإِنَاءُ مِنَ
الْمَاءِ وَتَكُونُ الْكَلِمَةُ وَاحِدَةً
فَلاَ يُعْبَدُ إِلاَّ اللَّهُ وَتَضَعُ
الْحَرْبُ أَوْزَارَهَا وَتُسْلَبُ
قُرَيْشٌ مُلْكَهَا وَتَكُونُ الأَرْضُ
كَفَاثُورِ الْفِضَّةِ تُنْبِتُ نَبَاتَهَا
بِعَهْدِ آدَمَ حَتَّى يَجْتَمِعَ
النَّفَرُ عَلَى الْقِطْفِ مِنَ الْعِنَبِ
فَيُشْبِعَهُمْ وَيَجْتَمِعَ النَّفَرُ
عَلَى الرُّمَّانَةِ فَتُشْبِعَهُمْ
وَيَكُونَ الثَّوْرُ بِكَذَا وَكَذَا
مِنَ الْمَالِ وَتَكُونَ الْفَرَسُ
بِالدُّرَيْهِمَاتِ
قَالُوا
يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ وَمَا يُرْخِصُ
الْفَرَسَ قَالَ
لاَ
تُرْكَبُ لِحَرْبٍ أَبَدًا
قِيلَ
لَهُ فَمَا يُغْلِي الثَّوْرَ قَالَ
تُحْرَثُ
الأَرْضُ كُلُّهَا
Jesus
son of Mary, upon him be peace, will be a just Imam and ruler within
my Ummah.
He will break the Cross, slay the swine, abolish the Jizyah, while
charity will be left. No one will be appointed to (collect the Zakah
of) sheep and camels. Grudges and mutual hatred will disappear and
the venom of every venomous creature will be removed, so that a baby
boy will but his hand in a snake and it will not harm him, and a baby
girl will make a lion run away, and it will not harm her; and the
wolf will be among the sheep like their sheepdog. The earth will be
filled with peace just as a vessel is filled with water. The people
will be united and none will be worshipped except Allah. War will
cease and Quraish will no longer be in power. The earth will be like
a silver platter, with its vegetation growing as it did at the time
of Adam, until a group of people will gather around one bunch of
grapes and it will suffice them, and a group will gather around a
single pomegranate and it will suffice them. An ox will be sold for
such and such amount of money, and a horse will be sold for a few
Dirhams. They said: O Messenger of Allah, why will horses be so
cheap? He said: They will never be ridden in war again. It was said
to him: Why will oxen be so expensive? He said: Because all the land
will be tilled (Sunan Ibn Majah, #4077)
These prophecies echo what has been mentioned in the Scripture of Isaiah:
But
a shoot shall grow out of the stump of Jesse, A twig shall sprout
from his stock. The spirit of the Lord shall alight upon him: A
spirit of wisdom and insight, A spirit of counsel and valor, A spirit
of devotion and reverence for the Lord.
He
shall sense the truth by his reverence for the Lord: He shall not
judge by what his eyes behold, Nor decide by what his ears perceive.
Thus he shall judge the poor with equity And decide with justice for
the lowly of the land. He shall strike down a land d with the rod of
his mouth And
slay the wicked with the breath of his lips.
Justice shall be the girdle of his loins, And faithfulness the girdle
of his waist. The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, The leopard lie
down
with the kid; The calf, the beast of prey, and the fatling together,
With a little boy to herd them. The cow and the bear shall graze,
Their young shall lie down together; And the lion, like the ox, shall
eat straw. A babe shall play Over a viper's hole, And
an infant pass his hand Over
an adder's den (Isaiah; ch.11, v.1-8)
The
prophecy of swords being taken as plowshares is also mentioned in the
second chapter of Isaiah and the fourth chapter of Micah.