ESCHATOLOGY IN THE 21ST CENTURY: INTERFAITH AND COMPARITIVE PERSPECTIVES

TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE QURANIC SURA RUM AND CONTEMPORARY GEO-POLITICS

ZAID HAMID ADDRESSES THE PAKISTAN ARMY'S ROLE IN OPENING THE CLOSED DOORS IN AL AQSA. HE STATES THAT IN QUDS EID AL FITR 1447 THERE HAS BEEN NO TARAWIH PRAYERS THERE DURING RAMADAN, NO FRIDAY JUMAAH PRAYERS AND NO EID AL FITR PRAYERS. THIS SITUATION IS UNPRECEDENTED SINCE THE OCCUPATION OF JERUSALEM IN   JUNE 7 1967. AS THIS IS THE FIRST TIME EID PRAYERS HAVE BEEN BANNED. HE CLAIMS THAT ISRAHELL IS PLANNING THE DESTRUCTION OF AND MARTYRDOM OF 
AL AQSA. HE CLAIMS THAT EVEN IRAN AND IT'S PROXIES  DESPITE IRAN'S HEROIC RESISTANCE AGAINST THE UNPROVOKED ILLEGAL USA AND ISRAHELL WAR OF AGGRESSION. THAT IRAN AND IT'S AXIS OF RESISTANCE  
DID NOT INTERVENE IN THE GAZA GENOCIDAL WAR COMMENCING ON OCOTOBER 7 2023. 

PROVOKINGLY HE ASKS WHO CARES FOR THE SANCTITY  OF THE SACRED SITES?  MORE DISTURBINGLY HE CHASTISES MUSLIMS GLOBALLY AS THEY ARE INVITING   THE WRATH OF ALLAH SWT TO BEFALL ON THEM JUST LIKE WHAT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING TO THE GULF ARAB REGIMES.  WHO ARE BEING DESTROYED SPIRITUALLY SPEAKING FOR THEIR INACTION IF NOT COLLUSION WITH THE GENOCIDE OF FELLOW ARAB FILISTEEN MUSLIMS.

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KITAB AL MALAHIM: DOOMSDAY WARS 


"THE BOOK OF TRIBULATIONS" 
THE SYRIAN MUSLIM APOCALYPTIC TRADITION
https://ia903404.us.archive.org/3/items/...20Cook.pdf


KITAB AL FITAN
https://ia801709.us.archive.org/12/items...n/book.pdf

FINAL NOTICE AND FINAL ATTACHMENT

WW3? THE DEVIL IN CONTEMPORARY HISTORY: COMPARITIVE DIABOLOGY, DAJJAL/ANTI-CHRIST, ESCHATOLOGY, THE EPSTEIN FILES AND THE BOMBING 
OF IRAN  


A JOINT CONFERENCE BY GLOBAL VISION 2000 AND THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PEACE STUDIES AND GLOBAL PHILOSOPHY

ON SUNDAY APRIL 5 2026


It is a fact that millions of people in the world believe the devil is playing a role in secret behind current affairs. Many people find in the Epstein files and the deep collusion of his paedophile network of child abusers evidence of a satanic conspiracy to destroy Western, Middle Eastern, Islamic and Christian society the world over. What is theactual truth behind this hysteria? What do historians of religions have to offer? What do Muslim scholars, Christian thinkers and Jewish intellectuals, Zoroastrians and indigenous traditions worldwide have to say about blaming the chaos in world affairs on “the devil”? What can the philosophical idea developing a “comparative Diabology” have to offer here? What if the world’s leading thinkers from each faith background explored accurately and honestly and did some deep soul searching? Is it possible that some rogue people in each of their traditions have MISUSED the idea of the devil (Satan/Lucifer/Iblis)to promote their own ideologies?Historically, the devil was one explanation for the existence of human evil and human suffering, and often led to religious wars in history in which the other faith was “in league with the Devil”. But since the Enlightenment, science and philosophy have also come up    with different explanations for evil that require different kinds of remedies, such as self-understanding, education, psychological therapy, medicine, universal economic and social wellbeing and justice, human rights and social equality and economic progress. Are we now to give up on all those hard-won idealsand simply blame “the devil” for everything? Or is there a middle way, retaining the idea of the Devil where it is useful as an explanatory tool (i.e. a superhuman malevolent force that uses some human agents to promote active evil and harm in the world) while at the same time retaining modern philosophical and scientific explanatory tools – such as ignorance, fear, Sophiaphobia, pathologies,projection, poverty, and now the easy thought-memes pumped out by the lords of the internet to manipulate populations into thinking “the other guy is with Satan” and therefore war upon them is justified? Our conference seeks to break new ground in this very important and sensitive matter of contemporary world culture and politics. As the drums of war beat ever louder, in the hands of precisely those who “blame everything on the devil and the other guy’s beliefs” – we are trying to beat the drums of peace instead, by rallying the sane intellectuals, people of faith, and true believers on the planet to find a middle way and to combine science and spirituality, and to work together to transcend the evil, ignorance, arrogance, hubris and sheer stupidity that therelease of the Epstein files and similar exposures have enabled us to see in cold daylight.

Who is organising this Conference?

This will be a joint production by two leading organisations active worldwide in such complex issues: One is Global Vision 2000 led by Moeen Yaseen, MA. PGCE University of Edinburgh. Graduate in Arabic, Middle Eastern, Islamic Civilisation and Comparative Religion and Education. Global Vision 2000 was established as a UK thinktank and consultancy in 2000 although the seeds were planted in 1984. It has been focussing on research ,conferences and digital and media advocacy on the global political economy and the Islamic world for over 25 years shaping discussions on economic justice, human rights, spirituality and eschatology with a primarily Islamic focus seeking to galvanise the leading Muslim thinkers of the planet  to struggle against anti-Islamic hysteria, anti-Muslim racism so prevalent in Trump’s white supremacist ideology, Hindutva supremacism, Putin’s Russian form of Fascismand also behind the Brexit ideologies of Tommy Robinson, Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson, and other right-wing extremist influencers who have been promoting anti-Islamic memes in the UK media –  no wonder that Epstein cheered on Brexit as a “return to tribalism” because he and his circle were its primary architects.

The other organisation co-hosting this event is the International Institute of Peace Studies and Global Philosophy, set up at the University of London in 1991, and which has worked ever since for a rational analysis of conflicts and their prevention and resolution, through a combination of academic, education and spiritual methodological strategies. IIPSGP has organised over 30 meetings in the UK House of Lords, published over 90 volumes on comparative global philosophy and history, and since 2017 has been working closely with  the World Intellectual Forum to think through what a truly egalitarian, sane, intelligent and compassionate planetary system will look like,drawing on the wisdom traditions embedded   in all world cultures, nations and languages. Its Director, Dr Thomas Daffern, in 2014 called for the establishment of a new discipline called Comparative Diabology, to analyse and study the images of the devil that exist in most world religions, and try and make psychological and philosophical sense ofthem all, to clear the road blocks to actual world peace in our time.



PROVISIONAL CONFERENCE PROGRAMME:

1 – 1 HOUR – ON RIGHT WING EXTREMISM, AND DIABOLIC IDEOLOGY: 

Historically right-wing thinkers have oftenargued that in opposing social progress, egalitarianism, and an end to racism and colonialism, they are doing so“because the left wing is diabolic”. Nazism and Fascism were premised on this ideology. The Nazi Holocaust againstJews, Freemasons, socialists, intellectuals, and people regarded as “other” was the end result of this. Trumpism,Netanyahuism, Brexitism, and Putinism – have all seen a resurgence of this ideology. One thing they are now agreedon is that Islam is a diabolic force, and thus Muslims need to be “thrown out everywhere”. The race hatred of ICE isthe end result of this ideology. So too is Netanyahu’s relentless war on the Palestinians (both Christian and Muslims)as is the settler colonialism of Zionism, because they have been taught that “Palestinians are of the devil’s party” and that they made deals with Hitler (ignoring that some Zionist factions, including the ancestors of Likud) did exactly the same. How can political scientists make sense of all this complexity? Why has the mass media in the so called« West » been filled with right wing extremism thus causing Brexit, anti-Europeanism, and the endless wars of the Middle East? How has diabolic discourse contributed to both the Genocide in Gaza and the assault on Ukraine?

2 – 1 HOUR – ON THE EPSTEIN FILES AND THE EXPOSURE OF THE WORLDWIDE NETWORKS OF EVIL: 

In a sense the Epstein Files prove the veracity of Hannah Arendt’s phrase, “The Banality of Evil” : Epstein was simply someone inlove with lust, power, money, wealth and control. He recruited into his networks wealthy elites who liked the samethings. There is evidence he was working with elements of Israeli intelligence to set up honey traps to blackmail democratic influencers to do Israel’s bidding, come what may. What do we know so far?  While there is no evidence of actual “satanic worship” as an organised religious cult going on in Epstein’s circles, there is a de-facto worship of sexual abuse, humiliation, sadomasochism, the dishonouring of young women and girls, and the misusing economic wealth for personal power and gain, and the silencing of others. How deep have the tentacles of this rot spread? Aswell as Steve Bannon, Ghislaine Maxwell, Andrew Windsor-Mountbatten, Peter Mandelson, Dershowitz, Tommy Robinson, Nigel Farage and Nick Candy, Donald Trump, Stephen Miller who else has been associated with Epstein’s circles and who also among them is still spreading anti-Muslim hate speech and pro-Zionist apologies? What can we say about whether Epstein was recruited by Mossad and if so when and how? Have any academics yet examined the Epstein files? What about the death of Virginia Giuffre and her own exposures? Who was the « Minister » that used her for sexual titillation including nearly strangling her? If she was murdered, who was responsible? How many victims of Epstein have come forward in total so far and what are the implications of their various stories?

3 – 1 HOUR – – ON THE DEVIL IN ISLAMIC THOUGHT 

Has since Muhammad’s PBUH revelations argued that the Devil (Iblis) is areal force which  true believers have to resist, morally, intellectually and spiritually. Islam is designed as a tradition to facilitate that resistance.    But in today’s complex world of social media, internet disinformation, intelligence propaganda, social surveillance and totalitarianism, and the  “anti-Islamic thread” running through so much of what passes for “history”, how can modern Islamic intellectuals navigate their way to a middle way between diabolic“over-literalism”  and diabolic “denialism and trivialisation”. What insights does the 1400 years of Islamic thought and spirituality contribute to our understanding of these issues now the Islamic world has had to deal with lies, invasion,colonialism, unjust wars, aggressive capitalism, aggressive communism and other attacks on Islam – and what Muslims and philo-Islamic intellectuals do to build a counter-narrative, in which the positive contributions of Islamic civilisation towards science, peace, justice, education, and philosophy can be brought to the fore instead of anti-Islamic rhetoric that pervades the “un-think tanks” of right-wing influence. 

The word Dajjal is the superlative form of the Arabic root d-j-l, meaning: to lie, to deceive, to cover or obscure the truth. Thus Dajjal literally means: “the great deceiver”, 2“the arch-liar”, “the one who covers the truth”. This root also appears in Syriac as daggal , meaning “false,deceitful, spurious.” The compound al-Masih al-Dajjal means “the deceiving Messiah,” linguistically parallel to the Syriac phrase mš??? d-daggal (“false Christ”). Thus, the Dajjal concept is best understood as a fusion of: early Muslim eschatology, Near Eastern Christian apocalyptic motifs, local oral traditions. All these Islamic eschatological traditions will be examined historically since the first major Islamic apocalyptic book is Kitab al-Fitan by Nuaym ibn Hammad (d. 843), which contains extensive Dajjal material. Scholars note that: the vocabulary, the narrative structure,the “false messiah” motif, anti-Jewish polemical elements all show strong parallels with Syriac Christian apocalyptictexts. Islamic apocalyptic writings use Hebrew and Syriac loanwords, suggesting direct borrowing or adaptation. Some specific features — such as the Dajjal being chained in the West — resemble imagery from the Book of Revelation. —However the Dajjal is not mentioned in the Qur’an. The Qur’an contains eschatological material (e.g., Gog and Magog),but never names or describes the Dajjal. The full Dajjal narrative emerges 150–200 years after the Prophet, in the expanding corpus of Hadith and apocalyptic literature. All of this needs unpacking – and we can ask how did modernist intellectual reformers in Islam such as Muhammad Iqbal, interpret these eschatological traditions? And what do modernists say about the Devil? This session will focus on this.

4 – 1 HOUR – – ON THE DEVIL IN CHRISTIAN THOUGHT –

has since the foundational teachings of Jesus Christ and the New Testament, believed that evil does exist and is centred on a demonic being of great force and power, who Christians must resist and oppose, intellectually, morally and spiritually as did Jesus himself. The Gnostic Christians argued that the Devil was even the demiurge, lord of this fallen world, and Jesus had come to set us free from his dominion. Both Catholic, Orthodox and early Protestant thinkers retained a literal belief in the devil into moderntimes. Scriptural literalists maintain the actuality of the Devil, whereas experts in biblical criticism are less dogmaticon this point. Jungian psychology argues that the Devil is an archetype which arises in the collective unconscious ofhumanity when seeking to explain inexplicable evil, and to give history a narrative meaning. After the rediscovery ofthe Books of Enoch and the Gnostic scriptures, modern Christian theologians have tried to penetrate the dense fog surrounding the devil image, and whereas extremist Nazis and fascists sometimes sought a justification for the Holocaust from medieval Christianity, arguing that the Jews were truly evil and children of Satan and therefore thepogroms and onslaughts of antisemitism over the centuries had been justified, very few modern-day Christians would now repeat this, except in some extremist right-wing fanatical circles. Is there a middle way for Christian thinkers between those who want to retain a literal belief in the devil as the embodiment of evil, and those whowant to apply humanistic analysis and explain evil away as due to oppression, patriarchy, poverty, ignorance and lackof intellectual sophistication? What aid can that middle way make to counter the current drums of war leading us into Islamophobic onslaughts on the Christians and Muslims of the Middle East? Can Christians work with Muslims tobuild an intellectual axis of resistance to the demonisation of the other that is going on here, by recovering the coreteachings of Jesus concerning love, self-knowledge and wisdom?


5 – 1 HOUR – ON THE DEVIL IN JUDAISM :

what is the history of the devil in Judaism? Although Satan plays a role inthe Jewish Bible, this is not often seen in a literal way, and in Job he is even given his power by God “to test mankind”. The Books of Enoch and the influential teachings of the Qabalah have sought to explain the Devil in more complex ways, and speak of an ancient trace of extra-terrestrial demons who descended on earth back inprehistorical times and corrupted humanity by teaching us dark arts. Many modern Jews follow Freud and Marx in disbelieving not just in Satan anymore, but even in God as well. So secularisation was one response to being seen as“the devil’s chosen people” and subject to extremist persecution over the centuries, culminating in the Nazi Holocaust. Which current Jewish traditions and lineages continue to maintain that there is a devil operating behind human history, and how do they make sense of the Holocaust, of anti-semitism and Judaeophobia accordingly?  What is the theology, so to speak, of the modern state of Israel and of its agencies such as Mossad? Have they been given a carte blanche to attack countries like Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, and to use deception and false flag attacks(on the USA even) because “Israel is the only nation under God and the Goyim are all servants of the Devil”? Is this what they are now hoping in attacking Iraq with the help of their mercenaries in the USA, and to use endless cycles of war as a way of keeping people focused on the devil instead of the Israeli cabinet and its extremist Zionist ideologies? In the history of Zionism has the demonisation of the other as the “devil” helped serve its  self-justificatory agenda which can therefore brush under the carpet its own crimes and misdemeanours? Who among contemporary Jewish thinkers, philosophers and theologicians are calling for a middle way – that yes there is a force of active evil in history that tempts humans if we are not careful and well defended, but yes the over-literalisation of this also doesn’t help and other explanatory factors are also useful to really explain why human beings have still not yet learned to find peace on earth living together in harmony, all races, all cultures, all nations,all languages? Did Jeffrey Epstein use his Jewish identity to somehow justify his sexual abuse of innocent girls and women, and was his arrogance and elitism somehow lodged in his psychological compensatory revenge mechanisms because « we Jews have been persecuted long enough, now we can have some revenge fun ? » Can the same mechanism also somehow explain the murky events of 9/11 and the possible role of the CIA and Mossad in that and other dark stories in USA history such as the assassination of President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy? 

– 1 HOUR – FINAL INTERFAITH PANEL AND DISCUSSION 

will examine the contributions made by the various speakers and lead to a helpful all-round discussion of these important issues and see if we cannot use our minds,hearts and spirits to come to a better understanding of a) what evil actually is and where it comes from and b) why comparative diabology can help in this process and c) how it is possible to combine the best of scientific thought andthe best of spiritual insights to find a way for all of us, whatever nation, culture and religion we follow, to find common ground and work together towards human survival and mutual flourishing. We hope to be joined byspeakers with insights from a Buddhist perspective, a Hindu perspective, a Sikh, a Jain perspective, a Primal and a Zoroastrian perspective on Comparative Diabology and current world affairs, the final session can explore: What “evil” means across traditions, whether a literal devil is necessary to explain harm, how societies project “evil” ontoothers, how spiritual traditions diagnose the roots of cruelty, how science and spirituality can collaborate, how comparative diabology    can reduce demonisation and increase understanding. This is exactly the integrative,    peace-oriented philosophical conversation the conference is finally aiming for.

On behalf of Global Vision 2000 [https://globalvision2000.com] & IIPSGP [www.educationaid.net]


Conference Co-Convenors

Moeen Yaseen MA, Director Global Vision 2000

Dr Thomas Daffern Director/ IIPSGP