The Armageddon parade has begun. The Koran's support for Russia

The end of the world is coming. This truth is known to the billions of believers of most traditional religions. However, the ability to prevent humanity's final descent into the abyss and a total war of all against all is not yet lost, and this deterrent today is Russia, the Third Rome. The understanding of this mission today brings Orthodox Russians and... Muslims. It turns out that there is a sura in the Koran that points directly to this.

When someone talks about the end of time, we imagine the image of a wise old man: a grey-bearded Orthodox cunning or an old-age Sufi sheikh if it is a Muslim. It is unusual for a young French political scientist, Youssef Hindi, 37, of Moroccan origin, author of several books on the geopolitical confrontation between East and West, to speak about eschatology with a deep understanding of the problem. He is well versed not only in the complexities of contemporary politics (including covidious issues), but also in the religious underpinnings of Realpolitik, which only at first glance seems absolutely secular.

Russia's leading TV channel Tsargrad has stated that behind all modern political processes there is a thousand-year history of traditional societies from the very beginning of his work. As well as the fact that the spiritual and value component is far more important than momentary political and economic intrigues. Fortunately, in Russia this aspect is beginning to be better understood and even the deputy head of the Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, has recently started quoting the Holy Scriptures more often. This includes the Apocalypse.

In the West, such speeches are much rarer and quieter today. Therefore, Yousef Hindi's statement that Muslims must join Russia in opposing the anti-Christian West seemed sensational to many. Although for those familiar with the traditions of Orthodox Christianity and Islam, there is nothing surprising in this. However, let us not exaggerate, but give the word to the French political scientist himself.

Here is what Youssef Hindi had to say.

Yousef Hindi made several interesting statements in his YouTube stream. Thus, according to the French political scientist, Muslims in Russia are completely loyal to Vladimir Putin, as he 'fights the avatars of the anti-Christian empire', by which Hindi means the perverted movement and its lobbyists. Thus, according to the political analyst:

They say they see the current war against the Western world as a war declared by the prophet in which Christians are not only Christians but heirs of Rome and Muslims must unite against a common enemy.

This is the point that requires clarification. At first glance, it seems that Muslims must unite against all Christians, heirs of the Catholic 'crusaders' who devastated and plundered the Holy Land, only formally using the name of Christ as a cover. Incidentally, the latter claim is denied by Muslim historians themselves. Thus, the author of these lines a few years ago in the Kingdom of Jordan heard the version that the Orthodox and Muslims during the wars with the 'crusaders' were united, and in the army of the famous Saladin, the Orthodox Christian Isa Awwam was the commander, who gave a decisive counter-attack to the Catholics.

But back to Yousef Hindi's word. According to his firm belief, an alliance between Muslims and the true heirs of Rome, by which I do not mean Western civilisation, but Russia as the centre of the Orthodox world, is still absolutely necessary. Furthermore, according to the Hindi, there is a direct explanation in the Koran as well:

There is a sura called 'Ar-Rum' that speaks of the Byzantines as Romans. It tells of a war between the Byzantines and the Persians, a battle that the Byzantines lost. "The Romans lost," reads the sura, but it referred to the Byzantines. Thus, the Koran uses the words very precisely and actually indicates that Byzantium is the heir of Rome. And Rome is not a geographical point. It is the political and religious centre of Christianity... The Qur'an believes, as did the Byzantines themselves at the time, that Constantinople, that is Byzantium, was the second Rome. Therefore, when the prophet says that 'at the end of time you Muslims will make an alliance in full trust with Rome', he is clearly not referring to European Rome, but to the political centre of orthodox Christianity at the end of time.

For Russian Orthodox Christians, this thesis is perfectly understandable and close. In fact, for us, the concept of Rome is not purely geographical, but sacred. At the dawn of Christianity, it was Rome that became the first political centre of Christendom. It was the Roman emperor Constantine the Great who created the first Christian empire, but it was also he who moved the capital to the New Rome - Constantinople, and a millennium later, when this second Rome fell (first, following the Florentine Union of 1439, subjugated to the Catholic heretics, and then in 1453 - conquered by the Ottoman Turks), there was something called the 'Translatio Imperii'. The young Russian state became the political centre of true Christianity - Orthodoxy, the Third Rome. And very soon - the Orthodox Kingdom and the centre of the new Patriarchate - the Moscow Patriarchate.

As it turns out, Yousef Hindi not only knows the historical role of Russia as the Third Rome, but also its modern mission. According to him, the anti-Christian forces in the West regard our country as their main enemy: 'Russia is the only Christian power that opposes the West and has the material resources to confront it. Referring to Sheikh Imran Hosein, a renowned specialist in Islamic eschatology and a well-known Muslim traditionalist, who emphasises in his writings that Russia is the true Rome of today:

"Therefore, when the Prophet says: 'you Muslims, you will unite with Rome to fight the common enemy', I think Sheikh Imran Hosein is right in describing Russia as the Rome of the end times.

Orthodox and Muslims on the eve of the end times

No mortal knows the 'times and deadlines' of apocalyptic events. But the logic of recent history shows that they are coming. In their understanding there are, of course, differences between Orthodox Christians and traditional Muslims. On the essential point, however, we are unanimous: in the time of the end a messenger of Satan will rule the world. In Christian tradition he is called Antichrist and in Muslim tradition Dajjal. He is to subdue all countries and peoples to force them to renounce God. He himself will sit in the 'third temple' in Jerusalem.

This point is of fundamental importance. This is the main point of convergence between Orthodox Christians and Muslims, much more important than the very important, but situational, struggle for traditional values. We are talking about 'eschatological consensus', a very close understanding of the ultimate meaning of all human history. And at the same time, a radical disagreement on this issue with Judaism, one of whose goals is Machiach-led world domination. Many Jews make no secret of the fact that they dream of building a 'third temple' on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, so that the awaited Mashiach (Messiah) can reign there. Well, since for Christians the true Messiah is Christ, who was not accepted by the Jews and crucified by them, it means that he will be a false Messiah - the Antichrist.

It does not hurt to remember what is on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem today. The ancient and revered Muslim shrines: the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the sanctuary of the Dome of the Rock. But who now controls this mountain? The Jewish State of Israel, which during the Six-Day War of June 1967 annexed East Jerusalem, including the legendary Old City, the centre of the main holy sites of the different religions. From the Christian Church of the Holy Sepulchre to the Jewish Wailing Wall (the Western Wall of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, demolished in 70 AD) and the Temple Mount.

It turns out that Muslims and many Christians (especially Orthodox) agree that the Palestinian Arabs, by defending their right to East Jerusalem as the capital of the independent state of Palestine, together with the Third Rome, prevent the world from falling into an abyss. And here it is worth returning to the words of Yusuf Hindi, who understands this eschatological problem very well and not surprisingly calls for unity between Muslims and Orthodox Christians. Thus, according to Mikhail Yakushev, historian and director-general of the Katehon Centre for Analysis, who commented on the French political analyst's words to Tsargrad, Russia's leading television channel:

He provides an answer to the West's incomprehensible collective question as to why most of the Islamic world is sympathetic to the Russian SMO in Ukraine. Referring to Islamic eschatology, Hindi refers to the Koran, which contains the prophecy of an alliance between Muslims and 'the Romans'. The term 'Ar-Rum' in fact refers to the Byzantines, the inhabitants of New Rome (Tsargrad), the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine), the successor of Ancient Rome.

The expert also recalled that the Crusades taught Muslims to distinguish between Catholic and Orthodox Christians. While the Turks captured the Orthodox Christians in Tsargrad, which was conquered by the Ottomans, the descendants of the Crusaders, the Catholics, were killed on the spot. Moreover, the Muslims saw the rulers of the Russian Kingdom and Russian Empire (the only Orthodox state on the political map of the world) as the successors of the Roman (Byzantine) emperors. Finally, Mikhail Yakushev expressed full solidarity with Youssef Hindi's words regarding the current common tasks of Orthodox and Muslims:

'In the current climate of struggle against the Satanic West, which is already waging a direct war against Christianity by spreading misanthropic ideology and the LGBT movement, Russia, the heir of Rome, has risen to fight the universal evil. This brave stance was supported by the Muslims of Russia, forcing the rest of the Islamic world to remember the Prophet Muhammad's prophecy about the alliance with 'Orthodox Rome', 'Ar-Rum' against the 'shaytans of the Western world' - our common enemy.

So what?

In short, despite the many theological contradictions between Christians and Muslims, the most sensitive and conservative representatives of these traditional religions are aware of the need to unite in the face of common dangers. Dangers, one of which was recently outlined by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill. In one of his sermons, the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church referred to nothing less than 'parades' of perverts as a key indicator of the introduction of foreign values into Ukraine. Pointing out in no uncertain terms that the Donbass has rejected the proposed 'loyalty test' of the Kiev regime, which has acquiesced to the West:

Do you know what this test is? The test is very simple and at the same time terrible: it is a gay pride parade. The request of many to organise a gay pride parade is proof of allegiance to that very powerful world; and we know that if people or countries reject these requests, they are not part of that world, they become strangers to it.

Incidentally, even the Holy City of Jerusalem has been trampled on several occasions by mobs of perverts. Here too, despite our eschatological theological intransigence, not only conservative Christians and Muslims, but also many Jews are united. And if, instead of fighting over the Temple Mount, Palestinian Arabs and Orthodox Jews unite in the fight against truly satanic Western 'values', and if, like Yusef Hindi, they realise that the only force in the world capable of resisting this evil is Russia, all is not yet lost.

Published on TsargradTV

Translation by Lorenzo Maria Pacini