By Walid Shoebat

Most whom I discuss Islam with, do not understand its complexities and confusions.

Most critics of Islam speak more about the violence and the Sharia. Islam is much more than this, since it was authored by the author of confusion, the devil. It has prophecies meant to confuse the ardent skeptic. For example, Hamza Yusuf, a Muslim scholar condemns ISIS and speaks of Islamic prophecies which condemn ISIS as evil:

The simpleton will say “wow”, here we have a peaceful Muslim giving prophecies where Ali, Muhammad’s nephew, supposedly predicted the coming of ISIS. When ISIS comes, Islam predicts, that Muslims are ordered “to remain in their homes” and “shut the doors”. Islam describes ISIS as “their hearts are like iron” “they will not keep covenants” “their members will not go by their real names and instead use their nicknames and pseudonyms” “they have long hair like women” “they are Arabs” “there will be a smoke” …

The precise predictions seem to give evidence according to Hamza, that the ISIS phenomenon was predicted by Islam and goes contrary to true Islam.

But will such heretics who supposedly left Christianity to Islam, be any match to Muslim converts to Christianity when it comes to understanding Prophecy? I challenge this heretic anytime.

Most who see Hamza think he is definitely some Arab scholar. Fact is, Hamza, who says that the sign of evil ISIS, is that their members do not go by their real name, while Hamza himself is pure bread American born “Mark Hanson” and not “Hamza Yusuf”. In this, he fits the very bill he says that Islam predicted about ISIS will change their names and Hamza has been known to support Jihad warfare, but not the style ISIS advocates.

Hamza was born in Washington State and raised in Northern California. He grew up a practicing Greek Orthodox Christian and attended prep schools on both the east and west coasts. He was first influenced by the Sufi brand of Islam and was taught by Abdalqadir as-Sufi, another who does not go by their real name,  – a Scottish convert to Islam and leader of the Darqawa Sufi order and the Murabitun World Movement.  Yusuf moved to Norwich, England to study directly under as-Sufi. In 1977, after a near-death experience and reading the Qur’an, he converted to Islam from Christianity.

Being as wise as a serpent, as Jesus commanded, I am not amused, the prophecy which Hamza quotes, ordering Muslims to stay in their homes and shut the doors, the devils of Islam stole from the Bible:

“Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.” (Isaiah 26:20-21)

When Christ comes, there will be such a calamity, that Christians will shut their doors and their windows,  that perhaps the oxygen in the atmosphere will deplete that anyone outside will die and who remains indoors will live from the oxygen that remains sealed indoors. A few hours and everyone outside will perish. This is a parallel to the prophecy in the times of Moses in Egypt when God ordered the Israelites to remain indoors and post the mark of the Cross on the door posts, header and lintel, using the blood of lambs to point where our Lord was to be wounded on his forehead, hands and feet.

The Islamic predictions of ISIS with “men with hair of women” and “hearts of iron” is also stolen from the Bible: “They had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were like the teeth of lions.” (Revelation 9:8)

Hamza admits that Muhammad himself had long hair like women. Muhammad braided his hair and even put mascara like women.

Not trusting ISIS in any covenant, as Hamza mentions, is easily extracted from the spirit of Antichrist who will break his covenant of peace (Daniel 9:27). The “Dakhan” (smoke) which the video incorrectly translated as “cloud” also stems from the same chapter in Revelation 9:2-3:

When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss. And out of the smoke locusts came down on the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth