"The Arrivals"

So you don't believe there is a war against God and good?

Why is it then that so much happening now that is similar to the time of the jahiliyyah? We are literally indoctrinated to see these things EVERYDAY. We grow up with it, then decide to act on it because it is the 'norm' that has become accepted in society.

Some times I think that we don't even have our own minds because we have been seeing this go on for so long we don't know how to free ourselves from it. (The Arrivals gives the film example of The Matrix)

Nine Hundred and Ninety-Nine out of every Thousand will go to Hell because of our deviation - is that not enough to at least consider these 'conspiracies'?

Bukhari :: Book 6 :: Volume 60 :: Hadith 265
Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri:

The Prophet said, "On the day of Resurrection Allah will say, 'O Adam!' Adam will reply, 'Labbaik our Lord, and Sa'daik ' Then there will be a loud call (saying), Allah orders you to take from among your offspring a mission for the (Hell) Fire.' Adam will say, 'O Lord! Who are the mission for the (Hell) Fire?' Allah will say, 'Out of each thousand, take out 999.' At that time every pregnant female shall drop her load (have a miscarriage) and a child will have grey hair. And you shall see mankind as in a drunken state, yet not drunk, but severe will be the torment of Allah." (22.2) (When the Prophet mentioned this), the people were so distressed (and afraid) that their faces got changed (in color) whereupon the Prophet said, "From Gog and Magog nine-hundred ninety-nine will be taken out and one from you. You Muslims (compared to the large number of other people) will be like a black hair on the side of a white ox, or a white hair on the side of a black ox, and I hope that you will be one-fourth of the people of Paradise." On that, we said, "Allahu-Akbar!" Then he said, "I hope that you will be) one-third of the people of Paradise." We again said, "Allahu-Akbar!" Then he said, "(I hope that you will be) one-half of the people of Paradise." So we said, Allahu Akbar."

The conspiracy offered by "The Arrivals" IMO is islamically unsound.

It also in a way condemns people for their predecessors - that they are eveil because their predecessors were evil and because of that their offspring will also be evil.

That does not fit into my thinking about Islam.

as for 999 out of a thousand, that hadith clarifies that that will be from the Gog and Magog, while for others, 1 in 1000.

Just because people sin, just because there is attraction in it it does not mean there is a grand conspiracy towards it.

People comit zina not because of some elite wanting to take over the world, but because they want to, because they find it pleasureable.

Another issue with following the conspiracy is the hopelessness of it when we know tht God is teh greatest planners.

In the case that the conspiracy is true, the question arises if knowing about it helps anyone. The answer here is no. but if it is not true, it surely does harm people.

All IMO.

bump.

I was just reading this link about the Arrivals http://myummah.co.za/site/2010/02/18/a-review-on-the-arrivals-series/ and from there amongst other things it made the following points:

Sacrilegious depiction of sacred personalities

What kind of a Muslim depicts, not once, but repeatedly, the Mahdī as a magician from Lord of the Rings!!! In all their research did they never read Sūrah al-Baqarah, from which they would have understood that magic is Kufr?

If that is not bad enough, Arrivals has the audacity to state that Muslims are “hurt” by the Council of Nicea declaring Jesus to be God. Is it plain stupidity or hypocrisy that they portray ‘Īsā  as the Kāfir king of the same movie! What are these people’s motivations?

Vilification of the Ṣaḥābah (r.a)

O Muslims, protect your faith against all sly attacks. Know that he who bears rancour against the Ṣaḥābah (RA) has cut himself from Rasūlullāh (pbuh) and has already lost the battle. Arrivals repeats the filthy lie of the Rawāfiḍ [Shī‘ah] that Mu‘āwiyah (RA) killed al- Ḥasan (RA). When it is convenient they quoted Tirmiẓī, but are silent of the du‘ā’ of Rasūlullāh (pbuh) for Mu‘āwiyah(RA) in the same book. Will you prefer a video clip over the Ḥadīth of Rasūlullāh (p.b.u.h)?

Other Rawāfiḍ beliefs The Arrivals cleverly draws one in, with facts and half-truths and then draw in the unwary with the Rawāfiḍ beliefs on the Mahdī. Yes, we believe that the family of Rasūlullāh (pbuh) has a special position of honour. Yes, we must confess that just like our other responsibilities, we have failed in this. Yes, the Mahdī will be of the sacred progeny. The Arrivals however makes no substantiation for interpreting this duty as recognising the fairy-tale Rawāfiḍ belief of the Twelve Imāms. Furthermore why these twelve, are there not other sects which follow Seven? To accept ‘Alī (RA) as First Imām is declaring Abū Bakr (RA) to be illegitimate and a usurper. The two beliefs cannot be reconciled. Arrivals opens the door to other filthy beliefs, such as the Alteration of the Qurān [Taḥrīf] and ‘Āishah raḍiyallāhu ‘anhā being an adulteress.

Not only according to this review is The Arrivals a conspiracy, it is a shia conspiracy!