Prophet Daniel saw in his dream the four empires and the great prophet.
Let's have a look at the vision that Daniel saw It's mentioned in the Bible, the Book of Daniel, Chapter 7, Verses 1:20
“ 'Four great beasts, came up out of the sea.' ” The four beasts are the four kingdoms.
“ 'The first was like a lion, and it had the wings of an eagle. And there before me was a second beast, which looked like a bear. And it had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth. and there before
me was another beast, one that looked like a leopard. And on its back it had four wings like those of a bird. This beast had four heads' ”
Pay attention, the third kingdom has four heads.
“ 'and there before me was a fourth beast terrifying and frightening and very powerful.' ” An oppressive kingdom.“ 'and it had ten horns.' ”
The fourth kingdom is savage and barbarous. It has ten kings by whom it devours the believers. What is that kingdom? We will shortly mention it.
Daniel continues,
“ 'While I was thinking about the horns' ” He was looking at those 10 horns. “ 'there before me was another horn, a little one, which came up among them' ” So, we've got now 11 horns. 11 Kings!
“ 'and three of the first horns were uprooted before it.' ”
This horn (king) is the most corruption, it will spread( blas ph emy), falsificate the doctrine and speak (boas t fully). For the other three horns (empires),
“ 'The other beasts had been stripped of their authority,
but were allowed to live for a period of time.' ” This means that they have become small countries for a period of time - and no longer empires - till the great nation comes which will crush of those countries.
Daniel continues,
“ ' In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was one like a son of man, coming with the clouds of heaven' ”
The rock that will come at the end of days.
“ ' He approached the Ancient of Days
and was led into his presence. He was given authority, glory and sovereign power;
all nations and peoples of every language worshiped him. ' ”
This means that prophet will be given prophethood and legalization, he will be a warrior prophet and all nation will obey him.
“ 'His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.'
This means that his legislation will remain till the Judgement Day ,Prophet Daniel was surprised by that vision, so one of the angels interpreted it to him. The angel told Daniel and gave him the interpretation of these things: “ 'The four great beasts are four kings that will rise from the earth.' ”
The appearance of son of man, the rock that will become a mountain, is a glad tiding of a great nation.
“ 'But the holy people of the Most High will receive the kingdom and will possess it forever yes, for ever and ever."They will have authority and legalization because they are supported from God the Almighty till the Judgement Day.
What happened in the history of nations after that prophecy?
The strange thing is that everything mentioned in that prophecy has been fulfilled and in the same way that Daniel saw in his vision. And now, we will apply the vision that Daniel saw to the historical incidents that happened. Prophet Daniel was raised in the kingdom of Babylon,
so Babylon is the first beast (kingdom) that Daniel saw in his vision. The winged lion was the symbol of the Chaldean kingdom of Babylon. This symbol, the Lamassu, is found on the Babylonian temples so far. After this beast - the Chaldean kingdom of Babylon - the Persian empire arose, so, the Persian empire arose after the Babylonian empire and it conquered it. The three ribs that the second beast had in his mouth means that the Persian empire will rule lands from the three continents. Fo the third beast - the third empire in Daniel's vision is the kingdom of Alexander the Great. His kingdom emerged after the Persian empire.
So, we have: the Babylonian kingdom then the Persian empire then Alexander the Great so far.
According to Daniel's prophecy, that empire has four heads. The "four heads" stands for a split in the kingdom. After Alexander the Great had died, his empire was split into four kingdoms. This is known historically.
And the symbol of tiger refers to the rapid spread of that kingdom.
the fourth beast - the fourth empire in Daniel's vision is the Romanian empire.
The Romanian empire had ten horns.
Ten Roman emperors will oppress the monotheists. This actually happened.
Ten Roman emperors oppressed the monotheist Christians in the first three centuries after Allāh Had Raised Jesus Christ to Himself. Therefore, the persecution of Christians at the hands of the Roman emperors is called "The Ten Persecutions" This is a known matter in the history of Christianity. These are the names of the ten Roman emperors who persecuted the monotheism Christians. After the ten emperors, the eleventh horn (emperor) will appear.
The worst Roman emperor throughout the era of the Romanian empire. So, Constantine the Great is the eleventh horn (horn). That emperor overcame his three rivals. He defeated the three horns.
He defeated each of these three emperors: Maxentius, Maximinus II and Licinius.
That emperor defeated those emperors and ruling the empire has settled for him.
“ 'The holy people will be delivered into his hands for a time, two times and half a time.' ” This means: a century, two centuries and half a century ,which is equal to 350 years. a time, two times and half a time = 350 years ,a time is a biblical unit that's equal to a century - 100 years.
It's mentioned in the Bible, the Apocalypse of Abraham, Chapter 28, Verse 5
“ 'for a time, two times and half a time.' ”
What actually happened after three and half centuries since the time of Constantine?
If we add three and half centuries to the time Constantine took office which is around 300 A.D., we get 650 A.D.
650 A.D. is the time when the Islamic state reached its glory. It's the time when Muslims conquered the city of Jerusalem.
It's the time for spreading monotheism on earth. For the first time since the era of Prophet Daniel, the doctrine of monotheism was brought back to earth: ruling and legislating. Muslims were given the kingdoms of earth in the same way just as Daniel prophesied.
it's not just that, rather, Muslims captured the city of Constantine itself. They captured Constantinople: the capital city of Constantine which was named after him, Constantine Constantinople.( Istanbul, Turkey now) ,Constantinople was the capital of the Eastern-Romanian empire.
Constantinople was the capital of the Byzantine empire and it became an Islamic city.
Muslims have captured the kingdom of the eleventh century just like Daniel PBUH prophesied.
“ 'But the holy people of the Most High will receive the kingdom and will possess it forever - yes, for ever and ever.' ”
Yes, Prophet Daniel. We captured the kingdom. Not only Muslims captured Constantinople, but no one else demands it also. Constantinople has become an Islamic city ( Istanbul, Turkey now) and nations no longer claim it.
“ 'and will possess it forever - yes, for ever and ever.' ” “ 'Then the sovereignty, power and greatness of all the kingdoms under heaven will be handed over to the holy people of the Most High.' ”
Yes, Prophet Daniel. It was given to the holy people of the Most The Muslims
The Islamic nation has dominated all kingdoms of earth they defeated the four beasts just like Daniel PBUH prophesied.
Babylon, Persia, Levant and Constantinople have been conquered.
This vision, Daniel's, cannot be applied to any nation but the Islamic nation - neither for chronological timing nor description of events.
The "son of man" who will bring monotheism back - after three and half centuries since the era of Constantine -
wasn't and won't be no one except Prophet Muhammad PBUH.
Muhammad PBUH was the rock that Nebuchadnezzar saw.
He PBUH was the erock that smashed the statue
and crushed the pagan kingdoms.
Prophet Muhammad PBUH says about himself, [in the authenticated Hadith]
“I am that brick and I am the last of the Apostles.”
May Allāh’s Blessings Be Upon Muhammad, his Family, his Companions
and Upon those who followed his religion. Amen!
It's mentioned in the Bible, the Book of Daniel, Chapter 2, Verses 27:48
“ 'But the rock that struck the statue became a huge mountain
and filled the whole earth.' ”This means that the rock that struck the statue became a great nation. “ 'Inasmuch as you saw that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands' ”This means it appeared by God, not by humans.
“ 'a rock that broke the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold to pieces.' ”
It crashed the four kingdoms.The characteristics of the rock that was cut out but not by human hand is that: it will be a great nation,it will defeat all of these kingdoms and it will remain till the Judgement Day.That prophecy has been fulfilled.Four giant empires arose and ruled earth. After that, Islam arose and defeated all of them and bring back the doctrine of monotheism.
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