Muhammad Atif Shah 
Billions of people across Islam and Christianity believe a great deceiver will appear before the end of the world. Muslims call him the Dajjal. Christians call him the Antichrist. And more people than ever are asking whether these two figures are actually the same being described in different religious languages, or whether they are genuinely … Read more
There is a feeling that many people carry around without quite being able to name it. A sense that the world is not going in the right direction. That something has been lost. That human beings are capable of so much more than what they actually do, and yet the gap between that potential and … Read more
Every few generations, Jewish history produces a moment of collective holding of breath. A figure emerges, or rumor of one spreads, and for a brief and electric season, ordinary Jews from Portugal to Poland, from Yemen to New York, begin to ask the same question: could this be him? Could this be the Mashiach, the … Read more
Imagine the scene that has been described in tens of millions of copies of the Left Behind novels. Planes falling from the sky because pilots have vanished mid-flight. Highways full of driverless cars. Hospitals where surgeons have disappeared from operating theatres. Every Christian in the world suddenly and silently removed from the earth, leaving behind … Read more
The Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, held up two fingers pressed close together and said: I and the Hour have been sent like this. That statement was made fourteen centuries ago. And yet every generation of Muslims that has lived since has looked at the world around them, read the hadith describing the signs … Read more
Two names. Three thousand years of interpretation. Three of the world’s major religions. And still, after all that time and all that scholarship, nobody agrees on who Gog and Magog actually are. They begin as a single man and the territory he rules, introduced in a prophetic vision by the biblical prophet Ezekiel sometime in … Read more
Every civilisation in human history has looked at the darkness around it and asked whether something greater than human effort will eventually come to set things right. The question is always the same, even when asked in different languages, in different centuries, in different temples and churches and mosques. Are we alone in this? Is … Read more
Most people who have heard the phrase Olam Ha-Ba believe they know what it means. They imagine something roughly equivalent to the Christian heaven or the Islamic Jannah: a positive afterlife destination for the righteous, contrasted with Gehinnom as a place of punishment for the wicked. This understanding is not entirely wrong, but it captures … Read more
Here is a fact that surprises most people who hear it for the first time. The word antichrist appears exactly five times in the entire Bible. Every single one of those appearances is in two short letters written by the Apostle John. Not one of them appears in the Book of Revelation. Not one appears … Read more
The 10 Definitive Events Before the Final Hour — From Authentic Hadith The companions were sitting together, talking quietly among themselves. The subject was the Day of Judgment, the way people who have thought deeply about something will sometimes discuss it among themselves, turning the great questions over in their hands the way you might … Read more