Muhammad Atif Shah 
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
At some point in your life, you have stood near a grave and asked the question. Maybe you asked it quietly, to yourself, on the way home from a funeral. Maybe you asked it out loud, in the middle of a sleepless night, after a loss that was simply too large to process. Maybe you … Read more
Most people in the modern world carry an assumption about time so deep they have never thought to question it. Time moves forward. The past was primitive and the future will be better. Science advances. Technology improves. Civilisation progresses. The arrow of history points upward, from the cave to the smartphone, from superstition to reason, … Read more
There is a piece of land in the middle of Jerusalem that measures roughly thirty-seven acres. It is less than a third of a mile long. You could walk across it in about ten minutes. And yet there is arguably no piece of real estate on the surface of the earth that carries more religious, … Read more
Here is a number that tends to stop people cold when they hear it for the first time. In the Bible, references to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ outnumber references to his first coming by eight to one. Scholars who have counted them place the total at around 1,845 individual references spread across both … Read more
There is a hadith that the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) repeated so often, in so many settings, that his companions began to take special note of it. He would warn them from the pulpit. He would remind them after the prayer. He even taught them specific words to recite for protection. The subject … Read more
Two Faiths, One Story They Almost Share Here is something that surprises almost everyone the first time they encounter it. Islam and Christianity share the same prophets. They worship the same God. They recognize the same Satan. They both await the physical return of Jesus to earth. They both describe a great deceiver who will … Read more
What Is Hindu Eschatology? Most people who search for end-times beliefs come with a particular picture in their heads. History is a straight line. It began at creation. It will end at a final judgment. God will reward the righteous and punish the wicked, and that will be the last word. Eschatology in Hinduism does … Read more