No Israel by 2027, says Hamas founder

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious the Most Merciful

In a time where Israel is massacring Palestinians queuing for food, while facilitating a starvation campaign witnessed by the West whose complicit in genocide, it’s easy to think the Jewish state is unstoppable. 

As Muslims, we must believe the victory of Allah will come and destroy the oppressors through the hands of the believers. For Israel, whose economy has been decimated, forced to recruit more reservists, battling with its residents fleeing back to their original countries and dealing with a PR crisis, it’s evident the Jewish state, founded in 1948, is on the brink of collapse.

In a 2024 Haaretz article, ex Israeli general Yitzhak Brik writes that Israel will not survive in the next year if it maintains its campaign to wipe out Hamas and Hezbollah, warning the country is on ‘the edge of an abyss.’ 

This sentiment is not new. Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin in a 1999 interview predicted the fall of Israel by 2027, which at the time of writing in 2025 is two years from now by Allah’s decree. 

Sheikh Ahmed, who was martyred through an Israeli airstrike in 2004, explained that nothing last forever, and for Israel, it’s in its last quarter. He predicted that roughly by 2027 the state will fall. He explained through the Quran that generations change every 40 years. This is referring to the Children of Israel wandering the desert for 40 years as punishment for worshipping the golden calf. In that time, the older generation who’d lived under Pharaoh died, and a new generation was born—one that eventually entered Jerusalem.

In the interview, Sheikh Ahmed expanded on this idea: 

‘During the first 40 years, we had the Nakba, in the second 40 years, the Intifada started, with confrontations the fighting, and the bombs, and the third [group of] 40 years, will see [Israel’s] end, inshallah.”

-Al Jazeera 1999 interview (transcript here)

Given the current instability of the Israeli regime, now fully reliant on Western funding to withstand its massacres on multiple fronts, we can take comfort in the Quranic assurance that this corrupt regime will fall. This is a matter of Islamic belief, and it is essential for the ummah to believe in the promise of Allah in the Quran, that victory is near. 

The importance of Palestine in Islam

Allah سبحانه و تعالى chose sacred lands in which He made of great importance. These lands are Makkah (specifically the Ka’ba), Medina, Ash Sham (Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine). It is in Palestine where Masjid al Aqsa was built.

These lands are equally sacred because Allah told us this, and to separate Masjid al Aqsa from Makkah and Medina is as if to separate one part of Islam from another. That’s why we must protect it from the plots of the Jews, who wish to steal further lands of the Muslims and turn it into Greater Israel.

Its future map is etched onto the badges of IOF soldiers. 

In 2024, former IDF spokesperson Avi Lipkin laid out the plans for Greater Israel in which he said the Jewish state will expand from the Nile to the Euphrates, in line with the vision of Zionist founder Theodore Herzl.  He said:

‘Eventually, our borders will extend from Lebanon to the Great Desert, which is Saudi Arabia, and then from the Mediterranean to the Euphrates. I believe we’re gonna take Mecca, Medina and Mount Sinai, and to purify those places.’
Middle East Political and Economic Institute, 2024. (Read Article here)

This is why having Quranic guidance in how we view our Muslim lands is essential to defend them from Jewish plots and invasions. 

Land of the Prophets

In the lecture ‘History Of Palestine’ by Sheikh Ali Al Tamimi, he explained how Palestine is significant in Islam - particularly Baytul Maqdis. 

Palestine is the land of the Prophets. It is where Our Father Ibrahim  عَلَيْهِ ٱلسَّلَامُ  travelled to Jerusalem after preaching Tawhid (Oneness of Allah) to his people and was driven out due to their disbelief. He worshipped Allah at Masjid Al Aqsa which he built.

Palestine is where Prophet Musa  عَلَيْهِ ٱلسَّلَامُ  went with the children of Israel to, desiring to enter the Holy Land. He told them:

 "O My people! enter the Holy land (Palestine) which Allâh has assigned to you, and turn not back (in flight) for Then You will be returned as losers.” (5:21)

They refused, and so they did not enter the land. After worshipping the golden calf the Israelites were forbidden from Baytul Maqdis for 40 years and left to wander the desert, bringing in a new generation free from the scars of bondage and idol worship.

Under Prophet Yusha (Joshua) عَلَيْهِ ٱلسَّلَامُ  they entered Jerusalem.

Masjid al Aqsa was rebuilt by Prophet Sulaiman (Solomon) عَلَيْهِ ٱلسَّلَامُ and is where Maryam عَلَيْهِ ٱلسَّلَامُ worshipped and the land where Prophet Isa (Jesus) عَلَيْهِ ٱلسَّلَامُ was born. 

It was Baytul Maqdis from where Prophet Muhammad ﷺ undertook the miraculous Night Journey and prayed 2 rakahs at the masjid. 

Historic conquests of Jerusalem 

Since the time of the Prophet ﷺ, the Muslims had prepared to take the Holy Land, as seen during the Battles of Mu’tah and Tabuk. During the caliphate of Umar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb رضي الله عنه, the leader of Jerusalem surrendered the city to the Muslim army led by Abū Ubaydah ibn al-Jarrāḥ رضي الله عنه. Caliph Umar then travelled to Jerusalem, accompanied by his servant on a camel. While in the city, the caliph made a treaty with the Christians, visited al-Aqsa, prayed two rakahs, and recited Sūrah Ṣād.

Salahuddin reclaims Jerusalem

During the Abbasid Caliphate, Palestine was taken from the weakening Seljuk Empire by the Fāṭimid Caliphate, a Shia regime based in Egypt. In 1099, the Crusaders launched a Christian-led campaign to reclaim the Holy Land and captured Jerusalem during the First Crusade.

Efforts to restore Muslim control of the region began under the Zengid dynasty. Imād al-Dīn Zengī reclaimed key territories such as Edessa and Aleppo, and his efforts were continued by his son, Nūr al-Dīn Zengī. Nūr al-Dīn commissioned a minbar (pulpit), intending it to be placed in al-Aqsa Mosque once Jerusalem was liberated.

It was around two decades after his death that this vision was fulfilled by his former general, Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn al-Ayyūbī (Saladin). Following the Battle of Ḥaṭṭīn in 1187, Jerusalem was returned to Muslim rule, and the minbar was finally installed in al-Aqsa.

After the fall of the Ottoman Empire, Jerusalem came under British control. By this time, Britain also controlled Egypt and Iraq. In 1920, during the French occupation of Syria, General Henri Gouraud visited the tomb of Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn in Damascus. He is reported to have kicked it and declared, “Awake, Saladin—we have returned.”

Later, the British handed over control of Palestine to the newly formed United Nations, which proposed the partition of the land. In 1948, following the end of the British Mandate, the state of Israel was established.

Role of the Muslims in the Present Day

The ummah continues to suffer from the machinations of the Jews who have taken Muslim lands and caused corruption. But it is our role to use Quranic guidance to respond, using the same Islamic sources which our righteous salaf used. Since the time of the Prophet ﷺ the Jews have continuously schemed to destroy the Islamic state. Their aim is to lead the Muslim ummah astray and alienate it from Quranic teachings. As long as the ummah is estranged from its sources of power and knowledge, it will continue to remain weak.

May Allah bring forth righteous Muslims from our generation who utilises the Quran and sunnah to revive the ummah and reclaim the Holy Land, Ameen. 
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