Re: Those who do not obey shall be destroyed

On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Gary Pupurs wrote:

> At 01:10 PM 9/24/2001 -0400, Bijan Parsia wrote:
> >http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/mideast/hamas.htm
[snip]
> >"The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews
> >(killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The
> >stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me,
> >come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, (evidently a certain kind of
> >tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the
> >Jews." (related by al-Bukhari and Moslem)."
> 
> Can anyone confirm that this is indeed a passage attributed to The Prophet 
> (I assume, Mohammed) ?  And maybe offer some context, if there is any?

No. It seemed surprising to me, but I'm a total novice at Islamic studies
too.

http://inic.utexas.edu/meclass/aipol/mail/profiles97/0001.html doesn't
seem to treat it as from the Koran.

A quick search on the web didn't reveal any extra-hamas-covenent
references.


>  From what I know of Islam (admittedly novice), this doesn't sound 
> right.  Perhaps it's a very bad translation to English in order to fit 
> certain purposes?

It's a puzzle. Perhaps Kendall can weigh in?

Cheers,
Bijan.