Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jarthur!nntp-server.caltech.edu!bes
From: jzubairi@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Junaid Ahmed Zubairi)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.islam
Subject: A HADITH ABOUT WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST ?? (or my misunderstanding)
Message-ID: <1990Dec9.012206.22402@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 9 Dec 90 01:22:06 GMT
Sender: bes@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Behnam Sadeghi)
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Lines: 23
Approved: bes@tybalt.caltech.edu


=

==================================================
In an Urdu selection from Sahih Muslim, I read a Hadith 
which predicts events before the Dooms day (Qiamat).
I am surprised and confused by the words of this Hadith.
It says that there will be a war among the nations of the 
world in Middle East( near River Farat) in which 99% of the
people will be killed. (Maybe it means 99% of the armies
will be killed). The fight will be near river Farat and will be
over gold.


If you take GOLD = BLACK GOLD = OIL
and consider RIVER FARAT (IS IN IRAQ)
and the words (nations) then the conflict referred to can be the
present Gulf crisis.

But I am not sure so I am asking help of other knowledgable netters 
in understanding this hadith.

Junaid Zubairi