Clarification 23 - The End Times Screenplay

Part of Alban Fejza: Refutations - The "Clarifications"

I. His Conclusions, and How He Reaches Them

"The End Times" is Alban's 260-year screenplay: his own 33-year explaining career; profit windows around each predicted crisis; his son Alhak's 2054-2110 ministry; Istanbul turning European; a Stephen-like martyr around 2260; a Mahdi descended from Muhammad fighting three battles from 2270; an Antichrist born "around 2240"; the world ending in 2280; a 2,300-kilometer walled city descending from the sky; a staged Judgment in which exactly 9.1 percent pass, 24.3 percent are saved by torture, and 66.6 percent burn; an intercessor pyramid running from the viewer through Alban up to Jesus; and a thousand-year Messianic age of "voluntary communism." Around two hundred verse citations decorate the script. The method is the series' familiar one at its widest: real Quran passages laid out as wallpaper - many stretches are quoted nearly straight - while the building itself is assembled from invented statistics, invented mechanics, and imported material the Quran never mentions. The audit below samples every load-bearing wall.

II. The Scales He Rebuilt

His centerpiece: "The accurate scales will be set. Material blessings on one side and righteousness on the other." His own diagram loads the counterweight pan with food, drinks, health, money, children, a good spouse, a good house - so that every provision God ever granted testifies against its recipient. Then, by his count, nobody passes - not one prophet, messenger, or saint - and salvation arrives through three staged mercy-injections: righteous deeds multiplied ten times (1 percent saved), doubled for scripture-believers (4 percent), doubled again for messenger-believers (9.1 percent). Now read the scales God actually describes: "The scales will be set on that day, equitably. Those whose weights are heavy will be the winners" (7:8); "We will establish the scales of justice... No soul will suffer the least injustice. Even the equivalent of a mustard seed will be accounted for" (21:47); "Whoever does an atom's weight of good will see it. And whoever does an atom's weight of evil will see it" (99:7-8). What is weighed is the person's works, good against evil - nowhere does any verse place the blessings you received on the opposing pan. Blessings are what you are questioned about (102:8), a matter of gratitude and use - not tonnage subtracted from salvation, as though a child or a healthy body were a debt against Paradise. And the multipliers he stages as courtroom rescues are the Quran's standing laws, in force all along: 6:160's tenfold reward is stated as the permanent rule of creation - "whoever does a righteous work receives the reward for ten" - and 4:40 says God "multiplies the reward manifold" precisely because He "does not inflict an atom's weight of injustice"; 28:54 and 57:28 grant their double rewards in this life's terms, not as Act Two of a drama in which the just scale first damns all creation. A scale that everyone fails - Abraham, Moses, and Muhammad included - is not the Quran's "equitable" scale; it is a rigged prop, built so that mercy can be dispensed in percentages that appear in no verse. And even the prop's arithmetic fails: his own saved fractions, 9.1 plus 24.3, total 33.4, not the "33.3%" he announces against his 66.6 percent damned - the series' off-by-one, now in souls.

III. The Clawback Court

Next he invents deed-repossession. The doctor's colleague reclaims credit for cleaning the surgery; his wife reclaims her sacrificed career; his mother reclaims the diapers; his patients tell him "Go to Hell"; and "the final results will be exactly like the results of God's scales." The Quran he cites in the same breath forbids the entire scene: "On that day, no soul will be wronged in the least. You will be paid precisely for whatever you did" (36:54) - his own citation - and "No soul bears the sins of another soul. Every human being is responsible for his own works" (53:38-39); "no soul can avail another soul, no intercession will be accepted, no ransom can be paid" (2:48); "no soul can help another soul, and all decisions, on that day, will belong to GOD" (82:19). A mother credited with the doctor's deeds would be paid for what she did not do - the exact injustice 36:54 rules out. The verses he leans on, 34:31-33, record the followers and leaders blaming each other; not one deed changes hands in them. The real source of his marketplace is not the Quran at all: it is the "bankrupt" tradition of the hadith books, where a man's prayers and fasts are transferred to those he wronged - the scholars' shelf again, universalized into a Day where motherhood is a repossessable loan and every kindness a lien. The Quran's Day has no creditors. It has deeds, an equitable scale, and a Lord who wrongs no one.

IV. The Import Census

For a ministry advertised as "the Quran, the whole Quran, and nothing but the Quran," this Clarification runs on other books to a degree unmatched even in this series. From Revelation: the descending walled city with twelve gates, its dimensions quoted outright from Revelation 21:16; the 144,000 witnesses from Revelation 14:3-5; the thousand-year Messianic reign; Michael's battle with the beast; and "24 of them will be prophets (4:4)" - a citation formatted like a Quran reference, except Quran 4:4 is the verse on dowries; the twenty-four come from Revelation 4:4's elders, smuggled in under Quranic numbering. From Matthew: the wise and foolish virgins, Peter holding the keys, and the Lord's Prayer recited nearly verbatim at the pyramid's summit. From Acts: Stephen - whose martyrdom is pinned to Quran 36:20 in the witness list, one line before "the martyr preceding the Mahdi (36:20)": one verse, two different men, twenty centuries apart, cited side by side. From Daniel: "the abomination which causes desolation," pinned to 17:7 - a verse about Israel's second transgression that mentions no temple-building and no abomination. From the hadith shelf: the forty-year resurrection rain growing bodies from mud, the deed-clawbacks of Section III, and the Mahdi's descent from Muhammad - the signature clause of the Sunni Mahdi legend, which even his own Clarification 20 census never dared. From the Shia shelf: Ali canonized a saint via 33:33, a verse that names no one; Abu Bakr via 9:40, likewise nameless. The Quranic citations pasted over this architecture dissolve on contact: "Becca (3:96)" is the first shrine - Mecca - not a future megacity; "one month of walking distance (34:12)" is Solomon's wind; "the house of life (52:4)" is the frequented Shrine; 3:97's "station of Abraham" becomes "the place where Abraham stands up being resurrected"; 17:1's "farthest place of prostration" - Muhammad's night journey in Rashad's rendering - is re-punned from farthest in space to farthest in time (the same space-to-time conversion that built Clarification 20's timeline) and then handed to the Mahdi as a flight itinerary; Moses' seventy (7:155), the lightning-struck audience of the Quran's own telling, are promoted to "messengers"; and "Eight of them will carry above them the throne (69:17)" reads the traditionalist rendering against Rashad's own text, where the eight are universes encompassed by God's dominion, not throne-bearers.

V. Rashad's Framework, Inverted

Intercession. The screenplay's Messianic age runs on an intercessor pyramid: each believer elects "someone through whom they had been guided" - you choose Alban, "Alban will choose Rashad. Rashad will choose Muhammad" - up to Jesus, acclaimed by the crowd as "the chosen one... the Messiah." Rashad Khalifa's Appendix 8 is titled "The Myth of Intercession": "To believe that anyone, other than God, can intercede on our behalf... is to set up partners with God. This is idolatry... The myth of intercession is one of Satan's most effective tricks to dupe millions of people into idol worship." His translation's headers hammer the same nail - "No Intercession" over 2:254, "The Myth of Intercession Shattered" over 66:10, "The Myth of Intercession" over 11:46 - and 19:87 with 20:109 reserve for God alone whatever "intercession" means at all. Alban has drafted Rashad, by name, into the middle of an intercession chain that Rashad's ministry existed to demolish - and crowned it with a returning Jesus elected Messiah, against Rashad's 43:61 footnote (the marker is Jesus' birth; he is not coming back) and against the September 1989 announcement through Gabriel, shown on Clarification 22: the Messiah the Jews await, the Christ the Christians expect, and the Mahdi the Muslims pray for are one filled office - God's Messenger of the Covenant. That is also the standing answer to this Clarification's title characters: in Rashad's writings Rashad himself is the awaited Mahdi, and the "Antichrist" is not a Quranic figure at all - the term appears nowhere in the Book, and his prooftext 9:30 concerns the Jews' reverence of Ezra and the Christians' of Jesus, not any end-times adversary. Alban's Mahdi-versus-Antichrist war of the 2270s is Sunni-Christian apocalypse fan fiction, staged with two characters the Quran never casts - one of whom, he says, will be distinguishable from God's final messenger chiefly by praying "exactly like the Clarifying Messenger (Alban Fejza)." The Mahdi and the Antichrist "almost equal in morality," told apart by conformity to Alban: the circular credential of Clarifications 16 and 20, now installed as the last theological test in human history.

The creature, and Gog and Magog. His "giant terrifying beast from earth" that tortures the survivors until Michael descends for an "epic battle" is built on 27:82 - the verse Rashad's header titles "The Computer Is The Creature": an earthly-materials creature "declaring that the people are not certain about our revelations." Rashad's published identification is the machine that unveiled the code; Alban repaints it as a torture-monster and imports Michael's dragon-war from Revelation 12 to kill it. Gog and Magog fare no better: Rashad's footnote on 44:10 leaves exactly two signs yet to be fulfilled before the End - the Smoke, and Gog and Magog - while Alban's timeline has no Gog and Magog until after 2280, when they are resurrected as "Neanderthals and Denisovans - about 200 million of them," pre-Adamic, speechless, and finally re-exterminated by "a simple virus." None of this touches the text: in 18:93-94 the people "whose language was barely understandable" are not Gog and Magog but their victims - and they speak fluently enough to negotiate a construction contract ("Can we pay you to create a barrier between us and them?"); 21:96 says Gog and Magog reappear, coming "from every direction," the gate-event of the End sequence, not a post-Judgment zombie epilogue. The paleoanthropology, the head-count, the generations arithmetic, and the virus are fiction wearing verse numbers. And Rashad did not leave the identification open: he published it, in his signature declarative voice - no "I predict," no hedging - as a symbolic reference to the two superpowers of the age:

"Two stubborn corners will refuse to join, namely, USA & USSR (GOG & MAGOG). Just before the end of the world (1710 AH/2280 AD), the USA & USSR will try to crush the Islamic giant. That is when the horn will be blown, and the Day of Judgment will come to pass" - printed above his renderings of 18:99 and 21:96-97. Gog and Magog, in Rashad's framework, are living world powers whose final assault lands just before 2280 - not a museum species awaiting a post-Judgment resurrection. Between Rashad's named superpowers striking on the eve of the Hour and Alban's virus-culled Neanderthals shambling after it, there is no reconciliation - only one more place where the man claiming to continue Rashad's mission has quietly replaced Rashad's teaching.

The son's name, written into God's phrase. "A lot of people will brand submission as 'the religion of Alhak' (9:29, 48:28)." The Arabic of 9:29, 9:33, 48:28, and 61:9 is deen al-haqq - "the religion of truth," as Rashad renders it every time. Alban named his future son Alhak - "the truth" - and now reads the boy's name back out of every verse containing God's phrase, so that scripture itself appears to advertise his family. It is the "Sheikh Albana" name-pun of Clarification 20, performed this time on the Almighty's own words - and it collides with his own chart there, which assigned 48:28's domination to the Mahdi under Rashad's footnote naming the Messenger of the Covenant. Meanwhile 13:38 - the verse addressed "(O Rashad)" - which Clarification 20 used to guarantee Alban a messenger-son, is cited here to prove the Mahdi "will have no sons." One verse, two opposite prophecies, both his, both wrong to the same address.

Re-armed history, and the ledger of small frauds. Sura 48 is replayed scene by scene - the pledge under the tree, the believing Arabs unknown to him, the humble entry, the shaved heads - as a 2270s campaign, though Rashad's 48:27 opens "GOD has fulfilled His messenger's truthful vision" and 48:24 places it "in the valley of Mecca, after He had granted you victory": history, re-armed, exactly like Luke's third day in Clarification 22. The Romans' prophecy gets the same treatment - "Istanbul, which the Romans lost back in 1453 (30:2), will once again become European" around 2054-2110 - though 30:2-4 dates itself: "Certainly, the Romans will be defeated... After their defeat, they will rise again and win. Within several years." A seventh-century prophecy, fulfilled within its own stated single-digit window, cannot be reporting 1453 as its past or 2110 as its future. The Smoke of 2052 becomes an investment window - "the smart submitters... will multiply their wealth twice, or five times, or ten times" on advance knowledge of a "painful retribution" (44:11) - Clarification 21's market newsletter, now trading on the punishment itself, with Joseph's famine-years and the charity parable of 2:265 as its prospectus. "Voluntary communism" is footnoted to 38:24 - David's ewes - a verse that warns "most people who combine their properties treat each other unfairly." The staged resurrection-by-righteousness-rank across forty years of body-growing rain contradicts the verse pasted onto it - "All it will take is one blow, whereupon they are summoned" (36:53) - and 39:68, where the second blast raises all together. The 24.3 percent saved-by-torture quota is the doctrine the Quran itself rebukes: "Some have said, 'Hell will not touch us, except for a limited number of days'" (2:80, under Rashad's header "Eternity of Heaven and Hell") - and 35:36: never finished by death, never commuted. And the framing scene - God chaining Satan to stage a demonstration answering his critique of the "material" - inverts 21:23: "He is never to be asked about anything He does, while all others are questioned." The Judge of the Day does not run exhibits for the defendant.

VI. What Survives - and What the Rest Is For

Peer review, given honestly - and here there is more to grant than usual, because long stretches are Rashad's translation quoted nearly straight: the cataclysm montage is largely genuine Quran; 14:22's Satan speech, 5:116-119's dialogue with Jesus, the mutual blaming of 34:31-33, the idols disowning their idolizers, the Purgatory dialogues of 7:44-49 (Rashad's own rendering uses the word "Purgatory" at 7:46, and its dwellers do enter Paradise in 7:49 - the word is not the problem; the torture-quota mechanics grafted onto it are), the throngs of 39:71-73, the closing Paradise verses - all real, and all Rashad's before they were Alban's. The warning that a future deceiver will fake miracles with technology is fair counsel in itself. That is precisely this Clarification's place in the series: the fullest demonstration of the rule that governs all of Alban's material - what is true in it is Rashad's, and what is his is not true. The scales are rebuilt against every verse that describes them; the percentages, the city's dimensions, the resurrection schedule, the beast-war, the Neanderthal census, and the salvation quotas exist in no scripture he claims to follow - and where they exist elsewhere, it is in Revelation, Matthew, Acts, Daniel, Bukhari, and the Sunni Mahdi legend, imported wholesale under a Quran-alone banner. A man who writes himself into the intercession chain, his son's name into "the religion of truth," and his own prayer-form into the test that unmasks the Antichrist has not explained the End of the World. He has cast himself in it: who is more evil than one who says, "I have received divine inspiration," when no such inspiration was given to him? (6:93)

See also the pattern across his material: The Underlying Issue.