The Gulf Crisis and New World Order — Page 332
Sixteellfh Friday Senno11 Mar 08, 1991 "So when the time for the fulfilment of the first of the two promises came, We sent against you some servants of Ours possessed of great might in war, and they penetrated the innermost parts of your houses, and it was a warning that was bound to be carried out and non could avert this decree. " "Then We gave you back the power against them and dominance and aided you with wealth and children, and caused you to grow into a great power. " (Verse 7) "But with the condition that if you will now practice goodness and give up your old evil ways, then in reality you would be doing good to your own selves, but if you revert to your same old misdeeds which you had done before, then those misdeeds too will backfire upon you, i. e. , in reality you would be perpetrating those misdeeds against your own selves. God says: "Then the time came for the fulfilment of the second promise so that the decree may be fulfilled that you would again do evil and would taste its consequences and your faces would be disgraced and darkened. " (Verse 8) "So they may again enter the Mosque as they had entered it before and destroy it" - meaning the Temple of Solomon. These two promises have been fulfilled and recorded in history. But there is a third mention which is also to be found in this same Chapter of the Holy Quran. As we read in the next verse: 332