Mohammad Badawy at Brooklyn MAS Youth Center Lecture Addresses Criticism of Hadith Describing the End Times Battle Between Jews and Muslims, When Jews Will Hide behind Rocks and Trees; These Audacious Questions Always Come from the People with the “Bloodiest Hands”

Mohammad Badawy, director of the Muslim American Society (MAS) Youth Center in Brooklyn, delivered a series of lectures on Islamic eschatology. In a December 14, 2024 lecture under the title “Precursors to the Major Signs – Armageddon and Al-Mahdi,” Badawy discussed some of the precursors to the End Times, including the Islamic prophecy that the Jews will fight in the army of the Antichrist against the Muslims and will be pursued by the Muslims until they hide behind rocks and trees, which will in turn call to the Muslims: “There is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him!” He addressed critics of Islam, who claim that this hadith expresses an Islamic support for a Holocaust, saying that these questions always come from the people with the “bloodiest hands,” he said people who question this are “audacious” and he asked, “Whose fault is it that they are on the side of evil, right? That’s the choice that they’re going to make at the time.”
On December 21, at a subsequent lecture titled “The 2nd Coming of Jesus – Liberation of Al-Aqsa,” Badawy said that Jesus had been a prophet who had called the Jews out for their corruption and corruption of Allah’s laws, and that the Jews arranged for the Romans to arrest and crucify him. He also commented that the Jews’ corruption against Allah and treachery against His prophets has been their norm throughout history. For more about the Mohammad Badawy