Editing Islamic eschatology (section)

===Islamic State claims of prophecy fulfilment===
Jihadis of the [[Islamic State]] see the fulfillment of many of [[Signs of the coming of Judgement Day|the "lesser signs" of the coming of Judgement Day]] in current events. 
Its generally agreed that [[Arab–Israeli conflict#History|Israel Arab wars]] have been wars between Muslims and Jews (which were prophesied), and that moral standards have declined leading to  rampant fornication, alcohol consumption, and music listening.<ref name=GWWotS2016:249/> "A slave giving birth to her master" can happen when the child of a slave woman and the slave's owner inherits the slave after the owner's death—slavery being practiced in the [[Islamic State]] (until its defeat).<ref name=GWWotS2016:249/> An embargo of Iraq<ref name=GWWotS2016:249/> is alleged to be foretold in the hadith "Iraq would withhold its dirhams and qafiz".<ref>Sahih Muslim Book 041, Hadith Number 6923</ref> That Muslim states are being led by those who do not deserve to lead them,<ref name=buhari-6496 >{{cite web |title=Sahih Bukhari, Volume 8, Book 076, Hadith 503 |author=Bukhari |url=https://sunnah.com/bukhari:6496 |access-date=14 April 2022}}</ref> is an article of faith among jihadis and many other Muslims.  ISIS alleges that worship of the pre-Islamic deity ''al-Lat'' is being practiced by its Shia enemy [[Hezbollah]].  The naked shepherds who will build tall buildings is interpreted to refer to  Gulf State builders of skyscrapers<ref name="Globalist-2017">{{cite web |title=The Spread of Gulf State Skyscrapers |url=https://www.theglobalist.com/the-spread-of-gulf-state-skyscrapers/ |website=The Globalist |access-date=14 April 2022 |date=21 May 2017}}</ref> are "only a generation or two out of desert poverty".<ref name=GWWotS2016:249>[[#GWWotS2016|Wood, ''The Way of the Strangers'', 2016]]: p.249</ref>

But the Islamic State is also attempting to fulfill prophecies itself to hasten end times.
Zarqawi published "communiqués detailing the fulfillment of specific predictions" found in a famous book on jihad and end times called, ''A Call to a Global Islamic Resistance'' by Abu Musab al Suri.  His successor, [[Abu Omar al-Baghdadi|Al-Baghdadi]], took "the fulfillment of apocalyptic portents even more seriously".<ref name=JSISISCFB2015:224>[[#JSISISCFB2015|Stern, ''ISIS'' "The coming final battle",  2015]]: p.224</ref> 
According to Hassan Abbas,{{#tag:ref|"an expert on jihadi movements"|group="nb"}} at least part of ISIS's motivation in killing and otherwise provoking Shia is to "deliberately ... instigate a war between Sunnis and Shi'a, in the belief that a sectarian war would be a sign that the final times has arrived"; and also explains the ISIS [[Siege of Kobanî]]: "In the eschatological literature, there is reference to crisis in Syria and massacre of Kurds—this is why [[Kobanî#Syrian Civil War|Kobane]] is important."(The town of 45,000 was under siege by ISIS from September 2014 to January 2015.)<ref name=JSISISCFB2015:220-1>[[#JSISISCFB2015|Stern, ''ISIS'' "The coming final battle",  2015]]: p.220-221</ref>

Thus, "ISIS's obsession with the end of the world" helps explain its lack of interest in the "ordinary moral rules" of the temporal world, according to Jessica Stern.
If you are "participating in a cosmic war between good and evil", (and if everyone will be dead and then resurrected relatively soon anyway), pedestrian concerns about saving the lives of the innocent are of little concern.<ref name=JSISISCFB2015:224-5>[[#JSISISCFB2015|Stern, ''ISIS'' "The coming final battle",  2015]]: p224-225</ref>