So far as I am concerned, I do firmly believe in an approaching "End of the World", but it is a question of terminology : there will be an end - no doubt - when the sun's heat, in a few billion years will be exhausted and our beautiful planet will be a dark, lifeless and parched globe of icy rocks. And yes, I do not exclude that man's stupidity might speed it up to the extent that we might see it in our lifetime, a last vision of the incomparable glory of Homo sapiens sapiens buried in a Nuclear Winter.

So far as I am concerned, I do firmly believe also in Dajjal, the Antichrist, but this too is a matter of terminology.

Dajjal, it is said, will appear riding on a monstrous donkey : I take it as an euphemism where the monstrous donkey stands for crass ignorance and stupidity. In which case I may with little doubt state that Dajjal has been a long time amongst us and he is to be found almost everywhere, leaders of men and world leaders riding it, their braying reaching us from every corner.