Some may know the hadiths (sayings of the prophet) regarding the signs before the Day
of Judgement, a few of them regarding Kingship, Tyrants, the Fall of Rome and Rejoicing of the Muslims .
All prophecies foretold which become reality, yet we are waiting for many other events which have not come to pass. One of these is the eventual success of the Ummah (nation of islam) and subsequent ignorance ,,,,,
If i were to plot the current state of the Ummah on a bell curve-like representation it would surely be at the lower right end, with the major downward spiral already taken place ....
Yet, I want to pose a point, Success (in history) for the muslims correlated many a time with success militarily, in wealth and arts/science (see Golden islamic age) as is the course for any civilization .... If we take a GDP nominal and GDP per capita muslim nations (and eastern nations) now, we would find them lagging in ratios of up to 40:1 (per capita) and (20:1) per GDP output (these are aproximate "guestimates") for the sake in point. Yet in (as close as) 30-35 years Goldman sachs who predicted the Rise of the BRIC [1] (Brazil, Russia, India and China) the new super powers have also predicted N11 (Next 11) [2] , These are the new Emerging markets the powers of the future.
To Summarise what can be a very long discussion, the next 30-35 years it can be seen that many of the N11 nations are islamic ones, and nearly all Eastern (Asia). Combining this with the BRIC we can see that the G30 nations will be dominated by Eastern and islamic countries !
And what about GDP?For example, lets take Egypt, it will have a higher output than italy (double that) and it's GDP will be at a ration of (1:2) .... considering it's around 1:20 at present !
So this new found wealth, high GDP output, high GDP per capita with an even higher purchasing power parity, for a whole host of islamic and asiatic countries what will this mean for GEO-Political issues .... Well, the easy answer is, that it will all be very different ,,,, and so will the world.
[1] http://www2.goldmansachs.com/ideas/brics/book/99-dreaming.pdf
[2] http://www.internationalbusinessreport.com/Reports/Focus-reports/2008_emerging_markets.asp
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