The New World: Manufacturing Chaos to Achieve Control

In a world governed by hidden interests, a global power emerged that believed humanity could be governed only under a single authority: a world government, a unified currency, and a digital system controlling every detail of life. But this dream could not be realized directly, so that power adopted an old principle:

Create chaos, then offer the solution.

The Great Wars: The Beginning

It began with the great wars. In this world, the First and Second World Wars were not merely conflicts between states, but instruments for redrawing the world’s political and economic map. Millions dead, empires collapsing, and new powers rising. After each war, peoples emerged exhausted, ready to accept any system that promised them security and stability.

Internal Strife

The phase of internal strife then began. That power recognized that dividing peoples from within was more effective than confronting them militarily. Sectarian, ethnic, and religious conflicts were therefore fueled through the media, politics, and covert funding.

In the Middle East, for example, strife flared between Sunnis and Shi‘is, and historical disagreements became bloody conflicts that tore entire countries apart. The media amplified hatred and recirculated extremist rhetoric until division became part of people’s daily lives.

Each side believed it was fighting in defense of its faith, whereas the truth—in this world—was that someone was benefiting from the continuation of chaos in order to weaken everyone.

Health Crises

The plan did not stop at wars and strife, but extended to health crises. Mysterious viruses appeared, striking the world from time to time; some were natural, while others—according to rumors within this world—had been developed in secret laboratories to incite panic and reshape the world order.

When the great pandemic swept across the world, people experienced unprecedented fear. Cities were closed, economies came to a halt, and human beings became entirely dependent on digital systems for food, medical treatment, and work.

The media played the most dangerous role: every screen became an instrument for the continuous transmission of fear—death tolls, images of hospitals, daily warnings, and experts demanding greater control and stricter measures. Over time, people accepted new surveillance systems in exchange for a sense of security.

The Economy, Energy, and Passageways

But real control was exercised not only through health or the media, but through the economy and energy. In this dark world, the hidden power realized that choking global trade routes could shake the world without firing a single bullet.

Maritime passageways such as the Strait of Hormuz, Bab al-Mandab, and the Suez Canal thus became immense instruments of pressure. The mere threat of closing the Strait of Hormuz was enough to raise oil prices worldwide and ignite economic crises. Disrupting Bab al-Mandab or the Suez Canal would paralyze international trade and delay food, energy, and goods.

Every crisis pushed the world toward greater dependence on the “unified world order” that promised to protect trade and ensure stability.

Characteristics of This Power

Within this world, this power can be portrayed not as merely a government or an ordinary organization, but as a complex intellectual system that believes complete control over human beings is the path to creating the “ideal order.” It may be described in several ways:

Exclusionary, because it regards different peoples, cultures, and identities as a source of chaos, and therefore seeks to dissolve everyone into a single system subject to uniform laws and uniform thought.

Elitist and intellectually racist, since it considers itself the “most intelligent” and “most entitled” to lead the world, and views the rest of humanity as masses in need of direction and control, rather than as free peoples capable of determining their own destiny.

Emotionally cold, concerned less with ethics than with results. For it, wars, epidemics, and crises are not human tragedies, but instruments for reshaping the world.

It sacralizes power and technology, regarding technology, artificial intelligence, and data as more important than traditional human values, and believing that whoever possesses information possesses human beings.

It inclines toward satanic thought in a symbolic sense in imaginative literature, not necessarily in a directly religious sense, but in the sense of rebelling against human and spiritual values and reducing the human being to a mere number or instrument within a vast, soulless system.

In a world where human beings have lost their freedom, this power is often portrayed as using the media to manufacture truth, exploiting fear to abolish freedoms, sowing divisions to justify control, and presenting itself as a savior while being the greatest beneficiary of chaos.

The Final Stage: The Global Solution

After years of wars, epidemics, and economic collapses, peoples had become exhausted and afraid. At this point, the idea of a world government emerged as the “last savior.”

People were told: one state means no wars. One currency means a stable economy. One digital system means global health and food security. Because of their persistent fear, many agreed to relinquish a large share of their freedoms.

Every person came to have a digital identity linked to their financial account, health record, and daily movements. Artificial intelligence came to monitor cities, markets, and the media, while technology became the real authority over everyone.

In the end, the world seemed more stable and orderly, but it had lost something essential: the human freedom to live beyond the gaze of the world order that now knew everything.

A Reading from a Qur’anic Perspective

From an Islamic perspective, the Qur’an rejects any power founded on injustice, tyranny, corruption on earth, and control over human beings through coercion and deception. In the Qur’anic conception, any system that places itself above truth and justice, enslaves people, or spreads strife to gain influence constitutes a form of tyranny and corruption.

The Qur’an speaks of examples similar in their conduct, such as the tyranny of Pharaoh and Nimrod, who sought to control people and subjugate them through fear and force; Qarun’s arrogance through wealth and influence; and the use of deception and media and psychological sorcery to subjugate peoples.

﴿إِنَّ فِرْعَوْنَ عَلَا فِي الْأَرْضِ وَجَعَلَ أَهْلَهَا شِيَعًا﴾ (Indeed, Pharaoh exalted himself in the land and divided its people into factions.) [القصص: ٤]

That is, he divided people into contending groups to make them easier to control. Elsewhere, the Qur’an warns against corruption and the spread of strife:

﴿وَاللَّهُ لَا يُحِبُّ الْفَسَادَ﴾ (And God does not love corruption.) [البقرة: ٢٠٥]

In the Islamic conception, a power that builds its authority on fear, the spread of strife, injustice, control over people’s livelihoods, and the corruption of values and morals may appear strong for a time, but ultimately carries within itself the causes of its downfall.

﴿وَتِلْكَ الْأَيَّامُ نُدَاوِلُهَا بَيْنَ النَّاسِ﴾ (And those days We alternate among the people.) [آل عمران: ١٤٠]

That is, power shifts, and no human beings or empires enjoy eternal hegemony.

A Possible End

In this fictional scenario, the end of this power may resemble the ends of tyrants in Qur’anic narratives: it expands until it believes it cannot be defeated, monitors everything, and exercises economic and media control, then begins to disintegrate from within because of injustice, greed, and internal conflicts.

Its end may come through people’s awakening and rejection of enslavement, the system’s collapse because of its internal corruption, or a major event that restores balance and reveals the truth.

In the Islamic vision generally, the ultimate outcome rests not in the hands of human powers, however great they become, but in the hands of God; justice and truth are what endure in the end, while tyranny vanishes, however immense and powerful it may appear.