The Prophet’s (saas) Hadiths Regarding the Signs of the End Times

Many details of what the Prophet (saas) said would happen before the last days have reached us. These events are happening one by one in our own time, proving to be yet another miracle of the Prophet (saas). These events, that are happening 1,400 years after the Prophet Muhammad (saas), were explained in great detail, as if he had witnessed them himself.

These are the Prophet's (saas) prophecies regarding the signs of the end times and the last day, taken from the hadiths:

The Last Hour will not come unless there is much bloodshed. 227

Acts of violence and terror, one of the signs of the final times, are continuing with increasing violence all over the world. The parallel between the warning issued by the Prophet (saas) in the past and the events being experienced today reveals to us one of the miracles of this blessed man.

Near the establishment of the Hour there will be much Al-Harj, and Al-Harj means killing… 228

The wars in many countries of the world, in which innocent people are killed for no reason, are another of the portents of Doomsday related by the Prophet (saas).

The Day of Judgement will not come until people openly deny Allah. 229

Examples of widespread atheist websites.

Great cities will be ruined, and it will be as if they had not existed the day before 230

One of the portents of Doomsday related in the hadiths is the destruction of cities. The recent earthquakes in Mexico (right) and Tokyo (below) are manifestations of this.

Gains will be shared out only among the rich, with no benefit to the poor. 231

Despite the rich resources in the world, many countries are suffering from terrible starvation. This is another sign which everyone must think about.

People will indulge in homosexuality and lesbianism. 232

Homosexuals, of which the Prophet (saas) spoke some 1,400 years ago, can now be seen in many parts of the world.

There will be prevalence of open illegal intercourse  233

The Hour (Last Day) will not be established until murders will increase.234

Pity poor Taliqan (a region in Afghanistan) that at that place are treasures of Allah, but these are not of gold and silver but consist of people who have recognised Allah as they should have. 235

There is an indication in the hadith that Afghanistan will be occupied during the end times. The Russian invasion of Afghanistan took place in 1979, or 1400 according to the Hijri calendar. In other words, it coincided with the start of the fourteenth century under the Hijri calendar.

These pictures show examples of the oppression suffered by the people of Afghanistan during the invasion by the Russian army in 1979.

It (Euphrates) will uncover a mountain of gold (under it) 236
Soon the river "Euphrates" will disclose the treasure (the mountain) of gold, so whoever will be present at that time should not take anything of it. 237

Euphrates Dam

Water Crisis in The Neighboring Countries Tension in Syria and Iraq rises as the time draws near when of the flow of water from Euphrates will be shut. Turkey will shut the flow of water from Euphrates between January 13-February 13. As can be seen from the diagram below, the dam resembles a huge concrete mountain. From this dam (the mountain according to the analogy of the hadith) pours a fortune as valuable as gold. For that reason the dam assumes the nature of a "mountain of gold." (Allah knows best.) Thanks to the new dam, these lands have come to be "worth their weight in gold" since electricity can now be produced, the fertility of the soil has been increased now that the water collected can be used for irrigation, and communications have been made easier.

The rebuilding of the ruined places in the world, and the ruination of constructed places are signs and portents of the Last Day  238

The Reichstag (German Parliament) after its destruction in 1945. The picture below shows the same building in 1999, after reconstruction. Many buildings are being restored and brought back to their former appearance in the same way.

There are two signs of Hazrat Mahdi (as); ...and those signs are that moon will eclipse in the first night of its fixed nights of eclipse and sun will be eclipsed in the middle of the fixed days for its eclipse, during the month of Ramadhan.239 

There will be two eclipses of the sun in Ramadan before Hazrat Mahdi (as) emerges.240 

There will be two eclipses of the Moon in Ramadan...241

The common points emerging from the above three hadiths are:

1. There will be solar and lunar eclipses during the month of Ramadan.
2. These will be spaced about 14-15 days apart.
3. The eclipses will be repeated twice.

In line with those calculations, there was a lunar eclipse in 1981 (Hijri 1401), on the 15th day of Ramadan, and a solar eclipse on the 29th day of the month.

There was a "second" lunar eclipse in 1982 (Hijri 1402) on the 14th day of Ramadan, and a solar eclipse on the 28th day of the month.

It is also particularly significant that in that particular instance, there was a full lunar eclipse in the middle of the month of Ramadan, a most striking prophecy.

Top right: A picture of the July 31, 1981, solar eclipse. Bottom right: Sky Telescope Magazine, July 1999. Bottom right: A picture of the 1981 eclipse carried by Sky Telescope magazine in its July 1999 edition. Left: The calendar on the left shows the dates of the lunar and solar eclipses of 1981 and 1982.

Before he comes, a comet spreading light will come from the East..242 

The birth of that star will follow the eclipse of the Sun and Moon.243 

A tailed star will be born from the East and spread its light. Its daily direction will be from East to West.244

- In 1986 (Hijri 1406), in other words at the start of the 14th century, Halley's comet passed by the Earth. The comet is a bright, shining star.
- It travels from East to West
- This happened after the lunar and solar eclipses of 1981 and 1982 (1401-1402)

20th Chronicle (3/1986) p. 1278 On March 6, the Soviet Vega-1 spacecraft flew within 5,500 miles of Halley's comet, sending back the first pictures of the comet's icy core.

The year in which he will emerge, people will perform hajj together and gather without an imam. The Hajjis will be looted, and there will be a battle at Mina in which many will be slain and blood will flow until it runs over the Jamra al-'Aqaba. [Jamra: a stone pillar representing satan that is stoned during the pilgrimage.245 

People will go on the hajj with no imam at their head. When they descend to Mina, the tribes will savage each other like dogs and there will be great wars. To such an extent that feet will be covered in a lake of blood. 246

In 1979, there was a massacre in an attack on the Kaaba during the hajj pilgrimage, just as had been revealed in a hadith. This bloody attack on the Kaaba took place on Muharram 1, 1400, (November 21, 1979), in other words on the first day of Hijri 1400, at the beginning of the period when signs of the final times began to follow one another.

The inside story on the clashes in Mecca: THE HARAM ESH-SHARIF (THE TEMPLE MOUNT) WAS UNDER THE THREAT OF OCCUPATION (right picture) Iranian pilgrims attempted to hold a demonstration carrying posters of Khomeini. CLASH IN MECCA: Death toll at 402 (left picture) Seven years after the attack on the Kaaba in 1979 (Hijri 1400) in Hijri 1407, an even bloodier incident took place during the hajj. Hadjis demonstrating on the streets were attacked: 402 people were killed and many more injured. It was a great sin for Muslims (Saudi soldiers and Iranian hadjis) to kill one another next to the Beyt-ul Muazzama. These bloody incidents bear a great similarity to the climate described in the hadiths.

It is narrated from Husayn Ibn Ali (ra) that:“When you see a great fire from the east in the sky illuminate the night, that moment is the time of the coming of Hazrat Mahdi (as).” (Mari' bin Yusuf Karami Hanbali, Fawaid Fawaid al-Fikr fil Mahdi al-Montazar)

A fire will enfold you. That fire is currently extinguished in the valley called Berehut. People will be enfolded in that fire with terrible suffering. That fire will burn and destroy people and belongings. For eight days it will rage over the world like wind and cloud. The heat of night will be fiercer than that of day. That fire will stretch from the heads of man to the highest heavens, and there will be a terrible noise like thunder between the earth and sky, he said.247

• The burning oil in Kuwait led to the deaths of people and animals. According to experts, half a million tons of oil went up into the atmosphere as smoke. Every day, more than 10,000 tons of soot, sulphur, carbon-dioxide and large quantities of hydrocarbons with their carcinogenic properties hang suspended over the Gulf. It is not just the Gulf, but the world itself that is burning.248
• Two wells that were set alight produced as much oil as Turkey does in one day, and the smoke from them can be seen from Saudi Arabia, 55 kilometres away.249
• Continuing news of disaster from the Gulf: Hundreds of oil wells set alight in Kuwait are still burning fiercely. Experts say it will be "exceedingly difficult to put those fires out," and it is said that the fires will affect a wide area from Turkey to India for the next 10 years.

The fire and smoke coming from the wells constantly pollute the atmosphere. Daytime resembles night in Kuwait. The brown smoke that rises together with the flames remind one of the sky as the autumn turns into winter … It will take at least a century for Kuwait to be completely habitable again. The smoke that rises with the flames is visible from miles away, totally blocking out the sky and making the country unfit to live in. The wealthy are abandoning Kuwait.250

In July 1991, Iraq invaded Kuwait, and as a result of the burning of the Kuwaiti oil wells Kuwait, and the Persian Gulf were engulfed in flames.

He [Hazrat Mahdi (as)] will not come until there is a portent from the Sun. 251

The solar eclipse of August 11, 1999 was the last of the twentieth century. During this eclipse, the likes of which take place only every 400 years, the sun, the moon and the world align. It was the first time that so many people had been able to watch and study an eclipse for so long a duration. Below are some newspaper headlines regarding the phenomenon. This can be interpreted as the "portent from the Sun" referred to in the hadith. (Allah knows the truth).

This portent from the Sun may be the great explosion that took place in the twentieth century. On the left of the picture to the side is an image of the Sun taken in 1996. The image on the right was taken in 2000, and shows its latest appearance, after the explosion.

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According to his Companions, the Messenger of Allah (saas) said:

"When Abbasi Malik arrives at Khorasan, one of the signs of the coming of the promised Mahdi (as), A DOUBLE-TOOTHED (1) LIGHT SHEDDING (2) HORN (3) WILL APPEAR IN THE EAST." That comet has been born. But is it that one, or another similar one?-That this star is called a comet, is probably based on the following:

-The course of the constant IS FROM WEST TO EAST (4)...

ITS DAILY PASSAGE, ON THE OTHER HAND, IS FROM EAST TO WEST. (5)
(Imam Rabbani, Letters of Rabbani, Letter 381, p. 1184)

The expression “a double-toothed, light-shedding horn will appear,“ described by our Prophet (saas) in the hadith as a portent of the coming of the awaited Hazrat Mahdi (as) in the End Times and described in detail by Imam Rabbani refers to the comet Lulin, which came closest to the Earth on 24 February, 2009. The way that the terms in the hadith completely fit the characteristics of the comet Lulin is a great miracle and glad tidings for believers awaiting the coming of Hazrat Mahdi (as).

1) ... double-toothed...: The fact that the tail of the comet Lulin is forked completely matches the term double-toothed in the hadith.

(2) ... light-shedding...: The term light-shedding in the hadith refers to the brightness of the comet Lulin, which exceeded that of six stars as it approached the Earth.

(3) ... a horn...: The main distinguishing feature between Lulin and other comets is that as well as the comet having a tail in the rear of its body, it also has a tail in the front. Examination of photographs of Lulin and its two tails immediately put one in mind of a horn.

(4) The course of the constant is from west to east...: The hadith goes on to say that “The course of the constant is from west to east...” This refers to the movement of heavenly bodies, which information is in full agreement with the astronomical findings of the 20th century. Indeed, all heavenly bodies travel from WEST to EAST.

(5) Its daily passage, on the other hand, is from east to west. ...: Here the expression “Its daily passage, on the other hand, ...” indicates that the comet Lulin, as opposed to all other heavenly bodies, travel from east to west.

The fact that this characteristic, seen in no other heavenly body, applies to the comet Lulin and that this was described 1,400 years ago by our Prophet (saas) as a portent of the coming of Hazrat Mahdi (as) is a great miracle.

Before the Hour comes, there will be a tribulation like patches of dark night. 252

The word "tribulation (fitna)" implies anything that turns peoples' reason and hearts away from the true path, or war, incitement, confusion, disorder and conflict. The tribulation in the hadith will leave smoke and dust behind it, we learn.

Furthermore, the way that tribulation is described as "darkness" in the hadith, can be seen as an indication that its origins are unclear, that it is unexpected. Looking at it from that regard, it is probable that the hadith is referring to the world's worst terrorist attack, on the cities of New York and Washington in the United States on September 11, 2001.

The inhabitants of Egypt and Sham would kill their ruler and his commands… 253

Anwar Sadat, who came to power in Egypt in 1970 and remained there for 11 years, was killed by his opponents during a military march-past in 1981. Other Egyptian leaders who have been killed include Prime Minister Boutros Ghali, assassinated in 1910, and Prime Minister Mahmoud Nukrashy Pasha, assassinated in 1948. Bashir Gemayel, the assasinated phalange President of Lebanon

The word Sham is not only used for the city of Damascus in Syria. The world means "left" in Arabic, and has long been used to refer to those countries to the left of the Hijaz region (where the cities of Mecca and Medina stand). Many leaders have been killed in the region. Some of these are: Former Syrian Prime Minister Salah al-Deen Beetar (bottom left), killed in 1980, Syrian Prime Minister Droubi Pasha, killed in 1921, Syrian Prime Minister Muhsin al-Barazi, assassinated in 1949, King Abdullah of Jordan, killed in 1851, and Lebanese Phalange leader Bashir Gemayel (above right), killed in a bomb attack in 1982.

The people of Sham will take prisoner the tribes of Egypt.254

Today, the states in the region in question include Israel. That is why the hadith could be pointing to the war between the State of Israel and Egypt, and the invasion of Egyptian territory.

On October 26, 1956, Israel attacked Egypt and began to occupy the Sinai Peninsula. The fighting ended shortly afterwards following intervention by the United Nations, and a UN peacekeeping force was stationed on the Israeli border. The 1967 Six-Day War was another war between Israel and Egypt. By the end of the war, Israel had captured all of the Gaza Strip and the Sinai peninsula, the West Bank of the River Jordan, the city of J