Re: Are we witnessing the End Times?
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Re: Are we witnessing the End Times?
All the minor signs have been completed, just get ready for the major ones (if we're not already witnessing them, or are just completely oblivious to them)
Re: Are we witnessing the End Times?
As of recent 2012 has been declared the end of time. Master W2 graduates that yr. i think now he can just forget about college and might as well enjoy life.
Mehdi is not an idiotic concept and it will materialize when its time will come. Yes, one needs to have little more knowlege so they interpret the better way then misinterpretting hadees.
really it will? i dont think it will happen in our times. well we have to resolve several issues here. is he still in his guesthouse in some remote area of Iraq or will he be born in that time? if he is residing in that cave, will he be an enfeebled 1400+ years old man now or has time stopped for this gentleman?
there are several other issues but i would like to know the answers to these two first.
Allah's Messenger (saw) said: 'The Harj (will increase).' They asked, 'What is the Harj?' He replied, '(It is) killing (murdering), (it is) murdering (killing).' (Bukhari)
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The Hour will come when violence, bloodshed, and anarchy become common. (Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Muntakhab Kanzul Ummaal)*
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The world will not come to an end until a day would come to the people on which there will be general massacre and bloodshed. (Muslim*)
the history of men has been replete with killing. there were many people killed in the world wars. if it was all about killings, then end times should have been then. the next world war, if it ever happens, will probably kill more partly because the weapons have become better, and partly because the population of the world has increased many times. but that does not mean that the end times will come.
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The poor will grow in number. (Amal Al-Din Al-Qazwini, Mufid Al-'ulum Wa-mubid Al-humum)
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the poor have always been more in number than the rich. the reason is simple. there are finite resources and a rich person is that who can capture a big share of them. obviously the share for others becomes less. that is just common sense. they will increase in number because the population is growing and, again, the resources are finite. so again even if the percentages of rich/poor remain the same, both numbers will grow.
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Gains will be shared out only among the rich, with no benefit to the poor. (Tirmidhi)
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when was the last time in the history of men when they tried to share their profits with many people. see from an evolutionary point of view that should happen. because people strive to survive.
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The Hour will come when adultery becomes widespread. (Al-Haythami, Kitab al-Fitan)
The Last Hour will not be established until they (wicked people) commit adultery on the roads (public ways). (Ibn Hibban and Bazzar)
Men will imitate women; and women will imitate men. (Allama Jalaluddin Suyuti, Durre-Mansoor)
People will indulge in homosexuality and lesbianism. (Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Muntakhab Kanzul Ummaal)
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remember, adultery was there and will be there until there are males and females in the world. you have to understand that people have had many fantasies since times immemorial to commit sexual acts in different places. that could include roads too. i bet there were many people before the birth of islam who would commit adultery. its just like all other acts. perversions are part of any society.
so far as homosexuality is concerned, that is not an issue either. Greeks were homosexuals. and they were very open about it. you might know that word lesbian is itself created from Lesbos, a greek island. why didnt God strike at that time is a question in itself.
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*There will be prevalence of open illegal intercourse. (Bukhari) *
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legality of an issue is defined by the prevalent laws. having sex with someone other than your spouse is not considered illegal, but it is in muslim countries. does that mean end times will strike us only? if so, we should immediately make sex out of marital bounds legal. that will surely perplex the angel Israfeel because he wont be able to understand whether to blow the horn or not.
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The Hour (Last Day) will not be established until murders will increase. (Bukhari)
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this one can be filed with the first comment.
Are we witnessing the end of times? NO... More dire calamities have already befallen this planet so it may take a whole lot more than what you ascribe the so-called "end of times" to.
Salam Alaikum,
Witnessing the events taking place around the world, i'm wondering are we witnessing the End Times, as were predicted in ahadith? The financial collapse of west founded on the basis of riba (interest), already seeing shaky grounds, Worldwide chaos (random terrorist acts, and ongoing wars, rape, murders at an all-time high), dissent between muslims and lack of sincere leadership in muslim world.
The latest attack on Syria (maybe a sharp turn to the arrival of Mahdi)....
Please share your thoughts. JazakAllah Khair.
Note: I request that all irrelevant posts be deleted. No random mumbo jumbo please. Thank you.
*Teggy Ji *
if Killing and Wars are what are the signs we are looking for then........
That time has already come and GONE:
see for yourself Casualties of WWII:
Casualties in WW2
Soviet Union25,568,000
China11,324,000
Germany7,060,000
Poland6,850,000
Japan1,806,000
Yugoslavia1,700,000
Romania985,000
France810,000
Greece520,000
USA495,000
Austria480,000
Italy410,000Great Britain388,000
Holland250,000
Belgium85,000
Finland79,000
Canada42,000
India36,000
Australia29,000
Albania28,000
Spain22,000
Bulgaria21,000
New Zealand12,000
Norway10,000
South Africa9,000
Luxembourg5,000
Denmark4,000
TOTAL59,028,000
Close to SIXTY MILLION Lives destroyed all during 4 or 5 short Years!
so quite fretting about End Times.................
Let the Evangelists do their Job............:)
You people are referring to wars which do not fulfill the prophecies. There are specific wars which do fill prophecies.
The fact that people are so sure that the end of times is far away and not near is a failed logic without proof. You can claim that its far away, but you cant use that premise to deny that it COULD be happening.
Its a weak argument.
You people are referring to wars which do not fulfill the prophecies. There are specific wars which do fill prophecies.
The fact that people are so sure that the end of times is far away and not near is a failed logic without proof. You can claim that its far away, but you cant use that premise to deny that it COULD be happening.
Its a weak argument.
Cresent Bhai...........I did not say it is far away......
I think the End Time as predicted in the Bible has come and gone......WWII was war to end all wars......
remember the Nueclear Holocast......close to 200,000 Japanese perished all in the short period of one week......:(
Our Prophet (PBUH) talked about Moral decay.......which as we see is happening all around us......The Dajjal and Mehdi (ES) are yet to appear!
Re: Are we witnessing the End Times?
sindsagar
you cant religiosity through logic. that is what they are told:" dont look at too much evidence because that might not be good for us". that is what strong faith means: not to believe anything rational that contradicts dogmas. so if someone said all the universe revolved around the Earth, then it must be. and kill all those who say otherwise. isnt that what they did to Galileo?
sindsagar
you cant religiosity through logic. that is what they are told:" dont look at too much evidence because that might not be good for us". that is what strong faith means: not to believe anything rational that contradicts dogmas. so if someone said all the universe revolved around the Earth, then it must be. and kill all those who say otherwise. isnt that what they did to Galileo?
Can your logic prove the big bang happened on its own? Laws of thermal energy contradict, and yes-- you can wait for your protons to spin around and around under europe...btw, thats still called "having faith", good luck finding your rationale for that!
So don't give us theories, give us facts about everything, which you obviously cannot! Think, use your brains, open up!
Hundreds of years ago people thought the earth was flat, *just because people do not witness something, it doesn't mean it does not exist! *(voila! years later we had proof and witnessed the circular shape of the earth)
So my friend, if you haven't witnessed something yet, hold tight, faith is a weak word given to another form of logic, which is more stronger, and sound than you would like to think.
The amount of ignorance in this thread is another sign of the end of times, knowledge will be uplifted leaving armchair scholars to make insane claims, possibly to please current societies and ideologies. And yes, go ahead and try to spin this around, you can't because I am quoting traditionalist scholars, who were close to the reviving of this true religion.
As for another claim about wars and tribulations of the past, tell me this? If WW1 or WW2 were to happen exactly the same way today, with the same alliances , except the technology was current, are you telling me less people would have died? Or it would've been long?
With the technology and the resources we have today, it would've been short, You could make it from Boston to Berlin within a day, instead of the insane distances on ships which they traveled. So what claim is this that wars were more hardcore back then? They are more hardcore now, within days and minutes millions can be slaughtered, and this isn't a sign, how?
More people have died within THIS century, than in recorded history. People in Nagasaki still feel the effects of A-Bomb, their generations feel it.
Remember, Just because you haven't witnessed something, doesn't mean its not true. Earth was flat once...Guess what?
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Re: Are we witnessing the End Times?
So much has happened since then.
Re: Are we witnessing the End Times?
No we aren’t witnessing the end time. There have been greater calamities in the past and people have always wondered the same thing each time, and each time the world just moved on.
Re: Are we witnessing the End Times?
All that may have come to pass but I recall one hadith as I understood it where a Sahabi came to Rasul Allah PBUH and asked Oh Rasul Allah if you knew that tomorrow was the End of the World, what action would you take?
Our Holy Prophet PBUH replied I would plant a tree!
so the way I interpret that saying is:
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No one knows when this world will end, only Allah knows!
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The act of planting a tree means you plan for hundreds of years! no matter what.
Re: Are we witnessing the End Times?
Well this is sufficiently vague enough to apply to ALL times, and every part of history. I mean really, when have gains not gone to the rich and not shared with the poor? Thats why their poor!
Perhaps thats the point. to discourage you from speculating and just being descent human beings because its the right thing to do and not because your afraid of being sent to hell at any given moment.
Re: Are we witnessing the End Times?
The world has changed rapidly in the last 60-70 years, and many minor signs of end times which were once unimaginable and unheard of for hundred of years have now come true. Signs such as “women who would be dressed yet naked” just look at the non Muslim. Another sign that inanimate objects will talk to humans (computers, phones etc..)
Here is one long list of many minor such signs as told to us by our prophet (peace be upon him)
Minor signs of End Times
The disappearance of knowledge and the appearance of ignorance (Bukhari, Muslim, Ibn Majah, & Ahmad)
Books/writing will be widespread and (religious) knowledge will be low (Ahmad)
Adultery and fornication will be prevalent (The Prophet, peace be upon him, said that this has never happened without new diseases befalling the people, which their ancestors had not known.) (Bukhari,Muslim, Ibn Majah, & Al-Haythami)
When fornication becomes widespread among your leaders (The Prophet, peace be upon him, said that this will happen when the people stop forbidding evil) (Ibn Majah)
Adultery and fornication will be performed in the open The consumption of intoxicants will be widespread (Bukhari & Muslim)
Women will outnumber men…eventually 50:1 (Bukhari, Muslim, & Ahmad)
Killing, killing, killing (Bukhari, Muslim, Ibn Majah, & Ahmad)
The nations of the earth will gather against the Muslims like hungry people going to sit down to a table full of food. This will occur when the Muslims are large in number, but “like the foam of the sea”.
People will beat others with whips like the tails of oxen (Muslim) ?The Slave Trade
The children will be filled with rage (at-Tabarani, al-Hakim)
Children will be foul (at-Tabarani, al-Hakim)
Women will conspire (at-Tabarani, al-Hakim)
Rain will be acidic or burning (at-Tabarani, al-Hakim)
Children of fornication will become widespread or prevalent (at-Tabarani, al-Hakim)
When a trust becomes a means of making a profit (at-Tirmidhi, Al-Haythami)
Gains will be shared out only among the rich, with no benefit to the poor (at-Tirmidhi)
Paying zakat becomes a burden and miserliness becomes widespread; charity is given reluctantly (at-Tirmidhi & Al-Haythami)
Miserliness will be thrown into the hearts of people (Bukhari)
Episodes of sudden death will become widespread (Ahmad)
There will be people who will be brethren in public but enemies in secret (He was asked how that would come about and replied, “Because they will have ulterior motives in their mutual dealings and at the same time will fear one another.”) (at-Tirmidhi)
When a man obeys his wife and disobeys his mother; and treats his friend kindly while shunning his father (at-Tirmidhi)
When voices are raised in the mosques (at-Tirmidhi)
People will walk in the marketplace with their thighs exposed
Great distances will be traversed in short spans of time
The people o f Iraq will recieve no food and no money due to oppression by the Romans (Europeans) (Muslim)
People will hop between the clouds and the earth
A tribulation will enter everyone�s home (Ahmad)
The leader of a people will be the worst of them (at-Tirmidhi)
Leaders of people will be oppressors (Al-Haythami)
People will treat a man with respect out of fear for some evil he might do (at-Tirmidhi)
Men will begin to wear silk (at-Tirmidhi)
Female singers and musical instruments will become popular (at-Tirmidhi)
When singers become common (Al-Haythami)
People will dance late into the night
When the last ones of the Ummah begin to curse the first ones (at-Tirmidhi)
People will claim to follow the Qur’an but will reject hadith & sunnah (Abu Dawood)
People will believe in the stars (Al-Haythami)
People will reject al-Qadr (the Divine Decree of Destiny) (Al-Haythami)
Time will pass rapidly (Bukhari, Muslim, & Ahmad)
Good deeds will decrease (Bukhari)
Smog will appear over cities because of the evil that they are doing
People will be carrying on with their trade, but their will only be a few trustworthy persons
Wealth will increase so much so that if a man were given 10,000, he would not be content with it (Ahmad & Bukhari)
A man will pass by a grave and wish that he was in their place (Bukhari)
Earthquakes will increase (Bukhari & Muslim)
There will be attempts to make the deserts green
The appearance of false messengers (30 dajjals) (Bukhari)
Women will be naked in spite of being dressed, these women will be led astray & will lead others astray (Muslim)
The conquest of Constantinople by the Muslims (Ahmad)
The conquest of India by the Muslims, just prior to the return of Jesus, son of Mary (peace be upon both of them)(Ahmad, an-Nisa’i, at-Tabarani, al-Hakim)
When people begin to compete with others in the construction of taller buildings (Bukhari)
There will be a special greeting for the people of distinction (Ahmad)
The Euphrates will disclose a treasure (The Prophet, peace be upon him, said that whoever is present should not take anything from it) (Bukhari & Muslim)
Two large groups, adhering to the same religious teaching will fight each other with large numbers of casualties (Bukhari & Muslim)
Wild animals will be able to talk to humans (Ahmad)
A man will leave his home and his thigh or hip will tell him what is happening back at his home (Ahmad)
Years of deceit in which the truthful person will not be believed and the liar will be believed (Ahmad)
Bearing false witness will become widespread (Al-Haythami & Ahmad)
When men lie with men and women lie with women (Al-Haythami)
Trade will become so widespread that a woman will be forced to help her husband in business (Ahmad)
A woman will enter the workforce out of love for this world (Ahmad)
Arrogance will increase in the earth (at-Tabarani, al-Hakim)
Family ties will be cut (Ahmad)
There will be many women of child-bearing age who will no longer give birth.
There will be an abundance of food, much of which has no blessing in it.
People will refuse when offerred food.
Men will begin to look like women and women will begin to look like men
Re: Are we witnessing the End Times?
I sometimes wonder how far away we are from the emergence of dajjal. But I’ve been told we shouldn’t wonder about this much less make estimations.
Re: Are we witnessing the End Times?
There’s a hadith that there will come a time when humans will be divided in two groups…one group would be of righteousness and other would be of hypocrisy and disbelief…when you see that except the appearance of dajjal any day. (Sorry don’t know the exact words of hadith).
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You think that time is already here?