Re: End of Times
End of Times happens in two main precursory stages then the events of the end unfold:
Lesser Signs
- Fitnah
- Confusion
- Dominance over Muslims
- Green deserts
- Gold in Euphrates
Major Signs
- Dajjal (News)
- Mahdi
- Dajjal (Actual)
- Masih
- Yajuj wa Majuj
- Whole world under Law of God
- Soul taking Wind
- Return to Corruption
- Death of Last Zakir
*Yawm-u-Deen
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- Trumpet 1 (doors to repentance closed)
- Sun - West to East
- Day of Destruction
The Earthquake
Mountains like wool
- Trumpet 2 (Akhira begins)
- Day of Resurrection
- Day of Gathering
- Day of Judgement
Christian scripture corresponds with ours in the case of the Rapture, it also corresponds with some of the details - like the Antichrist. However, many people will be confused about the Antichrist and actually take him to be the Christ.
Modern Muslim interpretation suggests that the rebuilding of the Temple of Solomon corresponds with the coming of the antichrist who the Zionists will take to be the Messiah.
The duration of time that the whole world will be under the banner of Islam - when jizyah will be abolished and no one will take charity will be 7 years. Isa (AS) will live 40 years, marry and die and be buried beside RasoolAllah (SAW) in Madinah. The parts after that when all the good souls undergo the rapture and when corruption becomes widespread again may take centuries or it may take decades ... Eventually one person will be left who will be saying Allah Allah ... And when asked what he is saying he will not know, but recalls that his grandfather would say this ... When that man dies - then nothing is left holding back the the beginning of the end itself ...
Before the Major Signs there would have been 40 imposter Christs - that would precede the Dajjal himself.
During the Day of Resurrection there will be a lot of thirst, the gathering will be a mass gathering that is emulated during the Hajj. Every person will be given their deeds as a book either in their left hands or rights hands ... This will also be a time when some people will be shackled and yokes put on their necks to prevent them bowing at the start of the judgement process, because those people chose not to bow when in this life. The urge to bow will be so great but the yokes will prevent them painfully.
Judgement Day will last many thousands of years ... each others lives will be played back for all to watch and only those parts hidden that Allah (SWT) has given Mercy and Forgiveness for.
This is followed by the traversing of the bridge - Sirat - where some will fall in to Jahannum and others will be able to cross either at lightening speed or through arduous effort or in between eventually to the doors of paradise. Some people will make it across but then get turned away from the doors.
Another reference is either at this point or earlier after Trumpet 2 the whole universe will be wrapped up in to non-existence then Allah (SWT) will be Alone and Declare His Permanence and then bring everything back again ... (Marks the point of Akhira)