Distant stars are light years away from the Earth. That means their light reaches us after many many years. So actually when we see them, we are seeing them as they were years ago not as they are now. Even the light of the nearest star, the Sun, takes about 8 minutes to get to us on Earth. If the sun stopped shining right now (ma’azalAllah) we’ll only realize it 8 minutes later.
I was listening to a lecture and the speaker made this point: maybe qiyamat has already started in some distant part of the galaxy and we just haven’t seen it yet on Earth.
Very sobering thought indeed.
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^that gave me chills ....ya'Allah Khair
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what are the visual signs of qiyamat? if it means stars bursting into nothingness or getting so bigger that they almost eat their own planets then Super Nova explosions are quite common in galaxy ..
but do you think that Hazrat Israfeel will blow the Horn at different times for different part of universe .. I doubt it ...
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you know you're just speculating about some fictitious event?
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qiyamat is fiction ??
Magic, you just took such a big burden off my head, cause I was so so worried about Dooms Day and the Day of jusdgement
^that gave me chills ....ya'Allah Khair
same here
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TLK: You make good points. I won't pretend to understand the thought I shared but I just feel that the literal interpretation may not always do justice to the event. For example, in Ayat-ul-Kursi we can't even begin to imagine or visualize the 'kursi' (footstool) of Allah. Whatever the actuality may be, the warnings of qiyamat always indicate it is near and the lesson we derive is to strive with greater vigor and improve our state of imaan and amal (faith and acting on it).
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What difference it makes how near Qiamat is ? Can we stop it ?
We should be concentrating to follow the commands of Allah, that is the only requirement to be successful in after life.
We should always lead our lives with the thought that Qiamat is going to happen next moment that should be enough to make us humble and stay on the straight path.
What difference it makes how near Qiamat is ? Can we stop it ? We should be concentrating to follow the commands of Allah, that is the only requirement to be successful in after life. We should always lead our lives with the thought that Qiamat is going to happen next moment that should be enough to make us humble and stay on the straight path.
Bingo.
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have the understanding that your Day of Judgement starts as soon as your eyes close permanently..!
once that happens, you wont be counting the days till the **actual **Day of Judgement
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The Qiyamat is indeed near. The closer we get to our demise, the more careless we seem to be. It is this determining factor of heedlessness that will separate the believers from the non-believers, and those who remain to see the Day of Judgement will be the worst of humanity, for anyone with a grain of faith in his/her heart will have passed away by then.
And the brother before me is right as well, our day of reckoning starts the day we die. We're given a taste of what's to come, and the grand judgement will be delivered upon the whole of humanity when Allah (swt) so desires. Then all souls are collected and resurrected to stand their trial....what a regretful day that would be for those of us who were not in the good book of Allah (swt). :(
well said!
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Why is it that we know all this...we know that one day WE WILL be there in our graves waiting for this judgement, but still we continue on our reckless paths??...may Allah (swt) forgive us all..Ameen.
you know you're just speculating about some fictitious event?
fictitious or not, the speculations about Qayamat never go away. some molvi comes up with something, and tries to color it in religious terms. then when science disproves it, he goes back to see if he could find another gap or hole in the scientific theory.
my point is why do these molvis use science when only it is affirming their beliefs? why dont they accept it when it is the opposite way?
^ Totally agree!!
Distant stars are light years away from the Earth. That means their light reaches us after many many years. So actually when we see them, we are seeing them as they were years ago not as they are now. Even the light of the nearest star, the Sun, takes about 8 minutes to get to us on Earth. If the sun stopped shining right now (ma'azalAllah) we'll only realize it 8 minutes later. I was listening to a lecture and the speaker made this point: maybe qiyamat has already started in some distant part of the galaxy and we just haven't seen it yet on Earth. Very sobering thought indeed.
A galaxy is just a massive mixture of gas, dust and stars bound by a huge gravitational force produced by a central black hole (mostly), and can not be destroyed in terms of matter, (unless magically or supernaturally, i.e. God deciding to make it go poof). However, a galaxy can cease to exist in the way that we call it a galaxy, this could happen if a galaxy collides with another, all this will do is shift the gravitational centre. Our galaxy will collide with Andromeda in a couple of billion years, but that will probably have no effect on our solar system. So although our galaxy the 'Milky way' will cease to exist, our sun and the Earth will still be around.
The only scientific explation that concurs with the Islamic view of the Sun being very close to the Earth, oceans boiling away etc, is the cycle of the sun. Sun runs out of hydrogen, helium fusion starts, production (outward)=/= gravitational force(inward) sun expand to a red giant.
I personally hate to bring what I've studied with my religious beliefs, as it messes my head up. I believe in what I have studied, and find it difficult to accept all the dubious explanations Muslim scholars give regarding such issues (Qiyamat). At the end of it though, I believe that the ultimate fate of everything is at God's disposal, and that things will go poof when he wants them to go poof, not even leaving time for science to come up with an explanation. And I don't find it necessary for the Quran to prove science right or wrong, nor do I seek comfort in my religious and scientific beliefs via statements from scholars. It is my belief in an ultimate power, Allah, that keeps me sane.