بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Alhamdulillah,
We live in a time where information is easily acquired, where distance no longer plays a part in a persons knowledge, where the internet has become a tool, if used correctly of great value, and if used the wrong way it will lead the son of Adam to destruction. And Allah’s Help is saught.
As to what follows,
It has become popular for people to debate each other on the major and minor signs of the day of Judgement and I thought it beneficial to make a list that is agreed upon by all the major scholars of Islam, which contains all of the minor signs of Yawm Al-Hisaab.
One thing is certain the Hour is nearer to us with every breath that we take, the signs started with the sending and the death, of our beloved Messenger Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him and his family, and they have not stopped nor will they stop until The Hour is established.
These are the signs…
MINOR SIGNS OF THE HOUR
All signs listed have references and all of them are according to The Qur’an & Sahih Hadeeth.
Signs which have already occurred…
- The sending of our Prophet Muhammad (Pbuh)
- The death of our Prophet Muhammad (Pbuh)
- The splitting of the moon
- Disappearance of the noble Companions (may Allah be pleased with them)
- Conquest of Jerusalem
- Widespread death like murrain or sheep
- Prevalence of turmoil (Fitnah) of all kinds
- Prevalence of satellite channels
- The Prophet’s foretelling of the Battle of Siffeen
- The emergence of the Khawaarij
- Claims of Prophethood by charlatans and liars
- Spread of security and prosperity
- Appearance of fire in the Hijaz.
- Fighting the Turks
- Appearance of unjust men who beat the people with whips
- A great deal of killing
- Loss of honesty and its disappearance from people’s hearts
- Following the ways of nations who came before
- The slave woman giving birth to her mistress
- Appearance of women who are clothed yet naked
- Barefoot, naked shepherds’ competing in the construction of lofty buildings
- Greeting only those whom one knows
- Widespread trade
- Women taking part in business with their husbands
- Domination by some traders of the market
- False testimony
- Withholding true testimony
- Prevalence or ignorance
- Widespread stinginess and miserliness
- Severing ties of kinship
- Being a bad neighbor
- Spread of indecency
- Honest people being regarded as treacherous and treacherous people being trusted
- Death of prominent and noble people and the prevalence of ignoble people
- Not caring about the source of wealth and whether it is Halaal or Haraam
- Fay’ will become limited to some people to the exclusion or others
- When the entrusted item is regarded like booty
- People will pay their Zakaah reluctantly and Zakaah will be regarded as a penalty
- Knowledge will be sought for a reason other than for the sake of Allah
- Obedience to wives and disobedience to mothers
- Bringing friends close and keeping fathers away
- Raising voices in the mosque
- Evildoers becoming leaders of their tribes
- The leader of the people will be the vilest or them
- Showing respect to a man for fear of his evil
- Adultery being regarded as permissible
- Silk being regarded as permissible
- Alcohol being regarded as permissible
- Musical instruments being regarded as permissible
- Wishing for death
- The coming of a time when a man will be a believer in the morning and a disbeliever in the evening
- Adornment of mosques and competition therein
- Adornment of houses
- Frequency of storms as the Hour draws nigh
- Prevalence of literacy
- Earning money by means of speaking and boasting about one’s eloquence
- Spread of books other than the Qur’an
- A time in which there will be many readers but few Fuqaha and Scholars
- Seeking knowledge from people who are insignificant
- Sudden death
- Rulership of the foolish
- Time passing more quickly
- The foolish will speak
- The most fortunate of the people in worldly matters will be Luka’ ibn Luka’ (an evil person)
- Taking the mosques as thoroughfares
- Dowries becoming expensive and then cheap
- Horses becoming expensive and then cheap
- Markets becoming closer together
- Nations calling one another to get together against the Muslim Ummah (nation)
- People not wanting to lead the prayer
- Fulfillment of the believer’s dreams
- Prevalence of lying
- Discord among the people
- A lot of earthquakes
- A lot of women
- Few men
- Prevalence and open flaunting of immorality
- Taking money for reading Qur’an
- Obesity will become widespread among the people
- Appearance of people who will give testimony when they are not asked to do so
- Appearance of people who will make vows and not fulfill them
- The strong devouring the weak
- Not ruling in accordance with that which Allah revealed
- Large numbers of Romans and small numbers of Arabs
Signs some of which some arguably may have have occured, and others that have not appeared yet…
- Great abundance of wealth among the people
- The earth giving up its treasure
- Transformation
- Landslides
- Pelting (with stones)
- Rain against which houses of brick cannot offer any protection
- Rain will fall from the sky but the earth will not bring forth anything
- Tribulation which will utterly destroy the Arabs
- Trees speaking
- Rocks speaking and supporting the Muslim
- Muslims fighting the Jews
- The Euphrates will uncover a mountain of gold
- The coming of a time when a man will be given the choice of being labeled incompetent or committing immorality
- Arabia becoming meadows and rivers once more
- Fitnat Al-ahlaas (a lengthy and intense tribulation)
- Fitnat Al-sarra (a tribulation caused by luxury and a life of ease)
- Fitnat Al-duhayma (a huge tribulation)
- A time when one prostration will be equivalent to this world and everything in it
- The new moon looking bigger than usual
- A time when there will be no one left but he will go and live in Al-Shaam (the Levant)
- A great battle between the Muslims and the Romans
- The conquest of Constantinople Details or the campaign in another report
- No inheritance will be divided
- The people will not rejoice over booty
- People will go back to ancient weapons and mounts
- Jerusalem will flourish
- Madeenah will be in ruins, devoid of inhabitants and visitors
- Madeenah will be cleansed of its evil people as the bellows eliminates the dross of iron
- Removal of the mountains from their places
- The appearance of a man frorn Qahtaan who will be obeyed by the people
- Appearance of a man called Al-Jahjaah
- Wild animals and inanimate objects will speak
- The end of a whip will speak
- A shoelace will speak
- A man’s thigh will give news of his family
- The Hour will not begin until Islam diminishes
- The Qur’an will disappear from the Mus-hafs (copies or the Qur’an) and from people’s hearts
- An army that will seek to attack the Kabah and will be swallowed up by the earth, from the first to the last of them
- Hajj to the sacred House of Allah will be abandoned
- Some Arab tribes will go back to worshiping idols
- The tribe of Quraysh will die out
- Destruction of the Kabah at the hands of a man from Abyssinia
- The sending of a pleasant wind that will take the souls of the believers
- The buildings of Makkah becoming high
- The last of his Ummah cursing the first of it
- New means of transportation (…cars etc)
- The appearance of the Mahdi
THE SIGN WHICH TIES THE MINOR SIGNS WITH THE MAJOR SIGNS
IS THE APPEARANCE OF IMAM MAHDI.
SAHIH MUSLIM
Abu Nadra reported:
والله تعالى أعلم
وصلى اللهم وسلم وبارك على نبينا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه والتابعين
أخوك أبو ناصر