The major tribulations

The major tribulations (the major signs of the Hour: which will fall apart like a knot when it is cut)

On the authority of Abdullah bin Amr, he said: The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: “The signs are like beads strung on a string. If the string is cut, they follow one another.” Ahmad alone transmitted it.

1- The smoke

It was proven in the hadith of Abu Sarihah Hudhayfah ibn Asid: “The Hour will not come until you see ten signs.” He mentioned smoke among them. Likewise in the hadith of Abu Hurayrah: “Hasten to do good deeds before six.” He mentioned smoke among them. The two hadiths in Sahih Muslim are both marfu’ (upon the Prophet), and marfu’ (upon him be peace) takes precedence over mawquf (discontinued) hadiths. The apparent meaning of the Qur’an indicates the presence of smoke from the sky that covers the people. This is a general, established matter, and it is not as narrated from Ibn Mas’ud that it was a vision in the eyes of Quraysh due to the severity of hunger.

2- The destruction of the Quraysh tribe

The fastest Arab tribe to perish is the Quraysh. The Hour will not come until a woman passes by a sandal and says, “This is a Qurayshi sandal.” Narrator: Abu Hurairah

Although the picture was taken from a movie, we do not rule out its occurrence in reality through the genetic engineering

Although the picture was taken from a movie, we do not rule out its occurrence in reality through the genetic engineering

3 - The comes out of the Animal 

Allah says 

وإذا وقع القول عليهم أخرجنا لهم دابة من الأرض تكلمهم أن الناس كانوا بآياتنا لا يوقنون} (النمل:82) 

And when the word comes to pass against them, We will emerge for them a creature from the earth that will speak to them, thus, the people were not certain of Our signs. (An-Naml: 82)

Ibn Kathir said: This beast will emerge at the end of time when people become corrupt, abandon God’s commands, and change the true religion. God will bring forth for them a beast from the earth. It was said: from Mecca, and it was said: from elsewhere... So people spoke about that.

Muslim, Ahmad and the Sunan authors narrated on the authority of Hudhayfah ibn Asid al-Ghifari, who said: “The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, looked down upon us from a room while we were discussing the Hour. The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: ‘The Hour will not come until you see ten signs: the rising of the sun from the west, Gog and Magog, the beast, and three eclipses: one in the east, one in the west, and one in the Arabian Peninsula, and a fire coming out from the bottom of Aden.’” You drive people or gather people together, so you spend the night with them where they spend the night, and you take a nap with them where they take a rest.

Muslim, Al-Tirmidhi and Ahmad narrated on the authority of Abu Hurairah, may God be pleased with him, who said: The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said:

“There are three things that, if they appear, will not benefit a soul from its faith if it did not believe before or earned any good through its faith: the rising of the sun from the west, the Antichrist, and the beast of the earth. 

Muslim, Abu Dawud, Ibn Majah, and Ahmad narrated on the authority of Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-Aas that the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: “The first signs to appear will be the rising of the sun from the west, and the emergence of the beast among the people at noon. Whichever of them comes before the other, the other will follow it.”

The Description of the beast

We do not know that this beast is in the form of a mule, and there is no hadith that describes it that we know of; although there are traces of it from the predecessors: 

On the authority of Ibn Abi Hatim, that Abu Hurairah, may God be pleased with him, said

 The beast has all kinds of colors, and the distance between its two horns is a farsakh for the rider.

Ibn Abbas, may God be pleased with him, said: It is like a huge spear. 

On the authority of the Commander of the Faithful, Ali ibn Abi Talib, may God be pleased with him, he said

 It is an animal with feathers, down, and hooves, but it has no tail: The tail: the last part of something that is similar to the excess, and it has a beard.

On the authority of Ibn al-Zubayr, may God be pleased with him, who said

 Its head is the head of a bull, its eye is the eye of a pig, its ear is the ear of an elephant, its horn is the horn of a deer, its neck is the neck of an ostrich, its chest is the chest of a lion, its color is the color of a tiger, its flank is the flank of a cat, its tail is the tail of a ram, and its legs are the legs of a camel, between every two joints are twelve cubits, the staff of Moses and the ring of Solomon will come out with it. There will not remain a believer but that a white dot will be made on his face, which will spread until his face turns white. And there will not remain a disbeliever but that a black dot will be made on his face with the ring of Solomon, which will spread until his face turns black, until people will trade in the markets, saying, “How much is this, O believer? How much is this, O disbeliever?” And until the people of the house will sit at their table and they will know their believer from their disbeliever. Then the beast will say to him, “O so-and-so, be of good tidings, you are from the people of Paradise, and O so-and-so, you are from the people of Hell.”

As for its emergence, it is certain. It will emerge at the end of time

So, it is fixed, it will come out at the end of time

The comment

After we learned about the specifications of the beast and its function on earth for only one time, it will descend at the end of time for a specific period and mission after which it will die with the blast of the blowing from which all creatures die, or perhaps before that, the most important thing is that there are those who will say: We are in the era of science, technology and hybridization between robots and humans, how can God Almighty tell us about such things that our minds cannot accept?

And the answer 

1- Did you know that God Almighty said (And none knows the soldiers of your Lord except Him)? God Almighty talks about natural things (not genetically engineered) and challenges them with them. They challenge with the electronic fly, and God Almighty challenged them a thousand years ago and more with the natural fly. He fought the infidels at the Cave of Hira with a spider, and God Almighty has great wisdom in this. You say that we did this and that and we reached the point of cheating death, once by extending life (transhuman) and another time (the cloning) and another time with the suspicion of reviving the dead and other things. We as Muslims do not doubt God’s wisdom in using things that humans do not care about.

2 - Today, they have created, through genetic engineering, animals that are the strangest imaginable, such as the giant pig that they released in one of the European airports and caused panic among the people. Do you, as a Muslim, love that God Almighty does not bring at the end of time what they brought in our time and not the one after us and before the Day of Judgment?

3 - Allah - the Most High - cared a lot about animals in His final book, and in the honorable biography of the Prophet, He has rights for animals, whether in slaughtering them, feeding them, not burdening them with hardships, or taking their young from them...etc., which rise to the level of animal rights declared by the United Nations. And because I am one of those who wrote both, animal rights in Islam, and animal rights declared by the United Nations, I know very well that they are very close, except that Islam preceded the United Nations by only 1446 years.

4- The idea of the seal that you put on the head of the person that you see between his eyes (this is a believer and this is an infidel) is like an identity, you cannot enter a party with presidents and kings without an ID, so how do you enter the biggest historical event after life without an ID, but why is an animal the one who does that? Of course God knows and we do not know, but thinking prompts us to say: Look at the animal experiments today in the West on large mammals such as gorillas and others, in fact Western films expect a revolution of laboratory animals as well as the revolution of robots that they fear, they spoke to the large predatory animals, and put a micro chip in them to talk, and they made a hybrid between the animal and the human, why all this fuss that you doubt the existence of a talking animal at the end of time, perhaps after our death and the emergence of other generations (talking to animals will become something for the public) Stop, O mind, at your limit and know that you are talking about a wise God who does not put things except at the right time and place, an expert in human minds that have merged with machines and animals and brought out from them what is not good in its end.

4- The sun rising from the west 

The rising of the sun from the west is considered one of the great and strange events that befall the earth and astonish its people. God Almighty made it a sign of the approach of the Hour and the nearness of its end, and that all people will see it, and that the door of repentance will be closed after it

There is much evidence that it is one of the major signs of the Hour, and that the door of repentance will be closed when it appears, including

 the Almighty’s saying

يوم يأتي بعض آيات ربك لا ينفع نفسا إيمانها لم تكن آمنت من قبل أو كسبت في إيمانها خيرا (الأنعام:158) 

The Day some of the signs of your Lord come, no soul will benefit from its faith if it did not believe before or earned good through its faith. (Al-An`am: 158)

Al-Bukhari and Muslim narrated on the authority of Abu Hurairah - may God be pleased with him - who said: The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: “The Hour will not come until the sun rises from the West. When it rises and the people see it, they will all believe. At that time, it will not benefit a soul to believe if it did not believe before or earn any good through its faith.”

Al-Bukhari and Muslim narrated on the authority of Abu Hurairah - may God be pleased with him - who said

Imam Muslim narrated in his Sahih on the authority of the Prophet - may God bless him and grant him peace - that he said: “God extends His hand at night to accept the repentance of the sinner of the day. And He extends His hand during the day to accept the repentance of the sinner of the night until the sun rises from the west.”

Muslim narrated on the authority of Abu Hurairah - may God be pleased with him - that the Messenger of God - may God bless him and grant him peace - said: (Hasten to do good deeds before six things: the rising of the sun from the west...)

Al-Qurtubi said: “The scholars said: The reason a soul’s faith does not benefit it when it rises from the west is because such fear has reached their hearts that every desire of the soul is extinguished and every strength of the body is weakened, so all people - because of their certainty of the nearness of the Resurrection - become in the state of someone who is at the point of death, with the motives for various types of sins being cut off from them.

But is the closing of the door of repentance for the servants limited to those who witnessed and lived during the rising of the sun from the west

 or will the closing continue until the Day of Judgment? Al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani says in “Fath al-Bari” after mentioning many narrations indicating the continued closing of the door of repentance after sunrise: “These narrations support each other and agree that when the sun rises from the west, the door of repentance is closed and will not be opened after that, and that this is not limited to the day of sunrise, but rather extends to the Day of Judgment.”

5- The Euphrates recedes to reveal a mountain of gold

Among the signs of the Hour that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) spoke about is “the Euphrates will recede to reveal a mountain of gold” [Narrated by al-Bukhaari: 7119 and Muslim: 2894].

The response was previously given to those who tried to tamper with the text, and said: What is meant is black gold "oi" "The Euphrates recedes" It means the water is receding. Does the extraction of oil happen when the water recedes? His saying: “gold” means gold. This is the Arabic text. Oil is found in other places in Iraq, and in places other than Iraq, so why do they want to change the text from its clear and obvious Arabic meaning? The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said that if this Euphrates recedes and reveals a mountain of gold, people will march to it and fight over it. So when it happened and oil was discovered a long time ago and is present, then this is not what is meant, but we must be careful of these wrong interpretations of the religious texts.

In 2019

 Iraqi scientists stated that due to rising temperatures and declining rainfall between 1981-2016, the water bodies in the Mesopotamian Marshes were degrading and vast areas of natural vegetation were disappearing. Iraq has since endured consecutive years of droughts, and dams in neighbouring countries are impacting the Tigris and Euphrates water levels. The crisis is such that the Iraqi Ministry of Water Resources warns that the Euphrates River could be dry by 2040.

6 - An army will invade the Holy Kaaba

Among the signs of the Hour and among the things that the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, informed us about is that an army will attack the Kaaba, and when they are in a desert area, the first of them will be swallowed up by the earth, then they will be resurrected according to their intentions.

Narrator: Aisha, Mother of the Believers

God Almighty has given Mecca and Medina a status that is superior to other places and dwellings, and has hastened the punishment for those who wish them harm.

In this hadith, the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, informs us that at the end of time, a great army will approach the Kaaba to destroy it, until they are in a desert of land - that is, in a wide, flat land with nothing on it - It means a place in the desert between Mecca and Medina. Allah caused the earth to swallow them up, and they fell into it from the first to the last, and the swallowing encompassed them all. Muslim added in a narration: “No one remained except the fugitive who informed about them.” So the Mother of the Believers, Aisha, may Allah be pleased with her, wondered: How could the punishment encompass everyone, while among them were the people of their market who were buying and selling, and those who were not among them, who happened to be with them when the swallowing occurred, and did not intend to attack the Kaaba or expose it? Some of them are insightful and know that it is not permissible to fight in Mecca, and it is not permissible to invade Mecca. God will punish this person, and he may throw him into the fire. There are people who do not know, and some are followers, and some are commoners, and some are slaves, and some are forced and coerced to march in the army. So God knows the intentions of each one, and even if their destruction is one, on the Day of Resurrection they will be resurrected from different sources. The sinking occurred with the entire army, it occurred with the entire army.

In the hadith

1 - The importance of intention and its effect on the servant.

2 - In it: The care of Allah Almighty for the Sacred House.

3 - In it: That whoever increases the number of people, their ruling will be applied to him in the apparent punishments of this world.

7 - The Gog and the Magog

Are they of a race other than the human race? 

No, they are from the children of Adam and will emerge at the end of time, and they are from the tribes of the mountains beyond Armenia

The Armenia

 Officially called the Republic of Armenia, it is located along the Great Silk Road. It is a landlocked country with many rugged mountains and dormant volcanoes. It is located in the southern Caucasus between the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea, between Asia and Eastern Europe. Armenia is bordered to the north by Georgia, to the west by Turkey, to the south by Iran, and to the east by Azerbaijan. They are from two tribes of the sons of Adam, they are descendants of Japheth, son of Noah, peace be upon him. They were savages who were professionals at raiding, looting, plundering, killing and oppression since ancient times. They inhabited the northern part of the continent of Asia, to the north, and most history books indicate that they were Mongolian Tatars, Their homeland extends from Tibet and China south to the Arctic Ocean, and they were contemporaries of Cyrus who built the Daniel Dam. Knowing that many of the Tatars and Mongols - who are the origin of Gog and Magog - have now become Chinese nationalities, 

Their physical characteristics:

Broad faces

Small eyes

Blond hair

And their faces are round like buckler.

Where are they located?

They are in the east, on the eastern side, and the Turks were among them, so they were left behind the dam, and Gog and Magog remained behind the dam, and the Turks were outside the dam, so what is meant is that Gog and Magog are from the peoples of the eastern regions, the Far East, and it appears, and God knows best, that at the end of time they will emerge from the People’s Republic of China and its environs.

When will they emerge for the nation of Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace?

The previous verses clearly indicated that Gog and Magog would remain confined to the dam until a specific time. God Almighty said, “But when the promise of my Lord comes to pass, He will make it level.” This time is what the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, informed us about in his hadiths, that their emergence would be at the end of time, near the Day of Resurrection, Yajuj and Majuj were also mentioned in another place in the Qur’an, indicating their large numbers and the speed of their emergence, in the Almighty’s saying:

{حتى إذا فتحت يأجوج ومأجوج وهم من كل حدب ينسلون} (الأنبياء:96)

{Until when You open Gog and Magog and they slip away from every direction} (Al-Anbiya: 96).

Why are Gog and Magog keen on corrupting people's lives on earth? 

The hadiths of the Prophet have drawn clear features: about the world of "Gog" and "Magog", so it was built that

1 - They have a system and a leader whose opinion they abide by

2 - And that the dam that Dhul-Qarnayn had confined them with is still standing, and that it is preventing them from achieving their ambitions of invading the earth and corrupting it.

3 - Their great keenness to demolish the dam, as they would go out every morning to dig this dam, and when they were close to demolishing it, they would postpone digging until the next day, and then they would come back to it and God would restore it stronger than it was.

4 - Then, when God permits them to leave, they dig until they are about to finish. Then their leader says to them: Return to it tomorrow, and you will dig it - God willing - so they return to it and it is in the same state as when they left it. They dig it and leave it to the people.

What do they do when he comes out to people?

They drink river water and pass by Lake Tiberias (Lake Tiberias is a freshwater lake located between the Galilee region in northern Palestine and the Golan Heights). The first of them drinks it, and the last of them comes and says: There was water here.

What will people do when they see this?

People will fortify themselves out of fear of them, and then their arrogance will increase and they will throw their arrows into the sky, and they will return with traces of blood on them as a trial and a calamity from God. They will say: We have defeated the people of the earth and vanquished the people of the sky.

Will God Almighty leave them to spread corruption on earth?

God sends worms to them that come out from behind their heads and kill them, and they become food for the beasts of the earth until they become fat from the abundance of their flesh, as Ibn Majah narrated in his Sunan.

What is the secret of this great power of Gog and Magog?

The hadiths have indicated that the time in which they emerge will be when they possess the means of power and will be superior to all other people, either because they are militarily advanced and have reached technologies that enable them to exterminate others and control their countries, or because the time of their emergence will be after the disappearance of this material civilization and the return of people to fighting with primitive and traditional means. This is confirmed by what Ibn Ward mentioned in some narrations that the Muslims will light bows, arrows, and shields for “Gog and Magog” for seven years, as Ibn Majah and others have said.

Comment: This is closer to our reality today, why? Because from the understanding of the hadiths they are revealed in the Arab countries and not the West, and the Arabs are busy from this day and perhaps until the Day of Judgment with wars that have exhausted their military and made them fight primitively once again, this is on the one hand, on the other hand, you see that the Western armies that use a lot of technology use primitive things in wars today in some places with very rough terrain and difficult terrain, such as Afghanistan. They resort to using mules in wars, which is a very primitive thing, and this is our situation today, so what about us after a while and near the end of life? And God knows best.

Talking about them in the pure Sunnah

Allah the Almighty will say to Adam on the Day of Resurrection: Bring forth the people of Hell. He will say: What are the people of Hell? Allah will say: From every thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine. The Companions - may Allah be pleased with them - were alarmed and said: O Messenger of Allah, who is that one among us? He - may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him - said: (Be of good cheer, for among you is one man and from Gog and Magog are a thousand.) Narrated by Al-Bukhari.

He - may God bless him and grant him peace - said: 

“The Hour will not come until ten signs precede it: the rising of the sun from the West, the emergence of the beast, and the emergence of Gog and Magog...” Narrated by Abu Dawud.

When he - may God bless him and grant him peace - entered upon his wife Zainab bint Jahsh - may God be pleased with her - he was terrified and said:

(There is no god but God, woe to the Arabs from an evil that has drawn near. Today a barrier of Gog and Magog has been opened like this, and he made a circle with his thumb and the finger next to it. Zainab said to him: O Messenger of God, will we be destroyed while there are righteous people among us? He said: Yes, if evil increases.) Narrated by Al-Bukhari.

The order of their emergence within the major signs of the Hour: The hadiths have indicated that when the Antichrist emerges, Jesus, peace be upon him, will descend after him, then Gog and Magog will emerge, and God will command Jesus, peace be upon him, not to fight them, but to head with the believers who are with him to Mount Tur, and they will be besieged there, and hunger will reach them to a great extent, so they will then call upon God to repel their evil from them, so God will send worms on their necks, and they will become dead as one person dies, and the earth will be filled with the stench of their stench, so God will send birds with the necks of camels, and they will carry them and throw them wherever God wills. The people will be safe, and the earth will produce its blessings and fruits, until a group of people eat a single pomegranate, and the people of the village will be satisfied with what they milk from a camel at one time.

Muslims will perform Hajj to the House after their destruction, as in the hadith: “They will perform Hajj to the House and Umrah after the emergence of Gog and Magog.” Narrated by Al-Bukhari.

The comment

 1 - Part of our complete belief in Islam in general and in detail: Belief in the unseen and what our limited minds cannot comprehend regarding God’s wisdom in His creation.

2- You may be surprised by the presence of such numbers of people, but the truth is that the Asian peoples (China and its surroundings) have huge numbers, as the population of China reaches 1.411 billion (2023), so perhaps they are very fertile, and God knows best.

3 - As for the degree of their corruption, as it is said: “Number overcomes courage,” their large numbers increase the strength of their corruption, and perhaps they have not adhered to a religion that refines their nature. The primitive peoples who are not inhabited on the international map may have bad morals and may be governed by the law of the jungle and not man-made laws or divine laws. We do not assert that they are indigenous peoples (among whom are very advanced peoples), but perhaps they are indigenous primitive peoples who have never experienced civilization, and of course God knows best.

8 - The Awaited Mahdi

The belief in the emergence of the Mahdi is obligatory. However, he is not mentioned in the Qur’an, but only in the Sunnah. The Sunnah is the explanation and clarification of the Holy Qur’an.

The evidence that he is from the family of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace

On the authority of Umm Salamah, may God be pleased with her, she said: I heard the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, say: The Mahdi is from my family, from the descendants of Fatima. Narrated by Abu Dawud and Ibn Majah, and authenticated by Al-Albani.

On the authority of Ali, he said: The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said:

The Mahdi is from among us, the Ahlul Bayt. Allah will reform him in one night. Narrated by Ahmad and Ibn Majah, and authenticated by Ahmad Shakir and Al-Albani. 

Ibn Kathir said in his book Al-Nihaya fi Al-Fitan wa Al-Malahim: That is, Allah will accept his repentance, grant him success, inspire him, and guide him after he was not like that before.

1- What was narrated by Ahmad, Al-Tirmidhi, and Abu Dawud that the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, said

 “The world will not pass away, or the world will not end, until a man from my family rules the Arabs, whose name matches my name.” In a narration by Abu Dawud: “His name matches my name, and his father’s name matches my father’s name.” Al-Tirmidhi said about the hadith: “Hasan Sahih,” and Ahmad Shakir and Al-Albani authenticated it.

His characteristics

The Mahdi is from me, with a broad forehead, a hooked nose, he will fill the earth with justice and equity as it was filled with injustice, he will rule for seven years. Narrated by Abu Dawood and Al-Hakim.

Handsome with a broad forehead: receding hair from the front of his head Hooked nose - meaning thin nose

The place of his emergence (The East)

Ibn Kathir said: What is meant is that the praised Mahdi, whose presence is promised at the end of time, will initially appear and emerge from the east, and allegiance will be given to him at the House, as indicated by some hadiths.

The word: Al-Muntazar: The waited, indicates:

The nation is awaiting his emergence at the end of time. It is worth noting that some scholars have given him other titles, such as Al-Qa’im, because he will establish the law of God Almighty on earth, as Imam Ibn Hajar Al-Haythami said: “God made the Qa’im the true Caliph when the need for it was greatest from among his descendants, to fill the earth with justice.

His Imamate, may God be pleased with him - even over Jesus - peace be upon him -

The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: “A group of my nation will continue to fight for the truth and will be victorious until the Day of Resurrection. Then Jesus, son of Mary, may God bless him and grant him peace, will descend and their leader will say: Come and pray for us. He will say: No, some of you are leaders over others, as an honor from God to this nation.”

On the authority of Jabir, he said: I heard the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, say:

A group of my nation will continue to fight for the truth and will prevail until the Day of Resurrection. He said: Then Jesus, son of Mary, peace be upon him, will descend and their leader will say: Come and lead us in prayer. He will say: No, some of you are leaders over others, as Allah has honored this nation. Narrated by Muslim. In a narration by Al-Harith ibn Abi Usamah: Their leader, the Mahdi, will say: Come and lead us in prayer... The hadith. This narration was authenticated by Al-Albani in Al-Sahihah.

Who will lead the Imamate: The Awaited Mahdi?

The people of Jerusalem and the environs of Jerusalem 

Abdullah bin Imam Ahmad said: I found in my father's handwriting, then he narrated with his chain of transmission to Abu Umamah who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "A group of my nation will continue to be victorious over their enemies upon the religion, and those who oppose them will not harm them except for the hardships that befall them, until the command of Allah comes to them. And they are like that." They said: O Messenger of Allah, and where are they? He said: "In Jerusalem and the environs of Jerusalem." At-Tabarani also narrated it. Al-Haythami said in Al-Majma' and its men are trustworthy. And Allah knows best.

The time of his descent

 The hadiths mentioned that he will appear at the end of time, before the emergence of the Antichrist and the descent of Jesus, son of Mary, peace be upon him.

The sign of his appearance

The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: “Three people will fight over your treasure, each of them the son of a caliph, and it will not go to any of them. Then black banners will rise from the east and they will kill in a way that no people have ever been killed before... (Then he mentioned something that I do not remember, and he said): So when you see him, then pledge allegiance to him, even if you have to crawl on the snow, for he is the caliph of God, the Mahdi.” (Al-Albani said: “The hadith is authentic in meaning, but his statement is not correct.”)

Notice

What makes the Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace, who lives in a desert environment, refer to the term snow, and that they should come to the awaited Mahdi even if they had to crawl on the snow: The speech is in reference to the Muslims of the West to come to the Mahdi in the Levant to pledge allegiance to him, of course God is Most High and All-Knowing.

Ibn Kathir said

 What is meant by the treasure mentioned in this context is the treasure of the Kaaba, where three of the sons of the caliphs will be killed in order to take it, until the end of time comes, when the Mahdi will emerge.

The evidence of his appearance

The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: “The Hour will not come until a man from my family rules over the people, whose name matches my name and whose father’s name matches my father’s name. He will fill it with justice and equity.” Narrated by: Abdullah bin Masoud | A good and authentic hadith.

The indication of abundance in his era

On the authority of Abu Saeed Al-Khudri, the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: “At the end of my nation, the Mahdi will emerge. God will give him rain, and the earth will produce its vegetation, He gives money in full, livestock is brought out, and the nation is honored. He lives for seven or eight years. That is, pilgrimages. Narrated by Al-Hakim, who authenticated it, and Al-Dhahabi agreed with him. Al-Albani said about it in Silsilat Al-Ahadith Al-Sahihah: This is a sound chain of transmission, and its men are trustworthy.

The comment

1 - If we notice that the appearance of the Mahdi will come after the earth is filled with injustice in Jerusalem and the environs of Jerusalem, and this region specifically (Jerusalem and the surrounding areas of the Levant, such as Syria, Lebanon, and others... has been filled with injustice... then perhaps the appearance of the Mahdi will be soon)

2 - The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, predicted things that we never expected to happen, and they happened, whether through the tongue of the Qur’an, which came to us through his tongue, may God bless him and grant him peace - or through the tongue of the honorable prophecy, and the chain of transmission of that is innumerable, so why do we doubt authentic hadiths that tell us about the appearance of one of the wicked who does this?

3- Islam began in the East, and life is a circle. Whatever begins will end at the same point where it began, and God knows best.

The north wind that takes every believing soul on earth

The Hour will not come until the earth is empty of every Muslim and believer

In Sahih Muslim, on the authority of Abdullah bin Amr, may God be pleased with him - in which the Antichrist is mentioned until the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: Then God will send a cold wind from the direction of Ash-Sham, and there will not remain on the face of the earth anyone in whose heart there is an atom’s weight of goodness or faith except that it will take him, even if one of you were to enter the of a mountain, it would enter upon him until it took him, He said: I heard it from the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace. He said: The worst of people will remain as light as birds and as wild beasts. They will not recognize good and will not denounce evil. Then Satan will appear to them and say: Will you not respond? They will say: What do you command us? So he will command them to worship idols, and in that they will have a home of provision and good living. Then the Trumpet will be blown...

Al-Hafiz said in Fath Al-Bari: His saying, may God bless him and grant him peace:

The worst of people are those who will be overtaken by the Hour while they are alive.

Ibn Battel said

Even though its wording is general, what is meant by it is specificity and its meaning is that the Hour will come for the most part and most of the time upon the worst of people, as evidenced by his saying: A group of my nation will remain upon the truth until the Hour comes. So this report indicates that the Hour will also come upon a virtuous people.

Hadith of Ibn Masoud

The Hour will not come except upon the worst of people. Narrated by Muslim

Muslim also narrated from the hadith of Abu Hurairah, on the authority of the Prophet:

God sends a wind from Yemen softer than silk, and it will not leave anyone in whose heart there is an atom’s weight of faith without taking him away.

The long hadith of Al-Nawwas bin Sam’an about the story of the Antichrist, Jesus, Gog and Magog

When God sends a good wind that takes the soul of every believer and Muslim, the worst of people will remain, fighting like donkeys, and the Hour will come upon them.

The comment

The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: The people of Yemen have come to you. They are the softest of hearts and the most tender of souls. Faith is Yemeni, and wisdom is Yemeni.... We noticed that the north wind did not come from Syria or Lebanon (cold countries), but from a country characterized by moderate or close to hot weather. Is there any connection between this and the fact that faith is concentrated among the people of Yemen specifically? Allah knows and we do not know, but it seems that the message of Muhammad has reached the Arab countries and life will end with all the Arab countries in it.

The descent of Jesus, peace be upon him

(Islam’s vision of Jesus, peace be upon him, when he descends to Earth at the end of time)

How long did Jesus, peace be upon him, live in this world before he was raised to heaven?

The scholars said that the duration of Jesus’ life on earth, from the time he was born until he died, was forty years. He lived thirty-three of them before he was raised to heaven, then he lived seven years after he descended to earth. So the narration of the forty years refers to the duration of his entire life. So the seven years refers to the duration of his stay after his descent.

Did he die before he was taken to heaven? Or was he crucified as Christians say?

It is mentioned in the Holy Qur’an that Jesus, son of Mary, peace be upon him, was raised up by God to Himself, and that he was not crucified as the Christians say, and that he will descend at the end of time, and at that time many of the People of the Book will believe in him, 

Allah says 

 ( وَقَوْلِهِمْ إِنَّا قَتَلْنَا الْمَسِيحَ عِيسَى ابْنَ مَرْيَمَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ وَمَا قَتَلُوهُ وَمَا صَلَبُوهُ وَلَكِنْ شُبِّهَ لَهُمْ وَإِنَّ الَّذِينَ اخْتَلَفُوا فِيهِ لَفِي شَكٍّ مِنْهُ مَا لَهُمْ بِهِ مِنْ عِلْمٍ إِلَّا اتِّبَاعَ الظَّنِّ وَمَا قَتَلُوهُ يَقِينًا بَلْ رَفَعَهُ اللَّهُ إِلَيْهِ وَكَانَ اللَّهُ عَزِيزًا حَكِيمًا وَإِنْ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْكِتَابِ إِلَّا لَيُؤْمِنَنَّ بِهِ قَبْلَ مَوْتِهِ وَيَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ يَكُونُ عَلَيْهِمْ شَهِيدًا ) ". النساء/157-159 .

(And their saying, “Indeed, we killed the Messiah, Jesus, the son of Mary, the Messenger of God.” But they not killed him , nor did they crucify him, but it appeared to them and indeed, those who differed concerning it are in doubt about it. They have no knowledge of it except the following of assumption, and they did not kill him, for certain, rather, Allah raised him up to Himself. And Allah is Exalted in Might and Wise. And there is none from the People of the Scripture but that he will surely believe in him before his death. And on the Day of Resurrection he will be against them a witness. (An-Nisa’: 157-159)

His deeds on earth when he descends - peace be upon him -

In the hadith of Abu Hurairah, may God be pleased with him, he said: The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: By the One in Whose Hand is my soul, the son of Mary will soon descend among you as a just judge, He will break the cross, kill the pig, impose the jizya, and money will overflow until no one will accept it.

Abu Hurairah said: “And read, if you wish, the words of God Almighty: “And there is none from the People of the Scripture but that he will surely believe in him before his death. And on the Day of Resurrection he will be against them a witness.” [An-Nisa’: 159] Narrated by Al-Bukhari (2222) and this wording is his, and by Muslim (155).

The characteristics of Jesus that the Prophet referred to and the prosperity that will befall the earth after his presence

Hadith of Abu Hurairah

On the authority of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, who said: The mothers of the prophets are different, but their religion is one. I am the closest of people to Jesus, son of Mary, because there was no prophet between me and him. He will come down, so when you see him, recognize him, for he is a man with a medium height build, reddish-white, as if his head is dripping, even if it is not wet, and he crushes the cross, kills pigs, imposes the jizya, and lavishes wealth, and fights people for the sake of Islam, until Allah, the Almighty, destroys during his rule all religions except Islam, and until Allah, the Almighty, destroys during his rule the lying, one-eyed Messiah of misguidance and security will prevail on earth, until the lion grazes with the camels, the tiger with the cows, and the wolves with the sheep, and the children play with snakes without harming one another. He will live for forty years, then he will die, may God bless him and grant him peace, and the Muslims will pray for him, It was narrated by Abu Dawud in his Sunan (4324) and Ahmad in Al-Musnad (9270), and its chain of transmission is authentic. Ibn Kathir said in “Al-Bidayah wa’l-Nihayah” (19/224): “This is a good, strong chain of transmission.” Its chain of transmission was authenticated by Ibn Hajar in “Al-Fath” (6/493).

Narrated by Muslim in his Sahih (2940) on the authority of Abdullah bin Amr, who said: The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said:

“The Antichrist will emerge among my nation and will remain for forty - I do not know: forty days, or forty months, or forty years - then God will send Jesus, son of Mary, who will look like Urwah ibn Mas`ud,, then He will seek him out and destroy him. Then the people will remain for seven years, with no enmity between two people. Then Allah will send a cold wind from the direction of the north, and there will not remain on the face of the earth anyone in whose heart there is an atom’s weight of goodness or faith except that it will take him away...

Allah says 

وَإِنَّهُ لَعِلْمٌ لِلسَّاعَةِ فَلَا تَمْتَرُنَّ بِهَا وَاتَّبِعُونِ هَذَا صِرَاطٌ مُّسْتَقِيمٌ وَلَا يَصُدَّنَّكُمُ الشَّيْطَانُ إِنَّهُ لَكُمْ عَدُوٌّ مُبِينٌ ) الزخرف/62 .

And indeed, it is knowledge of the Hour, so have no doubt about it, and follow Me. This is a straight path. And let not Satan avert you. Indeed, he is to you a clear enemy. (Az-Zukhruf: 62)

That is, the appearance of Jesus is a sign that the Hour is near, that is, it is one of its signs, and his descent to earth is evidence of the end of this world and the coming of the Hereafter.

And Allah says 

( وَإِنْ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْكِتَابِ إِلَّا لَيُؤْمِنَنَّ بِهِ قَبْلَ مَوْتِهِ وَيَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ يَكُونُ عَلَيْهِمْ شَهِيدًا ) النساء/ 159

(And there is none from the People of the Scripture but that he will surely believe in him before his death. And on the Day of Resurrection he will be against them a witness.) An-Nisa’/159

And that is that no one from the People of the Book will remain after the descent of Jesus, upon him, in confirming the invalidity of what the Jews claimed of killing Jesus and crucifying him, and handing over to them those ignorant Christians who handed that over to them. So God informed that the matter was not like that, but rather it was made to appear to them as if it were so, so they killed the one who looked like him, and they did not understand that, then He raised him up to Him. And he is still alive, and he will descend before the Day of Resurrection.

The place of his descent is in the Levant, or rather in Damascus, near the eastern minaret, and that will be when the dawn prayer is performed. And in these times, in the year seven hundred and forty-one, a white minaret was built for the Umayyad Mosque, made of carved stones, Instead of the minaret that was destroyed by a fire attributed to the actions of the Christians - upon them be the curses of God that continue until the Day of Resurrection - and most of its construction was done with their money, and suspicions were strengthened that it was the one upon which Christ Jesus, son of Mary, peace be upon him, would descend, kill the pig, break the cross, and impose the jizya tax, Only Islam is accepted, as mentioned in the two Sahihs.

What is the wisdom behind the descent of Jesus, and not the other prophets, peace be upon him, at the end of time?

The response to the Jews in their claim that they killed him; so Allah Almighty showed their lie

Or to be buried in the earth; since no creature made of dust can die anywhere else.

It was said: When he saw the description of Muhammad and his nation, he called upon God to make him one of them, so God answered his call and kept him until he descends at the end of time, renewing the matter of Islam and coinciding with the emergence of the Antichrist and killing him. “To make one of the reasons for the appearance of Islam, which is the religion of all the prophets, a complete and comprehensive appearance on this earth.”

That Jesus, son of Mary, would descend after people had differed about him and had formed parties and sects for his sake, so that he might guide these differing people to the truth of his matter and decide between them regarding what they differed about regarding his affair.

The scholars of the Permanent Committee said

 “The hadiths indicate that he will descend at the end of time, that he will rule according to the law of our Prophet Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, and that the imam of this nation, in prayer and other matters, during the days of Jesus’ descent, will be from this nation.

There is no prophet but that God took a covenant from him that if Muhammad was sent in his time

 he would believe in him and support him, and he would advise his nation to do so. In that there is a praise for the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, and a glorification of his high status that is not hidden.

The gathering fire before the Day of Resurrection

The existence of the seas does not prevent the fire from spreading throughout the earth, for on the Day of Resurrection the seas will burst into fire, as God Almighty says: “And when the seas are set ablaze” (At-Takwir: 6).

In Sahih Muslim, on the authority of Hudhayfah ibn Asid al-Ghifari, may God be pleased with him, he said: The Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, looked at us while we were talking and said: What are you talking about? They said: We are talking about the Hour. He said: It will not come until you see ten signs before it, then he mentioned the smoke, the Antichrist, the beast, and the rising of the sun from the west, The descent of Jesus, son of Mary, peace be upon him, and Gog and Magog, and three landslides: one in the east, one in the west, and one in the Arabian Peninsula, and the last of that is a fire that will emerge from Yemen and drive the people to their place of assembly. In a narration by Muslim: ...a fire will emerge from the depths of Aden and drive the people. And in Abu Dawud: The last of that is a fire that will emerge from Yemen, from the depths of Aden, and drive the people to the place of assembly.

As for the fire that will emerge from the Hijaz

It does not mention the gathering, but it is one of the signs of the Hour. Some scholars have attributed it to the fire that broke out in the seventh century AH. Muslim narrated the hadith on the authority of Abu Hurairah that the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: The Hour will not come until a fire comes out of the land of the Hijaz that lights up the necks of camels in Busra, 

Al-Nawawi said in his explanation of Muslim: This fire coming out from the bottom of Aden and Yemen is the one that will gather people, as stated in the hadith

As for his saying, may God bless him and grant him peace,

The hadith does not say that the fire of the Hijaz is related to the gathering, but rather it is an independent sign of the signs of the Hour. In our time, a fire broke out in Medina in the year 654 AH, and it was a very great fire on the eastern side of Medina behind the lava field. Knowledge of it spread throughout all of Syria and all other countries, and I was informed by those who were present from the people of Medina. End quote

As for the gathering of the rest of the people

It was indicated by what is in Sahih Al-Bukhari on the authority of Anas, may God be pleased with him, that Abdullah bin Salam heard of the arrival of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, in Medina, so he came to him and asked him about some things. He said: I am going to ask you about three things that no one knows except a prophet: What is the first sign of the Hour? What is the first food that the people of Paradise will eat? And why does a child tend to follow his father or his mother? He said: Gabriel told me about that just now. He said: That Ibn Salam is the enemy of the Jews from the angels. He said: the first sign of the Hour is a fire that will gather them from the east to the west. The first food that the people of Paradise will eat is the liver of a fish. As for the child, if the man's semen precedes the woman's semen, the child will be born like him, If the woman's semen precedes the man's semen, the child will be born like her, He said: I bear witness that there is no god but Allah and that you are the Messenger of Allah. He said: O Messenger of Allah, the Jews are a people of slander, so ask them about me before they know that I have become a Muslim. So the Jews came, the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: What kind of man is Abdullah bin Salam among you? They said: The best of us and the son of the best of us, the most excellent of us and the son of the most excellent of us. The Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: Have you seen that Abdullah bin Salam converted to Islam? They said: May Allah protect him from that. So he repeated it to them, and they said the same. Then Abdullah went out to them and said: I bear witness that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. They said: He is our evil and the son of our evil, and they belittle him. He said: This is what I feared, O Messenger of Allah. End quote.

The beginning of the fire coming out from the bottom of Aden

As in the hadith of Muslim: When it emerges, it will spread throughout the entire earth, and then people will be gathered from the east to the west, as in the hadith of Bukhari. go to the Levant.

In the hadith of Ibn Omar, narrated by Ahmad and Abu Ya’la, with a chain of transmission traceable to the Prophet, a fire will emerge from Hadhramaut before the Day of Resurrection and will drive people away... the hadith, and in it: What do you command us to do? He said: go to Ash-Sham.

 In another wording

That is a fire that will come out from the bottom of Aden and will transport people to the place of assembly. I said: In the hadith of Anas in the questions of Abdullah bin Salam when he converted to Islam, the first sign of the Hour is a fire that will gather people from the east to the west. I have already mentioned it in the chapter on the rising of the sun from the west and that it was mentioned at the beginning of creation.

In the hadith of Abdullah bin Amr, according to Al-Hakim, he said

A fire will be sent upon the people of the East, and it will herd them to the West. It will spend the night with them where they spend the night, and it will rest with them where they rest. It will have whatever they fall and what is left behind. It will drive them like a broken camel.

The comment 

In our time, about 1446 years have passed since the migration of Muhammad, we see with our own eyes uncontrolled forest fires moving due to the speed of the wind to different parts of the world, and rescue teams from every country (very advanced countries) cannot control them with equipment designated for this task due to climate change and the increase in the temperature of the Earth. If this happens in our world today, what about us and the Earth at its end? How will the climate change be, especially in hot countries like Yemen, which has had wars for more than ten years, you are an expert that the chemical and biological weapons that they use, and perhaps others, in wars change the ecology of the earth, making it unsuitable for agriculture and perhaps flammable from a small thing. If this is the case in our time, then what about us approaching the Day of Judgment? The ability, will, and wisdom of God Almighty is that people move from the East to the West (as if it were a demographic change on earth). Whoever wants to seek protection should stick to the Levant, as the Messenger of Humanity, may God bless him and grant him peace, said.

At the end of this file, which may be too big for some people to believe in this age of science, scientific robots and technological revolution, we would like to point out some points:

 1 - The Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace, told us countless things, and modern science came to announce them without prior knowledge that the Messenger of Islam spoke about this, whether in the Quran or in the pure Sunnah. (There is no room to limit what we cannot limit)

2- If we believe the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, in worldly matters that modern science has brought, then our belief will increase, such as eating with fingers instead of spoons and its many benefits, such as walking barefoot without shoes for some time, such as men not wearing gold and its effect on fertility, and others such as the Hexagon particles and the end of life on Earth due to the loss of mass and not due to the Big Bang as stated in the Quran and others, so why do we doubt what has not yet come as impossible? Are we a materialistic people who believe in materialism more than in heavenly revelations? The promise of Allah and the promise of His Messenger will come, and whoever wills let him believe, and whoever wills let him disbelieve.