....The world will be endowed with such affluence by Allah Almighty that people will have to search for a poor person to whom they can give the poor-rate, looking from door to door.
....We do not know how long this third era will continue nor how it will end. However, we know that by end of the third era the world will suffer from insecurity, mistrust, and discomfort. People will be inflicted with a spiritual crisis and, therefore, attack one another.
....People will have no sexual shame. Women will lose their chastity, and wear no clothes. Such concepts as morality and family will lose their meaning. And children born out of wedlock will multiply in the street.
....The use of alcohol, gambling, prostitution, oppression, usurpation, terror, and war will reign all over the world, and people will yearn for a piece from the carcasses of dogs and cats because of a great famine.
....And the great signs of the Doomsday will emerge one by one, but people, except for the pious servants of Allah, will not notice them, due to their ignorance.
....People will notice that the Doomsday is very near only when the Sun does not rise, making the world dark for three days, before rising from the West. People will then realize that the warnings of the pious servants of Allah were true. They will then repent and run to Islam.
....Yet, the dice will have been cast by then, because the door of repentance will already be closed.
.... THE INITIAL SIGNS OF THE JUDGMENT DAY
....The initial signs of the Day of Judgment will appear and the natural balances in the Earth and the Heavens will
deteriorate, while human beings will go astray, a profane life style will reigns, and the Earth will turn to a psychological hell for believers.
....The initial signs of the Day of Judgment are as follows:
....Corruption on the Land and Sea
....Allah Almighty says:
...."Corruption has appeared in the land and the sea on account of what the hands of men have wrought, that He may make them taste a part of that which they have done, so that they may return." (Room, 41)
....When the seas, lakes, rivers, shores, rural areas, valleys, and forests, which are in fact divine blessings, become places where people commit sins, the Earth will turn to an unbearable hell for all living creatures.
....The Convulsion of the Judgment Day
....Allah Almighty says:
...."O mankind! Fear your Lord! For the convulsion of the Hour (of Judgment) will be a thing terrible! The Day ye shall see it, every mother giving suck shall forget her suckling-babe, and every pregnant female shall drop her load (unformed): thou shalt see mankind as in a drunken riot, yet not drunk: but dreadful will be the Wrath of Allah." (Hajj, 1-2)
....As Judgment Day approaches, there will be small earthquakes in different regions of the Earth, and finally there will be a big one; the convulsion of Judgment Day,
which will be the greatest and most terrifying earthquake ever experienced on the Earth.
....This earthquake, unprecedented in the history of humanity will shatter the entire world. No one will be able to help anyone. People will act and talk as if they were drunk.
....The Destruction of the Towns
....Allah Almighty says:
...."And there is not a town but We will destroy it before the day of resurrection or chastise it with a severe chastisement; this is written in the Divine ordinance." (Isra, 58)
....All of the towns, the last of which will be Medina, will be destroyed. Some will be destroyed by natural disasters and epidemics, and some by divine torture, as happened to the people of Lot and Pompeii.
....The Cleaving of the Sky
....Allah Almighty says:
...."When the Sky is cleft asunder." (Infitar, 1)
....The sky, literally the highest level or degree, here will be outer space as viewed from the Earth. It is also rain cloud formation at the lowest level.
....Indeed, Allah Almighty says:
...."And He it is Who sends down water from the sky." (Anaam, 99)
....The sky mentioned at the beginning of Sura Infitar is used in the singular, which means that it only one sky will
be cleaved. In addition, the "al" particle, which denotes a particular thing or people, at the beginning of the word sama, marks that this cleaving will occur in the atmosphere that surrounds the Earth, because Allah Almighty says:
...."And we have made the sky a roof withheld (from them)." (Anbiya, 32)
....Allah Almighty declares that He has made the sky, i.e. the atmosphere, a well-guarded canopy; we know this to be true, because the atmosphere filters harmful solar radiation and protects us from meteors.
....When a diminished atmosphere, in particular one with a hole in the ozone layer, is no longer able to retain light gases, the meteors coming from space will rain down all over the planet and the ultraviolet rays coming from the Sun will transform the Earth into a hell.
....The Seas Pour Forth and Boil Over
....Allah Almighty says:
...."When the seas are poured forth," (Infitar, 3)
....According to the laws of nature set by Allah Almighty, everything in the universe is dependent on and interactive with each other. When the sky has been cleft asunder, the balance in the temperatures will break down and overheating will begin. The ice stored at the poles and the snow in the mountains will melt, causing the water balance to break down and the seas and oceans to be flooded. What will happen then?
...."When the oceans boil over with a swell" (Takwir, 6)
....The water will evaporate due to the high temperatures and a drought will ensure |