The Minor and Major Signs of the Day of Judgment
Ashrat as-sa’aa. No one knows it but Allah. This is ‘ilm al-ghayb. That’s why in the hadith of jibreel, when he asked about the Hour, RasulAllah* said, “The one who is asked does not know any better than the one who is asking.” Meaning, neither of us knows when the day of judgment is, but RasulAllah* has told us many of its signs. In the area of the signs of the day of judgment, there are many weak ahadith and many strong ahadith.
Types of Signs
· actual events that can only happen once.
· other signs which can happen more than once.
· some signs that are complete opposites.
RasulAllah* said, a death that will eat you away like a certain illness that afflicts goats. This is referring to plague. It occurred in 18H.
RasulAllah* said, “Wealth will be so abundant that a man will be handed 100 dinar (a small weight of gold) and they wouldn’t be satisfied.”
RasulAllah* says in the hadith narrated by Muslim: “Do good deeds before the times of trials and tribulations that are like the darkness of night.” Do the good deeds before the trials and tribulations are like darkness of night, spreading all over. Then RasulAllah* said that during those times, a man would be a believer in the morning, but a disbeliever by night time. And a man would be a believer at night time, but a disbeliever by the morning. RasulAllah* said because they are selling their religion for a worldly benefit.
The assassination of ‘Uthmaan. This was the beginning of the fitna.
1.6.2 The Battle of Al-Jamal
This was a big fitna. RasulAllah sallallhu ‘alayhi wa sallam mentions in a hadith narrated by Bukhari and Muslim, “There will be a war between two big armies of Muslims and they are fighting for the same cause.” (Both of them want the same thing, but they are still fighting.).
Abu Hurayrah (ra) narrated that RasulAllah sallallhu ‘alayhi wa sallam said, “The Day of Judgement will not occur until 30 false prophets arise. Every one of them is claiming that he is a messenger.”
RasulAllah* says, “But Allah will complete this religion. Allah will give victory to this religion until the traveler will leave from sam’aa to Hadramawt, and not fear anyone but Allah and the wolf on their sheep.”
RasulAllah* said, “There will be a time when the land of the Arabs will be rivers and forests (it will be green). And the traveller would leave from Iraq to Makkah, fearing no one but getting lost.”
RasulAllah* said, “The Hour will not be established until a fire will come out of the land of hijaaz that will throw a light on the necks of the camels of Busra.”.
RasulAllah* said, “The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Turks. People with small eyes, round, red faces and flat noses. Their faces will look like shields coated with leather. The Hour will not be established until you fight with people whose shoes are made of hair.”
RasulAllah* said, “If trust is lost, then wait for the Hour.” If there is no more trust, wait for the Hour; it’s the end of the Hour. The Sahabi asked RasulAllah* asked, “How will trust be lost?” RasulAllah* said, “When authority is given to those who do not deserve it, then wait for the Hour.” When the leaders are sufahaa` (people with lack of understanding of religion).
RasulAllah* said, “Some of the signs of the Day of Judgement is that knowledge will be lifted up and ignorance will replace it.”
RasulAllah* said, “There will be a time when there will be security forces, they leave in the morning with the wrath of Allah on them, at night they come home with the wrath of Allah on them. Be careful, don’t be one of their associates.”
RasulAllah* said, “Zina will prevail.” RasulAllah* said, “If zina will prevail until people will advertise for it in public, then Allah will inflict on them diseases which did not exist before.”
RasulAllah* said, “Approaching the Day of Judgement, approaching the hour, riba would be widespread.” [AtTabarani]
RasulAllah* said, “A time will come when people will be proud of – or will compete – in building masaajid.
RasulAllah* said, “You will find the barefoot, naked, poor shepards of goats and sheep competing in building tall buildings.” [Muslim]
This is the famous hadith of Jibreel, in Bukhari and Muslim. Jibreel asked RasulAllah* about the signs of the day of judgment. RasulAllah* said that one of the signs is that the woman would give birth to her master, or that the slave would give birth to her master.
RasulAllah* says, “A time will come when haraj will be widespread.” The Sahabah asked, “What is haraj?” RasulAllah* said, “It is an Abyssinian word (from habasha). It means killing.” [Bukhari]
Bukhari, Abu Hurayrah said that RasulAllah* said, “Approaching the Day of Judgement, time will shrink.” RasulAllah* said, “The Day of the judgement will not occur until time shrinks. The year will be like a month, and a month will be like a week, and a week will be like a day, and a day will be like an hour and an hour would be like burning a leaf.”
RasulAllah* said, “One of the signs of the day of judgment is that markets will be close to each other.”
RasulAllah* said, “Business and trade will be so widespread.” RasulAllah* said, “Businesses will be so widespread, to the point where the woman will be helping her husband with the business.”.
RasulAllah* said, “One of the signs of the Day of Judgement is that some tribes would follow disbelievers and some would worship idols (pagan worship).”
RasulAllah* said in a hadith, “Earthquakes will be frequent.” In another hadith by Ahmad, RasulAllah* said, “O son of Hawaala (a companion), if you see khilafaa appraoach the holy land (Palestine), then the time for earthquakes and disasters and great issues is approaching. And the Hour, at that time, will be closer to the people than the my hand to your head.”
At-Tirmidhi, RasulAllah* said, “In the end of this Ummah, there will be sinking, stoning and turning into animals.”.
Ibn Maajah, Abu Hurayrah said that RasulAllah* said, “There will be tricky (wicked) years, where the liar will be believed and the truthful will not be believed. The untrustworthy will be trusted and the trustworthy will not be trusted. The Ar-Ruwaybadah will speak.” The Sahabah asked, “Who are the Ar-Ruwaybadah?” RasulAllah* said, “The low person.”
RasulAllah* said, “One of the signs of the Day of Judgement is that you will give salaam only to those you know.”
Muslim, RasulAllah* said, “One of the signs of the Day of Judgement is that there will be women who are dressed, but naked. Their heads are like the humps of camels [referring to the hairstyle]. They will not enter jannah or even smell it, enough though the smell of jannah can be smelled from a long distance (in another hadith: a distance of 70 years).”
Ahmad, RasulAllah* said, “In the future, there will be men of my Ummah sitting over surooj [saddle] on things that are similar to camels, but not exactly camels. And they descend from these vehicles at masaajid but their wives are dressed, but naked. Curse them, for they are cursed.”
RasulAllah* said in a hadith narrated by At-Tirmidhi, “Towards the end of time, the dream of the believer almost never lie.”
RasulAllah* said, “Approaching the Day of Judgement, the pen will prevail.”
RasulAllah* said, “One of the signs of the Day of Judgement is that the crescent will be bloated.”
RasulAllah* said, “Approaching the end of time, there will be dajjaloon (people who pretend to be something they’re not – imposters). They present you with talk that you did not hear and your fathers never heard before. Beware of them. Don’t let them mislead you and misguide you.”
Muslim, ‘Abdullah ibn ‘Amr ibn Al ‘Aas said, “There are some devils imprisoned in the ocean. They were imprisoned by Sulaymaan ‘alayhis salaam. A time will come when they will come out and they will recite to people Qur’an and they are going to claim that it is Qur’an and Sacred Books.”
RasulAllah* says, in a hadith narrated by Imam Ahmad, “Approaching the Day of Judgement will be false witnessing and concealing the true witness.”
Bukhari, RasulAllah* said, “One of the signs of the Day of Judgement is that the the number of women would increase and the number of men would decrease so there would be 50 women for 1 man.”
At-Tabarani, RasulAllah* said, “One of the signs of the Day of Judgement is that sudden death would occur frequently.”
RasulAllah* was asked about the Hour. RasulAllah* said, “Only Allah know, but I will tell you some of the signs. There will be fitna and haraj.” The Sahabah asked, “What is haraj?” RasulAllah* said, “It means, in the language of Abyssinia, Killing.” Then he said, “People would not know each other.”
Imam Muslim narrates that the Prophet* said, “The Day of Judgement will not occur until the land of the Arabs becomes gardens and rivers again.”
The Prophet* said, “The Day of Judgement will not occur until a widespread rain will fall over the people, but nothing will grow.”
The Prophet* said, “Soon the river Euphrates will disclose the treasure (the mountain) of gold, so whoever will be present at that time should not take anything of it.” Bukhaari, Abu Hurayrah narrated that the Prophet* said, “The Last Hour would not come before the Euphrates uncovers a mountain of gold, for which people would fight. Ninety-nine out of each one hundred would die but every man amongst them would say that perhaps he would be the one who would be saved (and thus possess this gold.)” [Muslim]
There was a shepherd with his sheep. A wolf attacked and took one of the sheep. The shepherd followed it and took his sheep back. The wolf sat back, with his legs in the air – like a person – and said, “Itiqillah (fear Allah). You are taking away food from me that was sent to me by Allah.” The shepherd said, “What an amazing thing! A wolf sitting like a man and speaking to me!” The wolf said, “I will tell you something more amazing. The Prophet* is in Yathrib [what Madinah was called at the time], and he is teaching the people about the nations before.” The shepherd, who was not Muslim at the time, went to Madinah and went to RasulAllah* and told him what happened. RasulAllah* gathered all of the sahabah and told the shepherd, “Tell them what you heard.” The shepherd told them and then the Prophet* said, “The Day of Judgement will not occur until the beasts will speak to you…..and your legs would speak to you.”
The said Prophet*, “The Hour will not be established till a man passes by a grave of somebody and says, ‘Would that I were in his place.’” [Bukhaari]
Muslim, the Prophet* said, “The Day of Judgement will occur and the Romans are the largest nation, in terms of number.”
Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Apostle (may peace he upon him) saying, “You have heard about a city the one side of which is in the land and the other is in the sea (Constantinople).” They said: “Allah’s Messenger, yes.” Thereupon he said: “The Last Hour would not come unless seventy thousand persons from Bani lsra`eel would attack it. When they would land there, they will neither fight with weapons nor would shower arrows but would only say: “There is no god but Allah and Allah is the Greatest,” that one side of it would fall. Thaur (one of the narrators) said: I think that he said: “The part by the side of the ocean.” Then they would say for the second time: “There is no god but Allah and Allah is the Greatest” that the second side would also fall. And they would say: “There is no god but Allah and Allah is the Greatest” then the gates would be opened for them and they would enter therein and, they would be collecting spoils of war and distributing them amongst themselves that a noise would be heard and It would be said: “Verily, Dajjal has come.” And thus they would leave everything there and would turn to him. [Muslim,]
Abu Hurayrah reported that the Prophet* said, “The Hour will not be established until a man from Qahtaan appears, driving the people with his stick.” [Bukhaari
RasulAllah* said, in a hadith by Bukhaari, that a time would come when a man would call his cousin and his relative, telling him, “Come to the luxurious life. Come to the luxurious life.” Prophet* said, “Madinah is better for them, if they know.” Then the Prophet* said, “In the name of the One in Whose Hand is my soul Allah], anyone who leaves Madinah and gives it up, Allah subhaana wa ta’ala will replace in Madinah someone better than him.” Then the Prophet* said, “AlMadinah is like a furnace that separates the impurities and Madinah will expel all of the impurities out.”
It is narrated on the authority of Abu Huraira that RasulAllah* said: “Verily Allah would make a wind to blow from the side of the Yemen more delicate than silk and would spare none but cause him to die who has faith equal to the weight of a grain. [Muslim,]
RasulAllah* said, “The ones who will transgress against the sanctity of Al-Ka’bah will be its people (meaning the Ummah).” No enemy can destroy the Ka’bah. The only transgression against it will be when this Ummah transgresses it. RasulAllah* says, “When that happens, don’t ask about the perishing of the Arabs.” Then RasulAllah* says, “Abyssinia would come and they would destroy al-Ka’bah and they would take out the treasures of the Ka’bah.”
RasulAllah* says that there will be one of your khulafaa` that will give out money without counting. Muslim and Imam Ahmad. Abu Sa’eed AlKhudri reported that the Prophet* said, “I am giving you the good news of AlMehdi, who will be sent to Ummah during times of disputes. And there will be a lot of earth problems. He will replace the oppression and injustice of the world with justice. And he will fill the hearts of the Ummah of Muhmmad* with satisfaction and content.”
The Major Signs of the Day of Judgment
RasulAllah* says, “The major signs are deeds in a string. When the string is cut, all of them would fall down.” [Ahmad].
This hadith is in Muslim. These signs are not in chronological order. Hudhaifa ibn Usaid Ghifari reported: Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) came to us all of a sudden as we were (busy in a discussion). He said: “What do you discuss about?” They (the Companions) said, “We are discussing about the Last Hour.” Thereupon he said: “It will not come until you see ten signs before and (in this connection) he made a mention of the smoke, Dajjal, the beast, the rising of the sun from the west, the descent of Jesus son of Mary (Allah be pleased with him), the Gog and Magog, and land-slidings in three places, one in the east, one in the west and one in Arabia at the end of which fire would burn forth from Yemen, and would drive people to the place of their assembly [the land of mahshar].” [Muslim 41, 6931]
Narrated ibn ‘Umar radiyallahu ‘anhu: Once Allah’s Apostle stood amongst the people, glorified and praised Allah as He deserved and then mentioned the Dajjal saying, “l warn you against him (i.e. the Dajjal) and there was no prophet but warned his nation against him. No doubt, Noah warned his nation against him but I tell you about him something of which no prophet told his nation before me. You should know that he is one-eyed, and Allah is not one-eyed.” [Bukhari, 4/55/553]
Narrated ‘Ubadah ibn As-Samit: The Prophet* said: “I have told you so much about the Dajjal (Antichrist) that I am afraid you may not understand. The Antichrist is short, hen-toed, woolly-haired, one-eyed, an eye-sightless, and neither protruding nor deep-seated. If you are confused about him, know that your Lord is not one-eyed.” [Abu Dawood]
RasulAllah* said that nothing from the time Adam was created until akhirah is a greater fitna than ad-dajjaal. Hudhaifa and Ibn Mas’ud met together. Hudhaifa said: I know more than you as to what there would be along with the Dajjal. There would be along with him two canals (one flowing with water) and the other one (having) fire (within it), and what you would see as fire would be water and what you would see as water would be fire. So he who amongst you is able to see that and is desirous of water should drink out of that which he sees as fire. [Muslim, B.41, #7013]
One day, RasulAllah* talked about the ad-dajjaal so much, we thought that he was just outside of Madinah. When we went to go meet RasulAllah*, he knew that. He felt that we were worried. RasulAllah* said, “What’s wrong with you?” They said, “You have talked about him so much – up and down- that he thought that he’s next to the palm trees of Madinah.” RasulAllah* said, “If he comes out and I am with you, then I’ll take care of him for you. If he comes out and I am not with you, then everybody is responsible for himself. And I ask Allah to protect every Muslim. He’s a young man and one of his eyes is bulging out. If you ever live to his time and see him, read on him the first ayah of surah al-Kahf.” That is the protection. Abu Darda’ reported Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) as saying: “If anyone learns by heart the first ten verses of the Surah al-Kahf, he will be protected from the Dajjal.” [Muslim, B.4, #1766]
RasulAllah* said that he will come out between ash-Shaam and Iraq, and he will corrupt the whole world, right and left. Then RasulAllah* said, he will stay on earth for 40 days. One day is like a year; one day is like a month; one day is like a week and then the rest of his days are like your regular days.
RasulAllah* said…. “He would appear on the way between Syria and Iraq and would spread mischief right and left. O servant of Allah! adhere (to the path of Truth).” We said: “Allah’s Messenger, how long would he stay on the earth?” He said, “For forty days, one day like a year and one day like a month and one day like a week and the rest of the days would be like your days.” We said: “Allah’s Messenger, would one day’s prayer suffice for the prayers of day equal to one year?” Thereupon he said: “No, but you must make an estimate of time (and then observe prayer).” We said: “Allah’s Messenger, how quickly would he walk upon the earth?” Thereupon he said: “Like cloud driven by the wind.
“He would come to the people and invite them (to a wrong religion) and they would affirm their faith in him and respond to him. He would then give command to the sky and there would be rainfall upon the earth and it would grow crops. Then in the evening, their posturing animals would come to them with their humps very high and their udders full of milk and their flanks stretched. He would then come to another people and invite them. But they would reject him and he would go away from them and there would be drought for them and nothing would be left with them in the form of wealth.
“He would then walk through the waste, land and say to it: Bring forth your treasures, and the treasures would come out and collect (themselves) before him like the swarm of bees. He would then call a person brimming with youth and strike him with the sword and cut him into two pieces and (make these pieces lie at a distance which is generally) between the archer and his target. He would then call (that young man) and he will come forward laughing with his face gleaming (with happiness)
1. Imaan.
2. Al Isti’aadah – Seek refuge in Allah from him. One of the du’aa that RasulAllah* would say after Salah very frequently, that some scholars even say it is waajib:
‘O Allaah, I take refuge in You from the punishment of the grave, from the torment of the Fire, from the trials and tribulations of life and death and from the evil affliction of the Al-Maseeh Ad-Dajjaal.’
‘O Allaah, I take refuge in You from the punishment of the grave, from the torment of the Fire, from the trials and tribulations of life and death and from the evil affliction of the Al-Maseeh Ad-Dajjaal.’
3. Read the opening of Surah al-Kahf or the last part of Surah al-Kahf.
4. Avoiding him. RasulAllah* said: “Let him who hears of the Dajjal (Antichrist) go far from him for I swear by Allah that a man will come to him thinking he is a believer and follow him because of confused ideas roused in him by him. [Abu Dawood B.37, #4305]
No one will be able to fight him. AlMehdi will have no way of competing with him. He will be with the believers in Jerusalem, hiding with them in their forts. There will be no way for them to confront ad-dajjaal, until ‘Eesa ibn Maryam (Jesus, son of Mary), descends. Then ‘Eesa ibn Maryam, just like Allah has given ad-dajjaal these supernatural abilities, Allah will give ‘Eesa a miracle and that is: he will have the power of killing ad-dajjaal by his vision. In one hadith, his vision, and in another, his breath. The vision and breath of ‘Eesa will be enough to make ad-dajjaal melt like a piece of ice melts. And that is a miracle that Allah subhaana wa ta’aala will give ‘Eesa. In a hadith narrated by Ahmad, ‘Eesa ibn Maryam will kill ad-dajjaal at Baab-lud – and this is in Palestine.
The second sign, in terms of order, is the descending of ‘Eesa ‘alayhis salaam. The location of the descending will be Damascus. RasulAllah* pinpointed Damascus and said, next to the eastern white minaret. At the time, when RasulAllah* said this, there wasn’t any masjid in Damascus; it was part of the Roman Empire; it was Christian. Nevertheless, RasulAllah* said he [‘Eesa] will descend next to the eastern white minaret in Damascus. AlMasjid AlAmawi is the biggest of the masaajid of Damascus.
“And he [‘Eesa (Jesus), son of Maryam (Mary)] shall be a known sign for (the coming of) the Hour (Day of Resurrection) [i.e. 'Iesa's (Jesus) descent on the earth]…”
RasulAllah* says in another hadith, mutafakh ‘alay, “What will your situation be when the son of Mary will descend amongst you and your Imam is from within yourselves?” Because when ‘Eesa arrives, he will walk in and the Muslims are about to pray – the ‘iqaamah was made in the masjid. When AlMehdi sees ‘Eesa, he will retreat and he will ask him (‘Eesa) to lead the prayer. But ‘Eesa ‘alayhis salaam will tell AlMehdi that the ‘iqaamah was made for you, therefore you lead the salah. This is a great honor for this Ummah – that ‘Eesa will pray behind one of the followers of Muhammad*. Obviously, after that ‘Eesa will resume the responsibility, but at that time AlMehdi will led because the ‘iqaamah was made for him.
In AtTirmidhi. RasulAllah* says ‘Eesa ibn Maryam would descend next to the eastern white minaret of the masjid. He has two yellow garments, and he will be placing his two hands on the wings of angels.
There is a hadith in Muslim which says that after Ya`juj and Ma`juj: [...]Then Allah would send rain which no house of clay or (the tent of) camels’ hairs would keep out and it would wash away the earth until it could appear to be a mirror. Then [Allah would give order to] the earth would be told to bring forth its fruit and restore its blessing and, as a result thereof, there would grow (such a big) pomegranate that a group of persons would be able to eat that, and seek shelter under its skin and milch cow would give so much milk that a whole party would be able to drink it. And the milch camel would give such (a large quantity of) milk that the whole tribe would be able to drink out of that and the milch sheep would give so much milk that the whole family would be able to drink out of that and at that time Allah would send a pleasant wind which would soothe (people) even under their armpits, and would take the life of every Muslim and only the wicked would survive who would commit adultery like asses and the Last Hour would come to them. [Muslim B.41, #7015]
In another hadith by Imam Ahmad, “The Prophets are half brothers. Their religion is one, but their mothers are different. And ‘Eesa is the closest one to me because there is no prophet between me and him. And he would descend. When he comes down, know him. He is average height and he has fair skin and he will be wrapped in two garments which have a yellowish color. His hair looks as if it is wet and dripping with droplets of water, even though it’s dry. He will crush the cross. And he will rid the earth from pigs. And he will abandon jizya. And he would call all mankind to Islam. All of the religions, Allah will destroy them in his time, except for Islam.” RasulAllah* says, he would stay for 40 years and then he would die and the Muslims would pray on him. He has to come down to earth, because Allah created us from this earth. We would live on this earth and die on this earth.
Ya’jooj and ma’jooj [gog and magog] are two tribes. The evidence is in Bukhaari: The Prophet said, “On the day of Resurrection Allah will say, ‘O Adam!’ Adam will reply, ‘Labbaik our Lord, and Sa’daik.’ Then there will be a loud call (saying), Allah orders you to take from among your offspring a mission for the (Hell) Fire.’ Adam will say, ‘O Lord! Who are the mission for the (Hell) Fire?’ Allah will say, ‘Out of each thousand, take out 999.’ At that time every pregnant female shall drop her load (have a miscarriage) and a child will have grey hair. And you shall see mankind as in a drunken state, yet not drunk, but severe will be the torment of Allah.” (22.2) (When the Prophet mentioned this), the people were so distressed (and afraid) that their faces got changed (in color) whereupon the Prophet* said, “From Gog and Magog nine-hundred ninety-nine will be taken out and one from you. You Muslims (compared to the large number of other people) will be like a black hair on the side of a white ox, or a white hair on the side of a black ox, and I hope that you will be one-fourth of the people of Paradise.” On that, we said, “Allahu-Akbar!” Then he said, “I hope that you will be) one-third of the people of Paradise.” We again said, “Allahu-Akbar!” Then he said, “(I hope that you will be) one-half of the people of Paradise.” So we said, “Allahu Akbar.”[Bukhaari, 6/60/265]
Some other hadith that talk about ya’juj and ma’juj: [...] He ['Eesa] would then search for him (Dajjal) until he would catch hold of him at the gate of Ludd and would kill him. Then a people whom Allah had protected would come to Jesus, son of Mary, and he would wipe their faces and would inform them of their ranks in Paradise and it would be under such conditions that Allah would reveal to Jesus these words: “I have brought forth from amongst My servants such people against whom none would be able to fight; you take these people safely to Tur”, and then Allah would send Gog and Magog and they would swarm down from every slope. The first of them would pass the lake of Tibering and drink out of it. And when the last of them would pass, he would say: “There was once water there.” Jesus and his companions would then be besieged here (at Tur, and they would be so much hard pressed) that the head of the ox would be dearer to them than one hundred dinirs and Allah’s Apostle, Jesus, and his companions would supplicate Allah, Who would send to them insects (which would attack their necks) and in the morning they would perish like one single person. Allah’s Apostle, Jesus, and his companions would then come down to the earth and they would not find in the earth as much space as a single span which is not filled with their putrefaction and stench. Allah’s Apostle, Jesus, and his companions would then again beseech Allah, Who would send birds whose necks would be like those of bactrin camels and they would carry them and throw them where God would will. Then Allah would send rain which no house of clay or (the tent of) camels’ hairs would keep out and it would wash away the earth until it could appear to be a mirror. … [Muslim B.41, #7015]
Qur’an tells us the story of dhul-Qarnayn. He was a king who lived thousands of years ago: Until, when he reached between two mountains, he found, before (near) them (those two mountains), a people who scarcely understood a word. They said: “O Dhul-Qarnain! Verily! Ya’juj and Ma’juj (Gog and Magog) are doing great mischief in the land. Shall we then pay you a tribute in order that you might erect a barrier between us and them?” He said: “That (wealth, authority and power) in which my Lord had established me is better (than your tribute). So help me with strength (of men), I will erect between you and them a barrier. Give me pieces (blocks) of iron,” Then, when he had filled up the gap between the two mountain-cliffs, he said: “Blow,” till when he had made it (red as) fire, he said: “Bring me molten copper to pour over it.” So they [Ya'juj and Ma'juj (Gog and Magog)] were made powerless to scale it or dig through it. Dhul-Qarnain) said: “This is a mercy from my Lord, but when the Promise of my Lord comes, He shall level it down to the ground. And the Promise of my Lord is ever true.” And on that Day [i.e. the Day Ya'juj and Ma'juj (Gog and Magog) will come out], We shall leave them to surge like waves on one another, and the Trumpet will be blown, and We shall collect them all together. [18:93-99]
RasulAllah* says, “three sinkings of the earth. One in the east, one in the west and one in the arabian peninsula.”
There is an entire surah in the Qur’an – Surah ad-Dukhaan. Allah says: “Wait until smoke comes down from the heavens.” This smoke is punishment for the non believers.
Allah says, “When some of the signs of Allah approach, then a soul that did not believe, their belief will not do them any good.” The tafsir of this ayah is the rise of the sun from the west.
RasulAllah* says, the day of judgment will not occur until the sun rises up from the west. When that happens, everyone would believe. That is when belief would not give them any good. [Bukhaari]
When the sun rises from the west, people will know it is the end of the world. The door of tawbah is closed. No more tawbah will be accepted.
Allah says: “And when the decree of Allah (or the Word of Allah) befalls them, we would send out to them a beast from the earth. It would talk to them. The people do not believe in Our signs.”
Abu Hurayrah says that RasulAllah* says, “Three things, when they occur, no soul would benefit from imaan after that. 1) Rise of the sun from the west. 2) ad-dajjaal. 3) the beast.” During the time of ad-dajjaal, because there will be so much fitna. In the time of the beast, you will be stamped as a believer or a non believer.
There’s more details in the following hadith, which can be found in Ahmad and AtTirmidhi, RasulAllah* said, “The beast would come out carrying the seal of Sulayman [Solomon] and the stick of Musa [Moses]. It would mark the face of the believer with Musa and would stamp the face of the nonbeliever with the seal of Sulayman. People would be eating together and they would say, ‘Give me this, believer’ or ‘Hand me this non, believer.’” Everybody has it written on their face. People would call each other, “ya kaafir” or ”ya mu’min.”
The final sign of the day of judgment is the fire. RasulAllah* says, “And in the end, a fire would come out from Yemen, sending the people towards almahshar.”
RasulAllah* pointed towards ashShaam and said, “This is where you would be assembled.” In another hadith in Abu Dawood, RasulAllah* said, “There will be hijra after hijra. The best of people of the world will be in the place of the hijra of Ibraheem.” Where is that? Jerusalem. The holy land. What is the first hijra? From Makkah to Madinah. There will be another hijra, which is of the best people of the world, to Jerusalem. The other people who live during that time will be the worse of the people, and that is when the fire will gather them in AshShaam. AshShaam is the area of Jerusalem, Syria, Palestine, Jordan and Lebanon. The most holy of it is Jerusalem.
