Are We Seeing The Minor Signs of Qiyamah?
Let’s take a look at a few examples from the culture within which we live in today.
Here’s a list of ‘minor signs’ compiled 1,400 years ago (which I took from ibn Kathir’s ‘The Signs of the Day of Judgement’). Now, ask yourself, which of these have yet to surface?
1. Widespread fornication and adultery – Marriage rates are at their lowest ever.
2. Widespread acceptance of usury and interest – Just look at world debt and the monetary system today.
3. The Bedouin Arabs competing in building tall structures – Easy to see. Just look to the Middle East and Dubai.
4. Alcohol consumption being widespread – I don’t think any of us would deny this!
5. The children will be filled with rage – We’re reading so much about gang crime and high school killings and the like, and even children who are aggressive towards their own parents.
6. Loss of Islamic knowledge / the mosques will be grand structures but devoid of knowledge.
7. An increase in earthquakes – This again is another quite clear sign that has come to pass and is gaining frequency.
8. Widespread killing and bloodshed – Whether we look at the global situation or closer to home, it’s definitely happening on a huge scale.
9. Women who are clothed yet naked / Men will look women and women will look like men / Men will lay with men and women will lay with women – The advent of gay marriage would seem to suggest this is definitely here to stay and grow.
10. Time will move quickly – Time is definitely passing us by far quicker than it used to.
11. Singing and dancing will become popular / people will dance into the night – Look at MTV and the nightclubbing phenomenon.
12. Immoral deeds will be committed openly.
This only scratches the surface. Seriously. We just need to look at some of the facades around us that have pervaded every aspect of our lives – agriculture, the monetary system, health, education, relationships, family ties, etc.
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Let’s take a look at a few examples from the culture within which we live in today.
Here’s a list of ‘minor signs’ compiled 1,400 years ago (which I took from ibn Kathir’s ‘The Signs of the Day of Judgement’). Now, ask yourself, which of these have yet to surface?
1. Widespread fornication and adultery – Marriage rates are at their lowest ever.
2. Widespread acceptance of usury and interest – Just look at world debt and the monetary system today.
3. The Bedouin Arabs competing in building tall structures – Easy to see. Just look to the Middle East and Dubai.
4. Alcohol consumption being widespread – I don’t think any of us would deny this!
5. The children will be filled with rage – We’re reading so much about gang crime and high school killings and the like, and even children who are aggressive towards their own parents.
6. Loss of Islamic knowledge / the mosques will be grand structures but devoid of knowledge.
7. An increase in earthquakes – This again is another quite clear sign that has come to pass and is gaining frequency.
8. Widespread killing and bloodshed – Whether we look at the global situation or closer to home, it’s definitely happening on a huge scale.
9. Women who are clothed yet naked / Men will look women and women will look like men / Men will lay with men and women will lay with women – The advent of gay marriage would seem to suggest this is definitely here to stay and grow.
10. Time will move quickly – Time is definitely passing us by far quicker than it used to.
11. Singing and dancing will become popular / people will dance into the night – Look at MTV and the nightclubbing phenomenon.
12. Immoral deeds will be committed openly.
This only scratches the surface. Seriously. We just need to look at some of the facades around us that have pervaded every aspect of our lives – agriculture, the monetary system, health, education, relationships, family ties, etc.
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