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The Prophet Muhammad (saas)

There are two signs of our Mahdi; ...and those signs

are that moon will eclipse in the first night of its fixed
nights of eclipse and sun will be eclipsed in the middle
of the fixed days for its eclipse, during the month of
Ramadhan. 239
There will be two eclipses of the sun in Ramadan be-
fore the Mahdi emerges. 240
There will be two eclipses of the Moon in
Ramadan... 241

The common points emerging from the above three hadiths are:

1. There will be solar and lunar eclipses during the month of Ramadan.

2. These will be spaced about 14-15 days apart.

3. The eclipses will be repeated twice.

In line with those calculations, there was a lunar eclipse in 1981 (Hijri
1401), on the 15th day of Ramadan, and a solar eclipse on the 29th day of the
month. There was a "second" lunar eclipse in 1982 (Hijri 1402) on the 14th
day of Ramadan, and a solar eclipse on the 28th day of the month.

It is also particularly significant that in that particular instance, there

was a full lunar eclipse in the middle of the month of Ramadan, a most strik-
ing prophecy.

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