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What the Prophet (saas) Said of the Future

He (The Mahdi) will not come until there is a por-
tent from the Sun. 251

The solar eclipse of August 11, 1999 was the last of the century.
During this eclipse, the likes of which take place only every 400 years, the
sun, the moon and the world align. It was the first time that so many peo-
ple had been able to watch and study an eclipse for so long a duration.
Below are some newspaper headlines regarding the phenomenon. This

can be interpreted as the "portent from the Sun" referred to in the hadith.
(Allah knows best, of course).

This portent from the
Sun may be the great
explosion that took
place in the twentieth
century. On the left of
the picture to the side
is an image of the Sun
taken in 1996. The
image on the right was
taken in 2000, and
shows its latest ap-
pearance, after the ex-
plosion.

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