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HARUN YAHYA

lamic jurisprudence scholar, our Prophet (may Allah bless
him and grant him peace) provides important information

about the beginning of human history by saying that 5600
years had passed up until his own day:
Ahmad Ibn Hanbal transmitted in his 'Ilal: Five thousand
six hundred years have passed from this world. 3
Many other hadith contain explicit references to the
life span of the world being 7000 years:
Anas Ibn Malik narrates that the Messenger of Allah (may
Allah bless him and grant him peace) said: The life span
of the world is seven days in the days of the Hereafter.
Almighty Allah has said: One day in the Sight of your
Lord is like a thousand of your years. Allah will ascribe
the equivalent of good deeds of the seven thousand
years of the age of this world to the one who meets the
need of any of his brothers in the faith on the path of
Allah as if he spends his days in fasting and his nights in
worship. 4
Narrated from Daqqaq Ibn Zaid al-Juhani: I told the Mes-
senger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him
peace) of a dream I had had. In that dream the Messenger
of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) was
at the top step of a seven-stepped pulpit. He said: The
seven-stepped pulpit you see is the seven thousand
years of age of this world. 5
Said Nursi, the renovator of the Islamic 1300s and the
greatest one of the last millennium, cited the Islamic 1500s
as the period of dominion of Islamic moral values. He
stated that Muslims would enjoy a time of clear and explicit