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world will be a catastrophe such as the world has never experi-

enced before. Details of that even may also be found in other
books of ours entitled, The Day of Resurrection, Death Resurrection
Hell. This present book will treat the events that will happen as the
Last Day approaches.

First, it must be stated that it is clear from a number of vers-
es of the Qur’an, that the subject of the inevitable end of the world

has excited interest in every period of history. In certain verses, it
is related that people had asked the Prophet Muhammad (saas)
about when the end of the world would come:

They will ask you about the Hour: when is it due? … (Surat
al-A‘raf: 187)

They ask you about the Hour: “When will it come?” (Surat
an-Nazi’at: 42)

Allah commanded the Prophet (saas) to answer this question
in the following way: “… Knowledge of it rests with my Lord

alone...” (Surat al-A‘raf: 187), meaning that only He knows the
date of the Hour. Furthermore Allah has revealed in the Qur'an
that He will grant this hidden knowledge to those Messengers
whom He wills:

He is the Knower of the Unseen, and does not divulge His
Unseen to anyone – except a Messenger with whom He is well

pleased, and then He posts sentinels before him and behind
him. (Surat al-Jinn: 26-27)Allah has revealed us that He had not
kept that knowledge completely out of the reach of humans with
the words "I almost keep it from the knowledge of others." (And

Allah knows the truth.)

The Hour is coming, I almost keep it from the knowledge of

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