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F ourteen hundred years ago, the Prophet Muhammad

(saas) related a number of secrets concerning the Last
Day, and of his thoughts about it, to his Muslim com-
panions. These valuable words have been passed down from gen-
eration to generation to the present day in the form of books of ha-
diths and works of Islamic scholars. The hadiths used in the com-

ing sections of this book contain such information given by the
Prophet (saas) in this regard. One very significant evidence prov-
ing that these hadiths are authentic, trustworthy and correct, is

that all these signs referred to in the hadiths have taken place one
after the other in the last 30 years since Hijri 1400. The realization
of the incidents mentioned in these hadiths confirms the authen-
ticity of these hadiths.
It should also be stated that some of the signs related in the

hadiths were observable in some part of the world in any period
during the 1400 year history of Islam, but that would not have
proven that that period was the End Times. For a certain period to

be called the End Times, all the signs of the Last Day must be ob-
served to be occurrence in that same period. This is expressed in a
hadith:

Signs following one another like the pieces of a necklace
falling one after the other when its string is cut.

(Tirmidhi)

When we examine the End Times in the light of the informa-
tion related above, we come up with a surprising conclusion. The
signs that the Prophet (saas) described in detail are occurring one

after the other in every corner of the world, just in the way they

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