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The disintegration of the family, peo-
ple’s failure to communicate, rela-
tionships formed not out love and re-
spect but for other selfish motives,
as well as increasing loneliness and
alienation, are all characteristics of
the End Times. This degeneration, as
announced in the hadiths, is an op-
portunity for people to understand
that the Day of Judgment is ap-
proaching and to turn to Allah.
There would (first) be turmoil for a person in regard to
his family, his property, his own self, his children,
his neighbors.
(Bukhari and Muslim)
Young people will be rebellious and the love and respect
between young people and adults will deteriorate:
When the old have no compassion for the young, when
the young show no respect to the old … when children
grow angry … Judgment is at hand.
(Reported by Omar (r.a.))
The hadiths show that another characteristic of the End
Times will be that divorce and the number of children born out-
side marriage will increase:
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