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TIME, 3.12.1979

In 1979, there was a massacre in an attack on the Kaaba during the hajj pilgrim-
age, just as had been revealed in a hadith. This bloody attack on the Kaaba took
place on Muharram 1, 1400, (November 21, 1979), in other words on the first day
of Hijri 1400, at the beginning of the period when signs of the final times began to
follow one another.

Both the Saudi soldiers and the Iranian pilgrims committed
great sins, for they killed one another. These bloody inci-
dents have great parallels to the environment described in
the hadith.

There come the cries of war in (the month of) Shawwal with the
outbreak of war, massacre, and carnage in (the month of) Dhu'l-
Hijja. The pilgrims are plundered in this month, the streets can-
not be crossed because of the blood shed, and religious prohibi-
tions are violated. Big sins are committed near al-Bayt al-
Mu`addham (the Ka`ba). (Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi
Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir al-zaman, p. 37)

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