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• People will compete with one another in constructing high
buildings. (Bukhari)
Time will pass quickly. (Bukhari)

Great distances will be traversed in short spans of time.
(Ahmad, Musnad)
The Hour will not take place before time shrinks. One year will
be like a month, one month will be like a week, a week will be like
a day, and a day will be like an hour; and an hour will be like a
burning flame. (Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Musnad)
The century we are living in has seen the capability of
constructing supersonic aeroplanes, and the ability, by
means of trains and other improvements in means of trans-

port, to make journeys in a few minutes that would once
have taken months, and in great comfort. What this hadith
indicates is also taking place in this manner.
Communication between continents would take weeks
hundreds of years ago, but is now a matter of seconds, by

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