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Signs of Jesus’ (pbuh)
Second Coming

There will be two lunar eclipses in Ramadan... (Ibn Hajar
Haythami, Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar fi `Alamat al-Mahdi al-
Muntazar, p. 53)

There will be two lunar eclipses in Ramadan before the Mahdi
emerges. (Muhammad ibn `Abd al-Rasul Barzanji, Al-Isha`ah
li-Ashrat as-Sa`ah, p. 200)

The most striking points here are that the solar eclipse will take
place in the middle of the month and two solar and two lunar eclipses
will take place within one month (Ramadan).
According to the first three hadiths above, the lunar eclipse will
occur on the first night of the Ramadan. The fourth hadith says that it
will occur on the last day of this month. Accordingly, the common re-
sults of all these hadiths are the following:
1- There will be solar and lunar eclipses during Ramadan.
2- These will be spaced about 14-15 days apart.
3- The eclipses will be repeated twice.
In line with these calculations, there was a lunar eclipse in 1981
(Hijri 1401) on Ramadan 15 and a solar eclipse on Ramadan 29. There
was a "second" lunar eclipse in 1982 (Hijri 1402) on Ramadan 14 and a
solar eclipse on Ramadan 28.
It is also particularly significant that in that particular instance,
there was a full lunar eclipse in the middle of Ramadan, a most strik-
ing prophecy.
The occurrence of these incidents during the same period coin-
ciding with the signs of the Mahdi's emergence, and their miraculous
recurrence at the onset of the fifteenth Islamic century for two consec-
utive years (1401-02), indicates that they might be the signs foretold
by the hadiths.

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