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Signs of Jesus’ (pbuh)
Second Coming

13. A Tribulation of Dust and Smoke

Before the Hour comes, there

will be a dusty and smoky
tribulation like patches of
dark night... (Sunan Abu
Dawud)

This hadith foretells a dusty, smoky, and dark wave of
tribulation just before the Mahdi's advent. The word "tribula-
tion" (fitna) implies anything that turns peoples' reason and
hearts away from the true path, or war, incitement, chaos, dis-
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order, and conflict. The tribulation mentioned in this hadith
will leave behind smoke and dust.

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