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Signs of Jesus’ (pbuh)
Second Coming

19. The Rebuilding of Ruined Places

The rebuilding of the ruined places
in the world, and the ruination of
constructed places, are signs and

portents of Doomsday. (Muhammad
ibn ‘Abd al-Rasul Barzanji, Al-
Isha‘ah li Ashrat as-Sa‘ah, p. 138)

The reconstruction of these ruins is a further sign of the End
Times. As we stated in the previous section, during the twentieth cen-
tury, many cities were reduced to rubble and thus had to be rebuilt,
among them Berlin, Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), and Dresden.
A similar example is the Kobe, a Japanese city devastated by a
powerful earthquake in January 1995. For 30 years, the Japanese gov-
ernment and universities have invested 1 billion dollars in develop-
ing early warning systems for earthquakes. However, no model can
distinguish all types of tremors. The region of Kobe and Osaka is one
of Japan's most prominent industrial and commercial centers. Thus,
the total economic impact of the Kobe earthquake was immense,
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amounting to billions of dollars. Yet, despite this loss, Japan recon-
structed Kobe.

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