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18 THE DAY OF JUDGMENT

THE DAY OF JUDGMENT'S HOUR IS
PREDETERMINED

As time progresses, we are speedily approaching the Day of
Judgment. Most people think that this Day is in the distant future.
However, they would be well-advised to remember that previous
generations had the same attitude and didn't even think about this
fact which they thought –according to their shallow mind- would
happen in the "distant future". In reality, everyone who has ever
lived will witness these events and assemble in Allah's presence; no
one will be able to escape. As only Allah knows when the Day of
Judgment will come, there is no guarantee that it will not happen
while you are making plans for the future and are busying
yourselves with your everyday lives, for:

Say: "I do not know whether what you are promised is close or
whether my Lord will appoint a longer time before it." He is
the Knower of the Unseen, and does not divulge His Unseen to
anyone. (Surat al-Jinn, 25-26)
As revealed in the verse, nobody can have knowledge of the Last
Hour unless Allah wills otherwise. However, one can make an
estimate as to its century based on the hadith of the Prophet (saas)
and signs in the Qur'an, and say "the Last Hour will come when
there are no believers left and disbelief reigns." As a matter of fact,
the great ahl al-Sunnah scholars al-Barzanji and as-Suyuti state,
based on the hadith of the Prophet (saas), that the life span of the

Ummah will not exceed the Islamic year 1500, in other words it will
end before Islamic 1600s. Bediuzzaman Said Nursi says, again
according to the information given in the hadith, that Muslims will
remain on Allah's true path and will be victorious until around
Islamic year 1506 with the Last Hour probably taking place in 1545