Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

One of the benefits of studying the Hour ensures believers that there is a life after this Duniya waiting for all of us. Today, sometimes in social circles when a discussion of the last hour arises, we become too busy worrying about how the major signs will occur rather than working on firming our beliefs that these events will occur regardless because Allah has ordained so and the Prophet (saw) has also left us proofs about them. It is important that we familiarize ourselves with the Hadith which mentions the ten major signs of the Hour. Muslim and Abu Dawd among others recorded that Hudhayfah Al-Ghafari (ra) narrated that,

“The Prophet (saw) found us while we were talking about the Hour.

He asked,

‘what are you discussing?

We said,

‘we are speaking of the Hour.’

He said,

‘It will not be established until you have seen before it ten signs: the Smoke, the Dajjal, the Beast, the Rising of the Sun from the East, a landslide in the West, ad a landslide in the Arabian peninsula; and the last of those is a fire which will emerge from Yemen, driving people to their gathering place.”

In order to understand this Hadith, we have to take into consideration that the particular order in which these events will occur is unknown but scholars have made some reasonable predictions using the Hadith.

Scholars have deduced that certain signs will come after one another. For example, in order for the descent of Eesa (as) to occur, Ad-Dajjal (the False Messiah) will have to emerge. On the other hand, Yajooj and Majool will not arrive before Ad-Dajjal or Eesa (as). Whatever the order maybe, Allahu Alam, but as believers, we believe that these events will occur, even if we cannot fathom how some of these events will be carried out. This is where it becomes incumbent upon us to recognize that many of these signs are matters of the unseen and being that we have limited understanding of the unseen, we should not become too preoccupied with how these signs will occur but to rather believe them.