THE QUR'AN
STATES THAT THE HOUR IS NEAR
Allah reveals in the Qur’an that there can
be no doubt that the Last Day is near.
And the Hour is coming without any doubt
... (Surat al-Hajj: 7)
We did not create the heavens and earth
and everything between them, except with truth. The Hour
is certainly coming. (Surat al-Hijr: 85)
The Hour is coming—there is no doubt
about it …(Surat al-Mu’min: 59)
 There
may be some who think that the message of the Qur’an
concerning the Last Day was revealed more that 1400 years
ago and that this is a long time compared to the length of
a human life. But here, it is a question of the end of the
world, the sun and the stars, in short, of the universe. When
we consider that the universe is billions of years old, fourteen
centuries is a very short period of time.
A great Islamic scholar of recent times, Bediuzzaman
Said Nursi, responded to a similar question in this way:
The Qur’an says, “The Hour
has drawn nigh.” (Surat al-Qamar: 1) That is,
Doomsday is near. It still not having come after a thousand
or this many years does not injure its closeness. Because,
Doomsday is the appointed hour of the world, and in relation
to the life of the world one or two thousand years are like
one or two minutes in relation to a year. The Hour of Doomsday
is not only the appointed hour of mankind that it should be
related to it and seen as distant. (Bediuzzaman
Said Nursi, Risale-i Nur Collection, Words, Twenty-Fourth
Word, Third Branch, Eighth Principle)
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