THE
SIGNS OF THE END TIMES ARE COMING ONE AFTER THE OTHER
The hadiths that form the subject of our inquiry
will be easily recognized as issuing from the Prophet (saas).
There is a method to distinguish those that are true from
those that are false. As we know, hadiths about the Doomsday
relate to events that are to take place in the future. For
this reason, when a hadith comes true in the course of time,
all doubt as to the source of the words is removed.
Several Islamic scholars who conducted research
on the subject of the End Times and of the signs of the Last
Day have used this criterion. An expert on the subject, Bediuzzaman
Said Nursi, said that the fact that the hadiths concerning
the End Times correspond to events observed in our day shows
the truth of the hadiths.(Bediuzzaman Said
Nursi, Risale-i Nur Collection, The Rays, Fourteenth Ray)
Some of the signs related in the hadiths were observable
in some part of the world in any period during the 1400 year
history of Islam, but that would not have proven that that
period was the the End Times. For a certain period to be called
the End Times, all the signs of the Last Day must be observed
to be occurrence in that same period. This is expressed in
a hadith:
Signs following one another like the pieces
of a necklace falling one after the other when its string
is cut. (Tirmidhi)
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