Believing in the last hour is one of the big pillars in islam (and if Im not mistaken I once heard a priest during a cermon-over the radio- where he mentioned that every 24 verse mentioned something about the day of judgement in the NT) The signs mentioned are almost all from the hadith(narrations) of the prophet(peace and blessing of Allah be upon him) and not Quran and there are many such description, usually catogorized into smaller signs and larger ones. Some of the smaller ones mentioned in authentic hadiths are the following; "Knowledge of Islam will be taken away while ignorance will increase" "Competition in the construction of tall buildings." "Drinking and fornication will increase heavily." "Women will be naked in spite of being dressed, these women will be led astray & will lead others astray " "The population of men will decrease, and women increase till fifty women shall be for every man." "Thirty people will claim to be prophets, followed by Al-Dajjal (The betrayer who claims to be Christ)." "There will be such an abundance of wealth that people will not be able to find recipients for zakat." "Killing will increase." "Time will be shortened so that a year will be like a month, a month like a day, a day like an hour." "Two great countries will fight and kill each other, both claiming the same thing." "Earthquakes will increase in number." "A person will pass by the grave, and wish to trade places out of despair." The Major signs are more chronological, these involve the return of Christ and the fact that he will defeat Dajjal and rule the world after that. During this period, its described that peace will overwhelm the world to such an extent that dangerous animals will play with children without biting them. A horrible period of corruption will follow this until theres not a single person left in the world who even says the world "Allah" The event it self is very, very detailed in both Quran&Hadith and would take alot of time to write down here in full.
Some of those points are very similar to what our Scriptures say. except the one with the women. It's interesting that the Koran says 'Ignorance wil lincrease' and the Bible say 'Knowledge will increase, and men shall fly from here to there.". Both fit.
I find it strange that the Quran names the Anti-Christ by name, Al-Dajjal. I doubt that this is the name we shall know him by, but if it is than there will be no question to weather he is the Anti-Christ or not. I have looked through both the Bible and Quran's propchies and basically they are the same. Other than who gets to go to heaven.
This is interesting, the Hindu scriptures also say a lot of the same things about the final age of kali. This descriptionc an be found in the final canto of Srimad Bhagavatam and in other puranas.
I wonder which end time will come first? there are hundreds of prophecies from many cultures. I think the endtimes are always more cultural end times, when a new era begins, rather than the actual destruction of man and earth, etc. Like Ragnorak, is the end of the Germanic way, of their gods, which represent their ethics and ways of life, such as honor and warriors pride. A friend of mine theorized that Ragnorak started with the Christianising of the Germanic and Nordic people, and was finialized with WWII when Germany lost all of its previous ideals, and became a shame of the world because it had behaved. So its more metaphorical of the culture rather than the "end of the world"
Al-dajjal is a title and not a name and I seriously doubt that youve looked through Quran and Bible prophecies and found them to be alike since the Quran -and Ive memorized it all- contains very little prophecies, instead most of the prophecies come from our beloved prophet(peace and blessing of Allah be upon him). Hmmm Heron: I am pretty sure that most religions that have an end of times in their religion, emphasis the fact that its really the end of our civilisation.
I disagree cabdirazzaq, because lots of the larger civilizations that we consider having "end time" prophecies, like the Maya, were somewhat isolated to their specific part and considered the world to as far as the could travel or see. They never included all of humanity, because they didnt know that they werent the only ones, kind of like if we had a global end time prophecy, it wouldnt apply to some planet far away, because our world is only as far as we can see or travel. Similar to the flood of the Middle east, that shows up in the Bible, and with Gilgimesh, and a couple other varients. The "WORLD" didnt flood, but that area, the world to those there, it did. Besides, even if every culture in the world had a global end time prophecy, doesnt mean even one of them are true, its human nature to expect doom.
If there was no global flood, could you explain to me how pillar lava has been found 14,000 feet near the top of mount arrat in Turkey. For pillar lava to form, it requiries submersion.
Because Turkey is in the Middle East, i just said that the flood took place in the Middle East, not the World, not a very good point you have.
I want you to think about this. Water seeks it's own height. The lava they have found is as high as 17,000 feet. It's really a very good point if you think about it.
They are similar! Like I said! Your end-times story sounds alot like what the last book of the Bible, -Revelation- ( written by John) says!
The Bible states that the Islamic Countries will attack Israel. The quran speaks about fighting the people of the Book which is a reference I believe of the Jews. I'm not sure how detailed the Quran is about this last day battle. Yet the Bible speaks of this battle in a number of passages.
Alot of our scholors had this view, some claimed that it was indeed a shortening of time, others claimed it feels like times goes by faster and another group claim that it is due to the advances of techology.
