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The Hour Has Cast It's Shadow Over People CHAPTER 1 The Hour Has Cast It’s Shadow سم ال الرحمن الرحيم Ya Allah, send prayers and salutations on Muhammad, his family, and his Com- panions. "What are the disbelievers waiting for, other than the Hour which will come upon them unawares? Its signs are already here, but once the Hour has actually ar- rived, what use will it be then to take heed?" (47:18) "Closer and closer to mankind comes their Reckoning: yet they heed not and they turn away." (Al-Anbiya' 21:1) The Prophet (pbuh) gave news about events from the Beginning of time up to the Commencement of his Ummah (nation) then to our present time and into the future, to the end of the World. He covered the Span of Time describing events until the Coming of the Hour (The Hour the world will end in). He similarly gave news of events on the day of Resurrection and finally what would occur after peo- ple enter their two abodes, the Abode of Jahanam (Hell) and the abode of Jannah (Paradise) and a description of life therein. There are more than 160 known and confirmed prophecies of the Prophet Mu- hammad (saws) which were fulfilled in his lifetime and the first few generations af- ter him, while the number of prophecies regarding the Signs of the Hour is in the hundreds and even more. 1 Umar ibn Al-Khattaab (ra) said, “One day the Prophet (saws) stood up amongst us for a long period and informed us about the beginning of creation (and talked about everything in detail) till he mentioned how the people of Para- dise will enter their places and the people of Hell will enter their places. Some re- membered what he had said, and some forgot it”. (Bukhari) Abu Zaid Al-Ansaaree (ra) said, “The Prophet led us in the morning prayer, af- ter which he climbed the pulpit and addressed us until Dhuhr (noon). He de- scended, prayed 'Asr (the late afternoon prayer), and then climbed the pulpit again, speaking to us until the setting of the sun. He spoke to us about what was and what will be; he informed us (thereof) and made us memorize (that informa- tion).” (Ahmad) Hudhayfah (ra) said: "The Prophet stood up one day to speak to us, and told us everything that was going to happen until the Hour, and left nothing unsaid. Some of the listeners learnt it by heart, and some forgot it; these friends of mine learnt it. I do not remember it completely, but sometimes it springs to mind, just as one might remember and recognize the face of a man whom one had forgotten, when one sees him." (Abu Dawud, Muslim) Some of the prophecies that occurred during his lifetime or just after it will be mentioned in brief, though the full narrations give more detail regarding each event. He said to his Companions, “This grandson of mine, Hasan, is a master of men by means of whom Allah will reconcile two great groups.”(Bukhari) Forty years later, when two Islamic armies confronted each other, Hasan mediated be- tween them preventing the blood shed. He said to Imam Ali (may Allah be pleased with him), “You will fight the per- fidious people, those who will deviate from justice and those who exit Islam.”(Tirmidhi) thus, he predicted the battles of the Camel and Siffin and the emergence of the Kharijites, a heretical sect who Imam Ali (ra) fought. He again said to Ali (ra), when he was displaying brotherly love for Zubayr, “He will fight against you but he will be wrong.”(Ibn Kathir) Zubayr (ra) opposed Imam Ali in the battle of the Camel. When Imam Ali reminded Zubayr of the 2 prophet’s words during the battle, Zubayr decided to give up fighting and leave, but Allah granted him martyrdom by a traitor.(Tabari) He said to his wives, “One of you will take charge of a rebellion; many around her will be killed; (al-Asqalani, Fathu’l-Bari) and the dogs of Hawab will bark all around her.” (Ibn Hibban) Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) asked Ali to find the murderers of Uthman the third Khalif of Islam and punish them, as Imam Ali was chosen as the Khaliph after him. Imam Ali said the identities of the mur- derers were not clear at the time and postponed the matter to a later date as he had just taken the position. Thereupon, some people who marshaled a force over the matter approached Aisha and convinced her to be at the head of the army to give the matter more weight, they then went against Imam Ali, leading an army which both Zubayr and Talha, two Companions that were promised Paradise by the prophet (saws) Joined. When the army passed a place called Hawab, Aisha (ra) heard dogs barking she asked the name of the place. First, they said it was Hawab. When Aisha remembered the words of the Prophet, she decided to give up and go back home; however, the people around her deceived her by telling her that the name of the place was different and took her to the battlefield. Unfortunately, tens of thousands of Muslims were injured or killed during the battle. The Prophet (saws) said to Imam Ali, “a man would stain your beard with the blood of your own head” (al-Hakim), informing him that he would be martyred. He was killed by Abdurrahman b. Muljam, the Kharijite while he was going to the mosque. He said to Umm Salama, “Husain (his grandson) will be killed in Taff, which is in Karbala (Iraq).”(al-Haythami) Fifty years later, Imam Husain was martyred in Karbala. He repeatedly said, “The people of my family will be murdered; they will suffer troubles and exiles.”(Ibn Majah) Thus, he predicted the incidents during the Khalifa of Uthman (ra) and the misfortunes Imam Ali, Hasan and Husain would suffer. The Prophet (saws) said as long as Umar (ra) the second Khalif of Islam was alive, no fitna (trials and mischief) would emerge among the Muslims. (Bukhari) In- 3 deed, no trials took place among the muslims until Imam Umar (ra) was martyred; immediately after his death, trials emerged during the Khalifate of Imam Uthman (ra). He (saws) said “After me, the Caliphate will last thirty years; (Musnad) then, it will be a sultanate. The beginning of this affair is prophethood and mercy; then it will be mercy and caliphate; then it will be rapacious monarchy; then, it will be ar- rogance and tyranny” (Musnad). He thus predicted the period of the four Khalif ’s, the sixth month long Khalifate of Imam Hasan a period which lasted ex- actly thirty years, and following that, the transition of the Khalifate into a Sultan- ate which began with the Umayyads and ending with the Ottomans, and finally this Ummah (nation) would be ruled by Dictators and Tyrants. Which is exactly what occurred in history right up to our time in which dicta- tors ruled the Muslim world. He said, “Uthman will be killed while reading the Qur'an.”(al-Hakim, al- Mustadrak), “Allah will definitely cause him to be dressed in the shirt of the Khali- fate but they will try to remove that shirt.”(al-Hakim, al-Mustadrak), He (saws) in- formed about the second Khalifate and martyrdom of Uthman (ra) who was killed after his home was besieged. These events took place exactly as predicted and the very Quran with his blood stained on it is preserved to this day. He told his Companions about the conquests of Makkah (Ali al-Qari), Khay- bar (Ali al-Qari), Damascus (Waqidi, Maghazi), Iraq (Ali al-Qari), Persia (Ahmad b. Hanbal), Jerusalem (Ali al-Qari), and Istanbul (Ahmad bin Hanbal); He said that his ummah would be victorious over all enemies and be helped. He said they would capture the treasures of the rulers of the greatest empires, the Romans and the Persians (Bukhari). Events took place in the same manner he described. He (saws) said this during a time when Islam had just began, it was unknown in the world and he was forced to migrate to Madinah from his home with a handful of followers, because of persecution. He stated that Imam Abu Bakr (ra) and Imam Umar (ra) would become Khalif ’s after him, He said “Follow the way of Abu Bakr and Umar after me.” (Tirmidhi). 4 He also said, "The earth was laid out before me, and its eastern and western ex- tremities were displayed to me. The realm of my nation shall extend over what- ever was laid out before me." (Muslim) Thus, he informed them that his ummah would extend from the east to the west and his words proved to be true. Before the Battle of Badr, he showed his friends the places were the Qurayshi pagans would die, saying, “This is were Abu Jahl will be killed; this is were Utba will be killed; this is were Umayya will be killed, and so on.” The dead bodies of those people were found in exactly the same places as he showed. [Muslim] Before Badr, he said that he would eventually kill Ubayy bin Khalaf [Al-Hakim] Ubayy, who survived the Battle of Badr, was wounded by a spear thrown by the Prophet (pbuh) in the Battle of Uhud and died on the way to Makkah (Sirah, 3:89). He did not take part in the Battle of Muta, however, he informed his Compan- ions about what was happening in the battle as if he was watching it through a tele- vision screen: He said “Zayd has taken the (battle) standard and has been shot; now Jafar has taken the (battle) standard and has been shot; now Ibn Rawaha has taken the (battle) standard and has been shot; now one of Allah's swords…”(Buk- hari); He informed them that all of the commanders that he had appointed, one after the other were martyred and Khalid bin Walid, who he honored with the ti- tle the sword of Allah, now commanded the army.
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