THE TIMING OF THE DOOMSDAY
TO KNOW ABOUT THE TIMING OF THE DOOMSDAY IS VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE. AS STUDIED ALREADY ITS KNOWLEDGE IS WITH ALLAH ONLY. HOWEVER, BY CAREFULLY ANALYSING THE EVENTS MENTIONED IN THE SAYINGS OF THE HOLY PROPHET AND OF THE SINGS HIGH LIGHTED BY THE HOLY QURAN ONE CAN SAY THAT THE STAGE FOR THE EARTH'S DOOMSDAY HAS ALREADY BEEN SET IN. AMONG THESE, THERE ARE MANY SINGNS WHICH THE PRESENT WORLD SEEMS PASSING THROUGH. BUT THERE STILL REMAIN MANY MORE SIGNS WHICH ARE YET TO COME. FOR EXAMPLE, THE APPEARANCE OF DAJJAL OR THE DABA-TUL-ARDH, OR THE RISING OF THE SUN FROM THE WEST, ETC ARE SOME OF THOSE EVENTS WHICH ARE YET IN WAITING.
THEREFORE, THE MOST INTRIGUING QUESTION "WHEN WILL BE THE DOOMDAY? REMAINS UNASWERED. HOWEVER THE ADVENT OF THE LAST OF THE PROPHETS IS ITSELF THE MOST STRIKING INDICATION OF THE COMING OF THE DOOMSDAY. IT MAY BE NOW AT OUT VERY DOOR STEPS.
THE DIVINE STATEMENT, THEY SEE THIS DAY AS A FAR OFF EVENT BUT WE SEE IT QUITE NEAR" CONVEYS THE IDEA OF ITS RELATIVE NEAMESS, WHICH DEPENDS UPON THE OBSERVER'S PERCEPTION. IN VERSE 16, THE REMAINING PERIOD BEFORE THE WORLD MEETS ITS APPROACHING FATE HAS BEEN ILLUSTRATED WITH THE SIMILITUDE OF THE PERIOD SPENT IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE, OR EVEN LESS THAN THAT. IT IS REVEALED.
AND THE MATTER OF THE HOUR (OF DOOM) IS,
BUT AS THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE.
OR IT IS NEARER STILL
LO! ALLAH IS ABLE TO DO ALL THINGS.
IF WE SUPPOSE, "THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE TO TAKE ABOUT ONE-FIFTH OF A SECOND, WHICH IS 1/432000 OF THE LENGTH OF A 24 HOUR DAY THAM ON THIS ANALOGY, RELATIVE TO THE AGE OF THE EARTH, WHICH IS ESTIMATED AS 4.5 BILLION YEARS, THE REMAINING PERIOD BEFORE ITS DOOMSDAY IS ESTIMATED TO BE ABOUT 10,000 YEARS ONLY.
THERE IS ANOTHER HADITH OF THE PROPHET OF ALLAH, FROM WHICH ONE CAN ALSO DEVISE A QUALITATIVE GUESS. THE PROPHET OF ALLAH (PBUH) SAID,
NARRATED BY IBN UMAR (MAY ALLAH BE PLEASED WITH HIM) ALLAH'S APOSTLE, MAY PEACE BE UPON HIM HAD SAID, YOUR STAY IN THIS WORLD IN COMPARISON TO THE STAY OF THE NATIONS PRECEEDING YOU, IS LIKE THE PERIOD BETWEEN THE ASR PRAYERS AND THE SUN-SET PRAYERS RELATIVE TO THE WHOLE DAY... AL-BUKHARI.
NARRATED BY IBN UMAR (MAY ALLAH BE PLEASED WITH HIM) ALLAH'S APOSTLE, MAY PEACE BE UPON HIM HAD SAID, YOUR STAY IN THIS WORLD IN COMPARISON TO THE STAY OF THE NATIONS PRECEDING YOU , IS LIKE THE RELATIVE TO THE WHOLE DAY. AL-BUKHARI.
THE PERIOD IS ABOUT 2 HOURS OUT OF 24 HOURS, ASSUMING THAT THE HUMAN BEINGS LIKE US HAVE BEEN INHABITATING THE EARTH FOR THE LAST 30,000 YEARS, WHICH IS THE MOST LIKELY GUESS, BY A CONTEMPORARY SCIENTIST (REF W.L. STOBER - ESSENTIAL OF EARTH HISTORY". PUBLISHED BY PRENTICE HALL INC USA), THEN THE PERIOD LEFT FOR THE END OF THE WORLD AT THE TIME OF THE PROPHET OF ALLAH IS 2500 YEARS, OUT OF WHICH FOUTEEN HUNDREDS YEARS HAVE ALREADY PASSED. THUS THE REMAINING TIME LEFT IN THE DOOMSDAY OF OUR WORLD MAY BE ABOUT ONE THOUSAND YEARS FROM NOW.
ACCORDING TO ANOTHER GUESTIMATE, (THE COMPUTER SPEAKS GOD'S MIRACLES, ISLAMIC WORLD, VOL. 5, NO. 2. APRIL - JUNE 1987), THE REMAINING PERIOD BEFORE THE END OF THE WORLD IS ONLY ABOUT 300 YEARS. THIS ANALYSIS IS DIFFICULT TO AGREE BUT IT IS CLAIMED TO BE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING VERSES OF THE HOLY QURAN.
WE CREATED NOT THE HEAVENS AND EARTH
AND ALL THAT IS BETWEEN THEM
SAVE WITH TRUTH
AND LO! THE HOUR IS SURELY COMING.
SO FORGIVE,(O MUHAMMAD) WITH A
GRACIOUS FORGIVENESS.
LO! THY LORD! HE IS THE ALL-WISE CREATOR.
WE HAVE GIVEN THEE SEVEN OF THE
OFT. REPEATED, AND THE GREAT QURAN".
IT IS BEING SEND THAT THE LAST OF THE VERSES QUOTED ABOVE I.E 15 CONTAINS THE KEY ABOUT THE COMING OF THE HOUR OF DOOM, MENTIONED IN THE PRECEDING VERSE 15. THE KEY IS THE NUMBER 14, SEVEN PAIRS WHICH IS THE FOURTEEN SETS OF QURANIC INITIALS (MUQATTA AT) WHICH PREFIX CERTAIN QURANIC CHAPTERS. THESE, HAVE BEEN SHOWN TO BE INTRICATELY CONNECTED WITH THE NUMERIC CODE 19. BY ADDING THE NEMERICAL EQUIVALENTS OF THE FOURTEEN SETS OF QURANIC INITIALS, FIGURE OF 1709 LUNAR YEARS IS CALCULATED AS BEING THE PERIOD OF MUHAMMED INTERIM, WHICH MEANS THAT 309 LUNAR YEARS REMAIN UNTIL TO THE END OF HUMANITY STARTING FROM 1400 H, THE YEAR OF THE AUTHOR'S SUPPOSED DISCOVERY.
WE TAKE ALL THIS PLAING WITH NUMBERS, AS MERE CONJECTURES, WHICH ONLY PROVE THAT THE SUBJECT OF THE TIMINGS OF THE DOOMSDAY IS A HIGHLY SPECULATIVE SUBJECT, AND ITS TRUE KNOWLEDGE IS WITH GOD ONLY, AS HE HIMSELF HAS STATED IN THE HOLY QURAN. AS REGARD BELIEF IN THE RESURRECTION, IT SHOULD NOT BE IMPORTANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE TIMING OF THE DOOMSDAY, BECAUSE WHEN THIS UNKNOWN PERIOD IS COMPARED TO ENTERNITY, THEN WETHER IT IS A HUNDRED YEAR OR A MILLION YEARS, MAKES LITTLE DIFFERENCE. ACTUALLY, DOOMSDAY BEGINS WIH THE END OF OUT LIFE. THEREFORE FOR A BELIEVER IS MORE THAN ENOUGH TO KNOW THAT DOOMSDAY IS COMING AND THAT IT WILL BE NO DIFFERENT FOR HIM OR HER WHETHER HE OR SHE HAS ALREADY DIED OR IS STILL ALIVE WHEN THE END OF THE WORLD ARRIVES. ALL WILL FACE IT ALIKE.
AND HE IT IS,
WHO GAVE YOU LIFE,
THEN HE WILL CAUSE YOU TO RISE AGAIN,
LO! MAN IS VERILY UNGRATEFUL".
A HADITH
NARRATED IBN-E-UMAR, ALLAH BE PLEASED WITH
HIM, THE APOSTLE OF ALLAH (PBUH) TOLD US, WHEN
ANY OF YOU DIES, HIS (FINAL) DESTINATION IS
DISPLAYED BEFORE HIM IN THE FORENOON AND IN THE
AFTERNOON, EITHER IN THE (HELL) FIRE OR IN THE
PARADISE, AND IT IS SAID TO HIM, THAT IS YOUR PLACE
TILL YOU ARE RESURRECTED AND SENT TO IT.
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