Many people talk about signs (nishaniyan) of last hours & qayamat but do you know what are the 10 signs of end times that Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) informed us about?
There are many narrations and ahadith in which signs and matters of last hours are described but in one narration from Sahih Muslim Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) told us about 10 signs after which the world will end.
These ten things are:
- Smoke
- Dajjal
- The beast
- The rising of the sun from the west
- The descent of Jesus son of Mary (Allah be pleased with him)
- The Gog and Magog
- Land-sliding in three places, one in the east
- One in the west &
- One in Arabia
- Fire from Yemen
(Sahih Muslim Book 041, Hadith Number 6931)
These ten signs are from Sahih ahadith but remember that it doesn’t mean that they should occur in a chronological order.
Islamic scholars also emphasize that rather than asking & thinking about when will qayamat come we should consider are we prepared for the next world? Many believe this is why Quran and Hadith didn’t reveal specific a date for the end of the world.