The Hour is Near

Are you ready Raul? Your life ends at 7:35PM on Thursday.

Allah's comin on the Persian carpet in the sky.

That is one hell of a carpet!!

… It [the Last Hour] will not come until you see ten signs… landslides [with a sinking down, caving in, or displacement of the earth] in three places, one in the East, one in the West and one in Arabia… (Sahih Muslim)

EAST: THE TSUNAMI DISASTER IN INDONESIA

The probable significance of this sign is the disappearance of an area of land or a human community. (God knows best.) This portent bears a close similarity to the 2004 tsunami disaster in Asia. Therefore, our Prophet's (saas) portent regarding the "sinking down in the East" may be indicating this terrible catastrophe. (Our Lord knows best, of course.)

Throughout history various disasters, earthquakes and tornadoes have struck Asia and the Far East. These wrought terrible destruction and large numbers of people lost their lives in them. However, the tsunami that took place on 26 December, 2004, in southern Asia and that resulted in the loss of more than 225,000 lives, was the worst of these disasters. During this dreadful catastrophe, the enormous energy released by 1000-kilometer breaks as a result of the movement of underground plates and shifting land masses, together with the enormous energy produced in the oceans, struck the coasts of Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Malaysia, Thailand, Bangladesh, Myanmar, the Maldives, the Seychelles, and even Somalia, 5,000 kilometers away.

This tsunami disaster in the End Times, when the signs of the Last Day are coming true one by one, affected a very wide area, and led to cities being flooded by sea water and to a new map of the world. Therefore, the expression "sinking down in the East" may well be referring to this disaster in southern Asia. (God knows best.)

THE SINKING DOWN IN THE WEST: THE "KATRINA" DISASTER IN THE USA

The terrible destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina in the US Gulf of Mexico last month brings to mind another of the signs of the Last Day mentioned by our Prophet (saas): "the sinking down in the West."

This "sinking" which our Prophet (saas) declares will take place in the End Times must necessarily be much greater and have a much greater impact than similar ones in the past. Indeed, the damage inflicted by Hurricane Katrina was far worse than that inflicted by similar phenomena in the past.

Throughout history great disasters have been experienced in Europe and America. Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes and terrorist attacks have cost the lives of thousands. However, none of these disasters have had such a terrible impact as Hurricane Katrina, causing millions of people to flee, tens of thousands to lose their lives, immense harm to three large states, and the flooding of whole cities. This makes Hurricane Katrina different from disasters of the past, and ensures it top place in the list of destruction in US history. For that reason, the Katrina catastrophe may well be one of the three incidents of sinking referred to by our Prophet Muhammad (saas). God knows best, of course.

The Katrina disaster has been the subject of intense coverage in newspapers and on the television for around a month now. However, these reports fail to emphasize the multilateral effect of the disaster, both on the USA and globally. The true dimensions of the disaster are being hidden from people, and the scale of the destruction is being underplayed. The fact is that Hurricane Katrina led to the deaths of more than 10,000 people, life becoming impossible in almost all of three major states (Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi), the complete evacuation of one of the most important cities in the USA, the greatest air rescue operation in the US history, millions of people losing their homes and livelihoods, and damage in excess of $100 billion. Various writers have referred to the fact that such a disaster has not been experienced on US soil since the Civil War. This disaster, compared by some federal authorities to Hiroshima and the tsunami catastrophe in Indonesia, is expected to have long-lasting consequences for many years, and resulted in a large region sinking under the water, as described by our Prophet (saas) in the hadith.

He asked: "What becomes of you when death meets people and homes become graves?" (Mukhtasar Tazkirah al-Qurtubi, p. 392, no. 726)

The disappearance of almost the entire city of New Orleans bears a close similarity to another sign of the End Times related by our Prophet (saas). This is revealed in these terms in the hadith:

Great cities will be ruined, and it will be as if they had not existed the day before. (Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi `Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir az-Zaman, p. 38)

Oh well...it'll be whatever it is. If I have lived a decent and proper life it shouldn't matter all that much to me.

When it comes to sinking and rising (and make no mistake of it Raul, if one place sinks another must rise up as water displacement tends to do that in its own way). Then there is this thing called continental drift. It has been occurring naturally since the start of time and will continue to do so. Plate tectonics are an amazing and fascinating field of study and there is information vast abounding which will delight you to an untold level.

Earthquakes, tidal waves and other natural purifiers have been happening for ages...nothing new about it. You want a reason for more fatalities, then take a look at total world population numbers: More people means more loss of life. Not a pleasant thought but it is what it is. There you have it, nature purifies and takes care of her wounds.

In places such as the so called advanced nations and countries more and more people insist on building their homes along the ocean front. This is inviting disaster. Again, more homes built directly at the ocean's door means more loss of life.

Stop fretting over what may happen...maybe instead of being wiped out by a giant wave you will be hit by a stowaway passenger as they fall from an airplane wheelwell. Or perhaps a horse will come galloping out of the distance and trample you to death. Nobody ever said you were going to be living on Earth forever so you had best just get that silly notion out of your head.

The point is these past two years two of the biggest natural disasters of the past century took place.

Just in case nobody noticed, we have been in the Last Hour for thousands of years now.

The point is these past two years two of the biggest natural disasters of the past century took place. Tell me of a Tsunami/Earthquake which caused more loss of life and property than the Dec. 24th Tsunami? Or Katrina's disaster; nothing on that scale has occured before.

One of signs of Judgement Day is increased natural disasters. Whether you want to believe it or not.

Did you also consider that those natural disasters that are weather-based are merely because of human actions and have nothing to do with Judgement Day?