We follow up last weeks reminder on the minor signs with a\nreminder on the major signs before the final hour. The imam mentioned a few\nhadiths in relation to this. The first is translated to say:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Allah’s Messenger (\ufdfa) came to us\nall of a sudden as we were (busy in a discussion). He said: What do you discuss\nabout? They (the Companions) said. We are discussing about the Last Hour.\nThereupon he said: It will not come until you see ten signs before and (in this\nconnection) he made a mention of the smoke, Dajjal, the beast, the rising of\nthe sun from the west, the descent of Jesus son of Mary (Allah be pleased with\nhim), the Gog and Magog, and land-slides in three places, one in the east, one\nin the west and one in Arabia at the end of which fire would burn forth from\nthe Yemen, and would drive people to the place of their assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is worth noting here dear brothers, that the order of\nthese major signs is one that is differed upon amongst the scholars. However,\nthese are widely considered to be amongst the major signs. Alongside this\nhadith, the imam also mentioned the following which is translated to say:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Allah’s Messenger (\ufdfa) said,\n“The hour will not be established till the sun rises from the West; and\nwhen it rises (from the West) and the people see it, they all will believe. And\nthat is (the time) when no good will it do to a soul to believe\nthen.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And specifically, about the arrival of Gog and Magog, the\nprophet SAWS advised us in this hadith which is translated to say:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And then Allah will send Ya’juj\nand Ma’juj (Gog and Magog people) and they will sworn down from every slope.\nThe first of them will pass the Lake Tabariyah (near the Dead Sea in Palestine)\nand drink all its water. And when the last of them will pass, he will say:\n`There was once water there.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dear brothers, just listening to these accounts of the times\nleading up to the final hour should make us want to plead to Allah SWT that we\nare not present at these times. These times will be amongst the most\nchallenging, difficult and painful times for mankind to bear and so we should\npray that we are spared this test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And so, what is the lesson that we should take from this\nreminder today? The main lesson is one that can be found in the ayat that the\nimam mentioned. In ayat 96 & 97 of Sura Al-Anbya, Allah SWT speaks of one\nof the signs but alongside that provides us with todays lesson. They are\ntranslated to say:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
until \u02f9after\u02fa Gog and Magog have\nbroken loose \u02f9from the barrier\u02fa,1 swarming down from every hill, ushering\nin the True Promise.1 Then\u2014behold!\u2014the disbelievers will stare \u02f9in horror,\ncrying,\u02fa \u201cOh, woe to us! We have truly been heedless of this. In fact, we have\nbeen wrongdoers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dear brothers, we have been taught to look for the major\nsigns, not to sensationalise them but to act upon this knowledge today. The 158th<\/sup>\nayat of Sura Al-Anam illustrates this point further, its translated to say:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Are they awaiting the coming of\nthe angels, or your Lord \u02f9Himself\u02fa, or some of your Lord\u2019s \u02f9major\u02fa signs? On\nthe Day your Lord\u2019s signs arrive, belief will not benefit those who did not\nbelieve earlier or those who did no good through their faith.1 Say, \u201cKeep\nwaiting! We too are waiting.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dear brothers, Allah SWT is explicitly teaching us that we\nshouldn\u2019t wait for a calamity to strike before we step it up in our worship and\nour good deeds. We shouldn\u2019t be of the mindset where we are mediocre in our\nworship and our deeds because things are getting serious on the global scale.\nJust as this past 12 months has taught us, we cannot take anything for granted\nand most importantly, none of us know when our personal final hour is going to\nbe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Death is around the corner for us all and so we take that\nrealisation and step up our manners, our deeds, our worship now, to the best\nthat we can be. This is the lesson that we apply from todays reminder and it is\nprobably the most important lesson of all. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We follow up last weeks reminder on the minor signs with a reminder on the major signs before the final hour. The imam mentioned a few hadiths in relation to this. The first is translated to say: Allah’s Messenger (\ufdfa) came to us all of a sudden as we were (busy in a discussion). He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_regular_price":[],"currency_symbol":[],"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[380,379],"class_list":["post-2643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermon","tag-major-signs","tag-the-hour"],"blocksy_meta":[],"post_slider_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","post_slider_layout_landscape_large":"","post_slider_layout_portrait_large":"","post_slider_layout_square_large":"","post_slider_layout_landscape":"","post_slider_layout_portrait":"","post_slider_layout_square":"","full":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}