[Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful."
[Qur'an Translation] "When the sun is covered,
And when the stars darken,
And when the camels are left untended,
And when the wild animals are made to go forth,
And when the seas are set on fire,
And when souls are united,
And when the female infant buried alive is asked; For what sin she was killed,
And when the books are spread,
And when the heaven has its covering removed,
And when the hell is kindled up,
And when the garden is brought nigh,
Every soul shall (then) know what it has prepared." (81:1-14)
[Arabic] "Allah the incomparably Great is truthful."
[Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful."
[Arabic] "Has not there come to you the news of the overwhelming calamity?" (88:1)
Doomsday X - The Unknown
Billions of years ago...
with the "be!" command of the most Holy, nonexistence intersected with the existence.
An end was created in the eternity by a single command.
And so began everything.
A sumptuously project, a perfect plan appeared instantly.
Everything and everybody took his foreseen place and role.
Yes... a "be!" command admitted the beginning of everything and brought them to the contemporary day.
Which created the past, future, yesterday, today,
universe, earth, air, water, soil, men and history.
Such a command, that can remote everything it wants,
free in its twitter and deeds.
From a center that controls all without an exception!
[Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful."
"Surely your Lord is Allah, Who created the heavens and the earth in six periods of time, and He is firm in power;
He throws the veil of night over the day, which it pursues incessantly;
and (He created) the sun and the moon and the stars, made subservient by His command;
surely His is the creation and the command; blessed is Allah, the Lord of the worlds." (7:54)
[Arabic] "Allah the incomparably Great is truthful."
The space... a void with unknown limits,
as far as one can see loneliness.
The climax of glory and magnificent.
As far as the furthest!
A light-show with billions of stars like jewels.
A source of inspiration for poets, curiosity for scientists.
For real, the mysterious beauty has always been attractive,
so attractive, that it takes one over!
Once visible, once vanished with its secrets.
Such a mixed thread. It gets more confused when man goes on!
But man doesn't give up, never.
He works nights and days to solve the secrets.
But... every time when he says OK, there is another lack.
However, despite the negative facts and broken dreams,
the received knowledge about the space is not underestimatable!
He passed through many routes, in the name of the astronomy.
Especially in the first and the second half of the 20. century,
huge steps were realized!
Mankind's interest about the astronomy has a long story.
It's almost such old as the written history of mankind.
It's known... the Babylonians at 3000 BC named many stars those we today know.
Later at 600 BC, Pythagoras had the geocentric model of the universe.
A theory... the earth is the center and sun and stars were circling around it.
This was followed by Aristo and later by Ptolemy.
Ptolemy's theory based on better foundations subsequently.
Ptolemy's model was supported also by the church
and lasted 14 centuries in Europe until the end of the medieval age.
The church supported the theory so fanatically,
that the opposites were brutally punished!
After our Prophet (peace be upon him),
scientists of the Islamic world investigated and
discovered many news, which changed the future of the astronomy.
Islamic scientists brought many important news with their theories,
observations, measures and astronomic tools to the astronomic science.
The Muslim scientist Al-Biruni tried to proof the earth's rotation about its own axis
and built the fundamentals for the Copernicus' System.
Again in the same era... a Muslim scholar Al-Battani,
with his works about the spherical trigonometry,
opened the way for the modern astronomy.
In the 11. century, Ibn Al-Haytham from Baghdad spoke about,
that the planets were circling on district orbits.
Al-Betrugi from Andalusia... he developed a new model,
which was a base for the Copernicus' System.
A 12. century astronomer Badi-ul Ustulladi from Baghdad,
allowed with observation of the planets and stars,
to size those height from the horizontal line,
and so to calculate the local time.
Undoubtedly, the main reason for the advance from the Muslim scientists were
the Qur'anic verses, that has enlightened the astronomy.
From this point on, Muslim scientists did rebut many old theories
and started a new era in the astronomy.
At the beginning of 1500s... Copernicus had the idea about
- so known in that era - the earth was one of the six planets and spherical.
Moreover the planets circled around the sun in exactly district orbits.
At the beginning of 1600s... through the Galileo's invention of the telescope,
Copernicus has got also a observationally support.
But the menace of the inquisition caused to retreat his theory.
Another support came to Copernicus from the German astronomer Kepler.
Kepler showed... the sun was the center of the planets
and the planets were circling in elliptic orbits.
In short, the idea of the earth's rotation
was proven about 150 years ago
by the french astronomer, absolutely and trustworthy.
Yes... about 150 years ago!
However, Qur'an Al-Kareem delivered already the evidence to the mankind,
- and much more than this - about 1200 years before!
The verses of The An-Naml 88, Al-Anbiyaa 33, Ya-Sin 38-39 and Az-Zumar 5:
[Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful."
"And you see the mountains, you think them to be solid,
and they shall pass away as the passing away of the cloud -
he handiwork of Allah Who has made every thing thoroughly; surely He is Aware of what you do."
"And He it is Who created the night and the day and the sun and the moon;
all (orbs) travel along swiftly in their celestial spheres."
"And the sun runs on to a term appointed for it; that is the ordinance of the Mighty, the Knowing.
And (as for) the moon, We have ordained for it stages till it becomes again as an old dry palm branch."
"He has created the heavens and the earth with the truth; He makes the night cover the day and makes the day overtake the night,
and He has made the sun and the moon subservient; each one runs on to an assigned term;
now surely He is the Mighty, the great Forgiver."
[Arabic] "Allah the incomparably Great is truthful."
Yes... the space is a revelation of holy Creator's magnificent power, infinite knowledge, unlimited dominance.
If you look through the secrets of the space,
your eyes are shining on from the splendorous sovereignty
and your vision would turn back worthless and tired.
In this moment, you praise and glorify the holy Creator,
you lean respectfully forward, before His knowledge.
Also the greatness of His power brings you deeply to tremble.
How couldn't it cause a tremble?
Even with the strongest telescopes, it is just possible to see a limited part of the space.
And it's unknown how large place it claims in the space.
And the actually large place is outside of the visible part.
Even the visible part goes to the limits of the human intelligence and imagination.
Have a look at these numbers!
Milky Way Galaxy, which includes our earth, has almost 200 billion stars like the sun
and his length is 100 thousand light years, and his width is 20 thousand light years.
Please, give an attention to these calculation!
The light is 300 thousand kilometer fast per second.
That is to say... 300 thousand x 60 in 1 minute,
x 60 in 1 hour,
x 24 in 1 day,
x 365 in 1 year.
The earnings of these multiplication is the way of the light in a year.
And this is almost 9,5 trillion (quintillion) kilometers!
Simply put, the light goes 9,5 trillion kilometers in a 1 year.
As you see, our galaxy has a length of 100 thousand x 9,5 trillion kilometers!
After this calculation, an airplane which flies with the speed of sound,
if it would try to across our galaxy in his length,
it were needed 80 billion years.
It is not just our galaxy.
Estimated... the universe has billions of galaxies like ours.
The interesting point is, everything in the universe is moving!
The earth is rotating and circling around the sun.
The sun is rotating and circling in another system with its planets.
Because of his helical (spiral) move, it passes never again through the same point.
And the earth is also in these way, since of the gravity of sun.
Our galaxy is moving too, even with its 200 billion stars.
Almost in 250 billion years, does it rotate one time.
What is it for an exactly calculation? Billions of galaxies with their billions of stars are moving,
but they don't clash!
So they programmed for, they do their tasks in silence and serenity.
In the Verses of Ar-Rahman 5 and Al-Mulk 3-4 says our holy Lord:
[Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful."
"The sun and the moon follow a reckoning."
"Who created the seven heavens one above another;
you see no incongruity in the creation of the Beneficent Allah;
then look again, can you see any disorder?
Then turn back the eye again and again;
your look shall come back to you confused while it is fatigued."
[Arabic] "Allah the incomparably Great is truthful."
Our Lord the most Holy, created the earth and the heavens - or the universe - in 6 days.
We don't know if the "6 days" are like our time, or in a different dimension.
But to think about this topic, is like to stoning the unknown.
[Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful."
[Arabic] "Has not there come to you the news of the overwhelming calamity?" (88:1)
Doomsday X - The Unknown
Man's seeking after the creation of the universe,
was a challenge between two thesis until near past.
The first of them is the "Creation Model".
Let's say... the model, which defends the universe were created.
It's also known as the "Big Bang Theory".
The second one is the "Static Universe Model".
Which defends, that the universe wasn't created and always existed.
Between the years of 1924-1929, the American astronomer Hubble...
as he investigated the far stars and galaxies...
he saw, that the spectrum degree of the light from those stars were red.
He thought the same law, in acoustic physics known as the "Doppler Law", should also usable for the light.
And it had to be only one explanation, that those stars were moving away from us.
Because, the light draws near, had the purple color on spectrum
and the light goes away, had the red color on spectrum.
The changing of the light to red color showed the expanding of universe, like after an explosion.
Yes... the universe was expanding.
Even, since billions of years, like a blown balloon.
The world of science has been shaken for a long time, because of that explanation.
Like every new idea, it was also met with suspicions.
But, the researching with the developing technology showed, Hubble was right.
Without a doubt, the Universe was expanding.
And the holy Creator made known to, about this topic in Qur'an Al-Kareem, Sura Az-Zariyat, 47. Verse:
[Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful."
"And the heaven, We raised it high with power, and most surely We are the makers of things ample."
[Arabic] "Allah the incomparably Great is truthful."
During the past centuries...
The verse, many Mufassireen (Interpreters of the Qur'an) couldn't solve the secret of,
was enlightened in the 20. century.
Yes... with the invention of the expanding universe was the Big Bang theory a headline.
It was again a sticking point.
The experts let work the "Hubble Law" backwards.
The universe was expanding, so yesterday should it be smaller than today.
1 year, 1000 years ago it had to be much smaller.
If one goes more backward, for example 10 million years ago...
the universe should be much smaller, galaxies and the stars much nearer to each other.
So... is it possible, that the heavens, earth, galaxies, planets, stars
were much more near to each other, even together,
- to find a time - without any expanding?
Calculations brought the scientists to the past, before 15 billion years ago.
There was any expanding 15 billion years ago.
The stars, galaxies, planets, emptiness of space, they were all a one structure.
Let's say, the heavens and the earth were joined together!
Repeated calculations showed, the universe was created from nothing about 15 billion years ago.
And also about this topic, says our holy Lord in the Qur'an Al-Kareem, the Sura of Al-Anbiyaa, 30. verse:
[Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful."
"Do not those who disbelieve see that the heavens and the earth were closed up, but We have opened them;
and We have made of water everything living,
will they not then believe?"
[Arabic] "Allah the incomparably Great is truthful."
How the Universe was created,
what for stages it gone through,
exactly knows only Allah the Holy One.
The human being has the role to think about it, with the god given knowledge.
In these borders... creation from nothing, how it began and went on,
tells us the Big Bang theory.
Approximately 10 or 15 billion years ago,
a structure; very little in volume, but with high relative heat and very high intensity compressed,
spread out to the space because a large explosion!
The explosion caused a heat of billion of degrees,
dust and gases spread out to the space.
Those dust and gases have got compressed during the time and caused the stars,
and through the cooling were the planets created.
Yes... the theory explained many issues.
But there was a point, which could prove the theory.
To be acceptable, needed the theory evidences.
About the large heat of the explosion and
related remains of the caused radiation.
Even very low... but there had to be some remains!
1965, in Bell laboratory, experimented two scientists, Penzias and Wilson,
to have a clear radio broadcasting.
And they discovered a parasite on micro waves, which
they fronted the first time such a wavelength by the electronics and radio.
Evenly, where ever the antenna was turned, the parasite didn't interrupt.
It was a wavelength of 5.7 centimeters.
Which means, the heat degree was 3 and absolute degree -270 centigrade.
They discovered the remains of the creation's beginning.
A sweet heat was it, from the moment of the creation until today.
Two scientists discovered by accident a very important secret.
That's why they won the Nobel prize in 1978.
Later... to determining the parasite exactly,
a very sensitive equipped satellite was sent to space.
It was the same result, the whole space was filled with this energy.
From then on the Big Bang was rival-less.
Universe was created with an explosion of a structure,
that caused dust and gases, which got compressed during the time.
The universe was created from nothing!
Yes... the holy Qur'an enlightens this topic too.
It uses for the appeared dust and gases, the word "smoke".
It says in As-Saff the 11. Verse:
[Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful."
"Then He directed Himself to the heaven and it is a vapor (smoke),
Come both, willingly or unwillingly.
They both said: We come willingly."
[Arabic] "Allah the incomparably Great is truthful."
Yes... billions of years ago, by an unknown point,
we can't talk about a time, because there wasn't!
An order came from a very holy Position for the beginning, which would end.
[Arabic] "Qun!" (be!)
Thus the heavens and the earth,
with the order of "qun!" or "be!" from the holy Creator,
they took their roles for the beginning, which goes to his end!
And... the universe was created.
Thereafter came the order to prepare the earth for the human.
That's why the sun, which is 1,3 million times bigger as than the earth,
was centered to the system.
And to expose and warm the earth,
it was ordered to convert
564 million tons Hydrogen to 560 million tons Helium.
To get clear, 564 million tons of Hydrogen bombs.
Thus had the Sun a surface heat of 6000 C. degrees.
The earth was placed with a distance of 150 million kilometers to sun,
on an elliptic orbit, with an tilted axis of 23.5 degree,
and with a speed of 30 kilometers per second.
And it got a rotation speed of 1670 kilometers per second.
The Moon had got to be a probe of the Earth, to expose
the dark side (night) because of the rotation.
Later... people used the moon for the calculation of time.
Gravity was given to the earth.
Mountains were placed on the earth.
The mountains were needed as stabilizers against the tremble during the rotation.
Like a tire with its tiny weights to stabilize the tremble,
mountains balanced the earth by the same way.
An atmosphere layer was covered over the earth, which
saves the earth against deadly UV-light, meteors,
gives the required atmospheric pressure, regulates the temperature,
gives a homogeneous distribution of light,
prevents the vaporizing of the seas,
creates winds, clouds, rain
saves the gases in it, from the vanishing into the space
which is like a 1000 kilometer thick steal armor.
The best value of gases, oxygen %21, nitrogen %78 and other gases,
was given for the course of human existence.
Daily 17 million tons, annually 536 trillion tons of rain were made possible.
And wind had the role to move the rain from place to place.
The soil has got 107 elements.
It had to raise from every sort of plants.
The rivers, underground waters, seas and many unmentioned creations, from flower to insect,
should care about the equilibrium of the nature.
In short, they should serve the human.
It's enough to have the ingredients and some admissions for making bread.
But... evenly it needs a mastery (skill)!
And it's needed for the universe; to create from nothing and millions of admissions at he same time and in a certainly order.
Here is no place for coincidence!
The chance is even not to mention!
Once... it has to have the knowledge about the creation from nothing.
What is nothing?
Have you ever thought about it?
Nonexistence of bread, water, or yesterday television wasn't there, but today it is.
But they are all the nonexistence from existing things.
They have the existence in their essences.
Some of them were build upon the existence.
Glass exists, the Picture-tube can designed for TV.
Silicon exists, electronic circuit can designed too.
But, how can one imagine something, which has never existed?
To imagine something, that has never existed?
It's unimaginable!
Because... nonexistence is defined because of the existence!
Here it is... the from nothing created universe.
Here it is... an unimaginable masterwork of mathematics and science!
Here is the infinite emptiness, which called space.
The Milky Way Galaxy, so tiny like a stone in a field with many square kilometers.
In it, even smaller as an atom our sun system.
In this system, our earth like an electron.
On earth, the country which we live in,
A city in our country.
A quarter in our city.
A building in our quarter.
A home in a building.
And we are in it!
And... He is the holy Person, who created everything with his "be!" order.
And His infinite knowledge and huge power.
Oh Lord, we praise and glorify You!
Oh Lord, forgive us!
Oh Lord, save us!
We compared the universe to the human being.
Whereas, how great we were before?
As if we were the universe and universe would have subjugated to us.
As if we were the center and the others would have turned around us.
Aah! If only the death wouldn't exist!
Excluded those, who know their God (Allah) and purify Him.
We are talking to false "Gods"!
As if they had every characteristics of God.
If they were bigger, they would claim to own the earth and heavens.
For sure, there is no lack in the creation of Allah!
In the heavens and the earth is nothing hidden from Him.
Every precise detail, from everything is in His opinion.
Without His permission, no bird can take wing, no tree can drop its leaf!
He is the only Owner of the heavens and the earth.
Surely, it's only and only His right to create and to own.
The heavens and the earth existed by His laws, without a flaw until today.
And surely, if the mankind takes over the laws of Him as lifestyle, they could have peace!
[Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful."
[Arabic] "Has not there come to you the news of the overwhelming calamity?" (88:1)
Doomsday X - The Unknown
Why has everything a beginning and ending?
Why has everything to be born and die?
Why has everything a rise and fall, development and disappearance?
This is the law of the Creator.
How nice was it said from a poet...
Don't say "why is it like this?"
It is right placed like it is,
Look, see the end from it!
Let's see what the Lord will do,
Whatever He does, it's nice done!
Every created thing begins and ends.
And the time between them is its life.
The Universe has its life too.
Like every created thing, also the universe is mortal.
One day will come, it will subjugate to the divinely order.
It is known as the "Qiyamah" (Doomsday).
Qiyamah means literally: rising (of the death).
Otherwise said: resurrection.
Our topic is one step before it.
In other words, the moment of the end of everything before the resurrection.
How the man waits his death, so waits the universe its Qiyamah.
Those who believe everything were created, know also everything will vanish.
Many scenarios were produced about the Qiyamah.
Some, related the Qiyamah with a nuclear war.
Some say, Qiyamah will come as natural catastrophes.
For some is the Qiyamah his own death.
The scientists of cosmology
see the Qiyamah in universal frames,
and relate it, if the universe is closed or not.
If the universe is closed,
the expanding of the universe
will one day stop, and with a backwards move,
the universe will get smaller and smaller, like a closing book.
Planets, stars and galaxies will fast get closer to each other.
While it happens, the earth gets closer to sun and sky will red like a rose and melting.
The seas will begin to boil, the mountains get to dust and spread out.
Everything will vanish in a moment.
Obviously no living creature will exist anymore.
If the universe is closed - chance is about 50% -
Qiyamah (Apocalypse) will come surely.
May be after 1 day or 1 year or 1000 years, but surely.
This is the view of the theorists.
The Qiyamah is also related to the sun system.
After this view, sun will vanish its hydrogen, used as fuel.
Consequently the outer layers of sun will begin to swell,
moreover it will lose its white light and get a huge red ball.
Because it gets more and more larger, it will gulp the planets around it.
In the earth because of the heat, atmosphere will melt, oceans and seas will get vaporized,
in the twinkling of an eye, the mountains will also melt.
Of course, the life on earth will also end.
Events like that, were observed in the space.
It was observed stars like our sun, had also mentioned phases and became fireballs called "Red Giant".
Cosmologists compared the same scenario to our sun and had the decision; our sun will also have the same destiny.
This is another view of the theorists.
Qiyamah is a reality like death.
We care about the death, but not the Qiyamah.
The reason is the universe, that functions in silence and order.
The man ignore it, because of the system in its order.
Actually the system which functions since billions of years, needs just a moment to get ruined.
Unexpectedly an impact from outside, could vanish everything in a twinkling of eye!
Like in the verses of Yunus Emre...
"When they line up tied cubes from earth to heaven,
(and) If they take one of them away, see the chaos!"
Even if scientists relate the Qiyamah of the universe to the natural way,
in other words; to be born, growing up and death,
the Qur'an informs us - as far as possible understood - but the truth is only by holy Allah,
it will happen through an impact!
It's exactly like, that not every human has to be born, grow up, grow old and die.
Some sees the death in childhood, some in the youth.
The life of humans like them, hasn't the way of course!
An unexpectedly impact can interrupt the natural course, yet at the beginning.
The same rule is also possible for the universe.
If you ask why...
Beginning of the Qiyamah is depending to the blowing of the Sur (Horn).
It's to say, in a moment chosen by the holy Creator Himself, the Horn will get blown and it will start!
The exactly truth is known by Allah the Holy.
The Horn will blown two times.
With the first blowing begins the Qiyamah
and with the exception of those, chosen by Allah the holy, everything and everyone will die.
By the second blowing, the time between them is also only by Allah the Holy.
Everything begins again to get created.
Humans are revived, they come as groups in horror and confusion, they get together to the place of judgement.
And they found themselves ready for the "Big Judgement"!
This day, also the angels come down as groups.
Jibril (Gabriel) and the other angels are waiting, lined up before their Lord.
And without holy Allah's permit can nobody talk,
and who talks, can only say the truth!
Let's go again to the Qiyamah.
How the Qiyamah will take event, what for horror scenarios will they see, can we understand from Qur'an Al-Kareem.
Happened in the past, or like we today see through the media,
when we look at the earthquake, flood, volcanic eruptions and such natural catastrophes,
and also imagine the descriptions of Qur'an, it's easier to understand the unmatched terrifying Qiyamah.
About this topic says our holy Lord in Qur'an Al-Kareem,
At-Takwir 1, Al-Infitar 1-4, Az-Zalzalah 1-3, Al-Ma'arij 8-10, Al-Qiyamah 7-10,
Al-Muzzammil 14, 17-18, Al-Qari'a 4-5, Al-Hajj 1-2, Az-Zumar 67-69:
[Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful."
"And when the stars darken,"
"When the heaven becomes cleft asunder, And when the stars become dispersed,
And when the seas are made to flow forth, And when the graves are laid open"
"When the earth is shaken with her (violent) shaking,
And the earth brings forth her burdens, And man says: What has befallen her?"
"On the day when the heaven shall be as molten copper, And the mountains shall be as tufts of wool,
And friend shall not ask of friend"
"So when the sight becomes dazed, And the moon becomes dark,
And the sun and the moon are brought together, Man shall say on that day: Whither to fly to?"
"On the day when the earth and the mountains shall quake and the mountains shall become (as) heaps of sand let loose.
How, then, will you guard yourselves, if you disbelieve, on the day which shall make children grey-headed?
The heaven shall rend asunder thereby; His promise is ever brought to fulfillment."
"The day on which men shall be as scattered moths, And the mountains shall be as loosened wool."
"O people! guard against (the punishment from) your Lord; surely the violence of the hour is a grievous thing.
On the day when you shall see it, every woman giving suck shall quit in confusion what she suckled, and every pregnant woman shall lay down her burden,
and you shall see men intoxicated, and they shall not be intoxicated
but the chastisement of Allah will be severe."
"Nay! but serve Allah alone and be of the thankful.
and the whole earth shall be in His grip on the day of resurrection and the heavens rolled up in His right hand;
glory be to Him, and may He be exalted above what they associate (with Him).
And the trumpet shall be blown, so all those that are in the heavens and all those that are in the earth shall swoon, except such as Allah please;
then it shall be blown again, then lo! they shall stand up awaiting.
And the earth shall beam with the light of its Lord,
and the Book shall be laid down, and the prophets and the witnesses shall be brought up,
and judgment shall be given between them with justice, and they shall not be dealt with unjustly."
[Arabic] "Allah the incomparably Great is truthful."
Yes... It has believers and nonbelievers always interested, when the Qiyamah will take event.
It will not possible to know, until that moment comes!
Because... Our holy Lord says in the Verses of Sura: A-Ar'af 187 and Luqman 34:
[Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful."
"They ask you about the hour, when will be its taking place?
Say: The knowledge of it is only with my Lord; none but He shall manifest it at its time;
it will be momentous in the heavens and the earth; it will not come on you but of a sudden."
"Surely Allah is He with Whom is the knowledge of the hour,"
[Arabic] "Allah the incomparably Great is truthful."
Once, a person came to Rasulullah (peace be upon him).
He asked: "Oh Rasulullah, when is the Qiyamah?"
Rasulullah (s.a.w.) said: "The asked one hasn't more knowledge about it, as who asked."
Yes... the moment of the vanishing of everything, didn't know even Allah's messenger.
Like the secret of the moment of the death, is the Qiyamah also hidden
and humans became too few knowledge about it.
In Qur'an Al-Kareem, the Sura of Muhammad, 18. verse, the holy Creator about the Qiyamah:
"Do they then wait for aught but the hour that it should come to them all of a sudden? Now indeed the tokens of it have (already) come,"
Moreover, in the Sura of An-Najm 57. verse: "The near event draws nigh."
These Verses say, that Qiyamah is really close.
Actually the biggest sign of the Qiyamah is, that any new prophet will sent after Rasulullah (Muhammad).
After Him came any Prophet and will not come!
After a Hadith mentioned in Bukhari, Muslim, Tirmidhi and Musnad-i Ahmad, reported from Anas, Sahl Bin Saad and Burayda:
Prophet (Muhammad) peace be upon him, indicated his forefinger and middle finger and said:
"The Qiyamah and I have been sent like these two!"
Let's say, like two fingers, which don't have any other finger between them and like how close they are,
Qiyamah is also so close and there are no prophets to come after Me, was meant.
[Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful."
[Arabic] "Has not there come to you the news of the overwhelming calamity?" (88:1)
Doomsday X - The Unknown
Hadhrat Ali (r.a.) reports:
"Rasulullah (s.a.w.) told once: 'It is obliged (predetermined) to come a great misfortune,
when my Ummah (community) begins to do those deeds:'
The present people asked: 'What are those deeds oh Rasulullah?'
Rasulullah (peace be upon him) told those:
'When wealth or national richness becomes only available by the riches instead of the poor,
responsibility will seen as a booty,
Zakah (donation) will seen as a punishment instead of worship,
a man will obey his wife and disobey his mother,
one will get distance to his father and close to his friend,
in the mosques will discussed about worldly issues,
a community will get the most inferior as his leader,
a tyrant will respected because of his harm,
(alcoholic) drinks will allowed,
satin will be worn,
female singers and music instruments will get popular,
a community's predecessors will insult their successors,
you may wait for the red wind, earthquake, to sink into the earth, to get transformed (into pigs and apes) and stone raining!'"
By another Hadith said Rasulullah (peace be upon him):
Hadhrat Abu Huraira (r.a.) reports:
"As Rasulullah (s.a.w.) spoke to his community, a man came and asked:
'Oh Messenger of Allah! When is the Qiyamah?'
Rasulullah spoke his speech to end and responded: 'Where is the questioner?'
The man said: 'Here I am oh Rasulullah!'
Rasulullah (s.a.w.) said: 'When responsibility will avoided, wait the Qiyamah!'
The man asked: 'How can the responsibility get avoided?'
Our Prophet responded: "When inappropriate (incapable) gets the responsibility, wait for the Qiyamah!"
Yes... those points, which Rasulullah (s.a.w.) reported as the small signs of the Qiyamah,
the reported social damage took never event, like in our time!
Those mentioned points are almost the description of the people in our time.
Surely, the West and its confused follower the Islamic World,
they reached the peak of;
pamper, spoil, impenitence and immorality in our age!
For a time, in which the worldly people are immoral and the believers are ignorant,
says our holy Lord in Qur'an Al-Kareem, Al-Anfal, 25. verse:
"And fear an affliction which may not smite those of you in particular who are unjust;
and know that Allah is severe in requiting (evil)."
Yes... if the bad influences of the immorality
takes the community over and if the community can't do anything against them,
from a possible punishment wouldn't only wrongdoers get harm, but also those who did anything against them.
Would a punishment took event, it hasn't to destroy all.
Like mentioned in the Qur'an it can be a war, tyrant, local catastrophe, drought, hunger or epidemics.
Those are all possible punishments for them (us).
Those small signs could be for the Qiyamah or also for a close punishment.
Our Prophet (s.a.w.) reported moreover, points known as the "Big Signs",
which would be the last warnings for the mankind before its end,
which are preternatural!
Those are...
The appearance of a successor from our Prophet's family called Mahdi, who will fill the earth with justice.
A creature called Dajjal (Anti-Christ) with preternatural power will appear, who will cause many troubles.
Hadhrat Isa (Jesus) will return to the earth.
A creature from underground, called Dabbat'ul Ard will invade the earth.
The appearance of a fire in Hejaz (around Makkah and Madinah).
The sunrise from the west (instead of the east).
Appearance of Ya'juj and Ma'juj (Gog and Magog).
From the first day on, when the human was sent to the world,
messengers were sent to every nation, who warned about hereafter.
Thousands of years ago, the Messengers who were sent
told to each community to worship Allah (God) and to quit their wrong deeds.
They were warned... if they worship Allah, they would get the Paradise (Jannah),
and if they refuse, they would get punished and sent to the Hell (Jahannam).
Allah's order was different for the past nations.
The existence of each nation were ended, after its Messenger left them.
And everyone was perished with the exception of the believers.
So far we understand, the order ended after Lut (Lot), who was a nephew from Ibrahim (Abraham).
The Nation of Lot is the last example for a general punishment, mentioned in the Qur'an.
Thereafter hadn't any community a general punishment, but they get penalties in a proportion to their wrongs.
Wars, shortages, catastrophes, torments, epidemics and similar events followed them.
Until the last Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.), every Prophet
was sent to a specific community.
In Qur'an Al-Kareem, Sura Gafir, 78. Verse says our holy Lord:
"And certainly We sent messengers before you:,
there are some of them that We have mentioned to you and there are others whom We have not mentioned to you,"
In the Sura Yunus 47. Verse: "And every nation had a messenger"
and 24. Verse of Sura Fatir:
"Surely We have sent you with the truth as a bearer of good news and a warner;
and there is not a people but a warner has gone among them."
Yes... from the first human until today, big or small every community which existed had witnessed a messenger.
And like it is mentioned in Qur'an, some of them are reported, while others not.
But our prophet Hadhrat Muhammad (s.a.w.) has a difference to the other prophets, he was sent to whole mankind.
And his message has a universal character.
That, Rasulullah (s.a.w.) was sent
and because no other prophets will sent,
is the most clear sign of the Qiyamah.
Pollution, lack of water resources,
ozone hole, growing population,
exhaustion of the oil sources,
are more and more mentioned topics in the media.
If those would going on, the scientists don't want even to imagine the world after 100 years.
The world population was 1 billion at the beginning of the 20. century.
Annually with an increase of 1.85%, it was 2.5 billions in 1950.
35 years later in 1985, annually with an increase of 2%, was it already 5 billions.
Annually increase has been even moved up over 2% (currently 1.2%).
If the overpopulation would go on annually with an increase of 2%,
the world-population will become about 40-50 billions in the end of 21. century.
To calculate the 22. and 23. century is not needed, because the results are even not to mention.
Optimistic experts guess, even if the increase would go downwards from 2% under 1%,
the population would be 15-20 billions in the end of 21. century.
This is really an optimistic guess.
Like the guesses about the inflation in our country (Turkey).
However, the world goes on with its 6.7 billions population and problems,
but could it go on with a population of 10, 20, 30, 50 or even 100 billions?
This is only known by the holy Creator!
The event of the end of everything is not absolutely related to a reason.
Because the happening of this moment is under the control of Allah.
It is His decision.
The vanishing of everything is mentioned in the Qur'an as "Saat (hour)",
and that the hour will come suddenly!
The chosen hour from the chosen day comes and everything gets in chaos.
Like in the poem of Yahya Kemal Beyatli...
"While an endless fun has the (musical) composition,
A string breaks off and harmony gets lost forever!"
Yes... from a chosen day, comes the chosen hour, and the chosen moment comes.
Everything gets lost!
And everything will created again like the first time.
In the Verses of Ibrahim 48 and 47, Al-Anbiyaa 104, says our holy Lord:
[Arabic] "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful."
"On the day when the earth shall be changed into a different earth, and the heavens (as well), and they shall come forth before Allah, the One, the Supreme."
"Therefore do not think Allah (to be one) failing in His promise to His messengers; surely Allah is Mighty, the Lord of Retribution."
"On the day when We will roll up heaven like the rolling up of the scroll for writings,
as We originated the first creation, (so) We shall reproduce it; a promise (binding on Us); surely We will bring it about."
[Arabic] "Allah the incomparably Great is truthful."
Yes... the next level is the Qiyamah.
Qiyamah means literally; resurrection or to rise from the graves.
With the rising or resurrection begins (as known) the Doomsday, Apocalypse, Day of Judgment.
The earth and the heaven were created again.
The earth is prepared for the final Judgement.
Everybody and everything is prepared.
Jibril (a.s.) and the other angels coming down to the earth.
A scream, a deafening voice is to hear.
The earth gets splitted, the humans come out of their graves, bewildered and in horror.
Like the seeds in spring.
Humans, which has seen the Qiyamah or not, all their souls who left their bodies,
get new bodies for the resurrection.
Because of an order from an inviter, all they go to the judgement place.
Despite the population, there is a great silence.
Place is changed, time is also changed.
Humans perception of the time is also changed.
They are like, if they were sleeping and got waked.
They begin whispering to each-other.
People who are confused because of what happens are asking: "What happens?", "Who awoke us?"
Some of them swear to each-other, they were only for a few time in the world.
Some of them know what's happening.
And say in regret: "How awful! This is a very difficult day!"
Another community also knows what's happening.
And they respond them:
"The prophets warned you about this truth!"
The people went in companies to the place of judgement.
Everyone is concerned.
Fear and excitement has filled their beings.
Because, it is just a one step before the gate of eternity.
There are the prophets too.
And they wait for to testify, for or against their communities.
Everybody is collected.
Nobody is forgotten!
The past Pharaohs, Nimrod and others, they are all here.
Defenseless, helpless and with the conscious of their end.
And on that day is the decision only by Allah the holy!