The signs at the end of the world

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From the other verses of the Qura’n we learn that there will be a great revolutionary change in the heavens and the earth before the Day of Judgment. The end of this world will not be in stages but will be a sudden death which will have terrifying events.

These events that are a part of the Day of Reckoning will be as follows:

The Destruction of the Mountains:

 The destruction of the mountains has been mentioned in the various verses of the Qura’n and the stages too have been described. They can be divided into seven events:

First: The Mountains will tremble:

Verse 14 of Surah Muzzammil:

“The day the earth and the mountains will be in a violent commotion”

The mountains will be uprooted:

Verse 14 of Surah Haqqa:

“The earth is moved and its mountains.”

 The Mountains will start moving:

Verse 10 of Surah Tur:

“And the mountains will move.”

The mountains will clash against each other:

Verse 14 of Surah Haqqa:

“And they are crushed at a single stroke.”

The earth and the mountains will be powdered to dust:

The Mountains will be turned into powdered mounds:

Verse 14 of Surah Muzzammil:

“And the mountains will be as a heap of sand poured out and flowing down”

The dust will be scattered:

Verses 5-6 of Surah Waqiah:

And the mountains shall crumble to atoms scattering like dust.”

They will be blown away by the winds as colorful flakes of cotton:

Verse 5 of Surah Qariah:

“And the mountains will be like carded wool”

They will only be as the shadows of the past like a mirage in the desert:

Verse 20 of Surah Naba:

“And the mountains shall vanish as if they were a mirage”

They will be utterly destroyed leaving no trace; the earth will be clean and leveled:

Verses 106 of Surah Ta-Ha:

“He will leave them as plains smooth and level.”

Will these calamities on the mountains will be due to implosions caused by the destruction of the atomic structure or will they be due to the explosions of the forces within them; will they be assaulted externally like the clashes of the planets or stars caused by the magnetic pull over the other or will they be due to causes that are unknown to us?

No one can a perfect answer to these questions. The current science too cannot describe them and all that they say is that they there have been great explosions earlier and are still happening. They are unable to interpret and explain these events. All we know is that according to the Qura’n these things will happen before the end of the world, though we do not know the causes.

 


 

1. The word “Qaa” means a ground that it is clean and level and “Safsaf” means a land bereft of vegetation or clean and level ground. The meaning of both will be the same and for stress.

 

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