তাৎপর্যপূর্ণ সতর্কবাণী ও বিশ্লেষণধর্মী পর্যালোচনা

"All the signs will occur within eight months," and from Abu al-Aliyah: "within six months." And it has already preceded: "Even if a man were to breed a foal, he would not ride it before the Trumpet is blown."

Al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar reconciled the narrations in "Fath al-Bari", and he was followed by al-Sakhawi in "al-Qana'ah" and al-Barzanji in "al-Isha'ah", the summary of which is: that the duration, as mentioned in the initial narrations, is one hundred and twenty years, but it will pass very swiftly, as though it were the span of one hundred and twenty months. This is as narrated in "Sahih Muslim" on the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) in a marfu' report: "The Hour will not be established until a year becomes like a month..." the hadith, in which it also states: "and a day like an hour." Accordingly, the contraction of time and the shortening of days will occur twice: once during the era of the Dajjal, after which the blessing of the earth and the normal length of days will return to their customary state, and then they will diminish once more after the death of our master 'Isa (peace be upon him), until near the end of the world it reaches what has been mentioned. And Allah knows best.

I say: Better than this is what al-Tibi mentioned: that the signs (meaning the portents of the Hour) are of two categories: a category that indicates its nearness, and a category that indicates its actual occurrence. Among the first category are the Dajjal, the descent of 'Isa, the emergence of Ya'juj and Ma'juj (Gog and Magog), and the major earth-collapses (al-khusuf).