পৃষ্ঠা 134: দ্বিতীয় অধ্যায়: মধ্যবর্তী আলামতসমূহ যা দৃশ্যমান হয়েছে এবং ক্রমবর্ধমানভাবে সংঘটিত হচ্ছে

He said: I asked, "And what is the rejuvenation of the elderly (dyeing gray hair to appear young)?"

He said (the narrator remarked, "I think the phrase 'that red' slipped from my written manuscript, this word alone"): "Red is the dye of Islam, yellow is the dye of faith, and black is the dye of Satan."

Salman said, "May my father and mother be sacrificed for you! Will this indeed come to pass?!"

He said, "Yes, by Him in Whose Hand is my soul! At that time, religion will be debased and worldly pursuits will be elevated, lofty buildings will be erected, the prescribed penalties (hudud) will be suspended, and they will cause my Sunnah to die. At that time, O Salman, you will see none but faultfinders, and Allah will not grant them victory."

He said, "May my father and mother be sacrificed for you, though they are Muslims on that day, how will they not be granted victory?!"

He said, "O Salman, indeed the help of Allah lies in enjoining good and forbidding evil. I foresee a people who will blame Allah the Exalted, and their blaming of Him will be that they complain about Him; and that will occur when markets converge."

He asked, "And what is the convergence of the markets?"

He said, "It is during their stagnation, when everyone will say, 'I am not selling, nor buying, nor making any profit.' Yet there is no Provider except Allah the Exalted."

Salman said, "May my father and mother be sacrificed for you, will this indeed come to pass?!"

He said, "Yes, by Him in Whose Hand is my soul! At that time, a man will mistreat his parents and treat his friend kindly, people will swear oaths by other than Allah the Exalted, a man will swear an oath without being asked to do so, and they will swear oaths by divorce, O Salman, though none swears by it except a transgressor. Death will become widespread, specifically sudden death, and a man's whip will speak to him."

Salman said, "May my father and mother be sacrificed for you! Will this indeed come to pass?!"

He said, "Yes, by Him in Whose Hand is my soul! At that time, the Beast will emerge, the sun will rise from the west, the Dajjal (False Messiah) will appear, a red wind will blow, and there will be land-collapses, metamorphoses, peltings from the sky, the emergence of Gog and Magog (Ya'juj and Ma'juj), the demolition of the Ka'bah, the violent shaking of the earth, and whenever a man is mentioned, he will be seen."