পৃষ্ঠা 314: তৃতীয় অধ্যায়: কিয়ামতের মহা আলামতসমূহ (মাহদী, দাজ্জাল, ঈসা (আ.), ইয়াজুজ-মাজুজ, পশ্চিমাকাশে সূর্যোদয়)

Conclusion of the Book

An epilogue with which we conclude the book, if Allah the Exalted wills, to complete the benefit.

We say: The Imam, the Hafiz, the Authority, Jalal al-Din 'Abd al-Rahman al-Suyuti said in his treatise titled "al-Kashf 'an Mujawazat Hadhihi al-Ummah al-Alf" (The Unveiling Regarding this Ummah Exceeding One Thousand Years): "That which the narrations indicate is that the lifespan of this Ummah exceeds one thousand years, but the excess over it will not reach five hundred years. That is because it has been reported through multiple chains that the lifespan of the world (that is, from Adam, peace be upon him, until the establishment of the Hour) is seven thousand years, and that the Prophet (ﷺ) was sent at the end of the sixth millennium."

He said: "It has been narrated that the Dajjal emerges at the turn of a century, and 'Isa (peace be upon him) descends and kills him, then remains on earth for forty years; and that people will remain after the sun rises from its west for one hundred and twenty years; and that between the two blowings of the Trumpet are forty years. So these are two hundred years that must inevitably occur."

He said: "And it is not possible that the duration reaches one thousand and five hundred years at all." Then he cited with his chains of transmission the hadiths indicating what he mentioned, fully exhausting their routes.

I say: What is understood from the preceding hadiths that we mentioned in the third section is that al-Mahdi remains on earth for forty years, and that 'Isa (peace be upon him) remains after the Dajjal for forty years, as al-Hakim narrated in "al-Mustadrak" from Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him): "Indeed, 'Isa (peace be upon him) descends and kills the Dajjal, and they will live in bliss for forty years; no one will die, no one will fall ill, and a man will say to his sheep and his beast: 'Go and graze,' and the livestock will pass between two cultivated fields without eating a single ear of grain from them. Snakes and scorpions will not harm anyone, predatory beasts will linger at the doors of houses, and a man will take a mudd of wheat and scatter it without plowing, and from it will come seven hundred mudds..." to the end of the hadith.

For it is evident that the forty years are after the Dajjal, and that after 'Isa (peace be upon him), rulers will take charge, among whom is al-Qahtani who will rule for twenty-one years. Let us also assume for the rest of them until the sun rises from the west twenty years as well, if not more; this makes one hundred and twenty years. And it was previously mentioned that the Dajjal remains for forty, and if they are not years, then no less than the span of two years, because his days are prolonged;