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26 ISLAM ITS BELIEFS AND PRACTICES FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH 27
3. Tumults and seditions,
4. A great calamity.
II. The Greater Signs: ('Aliimiitu's-Sii'at).
1. The appearance of Mahdi, the rightly guided
one, concerning whom Mul}ammad said
that the world would not come to an end,
till one of his own family should govern the
Arabs and should fill the earth with righteousness.
2. The descent of Jesus which will take place near
the white minaret to the east of the Mosque
at Damascus at the time of the afternoon
prayer. He will break crosses and kill
swme.
3. The appearance of Dajjiil, Antichrist. He is
said to be one-eyed, and marked on the
fore-head with the letters K. F. R. which
stand for Kafir, or infidel. He will ride
an ass driven like a cloud of smoke.
4. The appearance of a Beast fifty cubits high, a
compound of various species, with the head
of a bull, the eyes of a hog, the ears of
an elephant. It will rise out of the earth
in the temple of Mecca and mark the
faces of believers and of the infidels, so
that every person may be known for what
he really is.
5. The appearance of Gog and Magog (Yiijuj
and Miijuj). These barbarians of whom
many things are related in the traditions,
will make inroads into the Holy Land, cross
the Lake of Tiberias, which the vanguard of
their vast army will drink dry, proceed to
Jerusalem' and there greatly distress Jesus
and His companions, till at His request,
God will destroy them. Suras 21: 95. 18:
93-97.
6. Others of the important signs may be briefly
mentioned thus: The rising of the sun
from the west, and the appearance of a
mighty smoke which will remain on earth
for forty days, and the destruction of
the Ka'ba by the Abyssinians and the
removal of the Qur'iin from the books and
the memory of people, and the inhabitants
of the earth becoming infidels.
The Sounding of the Trumpet.
When the Signs are fulfilled the angel Isriifil will
sound the first Trumpet. It will cause consternation
and hence is called the Blast of Consrernation.
The second Blast which will cause the death of all
creatures, is called the Blast of Examination.
The third Blast, is called the Blast of Resurrection.
All creatures are said to remain for the space of forty
years in the state of death between the first and the last
Blast of Trumpet.
The Judgment.
The Judgment will consist of the following:
a. The presentation before God.
b. Giving of the books of the account.
c. Questioning.
d. The account (I;!isiib).
e. The weighing in the balance (miziin) ..
f. Crossing the bridge (~iriit)·
The Seven Stories of Hell:-15 44.
1. Jahannam, 19: 72, purgatorial hell for Muslims.