Hazrat Mahdi (as) WILL COME AT A TIME WHEN TRIBULATION APPEARS. (Imam Rabbani, Letters of Rabbani, 2-258)
It is He Who raised up among the unlettered people a Messenger from them to recite His Signs to them and purify them and teach them the Book and Wisdom, EVEN THOUGH BEFORE THAT THEY WERE CLEARLY MISGUIDED. (Surat al-Jumu‘a, 2)
SUCH A STRIFE WILL APPEAR THAT NOWHERE WILL BE SPARED. (Ibn Hajar al-Haythami, Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar fi `Alamat al-Mahdi al-Muntadhar, pp. 21-22)
You who believe! Respond to Allah and to the Messenger when He calls you to what will bring you to life! Know that Allah intervenes between a man and his heart and that you will be gathered to Him. Be fearful OF TRIALS WHICH WILL NOT AFFLICT SOLELY THOSE AMONG YOU WHO DO WRONG... (Surat al-Anfal, 24-25)
At a time when the world will be in utter confusion and disorder (harj), tribulation will appear... WHEN ROADS WILL BE CUT, some will attack some others... (Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir az-Zaman, p. 12)
Trade and ROADS between nations WILL BE CUT... (Ibn Hajar al-Haythami, Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar fi `Alamat al-Mahdi al-Muntadhar, p. 39-40)
REFRAIN FROM BLOCKING EVERY PATHWAY, threatening people, barring those who believe in the Way of Allah, desiring to make it crooked... (Surat al-A‘raf, 86)
... He will appear when those on earth and in the skies can no longer BEAR the massacres... (Ibn Hajar al-Haythami, Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar fi `Alamat al-Mahdi al-Muntadhar, p. 37)
Or did you suppose that you would enter the Garden without facing the same as those who came before you? They were touched by poverty and HARDSHIP and they were shaken to the point that the Messenger and those who believe with him said, ‘When is Allah’s help coming?’ Be assured that Allah’s help is very near. (Surat al-Baqara, 214)
Their (the hypocrites') tongues will be sweeter than sugar… (Tirmidhi, Zuhd, 60)
When you see them, their outward form appeals to you, and IF THEY SPEAK YOU LISTEN TO WHAT THEY SAY. But they are like propped-up planks of wood... (Surat al-Munafiqun, 4)
Great cities will be ruined as if they had not existed yesterday. (Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir az-Zaman, p. 38)
... HOW MANY WRONGDOING CITIES WE DESTROYED, and now all their roofs and walls are fallen in; how many abandoned wells and stuccoed palaces! (Surat al-Hajj, 45)
In the End Times men will come forth who will fraudulently USE RELIGION FOR WORLDLY ENDS and wear sheepskins in public to display meekness… (Tirmidhi, Zuhd, 60)
Woe to those who write the book with their own hands and then say ‘This is from Allah’ TO SELL IT FOR A PALTRY PRICE. Woe to them for what their hands have written! Woe to them for what they earn! (Surat al-Baqara, 79)
... their HEARTS WILL HARD AS THE HEARTS OF THE WOLVES. (Tirmidhi, Zuhd, 60)
Then YOUR HEARTS BECAME HARDENED AFTER THAT, SO THEY WERE LIKE ROCKS OR EVEN HARDER STILL. (Surat al-Baqara, 74)
There will be a time when people will RECITE THE QUR'AN, BUT IT WILL NOT GO FURTHER THAN THEIR THROATS [INTO THEIR HEARTS]. (Muhammet Sevgili-Hasan Akdag, Son Zamanlarla ilgili Hadisler [Hadiths about the End Times], p. 61)
They please you with their mouths BUT THEIR HEARTS BELIE THEIR WORDS... (Surat at-Tawba, 8)
... They SAY WITH THEIR TONGUES WHAT IS NOT IN THEIR HEARTS... (Surat al-Fath, 11)
HUNGER and cost of living will prevail. (Al-Sharani, Mukhtasar Tazkirah al-Qurtubi, p. 440)
We will test you with a certain amount of fear and HUNGER and loss of wealth and life and fruits. But give good news to the steadfast... (Surat al-Baqara, 155)
Everyone complaining of LOW EARNINGS... (Al-Barzanji, Al-Isha'ah li-ashrat al-sa'ah, p. 146)
BUSINESS BEING STAGNANT. EVERYONE WILL COMPLAIN ‘I CANNOT SELL, BUY OR EARN ANYTHING.’ (Al-Barzanji, Al-Isha'ah li-ashrat al-sa'ah, p. 152)
But if anyone turns away from My reminder, his life will be a NARROW ONE... (Surah Ta Ha, 124)
The poor will grow in number. (Al-Sharani, Mukhtasar Tazkirah al-Qurtubi, p. 455)
Allah makes an example of a city which was safe and at peace, its provision coming to it plentifully from every side. Then it showed ingratitude for Allah’s blessings so Allah made it WEAR THE ROBES OF HUNGER and fear for what it did. (Surat An-Nahl, 112)
There will come a time for my people when … THE MOSQUES WILL BE FULL OF PEOPLE, BUT THERE WILL NOT BE ANY BELIEVER AMONG THEM. (Son Zamanlarla İlgili Hadisler [Hadiths Regarding the End Times], p. 17)
So woe to THOSE WHO PERFORM PRAYER, and are forgetful of their prayer, those who show off. (Surat al-Ma’un, 4-6)
The hour will not come until MOSQUES CEASE TO BE PLACES WHERE PEOPLE PRAY, BUT BECOME PLACES WHERE PEOPLE STOP BY. (Son Zamanlarla İlgili Hadisler [Hadiths Regarding the End Times], p. 87)
An evil generation succeeded them WHO NEGLECTED TO PERFORM PRAYER ... (Surah Maryam, 59)
When the Judgment Day approaches... PEOPLE WILL CHEAT IN MEASURES AND WEIGHTS. (Ramuz al-Ahadith, vol. 33, p. 7)
Woe to the stinters! Those who, WHEN THEY TAKE A MEASURE FROM PEOPLE, EXACT FULL MEASURE, BUT WHEN THEY GIVE THEM A MEASURE OR WEIGHT, HAND OVER LESS THAN IS DUE. (Surat al-Mutaffifin, 1-3)
CUTTING BONDS WITH RELATIVES… (Ramuz Al-Ahadith, 448/7)
Is it not likely that, if you did turn away, you would cause corruption in the Earth and SEVER YOUR TIES OF KINSHIP? (Surah Muhammad, 22)
They RESPECT NEITHER KINSHIP nor treaty where a believer is concerned. (Surat at-Tawba, 10)
MEANNESS and GREED WILL MULTIPLY. (Sahih Muslim)
... Those who ARE TIGHT-FISTED AND DIRECT others TO BE TIGHT-FISTED... (Surat an-Nisa’, 37)
... and you HAVE AN INSATIABLE LOVE of wealth. (Surat al-Fajr, 20)
There are days of ANARCHY AND DISORDER very close to the Judgment Day. (Al Jami As Sagir by Suyuti; Musnad by Ahmad ibn Hanbal)
Those who CORRUPT THE EARTH AND DO NOT PUT THINGS RIGHT. (Surat ash-Shu‘ara’, 152)
THE HOUR HAS DRAWN NEAR but people only feel more greed for the world and draw even more distant from Allah. (Al Jami As Sagir by Suyuti, 2/57)
MANKIND’S RECKONING HAS DRAWN VERY CLOSE TO THEM, yet they heedlessly turn away. (Surat al-Anbiya’, 1)
A time comes when the QUR’AN WILL REMAIN IN ONE VALLEY and people in another. (Son Zamanlarla İlgili Hadisler [Hadiths Regarding the End Times], p. 23)
When a Messenger comes to them from Allah confirming what is with them, a group of those who have been given the Book THREW AWAY THE BOOK OF ALLAH BEHIND THEIR BACKS, just as if they did not know. (Surat al-Baqara, 101)
A time will come when the QUR’AN will remain only with its picture, and Islam will remain with its name. (Muhammet Sevgili-Hasan Akdag, Son Zamanlarla ilgili Hadisler [Hadiths about the End Times)
The Messenger says, ‘My Lord, MY PEOPLE HAD ABANDONED THIS QUR’AN.’ (Surat al-Furqan, 30)