Quran 72:25 – Is It Possible To Tell Whether Qiyamah Is Near According To Quran?
Since the direct addressees of The Prophet (sws) had to first face divine punishment in this world as per Sunnat of Allah, therefore using of timeline of sooner or some time later here could be relavant for them w.r.t this divine punishment only. As for Qiyamah, their day of judgement would start right after their death because sooner or later doesn’t matter after their death. This seems to be the inclination of Ghamidi Sahab as well if you read Al-Bayan, specially footnote 43 ( https://www.javedahmedghamidi.org/#!/quran?chapter=72&paragraph=2&type=Ghamidi ). In diction of Quran, this punishment under law of itmam-e-hujjat and Qiyamah are same in a broader sense as pointed out by Dr. Irfan Shahzad Sahab and Molana Islahi Sahab. Therefore, if someone chooses it solely in the meaning of punihsment of Qiyamah, then there is room for that as well. It is in principle true and explicitly clear from Quran that only Allah knows the exact time of Qiyamah and it is one of those unseen informations about the future, whose knowledge has not been shared with any other creation of Allah. But the question is has Allah chosen not to share any signs at all? the answer to this is no, Allah has given us signs about Qiyamah in Quran. The rise of Gog Magog being one of the major signs which changed the whole history of the world, was prophesized in Quran and gradually we are moving towards that condition where they would be charging from every valley and collide like waves of water and Qiyamah will emerge from that chaos. Therefore, it is not far-fetched that Prophet Muhammad (sws) was also given and/or shown in Roiya some signs of Qiyamah in addition to the ones mentioned in Quran. Even after these signs, no one can claim to know that exact time of Qiyamah.