From: hra2@Lehigh.EDU (Hibatur Rahman Ahmad)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.islam
Subject: FOR PEOPLE WHO THINK (Part 8)
Date: 26 Aug 92 20:26:44 GMT


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The following article is taken from a booklet title "The Light of Revelation
-A Glimpse of The Meanings of The Final Divine Revelation To Humankind- The
Quran" published by Islamic Outreach-ABIM 3402 Jalan Ampang Hilir 2, 55000
Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA.  Tel: 6-03-457-4608  There is NO COPYRIGHT for this
booklet.  Any organisation or individual wishing to reproduce the booklet may
do so freely.  An acknowledgement would be appreciated.
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FOR PEOPLE WHO THINK (Part 8)
                                End Of The World

They ask thee about the Final Hour -
When will be its appointed time?
Say: "The knowledge thereof is with my Lord alone:
None be He can reveal as to when it will occur.
Heavy were its burden through the heavens and the earth.
Only, all of a sudden will it come to you."
                                                    (A'raf 7: 187)

Verily the Hour is coming
My design is to keep it hidden
For every soul to receive its reward
By the measure of its endeavour.
                                                    (Taha 20: 15)

Then watch thou for the Day
That the sky will bring forth a kind of smoke
Plainly visible,
enveloping the people:
This will be a grievous Penalty.
                                                    (Dukhan 44: 10-11)

When the earth shall be shaken to its depth,
and the mountains shall be crumbled to atoms,
becoming dust scattered abroad.
                                                    (Waqiah 56: 4-6)

Verily the Doom of thy Lord will indeed come to pass:
There is none who can avert it,
on the day when the firmament will be in dreadful commotion
and the mountains will fly hither and thither.
Then woe that Day to those that treat,
Truth as Falsehood.
                                                    (Thur 52: 7-11)

    We are told to look for the Day when the sky will bring forth a kind of
smoke (or mist) that will envelope the people.  Reflect over this prophecy
seriously and think of the present dangerous condition in this world.  The use
of present-day nuclear bombs can conceivably bring such conditions as
described in the Quran into being at any moment.  What we could not even
conceive of only a few decades earlier, has now become a possible reality.
Astronomers have also observed and photographed the explosions of other solar
system in this vast universe.  Our earth is just in one of these solar systems
and sooner or later shall come to an end.

    Man has been ordained in the Holy Quran not to entertain any doubt as to
the End of the world and the Resurrection and warned not to forget that he
would ultimately be brought back to His Lord.

TO BE CONTINUED (God Willing)

***KNOW that Islam is a universal religion as a way of life.  It governs every
aspect of human life, from individual's behaviour to living in community, from
social and economic principles to political system, from government justice to
international relation, and above all, from relation between human being to
human being up to relation between human being and his creator, the One and
Only One God.

***KNOW that the term traditionalist, conservative, extrimist, fundamentalist,
radicals or similar labels DO NOT originate from Islam.  In Islam it is either
to be a Believer or a Non-Believer, either to be a True Believer or a Hypocrite,
either to practise Islam as a whole or leave it all.

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