Day of Judgment is approaching. The Holy Prophet صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم, who is aware of the unseen, mentioned two signs of the Day of Judgement in this Blessed Hadees. One is that the slave-girl will give birth to her master, and the second is that the barefoot, bare-bodied, and destitute shepherds will compete with each other in constructing tall buildings. Further explanation of these two signs will also be mentioned. Besides these two signs, many other signs of the Judgement Day have also been mentioned in the blessed Ahadees.

In the light of Ahadees, many signs of the Day of Judgement have been mentioned in Bahar-e-Shari’at. Let us hear about some of them:

*   Knowledge will be lifted (i.e. scholars of Islam will be taken away).

*   When no Islamic scholar remains, the people (out of compulsion) will take ignorant people as their guides.

*   Then they will ask them religious questions and they will give legal verdicts without knowledge; they will be misguided themselves and they will misguide others also. (Bukhari, vol. 1, p. 54, Hadees 100)

*   Ignorance will be rife.

*   Adultery and consumption of alcohol will be widespread.

*   There will be few men and more women, to such an extent that one man will have 50 female dependants. (Bukhari, Kitab Al-Nikah, vol. 3, p. 472, Hadees 5231)

*   There will be an abundance of wealth. (Muslim, p. 392, Hadees 2339, selected)

*   Holding onto the religion will be as difficult as holding onto a hot coal. (Tirmizi, Bab 4, vol. 73, p. 115, Hadees 2267)

*   Time will have no blessings, such that a year will be like a month, a month like a week, a week like a day, and a day will be like something catching fire and extinguishing quickly after intensifying. (Tirmizi, vol. 4, p. 148, Hadees 2339, selected)

*   Paying Zakah (will become so difficult for the people that it) will be considered like being a fine. (Tirmizi, vol. 4, p. 89, Hadees 2217)