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and that hour knoweth no man; no, not the angels of heaven, but the Father only.'
But, answered Havilah, unto Mohammed it given to declare the signs which shall be in the earth when that day is approaching[1]. The lesser signs are; that the faith shall decay among men, and that there shall be troubles and seditions, and so great distress in the world, that men shall look on the graves and sigh to be at peace within them.
Eber answered, When Jesus warned his followers of a great and terrible day of the Lord, he said, 'When the Son of Man cometh shall he find faith on the earth?' Again, 'There shall be wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. All these things are the beginning of sorrows.' Again, 'There shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world unto this time, nor ever shall be.' These words of Jesus were written more than five hundred years before Mohammed was born, and from those writings he learned them. — Now tell me the greater signs of that day.
Havilah replied, The sun shall arise in the
- ↑ Prelim. Dissert.
