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XIII.—THE DAY OF RESURRECTION
AND JUDGMENT, AND THE SIGNS
OF THE LAST DAYS.
Qi′a′mat (lit. "standing"), or the day of resurrection and judgment, is a time which all Muhammadans allow is a perfect secret and known only to God. But they say that the approach of the day of judgment will be known by twenty-five signs.[1]
1. The decay of faith among men.
2. The advancing of the meanest persons to dignity.
3. That a maid-servant shall become the mother of her mistress.
4. Tumults and seditions.
5. A war with the Turks.
6. Great distress in the world.
7. That the provinces of ʾIráq and Syria shall refuse to pay tribute.
- ↑ See Mishkát-ul-Musábih, bk. xxiii. chap. iii.
