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the verses which follow: الشَّمْسُ فَاذَا بَرَقَ الْبَصَرُ - وَخَسَفَ القَمَرُ - وَجَمِعَ الشَّ و العمرُ - يَقُولُ الأنْسَانُ يَوْمَئِذ أين المفر i. e. When human vision will be sharpened (powers of observation and experiment developed) and the mysteries of nature will be revealed in large numbers: when the sun and the moon will suffer an eclipse, one after the other, Man at that time will say in perplexity and despair: "Now where can. I flee for safety!". As evident from the text, the reference is to a period when man, so to say, will be drifting away from Allah in a general tendency towards atheism. . Denial of the final Day of Judgement will be much in vogue, and material science would be making great progress. Man would learn to look deep into the nature of things. The sun and moon will suffer an eclipse, in one and the same month. This last sign has been further clarified in the Ahaadees which further help to specify the period in question. . We read there that for the Mahdee a sign was to be shown which, since the world was created, had never been witnessed before to support such a claim. This sign was that in the month of Ramazaan the moon would suffer an eclipse on the first of the possible dates for such an event, while the sun 53