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44 the earth". He can bring about a revolution of this kind any time He deems fit. . Meaning of Al-Saa'ah. The period when the dispensation of a major. Prophet commences, in a manner of speaking, is the time of Qiayamah (Day of Judgement), for an older race of men is eliminated and a new generation established in its place. The period, so to say. bears both characteristics of the Qiyaamah: death for all, to begin with, and then a new life. With the coming of these Prophets a kind of death overtakes the world: all the old doors for attaining nearness to God are closed. Then, through obedience to the new Prophets, they are opened afresh. Such Prophets demolish the first structure and raise a new one in its place, irrespective of the fact whether the old building represented a law that had to be replaced with a new one more in consonance with the needs of the time, or whether it represented a man-made version of a law intended yet to last for some time more. Such periods, in the Quranic terminology, are known as Al-Sa'ab. . In regard to the Holy Prophet the Holy Quran says: زين للذينَ كَفَرُوا الحَيوةُ الدُّنْيا ويسخرون من القِيَامَةِ الَّذِينَ أَسَنُوا وَالذِينَ اتَّقَوْا فَوقَهُمْ يَومَ القيام