Gardens of the Righteous

by Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan

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Gardens of the Righteous — Page 306

306. GARDENS OF THE RIGHTEOUS condition Allah will send a pure breeze which will strike them below their armpits whereby the soul of every believer and Muslim will pass into the custody of Allah and only the worst of the people will be left whose men will consort openly with women like donkeys and the Judgment will be held (Muslim). 1815. Ribi ibn Hirash relates: I went with Abu Mas'ud to Huzaifah and. Abu Mas'ud said to him: Tell us what you heard from the Holy Prophet about the Anti-Christ. He said: The Anti-Christ will appear and with him shall be water and fire. That which the people see as water will be fire that burns and that which the people see as fire will be cool and sweet water. He who, from among you, encounters him should jump into that which he sees as fire for that will be sweet and wholesome. Abu Mas'ud said: I have also heard this from the Holy Prophet (Bokhari and Muslim). 1816. Abdullah ibn Amr ibn 'As relates that the Holy Prophet said:. Anti-Christ will appear among my people and will remain for forty, I do not know, forty days or forty months or forty years. Then Allah will raise Jesus, son of Mary, who will pursue him and will slaughter him. Thereafter people will survive for seven years and there will be no enmity between any two. Then. Allah, the Lord of honour and glory, will send a cool breeze from the direction of Syria and there will not remain on the face of the earth a single one in whose heart there will be the smallest particle of good or of faith but that his soul will be taken into custody, so much so that if any of you entered into the heart of a mountain the breeze will follow him and enter therein and take his soul into custody. And there will remain only the worst people who will be promiscuous like the birds and like wild beasts in their behaviour. They will not know any good and will not refrain from any evil. Then Satan will appear among them in the garb of a man and will ask them: Will you not obey me?. They will inquire from him: What do you command us to do? He will command them to worship idols. In this condition their provision will be plenty and their life will be comfortable, then the trumpet will be blown and everyone who hears it will turn his neck towards it and will raise it. The first to hear it will be a man who will be occupied with repairing the basin for his camels. He will become unconscious and everyone around him will become unconscious, then Allah will send rain which will be like the dew and people's bodies will thereby grow. Then the trumpet will be blown once more and the people will be seen standing. It will then be said: O people, come forward to your Lord. Then there will be a command: Make them stand, they will be called to account. Then it will be said: Separate from them the share of the. Fire. It will be asked: How much? It will be said: Nine hundred and ninety nine out of a thousand. That will be the day which will turn children grey-headed and the day when the calamity will overtake the guilty (Muslim). 1817. Anas relates that the Holy Prophet said: There will be no city which the Anti-Christ will not trample under his feet except Mecca and. Medina and there will not be a dome of these two cities but that angels will