Signs Before The Day Of Judgement

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50 Signs of the Day of Judgment From the Words of Allah and His Messenger (sallallahu 'alaihi wa sallam)

Dr. Suhaib Hasan

From a lecture at Cambridge University
Islamic Society, Shawwal 1420 / January 2000.



The Signs are listed in roughly chronological order, although the order is not necessarily precise, especially for those in the future.

This is a brief summary of the signs; there are many books, articles, cassettes etc. which discuss these in greater detail. May Allah enable us to recognise and heed the Signs, and strengthen us in the times of tribulation.

"Are they waiting for anything except the Hour, to come to them suddenly? But its Signs have already come!" (Al-Qur’an, Surah Muhammad)

Past

1. Splitting of the Moon.

2. Death of the Prophet Muhammad, may Allah bless him and grant him peace.

3. A form of death which will kill thousands of Muslims. (Understood to refer to the plague of Amwas during the
caliphate of ‘Umar ibn al-Khattab.)

4. A major fighting in Madinah (understood to refer to the battle of al-Harrah during the caliphate of Yazid, 63 AH).

5. The Muslim conquest of Jerusalem.

6. The Muslim conquest of Constantinople.

7. Two large groups of Muslims will fight in war.

8. A war between the Muslims and a reddish people with small eyes, wearing sandals made of hair (understood to refer to
the Mongol Tatar invasion of the Islamic lands.)

9. A peace agreement between the Muslims and non-Muslims from the yellow race (Chinese, Mongols, etc.)

10. Thirty impostors (dajjal) will appear, each thinking he is a prophet.


Present?

11. Naked, destitute, barefoot shepherds will compete in building tall buildings.

12. The slave-woman will give birth to her master or mistress.

13. A trial (fitnah) which will enter every Arab household.

14. Knowledge will be taken away (by the death of people of knowledge), and ignorance will prevail.

15. Wine (intoxicants, alcohol) will be drunk in great quantities.

16. Illegal sexual intercourse will become widespread.

17. Earthquakes will increase.

18. Time will pass more quickly.

19. Tribulations (fitan) will prevail.

20. Bloodshed will increase.

21. A man will pass by the grave of another and wish he was in the latter’s place.

22. Trustworthiness will be lost, i.e. when authority is given to those who do not deserve it.

23. People will gather for prayer, but will be unable to find an imam to lead them.


Future

24. The number of men will decrease, whilst the number of women will increase, until for every man there are 50 women.

25. The Euphrates will reveal a treasure of gold, and many will die fighting over it, each one hoping to be the one who gains
the treasure.

26. The Romans (Europeans) will come to a place called A’maq or Wabiq, and an army of the best people will go forth from Madinah to face them.

27. The Muslim conquest of Rome.

28. The Mahdi (guided one) will appear, and be the Imam of the Muslims.

29. Jesus Christ will descend in Damascus, and pray behind the Mahdi.

30. Jesus will break the cross and kill the swine, i.e. destroy the false christianity.

31. The Antichrist (al-masih al-dajjal, the false christ) will appear, with all his tools of deception, and be an immense trial. He will be followed by 70,000 Jews from Isfahan (present-day Iran).

32. The appearance of Ya’juj and Ma’juj (Gog and Magog), and the associated tribulations.

33. The emergence of the Beast from the Earth, carrying the Staff of Moses and the Seal of Solomon, who will speak to the people, telling them they did not believe with certainty in the Divine Signs.

34. A major war between the Muslims (including Jews and Christians who truly believe in Jesus after his return) led by the Imam Mahdi, and the Jews plus other non-Muslims led by the Antichrist.

35. Jesus will kill the Antichrist at the gate of Ludd (Lod in present-day Israel, site of an airport and a major Israeli military base).

36. A time of great peace and serenity during and after the remaining lifetime of Jesus.

37. Wealth will come so abundant that it will become difficult to find someone to accept charity.

38. Arabia will become a land of gardens and rivers.

39. Society will then decay.

40. The buttocks of the women of the tribe of Daws will again sway in circumambulation (tawaf) around the idol Dhul-Khulsah.

41. A great fire in the Hijaz, seen by the inhabitants of Busra.

42. Three major armies will sink into the earth: one in the east, one in the west, one in Arabia.

43. An Abyssinian leader with thin shins will destroy the Ka’bah.

44. The huge cloud of smoke.

45. The sun will rise from the west (its place of setting).

46. A gentle wind which will take the souls of the believers.

47. There is no-one left on the earth saying, "Allah, Allah" or "There is no god except Allah."

48. Eventually the Day of Judgment is established upon the worst of the people, who copulate like donkeys in public.

49. The blowing in the Trumpet by the Angel Israfil, upon which everyone will faint except as Allah wills.

50. The second blowing in the Trumpet, upon which everyone will be resurrected.

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Al-Mahdi, Muhammad ibn Abdullah & A Caliphate That Follows the Guidance of the Prophet sallallahu`alayhi wa sallam

But, Some of Its Signs Have Already Come!
A. Hijazi © 1995


Hudhaifah bin Al-Yaman reported that the Messenger of Allah sallallahu `alayhi wa sallam said,

"Prophethood (meaning himself) will remain with you for as long as Allah wills it to remain, then Allah will raise it up wherever he wills to raise it up. Afterwards, there will be a Caliphate that follows the guidance of Prophethood remaining with you for as long as Allah wills it to remain. Then, He will raise it up whenever He wills to raise it up. Afterwards, there will be a reign of violently oppressive [The reign of Muslim kings who are partially unjust] rule and it will remain with you for as long as Allah wills it to remain. Then, there will be a reign of tyrannical rule and it will remain for as long as Allah wills it to remain. Then, Allah will raise it up whenever He wills to raise it up. Then, there will be a Caliphate that follows the guidance of Prophethood."

Then Hudhaifah said,

"The Prophet stopped speaking." [As-Silsilah As-Sahihah, vol. 1, no. 5]

Al-Mahdi Muhammad bin Abdullah

All those who are gifted with sound comprehension know that the Mahdi who the Shiites are waiting for, does not and did not exist. The Muslim nation has faced numerous hardships and calamities because of this mystical belief that the Shiites carry and propagate regarding this Mahdi.

In the Shiite mythology, believing in the Imams is a cornerstone of their faith. However such mythology is similar to Greek and Persian mythology, as well as the beliefs of the other nations of Al-Jahiliyyah.


The Sunnis believe that Al-Mahdi will be an ordinary man, born to an ordinary women raised by ordinary men and living an ordinary life with the people of his time. He will not live in caves, as the Shiites believe. They are waiting for their Mahdi to appear from an alleged cave, where they claim he has been in hiding for over ten centuries.

In reality, Al-Mahdi will be an Imam and a Caliph, among other Caliphs who rule Muslims with justice. However, what differentiates Al-Mahdi from other Caliphs is that he will meet Jesus son of Mary sallallahu `alayhi wa sallam.

Also, Jesus, the Prophet of Allah, will pray behind Al-Mahdi. Allah will give Al-Mahdi the ability to righteously rule the Muslim nation in the span of a night. He will fill the earth with justice, as it was filled with injustice. He will lead the Muslim nation to the second conquering of Constantinople and possibly Rome.

A Caliphate That Follows the Guidance of the Prophet sallallahu `alayhi wa sallam


The Prophet Muhammad sallallahu `alayhi wa sallam mentioned that just before the end of this world, the Muslim nation will be ruled by a Caliphate that will follow the guidance sent with the Messenger of Allah sallallahu `alayhi wa sallam.

Hudhaifah bin Al-Yaman reported that the Messenger of Allah sallallahu `alayhi wa sallam said,

"Prophethood (meaning himself) will remain with you for as long as Allah wills it to remain, then Allah will raise it up wherever he wills to raise it up. Afterwards, there will be a Caliphate that follows the guidance of Prophethood remaining with you for as long as Allah wills it to remain. Then, He will raise it up whenever He wills to raise it up. Afterwards, there will be a reign of violently oppressive [The reign of Muslim kings who are partially unjust] rule and it will remain with you for as long as Allah wills it to remain. Then, there will be a reign of tyrannical rule and it will remain for as long as Allah wills it to remain. Then, Allah will raise it up whenever He wills to raise it up. Then, there will be a Caliphate that follows the guidance of Prophethood."

Then Hudhaifah said,

"The Prophet stopped speaking." [As-Silsilah As-Sahihah, vol. 1, no. 5]

The reason behind mentioning this Hadith here is to state that Al-Mahdi will live in the last period of rightly guided Caliphs that the Messenger of Allah sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam mentioned himself sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam.

In this Hadith, the Messenger of Allah divided the history of the Muslim nation into the following stages:

1. The reign of the Prophet Muhammad

2. A Caliphate that rules according to the guidance revealed to the Messenger of Allah sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam This period is called the reign of the rightly guided Caliphs, starting with Abu Bakr, then Umar, then Uthman and ending with the murder of Ali bin Abi Talib, may Allah be pleased withthem all. Some scholars included the short reign of Al-Hasan bin Ali, the grandson of the Messenger of Allah sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam These are the thirty years which the Messenger of Allah sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam stated comprised the reign of the rightly guided Caliphs [The Prophet sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam said? "The Caliphate will remain in my nation after me for thirty years. Then, it will be a monarchy after that." Ahmad, Tirmidhi and others, Sahih Al-Jami` ' As-Saghir no. 3341].

3. The reign of unjust rule. This reign contains some injustice to a varying degree between one king and another. This period started after Al-Hasan bin Ali and includes the Umayyad, Abbasid, Mamluks and until the fall of the Ottoman State in the twentieth century.

This period includes all states that ruled in the Muslim World during those centuries. However, we exclude the reign of those rulers whose rule was similar to the rule of the rightly guided Caliphs, such as the reign of Abdullah bin Az-Zubayr and Umar bin Abdul-Aziz. These two are considered among the just Caliphs from among the tribe of Quraish who ruled or will rule the Muslim nation.

4. The reign of the tyrannical rule. This period started in the end of the Ottoman state and continues. We ask Allah that He saves us from the evils of this period and that we witness its end soon.

This reign includes all the regimes that ruled the Muslim World, whether imperial, party oriented, governments controlled by the disbelievers, like those after World War I, populist or republic, which all sought to deprive Allah from His right as the Only Legislator in all matters of life and religion.

When the Messenger of Allah sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam mentioned the periods that this nation will experience, he categorized them according to the type of government, whether unjust, or that which follows the guidance of the Prophet, or autocratic and tyrannical, as we experience today.

5. The return of a Caliphate that rules following the guidance of the Prophet sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam This period requires the Muslims to be prepared and strive for its imminent coming, by spreading the knowledge of the Book and the Sunnah and the way of our righteous ancestors, As-Salaf As-Salih. This is because nothing can resurrect this nation except that which resurrected its ancestors. Until this final period comes, the religion will become a stranger, the same way it started in Makkah, a stranger to its masters and slaves, the powerful and the weak, its women, and its children.

Those who will strive to establish this righteous period are those ghurabaa strangers as the Messenger of Allah sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam called them, who will carry this religion with knowledge, sound comprehension and determination. They will willingly sacrifice their well-being, face hardships, and persecution, with patience and steadfastness. They will follow the advice of the Messenger of Allah sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam when he said,

"Therefore, hold fast to my Sunnah and the Sunnah of the rightly guided Caliphs, hold it between your front teeth! And beware of innovations (in the religion), for every innovation is a bid'ah, and every bid'ah is a deviation, and every deviation is in the Fire." [Sahih Al-Jami ' As-Saghir, no. 2549]

The ghurabaa are the ones who, by the will of Allah, will correct that which people have altered and changed of the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam after his departure from this earthly life. They will fight in the sake of Allah and dominate those who oppose them. They will be unrelenting even in the face of those who abandon or defy them, until Allah brings about His Decree (the Hour), while they are steadfast on this path.

We ask Allah, the Praised and Ever-High One, that He grants us steadfastness on the path of His Messenger sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam and the path taken by the companions and those who followed theirlead until the Day of Judgment.

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The descent of Jesus at the end of time



Abd Allah ibn 'Amr said, "The Prophet (sallallahu alayhe wa sallam) said,

'The Dajjal will appear in my Ummah, and will remain for forty - "I cannot

say whether he meant forty days, forty months or forty years." Then Allah

will send Jesus (alayhe salam), the son of Mary, who will resemble 'Urwah

ibn Mas'ud. He will chase the Dajjal and kill him. Then the people will

live for seven years during which there will be no enmity between any two

persons. Then Allah will send a cold wind from the direction of Syria,

which will take the soul of everyone who has the slightest speck of good

or faith in his heart. Even if one of you were to enter the heart of a

mountain, the wind would reach him there and take his soul.

"Only the most wicked people will be left; they will be as careless as

birds, with the characteristics of beasts, and will have no concern for

right and wrong. Satan will come to them in the form of man and will say,

"Don't you respond?" They will say, "What do you order us to do?" He will

order them to worship idols, and in spite of that they will have

sustenance in abundance, and lead comfortable lives.

"Then the Trumpet will be blown, and everyone will tilt their heads to

hear it. The first one to hear it will be a man busy repairing a trough

for his camels. He and everyone else will be struck down. Then Allah will

send (or send down) rain like dew, and the bodies of the people (ie the

dead) will grow out of it. Then the trumpet will be sounded again, and the

people will get up and look around. Then it will be said, "O people, go to

your Lord and account for yourselves." It will be said, "Bring out the

people of Hell," and it will be asked, "How many are there?" - the answer

will come: "Nine hundred and ninety-nine out of every thousand." On that

day a child will grow old and the shin will be laid bare." (Al-Qalam

68:42) (Muslim)

Abu Hurairah said, "The Prophet (sallallahu alayhe wa sallam) said, 'The

son of Mary will come down as a just leader. He will break the cross, and

kill the pigs. Peace will prevail and people will use their swords as

sickles. Every harmful beast will be made harmless; the sky will send down

rain in abundance, and the earth will bring forth its blessings. A child

will play with a fox and not come to any harm; a wolf will graze with

sheep and a lion with cattle, without harming them." (Ahmad)

Abu Hurairah said, "The Prophet (sallallahu alayhe wa sallam) said, 'By

Him in Whose hand is my soul, surely the son of Mary will come down among

you as a just ruler. He will break the cross, kill the pigs and abolish

the Jizyah. Wealth will be in such abundance that no-one will care about

it, and a single prostration in prayer will be better than the world and

all that is in it." Abu Hurairah said, 'If you wish, recite the Ayah:

"And there is none of the People of the Book but must believe in him

before his death; and on the Day of Judgment he will be a witness against

them ..." (Al-Nisa 4:159) (Bukhari, Muslim)

Abu Hurairah reported that the Prophet (sallallahu alayhe wa sallam) said,

"The Prophets are like brothers; they have different mothers but their

religion is one.I am the closest of all the people to Jesus son of Mary,

because there is no other Prophet between him and myself. He will come

again, and when you see him, you will recognise him. He is of medium

height and his colouring is reddish-white. He will be wearing two

garments, and his hair will look wet. He will break the cross, kill the

pigs, abolish the Jizyah and call the people to Islam. During his time,

Allah will end every religion and sect other than Islam, and will destroy

the Dajjal. Then peace and security will prevail on earth, so that lions

will graze with camels, tigers with cattle, and wolves with sheep;

children will be able to play with snakes without coming to any harm.

Jesus will remain for forty years, then die, and the Muslims will pray for

him." (Ahmad)

Ibn Masud reported that the Prophet (sallallahu alayhe wa sallam) said,

"On the night of the Isra (night journey), I met my father Abraham, Moses

and Jesus, and they discussed the Hour. The matter was referred first to

Abraham, then to Moses, and both said, 'I have no knowledge of it. Then it

was referred to Jesus, who said, 'No-one knows about its timing except

Allah; what my Lord told me was that the Dajjal will appear, and when he

sees me he will begin to melt like lead. Allah will destroy him when he

sees me. The Muslims will fight against the Kafirs, and even the trees and

rocks will say, "O Muslim, there is a Kafir hiding beneath me - come and

kill him!" Allah will destroy the Kafirs, and the people will return to

their own lands. Then Gog and Magog will appear from all directions,

eating and drinking everything they find. The people will complain to me,

so I will pray to Allah and He will destroy them, so that the earth will

be filled with their stench. Allah will send rain which will wash their

bodies into the sea. My Lord has told me that when that happens, the Hour

will be very close, like a pregnant woman whose time is due, but her

family do not know exactly when she will deliver'" (Ahma, Ibn Majah)



Description of The Messiah Jesus Son of Mary, Messenger of Allah



Abu Hurairah said, "The Prophet (sallallahu alayhe wa sallam) said, 'On

the night of the Isra' (miraculous journey to Jerusalem) I met Moses - he

was a slim man with wavy hair, and looked like a man from the Shanu'ah

tribe. I also met Jesus - he was of medium height and of a red complexion,

as if he had just come out of the bath'" (Bukhari, Muslim)

The Prophet (sallallahu alayhe wa sallam) said, "Whilst I was asleep, I

saw myself (in a dream) making Tawaf around the Ka'bah. I saw a

brown-skinned man, with straight hair, being supported by two men, and

with water dripping from his head. I said, 'Who is this?' They said, 'The

son of Mary'I turned around and saw a fat, ruddy man, with curly hair, who

was blind in his right eye; his eye looked like a floating grape. I asked,

'Who is this?' They said, 'The Dajjal' The one who most resembles him is

Ibn Qatan." Al-Zuhri explained: Ibn Qatan was a man from Khuzaah who died

during the Jahiliyyah (before the coming of Islam). (Bukhari)



The Appearance of Gog and Magog



They (two tribes or peoples) will appear at the time of Jesus son of Mary,

after the Dajjal. Allah will destroy them all in one night, in response to

the supplication of Jesus.

Abu Hurairah reported that the Prophet (sallallahu alayhe wa sallam) said,

"Every day, Gog and Magog are trying to dig a way out through the barrier.

When they begin to see sunlight through it, the one who is in charge of

them says, 'Go back; you can carry on digging tomorrow,' and when they

come back, the barrier is stronger than it was before. This will continue

until their time comes and Allah wishes to send them forth. They will dig

until they begin to see sunlight, then the one who is in charge of them

will say, 'Go back; you can carry on digging tomorrow, insha'Allah.' In

this case he will make an exception by saying insha' Allah, thus relating

the matter to the Will of Allah. They will return on the following day,

and find the hole as they left it. They will carry on digging and come out

against the people. They will drink all the water, and the people will

entrench themselves in their fortresses. Gog and Magog will fire their

arrows into the sky, and they will fall back to earth with something like

blood on them. Gog and Magog will say, 'We have defeated the people of

earth, and overcome the people of heaven. Then Allah will send a kind of

worm in the napes of their necks, and they will be killed by it' 'By Him

in Whose hand is the soul of Muhammad, the beasts of the earth will become

fat.'"

Gog and Magog are two groups of Turks, descended from Yafith (Japheth),

the father of the Turks, one of the sons of Noah. At the time of Abraham

(alayhe salam), there was a king called Dhu'l-Qarnayn. He performed Tawaf

around the Ka'bah with Abraham (alayhe salam) when he first built it; he

believed and followed him. Dhu'l-Qarnayn was a good man and a great king;

Allah gave him great power and he ruled the east and west. He held sway

over all kings and countries, and travelled far and wide in both east and

west. He travelled eastwards until he reached a pass between two

mountains, through which people were coming out. They did not understand

anything, because they were so isolated; they were Gog and Magog. They

were spreading corruption through the earth, and harming the people, so

the people sought help from Dhu'l-Qarnayn. They asked him to build a

barrier between them and Gog and Magog. He asked them to help him to build

it, so together they built a barrier by mixing iron, copper and tar.

Thus Dhu' -Qarnayn restrained Gog and Magog behind the barrier. They tried

to penetrate the barrier, or to climb over it, but to no avail. They could

not succeed because the barrier is so huge and smooth. They began to dig,

and they have been digging for centuries; they will continue to do so

until the time when Allah decrees that they come out. At that time the

barrier will collapse, and Gog and Magog will rush out in all directions,

spreading corruption, uprooting plants, killing people. When Jesus (AS)

prays against them, Allah will send a kind of worm in the napes of their

necks, and they will be killed by it.



The Destruction of The Ka'bah



At the end of time, Dhu'l-Suwayqatayn, who will come from Abyssinia

(al-Habash), will destroy the Ka'bah in order to steal its treasure and

Kiswah (cloth covering). The Ka'bah is the ancient building which was

built by Abraham, and whose foundations were laid by Adam.

As Tafsir (interpretation) of the Ayah "Until the Gog and Magog (people)

are let through (their barrier)'" (al-Anbiya 21:96), it was reported from

Ka'b al-Ahbar that Dhu'l-Suwayqatayn will first emerge at the time of

Jesus, son of Mary. Allah will send Jesus at the head of a vanguard of

between seven and eight hundred. While they are marching towards

Dhu'l-Suwayqatayn, Allah will send a breeze from the direction of Yemen,

which will take the soul of every believer. Only the worst of people will

be left, and they will begin to copulate like animals. Ka'b said: "At that

time, the Hour will be close at hand."

'Abd Allah ibn 'Amr said, "I heard the Prophet (sallallahu alayhe wa

sallam) say, Dhu'l-Suwayqatayn from Abyssinia will destroy the Ka'bah and

steal its treasure and Kiswah. It is as if I could see him now: he is

bald-headed and has a distortion in his wrists. He will strike the Ka'bah

with his spade and pick-axe'." (Ahmad)

It was reported from 'Abd Allah ibn 'Umar that the Prophet (sallallahu

alayhe wa sallam) said, "Leave the Abyssinians alone so long as they do

not disturb you, for no-one will recover the treasure of the Ka'bah except

Dhu'l-Suwayqatayn from Abyssinia." (Abu Dawud, in the chapter on the

prohibition of provoking the Abyssinians)

Ibn 'Abbas narrated that the Prophet (sallallahu alayhe wa sallam) said,

"It is as if I can see him now: he is black and his legs are widely

spaced. He will destroy the Ka'bah stone by stone." (Ahmad)

The Prophet (sallallahu alayhe wa sallam) said, "The Hour will not come

until a man from Qahtan appears and rules the people." (Muslim; similar

Hadith in Bukhari) This man could be Dhu'l-Suwayq, someone else, because

this man comes from Qahtan, while other reports say that Dhu'l-Suwayqatayn

comes from Abyssinia; and Allah knows best.

Abu Hurairah said, "The Prophet (sallallahu alayhe wa sallam) said, 'Day

and night will not come to an end until a freed man called Jahjah holds

sway'" (Ahmad) This could be the name of Dhul-Suwayqatayn from Abyssinia;

and Allah knows best.

'Umar ibn al-Khattab reported that he heard the Prophet (sallallahu alayhe

wa sallam) say: "The people of Makkah will leave, and only a few people

will pass through it. Then it will be resettled and rebuilt; then the

people will leave it again, and no-one will ever return."


Madinah Will Remain Inhabited At the Time of the Dajjal



It has been proven in the Sahih Ahadith, as already stated, that the

Dajjal will not be able to enter Makkah and Madinah, and that there will

be angels at the gates of Makkah to ward him off and prevent him from

entering.

It was reported from Abu Hurairah that the Prophet (sallallahu alayhe wa

sallam) said, "Neither the Dajjal nor plague will be able to enter

Madinah." As mentioned above, the Dajjal will camp outside Madinah, and it

will be shaken by three tremors. Every hypocrite and sinner will go out to

join the Dajjal, and every believer and Muslim will stay. That day will be

called the Day of Purification (Yawm al-Khalas). Most of those who go out

to join the Dajjal will be women. As the Prophet (sallallahu alayhe wa

sallam) said, "Verily it (Madinah) is good; its evil will be eliminated

and its goodness will be obvious."

Allah SWT said:

"Women impure are for men impure, and men impure for women impure, and

women of purity are for men of purity, and men of purity are for women of

purity'" (Al-Nur 24-26)

Madinah will remain inhabited during the days of the Dajjal, and during

the time of Jesus son of Mary (AS), until he dies and is buried there.

Then it will be destroyed.

'Umar ibn al-Khattab said, "I heard the Prophet (sallallahu alayhe wa

sallam) say, 'A rider will go around Madinah and say, There used to be

many Muslims here'" (Ahmad)



FOOTNOTE:

*Dhu'l-Suwayqatayn: al-Suwayqatayn is the diminutive of al-Saqayn (legs);

his legs are described as being "small" because they are thin. Thin legs

are, in general, a characteristic of the Sudanese and people of the Horn

of Africa.