Qiyamah Jannah & Jahanum Written by Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi Rahmatullah Alaihi
Qiyamah Jannah & Jahanum Written by Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi Rahmatullah Alaihi
Qiyamah Jannah & Jahanum Written by Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi Rahmatullah Alaihi
Written By
Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi Rahmatullah Alaihi
Table Of Contents
Accounting Of Deeds On The Day Of Judgement
Remembering Jannah And Jahannam
The Minor Signs Of Qiyâmah
The Major Signs Of Qiyâmah
The Day Of Resurrection
The Bounties Of Jannah
The Trials And Tribulations Of Jahannam
Glossary
2. The husband will obey his wife, disobey his mother, consider his
father to be an outsider, and consider an outsider to be his relative.
7. The custom of singing and dancing women will become rife. Drums,
fiddles, tambourines and other musical instruments will become rife.
8. The later generations will begin criticizing and speaking ill of their
pious predecessors.
14. The kuffâr will have power over everything and false ways will
appear.
15. Once all these signs appear, the Christians will have control over all
the countries. At that time, a person from the progeny of Abu Sufyân
will be born. He will kill many sayyids and exercise his power and rule
over Syria and Egypt. In the meantime, the Muslim ruler of Byzantine
will wage a war with a group of Christians and make peace with
another group. The warring group will invade Istanbul and rule over it.
The ruler of Istanbul will flee to Syria, join forces with that group with
which he had made peace, and engage in a severe war with the
warring group. The Muslim army will gain victory. Within a few days,
one of the Christians who had helped the Muslim ruler will come to the
latter and tell him that we gained victory through the blessing of our
"cross". The Muslim will reply that we gained victory through the
blessing of Islam. This conversation will get more serious to the extent
that each person (the Muslim and the Christian) will call his followers
and a fight will ensue. The Muslim ruler will be martyred and Syria will
also fall under the rule of these Christians. This Christian group will
make peace with the group that was at war with the Muslims (in the
beginning). The few Muslims who are left will go to Madinah. The
Christians will exercise their power and rule up to Khaybar (a place
outside Madinah).
The Muslims will then decide to search for Imam Mahdi so that they
may overcome all these difficulties. At that time he will be in Madinah,
but out of fear of being made ruler, he will go away to Makkah. All the
pious people of that time will search for him. Many imposters will claim
to be Imam Mahdi. But the genuine Imam Mahdi will be making tawâf
of the Ka'bah and will be between the Hajr-e-Aswad and the Maqâm-e-
Ibrâhîm. A few pious people will recognize him and impose upon him to
become the ruler and they will give him the bay'ah. While giving him
the bay'ah, a voice from the skies will come down and it will be heard
by all those who will be present over there. This voice will say that this
person is the khalîfah of Allah (i.e. he has been chosen to be the ruler)
and that he is Imam Mahdi.
Imam Mahdi will leave Makkah and go to Madinah where he will visit
the grave of Rasûlullâh sallallâhu ‘alayhi wa sallam. He will then depart
for Syria. Before he can reach Damascus, the Christian army will
confront him. Imam Mahdi's army will be split into three groups. One
group will flee from the battlefield, one group will be martyred and the
third group will gain victory. This martyrdom and this victory will take
place as follows:
Imam Mahdi will prepare the army to fight the Christians. Many
Muslims will swear to each other that they will not move from the
battlefield until they gain victory. In this way, many of them will be
martyred. A few of them will survive. Imam Mahdi will take them and
incorporate them into his army. The following day the same thing will
occur, i.e. many of them will be martyred after having taken an oath
while a few will survive. This will also occur on the third day.
Eventually, on the fourth day these few survivors will fight and Allah
will grant them victory. After this, the kuffâr will have no hope of
political leadership.
Imam Mahdi will commence re-organizing the country and sending his
armies all over. Once he accomplishes all these tasks, he will go to
invade Istanbul. When he lands on the shores of Byzantine, he will take
70 000 people from the Banû Is'hâq. They will board Imam Mahdi's
ships and together with him, they will make plans and strategies as to
how they will conquer Istanbul. When they reach the city's walls, they
will chant "Allâhu Akbar Allâhu Akbar" in a loud voice. Through the
barakah of this voice, the city's walls will collapse, the Muslims will
enter the city and kill the kuffâr. They will then administer the country
with great justice. About 6-7 years will elapse from the time that the
people had given the bay'ah to Imam Mahdi till the time of this victory.
Within a short period of time, Dajjâl will make his appearance. He will
be from the Jews. He will first make his appearance in Syria and Iraq
and claim prophethood. He will then proceed to Isfahan where 70 000
Jews will join him. He will then make claims of divinity. He will travel
through several countries until he reaches Yemen. During the course of
his travels, many kuffâr will join him. Eventually he will stop at a place
near Makkah. However, because of it being safeguarded by angels, he
will not be able to enter Makkah. He will then try to enter Madinah but
will not be able to do so because it will also be guarded by angels.
Madinah will experience an earthquake three times. All those who were
weak and negligent in Dîn will come out of Madinah out of fear for the
earthquakes. Once they come out, they will be trapped by Dajjâl. There
will be a pious man in Madinah who will debate with Dajjâl. The latter
will go into a rage and kill this pious person and bring him to life again.
Dajjâl will ask him: "Now do you believe that I am god?" He will reply:
"Now I am more convinced that you are Dajjâl." Dajjâl will try to hit him
but will be unable to do so, nor will he be able to influence him in any
way.
Dajjâl will then leave for Syria. When he will approach Damascus,
Imam Mahdi will already have been there, making preparations for
war. The time of ‘asr salât will approach, the mu‘adhdhin will call out
the adhân and the people will be busy making preparations for salât.
Suddenly, ‘Îsâ ‘alayhis salâm will descend from the heavens with both
his hands on the shoulders of two angels. He will land on the eastern
minârah of the jâme' musjid. A ladder will be placed and he will come
down.
Imam Mahdi will want to hand over authority of all the war
preparations to him but he will tell him to keep it with him and inform
him that he (‘Îsâ ‘alayhis salâm) has come specifically to kill Dajjâl. The
following morning, Imam Mahdi will get his troops ready for battle. ‘Îsâ
‘alayhis salâm will ask for a horse and a spear and advance towards
Dajjâl. The Muslims will attack Dajjâl's army and a severe battle will
ensue. ‘Îsâ's ‘alayhis salâm breath will have this effect that it will reach
wherever his eyes can see. Any kâfir who gets even a whiff of his
breath will be destroyed there and then. Upon seeing ‘Îsâ ‘alayhis
salâm, Dajjâl will flee. ‘Îsâ ‘alayhis salâm will follow him until he will
catch up with him at a place called Bâb Lud and kill him with his spear.
The Muslims will begin killing Dajjâl's troops.
‘Îsâ ‘alayhis salâm will then go from city to city and console all those
who were harmed by Dajjâl. Through the bounty of Allah, there will be
no kâfir left behind. Imam Mahdi will then pass away and all the affairs
of the country will fall into the hands of ‘Îsâ ‘alayhis salâm. Thereafter,
Yajûj and Majûj will appear. Their place of domicile will be in the
extreme north where there is no civilization and where the sea is
completely frozen on account of the extreme cold. In compliance with
the order of Allah, ‘Îsâ ‘alayhis salâm will take the Muslims to Mount
Tûr. Yajûj and Majûj will cause a lot of turmoil. Eventually Allah will
destroy them and ‘Îsâ ‘alayhis salâm will descend from the mountain.
After forty years, ‘Îsâ ‘alayhis salâm will pass away and will be buried
with Rasûlullâh sallallâhu ‘alayhi wa sallam.
A person from Yemen from the tribe of Qah'tân by the name of Jahjâh
will take over the mantle of leadership. He will rule with justice and
religiousness. Several rulers will come after him. Gradually, good
deeds will decline and evil will begin to gain the upper hand.
At that time, a type of mist or smoke will envelop the skies and
thereafter descend onto the land whereby the Muslims will catch a cold
and the kuffâr will fall unconscious. The skies will become clear after
forty days and the days of ‘îd al-ad'hâ will fall soon thereafter. After the
tenth (of Dhul Hijjah), a very long night will come. It will be so long that
travellers will become restless, children will become tired and weary on
account of sleeping too much, and grazing animals will begin
clamouring to go to the fields to graze. However, dawn will not break.
Everyone will become restless out of fear and anxiety. Once this night
equals three nights, the sun will appear very dimly from the western
horizon. At that particular time, no one's Imaan (accepting Islam) or
repentance will be accepted. Once the sun reaches the position that it
normally takes at mid-day, it will begin returning to the west and it will
set as it normally does. Thereafter, it will continue rising normally
according to its normal brightness.
A few days later, Mount Safâ, which is situated in Makkah, will be
destroyed by an earthquake. From there, an animal of strange
appearance and shape will appear and begin conversing with people.
This animal will travel the entire earth very swiftly. It will have the staff
of Mûsâ ‘alayhis salâm with which it will draw an illuminated line across
the foreheads of the believers. The result of this will be that the
believers' faces will become illuminated. As for the kuffâr, it will stamp
them on their noses or necks with the ring of Sulaymân ‘alayhis salâm
whereby their faces will become dark. Once this animal completes this
task, it will disappear.
At that time, the world will progress tremendously. Three to four years
will pass in this way when all of a sudden, on the morning of a Friday
on the 10th of Muharram, when all the people will be preoccupied in
their work, the trumpet will be blown. initially, the sound will be soft.
Gradually it will get louder until everyone will die out of panic and
horror. The land and the skies will be blown into smithereens and the
entire universe will be destroyed. The time span from the rising of the
sun from the west till the blowing of the trumpet will be 120 years.
After this, the day of resurrection will commence.
Once the people get tired of standing in the plains of qiyaamah, they
will all go to hadrat Aadam (alayhis Salaam) and thereafter to other
prophets requesting them to intercede on their behalf so that the
accounting of their deeds could be accomplished quickly. All the
prophets will present some excuse and will not make any promise of
intercession. Eventually, all the people will go to Rasulullah ( sallallahu
alayhi wasallam) and make the same request to him. On the orders of
Allah Ta'ala, he will accept this request, go to Maqaam-e-Mahmud and
intercede on their behalf. Allah Ta'ala will reply : " I have accepted your
intercession. After manifesting myself in the land, I will now commence
with the accounting of deeds "
Many angels will begin decending and surrounding the people from all
sides. Thereafter, the throne os Allah Ta'ala will descend and his
splendour and manisfestation will be on it. The accounting of deeds will
commence and the books of deeds will be distributed. The believers
will receive their book of deeds in their right hands while the
disbielivers will receive them in their left hands. These books of deeds
will land automatically into the hands of the respective persons. The
scale will be brought whereby all the good and evil deeds will be
weighed and established. The order will then be given for everyone to
cross the bridge called " siraat". Those whose good deeds were heavier
in the scale will cross the "siraat" and enter paradise. As for those
whose evil deeds were heavier and Allah did not forgive them. will fall
into hell. Those whose goods deeds and evil deeds are equal, will go to
a place called "a'raaf" which is between jannah and jahannam. They
will stay over there.
1. Rasulullah ( sallallahu alayhi wasallam said the Allah Ta'ala says: " I
have prepared and kept aside bounties for my pious servants which no
eye has set on, no ear has heard about, nor did it occur in anyone's
heart
Glossary
AMAANAH - trust
DEEN - Religion
NUR - light