Spirit of Islam October 2017

5 Spirit of Islam Issue 58 October 2017 THE END OF HISTORY IS NEAR Final Warning All human beings will face the consequences of the deeds performed in the world they left behind. Every person shall have to face divine judgement for their former life. T HE twenty-first century is an alarming era. Almost every day there is some news in the media that the planet earth is becoming more and more uninhabitable. A recent news in this regard appeared in The Times of India August 2, 2017 , the gist of which is noted below: According to a new study the world will almost certainly reach a tipping point and there will be an unstoppable, destructive climate change. By the end of the century the world’s temperature will rise from 2° Celsius to 4.9° Celsius. It is at the point that scientists think the world will suffer disastrous effects like widespread drought, extreme weather and dangerous increases in sea levels. Experts have suggested that 2°C of warming is the point at which change becomes irreversible. There is a 99% chance that climate change will break through that limit. Dargan Frierson from the University of Washington said, “Damage from heat extremes, drought, extreme weather and sea level rise will be much more severe if a 2°C or higher temperature rise is allowed.” The celebrated British physicist Stephen Hawking has even gone to the extent of saying that we shall have to find another planet because we cannot survive for more than 100 years on this planet. Hawking’s is not a lone voice in this regard. The whole scientific community is in agreement with him. Scientists have repeatedly issued the warning that we have no option but to find another planet on which to survive. In ancient Egypt, the Prophet Moses gave this message on behalf of God to the Egyptian Pharaoh: The Hour is coming. But I choose to keep it hidden, so that every human being may be recompensed in accordance with his deeds. (QURAN 20: 15) In ancient times many prophets came to deliver this message to mankind. We learn from the Hadith that they were more than 100,000 in number. All these prophets spoke in the same vein. All the prophets gave this same alarming news. The Quran calls them Nazeer —those