Isa jesus(a.s.) will be born or sent.
Mu' meneen Brothers and Sisters,
As Salaam Aleikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.
(May Allah's Peace, Mercy and Blessings be upon all of you)
One of our brothers/sisters has asked
this question:
Dear Brother,
Assalaam o
You are doing a wonderful job!
Regarding the email sent(copy pasted below) I would
appreciate if you kindly clear the misconception that Isa alehewassalam will be reborn as suggested by the choice of
word “rebirth” used by the questioner. Kindly disseminate to all the users that
Isa alehewassalam will be sent
NOT reborn.
And if you have time it would be very nice if you email
the small signs and the 10 big signs mentioned in the Hadiths which were stated
to indicate that the day of judgment is near!. In my opinion and it may be
wrong that the readers should be worried of 2012 or for that matter any other
date. Dates are not important what is more important is that the hour is near,
it WILL come and that we need to prepare(while we can) for it as Muslims.
(There may be some grammatical and spelling
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Answer:
Isa jesus(a.s.) will
be born or sent
In the name of Allah,
We praise Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah
guides none can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide
them aright. We bear witness that there is none worthy of worship but Allah
Alone, and we bear witness that Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the
seal of His Messengers.
Sahih Al-Bukhari
Hadith 4.658 Narrated by Abu
Huraira
Allah's Messenger
(saws) said "How will you be when the
son of Maryam (i.e. Prophet Isa (a.s.)) descends amongst you, and he
will judge people by the Law of the Qur'an and not by the law of Gospel!”
Sunan of Abu-Dawood
Hadith 4310 Narrated by Abu Hurayrah
The Prophet (saws)
said: ‘There is no prophet between me and him, that is, Isa (a.s.). He (Isa (a.s.)) will descend (to the
earth). When you see him, recognise him: a man of medium height,
reddish fair, wearing two light yellow garments, looking as if drops were
falling down from his head though it will not be wet. He will fight the people
for the Cause of Islam. He will break the cross, kill swine, and abolish
jizyah. Allah will perish all religions except Islam. He will destroy the
Ad-Dajjal and will live on the earth for forty years and then he will die. The
Muslims will pray over him.’
Sahih Muslim Hadith
7015 Narrated byAn-Nawwas ibn Sam'an
In a long hadith
describing the incidents of Mahdi, Ad-Dajjah and second coming of the Noble
Messenger of Allah Isa ibn Maryam (a.s.), the Messenger of Allah (saws) said:
“…..It will at this very time that Allah will send Christ, son of Maryam. He will descend at the white
minaret on the eastern side of
In light of the above absolutely
clear guidance of the Messenger of Allah (saws) it is evident that the Noble
Messenger of Allah Hadrat Isa ibn Maryam (a.s.) will descend upon the earth
during his second coming and not be ‘re-born’!
Your Question: …..And if you have time it would be very
nice if you email the small signs and the 10 big signs mentioned in the Hadiths
which were stated to indicate that the day of judgment is near!.
Allah Says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 31 Surah Luqmaan verse 34:
34 Verily the Knowledge of the Hour is with
Allah (Alone).
Allah Says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 7 Surah Aaraaf verse 187:
187 They ask thee about the (Final) Hour! When will be its appointed
time? Say: "The Knowledge thereof is with my Lord (Alone): none but He can
reveal as to when it will occur. Heavy
is its burden through the heavens and the earth! Only all of a sudden will it come to you.
They ask thee as if thou wert eager in search thereof! Say: "The Knowledge thereof is with
Allah (Alone), but most men know not."
Allah Says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 33 Surah Ahzaab verse 63:
63 Men ask thee concerning the Hour! Say "The Knowledge thereof is
with Allah (Alone)": and what will make thee understand? Perchance the
Hour is nigh!
The exact time and knowledge of
the occurrence of the Final Hour or Day of Judgment is known to absolutely
none, except Allah Subhanah.
There are numerous authentic
narrations from the Messenger of Allah (saws) which describe the ‘signs’ or
‘portents’ which will approach before the establishment of the Hour…..some
amongst them which are general in nature are termed ‘minor’, and the ones which
are more specific are termed as ‘major’ Signs of the Hour.
Amongst the ‘minor’ Signs
of the Hour are:
Sahih Al-Bukhari
Hadith 9.185 Narrated by Abu Musa
The Prophet (saws)
said, "Near the Establishment of the Hour there will be days during which
(religious) knowledge will be taken away (vanish), general ignorance will be
wide-spread, and there will be ‘Al-Harj’ (killing) in abundance.’
Sahih Al-Bukhari
Hadith 2.146 Narrated by Abu
Huraira
The Prophet (saws)
said, "The Hour (Last Day) will not be established until (religious)
knowledge will be taken away (by the death of religious learned men),
earthquakes will be very frequent, time will pass quickly, afflictions will
appear, murders will increase, and money will overflow amongst you."
Sahih Al-Bukhari
Hadith 9.421 Narrated by Abu
Huraira
The Prophet (saws)
said, "The Hour will not be established till my followers copy the deeds
of the previous nations and follow them very closely, span by span, and cubit
by cubit." It was asked, "O Allah's Messenger (saws)! Do you mean by
those (nations) the Persians (polytheists) and the Byzantines
(Christians)?" The Prophet (saws) said, "Who can it be other than
they?"
Sahih Al-Bukhari
Hadith 9.237 Narrated by Abu
Huraira
Allah's Messenger
(saws) said, "The Hour will not be established (1) till two big groups
fight each other whereupon there will be a great number of casualties on both
sides and they will be following one and the same religious doctrine, (2) till
about thirty Dajjals (liars) appear, and each one of them will claim that he is
a Prophet, (3) till the religious knowledge is taken away (by the death of
religious scholars) (4) earthquakes will increase in number (5) time will pass
quickly, (6) afflictions will appear, (7) ‘Al-Harj’ (i.e., killing) will
increase, (8) till wealth will be in abundance--so abundant that a wealthy
person will worry lest nobody should accept his ‘Zakat’, and whenever he will
present it to someone, that person (to whom it will be offered) will say, 'I am
not in need of it,' (9) till the people compete with one another in
constructing high buildings, (10) till a man when passing by a grave of someone
will say, 'Would that I were in his place,' (11) and till the sun rises from
the West.”
Sahih Al-Bukhari
Hadith 1.56 Narrated by Abu Huraira
While the Prophet
(saws) was saying something in a gathering, a Bedouin came and asked him,
"When would the Hour take place?"
Allah's Messenger (saws) replied: "When honesty is lost, then wait
for the Hour." The Bedouin asked, "How will that be lost?" The
Prophet (saws) said, "When power or authority comes in the hands of
persons without merit, then wait for the Hour."
Sahih Al-Bukhari
Hadith 1.47 Narrated by Abu Huraira
Amongst the
descriptions of the portents of the Hour, the Messenger of Allah (saws) said
are:
‘1. When a slave (lady) gives birth to her
master.
2. When the shepherds of black camels start
boasting and competing with others in the construction of higher buildings.’
Sahih Al-Bukhari
Hadith 9.231 Narrated by Abu
Huraira
The Prophet (saws)
said: "The Hour will not be established till a man passes by a grave of
somebody and says, 'Would that I were in his place.' "
Al-Tirmidhi Hadith
5448 Narrated by Anas ibn Malik
Allah's Messenger
(saws) said, "The Last Hour will not come before time contracts, a year
being like a month, a month like a week, a week like a day, a day like an hour,
and an hour like the kindling of a fire!"
Sahih Al-Bukhari
Hadith 8.503 Narrated by Abu
Huraira
Allah's Messenger
(saws) said, "When honesty is lost, then wait for the Hour." It was
asked, "How will honesty be lost, O Allah's Apostle?" He said,
"When authority is given to those who do not deserve it, then wait for the
Hour."
Anas reports that the Messenger of Allah (saws) said: "The
Hour will not come to pass until the people will vie with each other in
(building) the mosques, but very few will attend (the mosques)."
Related by Ahmad, Abu Dawud, Nasa'i, Ibn Majah, Ibn Hibban, and
Ibn Khuzaimah.
Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith
8.800A Narrated by Anas
I heard the Prophet
(saws) saying, "From among the portents of the Hour is that the religious
knowledge will be taken away (by the death of religious Scholars) and general
ignorance (of religion) will appear; and the drinking of alcoholic drinks will
be very common, and (open) illegal sexual intercourse will prevail, and men
will decrease in number while women will increase so much so that, for fifty
women there will only be one man to look after them."
Amongst the ‘major’ Signs
of the Hour are:
Sahih Muslim Hadith
6931 Narrated by Hudhayfah ibn Usayd
Ghifari
Allah's Messenger
(saws) came to us all of a sudden as we were (busy in a discussion) and asked:
‘What do you discuss about?’ (The Companions) said: ‘We are discussing about
the Last Hour, O Messenger of Allah (saws)” Thereupon the Prophet (saws) said:
‘It will not come until you see ten signs before and (in this connection) he
(saws) made a mention of (1) the smoke, (2) (advent of the )Dajjal, (3) the
(emergence of the) Beast, (4) the rising of the sun from the west, (5) the
descent of Isa (a.s.), son of Mary, (6) The (emergence of the tribes of) Gog
and Magog, and (7) landslides in three places, one in the east, one in the west
and one in Arabia at the end of which a fire would burn forth from the Yemen,
and would drive people to the place of their assembly.’
Sahih Al-Bukhari
Hadith 4.401 Narrated by Auf bin
The Prophet (saws)
said: "Count six Signs that indicate the approach of the Hour: my death,
the conquest of Jerusalem, a plague that will afflict you (and kill you in
great numbers) as the plague that afflicts sheep, the increase of wealth to
such an extent that even if one is given one hundred Dinars, he will not be
satisfied; then an affliction which no Arab house will escape, and then a truce
between you and Bani Al-Asfar (i.e. the Christians) who will betray you and
attack you under eighty flags. Under each flag will be twelve thousand
soldiers.’
The truth of the matter is that
the Hour or Day of Judgment will be established when Allah Subhanah Decrees it
to be established, and Allah Subhanah Alone Knows how near or how far that
exact time is! But what one must know
for sure and with absolute conviction is that when one’s last breath goes in
and does not come out, without an iota of a doubt, their ‘Hour’ will definitely
be established!!!!
Sahih Al-Bukhari
Hadith 8.518 Narrated by Aisha
Some Bedouins
(desert Arabs) used to visit the Prophet (saws) and ask him, "When will
the Hour be established?" He (saws) would look at the youngest of all of
them and say, "If this (ie. the youngest one) should live till he is very
old, ‘your Hour’ (the death of the people addressed) will take place!"
Whatever written of
Truth and benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever
of error is of me alone. Allah Alone
Knows Best and He is the Only Source of Strength.
Your brother and
well wisher in Islam,
Burhan
