Eschatology Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====Sunni==== Sunnis believe the dead will then stand in a grand assembly, awaiting a scroll detailing their righteous deeds, sinful acts and ultimate judgment.<ref group="note">{{qref|74|38|b=y}}</ref><ref name="muhammad59">{{cite journal|last=Muhammad|first=S. Umar|title=Muslims' Eschatological Discourses on Colonialism in Northern Nigeria|journal=Journal of the American Academy of Religion|volume=67|issue=1|year=1999|publisher=Oxford University Press|pages=59–84|jstor=1466033|doi=10.1093/jaarel/67.1.59}}</ref> Muhammad will be the first to be resurrected.<ref>Esposito, John (2003). The Oxford Dictionary of Islam. Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|0-19-512558-4}}, p.264</ref> Punishments will include ''adhab'', or severe pain and embarrassment, and ''khizy'' or shame.<ref name="WimEoQ">"Reward and Punishment", ''Encyclopedia of the Qur'an''(2005)</ref> There will also be a punishment of the grave between death and the resurrection.<ref>Leor Halevi, https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/04/opinion/04iht-edhalevi.1.5565834.html</ref> Several Sunni scholars explain some of the signs metaphorically. [[File:End times.svg|thumb|Main Stream Sunni Version]] [[File:End Times Events.svg|thumb|Mainstream Islam Timeline]] The signs of the coming end time are divided into [[Islamic eschatology#Major and minor signs|major and minor signs]]: Following the second period, the third is said to be marked by the ten major signs known as ''alamatu's-sa'ah al- kubra'' (The major signs of the end).<ref group="note">Sahih Muslim, Book 41, Hadith 6931</ref> They are as follows: # A huge black cloud of smoke (dukhan) will cover the earth.<ref group="note" name="auto">Sahih Muslim</ref> # Three sinkings of the earth, one in the East.<ref group="note" name="auto"/> # One sinking of the earth in the West.<ref group="note" name="auto"/> # One sinking of the earth in Arabia.<ref group="note" name="auto"/> # The false messiah—anti-Christ, [[Masih ad-Dajjal]]—shall appear with great powers as a one-eyed man with his right eye blind and deformed like a grape. Although believers will not be deceived, he will claim to be God, to hold the keys to heaven and hell, and will lead many astray.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hd5vHqdvp5kC&q=signs+of+day+of+judgment+islam&pg=PT194|title=The Everything Understanding Islam Book: A complete guide to Muslim beliefs, practices, and culture|author=Christine Huda Dodge|page=182|isbn=9781605507248|date=18 April 2009|publisher=F+W Media }}{{Dead link|date=February 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> In reality, his heaven is hell, and his hell is heaven. The Dajjal will be followed by seventy thousand Jews of Isfahan wearing Persian shawls.<ref group="note">Muslim, Book 41, Hadith 7034</ref> # The [[Second coming|return]] of [[Jesus in Islam|Isa]] (Jesus), from the fourth sky, to kill Dajjal.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2wSVQI3Ya2EC&q=signs+of+day+of+judgment+islam&pg=PA28|title=What Everyone Needs To Know About Islam|author=John L. Esposito|page=28|isbn=9780199794133|date=13 July 2011|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA }}</ref> # [[Gog and Magog|''Ya'jooj'' and ''Ma'jooj'']] ([[Gog and Magog]]), a Japhetic tribe of vicious beings who had been imprisoned by [[Dhul-Qarnayn]], will break out. They will ravage the earth, drink all the water of [[Lake Tiberias]], and kill all believers in their way. Isa, [[Muhammad al-Mahdi|Imam Al-Mahdi]], and the believers with them will go to the top of a mountain and pray for the destruction of Gog and Magog. God eventually will send disease and worms to wipe them out.<ref group="note">{{qref|21|96|b=y}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sZr56ZACj7oC&q=signs+of+day+of+judgment+islam&pg=PA46|title=Islam: A Concise Introduction|author=Javed Ahmad Ghamidi|page=46|year=2009}}{{Dead link|date=February 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> # The sun will rise from the West.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.islamweb.net/media/index.php?page=article&lang=A&id=17726|language=ar|script-title=ar:طلوع الشمس من مغربها|trans-title=Rising of the sun from the west}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WGFbR-qgxeIC&q=signs+of+day+of+judgment+islam&pg=PR16|title=Examining Islam in the West|author=Alwi Shihab|page=16|isbn=9789792267716|year=2011|publisher=Gramedia Pustaka Utama }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://waseelah.me/280/1-%d9%85%d9%86-%d8%b9%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%85%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b3%d8%a7%d8%b9%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%83%d8%a8%d8%b1%d9%89/|language=ar|script-title=ar:طلوع الشمس من مغربها|trans-title=Rising of the sun from the west|date=26 March 2018 }}</ref> # The ''[[Beast of the Earth|Dabbat al-ard]]'', or [[Beast of the Earth]], will come out of the ground to talk to people.<ref group="note">{{qref|27|82|b=y}}</ref> # The second blow of the trumpet will be sounded, the dead will return to life, and a fire will come out of [[Yemen]] that shall gather all to Mahshar Al Qiy'amah (The Gathering for Judgment).<ref name="Mahdi22">{{cite book|title=Clarity Amidst Confusion: Imam Mahdi and the End of Time|last=Yahya|first=Harun|date=1 January 2008|publisher=Global Publishing. 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