come under the influence of his deceptive words will learn that
they were nothing but beautifully misleading words.
Global warming or climatic changes as the preliminary
warning Signs of Doomsday
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held that Islam and science are separate from
one another, the subject of Islam being different from the
subjects of science. But there is one respect in which Islam and
science are in total conformity with one another.
And that is, that what science is now making known through
its discoveries has already been made known in Islam through
revelation. The difference is only that Islam had made
predictions about things 15 hundred years ago in the 7
th
century
AD, while science has discovered these same things only in
recent centuries and particularly at the beginning of the 21
st
century.
These predictions include the coming of doomsday, or the
end of human history. What is strange about this is that what
had been predicted in the Quran and Hadith has only now come
to the knowledge of man as facts through scientific observations.
Here are a few relevant examples:
Change occurring on the Planet Earth
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NUMBER
of places it has been recorded in the Quran that
before Doomsday certain signs indicating its approach will
appear. Here is one of the relevant verses:
“On the Day when the earth shall be changed into another
earth, as shall be the heavens, they will all appear before God,
the One, the Most Supreme.” (14:48)
The change in the earth that has been predicted in this verse
will probably not be a sudden change, but will rather be gradual.
Today this is actually happening. It is noteworthy that
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The alarm of Doomsday
