Asalam o alikum wa rahmatoAllah wa barakatuh
Prophet Mohamed (PBUH) said, “The Hour will not be established until the sun rises from the West: and when the people see it, then whoever will be living on the surface of the earth will have faith, and that is (the time) when no good will it do to a soul to believe then, if it believed not before.”
We understand from this Hadith (saying) that the sun will rise from the west, but Allah said in Quran that the sun runs toward its stopping point, and He also said that the sun does not reach the moon. Therefore, these two verses prove that the sunrise and sunset are fixed and do not change, so what is the meaning of the sun will rise from the west?
• Quran (36:38) And the sun runs [on course] toward its stopping point. That is the determination of the Exalted in Might, the Knowing.
• Quran (36:40) It is not allowable for the sun to reach the moon, nor does the night overtake the day, but each, in an orbit, is swimming.
Allah said in Quran that the sun is a shining light, so when the sun rises from the west, means that the light of Allah (Islam) will shine from the west, meaning that Allah will guide westerns to Islam.
• Quran (10: (5) It is He who made the sun a shining light and the moon a derived light and determined for it phases…
The Prophet continues the Hadith and says that a soul will not benefit from faith if it had not previously believed once the sun rises from the west. But Allah said in Quran that He will continue to accept man’s repentance until death comes to him, that means, until he sees the angel of death or if he knows that he will die within a short time due to a serious illness or has been sentenced to death for a crime he committed, only then the repentance will not be accepted, so what did the Messenger of Allah mean by this?
• Quran (4:17) The repentance accepted by Allah is only for those who do wrong in ignorance [or carelessness] and then repent soon after. It is those to whom Allah will turn in forgiveness, and Allah is ever Knowing and Wise. (18) But repentance is not [accepted] of those who [continue to] do evil deeds up until, when death comes to one of them, he says, “Indeed, I have repented now,” or of those who die while they are disbelievers. For them We have prepared a painful punishment.
The Messenger of Allah meant with this is that what Allah said in verse (6:158) which says (some of the signs of your Lord will come) which means that when death comes to man i.e. he knows that he will die in a short time as I explained above, because the Prophet said that the door of repentance is open until the soul reaches the throat.
• Prophet Mohamed (PBUH) said: Allah accepts a servant’s repentance till his spirit gargle. The gargling is: when the soul reaches the throat.
• Quran (6:158) Do they [then] wait for anything except that the angels should come to them or your Lord should come or that there come some of the signs of your Lord? The Day that some of the signs of your Lord will come no soul will benefit from its faith as long as it had not believed before or had earned through its faith some good. Say, “Wait. Indeed, we [also] are waiting.”
There is one east and one west on earth, but Allah said in Quran: the Lord of the two easts and Lord of the two wests. Well, The first East is that the sun rises (the spread of Islam) from the Arabian Peninsula, and the first west is that the sun (Islam) was absent from the West such as America and Europe, while the second East is the transition of Islam to the West such as America and Europe, meaning that God will guide westerns to Islam and the second West is that Islam will disappear from the Arab Peninsula, meaning, they will become infidels, because the Prophet said that Satan will appear in Najd, and Najd is the Arabian Peninsula.
• Prophet Mohamed said: O Allah! Bless our Sham and our Yemen. People said, Our Najd as well. The Prophet again said, O Allah! Bless our Sham and Yemen. They said again, Our Najd as well. On that the Prophet said, There will appear earthquakes and afflictions, and from there will come out the side of the head of Satan.
• Quran (55:17) (He is) Lord of the two Easts and Lord of the two Wests
This is what I understood from the Quran, if anyone has any suggestion, please share it with us. This and Allah knows best!
