Story of the Day "Dooms Day"

2012 As End Of The WORLD

Dooms Day "Islamic View".

Signs Before the End of The World
The exact time of the Doomsday is given neither in Qur’an nor in Hadith. But Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) have pointed out the distinctive signs in Hadiths and in Qur’anic verses, which will happen near to the last hour constantly warned the believers for the appointed day.
There are major and minor signs that point to the Doomsday event. Here are 68 minor signs and 12 major signs before the Doomsday.
The Major Signs:
Although they appear here in no particular order, it is important to point out that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said that these last, major signs will follow each other like pearls falling off of a necklace…

1. Coming of Masih ad-Dajjal (The AntiChrist)
2. Arrival of The Mahdi
3. The appearance of Masih al-Isa (Jesus Christ), the son of Mary (peace be upon him)
4. Yajuj and Majuj (Gog and Magog)
5. The destruction of the Kabah and the recovery of its treasure
6. Emergence of the Beast
7. The smoke
8. Three major landslides (one in the East, one in the West, and one on the Arabian peninsula)
9. The wind will take the souls of the believers
10. The rising of the sun from the west
11. The fire will drive the people to their final gathering place
12. Three blasts of the trumpet (fear & terror, death, resurrection).      

The Minor Signs:

1. The disappearance of knowledge and the appearance of ignorance (Bukhari, Muslim, Ibn Majah, & Ahmad)
2. Books/writing will be widespread and (religious) knowledge will be low (Ahmad)
3. Adultery and fornication will be prevalent (The Prophet, peace be upon him, said that this has never happened without new diseases befalling the people, which their ancestors had not known.) (Bukhari, Muslim, Ibn Majah, & Al-Haythami)
4. When fornication becomes widespread among your leaders (The Prophet, peace be upon him, said that this will happen when the people stop forbidding evil) (Ibn Majah)
5. Adultery and fornication will be performed in the open
6. The consumption of intoxicants will be widespread (Bukhari & Muslim)
7. Women will outnumber men……eventually 50:1 (Bukhari, Muslim, & Ahmad)
8. Killing, killing, killing (Bukhari, Muslim, Ibn Majah, & Ahmad)
9. The nations of the earth will gather against the Muslims like hungry people going to sit down to a table full of food. This will occur when the Muslims are large in number, but “like the foam of the sea”.
10. People will beat others with whips like the tails of oxen (Muslim) ?The Slave Trade
11. The children will be filled with rage (at-Tabarani, al-Hakim)
12. Children will be foul (at-Tabarani, al-Hakim)
13. Women will conspire (at-Tabarani, al-Hakim)
14. Rain will be acidic or burning (at-Tabarani, al-Hakim)
15. Children of fornication will become widespread or prevalent (at-Tabarani, al-Hakim)
16. When a trust becomes a means of making a profit (at-Tirmidhi, Al-Haythami)
17. Gains will be shared out only among the rich, with no benefit to the poor (at-Tirmidhi)
18. Paying zakat becomes a burden and miserliness becomes widespread; charity is given reluctantly (at-Tirmidhi & Al-Haythami)
19. Miserliness will be thrown into the hearts of people (Bukhari)
20. Episodes of sudden death will become widespread (Ahmad)
21. There will be people who will be brethren in public but enemies in secret (He was asked how that would come about and replied, “Because they will have ulterior motives in their mutual dealings and at the same time will fear one another.”) (at-Tirmidhi)
22. When a man obeys his wife and disobeys his mother; and treats his friend kindly while shunning his father (at-Tirmidhi)
23. When voices are raised in the mosques (at-Tirmidhi)
24. People will walk in the marketplace with their thighs exposed
25. Great distances will be traversed in short spans of time
26. The people of Iraq will recieve no food and no money due to oppression by the Romans (Europeans) (Muslim)
27. People will hop between the clouds and the earth
28. A tribulation will enter everyones home (Ahmad)
29. The leader of a people will be the worst of them (at-Tirmidhi)
30. Leaders of people will be oppressors (Al-Haythami)
31. People will treat a man with respect out of fear for some evil he might do (at-Tirmidhi)
32. Men will begin to wear silk (at-Tirmidhi)
33. Female singers and musical instruments will become popular (at-Tirmidhi)
34. When singers become common (Al-Haythami)
35. People will dance late into the night
36. When the last ones of the Ummah begin to curse the first ones (at-Tirmidhi)
37. People will claim to follow the Qur’an but will reject hadith & sunnah (Abu Dawood)
38. People will believe in the stars (Al-Haythami)
39. People will reject al-Qadr (the Divine Decree of Destiny) (Al-Haythami)
40. Time will pass rapidly (Bukhari, Muslim, & Ahmad)
41. Good deeds will decrease (Bukhari)
42. Smog will appear over cities because of the evil that they are doing
43. People will be carrying on with their trade, but their will only be a few trustworthy persons
44. Wealth will increase so much so that if a man were given 10,000, he would not be content with it (Ahmad & Bukhari)
45. A man will pass by a grave and wish that he was in their place (Bukhari)
46. Earthquakes will increase (Bukhari & Muslim)
47. There will be attempts to make the deserts green
48. The appearance of false messengers (30 dajjals) (Bukhari)
49. Women will be naked in spite of being dressed, these women will be led astray & will lead others astray (Muslim)
50. The conquest of Constantinople by the Muslims (Ahmad)
51. The conquest of India by the Muslims, just prior to the return of Jesus, son of Mary (peace be upon both of them)(Ahmad, an-Nisa’i, at-Tabarani, al-Hakim)
52. When people begin to compete with others in the construction of taller buildings (Bukhari)
53. There will be a special greeting for the people of distinction (Ahmad)
54. The Euphrates will disclose a treasure (The Prophet, peace be upon him, said that whoever is present should not take anything from it) (Bukhari & Muslim)
55. Two large groups, adhering to the same religious teaching will fight each other with large numbers of casualties (Bukhari & Muslim)
56. Wild animals will be able to talk to humans (Ahmad)
57. A man will leave his home and his thigh or hip will tell him what is happening back at his home (Ahmad)
58. Years of deceit in which the truthful person will not be believed and the liar will be believed (Ahmad)
59. Bearing false witness will become widespread (Al-Haythami & Ahmad)
60. When men lie with men and women lie with women (Al-Haythami)
61. Trade will become so widespread that a woman will be forced to help her husband in business (Ahmad)
62. A woman will enter the workforce out of love for this world (Ahmad)
63. Arrogance will increase in the earth (at-Tabarani, al-Hakim)
64. Family ties will be cut (Ahmad)
65. There will be many women of child-bearing age who will no longer give birth.
66. There will be an abundance of food, much of which has no blessing in it.
67. People will refuse when offerred food.
68. Men will begin to look like women and women will begin to look like men

Islam and Doomsday
Islam believes in Doomsday - a day when the entire world will be destroyed. This day is called “Day of judgement.”
Holy Quran has explicitly stated this “Verily, Allah! With Him (Alone) is the knowledge of the Hour“ (Surah Luqman 31/34).
So there is no indication in Quran or the saying of the prophet Muhammad (SA)  that 2012 is the end of the world - according to what projected by the mayan calender, and as potrayed by the movie.

 Maya Calender

The Calendar -- A Descrption
First, the Mayan calendar is also sometimes called the Aztec Calendar. This calendar is recorded as a carving on the Aztec "sun stone," currently on exhibit in the National Museum of Anthropology and History located within Chapultepec Park, Mexico City. There's a lot we could say about this carved stone but most of those details are irrelevant to the "end times."
Our modern calendar, called the Gregorian Calendar, has days, weeks, months and years. In the Mayan Calendar it's more complex. In fact, it's really three calendars at the same time.
First there's a religious calendar that takes 260 days to complete a full religious cycle. There are 20 "weeks" made up of 13 days. Each week has a special name, a graphic logo and unique meaning associated with it. This reminds me of the Chinese years which cycle through "the year of the rat" and "the year of the monkey," etc., each with it's special image and meaning.

Graphic logos for each of the 20 religious weeks. Next there is the solar calendar. This has 365 days, like our modern calendar. It's divided in 18 months of 20 days each. At the end of the cycle there's five special days considered to be unlucky because they don't belong to any month. Each of the months has a special name, graphic logo and some special significance, similar to the icons for the weeks in the religious calendar.
So it is possible, for any specific date, the calculate the religious week and the solar month and to predict the influences that might be guiding fate. But that's not really what's involved with the prophecy of 2012. To understand that we must look at the third calendar, called the long count.
While the first two cycles could be thought of as cogs or gears (see below) revolving through time, the long count is a linear number of days, starting from the first day, "1," and counting through each day to the present. Any day in history can be recorded using the long count and, with some simple mathematics, the corresponding religious week and solar month can also be found.
In writing this article, I thought about creating a javascript program that would do this calculation. My friend, Gene Matlock, then told me that when he was in Mexico, he found a place that sold wooden, mechanical calculators with gears that did just that. He said that Mexicans sometimes used these mechanical calendars to foretell the future or to find auspicious times for special events like marriage or births. Anyway, although it might be nice to know the religious and solar significance, it's the long count that foretells Doomsday.

Cog or "gears" can be used to compute the religious and solar cycles for any date. The days of the long count are numbered with an unusual system. Instead of writing numbers as we do, from right to left with each place being a multiple of 10 (i.e. 10000, 1000, 100, 10, 1), the Mayans had only 5 places.
The first place recorded a number from 0 to 20. To the left, the second place could have a range from 0 to 17; the third from 0 to 19; the fourth from 0 to 19 and the last from 0 to 12. The numbers were written from right to left, like our system, separated by a dot. Instead of multiples of 10, the first place had a multiple of 1 (like our system); the second place a multiple of 20; the third a multiple of 360; the fourth a multiple of 7200 and the fifth a multiple of 144000.
So a long count number, for example, could be written as 4.12.5.9.0 and would be calculated as follows:
(4 x 144000) + (12 x 7200) + (5 x 360) + (9 x 20) + (0 x 1) or a long count of 664,380.
It's not too difficult to realize that the maximum number which can be recorded this way would be 12.19.19.17.20, although some researchers like to write it as 13.0.0.0.0. This amounts to a long count number of 1,872,000 days or 5125.36 years of our modern calculations. Obviously, the calendar is very old!
Over the years, archaeologists have found carved monuments that recorded the long count for known dates in Mayan history. Once a date was fixed in time, it was easy to determine "day 1" as August 11th, 3114 BC. And it was also easy to calculate the date at which the calendar would end -- December 21st, 2012.

The 'Comalcalco Brick' [right], is the second fragment known to reference to Dec. 21, 2012 or Dec. 23, 2012. The date inscribed on the brick is a 'Calendar Round', a combination of a day and month position that will repeats every 52 years. The brick date does coincide with the end of the 13th Baktun; Baktuns were roughly 394-year periods and 13 was a significant, sacred number for the Mayas. The Mayan Long Count calendar begins in 3114 B.C., and the 13th Baktun ends around Dec. 21, 2012. The third glyph on the brick seems to read as the verb huli, "he/she/it arrives." Both inscriptions — the Tortuguero tablet and the Comalcalco brick -- were probably carved about 1,300 years ago and both are cryptic in some ways. The Tortuguero inscription describes something that is supposed to occur in 2012 involving Bolon Yokte, a mysterious Mayan god associated with both war and creation. However, erosion and a crack in the stone make the end of the passage almost illegible, though some read the last eroded glyphs as perhaps saying, "He will descend from the sky."

Trust me, just because the calendar ends doesn't prove that time, or the world, or life will end. We need to look carefully at December 21, 2012 and try to understand why the Mayans never calculated a date beyond this point in time. To do this we must move from Archaeology to the science of Astronomy and Astrophysics.
It's all about the Sun
It's ironic (or maybe not) that the Mayan Calendar is often called the "sun stone." While the calendar does have "solar" days, acknowledging the 365 days it takes for Earth to rotate around the Sun, it is also true that the Sun plays a key role in the final day of the "long count." To understand what will happen to the Sun on December 21, 2012, we need to review some scientific terms like "ecliptic," "barycenter," and "sunspots." These are important in the discussion that follows. We'll start with the most difficult one first.

Terms we will encounter...What is the Barycenter? You've no doubt heard that Earth revolves around the sun. Well, actually, that's not quite true! Have you heard the term "center of gravity"? It's a technical-sounding term for something pretty simple. It's the exact center of all the material (that is, mass) that makes up the object. For example, if you have a straight stick, like a ruler or yardstick, there's a place at the middle where you can balance it on your finger. That's its center of gravity. But the center of gravity may or may not be the point that is exactly in the middle, distance-wise, of the object. Some parts of the object may be heavier (denser) than others. If you have something like a sledge hammer that is heavier on one end than the other, the center of gravity will be much closer to the heavy end than the lighter end. To get an idea of where the center of gravity is, rest the ends of any object like the ruler or a pencil on one finger from each hand. Slowly move your fingers together without dropping the object. Your fingers will meet underneath the object's center of gravity. You can balance the object on one finger at that special place. The actual center of gravity could be close to the surface or deep inside, depending on whether the object is flat like a ruler or a dinner plate, or "three-dimensional," like a box or a ball. And if you let the object spin (like when you throw it), it will try to spin about that point. In the case of the Earth and the sun, both bodies actually revolve, or spin, around the very center of the mass (similar to center of gravity) between them. This point is called the "barycenter." Earth and the sun are "connected" by the gravity pulling them together. It's just like the light end and heavy end of the sledge hammer. Compared to the size of the sun, Earth is about like a flea on a cat! So the center of mass between the Earth and the sun is almost--but not quite--the very center of the sun. In the case of a planet the size of Jupiter, which is 318 times as massive as Earth, the barycenter of Jupiter and the sun is a bit further from the sun's center. So, as Jupiter revolves around the sun, the sun itself is actually revolving around this slightly off-center point, located just outside its center. Thus, a planet the size of Jupiter will make the sun (or any star) appear to wobble a tiny bit. This picture shows you that the center of mass and barycenter can be slightly different points. It isn't meant to be very accurate! We can take advantage of this bit of knowledge and look for large planets in other solar systems by learning to detect this type of tiny wobble in the star's position.

For now, let's forget all the small planets and focus on Jupiter. It makes one complete trip around the Sun every 11.861773 years. There's a new theory put forth by Dr. Rollin Gillespie which shows that Jupiter, and to a smaller degree the other less massive planets, may trigger the 11 year cycle of sunspots and solar flares.