The End of the World According to the Quran

Salaamun alaykum, dear readers!

This article is about the Quranic signs and indications for the end of the world.

Signs Showing the End is Near

According to the Quran, all of the preconditions of the Hour have already come to us from God in the Quran. The preconditions are events that must happen before the Hour itself.

[47:18] So do they wait but for the Hour to come to them suddenly? But certainly, its preconditions have come. So what good will their reminder be for them when it has come to them?

Thus, it leaves behind several prophecies and signs that, if they occur, it means the end of the world is coming very soon.

Unveiling of the Mathematical Composition

The first sign that the Hour will be very close is that verse 74:30-31 states that there are 19 angels guarding over Hell, and that their number (the number of the angels, which is the number 19) will one day have five functions.

[74:30] Over it (the Fire) are nineteen.

[74:31] We have made not but angels as custodians of the Fire, and We have not assigned their number (the number 19) except as: (1) a trial for those who have disbelieved, (2) so that those who were given the Book may attain certainty, (3) and that those who believed may increase in faith, (4) and that those given the Book—as well as the believers—may not doubt, (5) and that the ones who have sickness within their hearts—as well as the disbelievers—may say, “What did God intend with this example?” Like that, God sends astray whom He wills, and guides whom He wills; none knows the soldiers of your Lord except He. It is but a reminder for humanity.

The five functions of the number 19 according to verse 74:31 are:

Be a trial for disbelievers,
Cause the People of the Book (Jews and Christians) to attain certainty,
Increase the faith of the believers,
Remove all doubts from the hearts of believers and People of the Book,
Cause people with sickness in their hearts to question the number 19.

All five functions of the number 19 were fulfilled with the discovery of the Quran’s enormous and non-exhaustive 19-based mathematical composition in 1974, proving Islam as the true religion beyond a shadow of doubt.

The Coming of the Messenger of the Covenant

The Quran states in verse 3:81 that every single prophets, including Muhammad, took a covenant with God. In this covenant, God explained to all the prophets that they will be given a scripture to convey and teach. Then afterwards, a messenger (who is not a prophet) will one day come to all of the prophets. When he comes to them, all prophets must pledge their support and faith to him.

The role of this future messenger is to confirm all the scriptures given by the prophets as the truth, beyond a doubt.

[3:81] And when God took the covenant of the prophets: “Definitely, this is what I will give you of Book and wisdom. Then a messenger will come to you as one who will confirm what is with you (the Books, or scriptures). Definitely, you will indeed believe in him and support him.” He said, “Have you agreed and accepted that, My heavy responsibility?” They (all prophets) said, “We have agreed.” He said, “So bear witness, and I am with you among the witnesses.”

Verse 33:7 confirms that even the prophet Muhammad took this covenant alongside the other prophets. That means he too agreed to pledge his support to a future messenger (who will not be a prophet) when that messenger comes to him.

[33:7] And when We took from the prophets their covenant—including from you (Muhammad), Noah, Abraham, Moses, and Jesus, the son of Mary—and We took from them a stern covenant.

So how will a messenger come to all the prophets when all the prophets are long dead? Logically, God must take this future messenger’s soul to some place in the afterlife to meet all the prophets there, and all prophets must fulfill their pledge to place their faith and support in him when he shows up to meet them.

This is what happened in January of 1972, when he came to Mecca for the Hajj: Rashad Khalifa‘s soul was taken up by God to meet the prophets in some place in the universe, he does not know where. He had no idea why this happened at the time, and the only information he was told was that the people in front of him were all the prophets of God, and to not concern himself with this event right now, since it is just something that had to be done.

Then one by one, all prophets came to him, looked him in the eye, and nodded their heads. When Abraham approached him, Rashad found that he had a striking resemblance to his family members so he wondered who this person was, and the answer was communicated mentally: Abraham. This was the only prophet identified to Rashad.

Then Rashad was sent back down to Earth. He was not told of his messengership at that time.

Rashad didn’t know it at the time (he said God explained this to him in 1988) but when he met the prophets, God told the prophets that this person in front of them (Rashad) was the one who was destined to confirm their scriptures, and to confirm all of them, in fulfillment of the covenant they took before the creation. God then asked them if they have accepted.

So when all the prophets, one by one, came up to him, looked him in the eye, and nodded their heads, they were in fact responding to God that they have accepted their pledge to believe and support Rashad.

Manifestation of Islam Over All Religions

The Quran prophesizes that one day, Islam will be manifested over all other religions. To manifest something means to make it clear and obvious. This means the Quran is prophesizing that one day, it will become indisputably clear that Islam is the truth.

[9:33 and 61:9] He is the one who sent His messenger with the guidance and the true religion, so that He may manifest it over every religion even if the ones who associate partners dislike it.

Many people, including Rashad Khalifa himself, have interpreted this to mean that everyone on Earth except Gog and Magog will one day be Muslims.

After all, if the validity of Islam as the truth became manifest and obvious for everyone, then why wouldn’t the world accept it? What would hold them back from doing so?

But the truth is, the word “manifest” means to make clear or make obvious. To give an example, if the law says DUI is illegal, then this warning was manifested, or made clear, by the law.

But even if made clear or manifest, someone can choose to ignore the law and commit DUI anyways.

Another example: the theory of evolution was made “manifest” or proven by mountains of scientific evidence, so there should be a near-100% consensus on it. But even as late as 2020, only 74% of the world believes in evolution.

So even if something was made “manifest” or “obvious”, lots of people will still continue to ignore it.

Likewise, if Islam was made manifest or clear over all religions because evidence came out that confirms Islam beyond all doubts, that doesn’t automatically mean people will stop being non-Muslim. Many will continue believing what they want even if the evidence for Islam is very clear.

Thus, Islam was manifested (made obvious) over all religions in 1974, with the discovery of the 19-based mathematical composition, proving it as the truth beyond a doubt. So the Quran’s prophecy of 19 and the prophecy of Islam being made manifest as the truth both came true at once, thus killing two birds with one stone.

But people continue to have their doubts and follow what they want.

Creature From the Earth

Another sign that the end of the world is near is that the Quran made a prophecy that God will produce a creature from the earth that will convey to people that they have not been certain about God’s signs. That means its speech will have a function of sorting out those who are certain from those who are not certain.

[27:82] And when the word has occurred upon them, We will exit for them a creature from the earth, speaking to them that the people have not been certain of Our signs.

The predominant theory is that the creature from the earth is a literal living creature, unlike any other creature, that will emerge from the Earth to sort out believers and disbelievers. This is true if you read the verse 100% literally.

However, some people (including Rashad Khalifa) have made the theory that the creature is the computer, a non-living creature made of earthly materials, rather than a living creature that will directly come from the Earth.

The theory is that the imagery of a mystical beast coming from the ground to speak to the people may be an allegory or figurative language that refers to the computer (technology made out of earthly materials) communicating God’s signs to the people.

Why? That’s because the computer is an unprecedented instrument used for easy, worldwide communication. The computer responds to commands just as living creatures do, can communicate information like living beings, and has an internal programming just as how DNAs are the internal coding of living beings.

Also, there is no better instrument in existence today for communicating God’s signs to a worldwide audience than a computer.

With the development of AI systems such as ChatGPT, or video platforms like YouTube, or even text-to-speech software, the computer can even literally speak to you like an intelligent being. When you listen to videos, you are not listening to an actual person speaking, but you are listening to the computer speaking to you information that was pre-recorded by others.

Verse 21:30 says that every “dabbah” was made from water. Significant amounts of water are used up for the production of semiconductor chips of computers.

In all, the idea of the computer being the creature mentioned in verse 27:82 is just as valid of a theory as the idea that the creature from verse 27:82 is a magical, talking creature that will physically come out from the ground.

It is worth clarifying, however, that just because the creature comes “from the earth” does not automatically mean the creature is non-living and made from earthly materials. Verses such as 53:32 said that humans (which is a living creature) were “produced from the earth”.

So when verse 27:82 speaks of a creature from the earth, it could very well refer to an actual magical, sentient living creature that comes from the ground.

But let us suppose that the “creature from the earth that can speak” is an allegorical phrase to mean the computer, How would the computer let the people know that they are uncertain about God’s signs?

The Quran’s ultimate miracle was discovered when Rashad put the Quran through a computer program. The computer’s outputs helped inform Rashad of the Quran’s 19-based system.

In other words, the computer “spoke” the Quran’s 19-based composition to Rashad, then Rashad spoke and taught the findings of the computer to the rest of the world.

So if anyone knows about the Quran’s 19-based mathematical structure, which is supposed to bring ultimate certainty to the people according to verse 74:31, yet he disbelieves in the Quran and its miracle anyways, then that person failed to meet the Quran’s criterion of certainty and is therefore confirmed to be uncertain.

In this way, the computer’s speech does the job of sorting out those who are uncertain from those who are certain.

So whether the prophecy of “creature of the earth” was fulfilled or not depends on whether you believe this refers to a literal living, talking creature that will come out from the earth to sort out believers from disbelievers, or whether this metaphorically refers to a computer which was produced by using earthly materials and have the same function (sorting out believers from disbelievers).

Other Signs

There are other signs before the end of the world which have not yet been fulfilled, such as:

The worldwide smoke (verse 44:10).

Gog and Magog (verses 18:94 and 21:96)

The splitting of the moon (verse 54:1)

God Wants the Hour to Be Known

The Quran directly tells us that God intends for the timing of the end of the world to be known one day.

In verse 20:15, God informs us that He almost hides the Hour. That means the Hour is not actually hidden from the public, but it is almost hidden.

[20:15] “Indeed, the Hour is coming, I almost hide it. This is so that every self is repaid for how it strives.”

For example, if someone has an A1c level of 5.6%, they are not actually a prediabetic, because you need to have an A1c of 5.7% to be considered a prediabetic. However, that person is certainly almost a prediabetic.

In the same way, the hour is almost hidden, but “almost hidden” lets us know that the Hour is not actually hidden, and the information is available somewhere.

This is how we know that God wants the people to someday, in the future, find out when the Hour is occurring. If God did not want anyone in the future to find out when the Hour will occur, He would keep the Hour completely hidden, instead of almost hidden.

Okay, so the question now is: if God wants us to know the time, then where did God put the timing?

The Quran is complete (verse 6:115) and has every detail and explanation that a Muslim needs to know to be guided (verses 12:111, 16:89, and 7:52). So if God intends for the public to know in the future when the world will end, and the Quran is not missing any details, then this information is guaranteed to be inside the Quran somewhere.

Also, verse 43:61 confirms that all the knowledge about the Hour that we need (including the time) is contained in the Quran: “And indeed, it (Quran) is definitely a source of knowledge for the Hour. So do not doubt it, and follow Me. This is a straight path.“

Not only that, but God is the only one who knows anything from the unseen. If God wants to make known anything from the unseen (such as the time of future events), He will only do so through a messenger whom He chooses for this purpose. The messenger will be the first to know, and then tell the people.

[72:26-27] The Knower of the Unseen; He does not make His unseen obvious to anyone except a messenger whom He has approved of…”

Therefore, since God wants to make the timing of the Hour (information from the unseen) known to the public someday, He would first make it known through a messenger whom He chooses.

Muhammad was not the messenger chosen to uncover the end of the world, God said that he specifically does not have any access to this knowledge in verse 7:187. The prophet Muhammad, when asked that question, was only told to say that God alone knows its timing, and only God has the power to make the timing known.

[7:187] They question you (Muhammad) of the Hour, “When is its arrival?” Say, “Its knowledge is only with my Lord. None can make known its time except Him. It weighs heavily in the heavens and the earth. It will not come to you except suddenly.” They ask you as if you are knowledgeable of it. Say, “Its knowledge is only with God.” But instead, most of the people do not know.

So this means the timing of the Hour was destined to come out through some other messenger after Muhammad.

The only other messenger after Muhammad mentioned in the Quran is the Messenger of the Covenant (verse 3:81, which is Rashad Khalifa), therefore it is Rashad through whom the people will learn the time the world will end.

All Knowledge Is Only With God, Unless He Chooses to Reveal It

The Quran tells the prophet in verse 7:187 to say that the knowledge of the Hour is only with God. Other verses, such as 41:47, say something similar.

[41:47] To Him is the knowledge of the Hour…

[31:34] Indeed, the knowledge of the Hour is with God…

So someone might say, “If the knowledge is only with God, then why would God cause a messenger after Muhammad to know when the Hour will occur?“

Just because the knowledge of something is only with God now, does not mean that it will remain only with God forever.

For anything unseen, the knowledge is only with God…until He chooses a messenger to reveal that knowledge. When He chooses to reveal that knowledge through a messenger, then that piece of knowledge is no longer only with God.

For example, the knowledge of the Quran used to be unseen information, and it was only with God until He revealed it to prophet Muhammad.

Also, keep in mind that while the Quran says the knowledge of the Hour is with God, verse 43:61 states that the Quran is a source of knowledge of the Hour.

This is clear evidence that the knowledge will remain with God alone until it is discovered from inside the Quran someday in the future.

The Hour Will Come Suddenly…Only to Disbelievers

A common objection may be, “The Quran says the Hour will come suddenly to all people, that means no one can know it’s time in advance, right?“

However, the Quran says the end of the world will only be sudden or come as a surprise to disbelievers. The Quran never once says the Hour will come suddenly to the believers.

[7:187] They (disbelievers) question you (Muhammad) of the Hour, “When is its arrival?” Say, “Its knowledge is only with my Lord. None will reveal its time except Him. It weighs heavily in the heavens and the earth. It will not come to you (disbelievers) except suddenly.”…

We know that this verse is only addressing the disbelievers because from verses 7:182 to 7:186, the only people being addressed are the disbelievers. The disbelievers during the time of the prophet were known to have asked him questions like this to mock his status as prophet.

Therefore, the Hour will come suddenly for the disbelievers, including any disbelievers in Rashad’s messengership who deny that the timing of the Hour is in the Quran.

But to those who actually understand what the Quran is saying (that the timing of the Hour is hidden in the Quran, and a messenger will one day discover it) will know in advance the timing of the Hour and prepare for it; it will not be a sudden event to them.

Here is a list of all the other verses of the Quran that contain the word “suddenly” (baghtah) in connection with the Hour:

[43:65-66] But the parties differed amongst themselves, so woe to the ones who committed wrongdoing, from the punishment of a painful Day. Do they (wrongdoers) wait but for the Hour, that it should come to them suddenly, while they do not realize?

[47:18] So do they (disbelievers) wait but for the Hour to come to them suddenly? But certainly, its preconditions have come. So what good will their reminder be for them (disbelievers) when it has already come to them?

[29:55] But the ones who disbelieved will not cease to be in doubt of it until the Hour comes to them suddenly, or the punishment of a barren Day comes to them.

[6:37] Certainly, the ones who denied the meeting of God have lost. Until when the Hour came to them suddenly, they said, “Oh, our regret over what we have neglected concerning it!”…

So that is the full list of every single in the Quran that the word “suddenly” (baghtah) appears in when talking about the Hour, and in all of them, the Hour only comes to the disbelievers suddenly, not the believers.

The Timing of the Hour

Okay, so if the Messenger of the Covenant (Rashad Khalifa) is the one that is destined to uncover the timing of the end of the world, then what is it? What year did Rashad say it will happen?

During the year 1980, sometime before Rashad Khalifa was informed of his messengership near the end of that year, he discovered the major clue that the Quran leaves behind for the timing of the end of the world, and concluded that the world will end in 1710 AH in the Islamic calendar, which is the year 2280 CE in today’s Gregorian calendar.

So how did Rashad find the timing end of the world? The answer is found in Surah 15, verses 85 through 87.

[15:85-87] And we have not created the heavens and the earth except with the truth. And indeed, the Hour is definitely coming, so overlook with the beautiful overlooking. Indeed, Your Lord is the Knowledgeable Creator. And certainly, We have definitely given you seven of the pairs, and the Great Quran.

These are the only verses in the Quran where God provided significant information about the time of the Hour.

Verse 15:85 states that the Hour is coming and everything will be destroyed. Then verse 15:86 states afterward that God is the Knowledgeable Creator. That means God is knowledgeable of everything about his creation (the heavens and the earth), including when his creation will be destroyed.

Then verse 15:87 declares that seven pairs (sab’an min al-mathani) of something were given to us in the Quran. What use does the seven pairs have? Why did God give it to us?

Immediately before this, the end of the world was mentioned, thus implying that the seven pairs are something given to us for some reason, and those seven pairs are somehow connected to the Hour.

Now the question is: which seven pairs is this verse talking about?

If there are 14 quantities of any object, then mathematically there are seven pairs of that object, even if those objects are not grouped together into pairs.

Like for example, if there are 14 balls in your yard, there are mathematically seven pairs of balls in your yard even if you didn’t put them together into groups of two.

In the Quran, the only thing that there are 14 quantities of are the 14 Quranic initials that are in the initial verse of 29 Surahs.

So the question is: what on earth does the Quranic initials have to do with the end of the world?

Quranic initials are the mysterious groups of letters that are found in the beginning of some Surahs which don’t form any word. Those initials are:

Alif, Lam, Meem
Ya Seen
Qaf
Saad
Kaaf Ha Ya Ayn Saad
Ayn Seen Qaf
Ta Ha
Ta Seen
Ta Seen Meem
Alif Lam Ra
Alif Lam Meem Ra
Alif Lam Meen Saad
Haa Meem
Noon

Each of the Quranic initials has something known as a “Gematrical Value”. In the past, Arabs did not use a number system separate from their alphabet. Their alphabet was used as numbers. Like for example, the letter Alif represented 1, the letter Ba represented the letter 2, and so on.

So the Quranic initial “Alif Lam Meem” has a total gematrical value (GV) of 1 + 30 + 40, or 71. The Quranic initial “Noon” has a GV of 50. The initial “Ya Seen” has a GV of 10 + 60, which equals 70.

If the GVs of the seven pairs of Quranic initials are added together, this gives a total of 1709.

Thus, the total numerical value of the Quran’s seven pairs is 1709.

So verse 15:87 can, in a way, be interpreted as saying, “We have given you the number 1709, and the Great Quran.”

So there are two criteria that the timing of the Hour must fulfill. The first one is that the time must be a numerical value associated with the Hour that is found in the Quran, and the second one is that a messenger must be the first person to find this numerical value and convey it to the public.

If the Quran states that the timing of the Hour is found in the Quran, but other verse in the Quran besides 15:87 gives a numerical value associated with the Hour, then by process of elimination, the number 1709 has to be the correct time. This criterion is fulfilled.

A messenger (Rashad) was the first to know of this number, hence the second criterion is fulfilled.

1709 Years…According to What Benchmark?

So how does the number 1709 tell us the timing?

The number 1709 is the only number from the Quran which tells us anything about the time that the world will end.

The problem is that there needs to be a widely recognized benchmark, or reference point. The purpose of providing the number 1709 in the Quran is to let the public know the time of the Hour, but that number by itself does not tell us anything. We can only know when the world will end if we attach the number 1709 to an established reference point.

For example, in the Gregorian calendar, the year 1 CE is the reference point for the Gregorian calendar.

Therefore, we must attach the reference point of the Islamic calendar to the number 1709. That means the world must end in 1709 years since the starting year of the Islamic calendar.

Why the Islamic calendar? Because the crescent moons (meaning, the lunar calendar) were established as the timing devices for the people to use to mark all events of religious significance (verse 2:189). That includes the month of Ramadan (verse 2:185) and Hajj (verse 2:197).

The fact that God expects Muslims to be capable of determining the time of the Hour from the Islamic calendar with the number 1709, but does not provide a reference point for the Islamic calendar in the Quran, means that God expects the Muslims to use the reference point established by the people at the time this information is known to recognize the time for the end of the world. The reference point established by the Muslim community is 1 AH, hence that reference point is used.

One interpretation is that the number 1709 is the exact lunar year in which the end of the world will take place (1709 AH). Another interpretation is that the world will take place in year 1710 AH, after 1709 complete lunar years have passed. The third interpretation is that the end of the world will start in year 1709 AH, and be completed by year 1710 AH. So, which one is it?

The Quran tells us in verse 46:15 that the human being should repent and become Muslim by the time he has “reached 40 years” rather than “reached year 40”. This means the rule applies to when he has lived for 40 full years on Earth.

The Quran also mentions three days of fasting to expiate for breaking a serious, contracted oath. That means the fasting does not end on day 3, but it ends after 3 full days have been completed.

When the Quran states that Noah remained amongst his people for 950 years, that means he was with them for 950 full years and left in the 951st year.

There are other examples in the Quran, but you get the point. All of the Quranic evidence points towards the second interpretation, meaning after 1709 full lunar years have passed, the world will end.

The year 1710 AH is when 1709 full lunar years will pass, hence that is when the world will come to an end. Rashad found from verse 15:87 that the world will end in 1710 AH.

The year 1710 AH corresponds to the year 2280 CE on the Gregorian calendar.

This may or may not be just a coincidence, but both numbers are a multiple of 19. In any case, being a multiple of 19 is not a criterion for the timing of the end of the world.

1710 = 19 x 90
2280 = 19 x 120

Clarifying Rashad’s Interpretation

In January 1990, Rashad published a newsletter headlined, “Mark My Words: Here Is What Will Happen to the Disbelievers.”

Then he outlined his personal interpretation of the smoke prophecy, saying that an asteroid will hit somewhere in the Middle East and cause the smoke.

Keep in mind that unlike what some of Rashad’s followers may think, this is not a divine prophecy given to him, because Rashad said those were “my words” in the headline. This indicates that Rashad is making a prediction from himself about how he thinks the smoke will happen, using his words, not God’s words.

The second headline in this newsletter said, “Here Is What Almighty God Said.” In this section, when talking about what God said, Rashad quoted the Quran’s verses about the smoke prophecy, and did not mention the existence of any revelation about the smoke that came to him outside the Quran.

This shows that Rashad is basing his prediction only on what was already stated in the Quran.

So what is the basis for such an interpretation? Why an asteroid? Why the Middle East?

Rashad explains in this newsletter that the smoke is stated in the Quran to be a worldwide phenomenon, and scientists know that such a thing can naturally happen only when an asteroid strikes the Earth, so that is why he is sure an asteroid will cause it. There is no divine asteroid prophecy that Rashad received from God.

If you listen to Quranic Study Audio Number 4 on YouTube, Rashad further justifies his claim by mentioning the Chicxulub asteroid that caused the smoke that wiped out the dinosaurs.

And why did Rashad believe the asteroid will strike the Middle East specifically? That is because Arabs were the strongest, most vocal, and most hostile opponents of him and his message when he was alive. Also, the Middle East is the birthplace of the corruption of Islamic doctrine, because it was where Quran alone Islam first became replaced with Sunni Islam.

Rashad has in the past recounted attempts from Arabs to bribe him into silence, to buy out all the copies of one of his books (The Perpetual Miracle of Muhammad) and destroy them, and to mislead non-Muslims from learning about the Quran’s 19-based mathematical system. He stated that since the beginning, the Arabs have spent millions of dollars disputing Rashad about number 19 being the Qur’an’s miracle, instead of promoting it.

The Quran says that if people turn away, they will be replaced with other people (47:38). Rashad believed the Arabs turned away due to their opposition to his message and his messengership, hence he believed God will destroy them someday and replace them with other people.

A group of prominent Saudi scholars in the 11th Islamic Fiqh Council (IFC) meeting in Mecca, whose chairman Abdullah ibn Baz later became Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti, created a ruling that labelled Rashad Khalifa as an apostate and urged the public to never cooperate with him. They also falsely accused Rashad of calling himself a prophet. In Sunni Islam, being labelled an apostate is a death sentence.

He has personally witnessed receiving support and encouragement from people of many different nationalities and ethnicities, but not a single Arab.

During a conference, one non-Muslim listed out all the reasons why the Quran is false and likely the hallucinations of Muhammad. But when Rashad presented the Quran’s 19-based structure and showed why Muhammad couldn’t have fabricated it, the Arabs in the audience were enraged and criticized Rashad, instead of directing their anger at the non-Muslim who accused Muhammad of hallucinations.

The prophet Muhammad will complain about his “qawm” (people) on Judgement Day (the Arab tribe of Quraysh, which still exists today), saying they have abandoned the Quran, according to verse 25:30.

So we cannot really say for sure that the smoke prophecy will definitely be fulfilled by an asteroid, or whether such an asteroid will indeed hit Arabia specifically. But this is just to show you Rashad’s thinking process when coming to this conclusion.

For every messenger, there is the difference between their personal understanding and what was revealed to them; one is important for Islam, and the other should be approached with caution.

Conclusion

So, we know for that universe will be ending in 255 years.

And we know that 3 out of 7 signs of the Hour (the messenger, the prophecy of 19, and the manifestation of Islam as the truth over all religions) have already been fulfilled all at once, with the coming of Rashad Khalifa.

So the main question for us all is: what will you do now to prepare for this upcoming meeting with God?

Your duty as a Muslim is not just to read the Quran, do Salat, fast in Ramadan, or do the Hajj. It is also doing as much good in this world as possible.

That means fixing what needs to be fixed, breaking what needs to be broken, and helping those who need help as much as possible, within the boundaries of what is Quranically acceptable.

This is the final stretch, so before the end, all of humanity should take a proactive stance and rush towards reformation, justice, and compassion. Humanity should set aside its ego, overattachment to material comforts and the status quo (such that it causes resistance to legitimate reformation efforts), greed, tribalism, rudeness, lack of empathy and respect, and more.

A lot of people might feel great sadness at being seen as a disappointment by their parents, but really, that is nothing compared to the pain of being seen as a big disappointment in the eyes of God. But we only have 255 more years left to change that.