The Major Signs of the Hour

Question:
What are the major and minor signs of the Hour? There are many.

Answer:
The signs of the Hour are numerous, including the minor ones, the intermediate ones, and the major ones. As for the minor signs, many of them have already occurred, and likewise, many of the intermediate signs have already occurred. As for the major signs, the first of them is the emergence of the Mahdi, then the emergence of the Dajjal, then the descent of Jesus, the son of Mary (peace be upon him), who will kill him, then the emergence of Gog and Magog, then the emergence of the beast that will mark people by placing a sign on the believer and a sign on the disbeliever, then the sun rising from the west, and this is the last of the signs and the greatest of the signs. Allah the Exalted said: This means the sun rising from the west; if it rises from the west, repentance will not be accepted from anyone who did not repent before that from disbelief and from sins.