What is meant by the signs of the Hour?

Question:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Your Eminence, father, the questioner asks: What is the singular of the word "ashrat" (signs), and what is its relationship in meaning to the signs of the Hour?

Answer:
They are the signs of the Hour. The ashrat are the signs. It is said "its ashrat," meaning its signs. The first of them is the sending of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). The signs of the Hour continue to come one after another until the major signs arrive. The major signs that follow one another. Yes. The first of them is the emergence of the Mahdi, then the descent, then the appearance of the Dajjal, then the descent of Jesus, the son of Mary (peace be upon him), who will kill the Dajjal and spread justice on earth and rule by the Shari'ah of Islam. Then the appearance of the Dabbah, then the rising of the sun from the west, then the fire that will gather the people to the place of assembly, driving them to the place of assembly, following one another, some following some. Yes.