Barefoot, Naked Shepherds

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ 

In the famous hadits of Jibril (a.s.), recorded in Swahih Muslim, the Prophet (s.a.w.) was asked of the signs of the Hours.  He replied, “That slave women give birth to their mistresses; and that you see barefoot, unclothed, shepherds competing in the construction of tall buildings.” 

This is echoed in the Bible, in the little-known Book of Zephaniah: 

Zephaniah 1:15-16

15 Day of vengeance, day of strain and stress, day of ransack and ruin; dim and dark, overcast with cloud and storm!  16 City is none so well fortified, pinnacle is none so high in air, but shall hear braying of trumpets and the battle-cry. 

15 ἡμέρα ὀργῆς ἡ ἡμέρα ἐκείνη ἡμέρα θλίψεως καὶ ἀνάγκης ἡμέρα ἀωρίας καὶ ἀφανισμοῦ ἡμέρα σκότους καὶ γνόφου ἡμέρα νεφέλης καὶ ὁμίχλης 16 ἡμέρα σάλπιγγος καὶ κραυγῆς ἐπὶ τὰς πόλεις τὰς ὀχυρὰς καὶ ἐπὶ τὰς γωνίας τὰς ὑψηλάς 

15 Dies iræ dies illa, dies tribulationis et angustiæ, dies calamitatis et miseriæ, dies tenebrarum et caliginis, dies nebulæ et turbinis, 16 dies tubæ et clangoris super civitates munitas, et super angulos excelsos. 

The barefoot, unclothed, shepherds have brought their kufr to Makkah and Madina.




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