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(lit. "standing"), or the day of resurrection and judgment, is a time which all Muhammadans allow is a perfect secret and known only to God. But they say that the approach of the day of judgment will be known by twenty-five signs.

1. The decay of faith among men.

2. The advancing of the meanest persons to dignity.

3. That a maid-servant shall become the mother of her mistress.

4. Tumults and seditions.

5. A war with the Turks.

6. Great distress in the world.

7. That the provinces of ʾIráq and Syria shall refuse to pay tribute.