The Alarm of Doomsday

should be devoid of the remembrance of God’s Glory in such a situation. Fitnah Duhaima: An Age of Utter Confusion A tradition of the Prophet of Islam talks of fitnah duhaima or the age of utter confusion in these words, “There will be the trial of utter darkness which will leave none of this community without giving him a slap.” (Sunan Abu Dawood, Hadith No. 4242) Fitnah Duhaima means ‘pitch darkness’. The tradition tells us that grave fitnah, fitnah duhaima, will appear at the end of human history. Here the question arises as to what reason there could be for this enveloping darkness. Why would people find themselves in a jungle of intellectual darkness and confusion? When we think deeply about it, we find that this will happen with many writers and speakers. History tells us that this is the first time there has been any such situation. For the first time in human history, with the advent of the printing press, innumerable books have been printed and published. Then after electronic media came into vogue, a whole new world came into existence—radio, TV, the internet, and social media. Such significant quantities of information of all kinds are being fed into the internet that more