GLOBAL WARMING OR WARNING

over the world have been giving us the news that as a result of global warming, huge reservoirs of ice are continuously melting. The glaciers and the ice of the North and South Poles are fast melting resulting in a rise in global sea levels. It is ‘Global Warming’ which is causing all this climatic change. Scientists have also predicted that, very soon, all the ice will melt, resulting in a severe flood, which will be of a far greater magnitude than Noah’s Flood. This flood will engulf the earth and the entire population of the world will be destroyed. The Prophet made it clear that human beings had not been settled on earth for all eternity; that a time would come when the present inhabited world would come to an end and be replaced by another world. Here good will be rewarded and evil will be punished. A time will come when the present inhabited world will come to an end and be replaced by another world. In the 7th century, the Prophet of Islam said that the distance between him and Doomsday was only that between his two fingers (Sahih al Bukhari, Kitab ar Riqaq). The phenomenon of global warming shows that this distance has now been covered and that the climatic change, as the scientists have predicted, has now reached the point of being irreversible. What was to happen has already happened. The final day has come very close. Now the time has ultimately come when man has to change himself: he has to abandon the way of disobedience to God and opt for the path of obedience to Him. Nature is silently calling upon man to mend his ways before he finds that he has no further opportunity to do so.