The Signs That Keep Intensifying

Then there are the signs that have occurred and continue to intensify. One of them is that the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said that one of the signs would be that intoxicants would be widely used; and one can see this happening in the Muslim world, and just intensifying, from quite some time ago.

Another sign would be nakedness: that people would begin to remove their clothes. And he said that it would get to the point where people would actually walk around in the marketplaces in shorts, with their thighs fully exposed. It is in a hadith: walking in marketplaces with the thighs fully exposed. He said also that people having sexual intercourse in front of other people was a sign of the end of time: that it would get so bad that you would see people fornicating in public places, and the best people would be the ones who would say, can you not do that somewhere else?

Another one would be speed in travel. He said that great distances would be traversed in very short times, and he said also that people would hop between the clouds and the earth. And he said that musical instruments would be everywhere; and that people would dance with instruments on their head, which some have interpreted as headphones — that they would dance with instruments on their head, and they would spend the whole night dancing like that. And he also said that singing women would be prevalent in public spaces, because traditionally that was something people did in private, but he said it would come out into the open, into the public. And he said that there would be many people who would have what he called whisperings: many confused people, who would have a lot of psychological types of problems. One could go on and on. It gets quite depressing. So those are signs.