The Hour has drawn near and the moon has split.During the time of the Messenger of God , when it was cleft into two segments, such that one segment disappeared behind Mount al-Ḥirāʾ. This was the first of the signs [of the approach] of the Hour. The following is related from Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī: ‘Once I was with my father in town when the time for the Friday prayer came, so he took me by the hand and went with me to the Friday prayer. Then Hudhayfa b. al-Yamān rose to the pulpit, praised God and extolled Him, and said, “The Hour has drawn near and the moon has split. Is not the Hour drawing nigh? Has the moon not been cleft asunder? Is this world not fading into decline? Is it not so, that the race track is set today and the race will be on the morrow?” When we went outside again I said, “O Father, will people race each other tomorrow?” He replied “O my son! It’s clear you don’t realise [what he meant by] ‘The race is on the morrow’. He is just saying that whoever works [righteousness] today will excel in the Hereafter.”’ His words, Exalted is He:
, when it was cleft into two segments, such that one segment disappeared behind Mount al-Ḥirāʾ. This was the first of the signs [of the approach] of the Hour. The following is related from Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī: ‘Once I was with my father in town when the time for the Friday prayer came, so he took me by the hand and went with me to the Friday prayer. Then Hudhayfa b. al-Yamān rose to the pulpit, praised God and extolled Him, and said, “The Hour has drawn near and the moon has split. Is not the Hour drawing nigh? Has the moon not been cleft asunder? Is this world not fading into decline? Is it not so, that the race track is set today and the race will be on the morrow?” When we went outside again I said, “O Father, will people race each other tomorrow?” He replied “O my son! It’s clear you don’t realise [what he meant by] ‘The race is on the morrow’. He is just saying that whoever works [righteousness] today will excel in the Hereafter.”’ His words, Exalted is He: