The signs of the Hour – Arabia return to rivers/meadows

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

لا تَقُومُ السَّاعَةُ حتَّى تَعُودَ أرْضُ العَرَبِ مُرُوجًا وأَنْهارًا

“The Hour will not be established until the land of Arabia returns to meadows and rivers.” (Sahīh Muslim 157)

Shaykh Ibn Uthaymīn said:.. until the Arabian Peninsula returns to meadows and rivers), meaning until it becomes meadows and rivers. The meadows are gardens, farms/arable land. Rivers are known as the waters that flow on the surface of the earth. If we look at our reality today, we find that (this) has occurred, which is that the Arabian Peninsula, that barren land, has now become meadows and rivers. How did they become rivers? With the water that springs from it, artesian wells, etc… and as for it being a meadow, this is apparent (i.e. observed to all). (Fatawā al-Haram al-Makkī 02b-1413, slightly abridged)

---

The Arabian Peninsula was once meadows and rivers

In 2014, a conference was held called ‘Green Arabia’ at the University of Oxford, a mention of some of the findings;

“As a starting point for the research, the team analysed satellite imagery which reveals a network of ancient rivers and lakebeds in the Arabian Peninsula.”

“The researchers say the finds [of 2013, which included an elephants carpal bone, and two pieces of tusk belonging to an extinct genus of elephants] are hugely significant because they suggest that in order to support the life of big beasts, today’s arid terrain was much wetter and greener in the past.”

(University of Oxford, Tusk Suggests Greener, Wetter Arabian Desert In The Past)

In the Guest Editorial of ‘Green Arabia: Human prehistory at the Crossroads of Continents’ (p.3), it is mentioned:

“Ancient rivers, lakes and marshes are now known to be common hydrological features across the Arabian Peninsula.”

Andrew Lawler says:

“During the wet spells, lakes filled up, rivers ran, and a savannah like environment resembling that of today’s East Africa dominated Arabia. There could be tens of thousands of former lakes and wetlands.”

(In Search Of Great Arabia)