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The keys of the Unseen


Volume 2, Book 17, Number 149:
Narrated Ibn 'Umar:

Allah's Apostle (p.b.u.h) said, "Keys of the unseen knowledge are five which nobody knows but Allah . . . nobody knows what will happen tomorrow; nobody knows what is in the womb; nobody knows what he will gain tomorrow; nobody knows at what place he will die; and nobody knows when it will rain."
 

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Login to find out (January 14, 2006 at 4:39pm)
dats so true
 
Login to find out (January 9, 2006 at 4:46am)
In the last verse of Surah Luqman, The Qur'an has referred to the fact that the lack of knowledge regarding the time of the Day of Judgment does not provide adequate grounds to reject the idea of the approaching Day of Judgment. In this verse, the Qur'an has referred to the fact that there are many phenomena in general human experience, the happening of which is accepted as a reality, even though man is, generally, not aware of the exact time or other details regarding that phenomena. In all such cases, the future happening of the phenomena is accepted on the basis of its signs, not on the basis of exhaustive information about them.

In the stated context, The Qur'an has referred to a few phenomena, the extensive details of which were not known to its addressees, yet all of them believed in their taking place in future.

Thus:

Even though the exact time of the pouring rain was not known to man, yet on the basis of its signs in the sky over him and in the air around him, his expectations are not weakened by merely by the fact that he does not know the exact time of the downpour;

Even though man did not have exhaustive information about what the wombs concealed, yet this lack of exhaustive information would not waver man's expectations about the life developing within the womb;

Even though man does not know exactly what he shall face during the next day, yet this does not stop him from planning for his future; and

Even though man does not know where exactly death will overtake him, yet death remains the most certain reality during the life of this world.