Arabian Peninsula
Today, we know Arabia to be mostly dry, arid, and made up of deserts. We think of endless sand, huge dunes, and a blazing sun.
However, the Prophet ﷺ stated that the Final Hour would not come until “the land of Arabia reverts to meadows and rivers”.
The Last Hour will not come before wealth becomes abundant and overflowing, so much so that a man takes Zakat out of his property and cannot find anyone to accept it from him and till the land of Arabia reverts to meadows and rivers.
1 - The word revert is used here. That means that Arabia once used to be green and full of meadows and rivers.
2 - Somehow Arabia will somehow go from being a dry desert to a wet land once again.
Michael Petraglia, one of the people involved in the archeological Green Arabia project, states in an interview: “We looked at satellite images for example, and found that there are literally thousands of ancient rivers that crisscrossed Saudi Arabia. We also now count 10,000 ancient lakes.
We have fossils of elephants; these were gigantic creatures, much larger than the African elephant. Amazingly, we also have hippos. These finds tell you something of how wet it really was. Because hippos cannot survive in very arid and dry situations, so the environment had to be green for them to survive. So, there were surely lots of lakes and rivers all across Arabia, and there was plenty of grass with vegetation for these animals to consume.”
Quite interesting, isn’t it? For thousands of years, this history was unknown to us, yet the Prophet ﷺ spoke of it 1400 years ago.
