I. Moral Apocalypses

1. [In response to the question of what the signs preceding the end were, ‘Ali ibn Abī Ṭālib says:]

a. saw the truth dead, its people gone, and injustice encompassing the land. saw the Qur'ān “created” and that things not in it were “invented”, and directed according to the whims [of people], and. saw the faith turned upside down as. vessel is turned upside down. I saw the people of falsehood master the people of truth, and I saw evil manifest, unforbidden. lā yunhā ‘anhu) and its followers acting remissibly, and. saw depravity appear, and men sufficed themselves with men and women with women. saw the believer silent, his word unreceived, and the dissolute lying and no one refuting their lies and their falsehood, and. saw the young scorning the elder and the blood-ties cut, and someone who is praised for depravity laugh about it and no one reproved him. I saw the boys giving what women give, and. saw the women marrying women, and. saw [sycophantic] praise multiply. saw man spending wealth on things other than the obedience of God, and he was not forbidden, [nor] was it taken from him. I saw the observer take refuge in God from the independent reasoning that the believer used, and. saw neighbors harm each other and no one stopped them. I saw the infidel overjoyed because of what he saw in the believer, happy because of the corruption in the land, and I saw wine drunk openly, and those who do not fear God gather together with it, and. saw the “enjoining of the good” mocked while the dissolute engaged in [activities] that God does not approve of waxed strong and were praised.