Abdullah ibn Masūd, may Allah be pleased with him, said: “The Quran will surely be taken away from your midst. It will be taken away by night and disappear from men’s hearts, until none of it remains on earth” (1).
Ibn Taymiyya said: “At the end of time, it will be taken away by night from the written copies of the Quran and from people’s hearts. Not a word of it will remain in their hearts, nor a letter in the written copies” (2).
Graver still is that the name of Allah Most High will no longer be mentioned on earth. Anas, may Allah be pleased with him, narrated that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “The Hour will not come until no one on earth says, ‘Allah, Allah’” (3).
Ibn Kathīr said: “There are two interpretations of this hadith:
“The first is that it means no one will condemn wrongdoing or restrain anyone whom he sees engaging in it. This is expressed in the words, ‘until no one says, “Allah, Allah”’—as stated earlier in the hadith of Abdullah ibn Umar: ‘There will remain among them a rabble who recognize no good, nor