Is there a set time for Al-Qiyamah to happen?

“The Qur'an gives us hints about the timing of all this, and about the Closeness of the Hour.  Many Muslims have recently been expressing their belief, that these events may in fact come in the not too distant future. Paralleling this, there has been a lot of talk in many of the Christian circles as well, about the coming millennium.  What we concentrate on here, are the verses in the Qur'an :

[78:1-5] : Of what do they ask one another? About the great event, About which they differ? Nay! they shall soon come to know  Nay! Nay! they shall soon know.

[42:17] : It is Allah Who has sent down the Book in Truth, and the Balance. And what will make thee realize that perhaps the Hour is close at hand?

In fact the following verse tells us that: "the beginnings thereof have already come" :

[47:18] : Await they aught save the Hour, that it should come upon them unawares? And the beginnings thereof have already come. But how, when it hath come upon them, can they take their warning?

In fact, as early as in the days of Moses (PBUH) :

[20:15] : Surely the hour is coming-- I am about to make it manifest-- so that every soul may be rewarded as it strives: 

In addition to the verses in the Holy Qur'an, there are many traditions and hadiths, and sayings of the Imams (RA), and also, Muslim scholars, which have contributed to our common ideas of the signs of the "Hour". Many of them make us wonder (according to verse 47:18 above) whether these things are already upon us :

" The Apostle of God said :

`There will come a time for my people when there will remain nothing of the Qur'an except its outward form and nothing of Islam except its name and they will call themselves by this name even though they are the people furthest from it. The mosques will be full of people but they will be empty of right guidance. The religious leaders (Fuqaha) of that day will be the most evil religious  leaders under the heavens; sedition and dissension will go out from them and to them will it return.'  .."

Ibn Babuya, Thawab ul-A'mal .

The Prophet (SAW) also said :

"... I hope that you would constitute half of the inhabitants of Paradise and I shall explain to you its (reason). The believers among the unbelievers would not be more than a white hair on (the body of a) black ox or a black hair on (the body of a) white ox.”

Sahih Muslim 1.427      
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