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June 16, 2026

End Day Signs PDF: The World Gets More Topsy-Turvey

This free 59 page booklet-PDF is not an in-depth treatment of the End of Days signs. Rather, its aim is to discuss an overall outline of three issues about these End Days: [i] How affairs become inverted, and what it means for Muslims. [ii] A discussion of some of the major and minor signs that… Continue reading

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End Days signs, the Dajjal and Jesus, topsy-turvy times, what Muslims should do at the End Times

About Me

My name is Surkheel Sharif (aka Abu Aaliyah). Born and raised in London, England, I began my more formal, but gradual studies of the Islamic sciences around the late 1980s (just a few years after having quit my degree in Astrophysics). I also gained an MA in Islamic Studies from Birkbeck College, University of London, in 2009.

I’ve translated a few Islamic works from Arabic into English; one of them, a short text on Muslim spirituality, called The Exquisite Pearl (2000). I have also authored a few books, including: More Fish Please & the Earth’s Complaint (2011); Fussing Over the 15th of Sha’ban & the Golden Rule of Differing (2011); A Muslim’s Guide to Modernity (2025); and Salafism Reconsidered (forthcoming)

I am the founder and current Director of the Jawziyyah Institute (est. 1999): a non-profit organisation dedicated to cultivating an Islam true to its time-honoured tradition, relevant to its current context, and of benefit to wider society.

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End Day Signs PDF: The World Gets More Topsy-Turvey