SubhanAllah - How Remarkable Those End-Times Hadith About Hijaz Look

Assalamu Alaikum - if you’re looking for an iman boost, consider this... I was curious, so I asked an AI for a very rough probability (not a scientific proof, just a simple illustration) of someone in the 7th century randomly guessing all of these specific things about the Hijaz correctly. The AI used generous assumptions and estimated something like: - 1/100 chance someone would predict barefoot Bedouin shepherds someday competing to raise skyscrapers. “Barefoot shepherds competing in building tall towers.” (Hadith reported in Sahih Muslim - Hadith Jibreel). In our lifetime we’ve seen towers rise in that region. - 1/100 chance Arabia would become green again: “The land of Arabia will return to meadows and rivers.” (Sahih Muslim). Large development and greening projects have brought greenery to parts that were once very dry. - 1/100 chance the Hijaz would be sitting on world-changing underground resources: “The earth will throw out its treasures.” (Musnad Ahmad). The discovery and exploitation of oil is an obvious example. - 1/50 chance the same area would reach extreme levels of wealth: descriptions of wealth becoming so abundant that giving charity becomes more difficult (hadiths about the era of the Mahdi). While not every aspect is fully realized for everyone, huge wealth has certainly appeared among people native to the region. Even with these very forgiving numbers, the combined odds of randomly hitting all those points for one region are tiny - on the order of 1 in many millions (rough estimate: about 1 in 50,000,000; or closer to 1 in 1,000,000 if you exclude the last item which may not be fully realized yet). The point isn’t to prove anything with math, but rather to show how striking it is that these descriptions align so closely with later developments in the Hijaz. SubhanAllah, it’s something that can strengthen one’s reflection and gratitude. May Allah increase our iman and guide us to take lessons from signs and remain humble. Ameen.