For members of a doomsday cult in China, the end may indeed be near.
Authorities have in recent weeks arrested more than 100 members of a fringe Christian-inspired group known as Almighty God that is prophesying the world will end Dec. 21, according to state media.
Members of the group had been distributing apocalyptic literature and sending text messages throughout China when the government began detaining them this month. On Dec. 8, police arrested 34 members in Fujian province, which lies on China's southeastern coast. On Thursday, they arrested 37 members, including seven leaders in Xining, a city in the west-central province of Qinghai. There have also been arrests in Sichuan and Hubei provinces and elsewhere.
"Dec. 21 is approaching, and on that day half of the world's good people will die, and all evil people will die out — only if you join the Almighty God movement can you avoid death and be saved," warned a pamphlet confiscated by police in Shaoxing city, in the eastern province of Zhejiang, and quoted by state media. A text message predicted, "Great tsunamis and earthquakes are about to happen around the world."
Prophecies of the doomsday on Friday, December 21, are meeting rejections from Muslim scholars as a ?big lie?, criticizing the media for creating panic and terror among the public.
No one knew about the exact date and time of doomsday,? Qari Muhammad Hanif Jalandhri, a top official of the Wafaq-ul-Madaris Pakistan, the largest federation of Islamic seminaries around the world, told Pakistan's The News daily on Sunday, December 16.?The Allah Almighty has kept this knowledge secret and exclusive to his own person.?Our Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) has told us about the warning signs before doomsday and several things have yet to occur,? he said.
So any such prediction would be baseless and futile.
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