<story><title>5000 years ago Sahara was a green landscape with lakes and rivers</title><url>https://twitter.com/fall_of_civ_pod/status/1168101940758306817</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cheez</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;islam&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;7go26a&amp;#x2F;the_hour_will_not_begin_until_the_land_of_the&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;islam&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;7go26a&amp;#x2F;the_hour_will...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; It was narrated from Abu Hurayrah (may Allaah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “The Hour will not begin until the land of the Arabs once again becomes meadows and rivers.”&lt;p&gt;When I was a teenager, I was interested in what people used to say about the future in the past and this was the one thing that ever stuck out to me in my readings.&lt;p&gt;I guess it was common knowledge among the knowledgeable at the time that this was true but I was never able to corroborate it.</text></comment>
<story><title>5000 years ago Sahara was a green landscape with lakes and rivers</title><url>https://twitter.com/fall_of_civ_pod/status/1168101940758306817</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>adolph</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Changes in the earth&amp;#x27;s orbit known as its orbital precession, a change in tilt that cycles every 25,000 years, forced the African monsoon rains southward, and the Sahara became drier.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Apsidal_precession&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Apsidal_precession&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Milankovitch_cycles&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Milankovitch_cycles&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>