Spread of sexual immorality.

Muhammad revealed that the day would come when sexual immorality 

would become so normalised that it would be carried out in public: 

"The Hour will not be established until people fornicate with each 

other in the road just as donkeys fornicate" [143].

Today we live in a 

world where we are bombarded with explicit sexual imagery in TV, 

film, and advertising. With the advent of the internet, pornography is 

readily available at any time and any place. In fact, people have been 

arrested for having sex in public places.

What is amazing is that we've 

already seen that Muhammad foretold that Islam is going to spread 

far and wide, so this situation of public sexual immorality is the exact 

opposite of what one would expect because Islam as a religion places 

great emphasis on modesty.

For example, Islam teaches that both 

men and women should lower their gaze from strangers in order to 

safeguard from falling into temptation and sin. The reality of today, 

where Islam is widespread and public sexual immorality is rampant, 

is in fact paradoxical and therefore not the most rational prediction 

to make if one is guessing.

We must also take into account that at the time of Muhammad, people 

were generally modest; this was the case with both Muslims and non Muslims, including Jews and Christians.

With the conversion of the pagan 

Roman empire to Christianity in the fourth century, the subsequent spread 

of Christianity throughout Europe, and the Catholic Church enforcing 

strict standards of public morality and decency, much of the Western 

world had become conservative before Muhammad was born. During 

the Middle Ages, the Catholic Church regulated all matters relating to 

sex very carefully. Many influential members of the Church even saw sex 

and other pleasurable experiences within the confines of marriage as evil 

and a source of sin, unless marital relations were undertaken expressly 

and consciously to conceive a child [144].

A big transformation also took 

place in seventh century Arabia. In pre-Islamic Arabia, public indecency 

was not uncommon, for example we know that the pagan Arabs used to 

perform religious pilgrimages while in a completely naked state. This all 

ended with the coming of Islam which forbade such practices. With both 

the East and the West being largely conservative as a result of the spread 

of Abrahamic religions like Christianity and Islam, this prediction of 

widespread sexual immorality by Muhammad went completely against 

the tide of morality that was sweeping the world during his time.

The current situation in the world is unprecedented, never in the history of 

mankind has sexual immorality been on such a large scale. It is now the 

norm, just as Muhammad predicted. An interesting side point is that Muhammad described the consequences of widespread sexual immorality: 

"Never does sexual perversion become widespread and publicly known 

in certain people without them being overtaken by disease that never 

happened to their ancestors who came before them." [145] The increase 

of sexual immorality has seen the emergence of previously unheard of 

diseases such as AIDS, just as Muhammad warned.