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Shaikh `Abdul-Muhsin al-`Abbaad-hafizahullaah-said in his explanation of an-Nawawee's 'Forty Hadeeth' : "And the meaning of his saying:"And that you will see the barefoot, naked, destitute herdsmen of sheep competing to build tall buildings" is that the needy ones who tend sheep, and do not find that which they can clothe themselves with, their condition will change, and they will move to live in the cities, andthey will compete to build tall buildings in them; and these two signs [[i.e. this one and the slave-girl giving birth to her mistress]] have already occurred."

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Shaikh `Abdul-Muhsin al-`Abbaad-hafizahullaah- said in his explanation of it: "It has been explained to mean that it is an indication of the many conquests and the large number of captives taken. So from the females captured will be those whose masters have relations with them, and then she gives birth to a child of his. So she will be a slave-girl who has given birth to the child of a free-man (umm walad), and her child will be in the position of being like her master; and it has otherwise been explained to mean how times will change, and that children will become disobedient to their fathers and mothers, and dominate them, until the children become like masters over their fathers and mothers."