Life Source in Middle East Disappearing: Prophet Muhammad Warned of This

The Euphrates and Tigris rivers once flowed through highly fertile regions. However, they are now changing rapidly and are estimated to dry up by 2040.

This phenomenon was reportedly warned by the Prophet Muhammad long before modern times. The following is the account:

“The Day of Judgment will not come until the Euphrates dries up and uncovers a mountain of gold, so that people will fight and kill one another over it” (Reported by Muslim No. 2894).

The Euphrates flows through several countries, from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq, before emptying into the Persian Gulf. It forms the largest river system in the Western Asian region.

The Euphrates, running alongside the Tigris River, is part of a fertile zone. The surrounding area has ideal conditions for agriculture and even hosted the world’s first civilisations, such as Mesopotamia.

However, this river system is now drying up extremely rapidly. A 2021 report from the Ministry of Water Resources even warned that the river could run dry by 2040.

The report explains that the river is drying due to declining water levels and drought caused by climate change. Water flow in the Euphrates-Tigris system has decreased by nearly half in just a few decades. Satellite imagery shows that 144 cubic kilometres of freshwater disappeared in a ten-year period from 2003 to 2013.

Making matters worse, people in the surrounding areas depend on this river system. Approximately 60 million people depend on water from the Euphrates-Tigris river system for their survival, particularly in Turkey and Iraq.