What is meant by "the Greatest Calamity"?
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The "Great Calamity" refers to the Day of Judgment or the Second Trumpet Blast. It is called this because it overwhelms everything, encompassing all else due to its immense horror, just as one says "the water overflowed" when it completely fills the river. Among the Arabs, it signifies an overwhelming disaster that cannot be resisted.
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