The Narratives – Mohamed Miah

Mohamed Miah | The Narratives

From Fertility, to Fire, to Floods, to Dust, to Empires, to the Final Barren Plain

Humanity is older than the civilisations we read about in school, older than the ruins we visit on holiday, and older than the last thousand years we think defines “history.” If you follow the ruins, the rocks, and Revelation together, a pattern appears — a divine cycle that repeats across the ages.

Most people only see fragments: an ancient flood here, a fallen empire there, a ruined city made of stone, or a story about a prophet sent to an arrogant people. But when you place all of it into one long arc, you realise something:

Humanity has lived through seven distinct ages. Not one, not two — seven, each shaped by mercy, warning, punishment, collapse, and rebirth.

This article is the full map.

AGE 1 — The Fertile Garden World (The Earth Before Punishment)

Before deserts, before scorching, before the flood, the world was lush in a way we can barely imagine today.

Archaeology has confirmed:

• The Sahara was a green savannah with rivers and lakes.
• Arabia had forests, meadows, and monsoon rains.
• North Africa and the Middle East were covered in vegetation.
• Soil across the world was rich, nutrient-dense, and fertile.
• The climate was stable and the Earth full of life.

This wasn’t coincidence. It was Allah providing abundance before accountability.

The Qur’an describes earlier peoples living in:

“Gardens, springs, crops, noble dwellings and luxurious comforts.” (Qur’an 44:25–26)

Humanity lived in a world that felt like a version of Eden — a reminder of Allah’s mercy before mankind’s corruption.

But when arrogance enters the heart, blessings are the first to disappear.

AGE 2 — The Scorching: The Punishment Before the Flood

Long before the Great Flood, the Earth experienced a catastrophe humanity has not fully understood: the Scorching.

This age is recorded in both the Qur’an and the rocks beneath our feet.

Geologists around the world have found:

• Blackened, burnt sediment layers buried deep beneath flood deposits.
• Heat-shocked quartz crystals, only formed by extreme atmospheric heat.
• Melted magnetic spherules — tiny glass droplets created in flash-heating events.
• Scorched earth beneath ancient riverbeds and lakebeds.
• A mysterious global band known as the Black Mat, associated with intense burning.

These layers sit below flood sediments, meaning:

First came heat. Then came water.

Exactly the order described in Revelation.

The Qur’an says of a past people:

“We seized them with the punishment of scorching heat.” (Qur’an 23:64)

This wasn’t a local fire. This was an atmospheric event — a solar storm, a UV collapse, or a divinely-sent heat blast that forced humans into caves and underground dwellings.

This helps explain why ancient underground cities like Derinkuyu in Turkey suddenly appear in the archaeological record, complete with ventilation shafts, sealed stone doors, and tunnels capable of sheltering thousands.

Humanity survived the Scorching — but the warning was ignored.

AGE 3 — The Great Flood of Nūḥ (Noah) عليه السلام

The people before the flood were powerful, advanced, and corrupt. They rejected Nūḥ for 950 years.

Then Allah ended their civilisation:

“The sky poured forth water.” (Qur’an 54:11)

“And We caused the earth to burst with springs.” (Qur’an 54:12)

Every civilisation on Earth drowned except the believers on the Ark.

Geology reflects this moment: thick layers of water-laid sediments appear above the burnt layers of the Scorching. This is not myth — it is a geological boundary marking the first great reset of humanity.

After the flood, civilisation restarted from the survivors.

AGE 4 — The Age of Mountains: Civilisations Built in High Places

After a world drowned, human behaviour changed forever. People began to build in elevated regions, on mountains, into cliffs, and upon rock.

This wasn’t architectural fashion — it was collective trauma.

We see this pattern everywhere:

• Thamūd carved homes into towering cliffs.
• Petra was carved out of high sandstone mountains.
• Andean civilisations lived on mountaintops.
• Cappadocia developed rock-cut cities and cave networks.
• Hillforts spread across the ancient world.

The Qur’an emphasises this shift:

“You carve homes in the mountains with great skill.” (Qur’an 26:149)

Humans moved upwards because the last punishment came from below. The mountains felt safe.

This was the era of early post-flood civilisations — strong, skilled, but at times arrogant once again.

AGE 5 — The Age of Dust: Civilisations Pulverised by Wind, Blast, and Stone

After the flood and the mountain era came the period of targeted punishments — not global resets, but local annihilations.

This age includes several nations mentioned in the Qur’an.

ʿĀd
Destroyed by a wind that pulverised them into dust.

“A furious roaring wind… leaving nothing it touched except it turned it to dust.” (Qur’an 51:41–42)

Thamūd
Destroyed by a mighty blast.

“The blast seized them, and they lay lifeless in their homes.” (Qur’an 7:78)

Sodom & Gomorrah
Destroyed by stones from the sky and their city being overturned.

“We rained upon them stones of baked clay.” (Qur’an 11:82)

Madyan
Destroyed by the Cry.

“The Cry seized them and they were left motionless.” (Qur’an 11:94)

These civilisations did not drown. They were disintegrated — smashed, flipped, blasted, or turned to powder.

This is the fifth age: the Age of Pulverisation.

AGE 6 — The Fall of Empires (Egypt → Babylon → Persia → Rome)

This age is not about complete extinction, but the collapse of the world’s major ancient powers.

These are the “smaller punishments” — collapses in power rather than total erasure of peoples.

This age includes:

• Pharaonic Egypt, shattered at the Red Sea.
• Babylon, struck down after arrogance and tyranny.
• Assyria, wiped from power.
• Repeated falls of the Persian empires.
• The gradual collapse of the Roman Empire.
• The slow disintegration of the Byzantine Empire.

This age includes the time of:

• Mūsā عليه السلام
• Dāwūd and Sulaymān عليهما السلام
• ʿĪsā عليه السلام
• And ends with our Prophet ﷺ, whose Ummah rises as Rome and Persia fall.

Civilisations died, but humanity survived. This age prepares the world for the final one.

AGE 7 — The Barren Earth Before Judgement

The final age is the one the Qur’an and Hadith describe with frightening detail.

This age has not fully arrived — but its signs are unfolding.

The Qur’an says:

Mountains will vanish:
“The mountains will be like scattered dust.” (Qur’an 101:5)

The earth will flatten:
“The earth will be spread out.” (Qur’an 84:3)

No shade will remain:
“They will find no shade and no nourishment except bitter thorn.” (Qur’an 88:6–7)

And the Prophet ﷺ said:

“The sun will be brought near until it is a mile above the heads.” (Muslim)

“There will be no shade except the shade of Allah.” (Bukhari)

This is the final stage of the Earth:

• No mountains
• No vegetation
• No civilisation
• No shelter
• No shade
• An empty plain
• All humans gathered for accountability

This is the seventh age — the end of human history on Earth.

A Divine Pattern Written in Stone and Scripture

When you combine Qur’an, Hadith, geology, ruined civilisations, scorched rock layers, flood sediments, and ancient architecture, a full cycle emerges:

THE SEVEN AGES OF EARTH

• 1. The Fertile Age — a gift
• 2. The Scorching Age — a warning
• 3. The Flood Age — a reset
• 4. The Mountain Age — rebuilding
• 5. The Dust Age — targeted destruction
• 6. The Empire Age — collapse of ancient powers
• 7. The Barren Age — the plain of Judgement

Humanity keeps repeating the same mistakes while Allah keeps reminding us through nature, ruins, and Revelation.

The rocks beneath our feet don’t lie. The ruins in our deserts don’t lie. The Qur’an doesn’t lie.

Civilisations rise and fall, but the pattern always leads us back to Allah — the First, the Last, the One who witnesses every age.