Religious leader issues doomsday warning for the end of 2025: ‘The last day of this world’
A comet is predicted to hit Earth at the end of the year, on what a controversial religious leader has called ‘the last day of this world’.
The apocalyptic warning came from the writings of Pakistani spiritual leader and mystic Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, who claimed that God sent a comet to collide with Earth because humanity had strayed too far from spiritual truths.
He founded various organizations to spread the teachings of ‘divine love’, including Anjuman Serfaroshan-e-Islam and the spiritual movement called Messiah Foundation International (MFI).
The prophecy recorded in Gohar Shahi’s 2000 book ‘The Religion of God’ says: ‘A comet has been sent to Earth for total destruction. The comet is expected to fall to Earth within the next 20-25 years. This will be the last day of this world.’
According to Gohar Shahi’s followers in MFI, the upcoming comet attack will lead to massive earthquakes, tsunamis and widespread social collapse, marking the end of the current world order.
This celestial judgment, followers claim, stems from humanity’s moral decline, including endless wars fueled by nuclear weapons and the ruthless destruction of each other over petty differences.
Despite the warning, NASA and other space agencies have not announced any objects predicted to threaten Earth before the calendar turns to 2026.
Many comets and asteroids, including the infamous space rock Apophis, were recently removed from NASA’s list of objects with a low chance of hitting the planet. But none of them were expected to reach Earth anytime soon.
A mysterious Pakistani religious leader claimed that an unknown comet was about to hit Earth to punish humanity (Stock Image)
Gohar Shahi mysteriously disappeared while in London in September 2001, just a year after the book was published.
But his followers continue to claim that the spiritual leader, who would be 84 years old today, is still alive and is currently hiding from the world.
More than two decades ago, Gohar Shahi noted that signs of this doomsday comet had already been seen in the solar system, adding that part of the space rock had allegedly hit our distant neighbor Jupiter.
‘A piece of the comet fell on Jupiter two years ago. “Scientists are also aware of this and are planning to settle on the Moon or another planet before the comet falls,” he claimed in the book.
Despite its detailed description of the comet’s path, the only significant impact on Jupiter before the book’s publication occurred in 1994, when Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 was torn apart and pulled in by the massive planet’s gravity.
Meanwhile, the most notable object traveling through our solar system in 2025 and 2026 is interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS, which is still predicted to be 270 million miles away when it reaches its closest point to Earth on December 19.
Although there is no clear sign that Gohar Shahi’s prediction will be correct, a recent study has warned that Venus could potentially block our view of incoming asteroids hiding in the sun’s glare; but there is no evidence that this is currently occurring.
Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi (Pictured) issued his doomsday prediction before he disappeared in September 2001.
Central to Gohar Shahi’s teachings was the idea that true spirituality lies in divine love, a universal force that unites all religions.
He blended Sufism, a mystical dimension of Islam, with Islamic eschatology, which focuses on the end times and the ultimate destiny of the soul.
Gohar Shahi accused world leaders of squandering billions of dollars on still-ongoing space races and moon missions instead of alleviating poverty, arguing that such greed severs ties with divine love and invites God’s wrath.
‘If they are making all this effort for scientific research, what good will it do to humanity even if they reach the Moon or Jupiter? ‘Have they found a breakthrough drug that can prolong the aging process, or a drug that can beat death?’ the religious leader questioned in his book.
But the so-called prophet sparked fierce debate among orthodox Muslims by claiming to be the awaited Imam Mahdi, the return of Jesus Christ, and even the Hindu Kalki Avatar, which critics branded as a blasphemous heresy.
In Pakistan, his claims led to blasphemy charges and a nationwide ban of his books and organizations in 2000.
The controversial religious leader’s prophecy resurfaced in the months following false claims that the event known in the Bible as the Rapture would occur on September 23.
The prophecy of Pastor Joshua Mhlakela, a South African preacher, went viral and even led some believers to sell all their belongings, thinking they would be instantly taken off Earth to prevent Judgment Day.
