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The Beast of the Earth (Arabic: دَابَّة الأَرْض, romanized: Dābbat al-Arḍ), also called "The Dabba/Dabbah" is a creature mentioned in Surah An-Naml: Ayat 82 of the Quran and associated with Judgement Day. For this reason, the Beast of the Earth is often mentioned in eschatological writings as a sign of Judgement Day close to the event of the sun rising in the west. The Quran does not offer details about the nature of the Beast of the Earth, but various interpretations have linked it to monsters from Turkic mythology. It is also claimed by few hadiths that the beast, ad dabbah will mark on the forehead and on the nose of the people, the mark on the forehead may depict that one would be a believer and the mark on the nose will tell that it was a disbeliever.