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The Beast of the Earth (Arabic: دَابَّة الأَرْض, romanized: Dābbat al-Arḍ), also called "The Dabbah" is a creature mentioned Surah An-Naml: Ayat 82 of the Quran and associated with the day of judgment. 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. Few hadiths also claim that the beast ad-Dabbah will mark the foreheads and noses of the people, the mark on the forehead indicating that one is a believer, and the mark on the nose indicating a non-believer.