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INTRODUCTION

THE GLAD TIDINGS OF THE GOLDEN AGE

ourteen hundred years ago, our Prophet (saas) spoke in great detail of events that would take
place in the End Times – in other words, the age we are living in now – and described the peri-
F od quite comprehensively. He said that in the End Times, there would be a time when people

would abandon the moral values of the Qur’an and that there would be global degeneracy, corruption,
war and disorder. Again as revealed by our Prophet (saas) in the hadiths, in this time Allah will send
the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) and Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh), who bears our Lord’s title of the Hadi (the be-
stower of guidance). In this holy time that will witness the appearance of the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) and

Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh), philosophies and ideologies based on disbelief will completely disappear, and
the oppression and disorder going on all over the world will come to an end. In the time of the Prophet
Jesus (pbuh) and Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh), belief in Allah will be lived by as it was in the time of our
Prophet (saas), the moral values of the Qur’an will reign among people, and the entire world will be-

come a place of peace and repose. There will be no war or conflict anywhere, all weapons will disap-
pear and not so much as a single person’s nose will even be made to bleed. The immorality, oppres-
sion, persecution, injustices and degeneracy of the past will evaporate in this holy age, and sufferings
of all kinds will be replaced by abundance, wealth, beauty, peace and tranquility. There will be tremen-

dous advances in technology and these will be used for the good and benefit of all mankind. This time,
in which there will also be excellent advances in art and beauty, will be known, by Allah’s leave, as the
“Golden Age.”
As a requirement of the test in this world, Our Lord also creates negative forces that are the exact

opposite of all delights. Forces (unbelievers in other words) diametrically opposed to the prophets
and believers have emerged at every period of history and these have struggled against faith in Allah

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