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THE PROPHET JESUS (AS) WILL RETURN
proof of his identity. He will inflict a terrible defeat on atheistic
movements and systems that attempt to spread denial of Allah
and to spread immorality. It will be easy for him to thwart the
plots of the deniers with the revelation of Allah, to spread
Allah's religion among people and to negate the efforts of the
ungodly. By his miracles he will prove that the religion of Allah
is the true way and that believers will inevitably have the upper
hand. In the Qur'an Allah gives these glad tidings to believers:

They desire to extinguish Allah's Light with their
mouths but Allah will perfect His Light, though the
unbelievers hate it. It is He Who sent His Messenger
with guidance and the Religion of Truth to exalt it over
every other religion, though the associators hate it.
(Surat as-Saff: 8-9)

He Will Have No Relatives, Family or
Acquaintances on Earth

The Prophet Jesus (as) will be recognisable by these attrib-
utes mentioned in the Qur'an. However, there will be other fac-
tors disclosing his identity. One of them will be the fact that he
will have no relatives, family or acquaintances on earth. There
will be no one who knows his physical features, his face or the
tone of his voice. Indeed, no one will know him when he comes
to earth for the second time simply because the people who
knew him lived and died some two thousand years ago. His
mother Maryam (as), the Prophet Zachariah (as), the disciples
who spent years at his side, prominent Jews of the time and even
those people who heard the Prophet Jesus' (as) revelations are all
long dead. Thus, in his second coming to earth no one will have
witnessed his birth, childhood, youth or adulthood. Nobody will