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THE PROPHET JESUS (AS) WILL RETURN
The Prophet Jesus (as) and Hazrat Mahdi (as) Will

Come in This Century
Works by great and esteemed scholars of Ahl al-Sunnah,
including Sunan Abu-Dawud and Maktubat of Imam Rabbani,
explicitly state that Allah sends an individual every century in
order to revive and rid religious morals of any innovations:

According to Abu Huraira's account, the Messenger of Allah (saas)
said: Certainly Almighty and All-Powerful Allah will send an indi-
vidual at the beginning of every century who will renew the faith
and free it from subsequent accretions. (Sunan Abu Dawud, 5/100)
One hadith handed down from our Prophet (saas) states
that Hazrat Mahdi (as) will appear in the Islamic year 1400 in the

words:
People will gather around Hazrat Mahdi (as) in the year 1400.
(Risalat al-Huruj al-Mahdi, p. 108)
The religious moral values of Islam will rule the whole
world, as the result of a specific process, in this century, while
the system of the dajjal (the antichrist) that opposes those values
will entirely disappear. But following this period of progression,
which will last for approximately 100 years, the world will again
find itself in a phase of degeneration, around the 1500s according
to the Islamic calendar. In one hadith narrated by many scholars,
including Imam Ahmad Ibn Hanbal, a great Ahl al-Sunnah
hadith and Islamic jurisprudence scholar, our Prophet (saas)
provides important information about the beginning of human
history by saying that 5600 years had passed up until his own
day:

Ahmad Ibn Hanbal transmitted in his ‘Ilal: FIVE THOUSAND SIX
HUNDRED YEARS HAVE PASSED FROM THIS WORLD.