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Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) is a Descendant of the
                                    Prophet Abraham (pbuh)





                  28. Pervasive corruption:

                  Islamic literature defines fitnah as severe trial terms where life condi-
              tions are hardened and people's faith are attempted to be weakened and
              destroyed through denial of Allah and religion by various methods.
                  One had ith re veals that the be liev ers' faith will weak en in the End
              Times and al so pro vides in for ma tion about the de vel op ments that will
              lead to this:


                    Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh), one of my children, comes into being, by the
                    blessing of Allah, upon the approach of the Day of Judgment; the weak-
                    ening of the believers' hearts because of death, hunger, fitnah and the
                    disappearance of the Sunnah; and the emergence of innovations and
                    the loss of means by which to enjoin the right and forbid the wrong.
                    His justice and prosperity will ease the believers' hearts, and friend-
                    ship and love will settle between the non-Arab and the Arab nations.
                    (Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi 'Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir az-Za-
                    man, p. 66.)



                  Briefly, the following events will take place before the End Times
              and Hazrat Mahdi's (pbuh) appearance:
                  1- Death: As a con se quence of an archy and mass mur der, peo ple
              will not be safe and will be great ly con cerned about dy ing.
                  2- Hunger: The strug gle to make a liv ing will be come hard er be cause
              the cost of liv ing will rise. Natural dis as ters and ca tas tro phes will lead to
              star va tion and hun ger.
                  3- Fitnah: Such troub les will spread and en cour age un law ful and
              im mor al acts among all peo ple, both in pub lic and in pri vate.
                  4- Innovation (bid'at): Adoption of some rit u als or in no va tions on
              the grounds that they are es sen tial com po nents of Islam, al though they
              vi o late the teach ings of the Qur'an and the Sunnah.
                  5- Disappearance of the communication of moral values of Islam:







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