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

Three years be fore the ap pear ance of the dajjal (antichrist), there will
be ex ceed ing ly stress ful days and hun ger will rule. (Muhammad ibn
'Abd ar-Rasul Barzanji, Al-Isha'ah li Ashrat as-Sa'ah, p. 220.)

Today, many peo ple all over the world live with out suf fi cient food
and wa ter, as well as in un healthy con di tions. While most of them are lo -
cat ed in Africa, Asia, and South America, they are al so quite nu mer ous in
rich coun tries such as in America and west ern Europe. As on ly a small
por tion of peo ple live in great pros per i ty, near ly 2 bil lion live be low the
pov er ty line.
United Nations re ports show that, in 1960, the 20% of the peo ple in
the rich est coun tries had 30 times the in come of the poor est 20; by 1995 it
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was 82 times. As an ex am ple of the col lapse of so cial jus tice, the wealth
of the world's 225 rich est in di vid u als is equal to the an nu al in come of the
poor est 47%! 10

Milli Gazete, May 9, 2009

Hunger and poverty
pushing the limit

1 billion people hungry

Ortadogu, June 20, 2009

(Above) Time, August 01, 1994
(Left) Time, December 14, 1992

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