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

Our Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) has re-
vealed has revealed this with regard to the life span of the ummah of
Islam:

"The life of my ummah (community) will not exceed the ye-
ar 1500." (Suyuti, Al-Kashf 'an (fi) Mujawazat Hadihi l-umma
al-Alf, al-Hawi lil Fatawi, Suyuti. 2/248, commentary by Ruhul
Bayan. Bursevi. (Arabic) 4/262, Ahmad Ibn Hanbal, Kitab al-Ilal,
p. 89.)

This means that during the 100-year period between 1400 and 1500
[Hijri year], believers will meet with two such holy personages as the
Prophet Jesus (pbuh) and Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh), and this will be a very
significant age when the moral values of Islam rule the world and the sys-
tem of the antichrist is intellectually destroyed.
The period we are living in is the End Times, in other words the last
age of the world. All of the portents concerning the coming of the
Prophet Jesus (pbuh) and Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) described by our Prophet
(may Allah bless him and grant him peace) have come true. And this will
be a holy age when faith, love and peace rule the world. Our Prophet
(may Allah bless him and grant him peace) has reported that "the life of the

ummah will extend up to 1500" [Hijri year]. Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, the
great Islamic scholar of the last century, said that "The probable life span of
the ummah, the time when Islamic moral values rule the world, will extend up to

1506." After Hijri 1506 there will be a period close to the Judgment Day of
strife, corruption and bloodshed, when people are entirely distanced
from the religion.
The earth is now very old. We have now come to just about the end
of the world. What we now await is the coming of the Prophet Jesus
(pbuh) and Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) and the genuine faith and Islamic
moral values that will rule the world by means of these holy individu-
als.

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