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

Let him [Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh)] come... When one goes out into the
field and meets a bailiff, it is as though he had met a lion. When he
enters the town, and is accosted by a tax-collector, it is as though he
had met a bear. On entering his house and finding his sons and
daughters in the throes of hunger, it is as though he were bitten by a
serpent!... Ask you now, and see whether a man travails with child?
Wherefore do I see every man [gever] with his hands on his loins, as
a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness? (Talmud,
Sanhedrin 98b)

19. A succession of disasters:

In the generation when the son of David [Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh)]
will come... Multitudes of trouble and evil decrees will be promul-
gated anew, each new evil coming with haste before the other has
ended... (Talmud, Sanhedrin 97a)

When you see a generation overwhelmed by many troubles as by a
river, await him [Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh)], as it is written, when the
enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up
a standard against him [Isaiah, 59:19]; which is followed by, and
the Redeemer [Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh)] shall come [Isaiah, 59:20]...
(Talmud, Sanhedrin 98a)

In the generation in which the son of David [Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh)]
will come... [there will be] test after test. (Talmud, Kethuboth 112b)

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