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

33. Intellectual bigotry:

In the footsteps of the Messiah [Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh)]... the wis-
dom of the learned will degenerate... (Talmud, Sotah 49b)

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

... Her priests have profaned that which is holy, they have done vi-
olence to the law [of God]. (Zephaniah, 3:4)

34. Increasing wars:
... In the seven-year cycle at the end of which the son of David
[Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh)] will come... in the seventh, wars; and at the
conclusion of the septennate the son of David [Hazrat Mahdi
(pbuh)] will come. (Talmud, Sanhedrin 97a)

They... are destined to be redeemed in the seventh year (of the coming
of the Messiah [Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh)]) therefore the mention of re-
demption was placed in the seventh blessing. But a master has said,
"In the sixth year will be thunderings, in the seventh wars, at the end
of the seventh the son of David [Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh)] will come?"
— War is also the beginning of redemption. (Talmud, Megilah 17b)

And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood,
and fire, and pillars of smoke. (Joel, 2:30)

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