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moral degradation. Great disasters, wars, and pains will start
happening, and everyone will look for an answer to the query
of “How can we be saved?”
The signs of the End Times, which have been foretold in the
hadiths, are all being realized rapidly in our own day. For
example, the fact that wars, conflict, terror, violence, anarchy,
and chaos are continuously on the increase is nothing but a
manifestation that we are living through the first stage.
According to the hadiths, Allah (swt) will save humanity
from this dark age and then usher in a great time of liberation.
He will send a righteous servant of His, known as the Mahdi,
who will guide humanity, now caught up in a state of degener-
ation and far removed from Allah’s (swt) beautiful morality, to
the right path. The explanations of Islamic scholars indicate
that he will shoulder three great responsibilities: ensure that
all philosophical systems denying Allah’s (swt) existence and
supporting atheism are intellectually defeated, turn Islam back
to its essence as defined in the Qur’an and the Sunnah, and
resolve the discord besetting humanity during this first stage of
the end of times. In other words, he will be a means for ending
all kinds of social difficulties and establishing peace, security,
and a beautiful morality. Third, he will unify the fragmented
Islamic world.
Another glad tiding of the End Times is the fact that Isa (as),
a blessed prophet of Allah (swt), will return to Earth. His sec-
ond coming is reported in verses from the Qur’an, the hadiths
of the Prophet (saas), and in works by eminent Islamic scholars
in such a way as to leave no room for doubt as to its veracity.
Isa (as) will call upon the Jews and Christians to abandon
their superstitious beliefs and accept the life ordained by the

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