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tive personality. However, in the words the antichrist, who
represents the collective personality of irreligion,"

Bediuzzaman is saying that the antichrist will also "be per-
sonally at the head of this collective personality as an in-
dividual."
In his works, Bediuzzaman says, with various sup-
porting evidence, that all the names cited by our Prophet
(may Allah bless him and grant him peace) as coming in the
End Times are individuals. The antichrist is one of these in-
dividuals of the End Times. Bediuzzaman has provided the
same amount of detail concerning the Prophet Jesus (pbuh)
and Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) being individuals as he has pro-
vided for the antichrist being one.
It would certainly be a mistake to misinterpret some of
these statements by Bediuzzaman in such a way as to con-
clude that while the antichrist is an individual, the Prophet
Jesus (pbuh) and Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) are collective per-
sonalities. That is because Bediuzzaman has persistently re-
iterated that, like the antichrist, "Jesus (pbuh) and Hazrat
Mahdi (pbuh) will come as individuals" and has provided

the evidence to confirm this.
8. ... Although defeated before the irreligious current
while separate, Christianity and Islam will have the capa-
bility to defeat and rout it as a result of their union. Then
the person of Jesus (pbuh), who is present with his
human body in the world of the heavens, will come to
lead the current of true religion, as, relying on the
promise of One Powerful Over All Things, the Bringer of