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of a seven-stepped pulpit. He said: THE SEVEN-STEPPED

PULPIT YOU SEE IS THE SEVEN THOUSAND YEARS OF
AGE OF THIS WORLD. (Al-Burhan fi 'Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir
az-Zaman, p. 8)

These dates must very definitely not be evaluated as the be-
ginning of human history when the Prophet Adam (as) was sent
down to Earth. Just as the hijrat of our Prophet (saas) from Mecca

to Medina is considered the beginning of the Islamic calendar, or
the birth of the Prophet Jesus (as) of the Christian calendar, and to-
day eras are reckoned from these dates, it appears that this 7000-
year period described by the Prophet (saas) may have been given

according to the date of an event which was accepted as a land-
mark during his time.
Said Nursi, the renovator of the Islamic 1300s and the great-

est one of the last millennium, cited the 1500s as the period of do-
minion of Islamic moral values. He stated that Muslims would en-
joy a time of clear and explicit victory up until then. He said that
in the years after that, the rise of the moral values of Islam would

come to an end and that the Last Day would break for the unbe-
lievers in the Islamic year 1545. (Allah knows the truth.)

“A group from my community will remain in truth until
Allah's command [the Last Day]."

The abjad calculation of the clause "A group from my com-
munity..." which is 1542 (2117) implies its (the community's)
time of survival. The abjad calculation of the clause "will

remain in truth" (when the gemination mark is counted)
gives 1506 (2082); it indicates until that date (2082) it will con-
tinue its work of enlightenment evidently and obviously,

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