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HARUN YAHYA - ADNAN OKTAR
1) PORTENTS OF MAHDI'S COMING TAKING
PLACE ONE AFTER THE OTHER
Those had iths that reveal the por tents of the Mahdi's
com ing describe them as occur ring one after the other
"like the dots on a prayer-beads." We can see that this
is the case, for as stat ed in the had iths, chaos and anar-
chy are on the rise all over the world, sedi tion is grow -
ing, slaugh ter and ter ri ble catas tro phes are tak ing place
in many lands, pov er ty and hun ger are increas ing, and
peo ple are suf fer ing ter ri bly. The fact that these por -
tents are com ing to pass at one par tic u lar time shows
that the Mahdi, the bless ed per son for whom Muslims
have await ed for cen tu ries, will come soon. (Allah knows
the best!)
Some of the reports relat ed to this sub ject are as fol -
lows:

I asked Abu Abdullah Husain ibn Ali: "Are there por tents
of this?" – in ref er ence to the Mahdi's appear ance. He
said: "Yes." I asked: "What are they?" He said: "The
destruc tion of the [tribe of the] Bani Abbas, the emer -
gence of the Sufyani (Abu Sufyan), and sink ing in
Bayda." I said: "I am afraid this will all take a long time,"
to which he replied: "These things will hap pen one after
the other, like the dots on a tas bih (prayer beads)."
(Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti, Portents of the Mahdi of the
End Times, Kahraman Publishings, p. 3)
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