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PORTENTS AND FEATURES OF THE MAHDI'S COMING

respon si ble; mis con cep tions have been around for a
long time and can not be object ed to. Since I regard
what my broth ers do as a kind of prayer, a hope, and a
reflec tion of the pure con vic tion of the stu dentsn of
Light, I made no great objec tion. (Emirdağ Addendum,
p. 248)
Bediuzzaman states that it is some times imag ined
that as the spir it u al enti ty of the Treatise of Light and
the author of these works he may him self be the Mahdi,
but that this is an error and a con fu sion. He says that
peo ple who think along those lines make an anal y sis
with regard to describ ing the truths of faith, but that
they do not take into con sid er a tion that the Mahdi's
other two duties - "estab lish ing an Islamic Union, being
the lead er of the Islamic world, and caus ing Islamic
moral val ues to pre vail over the world, are absent from
him." Therefore, equat ing the role of Mahdi with the
Treatise on Light and with him self is mere ly a "sup po -
si tion."
Bediuzzaman has stat ed sev er al times in his works
that the Mahdi will be a say y id, and that he is not a say -
y id, but a Kurd.
In one of the proofs revealed by Bediuzzaman
demosn trat ing that he is not the Mahdi, he states that
"the Mahdi will be a say y id, but that he him self is not a
say y id." Some extracts in which Bediuzzaman open ly
express es this fact read as fol lows:

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