Page 94 - The End Times and the Mahdi

• Such a strife will appear that nowhere will be spared. When it
ends in one place, it will immediately spread to another... (Ibn
Hajar al-Haythami, Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar fi Alamat al-Mahdi
al-Muntadhar, pp. 21-22)
The term 'corruption (fitnah)' also means 'war, disorder,
quarrel, dispute.' Thus, civil and other wars and disorder,
'which spreads to another place from where it stays,' con-
tinues unceasingly all over the world during the current
century. In particular, the twentieth century is remembered
as 'the century of wars.' And, this new century again
started off with wars and terror that continues.

• Allah will send Hazrat Mahdi (as) when people are in despair
and say, “There is no Mahdi”… (Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-
Burhan fi Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir az-Zaman, p. 55)

This hadith informs us that one sign of the End Times
is the people's despair of Hazrat Mahdi's (as) coming.
People who struggle with war, starvation, injustice,
epidemics, and all forms of depravity in the End Times lose
their hope that such disasters will ever end. Many Muslims
start to despair that Islamic morality will ever prevail and
believe that evil will spread even further.
Indeed in our day, we frequently see the examples of
this spirit. Despite the existence of countless hadiths about
Hazrat Mahdi's (as) coming and the Golden Age marked
with great blessings, many people believe that such a pe-
riod will never come.
This assumption is also a sign of the End Times. In a
time of despair, people will enjoy the benefits of the preva-
lence of the morality of the Qur’an, thanks to Allah's mercy
on people.

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)
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