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THE PROPHET JESUS (PBUH) AND
HAZRAT MAHDI (PBUH) WILL APPEAR IN
THIS CENTURY

Works by great and esteemed scholars of Ahl al-Sunnah,
including Sunan Abu-Dawud and Maktubat of Imam Rabbani,
explicitly state that Allah sends an individual every century in
order to revive and rid religious morals of any innovations:
"Allah will raise for this community at the beginning of
EVERY HUNDRED YEARS the one who will renovate its re-
ligion for it." (Sunan Abu Dawud, 5/100)
One hadith handed down from our Prophet (may Allah
bless him and grant him peace) states that Hazrat Mahdi
(pbuh) will appear in 1400 in the words:

"People will gather around Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) in the
year 1400." (Risalat al-Huruj al-Mahdi, p. 108)
The religious moral values of Islam will rule the
whole world, as the result of a specific process, in this
century, while the system of the dajjal (the an-
tichrist) that opposes those values will entirely
disappear. But following this period of prog-
ression, that will last for approximately 100
years, the world will again find itself in a
phase of degeneration, around the 1500s accor-
ding to the Islamic calendar. In one hadith narrated
by many scholars, including Imam Ahmad
Ibn Hanbal, a great Ahl al-Sunnah ha-
dith and Islamic jurisprudence scho-

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