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Signs of Jesus’ (pbuh)
Second Coming

21. The Loss of an Army

There are five portents of the
Mahdi: a cry from Sufyani,

Yemani, and Sama, the sinking of
an army in Bayda, and the killing
of the innocent. (Narrated by
Nu`aym ibn Hammad)

... An army will be sent to him. This army will be leveled while
it is somewhere in the desert. (Sahih Muslim)
An army comes to fight. Once they enter the desert, the one in
the front and the back disappear, and the ones in the middle can-
not save themselves. (Tirmidhi, Sunan Ibn Majah, Sunan Abu
Dawud)
The almost sudden disappearance of a large part of the Iraqi
army was one of the most striking features of the 2003 American-led
war against Iraq. Many newspapers and television channels reported
that a 60,000-man army from the Republican Guard, along with some
15,000 Iraqi militiamen from the Fedayeen, got lost. This account indi-
cates that "the loss of an army," a portent of the Mahdi's coming, and
hence of Prophet Jesus' (pbuh) second coming, may already have
taken place. (God knows best.)
In fact, the discovery of some war planes buried under the desert
sands reinforces the possibility that the "leveling of an army" refers to
the Iraqi army.

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