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Signs of Jesus’ (pbuh)
Second Coming

As indicated in the hadiths above, the Mahdi’s emergence will
resemble that of our Prophet (may God bless him and grant him
peace). Great and miraculous phenomena will also take place when

he emerges.
Some of the remarkable phenomena that took place during the
last century are as follows:
- The Ka`bah was raided, and many Muslims were killed
- The 2,500-year Iranian monarchy collapsed and Mohammad
Reza Pahlavi died
- A gas leak in a Bombay factory killed 20,000 people
- War broke out between two Muslim nations: Iran and Iraq

- The Soviet Union occupied Afghanistan
- On September 19, 1985, Mexico City was devastated by an
earthquake
- The Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupted, wiping the town of
Armero off the map and killing 25,000 people
- Floods in Bangladesh killed 25,000 people
- Rome, the heart of the Catholic Church, was flooded
- The worst forest fire in history broke out in China
- Indian Prime Minister Gandhi, President Anwar al-Sadat of
Egypt, and Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme were assassinated

- Pope John Paul II was shot
- The AIDS virus, identified in 1980, has so far killed tens of thou-
sands of people and is known as the "Plague of the Age"
- The Challenger space shuttle exploded after take-off in 1986
- The worst nuclear accident in history occurred when the
Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor, located in the Soviet Union, exploded on
April 26 1986 and affected many European countries by the released
radiation

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