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Signs of Jesus’ (pbuh)
Second Coming

I swear that [great] misfortunes will befall the people, and one
will not find any refuge from cruelty and tyranny. At such a
troublesome time, God will send someone from my lineage.
(Mukhtasar Tazkirah al-Qurtubi, p. 437)
This hadith points out that before the Mahdi comes, those who
lack religious morals and have a cruel and merciless character will

come to power in some Muslim countries. This is one of the signs in-
dicating that the coming of the Mahdi and Prophet Jesus (pbuh) is
drawing nigh.
In another hadith, our Prophet (may God bless him and grant
him peace) tells us that due to all of this oppression at the End Times,
sincere Muslims may be forced to hide their belief and worship in se-
cret:

Just as the hypocrites lead their lives in secret among you today,
a time will come when believers will try hard to lead their reli-
gious lives among others. (Ibn Sunni)

As we all know, some contemporary Muslim rulers oppress
Muslims and crush their people and prevent Muslims from living by
their religion and performing their acts of worship. Meanwhile, eco-
nomic conditions have made life harder. In other countries, people are
subjected to trouble because their rulers are unqualified to rule.
Some examples of these incidents are as follows:
In Iraq, which lost about one million people during its war
against Iran, the Ba`thist dictator Saddam Hussein subjected all Iraqis

to unbearable tortures and atrocities.
Instability and turmoil have ruled in Afghanistan ever since the
Soviet occupation in 1979. Some Afghanistan authorities (viz., the
Taliban), which never represented real Islam, established a very op-
pressive, ruthless, and intolerant system.

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