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Signs of Jesus’ (pbuh)
Second Coming

Year Ratio of Gap

1960 1:20
1990 1:60

1997 1:74
2000 1:79
The number of people living in extreme poverty, who survive on less than $1 a
day, is over 200 million.

Today, the total wealth of the 3 richest people of the world is more than the total
gross national product of the poorest countries, where 600 million people live...
Eighty percent of the total natural resources of the world is consumed by 16
percent of the world population. Meanwhile, 5 percent of the entire world pop-
ulation is deprived of safe water resources. The number of people dying of di-
arrhea alone is over 50 million. As the great part of the population in
underdeveloped countries lives in rural areas, these people become even
poorer as the natural resources on these lands diminish. Indeed, the women
and children living in poor countries spend 4-5 hours looking for wood to
burn. These same people spend 4-6 hours looking for safe water and then car-
rying it home. 42
This situation is a sign of the End Times, as related in our Prophet’s
(may God bless him and grant him peace) hadiths. By our Lord’s Will, this
situation heralds the closeness of the coming of the Mahdi, Prophet Jesus
(pbuh), and the Golden Age, a time when people will not suffer from such
misery. In the Golden Age, the world’s situation will be just the reverse, for
people will fully abide by the Qur’an’s morality.

As God orders in the Qur’an:
… so that it [booty] does not become something that merely revolves be-
tween the rich among you. Whatever the Messenger gives you you
should accept, and whatever he forbids you you should forgo. Have fear
of God – God is severe in retribution. (Surat al-Hashr, 59:7)

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