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The Time of Prophet Jesus’
(pbuh) Second Coming

1. God sends a “Mujaddid”
(Renovator of the Religion)

Every Century

The Arabic word mujaddid means someone
who "revives and renovates the religion." In his ha-
diths, our Prophet (may God bless him and grant
him peace) states that at the beginning of every cen-
tury, God sends a blessed person from his lineage to

explain the facts of the religion according to the ne-
cessities of the time.
God will raise for this community at the end of every
hundred years the one who will renovate its religion
for it. (Sunan Abu Dawud)
On this issue, the great Islamic scholar Imam
Rabbani states the following:
At the head of each century, God sends a mujaddid
among the ulama of this community who revives the
Shariah. (Imam Rabbani)

About the same subject, Bediuzzaman said:
"In every century, God sends a mujaddid."
(Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, Risale-i Nur Collection,
Barla Letters, 119)
Bediuzzaman states that the mujaddid of the
twelfth century was Mevlana Halid. (Barla Letters,
120)
In the fourteenth Islamic century, the Risale-i
Nur (Bediuzzaman's collected works) served this

purpose, as follows:
"Exactly after a century, the cures of the Risale-i Nur
appear all around and serve to the very same pur-

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