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Signs of Jesus’ (pbuh)
Second Coming

pose… With the meaning fortified by the clear expression of the hadith, it is
our conviction that, in terms of reviving the religion, the Risale-i Nur is in the
position of a mujaddid." (Barla Letters, 121)
Bediuzzaman gives the good news that the mujaddid of the fifteenth

century will be the Mahdi:
"Now most of the situations among the Muslims that are opposed to the light
of the Qur'an are the grave outcomes of those evil intents and the cruel
covenants such as the Treaty of Sèvres. If the letter "mim" bearing the gemi-
nation mark is counted as one, like the letter "lam" bearing the gemination
mark, it would be 1284 [Hijri]. The European unbelievers who aimed to ex-
tinguish the light of the State of Islam at that time provoked the Russians ten
years later and curtained the bright light of the Islamic world with a tempo-
rary cloud by means of the Russia's gloomy War of 93 [1877-1878 The
Ottoman-Russian War]. However, since these oppressions of cloud were dis-
solved by the disciples of Mevlana Halid-i Bagdadi and not by the disciples
of Risale-i Nur, from this point of view this verse symbolically points to them.

It now occurs to mind that if each of the letters "mim" and "lam" bearing the
gemination mark are counted as two, the people who will dissolve the op-
pressions a century later may be the disciples of the Mahdi." (Bediuzzaman,
Risale-i Nur Collection, First Ray, p. 85)

As this explanation reveals, Bediuzzaman states that the cruelty found
within the Islamic world can be removed only "one century later" by the
Mahdi. He explained that during the fifteenth Islamic century, the works of
the Mahdi will save people from great trouble and make them attain deliv-
erance.

2. The Mahdi and Prophet Jesus (pbuh)
will come in 2000s

Imam Rabbani states that the Mahdi will come 1,000 years after our
Prophet's (may God bless him and grant him peace) death, within 2000s:

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