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Signs of Jesus’ (pbuh)
Second Coming
Bediuzzaman likens the rise of the Sun to the prevalence of
Islam's moral values in the world. Just as the Sun rises again after it
sets, he indicates that Islam's moral values also will rise and shine
again. The expressions of "initial redness" and "second enlightenment"
indicate the beginning years of this time.
Accordingly, he points to 1981-91 as the time when the Mahdi
begins to disperse atheism and materialist philosophy, as well as the
unjust ideologies that oppose the true religion. He also calls attention
to 2001 as the year when these ideologies will be totally silenced and
dispersed. (God knows best.)
In this period there are such prevalent movements so that may the ex-
pected person who is due to come after a century emerge…
(Kastamonu Letters, p. 57)
In this statement, the phrase "the expected person who is due to
come after a century" means that the Mahdi had not come yet in his
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