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PORTENTS AND FEATURES OF THE MAHDI'S COMING

ject rep re sent ed great glad tid ings for all Muslims:
"LEARN OF THE MAHDI. He is from the Quraysh and
is one of my house." (Al-Burhan fi Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir
al-Zaman, p.13) In anoth er had ith, which reads: "The
Mahdi will appear, AND EVERYONE WILL SPEAK ONLY
OF HIM, drink of his love AND SPEAK OF NOTHING
ELSE," (Al-Burhan fi Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir al-Zaman,
p. 33) our Prophet (saas) stat ed that when the Mahdi
appears, every one will speak of this holy indi vid u al.
These signs revealed by our Prophet (saas) have begun
to take place in our own day, and every one is speak -
ing of the Mahdi.
In his works, Bediuzzaman devot ed wide space to
this sub ject, describ ing it in detail over hun dreds of
pages. It is clear that had he thought the sub ject was
one need ing to be con cealed, or one which there was
no need to read about, he would not have includ ed all
these state ments in his trea tis es. Indeed, when a sub -
ject was to be avoid ed, Bediuzzaman wrote that this
was "con fi den tial" in his works and stat ed in var i ous
pla ces that it did not appear in the trea tis es because it
should not be pub lished. One of these state ments by
Bediuzzaman reads, "As for the trea tis es, we have
called such trea tis es con fi den tial … we have for bid den
them to be broad cast." (Bediuzzaman and His
Students' Trial Defense, p. 187)
As stat ed by Bediuzzaman, secret things should not

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