Portents and Features of the Mahdi'c Coming · PORTENTS AND FEATURES OF THE MAHDI'S COMING Portents of the Mahdi's Coming" and "The Mahdi's. THE MAHDI'S COMING. THE. the Mahdi. 103

TO THE READERA spe cial chap ter is as signed to the col lapse of the the -

o ry of ev o lu tion be cause this the o ry con sti tutes the ba sis of allan ti-spir it u al phil os o phies. Sin ce Dar wi nism re jects the fact ofCreation – and there fore, Allah's ex is tence – over the last 150years it has caused many peo ple to aban don their faith or fallin to doubt. It is there fore an im per a tive serv ice, a very im por -tant du ty to show ev ery one that this the o ry is a de cep tion. Sin -ce some read ers may find the chance to read on ly one of ourbooks, we think it ap pro pri ate to de vote a chap ter to sum ma -rize this sub ject.

All the au thor's books ex plain faith-re lat ed is sues in lightof Qur'anic vers es, and in vite read ers to learn Allah's wordsand to live by them. All the sub jects con cern ing Allah's vers esare ex plained so as to leave no doubt or room for ques tions inthe read er's mind. The books' sin cere, plain, and flu ent styleen sures that ev ery one of ev ery age and from ev ery so cial groupcan eas i ly un der stand them. Thanks to their ef fect ive, lu cid nar -ra tive, they can be read at one sit ting. Even those who rig or -ous ly re ject spir it u al i ty are in flu enced by the facts these booksdoc u ment and can not re fute the truth ful ness of their con tents.

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In these books, un like some oth er books, you will notfind the au thor's per son al views, ex pla na tions based on du bi -ous sour ces, styles that are un ob serv ant of the re spect and rev -er ence due to sa cred sub jects, nor hope less, pes si mis tic ar gu -ments that cre ate doubts in the mind and de vi a tions in the heart.

ABOUT THE AUTHORNow writ ing un der the pen-name of

HARUN YAHYA, Adnan Oktar was born inAnkara in 1956. Having com plet ed his pri ma -ry and sec ond ary ed u ca tion in Ankara, he stud -ied arts at Istanbul's Mimar Sinan Universityand phi los o phy at Istanbul University. Since the

1980s, he has pub lished many books on po lit i cal,sci en tif ic, and faith-re lat ed is sues. Harun Yahya

is well-known as the au thor of im por tant worksdis clos ing the im pos ture of ev o lu tion ists, their in -valid claims, and the dark li ai sons be tweenDarwinism and such bloody ide ol o gies as fas cismand com mu nism.

Harun Yahya's works, trans lat ed in to 60 dif fer -ent lan gua ges, con sti tute a col lec tion for a to tal ofmore than 45,000 pa ges with 30,000 il lus tra tions.

His pen-name is a com pos ite of the namesHarun (Aaron) and Yahya (John), in

mem o ry of the two es teemedProphets who fought against theirpeo ples' lack of faith. The Prophet'sseal on his books' cov ers is sym -bol ic and is linked to their con -tents. It rep re sents the Qur'an(the Final Scripture) and Prophet

Muhammad (may Allah blesshim and grant him peace),

last of the pro phets.Under the gui -

dance of

the Qur'an and the Sunnah (teach ings of the Prophet [mayAllah bless him and grant him peace]), the au thor makes it hispur pose to dis prove each fun da men tal ten et of ir re lig ious ide -ol o gies and to have the "last word," so as to com plete ly si lencethe ob jec tions raised against re li gion. He us es the seal of thefi nal Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace), whoat tained ul ti mate wis dom and mor al per fec tion, as a sign ofhis in ten tion to of fer the last word.

All of Harun Yahya's works share one sin gle goal: to con -vey the Qur'an's mes sage, en cour age read ers to con sid er ba -sic faith-re lat ed is sues such as Allah's ex is tence and uni ty andthe Hereafter; and to ex pose ir re lig ious sys tems' fee ble foun -da tions and per vert ed ide ol o gies.

Harun Yahya en joys a wide read er ship in many coun tries,from India to America, England to Indonesia, Poland to Bosnia,Spain to Brazil, Malaysia to Italy, France to Bulgaria andRussia. Some of his books are avail a ble in English, French,German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Urdu, Arabic, Albanian,Chinese, Swahili, Hausa, Dhivehi (spo ken in Mauritius),Russian, Serbo-Croat (Bosnian), Polish, Malay, Uygur Turkish,Indonesian, Bengali, Danish and Swedish.

Greatly ap pre ci at ed all around the world, these works havebeen in stru men tal in many peo ple re cov er ing faith in Allahand gain ing deep er in sights in to their faith. His books' wis -dom and sin cer i ty, to geth er with a dis tinct style that's easy toun der stand, di rect ly af fect any one who reads them. Those whose ri ous ly con sid er these books, can no longer ad vo cate athe ismor any oth er per vert ed ide ol o gy or ma te ri al is tic phi los o phy,since these books are char ac ter ized by rap id ef fect ive ness, def -i nite re sults, and ir ref u ta bil i ty. Even if they con tin ue to do so,it will be on ly a sen ti men tal in sist ence, since these books re -fute such ide ol o gies from their very foun da tions. All con tem -

po ra ry move ments of de ni al are now ide o log i cal ly de feat ed,thanks to the books writ ten by Harun Yahya.

This is no doubt a re sult of the Qur'an's wis dom and lu -cid i ty. The au thor mod est ly in tends to serve as a means in hu -man i ty's search for Allah's right path. No ma te ri al gain issought in the pub li ca tion of these works.

Those who en cour age oth ers to read these books, to opentheir minds and hearts and guide them to be come more de vot -ed ser vants of Allah, rend er an in val u a ble serv ice.

Meanwhile, it would on ly be a waste of time and en er gyto prop a gate oth er books that cre ate con fu sion in peo ple'sminds, lead them in to ide o log i cal cha os, and that clear ly haveno strong and pre cise ef fects in re mov ing the doubts in peo -ple's hearts, as al so ver i fied from pre vi ous ex pe ri ence. It is im -pos si ble for books de vised to em pha size the au thor's lit er arypow er rath er than the no ble goal of sav ing peo ple from loss offaith, to have such a great ef fect. Those who doubt this canread i ly see that the sole aim of Harun Yahya's books is to over -come dis be lief and to dis sem i nate the Qur'an's mor al val ues.The suc cess and im pact of this serv ice are man i fest ed in theread ers' con vic tion.

One point should be kept in mind: The main rea son for thecon tin u ing cru el ty, con flict, and oth er or deals en dured by thevast ma jor i ty of peo ple is the ide o log i cal prev a lence of dis be -lief. This can be end ed on ly with the ide o log i cal de feat of dis -be lief and by con vey ing the wond ers of Creation and Qur'anicmo ral i ty so that peo ple can live by it. Considering the state ofthe world to day, lead ing in to a down ward spi ral of vi o lence,cor rup tion and con flict, clear ly this serv ice must be pro vid edspeed i ly and ef fect ive ly, or it may be too late.

In this ef fort, the books of Harun Yahya as sume a lead ingrole. By the will of Allah, these books will be a means throughwhich peo ple in the twen ty-first cen tu ry will at tain the peace,jus tice, and hap pi ness prom ised in the Qur'an.

CONTENTS

PORTENTS AND FEATURES

OF THE MAHDI'S COMING . . . . . . .10

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

Part One: Portents of the

Mahdi's Coming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

Part Two: The Mahdi's Features . . .103

The Mahdi is a Subject Needing To Be

Widely Broadcast Rather Than Kept

Hidden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165

Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .189

The Deception of Evolution . . . . . . .191

PORTENTS

AND

FEATURES OF

THE MAHDI'S

COMING

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HARUN YAHYA - ADNAN OKTAR

INTRODUCTION

The had iths of our Prophet (saas) pro vide very

detailed infor ma tion and signs about the End Times,

which will occur short ly before Doomsday. According

to these reports, sev er al high ly sig nif i cant events will

take place one after the other dur ing this peri od. In the

first stage of the End Times, ter ri ble cor rup tion and

chaos will rule; in the sec ond stage, these will be

replaced by peace and secu ri ty as peo ple come to live

by true reli gious moral val ues.

Our Prophet (saas) impart ed glad tid ings regard ing

the Mahdi, who will be sent dur ing the End Times. For

exam ple, this great indi vid u al will lib er ate Muslims from

cru el ty and suf fer ing; elim i nate cor rup tion; and usher in

an era of peace, jus tice, plen ty, hap pi ness, and well

being. According to reli a ble had iths, he will return Islam,

which has been dis tort ed via super sti tions and prac ti -

ces, to its true essence; meet with Prophet ‘Isa (as);

and, by Allah's will, will ena ble Islam's moral val ues to

pre vail on Earth.

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PORTENTS AND FEATURES OF THE MAHDI'S COMING

These great tid ings enhance all believ ers' enthu -

si asm and excite ment. Many of the pro phet ic had -

iths and schol ar ly man u scripts that have come down

to us have trans mit ted the joy and enthu si asm of

those tid ings and have kept the sub ject alive and of

inter est among believ ers. The por tents that we are

see ing in our own time show us that the Mahdi's

com ing is close at hand. Indeed, the cur rent cli mate

of chaos, oppres sion, ter ror, and war, as well as the

strife, fam ines, and earth quakes, are all por tents of

this great event.

This small book con sists of two parts: "The

Portents of the Mahdi's Coming" and "The Mahdi's

Features." There can be no doubt that all new infor -

ma tion learned regard ing this sub ject will enhance

the Muslims' excite ment.

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PART ONE

PORTENTS OF

THE MAHDI'S COMING

Many of the pro phet ic had iths that have been hand -

ed down to us in the works of great Islamic schol ars

are devot ed to por tents of the Mahdi's com ing. This

sec tion exam ines the links between these had iths and

the present day. We shall see that they describe the

con tem po ra ry cli mate and con di tions and cer tain crit -

i cal events that took place in the recent past accu rate -

ly and mirac u lous ly.

As stat ed ear li er, both the Mahdi's com ing and the

ful fill ment of the had iths regard ing the por tents of

Doomsday start ed com ing to pass, one after the other,

at the begin ning of the 1400s ah (1979-80), clear ly

reveals that these are the years of the Mahdi's pres -

ence on Earth. (Allah knows the truth, of course.) Let's

now exam ine these por tents.

1) PORTENTS OF MAHDI'S COMING TAKING

PLACE ONE AFTER THE OTHER,

2) THE PROLIFERATION OF SEDITION (FITNAS),

3) WIDESPREAD SLAUGHTER BEFORE THE MAHDI

COMES,

4) THE GLOBAL PERVASIVENESS OF CHAOS AND

CONFLICT,

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5) STRIFES IN WHICH EVEN WOMEN AND CHIL-

DREN ARE SLAUGHTERED,

6) HE WILL APPEAR WHEN THE WAYLAYING

INCREASES,

7) INCREASED OPPRESSION OF MUSLIMS,

8) THE DESTRUCTION OF MASJIDS AND

MOSQUES,

9) RELIGIOUS PROHIBITIONS GAIN ACCEPTANCE,

10) THE OPEN DENIAL OF ALLAH (Surely Allah is

beyond that!),

11) THE IRAN-IRAQ WAR,

12) THE OCCUPATION OF AFGHANISTAN,

13) THE ARMY THAT SANK IN THE DESERT,

14) HALTING OF THE FLOW OF THE EUPHRATES,

15) LUNAR AND SOLAR ECLIPSES DURING

RAMADAN,

16) THE RISE OF A COMET

17) STORMING THE KA'BAH AND THE SUBSE-

QUENT BLOODSHED,

18) SIGHTING A FLARE IN THE EAST,

19) AN INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF FALSE

PROPHETS,

20) USING RELIGION FOR PERSONAL ENDS,

21) GREAT AND AMAZING THINGS TAKING PLACE,

22) A SIGN OUT OF THE SUN,

23) THE DESTRUCTION OF GREAT CITIES, and

24) AN INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF EARTH-

QUAKES.

1) PORTENTS OF MAHDI'S COMING TAKINGPLACE ONE AFTER THE OTHERThose had iths that reveal the por tents of the Mahdi's

com ing describe them as occur ring one after the other

"like the dots on a prayer-beads." We can see that this

is the case, for as stat ed in the had iths, chaos and anar-

chy are on the rise all over the world, sedi tion is grow -

ing, slaugh ter and ter ri ble catas tro phes are tak ing place

in many lands, pov er ty and hun ger are increas ing, and

peo ple are suf fer ing ter ri bly. The fact that these por -

tents are com ing to pass at one par tic u lar time shows

that the Mahdi, the bless ed per son for whom Muslims

have await ed for cen tu ries, will come soon. (Allah knows

the best!)

Some of the reports relat ed to this sub ject are as fol -

lows:

I asked Abu Abdullah Husain ibn Ali: "Are there por tents

of this?" – in ref er ence to the Mahdi's appear ance. He

said: "Yes." I asked: "What are they?" He said: "The

destruc tion of the [tribe of the] Bani Abbas, the emer -

gence of the Sufyani (Abu Sufyan), and sink ing in

Bayda." I said: "I am afraid this will all take a long time,"

to which he replied: "These things will hap pen one after

the other, like the dots on a tas bih (prayer beads)."

(Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti, Portents of the Mahdi of the

End Times, Kahraman Publishings, p. 3)

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Signs of the Doomsday fol low one anoth er, like the pie -

ces of a prayer beads fall ing one after the other when its

string is cut.

(Tirmidhi Hadiths)

Painful sit u a tions and griev ous sights will be seen. Strife

will go on and on…

(Al-Suyuti, Portents of the Mahdi, p. 36)

Fitnas (sedi tions) will fol low one anoth er in the near

future. Then, there will be other fit nas and even more

fol low ing them.

(Mukhtasar Tazkirah al-Qurtubi, p. 374, no. 684)

2) THE PROLIFERATION OF SEDITION (FITNAS)The word fitna (sedi tion) describes events, envi ron -

ments, and con di tions in which all peo ple, espe cial ly

believ ers, face inten si fied tests of their faith. Such tests,

in which liv ing con di tions are dif fi cult and efforts are

made to weak en or destroy peo ple's faith, are all

described as fitna in Islamic sour ces.

The fol low ing had ith describes how believ ers' faith

will weak en prior to the Mahdi's com ing and the caus -

es there of:

The Mahdi, one of my chil dren, comes into being, by

the bless ing of Allah, when the Day of Judgment

approach es and the believ ers' hearts weak en because

of death, hun ger, the dis ap pear ance of the Sunnah, the

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emer gence of inno va tions, and the loss of the means

by which to enjoin the right and for bid the wrong. His

jus tice and pros per i ty will ease the believ ers' hearts,

and friend ship and love will set tle between the non-Arab

and the Arab nations.

(Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi 'Al a mat al-Mahdi

Akhir al-Zaman, p. 66)

To sum ma rize, the fol low ing events will take place

before the Mahdi appears:

1) Death: Public secu ri ty will dis ap pear in the face of

anarchy, wide spread slaugh ter, and the ensu ing ten -

sion.

2) Hunger: The high cost of liv ing, as well as catas -

tro phes and nat u ral dis as ters, will cause a rise in hun -

ger and fam ine.

3) Fitnas (Sedition): Sin will be encour aged and

spread, and all kinds of immor al actions will take place

before peo ple's eyes.

4) Un-Islamic inno va tions (bid'at): Customs that have

no place in true Islam and that were added on and grad -

u al ly came to be accept ed as a true part of it, will

emerge.

5) Being Unable to Preach the Religion: An emp ti -

ness caused by being una ble to teach how good is

com mand ed and evil for bid den; in other words, the

preach ing of reli gion.

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Sedition ena bles strong believ ers to enhance their

faith and for ti tude, as well as their degree in the

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Alcohol caus es

crime

Alcoholism has spread

Their lives a dis grace for young peo ple

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Hereafter, where as they lead those with weak faith to

become fur ther removed from faith, and those whose

faith is arti fi cial to lose it alto geth er. The Mahdi will

appear at a time when such a cli mate of cor rup tion

is being expe ri enced in its full est and most vio lent

form.

Explosion in crime

THE RISE AGAINST INTEREST

Explosion in bur gla ry

Prostitution night mare

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Another had ith imparts the tid ings that there will be

con fu sion, sedi tion, and fear in the "west":

Disorder, sedi tion, and fear will emerge in the west...

Sedition will pro lif er ate.

(Mukhtasar Tazkirah Qurtubi)

Another had ith reveals that the Mahdi will come when

sedi tion is every where:

A kind of sedi tion will sur face from which no party will

be able to pro tect itself, and spread imme di ate ly in every

direc tion. This sit u a tion will per sist until one comes and

says: "O peo ple, from now on your lead er is the Mahdi."

(Ibn Hajar al-Haytahami, Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar fi 'Al a -

mat al-Mahdi al-Muntazar, p. 23)

In other words, a sedi tion that oppos es reli gion and

Allah will tar get peo ple's faith. Today, this sedi tion is

mate ri al ist phi los o phy, the sup posed sci en tif ic basis

of which is Darwin's the o ry of evo lu tion. Although it is

com plete ly irra tion al, unsci en tif ic, and devoid of any

sci en tif ic or log i cal proof, mate ri al ist cir cles are seek -

ing to impose this the o ry on every soci e ty through inten -

sive prop a gan da, decep tion, and mis rep re sen ta tion.

This the o ry enters our homes through the press and

tel e vi sion, wheth er we live in the West or in the Muslim

world. Forming a part of most sci ence and other text -

books, it is imposed upon chil dren from the early grades

through con stant rep e ti tion, such as its most famous

claim: that peo ple are descend ed from a com mon

ances tor with apes. Young peo ple are fed these evo -

lu tion ist lies from pri ma ry school to the uni ver si ty.

In addi tion, the sedi tion referred to in the pro phet ic

had iths can only become so wide spread through mod -

ern-day tech no log i cal means (e.g., the press, pub lish -

ing, the Internet, and sat el lite com mu ni ca tions). Indeed,

such wide spread sedi tion has never been seen before

today. All of these are impor tant signs that the Mahdi's

com ing coin cides with our own time. The had iths also

state that this sedi tion will end when the Mahdi comes.

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22

We are going mad !

Explosion in social inci dents

Public order is ter ri fy ing

Explosion in com mon crimes

150 mil lion peo ple

trapped by drugs

Child

pros ti tute

increased

with tour ism

Crime explo sion in

the slums

Thieves and per verts do not

regen er ate

1269 mur ders

com mit ted in 10

months

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3) WIDESPREAD SLAUGHTER BEFORE THEMAHDI COMESThe had iths reveal that vio lence and chaos will affect

the great major i ty of peo ple before the Mahdi comes

and that much blood will be shed:

Doomsday will not take place until these things come

to pass… Death and slaugh ter will be wide spread…

(Al-Suyuti, Jamius Sagir, 3:211; Musnad, 2:492,

4:391, 392)

There will be cries of war in Shawwal and war and car -

nage in Dhu al-Hijjah. Again in Dhu al-Hijjah, pil grims

will be plun dered and the roads will be filled with

blood… The blood shed will con tin ue and increase.

(Al-Suyuti, Portents of the Mahdi of the End Times p.

37)

…The Hajjis will be loot ed, and there will be a bat tle at

Mina in which many will be slain. Blood will flow until it

runs over the Jamra al-'Aq a ba. [Jamra: a stone pil lar

rep re sent ing Satan that is stoned dur ing the pil grim -

age.]

(Narrated by 'Amr ibn Shu'ayb, al-Hakim, and Nu'aym

ibn Hammad)

There will emerge wide spread strife that seems impos -

si ble to ever end...

(Al-Haythami, Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar, p. 55)

People make pil grim age with out an imam lead ing them.

Big wars break out when they come down to Mina, and

they are entwined just the way dogs entwine, and tribes

attack each other. This strife is so wide spread that legs

are bur ied in lakes of blood.

(Al-Suyuti, Portents of the Mahdi of the End Times, p.

35)

Such a strife will appear that nowhere will be spared.

When it ends in one place, it will imme di ate ly spread to

anoth er...

(Al-Haythami, Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar,pp. 21-22)

Modern com mu ni ca tions tech nol o gy will make

every one aware of this cor rup tion and dis as ters. Even

though there may only be few peo ple present at the

scene, the whole world will learn what is hap pen ing

instan ta ne ous ly. Radio, tel e vi sion, news pa pers, and

the Internet will broad cast blood shed, injus tice, and

oppres sion to the whole world.

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4) THE GLOBAL PERVASIVENISS OF CHAOS ANDCONFLICT

At a time when the world will be in utter con fu sion and

dis or der (harj), fitna will appear, peo ple will be attacked,

the old will not have mercy on the young, and the young

will not show respect to the old, Allah will send some -

one (the Mahdi) to erad i cate hos til i ty, con quer the cas -

tles of per ver sion, uphold faith in the End Times just as

I upheld it for mer ly; some one who will fill this Earth with

jus tice where vio lence pre vailed before.

(Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi 'Al a mat al-Mahdi, p.

12)

Rather than describ ing one par tic u lar place, the had -

ith refers to chaos (e.g., con flict, war, slaugh ter, and

ter ror) spread ing all over the world. Indeed, this is the

case today, a time when every day hun dreds of peo ple

are killed or exiled for no fair rea son.


Terrible gen o cide was inflict ed on Muslims in Kosova before the eyes of

the world.

Terrible slaugh ter is being car ried out

in Chechya before the eyes of the

world.

The bomb ings left

thou sands of

Muslims in Kosova

home less.

The years-

long war in

Bosnia

result ed in

the deaths of

hun dreds of

thou sands of

Muslims.

Thousands of peo ple

in Abkhazia were

killed just for being

Muslims.


27.09.2002 Radikal

An atlas of

blood,

gun pow der

and tears

A breath of poison,

5.5 mil lion

peo ple at

war

THE

HEADACHE OF

THE WORLD:

TERROR

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5) STRIFE IN WHICH EVEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN ARE SLAUGHTEREDEven women, chil dren, the eld er ly, and the inno cent

will be mas sa cred before the Mahdi comes:

In this case, kill ing a woman will be as easy as wield ing

a whip. This event will spread twen ty-four miles from

Madinah. Then the oath of alle giance will be taken to

the Mahdi.


The Mahdi will not appear until inno cent peo ple are

killed…

(Ibid., p. 35)

The last of this strife will be the kill ing of inno cent peo -

ple, and then the Mahdi will appear, to the approv al of

all.

(Ibid., p. 38)

The Mahdi will not appear until inno cent peo ple are

slaugh ter ed. He will appear when those on Earth and

in the skies can no longer bear the kill ing...


They will kill moth ers, fathers, daugh ters, men, every -

one, and inflict great suf fer ing on the [Muslim] com mu -

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ni ty by con quer ing Persia and Iraq. Among these there

will be strife, vio lence, destruc tion, and flight.


6) THE MAHDI WILL APPEAR WHEN THE ROADSARE CUTThe had iths reveal that the Mahdi will come when

the means of trans port are sev ered due to con flict, anar-

chy, and ter ror, and when peo ple are una ble to trav el

in safe ty and secu ri ty:

When trade and roads are cut and strife mul ti plies...

(Al-Haythami, Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar, pp. 39-40)

03.04.2003 Hürriyet

BABY KILLERS

Maternity hos pi tal is bombed

Before the Mahdi appears, trade and roads between

nations will be cut and strife among peo ple will grow.

(Mukhtasar Tazkirah al-Qurtubi, p. 454)

7) THE INCREASED OPPRESSION OF MUSLIMSDuring the end times, the had iths state that Muslim

soci e ties will suf fer from the con flict, war, and injus tice

aimed at them. The con flicts and cli mate of chaos expe -

ri enced in parts of the Islamic world, both now and in

the recent past, as well as the oppres sion that has led

to dic ta to ri al regimes in cer tain Muslim coun tries, are

some of the proofs that this time has begun.

Everyone bow ing (ruqu') and pros trat ing (sajda) them -

selves in prayer will be pun ished. Cruelty, mal ice, and

vice will be pro duced; schol ars and ascet ics mur dered;

and many cit ies con quered. There will be hos til i ty to

Prophet Muhammad (saas), blood shed and destruc tion

will be legit i mate.


There will be cal iphs after me, amirs after the cal iphs,

and cruel tyrants after the amirs. Finally, one from my

line will appear.


84)

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Woe to this com mu ni ty because of those tyran ni cal rul -

ers. These cruel ones fright en even the silent and sub -

mis sive, apart from those who obey them.

(Ibid., p. 13)

Every one out of three Muslim will be killed...

(Ibid., p. 73)

8) THE DESTRUCTION OF MOSQUES

The Sufyani will emerge from a dry val ley and form an

army from the Kalb tribe con sist ing of grim-faced and

hard-heart ed men who will oppress all peo ple. He will

destroy mosques and madrass as, and pun ish every -

one bow ing (ruqu') and pros trat ing (sajda) them selves

in prayer.


9) RELIGIOUS PROHIBITIONS GAIN ACCEPT-ANCEToday, although such harm ful activ i ties as pros ti tu -

tion, alco hol con sump tion, usury, and brib ery are

unlaw ful or reli gious ly for bid den in many lands, more

and more peo ple are indulg ing in them. Even more,

some those who engage in them are praised and

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encour aged, where as those who do not are dis par aged

and belit tled. Lifestyles that know no bounds, that care

noth ing for what the scrip tures allow and for bid, and

that regard all forms of excess as per mis si ble have

spread far and wide dur ing the last few dec ades. The

had iths describe this dark age, a her ald of the Mahdi's

com ing, as fol lows:

Strife will be seen, and more will fol low. Such a level of

strife will come that the first will spur the last to clash -

es of swords, and after this there will be such strife that

what is for bid den is regard ed as law ful. Then the cal i -

phate will come to the Mahdi, the most aus pi cious indi -

vid u al on Earth, while he is sit ting at home.


26)

The Mahdi will not emerge until unbe lief invades every -

where and is open ly com mit ted in pub lic. What rules in

such times is… the inva sion by unbe lief. That is its

power.

(Imam Rabbani, Letters of Rabbani, 2:259)

The Mahdi will emerge after the appear ance of such vile

cor rup tion, where by all pro hi bi tions are regard ed as

law ful.


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10) THE OPEN DENIAL OF ALLAH (Surely Allah is beyond that!)

The Mahdi will not come until Allah

is open ly and fla grant ly denied.

(Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan

fi 'Al a mat al-Mahdi, p. 27)

This had ith indi cates that many

peo ple will either be athe ists or

agnos tics, and that they will relay

their deni al to every one through

the press and declare it open ly. This state of affairs

clear ly exists today, since those who deny Allah are

high ly esteemed for their sup posed "mod ern and con -

tem po ra ry" atti tude. Moreover, the pub lic is encour -

aged to emu late them.

11) The IRAN-IRAQ WARThe had ith reports that a major war will take place in

the End Times:

There will be tumult in Shawwal, talk of war in Dhu al-

Qa'dah, and the out break of war in Dhu al-Hijjah.

(Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Rasul Barzanji, Al-Isha'ah li

Ashrat as-Sa'ah, p. 166)

Now the god less

want free dom

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The army fires on the peo ple in Iran

Officers also join ing the upris ing in Iran

Iran and Iraq pub lish ing war bul le tins

These three months match the dates of the devel -

op men tal sta ges of the Iran-Iraq war:

Tumult in Shawwal …The first upris ing against the shah took place on 5

Shawwal 1398 (8 September 1976), as indi cat ed by the

had ith.

Talk of war in Dhu al-Qa'dah, and the out break of

war in Dhu al-Hijjah …

A full-blown war broke out between Iran and Iraq in

Dhu al-Hijjah 1400 (October 1980).


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WAR Iraqi planes bomb Iran

Another had ith describes the details of this war as

fol lows:

A tribe will come from the Farsi direc tion, say ing: "You

Arabs! You have been too zeal ous! If you don't give

them their due rights, nobody will have an alli ance with

you... It must be given to them one day and to you the

fol low ing day, and mutu al prom is es must be kept..."

They will be going up Mutekh; Muslims will be com ing

down to the plain ... Mushrikun [ido la ters] will be stand -

ing over there on the bank of a black river [Rakabeh] on

the other side. There will be a war between them. Allah

will deprive both armies of a vic to ry ...

(Ibid., p. 179)

- Those com ing from the Farsi direc tion: Those com -

ing from the Iranian side,

- Farsi: Iran, Iranian,

- Coming down to the plain: Coming down to the Iraqi

plain,

- Mutekh: Name of a moun tain in the region, and

- Rakabeh: A region where the oil wells are con cen -

trat ed.

"You Arabs! You have been too zeal ous! If you don't

give them their due rights, nobody will have an alli -

ance with you…"

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This had ith may draw atten tion to the out break of a

racial dis pute that will cause both sides to come down

to the (Iraqi) plain and wage war.

Allah will deprive both armies of a vic to ry...

The Iran-Iraq war last ed for 8 years and, despite the

enor mous num ber of cas u al ties, nei ther side could

claim vic to ry.

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One step fur ther one step back

here is Iran-Iraq war

12) THE OCCUPATION OF AFGHANISTAN

Pity poor Taliqan [a region in Afghanistan]. At that place

are treas ures of Allah. These are not of gold and sil ver,

but con sist of peo ple who have recog nized Allah as they

should have. They are the Mahdi's ser vants.


59)

Pity poor Taliqan…The had ith may refer

to the inva sion of

Afghanistan dur ing the

Mahdi's time. Indeed, the

Soviets invad ed

Afghanistan in 1979

(1400 ah – accord ing to

the Islamic cal en dar), the

begin ning of a new

Islamic cen tu ry. The

had iths state that the

Mahdi will appear at the

begin ning of a

new Islamic cen -

tu ry. The fact that

many por tents

coin cid ed with

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The Soviets have taken over

Afghanistan

And in Afghanistan

this par tic u lar date shows that these dates are an impor -

tant sign of the Mahdi's com ing.

… at that place are treas ures of Allah. But theseare not of gold and sil ver …This had ith also draws atten tion to Afghanistan's

mate ri al rich es. Today, large oil depos its, iron basins,

and coal mines that have not yet been com mer cial ly

exploit ed have been detect ed there.

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Afghanistan is a min er al bed

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13) THE ARMY THAT SANK IN THE DESERT

But when this army enters the desert, it will so be bur -

ied in the ground at the place called Dhu al-Hulaifah

that those on top will not see those under neath, nor will

those under neath see those on top, until Doomsday.


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One of the por tents of his appear ance is, as stat ed

before, the bur i al of an army in the desert.


When a shep herd see ing an army mov ing across the

desert on a bright night says: "It will be a sad ness for

Makkah. Woe will befall them," he will see the army sud -

den ly dis ap pear. He will say: "Subhan Allah. How did

they dis ap pear so quick ly?" When he goes down and

looks, he will see a blan ket half under the ground and

half out. He will try to extract it. But when he can not, he

will real ize that the army he saw has been bur ied…

(Ibid., p. 39)

14) STOPPING THE FLOW OF THE EUPHRATESThe block ing and stop ping of the Euphrates' water is

anoth er por tent:

One of the por tents of the Mahdi's com ing is the stop -

ping of the Euphrates.


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Other had iths pro vide more details:

The riv er's water has been blocked by the Keban

Dam.

The Euphrates will soon dis close the treas ure [the

moun tain] of gold. Whoever will be present at that time

should not take any of it (because the end of the old

world has come).

(Sahih Bukhari, 12:305)

The Prophet said: Doomsday will not come until the

Euphrates dis clos es a gold moun tain. Men will wage

war for it. Ninety-nine out of every hun dred will be killed,

and every man will wish he had been the one to be

saved.

(Sahih Muslim, 11:320)

The Prophet said: "The Euphrates will soon dis close a

gold moun tain. Let no one who is there take any thing

from it.


The Prophet said: "The Euphrates will soon dis close a

gold en treas ure. Whoever is present, let him take noth -

ing from it.

(Sunan Abu Dawud, 5:116)

The Prophet said: "It [the Euphrates] will uncov er a

moun tain of gold."


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The time when the Euphrates will dis close its gold en

treas ure as its waters with draw is approach ing.

Whoever is present at that time, let him take noth ing

from that treas ure. Otherwise, he will die or be killed.

(Narrated by Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim/

Riyazu's Salihin, 3:332)

As we have seen, stop ping the Euphrates' water is

an impor tant sign. In addi tion, many had iths say that a

treas ure as val u a ble as gold will emerge. Let's exam ine

these signs fur ther:

Allah's Messenger (saas) said: "The Hour will not come

to pass before the Euphrates dries up to unveil the

moun tain of gold, for which peo ple will fight. Ninety-

nine out of one hun dred will die [in the fight ing], and

every man among them will say: 'Per haps I may be the

only one to remain alive.' "

(Narrated by Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim/

Riyazu's Salihin, 3:332)

1) … the Euphrates dries up …As-Suyuti calls this the "stop ping of the water." The

Keban Dam did, in fact, accom plish this feat.

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2) … unveils the moun tain of gold…Thanks to this dam, the newly exposed land became

"worth its weight in gold," for the result ing increased

pro duc tion of elec tric i ty made it pos si ble to irri gate

more land and facil i tat ed trans port.

As can be seen above, this dam resem bles a huge con crete moun tain. A

treas ure as val u a ble as gold will pour forth from it (from the "moun tain,"

accord ing to the had ith's met a phor). This makes the dam a "moun tain of

gold." (Allah knows the truth.)

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3) … for which peo ple will fight.Due to the wide spread anarchy

and kill ing in the region, any one

assert ing own er ship of land in that

area may kill or be killed, just as the

had ith states.

15) SOLAR AND LUNAR ECLIPSESDURING RAMADAN

There are two signs for the Mahdi... The first one is the

lunar eclipse in the first night of Ramadan, and the sec -

ond is the solar eclipse in the mid dle of this month.

(al-Haythami, Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar, p. 49)

The US dream of Euphrates

Euphrates is a gold

stor age

The moth er of bat -tles will break outover the Euphrates

For the firsh and last time

in his to ry the flow of

Euphrate will be stopped

for three days

Huge

Euphrate is

stopped

where is

bom

4 November 1973

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A lunar eclipse will occur in the first night of Ramadan.

In the mid dle of Ramadan, a solar eclipse will occur.

(Barzanji, Al-Isha'ah, p. 199)

During his [the Mahdi's] reign, on the four teenth of

Ramadan, a solar eclipse will occur. On the first of that

month, the Moon will dark en...

(Imam Rabbani, Letters of Rabbani, p. 380; 2:1163)

... The solar eclipse in the mid dle of Ramadan, and the

lunar eclipse at the end ...

(Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi 'Al a mat al-Mahdi,, p.

38)

There will be two lunar eclip ses in Ramadan...


There will be two lunar eclip ses in Ramadan before the

Mahdi emer ges.


There will be two solar eclip ses in Ramadan before the

Mahdi's advent.


The most impor tant points here are the solar eclipse

in the mid dle of Ramadan and that the Sun and Moon

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can not be eclipsed twice in one month under nor mal

con di tions. However, other por tents can hap pen as a

result of cer tain caus es and can be com pre hend ed.

Close inspec tion of the phe nom e na described in

these had iths reveals var i ous dif fer en ces between the

accounts. According to the first, sec ond, and third

accounts, the Moon will be eclipsed on the first day of

Ramadan, and accord ing to the fourth it will be eclipsed

on the last day. The cor rect course of action here is to

find the com mon ground in these accounts:

1. There will be lunar and solar eclip ses in Ramadan.

2. These eclip ses will be equi dis tant, at inter vals of

14-15 days.

3. These eclip ses will be repeat ed twice.

In line with these cal cu la tions, the Moon was eclipsed

on 15 Ramadan 1401 (1981) and the Sun on 29

Ramadan 1401. And, the Moon was again eclipsed on

14 Ramadan 1402 (1982)) and the Sun on 28 Ramadan

1402.

Significantly, this had ith declares that the Moon

should be eclipsed in the mid dle of Ramadan as a full

moon. This is noted as being a por tent.

The fact that these events took place in the same

peri od as the other por tents of the Mahdi's com ing and

were mirac u lous ly repeat ed twice at the begin ning of

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the 1400s ah strength ens the assump tion that the had -

ith is point ing toward these events.

17 July

1981,

Friday

Lunar

Eclipse

6 July

1982,

Tuesday

Lunar

Eclipse

20 July

1982,

Tuesday

Solar

Eclipse

31 July

1981,

Friday

Solar

Eclipse

16) THE RISE OF A COMET

A star with a lumi nous tail will rise from the east before

the Mahdi emer ges.


Before he arrives, a comet will appear in the east, giv -

ing out an illu mi na tion.


The star's rise will occur after the eclipse of the Sun and

the Moon.


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As stat ed in the had iths:

- Halley's Comet passed close to Earth in 1986, at

the begin ning of the 1400s ah (1406 ah). This comet

was a bright, shin ing star that moved from east to west

and appeared after the lunar and solar eclip ses of 1981-

82 (1401-02). The fact it was born at the same time as

the other por tents con firms that Halley's Comet is the

celes tial body referred to in the had ith.

Imam Rabbani pro vides the fol low ing infor ma tion

about this spe cif ic por tent:

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A tailed star will be born in

the east and spread its

light. Its daily direc tion will be

from east to west.

(Imam Rabbani, Letters of

Rabbani, 2:1170)

Whenever this comet has

passed by, events that rep -

re sent sig nif i cant turn ing

points with regard to

Muslims have taken place.

Some of these are revealed

in the accounts hand ed down from our Prophet (saas).

According to these accounts, when the comet was

seen:

- The peo ple of Prophet Nuh (as) were destroyed,

- Prophet Ibrahim (as) was cast into the fire,

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HALLEY'S COMET

1986

(51st north ern merid i an)

(19 FEBRUARY

1 MARCH

11 MARCH

10 APRIL

20 APRIL

30 APRIL

10 MAY

20 MAY

30 MAY

Halley's comet came very close to

the earth yes ter day morn ing

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- Pharaoh and his tribe were destroyed,

- Prophet Yahya (as) was killed,

- Prophet ‘Isa (as) was born,

- Our Prophet (saas) began receiv ing the first rev e la -

tion,

- The Ottoman Empire made its appear ance, and

- Constantinople was cap tured by Sultan Mehmet

the Conqueror.

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Some Interesting Figures Linked to Halley'sCometInterestingly, some fig -

ures per tain ing to the

comet are mul ti ples of 19.

For exam ple, Halley's

Comet appears every 76

years

(19 x 4 = 76) and

was last seen in 1406

ah

(19 x 74 = 1406).

Surat al-Muddaththir,

which refers to the mir a -

cle of 19 in the Qur'an, is

the sev en ty-fourth surah. Moreover, its thir ti eth verse

reveals that 19 is a means of mercy for believ ers and

of fitna for unbe liev ers. A last great mir a cle and sign of

this comet is its appear ance in 1986 (1406 ah), its nine -

teenth appear ance since 610, when Prophet

Mohammed (saas) was hon ored with proph e cy.

In Surat al-Muddaththir 74:1-2, Allah com mands our

Prophet (saas): "O you who are envel oped in your cloak,

arise and warn." The mean ing is clear. Yet, they may

be a hid den mean ing: "(the one) envel oped in cloak"

may well refer to the Mahdi, who is from our Prophet's

(saas) lin e age and whose appear ance will be sig naled

by the rise of Halley's Comet in 1406 ah.

17) STORMING THE KA'BAH AND THE SUBSEQUENT BLOODSHED

The year in which he will emerge, peo ple will per form

hajj togeth er and gath er with out an imam. The Hajjis

will be loot ed, and there will be a bat tle at Mina in which

many will be slain and blood will flow until it runs over

the Jamra al-'Aq a ba. [Jamra: a stone pil lar rep re sent ing

Satan that is stoned dur ing the pil grim age.]

(Narrated by 'Amr ibn Shu'ayb, al-Hakim and Nu'aym

ibn Hammad)

People make pil grim age with out an imam lead ing them.

Big wars break out when they come down to Mina, and

they are entwined just the way dogs entwine, and tribes

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attack each other. This strife is so wide spread that legs

are bur ied in lakes of blood.


35)

The phrase "the year in which he will emerge" draws

atten tion to a mas sa cre that will occur on the date of

the Mahdi's emer gence. In 1979, a mas sa cre very like

this one occurred dur ing the raid on the Ka'bah, which

took place dur ing the pil grim age month on the first day

of the Islamic year 1400 (21 November 1979). The had -

iths also men tion blood shed. The kill ing of 30 peo ple

dur ing the clash es between Saudi sol diers and mil i -

tants dur ing the raid con firms the rest of this had ith.

Seven years after this attack, an even blood i er event

took place dur ing the Hajj: 402 peo ple were killed in

attacks on pil grims dem on strat ing in the streets, and

much blood was spilled. Muslims com mit ted ter ri ble

sins by kill ing each other (the Saudi troops and the

Iranian pil grims) beside al-Bayt-al Mu'azza mah (the

Ka'bah). These bloody inci dents bear a close resem -

blance to the cli mate described in the rel e vant had iths:

The Prophet (saas) said: "There will be a voice in

Ramadan, a noise in Shawwal, and war between the

tribes in the month of Dhu al-Qa'dah. Pilgrims will be

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despoiled. There will be a war in Mina in which many

will die, to such an extent that so much blood will flow

as to leave the stones there in a lake of blood."


31)

Mecca invad ed

Horrible vio la tion of the Haram Al-

Shariff

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There will be a voice in Ramadan, and a voice in

Shawwal. In Dhu al-Qa'dah, the tribes will fight one

anoth er. In Dhu al-Hijjah, pil grims will be despoiled. In

Muharram, there will be a shout from the sky: "Take

heed. Such a per son is of the aus pi cious ones of the

peo ple of Allah. Listen to and obey him."

(Rumuz al-Ahadith,2:518, no. 5)

There will be rebel lion in Shawwal, talk of war in Dhu al-

Qa'dah, and an act of war in Dhu al-Hijjah. Pilgrims will

be despoiled, and their blood will flow [over the Ka'bah].


In the month of Dhu al-Qa'dah, the tribes will wage war,

pil grims will be kid napped, and there will be bloody

wars.


34)

There come the cries of war in [the month of] Shawwal

with the out break of war, mas sa cre, and car nage in [the

month of] Dhu al-Hijjah. The pil grims are plun dered in

this month, the streets can not be crossed because of

the [amount of] blood shed, and reli gious pro hi bi tions

are vio lat ed. Big sins are com mit ted near al-Bayt-al

Mu'azza mah [the Ka'bah].

(Ibid., p. 37)

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A great sin will be com mit ted beside al-Bayt al-Mu'azza mahThe above had ith draws our atten tion to inci dents

that will occur by al-Bayt al-Mu'azza mah (the Ka'bah),

not inside it. In con trast to the first, the events of Dhu al-

Hijjah 1407 ah (dur ing the hajj sea son) hap pened not

inside the Ka'bah, but beside it. The first event

described took place inside the Ka'bah on 1 Muharram

1400, in line with the indi ca tions given in both had iths.

Two major events, shed ding blood in the Ka'bah and

kill ing pil grims, take place one after the other at a time

when all of the por tents regard ing the Mahdi are com -

ing true. This appears to be more than coin ci den tal.

When we exam ine the expres sions in these had iths,

we see signs point ing to other impor tant events that

will occur at the same time:

- ... [There will be] out break of war, mas sa cre,and car nage in [the month of] Dhu al-Hijjah.The com bined ref er ence in the had iths to war, con -

Terror in Hajj

402 dead at the KaabaTerror in the Kaaba

flict, and the kill ing of pil grims shows that the inci dents

in ques tion will take place at the same time. The peri -

od in ques tion was when the Iran-Iraq war broke out

and when the worst con flict and chaos were expe ri -

enced in south east ern Turkey and the Middle East.

- There come the cries of war in [the month of]Shawwal...This may be a ref er ence to ten sion in the Persian

Gulf, height en ed ten sion between Iran and the United

States, and a state of war.

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18) SIGHTING A FLARE IN THE EAST

... the emer gence of a big flare, which is seen in the east,

in the sky for three nights; The sight ing of an extraor di -

na ry red ness, not as red as the usual color of the dawn;

and its spread over the hori zon.


32)

A big flame will occur in the east for 3 or 7 days in a row,

fol lowed by dark ness in the sky. A brand new red ness,

unlike the usual color of red, will spread over the sky.

A proc la ma tion will be heard in a lan guage Earth can

under stand.


Abu Ja'far ibn Muhammad ibn Ali (ra) nar rat ed: "When

you see a flame rise in the east for three or seven days,

then wait for the emer gence of Al-i Muhammad; Allah

will speak from the sky the name of the Mahdi and

every body, wheth er in the east or the west, will hear

that voice."


32)

I swear that a flame will engulf you. That flame is pres -

ent ly in an extin guished state in the val ley called

Berehut. That flame swal lows up peo ple with ter ri ble

pain inside it, burns down and destroys peo ple and

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prop er ty, and spreads all over the world by fly ing like a

cloud with the assist ance of winds. Its heat at night is

much high er than its day time tem per a ture. By going as

deep as the cen ter of Earth from above the heads of

peo ple, that flame becomes a ter ri ble noise, just like

the light ning between the ground and the sky."


Here, we give a brief expla na tion of this flame:

Some peo ple wait for this flame as a sign that comes

sud den ly and for no par tic u lar rea son, that never goes

out, and that every one can see. Since the trial con tin -

ues dur ing the occur rence of these signs, just because

peo ple will see them does not mean that they will under -

stand them. Thus, peo ple will make their deci sions by

using their intel lect, mind, con science, and will. If the

End Time signs had been nar rat ed in full detail (e.g.,

how, when, and where they will occur), every body

would have had to accept them. Thus, no dif fer en ces of

degree would be left among the peo ple. For this rea -

son, these had iths have been com mu ni cat ed in a semi-

implic it man ner.

The sign con cern ing the flame must be eval u at ed in

this man ner. A flame is the result of either an acci dent

due to neglect or to a delib er ate action. The had iths do

not say that it must occur as a very strange and extraor -

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di na ry sign. What real ly counts is its occur rence in com -

pli ance with the prop er ties of the flame described in

the had iths and the time of its occur rence. To do this,

first we must con sid er its prop er ties.

In July 1991, after Iraq invad ed Kuwait, a huge fire

spread through out Kuwait and the Persian Gulf as the

Iraqis fired Kuwait's oil wells. This is how this fire was

cov ered in the media:

- The burn ing oil in Kuwait led to the deaths of peo -

ple and ani mals. According to experts, half a mil lion

tons of oil went up into the atmos phere as smoke. Every

day, more than 10,000 tons of soot, sul fur, car bon-diox -

ide and large quan ti ties of hydro car bons with their car -

One of the por tents of the End Times "the sight ing of a fire from the

East." This refers to the burn ing of the oil wells dur ing the Gulf War.

cin o gen ic prop er ties hang sus pend ed over the Gulf. It

is not just the Gulf but, on its behalf, the world is burn -

ing.

(Kurtlar Sofrasında Ortadoğu, M. Necati Özfat u ra,

s.175)

- Two wells that were set alight pro duced as much

oil as Turkey does in one day, and the smoke from them

were even seen from Saudi Arabia, 55 kil o me ters away.

(Hurriyet Newspaper, January 23, 1991)

- Hundreds of oil wells set alight in Kuwait are still

burn ing fierce ly. Experts say it will be "exceed ing ly dif -

fi cult to put those fires out," and it is said that the fires

may affect a wide area from Turkey to India for the next

10 years.

The fire and smoke com ing from the wells con stant -

ly pol lut ed the atmos phere. Daytime resem bled night

in Kuwait. The brown smoke that rose togeth er with the

flames remind ed one of the sky as the autumn turns

into win ter… It has been stat ed that it would take at

least a cen tu ry for Kuwait to be com plete ly hab it a ble

again. The smoke that rises with the flames is vis i ble

from miles away, total ly block ing out the sky and mak -

ing the coun try unfit to live in. The wealthy are aban -

don ing Kuwait.

According to a state ment by Abdullah Dabbagh,

direct or of the research insti tute in Dhahran, in the New

York Times, 106 spe cies of fish, 180 spe cies of mol -

lusk, and 450 ani mal spe cies liv ing in the region strug -

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gled to sur vive because of the pol lu tion in the Persian

Gulf. It has been stat ed that smoke ris ing from 600 oil

wells has spread to neigh bor ing coun tries, and that

smoke con tain ing such car cin o gen ic sub stan ces as

sul fur has turned into acid rain and reduced agri cul tur -

al pro duc tiv i ty.

(Kurtlar Sofrasında Ortadoğu, M. Necati Ozfatura, p.

171)

I swear that a fire will enfold you. That fire is cur rent -

ly lying extin guished in the val ley known as Berehut [the

name of a val ley or a well].

(Mukhtasar Tazkirah al-Qurtubi, p. 461, Qamus

Translation, 1:550)

The had ith's first part says that the flame "is pres -

ent ly in an extin guished state." Given that the flame is

the result of burn ing an inflam ma ble sub stance, what

waits in an extin guished state is not the flame itself but

rath er the mate ri al to be burned by the flame. In this

con text, this may mean under ground oil. Berehut is the

name of a well. This can be con sid ered an oil well. When

the time comes, oil extract ed from these wells will

become a fire ready to be burned.

"That flame swal lows up peo ple with ter ri ble pain

inside it." This flame is not mere ly a burn ing flare, but

also one that deprives peo ple of their lives and pos ses -

sions, mak ing them mis er a ble and sor row ful, and con -

tam i nates the sur round ing envi ron ment.

"That flame … burns up and destroys peo ple and

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prop er ty." This flame caus es the death of peo ple. In

addi tion, it burns up prop er ty, caus ing mate ri al dam -

age, and, by pol lut ing the sur round ing envi ron ment,

destroys what peo ple need in order to live.

"… spreads all over the world in eight days by fly ing

like a cloud with the assist ance of winds." This par tic -

u lar ele ment is the smoke that the flame pro du ces.

Thus, this met a phor indi cates that the smoke will reach

as high as the clouds and spread in all direc tions due to

the wind.

"Its heat at night is much high er than its day time tem -

per a ture." In other words, the flame will burn around

the clock.

"By going as deep as the cen ter of Earth from above

the heads of peo ple, that flame makes a ter ri ble noise,

just like the thun der between the ground and the sky."

Attention is drawn to the facts that the flame will climb

very high into the air and cause a very strong noise and

explo sions resem bling a thun der.

"… a brand new red ness, unlike the usual color of

red, spread ing over the sky…" This part of the had ith

points out that the inci dent will occur at night, for the

flames of a large night time explo sion lead to a very

strong illu mi na tion. The red illu mi na tion caused by such

red flames is very dif fer ent from the red "dawn" red -

ness with which peo ple are famil iar. Such an illu mi na -

tion at night, which is very sim i lar to day light, is an

extraor di na ry phe nom e non.

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19) AN INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF FALSEPROPHETSThe appear ance of false pro phets is anoth er por tent

of the Mahdi's com ing. Many peo ple claim ing to be

Prophet ‘Isa have emerged in recent times.

False proph et

The Hour will not be estab lished until about thir ty Dajjals

[liars] appear, and each one of them will claim that he is

Allah's Apostle…

(Sahih Bukhari)

The appear ance of 60 liars, each of whom claims that

Allah, the One Allah, has sent them as a proph et.

(al-Suyuti, Portents of the Mahdi, p. 36)

20) THE USE OF RELIGION FOR PERSONAL ENDS

When the learned acquire knowl edge sole ly to make

money … when they sell the reli gion for the sake of this

world …when they sell the laws … then Doomsday will

be at hand.

(Death, Doomsday, and Resurrection, p. 480)

Such men will appear in the end times that they will sell

their reli gion for world ly gain.

(Tirmidhi Hadiths)

Whoever reads the Qur'an, let him seek it (his reward)

from Allah, because in the End Times many who read

the Qur'an will seek their reward from men.

(Hadiths Regarding the End Times, p. 9)

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21) THE OCCURANCE OF GREAT AND ASTONISH-ING EVENTS

Great phe nom e na will hap pen in his time.


So many appall ing inci dents will occur in his time.

(Imam Rabbani, Letters of Rabbani, 2:258)

The signs of his emer gence resem ble those pre par a to -

ry signs that ear li er gave an indi ca tion of our Allah's

Messenger.

(Ibid.)

Great and extraor di na ry events pre ced ed Prophet

Mohammed's (saas) birth. For exam ple, a new star rose

on that night, 14 tow ers of the Iranian emper or's pal -

ace col lapsed, the Magians' (fire wor ship pers') sacred

fire that had burned for 1,000 years in Iran went out,

the Semavi Valley was flood ed, and the Save Lake dried

up. As indi cat ed in the had iths above, the Mahdi's

emer gence will also be marked by great and mirac u -

lous phe nom e na.

Some of the remark a ble phe nom e na that took place

dur ing the twen ti eth cen tu ry are as fol lows:

- The Ka'bah was raid ed, and many Muslims were

killed,

- The 2,500-year-old Iranian mon ar chy col lapsed, and

Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi fled and died in exile,

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- A gas leak in a Bombay fac to ry killed 20,000 peo -

ple,

- War broke out between two Muslim nations: Iran

and Iraq,

- The Soviet Union occu pied Afghanistan,

- On September 19, 1985, Mexico City was dev as tat -

ed by an earth quake,

- The Nevado del Ruiz vol ca no erupt ed, wip ing the

town of Armero off the map and kill ing 25,000 peo ple,

- Floods in Bangladesh killed 25,000 peo ple,

- Rome, the heart of the Catholic Church, was flood -

ed,

- The worst for est fire in his to ry broke out in China,

- Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her suc -

ces sor Rajiv Gandhi, along with President Anwar al-

Sadat of Egypt and Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme,

were assas si nat ed,

- Pope John Paul II was shot,

- The AIDS virus, iden ti fied in 1980, has so far killed

tens of thou sands of peo ple and is known as the

"Plague of the Age,"

- The Challenger space shut tle explod ed after take-

off in 1986,

- The worst nucle ar acci dent in his to ry occurred

when the Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor, locat ed in the

Soviet Union, explod ed on 26 April 1986 and affect ed

many European coun tries by the released radi a tion,

- A hole was dis cov ered in the ozone layer,

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- The Soviet Union col lapsed, thanks to Gorbachev,

and the newly inde pend ent states of Central Asia

emerged,

- The Gulf War broke out, Iraq annexed and then fled

Kuwait

- The United States and Britain occu pied Iraq in 2003,

- An earth quake in Armenia reduced cit ies to rub ble,

caus ing 500,000 peo ple to leave their homes and more

than 40,000 peo ple to lose their lives,

- The Chinese gov ern ment sent its tanks into

Tienanmen Square dur ing 1989 to crush a stu dent

move ment demand ing great er free dom; 2,000 stu dents

died,

- The Berlin Wall, which for 28 years had sym bol ized

the cold war, was torn down,

- More than 1,400 pil grims were killed in a stam pede

at a tun nel in the Ka'bah in 1990,

- Approximately 139,000 peo ple died from flood ing in

Bangladesh in 1991, and 10 mil lion were left home less,

- Hundreds of thou sands of Muslims were killed in

the atroc i ties in Bosnia and Kosovo, and hun dreds of

thou sands more were exiled,

- The Ebola virus led to the deaths of tens of thou -

sands, and

- The hur ri canes, tor na does, whirl winds, and floods

caused by El Niño led to the deaths of thou sands of

peo ple, to mil lions flee ing their homes, and to bil lions of

dol lars worth of dam age.

The 2500-year

Persian Empire col -

lapsed. Shah of Iran

Riza Pehlevi died.

War breaks out

between two Muslim

coun tries, Iran and

Iraq.

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Mecca invad ed

Iran enters Iraq


The Russians invad ed Afghanistan.

Mexico City was dev as tat ed in a

pow er ful earth quake.

Egyptian head of state Anwar Sadat, Swedish Prime Minister Olav Palme

and Prime Minister Indra Ghandi in India were killed.


The first cases of AIDs were

iden ti fied in the early 1980s.

This dis ease, which has

caused the deaths of tens of

thou sands of peo ple to date,

came to be known as the

"plague of the age." AIDS put

an end to the "Sexual

Revolution" that began in

America in the 1960s and

brought with it all forms of

sex u al free dom.

Pope John Paul II was shot by

Mehmet Ali Ağca.

The Ebola virus has

caused the deaths of

thou sands of peo ple.

Tornados, hur ri canes

and floods in America

have caused mil lions of

dol lars of dam age over

the last 20 years.

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Space shut tle

Challenger explod -

ed imme di ate ly

after the 1986

launch.

The worst nucle ar

acci dent in his to ry

occurred when the

Chernobyl Nuclear

Reactor, locat ed in

Ukraine, explod ed

on April 26 1986.

A hole appear ing in the

ozone layer has had a

harm ful effect on the

cli mate.

The Gulf War, that would last for

years, began after Iraq's inva sion

of Kuwait.

Major stu dent pro tests took place

in China.

The trag e dy of the age

The Soviet Union col lapsed.

The Federation of Independent

States emerged.

El Nino caused great cli mate chan ges

across the world.

Thousands of Muslims

were killed and hun -

dreds of thou sands

were forced from their

homes in the slaugh ter

in Bosnia and Kosova.

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100 mil lion tons of snow fell on

Istanbul in 6 days

The like has never been seen

for a hun dred years

Istanbul flood ed

China burns

The dri est win ter !

1985 a year of

dis as ters

Europe flood ed

Hurricane dis as ter

Hell in Greece:

1100 dead

Tornado killed many

22) A SIGN OUT OF THE SUN

He [the Mahdi] will not come unless a sign emer ges out

of the Sun.


The Mahdi will not emerge unless the Sun rises as a

sign.


33)

During the twen ti eth cen tu ry, a great solar explo sion

took place and had a great impact upon the world.

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The Sun will explode

How they caught the explo sion of the cen tu ry

Eclipse of the SunThe solar eclipse of 11 August 1999 was the final

eclipse of the Sun dur ing the twen ti eth cen tu ry. This

was the first time that so many peo ple could actu al ly

watch and inves ti gate such an event for an extend ed

peri od of time. One note wor thy aspect of this eclipse

was that it could be seen in Turkey in some 12 cit ies

and 100 dis tricts.

It is no coin ci dence that so many signs have taken

place one after the other in such a short space of time.

Each of these por tents rep re sents glad tid ings for

believ ers.

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The solar eclipse can be watched along the line in the pic ture. Turkey is

one of the coun tries in which the eclipse of the Sun can be watched

long est.

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23) THE DESTRUCTION OF GREAT CITIES

Great cit ies will be ruined, and it will be as if they had

not exist ed the day before.


38)

The had ith indi cates that cer tain large cit ies will be

destroyed as a result of wars and var i ous nat u ral dis as -

ters. Several large cit ies were indeed destroyed or

severe ly dam aged dur ing the 1400s ah. These events

are major signs of the Mahdi's com ing. The atom ic

bombs dropped by the United States on Hiroshima and

Nagasaki in 1945 killed innu mer a ble peo ple and razed

both cit ies to the ground.

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In the Qur'an, Allah states that many peo ples have

been destroyed:

So look at the end result of all their plot ting: We utter -

ly destroyed them and their peo ple. These are the

ruins of their hous es because of the wrong they did.

There is cer tain ly a Sign in that for peo ple with knowl -

edge. (Surat an-Naml, 51-52)

How many cit ies We have destroyed that lived in

inso lent ingrat i tude. There are their hous es, never

again inhab it ed after them, except a lit tle. It was We

Who were their Heir. (Surat al-Qasas, 58)

Those cit ies: We destroyed them when they did

wrong and fixed a prom ised time for their destruc -

tion. (Surat al-Kahf, 59)

How many cit ies that did wrong have We utter ly

The post-war city of Hiroshima.

destroyed, rais ing up other peo ple after them. (Surat

al-Anbiya', 11)

When Our com mand came, We turned their cit ies

upside down and rained down on them stones of

hard baked clay. (Surah Hud, 82)

How many cit ies We have destroyed. Our vio lent

force came down on them dur ing the night or while

they were asleep dur ing the day. (Surat al-A'raf, 4)

The twen ti eth cen tu ry's wars total ly ruined many

great cit ies (e.g., Berlin, Hamburg, Warsaw, Leningrad,

Bucharest, Beirut and London). It took years to rebuild

them.

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Anzio, like many Italian towns, was

ruined in the Second World War.

The Swiss Embassy in Berlin, ruined

by bomb ing.

24) AN INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF EARTHQUAKES

Doomsday will not come until earth quakes mul ti ply,

strife appears, and mur ders increase.

(Portents of Doomsday, p. 109)

Our Prophet (saas) stat ed in the above had ith that

"a rise in the num ber of earth quakes" will be a sign that

the End Times is nigh. Indeed, the twen ti eth cen tu ry

went down in his to ry as one in which many thou sands

of peo ple lost their lives in earth quakes. The dev as tat -

ing earth quake in Kobe (Japan), and those that fol lowed

one after the other in Turkey, Taiwan, Greece, and

Mexico, are impor tant signs.

There will be earth quakes in my com mu ni ty. Ten thou -

sand, twen ty thou sand, thir ty thou sand peo ple will die.

Allah will make this a coun sel for the taqwa, a mercy on

believ ers and a suf fer ing for unbe liev ers.

(Ibn ‘Asakır, Geleceğin Tarihi 1(History of the Future

1), Orhan Baytan, Mevsim Publishings, p. 81)

The days when you can find no homes to shel ter you or

ani mals to carry you have come close. Earthquakes will

demol ish your hous es.


If you see the cal i phate has descend ed to the Holy Land,

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(al-ard al-muqad da sa) know that earth quakes, afflic -

tions, and great events are nigh. On that day, Doomsday

is clos er to human i ty than this hand is to my head.

(Sunan Abu Dawud)

When the gen er a tions that fol low my com mu ni ty insult

those who went before (with var i ous pre texts and excus es),

expect red winds, earth quakes and chan ges of appear -

ance (met a mor pho sis or stones rain ing from the sky).

(Tirmidhi Hadiths, Fitan 39, p. 2211)

A pow er ful earth quake struck

San Francisco in 1989.

Thousands of peo ple dies and

hun dreds of thou sands were

left home less in the Armenian

earth quake of 1988. Billions of

dol lars of dam age was done.

Huge cracks in the ground

appeared in an earth quake

meas ur ing 9.2 in Alaska.

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Earthquakes became strong er and

more fre quent dur ing the ‘90s. The

pow er ful earth quake in Kobe was

fol lowed by oth ers in Turkey,

Athens, Taiwan and Mexico.

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Quake hits Taiwan at 7.6.

7.4. Mexico Rocked

Earthquake pain in Greece

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In the End Times, when amuse ments and dan cers

appear and alco hol is said to be per mit ted, there will

be col lapse; it will rain stones; and peo ple will change

their appear ance.

(Sahl Ibn Sa'd, Ahmad Diya' al-Din al Kamushkhanawi,

Rumuz al-Ahadith, 2:302/8)

Doomsday will not take place until knowl edge van ish -

es, earth quakes mul ti ply, time is short en ed, strife

appears, and mur ders flour ish.

(Sahih Bukhari, Ibn Majah)

The dam age caused by a 6.7 scale

earth quake that hit California on 17

January, 1994, exceed ed $40 bil lion.

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The dam age caused by the Kobe earth quake was esti mat ed at

$147 bil lion.

The 1976 earth -

quake in China was

the larg est of the

20th cen tu ry. The

death toll was 240,

with 164,000

wound ed.

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A 7.7 earth quake in Peru

affect ed a 1,000-km area.

Thousands of build ings col -

lapsed in an earth quake in

Romania in 1977.

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A scale 10 earth quake in

Sicily flat ten ed a num ber of

towns.

A pow er ful earth -

quake in Mexico

in left 9,000 peo -

ple dead, 30,000

injured and 1 mil -

lion home less.

(Side) The ruined

Benito Juarez

Hospital.

IS THE IRAQ WAR A PORTENT

OF THE MAHDI?

World events tak ing place after the sec ond edi tion

of the book Harun Yahya's The Awaited Mahdi, which

sold out very quick ly, as well as the American inva sion

and occu pa tion of Afghanistan and Iraq and the neigh -

bor ing coun tries' behav ior dur ing the war, are impor -

tant means where by we can review the had iths on these

sub jects.

The Loss of an Army

There are five por tents of the Mahdi: a cry from Sufyani,

Yamani, and Sama; the sink ing of an army at Bayda;

and the kill ing of the inno cent.

(Narrated by Nu'aym ibn Hammad)

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11.04.2003 Vatan

11.04.2003 Vatan

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10.04.2003 Vakit

Iraqis amazed; why did

Baghdad not hold out?

Have the Guards fled?

Saddam and HIS MEN

miss ing

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No Money Left to the Iraqis

The Iraqis will have no meas ur ing scales and almost no

money with which to buy pro vi sions.

(Muntakhab Kanz al-'Um mal, 5:45)

17.04.2003 Milli Gazete Iraklılar şimdi eller in de para olsa bile, bu par ay la birşey satınalmak ta zor lanıy or lar. (16 Nisan 2003, Hürriyet)

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10.04.2003 Vatan

Iraqis now

to use the

dol lar

Iraq now fac ing a dinar

dead-end

Iraq swamped by debt

Demonetization

Planefuls of dol -

lars for Iraq

Flames Destroy Baghdad

Baghdad is destroyed by fire in the End Times...

(Risalat al-Khuruj al-Mahdi, 3:177)

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22.04.2003 Sabah

22.04.2003 Milliyet

SAVAGERY IN IRAQ

A RAIN OF

DEATH

Poor Baghdad

An Embargo against Iraq and Syria

"It may hap pen that the peo ple of Iraq may not send

their qafiz and dir hams [their meas ures of food-stuff

and their money]." We asked: "Who will be respon si ble

for it?" He said: "The non-Arabs will pre vent them." He

again said: "There is the pos si bil i ty that the Syrians may

not send their dinar and mudd." We asked: "Who will

be respon si ble for it?" He said: "This pre ven tion will be

made by the Romans."

(Sahih Muslim)

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17.04.2003 Milliyet08.04.2003 Milli Gazete

Another threat to Syria

A blow to the Syrian econ o -

my from the U.S.

The Rebuilding of Iraq

Doomsday will not come until Iraq is attacked. Innocent

peo ple in Iraq will seek shel ter in Damascus, which

along with Iraq, will be rebuilt.

(Muntakhab Kanz al-'Um mal, 5:254)

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19.04.2003

Ortadoğu

09.04.2003 Vakit

17.04.2003 Tercüman

RECONSTRUCTION AND

REBUILDING OF IRAQ

Commercial offen -

sive in Iraq

Rebuilding of Iraq belongs to

the USA

26 mil lio

n fac ing star -

va tion in

Iraq

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Iraqis Flee to Damascus and the North

Doomsday will not come until Iraq is attacked. The inno -

cent and clean peo ple of Iraq will flee to Damascus.

(Risalat al-Khuruj al-Mahdi, p. 210)

19.03.2003 Sabah

20.03.2003 Sabah

Migration is at our

gates

They are com ing in

waves

Fitna in Damascus

The trib u la tions in Damascus will calm down on the one

hand and flare up again on the other. This trib u la tion

will not end until an angel from the sky calls: "The Mahdi

is your lead er. The Mahdi is your cal iph."

(Ibid., p. 63)

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01.04.2003 Vakit

11.04.2003 HaberTürk


Double warn ing to SyriaSyria told 'You are the

ter ror ist'

Powell again threat ens

Syria and Iran

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Damascus, Iraq, and Arabia

Our Prophet (saas) said: "There will be such troub les

and calam i ties that nobody will be able to find a place

of shel ter. These woes will move around Damascus, fall

upon Iraq, and tie the hands and feet of the Arabian

Peninsula. The com mu ni ty of Islam will fight against

troub les in the step pes. Nobody will feel any sym pa thy

for them or even say ‘Alas!' As they try to rem e dy their

woes on the one hand, they will emerge again on the

other."

(Muntakhab Kanz al-'Um mal, 5:38-39)

What does 'Now it is Damascus's turn'

mean?

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21.04.2003 Vakit


A warn ing from the USA to Iran, Syria and North Korea;

Learn from Iraq

Iraq's cul tur al her it age shat tered

Nuclear arma ments and Israel

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" A Great Battle between the Tigris and theEuphrates "

There will be a city called Zawra [Baghdad] between the

Tigris and the Euphrates, where a great bat tle occurs.

Women will be taken pris on er, and men will have their

throats cut like sheep.

(Ibid., 5:38)

11.04.2003 Ortadoğu

10.04.2003 Milliyet

What will hap pen to Iraqi

pris on ers?

If this is what the

pho tos are like...

First tor ture, then mas sa cre

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"The Division of Iraq into Three Parts"

According to our Prophet (saas) the peo ple of Iraq will

be divid ed into three groups: one part will join the loot -

ers; one group will flee, leav ing their fam i lies behind;

and one group will fight and kill. Prepare your selves for

Doomsday when you see this.

(Fera Idu Fevaidi'l Fiqr fi'l Imam al-Mahdi al-

Muntadhar)

The peo ple of Kufa will be divid ed into three parts. One

part will join the Sufyani's army. These are the worst

peo ple cre at ed by Allah. One part will fight against them,

and these are hon or a ble ser vants of Allah. One part will

join the loot ers, and these are sin ners.

(Al-Uqayli, An-Najmu's-Saqib fi Bayan Anna'l Mahdi

min Awladi Ali b. Abu Talib Ale't-Tamam ve'l Qamal)

Ali B.Ebi Talib)

Power vac cu um ben e fits the

loot ers

THE LOOTING

HAS BEGUN

They are loot ing in Mosul andcar ry ing it to Arbil

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"...One group will flee, leav ing their fam i lies behind"

19.03.2003 Tercüman

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" ...one group will f ight and kil l."

04.04.2003 Milli Gazete

They are loot ing what ev er they find and

They fled in state of undress

Everyone flees

" The Killing of Innocent Children "

When an inno cent child of Muhammd's com mu ni ty is

killed, an angel from the sky will cry: "Allah is with him

[the Mahdi] and with those who are with him."

(Muhammad ibn 'Ali Sabban, Ishaf ar-Raghibin, p.

154)

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PART TWO

THE MAHDI'S FEATURES

Through the words "Be told the glad tid ings of the

Mahdi" (Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi Alamat al-

Mahdi Akhir al-Zaman, p. 12) our Prophet (saas) has

drawn atten tion to the impor tance of await ing the

Mahdi's com ing with excite ment and enthu si asm, and

of pre par ing for this spe cial indi vid u al. Another had ith

describes the love and devo tion that the believ ers

should feel toward him: Whoever wit ness es him, let

him/her go to him, even by crawl ing over snow. Let

him/her join him, because he is the Mahdi. (Sunan Ibn

Majah, Fitan, B 34, H 4082; Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-

Burhan fi Alamat al-Mahdi, p. 14)

THE MAHDI WILL DEFINITELY APPEAR

Even if only one day of the world remained, Allah would

extend that day until he (the Mahdi ) takes power.

(Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi Alamat al-Mahdi, p. 10)

If it were the last day of life, Allah would pro long that

day until He sends a man (Mahdi) from the Family of my

[Muhammad's] House.

(Ibid., p. 10)

The Mahdi will come to my [Muhammad's] com mu ni -

ty… In his time, my com mu ni ty will be bless ed with a

bless ing the like of which has never been seen before.

He will cause much rain to fall, and the plants of the

ground will hold back noth ing.

( Ibid., p. 9)

Even if only one night remained for the world, Allah

would extend it, so that one from my House would come

and rule the world. His name match es mine, and his

father's name my father's name. Just as the world was

filled with cru el ty, he will fill it with jus tice.

(Ibid., p. 11)

THE MAHDI WILL BE DESCENDED FROM OURPROPHET'S (SAAS) LINE

Even if there remains only one day for the world, Allah,

the Exalted, will send a man from the Ahl al-bayt (People

of the House).


Days and nights will not end until an indi vid u al from my

Ahl al-bayt rules the world.

(al-Uqayli)

The Mahdi is from the line of my daugh ter Fatima.

(Sunan Ibn Majah, 10:348)

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Be told the good news of the Mahdi. He is one from the

Quraysh and from my Ahl al-bayt.


The Mahdi is one of my chil dren. His face is like a star

shin ing in the sky.

(Ali b. al-Sultan Muhammad al-Harawi al-Hanafi,

Risaletul Mesreb elver di fi mez heb il Mahdi)

All pro phets are relat ed to one anoth er. As stat ed in

the had iths, the Mahdi will also be of that line. These

descend ants are pop u lar ly known as "say y id," and so

the Mahdi will also be a "say y id."

In the Qur'an Allah refers to mes sen gers being

descend ed from one anoth er. These vers es may also

indi cate that the Mahdi will be descend ed from that

line. (Allah knows the truth.)

Allah chose Adam and Nuh, the fam i ly of Ibrahim,

and the fam i ly of ‘Imran over all other beings –

descend ants one of the other. Allah is All-Hearing,

All-Knowing. (Surah Al ‘Imran, 33-34)

Our Lord, make us both Muslims sub mit ted to You,

and our descend ants a Muslim com mu ni ty sub mit -

ted to You. Show us our rites of wor ship and turn

toward us. You are the Ever-Returning, the Most

Merciful. (Surat al-Baqara, 128)

And some of their fore bears, descend ants and broth -

ers; We chose them and guid ed them to a straight

path. (Surat al- An‘am, 87)

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ALLAH WILL PERFECT HIM IN A SINGLE NIGHT

The Mahdi is from us, from the Ahl al-bayt. Allah will

per fect* him in a night. (* i.e., will for give him, or give

him suc cess and the inspi ra tion of wis dom and gui -

dance)

(Sunan Ibn Majah, vol:10, Bab: 34, p.348)

Islamic schol ars have explained this had ith as fol -

lows:

The bet ter ment of the Mahdi in a sin gle night refers to

his being given emi nent sta tus. He can not obtain this

sta tus by work or endeav or. As stat ed by Almighty Allah

in the Qur'an, this bless ing bestowed on the Prophet

(saas) has also been given to the Mahdi. In verse 52 of

Surat ash-Shura, Almighty Allah has said: "Accordingly

We have revealed to you a spir it (Ruh) by Our com mand.

You had no idea of what the Book was, nor belief.

Nonetheless, We have made it a Light by which We

guide those of Our ser vants We will. Truly you are guid -

ing to a Straight Path." The Mahdi is the most vir tu ous

and the most per fect per son of his time in mat ters of

reli gion. This shows his great ness, the exalt ed nature

of his sta tus, and the great ness of his rank.

(Ali b. al-Sultan Muhammad al-Harawi al-Hanafi,

Risaletul Mesreb)

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Bediuzzaman Said Nursi refers to the Mahdi in these

terms:

In the time of the worst afflic tion of the End Times, He

will send a lumi nous indi vid u al who will, of course, be

THE GREATEST JUDGE (a great Islamic schol ar to pro -

nounce judge ments), and THE GREATEST RENOVA-

TOR (an Islamic schol ar sent at the begin ning of every

cen tu ry to teach reli gious truth accord ing to the needs

of the age), A RULER, A MAHDI, A GUIDE, A SPIRITU-

AL MENTOR (a great teach er to whom Muslims devote

them selves, the great est teach er of the age), and he will

be from the line of our Prophet (saas).

(Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, Risale-i Nur Collection: The

Letters, pp. 411-12)

MAHDI IS THE PEOPLE'S BELOVED

The Mahdi will not appear until he is the best loved by

the peo ple because of the evils that befall them.

(Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti, Portents of the Mahdi, p. 27)

He will have the approv al of the peo ples of Earth and

sky.

(Haythami, v. VII, p. 313; al-Suyuti, Portents of the

Mahdi, p. 31)

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Allah will sow love of him in the hearts of all peo ple.

(Ibn Hajar al-Haythami, Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar fi Alamat

Al-Mahdi al-Muntazar, p. 42)

The Mahdi will come to peo ple, and they will embrace

him like a new bride, with love and con ver sa tion.


His rule will have the approv al of the peo ples of Earth and

sky, all wild ani mals, birds, and even the fish in the sea.


The last of this strife is the kill ing of the inno cent, when

the Mahdi will appear in a man ner approved of by all.


Allah will place his words in the peo ple's hearts. Thus

they will be a com mu ni ty who are lions by day and who

wor ship by night.

(Al-Uqayli, Al-Najm al-Saqib fi Bayan Anna al-Mahdi min

Awladi Ali

b. Abu Talib Al-i al-Tamam wa al-Qamal)

There will remain no indi vid u al who will not be pleased

with in the Community of Muhammad.

(Signs of the Judgment Day, p.163)

He is fair of face, fra grant, impos ing, but lov a ble and

close to peo ple.

(Mahdi, Dajjal, Messiah, p. 102)

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THE MAHDI WILL BE SPOKEN OF EVERYWHEREThe had iths men tion the time when the Mahdi will be

spo ken of and for long after he appears. In other words,

his name will spread through out the world.

When a her ald from the skies cries out: "The truth is in

Al-i Muhammad," the Mahdi will appear. Everyone will

speak only of him, drink of his love, and speak of noth -

ing else.


After a her ald cries out from the sky: "The truth is in the

peo ple of Prophet Muhammad (saas)," the love of the

Mahdi will enter peo ple's hearts and there will be no

talk of any thing else.


THE MAHDI BE RECOGNIZED AGAINST HIS OWNWISHESThe had iths reveal that the Mahdi will be recog nized,

although he will not per son al ly desire this. In other

words, he will not open ly pro claim him self. Even though

peo ple will come to him and say: "The por tents are

present in you; you are the Mahdi," he will deny it. Only

after being "threat en ed with death" will he accept peo -

ple's rec og ni tion.

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People will come to the Mahdi, between the Rukun and

the Maqam, and take an oath of alle giance to him,

against his own wish es. "If you refuse, we will strike

you," they will say. And the peo ples of Earth and sky

will approve of him.


There will be con flict at the time of the cal iph's death.

One from the peo ple of Madinah will run to Makkah. A

group of Makkans will bring him forth (from where he

is) against his wish es and take an oath of alle giance to

him between the black stone (al-hajar al-aswad) in the

Ka'bah and the place of Ibrahim.

(Sunan Abu Dawud, 5/94; al-Haythami, Al-Qawl al-

Mukhtasar, p. 20)

… And then he will reluc tant ly accept their oaths of alle -

giance. If you wit ness this, take the oath of alle giance to

him, because he is the Mahdi in heav en and on Earth.


The Mahdi, who is from Fatima's line, will be brought

forth in Makkah, and oaths of alle giance will be offered

to him against his wish es.

(Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi Alamat al-Mahdi, p.

52-53)

… They will again find him in Makkah and say: "You are

the son of so-and-so, your moth er is the daugh ter of

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so-and-so, you have the so-and-so por tents. You

escaped us once, but now hold out your hand so we

may swear loy al ty to you." At this, he will say: "I am not

he whom you seek," and will return to Madinah. Sought

for in Madinah, he will return to Makkah. In Makkah,

they will find him at the Rukun and will say: "If you do not

accept our oaths of alle giance, if you do not pro tect us

from the army of the Sufyan that is search ing for us and

led by one from Haddam, then let our sins be upon you

and our blood on your hands." At this, the Mahdi will sit

between the Rukun and the Maqam and hold out his

hand to accept their oath of alle giance.


At a time of blood shed, peo ple afflict ed by strife will

come to the Mahdi as he sits at home and say: "Rise

for us!" He will refuse, but will even tu al ly rise after being

threat en ed with death. No blood will be shed there aft -

er.

(Ibn Abi Sayba, c. VII, p. 531; Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi,

Al-Burhan fi Alamat al-Mahdi, pp. 52-53)

We are told in the Surah Yusuf that Prophet Yusuf

(as) was also ele vat ed by Pharaoh on account of his

hon esty, jus tice, knowl edge, and trust wor thi ness:

When he had spo ken with him, he declared: "Today

you are trust ed, estab lished in our sight." (Surah

Yusuf, 54)

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WHERE THE MAHDI WILL BE RECOGNIZED

Then the cal i phate will pass to the Mahdi, the most aus -

pi cious of men, as he sits at home.


In Makkah, they will find him at the Rukun and will say:

"If you do not accept our oaths of alle giance, if you do

not pro tect us from the army of the Sufyan that is

search ing for us and led by one from Haddam, then let

our sins be upon you and our blood on your hands." At

this, the Mahdi will sit between the Rukun and the

Maqam and hold out his hand to accept their oath of

alle giance.


The oath of alle giance will be taken to him between the

Rukun and the Maqam. The Mahdi will be so mer ci ful

that in his time nobody will be woken out of sleep and

nobod y's nose will bleed.

(Ibid., p. 42)

THE MAHDI'S NAME

O People, it is cer tain that Allah has for bid den to you

the oppress ors, the hyp o crites and those who abide by

them, and has made the Mahdi, the most aus pi cious of

Muhammad's com mu ni ty, and who is in Makkah and

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whose name is AHMAD, son of Abdullah, your lead er.

Join him.

(Ibid., p. 31)

The fig u ra tive mean ing regard ing the sub ject is

revealed thus in a verse:

… giv ing you the good news of a Messenger after

me whose name is Ahmad. (Surat as-Saff, 6)

A VOICE FROM THE SKY (VIA RADIO OR TELEVI-SION) WILL ANNOUNCE MAHDI'S COMING

... This sit u a tion will per sist until some one from sky

comes and says: "O peo ple, from now on your lead er

is the Mahdi."

(Ibid., p. 24)

When a voice cries out from the sky: "The truth is in Al-

i Muhammad," the Mahdi will appear.


33)

When you see a fire from the east for three or seven

days, you may expect Al-i Muhammad to appear. By

the will of Allah, a voice will cry out from the sky the

Mahdi's name so that all in the east and the west will

hear.

(Ibid., p. 32)

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A voice will say from the skies: "The truth is in Al-i

Muhammad," and a voice will say from Earth: "The truth

belongs to the Al-i Isa and Abbas."


When inno cent peo ple are killed and his broth er is killed

in Makkah, a voice will cry out from the skies: "This is

your com mand. This is the Mahdi, who will fill the world

with jus tice."

(Ibid., p. 35)

Widespread strife that seems unlike ly to ever end will

arise and last until the cry "The Mahdi is the lead er, that

is the truth" is heard three times from the skies.


The had iths state that a voice from the sky will

announce the Mahdi's appear ance. In other words, peo -

ple will learn of this event through radio and tel e vi sion.

This voice will reach every one, in both the east and the

west. Indeed, every soci e ty will hear this voice in its

own lan guage:

A loud voice will come from the skies to the peo ple of

Earth, in such a way that every one will hear it in his/her

own lan guage.


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Nowadays every one can enjoy access to the news

by means of radio, tel e vi sion, and the Internet, and

these reports are trans lat ed into their respec tive lan -

gua ges. In this way, every one will hear of his com ing.

PROPHET ISA (AS) WILL PERFORM THE PRAYERBEHIND THE MAHDI

Prophet ‘Isa (as) will per form the prayer behind the

Madhi.


As the Mahdi was per form ing the morn ing prayer with

the believ ers in Jerusalem, he will intro duce Prophet

‘Isa (as), who then appears. Prophet ‘Isa (as) will place

his hands on his (the Mahdi's) shoul der and say: "The

call to prayer has been issued for you," and the Mahdi

will lead him and the believ ers in prayer as their imam.

(Hajar al-Haythami, Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar, p. 25)

THE MAHDI'S INTELLECTUAL WORK WILLCAUSE ISLAMIC MORAL VALUES TO PREVAILThe had iths reveal that nobod y's nose will bleed in

the Mahdi's time, that nobody will be harmed, and that

even those who are asleep will not be wak ened. This

shows that the Mahdi will wage an intel lec tu al cam -

paign by which he will silence those move ments and

sys tems that are incom pat i ble with reli gious moral val -

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ues, and that he will cause Islam's moral val ues to pre -

vail.

The Mahdi… will walk in peace.

(Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Rasul Barzanji, Al-Isha‘ah li-

Ashrat as-Sa‘ah, p. 166)

...in his time nobody will be awok en out of sleep and

nobod y's nose will bleed.


THE MAHDI WILL BRING OUT TRUE ISLAMICMORAL VALUESThe had iths reveal that the Mahdi will do away with

all super sti tions and prac ti ces that have been added

on to Islam. As we learn from the had ith"He will gov ern

peo ple with the Sunnah of the Prophet (saas)," he will

adhere to our Prophet's (saas) path and, just as in his

day, will be a means by which reli gious moral val ues

are truly lived.

He [the Mahdi] will prac tice the reli gion just as [it was

prac ticed] in the time of Our Prophet. He will elim i nate

the sects from the face of Earth. No sect, except for the

orig i nal true reli gion, will remain.

(Barzanji, Al-Isha‘ah, pp. 186-87)

The Mahdi will leave no her e sy.


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The Mahdi will leave no her e sy une rad i cat ed. He will

ful fill reli gious obli ga tions in the End Times just as [they

were ful filled] in the time of the Prophet (saas).

(Barzanji, Al-Isha‘ah, p. 163)

Just as our Prophet upheld Islam at the begin ning, the

Mahdi will uphold Islam at the end.

(Al-Haythami, Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar, 27)

THE MAHDI'S SPIRITUAL CONQUEST OF ISTANBUL

Allah will con quer Constantinople (Istanbul) for the peo -

ple of His most loved friends… He will remove ill ness

and trib u la tion from them.

(Signs of the Judgment Day, p. 181)

Lands will fol low his com mands. Allah will favor him

with the con quest of Constantinople.


Many schol ars from var i ous lands will set out, una ware

of one anoth er, to seek the Mahdi, and up to 310 will

accom pa ny each one of them. They will all final ly meet

in Makkah. When they ask one anoth er why they have

come, they will answer: "We seek the Mahdi, who will

put an end to strife and cap ture Constantinople,

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because we have learned the names of his father, his

moth er, and his army."

(Ibid., p. 40)

The Mahdi will con quer Constantinople and Mount

Daylam.


When no time is left in the world, or even a sin gle day

remains, Allah will extend that day so that one of my

[Muhammad's] line may become lord of Mount Daylam

and Constantinople on that day.


THE MAHDI WILL APPEAR WHEN THERE IS NOCALIPH

He will come, when no cal iph remains, to write his name

in the world.


The year in which he will emerge, peo ple will per form

hajj togeth er and gath er with out an imam.

(Narrated by 'Amr ibn Shu'ayb, al-Hakim, and Nu'aym

ibn Hammad)

... peo ple make pil grim age with out an imam lead ing

them.

(Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi 'Al a mat al-Mahdi, p. 35)

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THE MAHDI'S BANNERThe Mahdi's ban ner will be our Prophet's (saas) ban -

ner:

He will emerge with the Prophet's (saas) wool en ban -

ner. This ban ner is four-cor nered and unstitched, black,

and has a halo on it. Unopened since the Prophet's

(saas) death, it will be unfurled when the Mahdi appears.


Other had iths describe the Mahdi's ban ner's fea -

tures:

It is cer tain that in the end times, an indi vid u al called

the Mahdi will come from the fur thest part of the land

of the Maghrib. Helpers will walk for forty miles before

him. His ban ners are white and yel low, fea tures stripes,

and bear the great name of Allah. No unit under his ban -

ner can be defeat ed.


"Allegiance is to Allah" is writ ten on the Mahdi's ban -

ner.


As well as his ban ner, had iths also draw atten tion to

the city that he will con quer and plant his ban ner in

Constantinople (present-day Istanbul):

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During the cap ture of Constantinople, the Mahdi will

plant a ban ner while per form ing ablu tions for the morn -

ing prayer. The sea will divide into two, the water will

move away from him, and he will fol low the path thus

opened up to the other shore.


THE MAHDI'S WORKS WILL CONTAIN NO SHAMEOR CRUELTY

I find the Mahdi in the books of the pro phets as fol lows:

Neither cru el ty nor shame will exist in the Mahdi's prac -

ti ces.


THE MAHDI WILL RULE THE WORLD, JUST LIKEDHU'L QARNAYN (AS) AND THE PROPHETSULAYMAN (AS)The Qur'an reveals that Dhu'l Qarnayn (as) and

Prophet Sulayman (as) caused Islamic moral val ues to

pre vail through out the world. The had iths reveal that,

just like these two pro phets, the Mahdi will do the same:

The Mahdi will rule Earth, just like Dhu'l-Qarnayn (as)

and Prophet Sulayman (as).


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Four peo ple became kings on Earth. Two are believ ers,

two are unbe liev ers. The believ ers are Dhu'l-Qarnayn

(as) and Prophet Sulayman (as); the unbe liev ers are

Nimrod and Bakhtinasr (Nebuchadnezzar). One from

the peo ple of my house (the Mahdi) will come as the

fifth, and he will be king on Earth.


10)

THE BOOKS REVEALED TO THE PROPHETSDESCRIBE THE MAHDI'S FEATURESThe Torah and the Bible con tain infor ma tion about

the Mahdi's fea tures and the por tents of his com ing.

For exam ple:

"I find the Mahdi in the books of the Prophets, as fol -

lows: Neither cru el ty nor shame exist in the Mahdi's

prac ti ces."


One verse that refers fig u ra tive ly to the sub ject reads:

We wrote down in the Zabur, after the Reminder

came: "It is My right eous ser vants whow ill inher it

Earth." (Surat al-Anbiya', 105)

Islamic schol ars inter pret this verse as fol lows:

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It is report ed from Imam Baqir and Sadiq that "the

RIGHTEOUS SERVANTS here are THE MAHDI AND HIS

COMPANIONS."

(Al-Hussayni al-Shirazi, p. 113)(Hü se yin es-Şi ra zi, sf.

113)

In the Old and New Testaments we find the fol low ing

infor ma tion:

A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from

his roots a Branch will bear fruit. The Spirit of the

LORD will rest on him the Spirit of wis dom and of

under stand ing, the Spirit of coun sel and of power,

the Spirit of knowl edge and of the fear of the LORD

and he will delight in the fear of the LORD. He will

not judge by what he sees with his eyes, or decide

by what he hears with his ears; but with right eous -

ness he will judge the needy, with jus tice he will give

deci sions for the poor of the earth. He will strike the

earth with the rod of his mouth; with the breath of his

lips he will slay the wick ed. Righteousness will be

his belt and faith ful ness the sash around his waist.

The wolf will live with the lamb, the leop ard will lie

down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the year -

ling [a] togeth er; and a lit tle child will lead them. The

cow will feed with the bear, their young will lie down

togeth er, and the lion will eat straw like the ox. The

infant will play near the hole of the cobra, and the

young child put his hand into the viper's nest. They

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will nei ther harm nor destroy on all my holy moun -

tain, for the earth will be full of the knowl edge of the

LORD as the waters cover the sea. (Isaiah, 11:1-9)

In love a throne will be estab lished; in faith ful ness a

man will sit on it one from the house [a] of David one

who in judg ing seeks jus tice and speeds the cause

of right eous ness. (Isaiah, 16: 5)

… When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do

not be alarmed. Such things must hap pen, but the

end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation,

and king dom against king dom. There will be earth -

quakes in var i ous pla ces, and fam ines. These are the

begin ning of birth pains. (Mark, 13:5-8)

ANGELS WILL HELP THE MAHDI

His com mand ers are the most aus pi cious of men. His

help ers will be from Yemen and Damascus. Jibrail will

be before them, and Mikhail behind. The world will be

filled with secu ri ty, and a few women will even be able

to go on the Hajj (pil grim age) with no men beside them.


Allah will sup port him with three thou sand angels.

(Ibid., p. 41)

The had ith states that the angels Jibrail and Mikhail

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will be among his assist ants. By the will of Allah, angels

will help him.

The Qur'an reveals that angels assist true believ ers.

For exam ple, Allah sup port ed our Prophet (saas) and

the com mu ni ty of believ ers with angels:

... and when your Lord revealed to the angels: "I am

with you, so make those who believe firm." (Surat al-

Anfal, 12)

... and when you asked the believ ers: "Is it not

enough for you that your Lord rein forced you with

three thou sand angels, sent down?" (Surah Al ‘Imran,

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HOW SOME PEOPLE PREPARE THE WAY FOR THE MAHDI

Some peo ple will come from the east and pre pare the

Mahdi's sul tan ate.


A com mu ni ty will emerge from the east and assist the

Mahdi's sul tan ate.


They will descend to Jerusalem and pre pare the sul tan -

ate for the Mahdi .

(Ibid., p. 47)

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THE COMPANIONS OF THE CAVE WILL HELPHIM

The Companions of the Cave will be the Mahdi's help -

mates.


THE MAHDI WILL EXPEDITE HIS ACTIVITIES

This will endure for seven years. But every year of his

will cost you twen ty years.


The had iths reveal that one year for the Mahdi will

be the equiv a lent of 20 years for human beings. He will

accom plish quick ly that which it took peo ple long years

to achieve. He will find and imple ment very rapid, ration -

al, wise, and per ma nent solu tions to all prob lems.

THE MAHDI'S LOVE OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS

When the Mahdi plants a dry tree, it will imme di ate ly

grow green and give forth leaves.

(Ibid., p. 43)

The Mahdi will plant a dry tree, and it will give forth

leaves and grow green.


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67)

He will also take an inter est in ani mals, and they will

love him:

When the Mahdi points to a fly ing bird, it will imme di -

ate ly fall to the ground by his com mand. When he plants

a dry tree, it will imme di ate ly flour ish and put forth

leaves.


The peo ple of Earth and sky, all wild ani mals, birds, and

even the fish in the sea will approve of his rule.

(Ibid., p. 31)

SIGNS IN HADITHS POINTING TO THE YEARS1997 AND 1999One had ith deal ing with the signs of the Mahdi's

com ing draws our atten tion to the years 1997 and 1999:

Until the 95th year, peo ple will have pos ses sions, in

other words, things will go well. Their goods will decline

in the 97th and 99th years…

(Ibid., p. 54)

It is like ly that the expres sion "the 95th year" refers

to 1995. Up until then, peo ple enjoyed lives of rel a tive

well-being and con di tions had not yet become that dif -

fi cult. After that, how e ver, a num ber of prob lems began

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rais ing their heads. Various polit i cal dif fi cul ties were

expe ri enced in 1997. In 1999, the earth quakes in the

Marmara region and all across Turkey led to the great -

est loss of life and prop er ty.

THE MAHDI'S WISDOM AND POWER OF COMPREHENSIONThe had iths reveal that Allah has bestowed a spe -

cial power upon the Mahdi:

He is called the Mahdi because he has a secret power

that can not be known by any one.

(Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi Alamat al-Mahdi)

Ibn al-Arabi lists nine of his main attrib utes:

1. He has fore sight,

2. He under stands the Book,

3. He knows the mean ing of its vers es,

4. He knows the states and actions of those he will

appoint,

5. He will still be com pas sion ate and just even when

angered,

6. He knows the class es of beings,

7. He knows the intri cate aspects of affairs

A lead er who is aware of such things can make no

mis takes in his com mands. The Mahdi knows how to

avoid mis takes because of his com par a tive knowl edge,

for his deci sions will be direct ly inspired. In other words,

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he will rule with the law brought by Prophet Muhammed

(saas). For these rea sons, our Prophet (saas) said of

him: "He will fol low my trace and not fall into error."

From this we can see that the Mahdi will imple ment the

Shari'ah, rath er than mak ing his own.

8. He has a sound under stand ing of peo ple's needs

Since Allah has cho sen him, above all other peo ple,

to see to all their needs, his behav ior and deeds, just

like those of a true lead er, must be in the peo ples' inter -

ests, rath er than his own… A lead er who enga ges in

activ i ties that are con tra ry to the pub lic inter est and

who does not act on their behalf must be removed from

office, because there is no longer any dif fer ence

between him and other peo ple.

9. The man i fes ta tion of secret things in his time,

which will ena ble him to resolve all prob lems that may

arise.


THE MAHDI WILL BE THE MOST AUSPICIOUSPERSON OF HIS TIME

Join that per son who is the best of Muhammad's nation

and who is your pro tec tor that clears up the dif fi cul ties

for you... He is the Mahdi."


He will be the best per son on Earth of his time.

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(Ibn Hajar al-Haythami, Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar, p. 27)

The Mahdi is the best per son (of his time).


THE MAHDI APPEARS WITH THE SACREDTRUSTS

The Mahdi will appear in the even ing with our Prophet's

(saas) ban ner, shirt, sword, signs, light, and pleas ant

expres sion.

('Ali al-Qari, 'Ali b. al-Sultan Muhammad al-Harawi, al-

Hanafi, "Risaletul Mesreb )

He will bring forth the Holy Land's treas ures, the Ark of

the Covenant, the table of the peo ple of Israel, the tab -

lets of the [Ten] Commandments, the jack et of Prophet

Adam (as), the staff of Prophet Sulayman's (as) pul pit,

and the milk-white gloves sent by Allah to the People

of Israel.


THE MAHDI WILL BE FAR FROM PEOPLE'S EYES

At night he will be busy with prayer, his days will be hid -

den…

(Al-Uqayli, Al-Najm al-Saqib)

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THE MAHDI WILL ENCOUNTER TROUBLES ANDDIFFICULTIESAll of the pro phets and mes sen gers sent to warn and

call the unbe liev ers to the true path were reject ed by

their peo ple and exposed to var i ous attacks and slan -

ders. The Mahdi will also encoun ter such things. (Allah

knows the truth):

"The Mahdi is from one of us, from the Family of my

House…" The Messenger of Allah (saas) said: ‘We are

such a house hold that Allah has pre ferred the Hereafter

to the world for us. The Family of my House will sure ly

suf fer trib u la tions, be kid napped, and exiled after me.

The Family of my House will encoun ter trials and trib u -

la tions and be exposed to vio lence.'"


Our Prophet (saas) refers to this state of affairs in the

fol low ing had ith:

The Mahdi will emerge with the Messenger's (saas) ban -

ner when peo ple suf fer trib u la tions one after the other

and have given up the hope of his emer gence. He will

pray two prayer cycles and then go to them and say:

"O peo ple, con tin u ous trials came to the nation of

Muhammad (saas), espe cial ly to the Family of his

House, and we have been con quered and wronged."

(Ibid., p. 55)

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One had ith reveals that the Mahdi will con quer

Istanbul, and his assist ants will face var i ous dif fi cul ties

before that con quest and later defeat them:

Allah will con quer Constantinople (Istanbul) for the peo -

ple of His most loved friends… He will remove ill ness

and trib u la tion from them.


In the Qur'an, Allah has reveals that many pro phets

and mes sen gers were reject ed by their peo ples,

accused of being crazy or sor cer ers, and were sub ject -

ed to many assaults and great oppres sion. But they

remained patient in the face of these attacks and

respond ed in the fin est pos si ble man ner.

Messengers before you were also denied… (Surat

al-An‘am, 34)

We will be stead fast, no mat ter how much you harm

us… (Surah Ibrahim, 12)

But then they turned away from him and said: "He is

an instruct ed mad man!" (Surat ad-Dukhan, 14)

Equally, no mes sen ger came to those before them

with out their say ing: "A magi cian or a mad man!"

(Surat adh-Dhariyat, 52)

But he turned away with his for ces, say ing: "A magi -

cian or a mad man!" (Surah ash-Shu‘ara', 39)

He (Pharaoh) said: "If you take any deity other than

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me, I will cer tain ly throw you into pris on." (Surah ash-

Shu‘ara', 29)

O you who believe! Do not be like those who abused

Musa. (Surah al-Ahzab, 69)

They said: "Build a pyre for him and fling him into the

blaze!" (Surah as-Saffat, 97)

Then, after they had seen the Signs, they thought

that they should still impris on him for a time. (Surah

Yusuf, 35)

Those who do not believe all but strike you down

with their evil looks when they hear the Reminder

and say: "He is quite mad." (Surah al-Qalam, 51)

THE MAHDI WILL BRING THE ARK OF THECOVENANT TO LIGHT

He will bring the Ark (the chest con tain ing sacred trusts)

to light from a place called Antioch.

(Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti, Al-Hawi li al-Fatawa, II. 82)

He will bring forth the Ark of the Covenant from the cave

of Antioch.

(Nu'aym ibn Hammad, Kitab al-Fitan)

The Mahdi will bring forth the Ark of the Covenant from

the cave of Antioch.


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THE MAHDI WILL BE A MEANS WHEREBYPEOPLE ENJOY ABUNDANCE

Everyone who goes there (near the Mahdi) will enjoy the

divine plen ty.

(Ibid., p. 26)

HE WILL KNOW THE SECRETS OF SIFR (ABJAD)The Mahdi will also know numer o log i cal cal cu la tions

and the secrets there of. In his work Mevzuatu'l-Ulum,

(Vol. 11, p. 246) Taskopruluzade Ahmet Efendi rec ords

how he will have this knowl edge:

Some said that this book of val u a ble knowl edge is sub -

ject to the Mahdi's appear ance, who will come at the

End of Time, and he will under stand the knowl edge of

sifr and its secrets. This knowl edge has exist ed since

the time before books of the pro phets.

(Taskopruluzade Ahmet Efendi, Mahdilik ve Imamiye

[Mahdism and Imam Mahdi], p. 252)

OBSERVATION AND SURVEILLANCE OF THEMAHDI

When the Dajjal appears, a man (the Mahdi) of the

believ ers will oppose him. Many armed men watch ing

in the Dajjal's cen ters will oppose him.

(Mahdilik ve Imamiye (Ibid., p. 37; Sahih Muslim, c. 11,

p. 393)

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The had ith's begin ning reveals that the Mahdi will be

observed and fol lowed by the Dajjal's armed men. We

learn from the Qur'an that in ear li er times, cer tain pro -

phets who strug gled on Allah's path were also watched

and that their ene mies sought to con trol them by this

means:

He is noth ing but a man pos sessed, so wait a while

and see what hap pens to him. (Surah Al-Muminun,

25)

THE MAHDI WILL ENCOUNTER NEGATIVE PROPAGANDA In one had ith our Prophet (saas) indi cates that all the

oppres sion and the attacks against the Mahdi will mere -

ly fur ther strength en the him:

When the believ er [the Mahdi] sees the Dajjal, he will

say "O peo ple! This is the Dajjal spo ken of by the

Messenger of Allah." The Dajjal will imme di ate ly issue

com mands regard ing him and will make him lay flat on

his belly and cry, "Injure him." But that indi vid u al's back

and belly will be broad ened by the blows. Then the

Dajjal will seize him by his two hands and feet and cast

him away. People will imag ine the Dajjal has thrown him

into the fire. But he will have been cast into a gar den of

Paradise.

(Mehdilik ve Imamiye [Mahdism and Imamism], Ibrahim

Suleymanoglu, p. 40)

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This had ith states that the Mahdi will be "broad ened

by being beat en on his back and stom ach." In ref er -

ence to this, the author of Mahdism and Imam Mahdi

says: "The Mahdi's fame is con stant ly announced and

spread." Yet since it is the Dajjal's sup port ers who will

do this, we may say that the prop a gan da will be intend -

ed to tar nish the Mahdi's rep u ta tion. The ene mies of

Islam at the time of our Prophet (saas) used poets, the

pub lish ing organs of the peri od, to den i grate him. These

poets behaved arro gant ly toward him at fairs and mar -

kets, accus ing him of mad ness and sor cery. In the end

times, too, the Dajjal's sup port ers will defame the Mahdi

and seek to dam age his rep u ta tion in the pub lic eye.

The had iths describe how the Mahdi's early years

will be full of strug gles, troub les, and dif fi cul ties. The

"Golden Age" belongs to his final years, for only then

will the Mahdi and Muslims achieve com fort, secu ri ty,

and plen ty and lead lives based on love, peace, and

unity.

THE MAHDI WILL HAVE FEW BROTHERS

"He will have few broth ers …"

(Risalat ul-Mahdi, p. 161)

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THE MAHDI WILL DISAPPEAR TWICE

Abu Abdullah Hussain ibn Ali reports that the Prophet

(saas) said: He (the Mahdi) will dis ap pear twice. The first

will be so long that some peo ple will say that he is dead.

Others will say that he has gone. Neither those who love

him nor any one else will know where he is, only a very

close ser vant will know.

(Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi Alamat al-Mahdi, )

THE MAHDI WILL KNOW WHAT IS LAWFUL ANDWHAT IS UNLAWFUL

Hussain was asked: "By what signs will the Mahdi be

known?" He replied: "By his ease of heart and dig ni ty,

by his know ing what is law ful and what is unlaw ful."

(Fera Idu Fevaidi'l Fiqr Fi'l Imam al-Mahdi al-Muntadhar)

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THE MAHDI'S SUPERIOR

MORAL VALUES

HIS MORAL VALUES WILL BE SIMILAR TO THOSEOF OUR PROPHET (SAAS)

The Mahdi is total ly sub mis sive to Allah. He resem bles

the Prophet in terms of man ners.


A son of mine will appear, whose man ners will be just as

mine.

(Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi Alamat al-Mahdi,, p.

21)

Allah describes our Prophet's (saas) supe ri or moral

val ues:

"And, doubt less ly, you are bless ed with a great moral

char ac ter." (Surat al-Qalam, 4)

BELIEVERS ADOPT HIS MORAL VIRTUE AS AROLE MODEL

He attains divine vir tue. He receives knowl edge of the

faith and exem pla ry moral vir tue from Allah.

(Konavi Risalet-ül Mehdi, p. 161 B)

The Qur'an reveals that our Prophet (saas) is the fin -

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est pos si ble role model for true believ ers:

You have an excel lent model in the Messenger of

Allah, for all who put their hope in Allah and the Last

Day and remem ber Allah much. (Surah al-Ahzab, 21)

HE IS COMBATIVE AND VALIANT

The days and nights will not end until a man from the

Family of my House (the Mahdi), who will eas i ly pre vent

dis or der and who will not be dis suad ed from doing so

even by threat ned to be killed, appears.


The Mahdi will take the mat ter seri ous ly.


He will con tin ue his (intel lec tu al) strug gle until all peo -

ple return to Allah.


The Mahdi will set tle his account swift ly and will never

break his prom ise.


24)

If he faces the moun tains, he will destroy them by mak -

ing a pas sage through them.


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Allah speaks of His mes sen gers' excel lent moral val -

ues and val iant natures in many vers es. They respond -

ed to their peo ples' deni al, mock ery, snares, and

assaults in the fin est pos si ble man ner and always over -

came them, with Allah's help.

Therefore, carry out the orders given to you and dis -

re gard the idol wor ship pers. (Surah Al-Hijr, 94)

Therefore, do not obey the unbe liev ers and strive

might i ly against them with this (Qur'an). (Surah al-

Furqan, 52)

Those who respond to Allah and his Messenger,

despite the per se cu tion they suf fer, and main tain

their good works and lead a right eous life will have a

great reward. (Surah Al ‘Imran, 172)

THE MAHDI HAS A GREAT FEAR AND RESPECTOF ALLAH

The Mahdi fears and respects Allah like the trem bling

of a bird's wing.

(Nu'aym ibn Hammad, vr 91a)

THE MAHDI IS VERY COMPASSIONATE

The Mahdi will be so mer ci ful that in his day nobod y's

nose will bleed.


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His com pas sion for the poor is one of the signs of the

Mahdi.

(Fera Idu Fevaidi'l Fiqr,)

He has great com pas sion for the wronged.

(Nu'aym ibn Hammad, vr. 50b; Al-Uqayli, An-Najmu al-

Saqib, )

In list ing the Mahdi's char ac ter is tics, the great

Islamic schol ar Ibn al-Arabi refers to his supe ri or com -

pas sion ate thus:

1 He has fore sight,

2 He under stands the Book,

3 He knows the mean ing of vers es,

4 He knows that state and actions of those he will

assign,

5 He will still be com pas sion ate and just even when

angered,

6 He knows the class es of beings,

7 He knows the intri cate aspects of affairs,

8 He has a sound under stand ing of peo ple's needs,

and

9 The man i fes ta tion of secret things in his time,

because only then will he be able to resolve any prob -

lems that may arise.


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THE MAHDI HAS A POWERFUL URGE TODEFEND ISLAMThe had iths say that the Mahdi's pro tec tive instincts

are very pow er ful. He will respond to every word spo -

ken and neu tral ize every action taken against Islam.

Even a sin gle word spo ken against Islam will offend him.


THE MAHDI IS INDEBTED TO NOBODY

He is from my com mu ni ty, a man who does not lower

him self (who feels grat i tude only toward Allah).

(Al-Suyuti, Al-Havi, 2/24)

THE MAHDI WILL NOT TELL PEOPLE OF HISNEEDS

Hussain was asked: "By what signs will the Mahdi be

known?" He replied, "… People will need him, but he

will express his needs to no one." (Fera Idu Fevaidi'l

Fiqr, )

THE MAHDI'S ASSUMPTION OF RESPONSIBILITY

He assumes all duties and helps the weak and lowly.

(Muhyiddin ibn al-Arabi Futuhat al-Makkiye, 366, vol. 3,

p. 327- 28)

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THE MAHDI'S SPLENDOR

Hussain (ra) was asked: "By what signs will the Mahdi

be known?" He replied: "By his ease of heart and dig -

ni ty, by his know ing what is law ful and what is unlaw ful."

(Fera Idu Fevaidi'l Fiqr)

THE MAHDI WILL UPHOLD THE TRUTH AGAINSTCRUELTY

The Mahdi will defend the truth against the oppress ors.

Indeed, he will extract the molar tooth (any thing unjust -

ly held) of a (cruel) per son and restore it to its right ful

owner.

(Al-Uqayli, Al-Najmu al-Saqib)

THE MAHDI'S PURITY

At a time of (sys tems) change, a man known as the

Mahdi will come. He will be pure and beau ti ful.


14)

He will appear at a time of strife, and his puri ty will be

unmatched.


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THE MAHDI'S GENEROSITY

There will be a cal iph in the end times who will dis trib -

ute goods with out count ing or cal cu lat ing them.


A lead er will come from your lead ers, and he will not

count goods. Whenever he is asked for some thing, he

will say: "Take it." That per son will then lay out his shirt

and fill it.

(Ibid., p. 15)

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THE MAHDI'S TIME AND

THE GOLDEN AGE

Many pro phet ic had iths indi cate that an age will

dawn when Islamic moral val ues will pre vail on Earth.

These had iths inform us that this peri od, known as the

"Golden Age," will resem ble the "Age of Happiness."

People will be so con tent with their lives in the

Golden Age that, in the words of one had ith, "they will

be una ware of time's pas sage and ask Allah to extend

their lives so that they may make great er use of these

beau ties." Another pro phet ic had ith describes the

Golden Age as fol lows:

The young er ones will wish they were grown-ups, while

the adults will wish they were young er… The good will

become even more good, and even the wick ed ones

will be treat ed well.

(Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi Alamat al-Mahdi, 17)

A HITHERTO UNSEEN ABUNDANCE

There is a Mahdi in my com mu ni ty. People will come to

him and say: "O Mahdi, give to me, too. Give to me,

too!" The Mahdi will give him as much as he can carry

in his clothes.

(Hadith at-Tirmidhi, "Fitan," B. 53; Sunan Ibn Majah,

"Fitan," B 34, H 4083)

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A Mahdi will come from my com mu ni ty. My com mu ni -

ty will enjoy such well-being in those days that not even

a tenth of it has ever been seen before. The ground will

give forth foods and will hide (hold back) noth ing.


At that time,, all mem bers of my com mu ni ty, the good

and the bad, will be bless ed with bless ing the like of

which has never been seen.


Someone sow ing a meas ure of wheat will find 700 in

return.


The Mahdi will fill the hearts of Muhammad's com mu -

ni ty with rich es, and his jus tice will enfold them so much

so that when a her ald is com mand ed to cry out:

"Whoever is in need, let him come to me," no more than

one per son will come. That per son will make requests.

The Mahdi will say: "Go to the treas ur er and let him give

to you." When he goes to the treas ur er, he will receive

goods in plen ty. But then he will feel remorse and say:

"Am I in great er need that every one else? Nobody went

but me," and he will seek to give back those goods.

Then the treas ur er will say him: "What we give, we do

not take back."

( Al-Suyuti, Portents of the Mahdi, p. 13)

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In his time, flow ing riv ers will increase their waters. The

Mahdi will bring forth their treas ures…


It is cer tain that at that time goods will increase and flow

like water, but nobody will (stoop to) take them.


The ground threw out gold and sil ver, those belov ed

things…


THERE WILL BE WEALTH

A Mahdi will emerge from my com mu ni ty. Allah will send

him to make peo ple wealthy. The com mu ni ty will be

bless ed, ani mals will eat and drink in plen ty, the ground

will give forth its fruits, and goods will be given in

excess.


Allah will elim i nate pov er ty by his hand, and the Mahdi

will descend to Damascus.

(Ibid., p. 66)

He will fill the hearts of Muhammad's com mu ni ty with

wealth, and his jus tice will be addressed to them.


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The hearts of Muhammad's com mu ni ty will be filled with

rich es.


GOODS WILL BE GIVEN WITHOUT BEINGCOUNTED

In the End Times, a khal i fa (suc ces sor) will dis trib ute

wealth with out even count ing it.

(Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi Alamat al-Mahdi, 15)

A lead er will emerge from your lead ers, and he will not

count goods. When any one asks him for wealth, he will

say: "Take." That per son will spread out his robes, and

he will fill them.


There will be a khal i fa from among my com mu ni ty, and

he will dis trib ute wealth with out count ing it.

(Ibid., p. 15)

IT WILL RAIN IN ABUNDANCE

He will fill Earth with jus tice and well-being. The ground

gives forth its fruits, and the sky rains. My com mu ni ty

will be bless ed in a hith er to unseen man ner.

(Ibn Abu Sayba, c VII, p. 512-513; al-Suyuti, Portents of

the Mahdi, p. 35)

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In his time, the[Muhammad's] com mu ni ty, both the

good and the bad, will pos sess bless ings the like of

which have never been seen before. Although much rain

falls, not a drop will be wast ed, and the soil will be fer -

tile and abun dant with out ask ing for a sin gle seed.

(Al-Haythami, Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar, p. 20-21)

(In the Mahdi's time) the sky will begrudge none of its

rain and will cause rain to fall gen er ous ly. The ground

will hold back none of its plants and will give them forth

to per fec tion…


EARTH WILL BE FILLED WITH JUSTICE

Even if no more than a day remains until Doomsday,

Allah will send an indi vid u al from my com mu ni ty, and

he will fill Earth with jus tice, in the same way that it is

now filled with cru el ty.


The Mahdi is one of my peo ple, and he will fill Earth with

truth and jus tice, just as it is now filled with cru el ty and

tor ture.


This Mahdi will fill Earth with jus tice, just as peo ple pre -

vi ous ly filled it with cru el ty.


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After the Mahdi comes, the world, now filled with

oppres sion and vice, will over flow with jus tice.

(Al-Haythami, Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar,, p. 20)

There will be such an abun dance of jus tice in the

Mahdi's time that just as all sto len goods will be

returned to their own ers, any thing belong ing to any one

else, even some thing stuck in a per son's tooth, will be

returned to its owner.

(Ibid., p. 23)

THERE WILL BE PEACE AND SECURITY

Earth will be filled with secu ri ty, and small groups of

women will be able to per form Hajj with out any men

along side them.

(Nu'aym ibn Hammad, "Fitan," vr. 74b; Suyuti, c. II, p.

77; (Al-Haythami, Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar, p. 23)

He will fill the world, pre vi ous ly full of cru el ty, with jus -

tice. There will be such jus tice that nobody who is sleep -

ing will even be awok en and not a drop of blood will be

spilt. The world will return to the Age of Happiness.

(Nu'aym ibn Hammad, "Fitan," vr. 74b; Suyuti, c. II, p.

77; (Al-Haythami, Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar, p. 29)

People will take the oath of alle giance to him between

the Rukun and the Maqam. The Mahdi will be so com -

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pas sion ate that in his time nobody will be awok en out

of sleep and nobod y's nose will bleed.


ALL CONFLICTS AND DISAGREEMENTS WILL END

Earth will be filled with peace, just as a bowl is filled

with water. No enmi ty will remain between any one. All

enmi ty, con flict, and dis a gree ment will sure ly van ish.


The bat tle will aban don its load (arms and equip ment).


War will aban don its load (name ly, arms and the like).


He will do away with enmi ty and hatred. The venom will

be removed from poi son ous ani mals. Even a small boy

will place his hand in a ser pent's mouth, and the ser -

pent will not harm him. The wolf will be like a dog in a

herd of sheep or goats.

(Sunan Ibn Majah, pp. 331-35)

In his time, the wolf will play with the sheep and snakes

will not harm chil dren. A per son will sow a hand ful of

seed and will receive back 700 hand fuls of grain.


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LOVE AND UNITY WILL PREVAIL

Just as Allah has freed them from the her e sy of ascrib -

ing part ners to Him through us and has placed friend -

ship and dis course in their hearts and made them broth -

ers [and sis ters] in reli gion, so He will save them from

the sin of cor rup tion through the Mahdi and will make

them broth ers [and sis ters to each other].

(At-Tabarani, Haysami, c. VII, p. 317; Nu'aym ibn

Hammad, vr 52b; Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi

Alamat al-Mahdi, p. 20)

In the same way that through us they were freed from

her e sy and ascrib ing part ners to Allah and placed

friend ship and dis course in their hearts, so it will be

again (when the Mahdi comes).


One of my sons Muhammad ibn Abdullah (the Mahdi)

and the Lord will give life to the Sunnah. His jus tice and

plen ty will ease the hearts of believ ers. He will bring

friend ship and dis course to the Persian and Arab

nations.

(Ibid., p. 66)

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LIVES WILL BE LONGER

In his time … lives will be longer and things entrust ed for

safe keep ing will not be lost. The wick ed will be

destroyed and nobody will be left who does not like our

Prophet (saas).


Lives will be longer, and things entrust ed will be

returned to their place.

(Imam al-Suyuti, Signs of the Last Day, Death, and

Resurrection, p. 179)

THE DEAD WILL ENVY THE LIVING

His time will be one of such jus tice that the dead in the

graves will envy the liv ing…


They will over come all the oppress ors and the cruel.

There will be such jus tice in his time that the dead will

envy the liv ing.


The liv ing will wish that the dead we re alive (in order that

they might see the bless ings impart ed to them).


In describ ing how the Mahdi will appear and make

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Islamic moral val ues pre vail, Bediuzzaman Said Nursi

said he would wit ness this beau ti ful time from his grave

and give thanks:

In the End Times, the true lords of this sphere of life, in

other words the Mahdi and his fol low ers, will, by the will

of Allah, come and widen that sphere, and the seeds

will sprout. I shall WATCH FROM MY GRAVE and give

thanks to Allah.

(Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, Risale-i Nur Collection:

Kastamonu Letters, p. 99)

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THE MAHDI'S PHYSICAL FEATURES

In addi tion to his moral val ues and strug gle, our

Prophet (saas) described the Mahdi's phys i cal appear -

ance in great detail so that those who see him will

imme di ate ly recog nize him.

One verse reveals that the People of the Book will

recog nize the Prophet (saas) as "they recog nize their

own sons."

Those We have given the Book recog nize it as they

rec og nise their own sons. Yet a group of them know -

ing ly con ceal the truth. (Surat al-Baqara, 146)

In the fig u ra tive sense, this verse refers to rec og ni zing

the Mahdi. When the Mahdi appears, peo ple will recog -

nize him, due to our Prophet's (saas) descrip tions of him,

just as they do their own chil dren. Yet despite this, some

peo ple will pre tend not to recog nize him and will deny him.

HE IS BEAUTIFUL AND RADIANT

He (the Mahdi) is a beau ti ful young man with an attrac-

t ive face. The radi ance of his coun te nance rises to his

head and the black of his hair.

(Mahdisim and Imamate, p. 153)

His face is radi ant, just like a shin ing star.

(Al-Haythami, Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar, p. 33; Al-Muttaqi

al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi Alamat al-Mahdi, p. 22)

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His face is like a star shin ing in the sky.

(Al-Daylami, c. IV, p. 221, Ibn Jawzi, c. II, p. 558; Ali al-

Qari, 'Ali b. al-Sultan Muhammad al-Harawi, al-Hanafi

"Risaletül Meşreb elver di fi mez heb il Mahdi")

He (the Mahdi) is a young man of medi um stat ure and

with a beau ti ful face … The radi ance of his face shines

like day in his hair, beard, and the black ness of his head,

and gives him great ness.

(Al-Uqayli, Al-Najmu al-Saqib, )

The Mahdi is one of my [Muhammad's] chil dren. His

face shines like a star.

(Ibid)

He is love ly of face. The light of his face gives him maj -

es ty.

(Fera Idu Fevaidi'l Fiqr, )

There is a color in his face like that of a bright star.

(Ibid., p. 12)

Allah tells us of Prophet Yusuf's (as) beau ty:

She said [to Yusuf]: "Go out to them." When they saw

him, they were amazed by him and cut their hands.

(Surah Yusuf, 31)

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HE HAS BLACK HAIR

The light of his face rises to his head and the black of his

hair.

(Mahdisim and Imamate, p. 153)

He has black hair. His beard is black.


The radi ance of his face shines like day in his hair,

beard, and the black ness of his head, and gives him

great ness.

(Al-Uqayli, Al-Najmu al-Saqib,)

HE HAS A MOLE ON HIS FACE

The Mahdi has a thick beard, bright front teeth, a mole

on his face, and a broad fore head.


He has a mole on his face.


HE HAS THE SIGN OF THE PROPHET (SAAS) ONHIS SHOULDER

The Mahdi will have the sign of our Prophet (saas) on

his shoul der.

(Ibid., p. 41)

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The sign of the Prophet (saas) is on his shoul der.

(Barzanji, Al-Isha'ah, p. 165; Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-

Burhan fi Alamat al-Mahdi, p. 23)

The mark of the Prophet (saas) is on his shoul der.


As can be seen from these had iths, the Mahdi will

have "the sign of the Prophet (saas)," an evi dent mark,

between his shoul ders. Islamic sour ces describe this

mark as fol lows:

Abu Saib ibn Yazid relates that: "My eye saw the seal

of the Prophet (saas) between his shoul ders."

(Sunan Tirmidhi, 6:126)

HIS COMPLEXION

The Mahdi is Arab in col or ing…

(Al-Haythami, Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar, p .15-75)

Note: The Arab com plex ion is a mix ture of red and

white.

Our Prophet (saas) had a red dish-white com plex ion.

However, the vis i ble parts of his skin were near er to

brown because of the Sun and the wind. The Mahdi will

be the same color as the Prophet (saas), whose com -

plex ion is described thus:

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Anas b. Malik said this about the Prophet's (saas) com -

plex ion: He was white, but a brown ish white.

(Ibn Kathir, Shamail Rasul, p. 28)

Not dark brown and not white, but with a lit tle red. The

Servant of God's color is as white as that of some one

who has just left the baths and grown a lit tle pink, a

color the like of which nobody else will have at that time.

In other words, his com plex ion is a radi ant white mixed

with pink.

(Ibid., p. 28)

HIS GENERAL APPEARANCE

The Mahdi's height is like that of the sons of Israel (Bani

Israel).

(al-Haythami, Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar, pp. 29-36)

His body is an Israeli body.


24)

It is as if the Mahdi were one of the People of Israel. (His

behav ior resem bles theirs, being majes tic and intel li -

gent).

(Ibid., pp. 23-30)

He is ... a majes tic indi vid u al.

( Mahdisim and Imamate)

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The Mahdi's body is Israeli. It is as if the Mahdi were an

offi cial of the People of Israel (one of their lead ers).

(Ibn Hajar al-Makki)

(His exter nal appear ance) resem bles that of one of the

Beni Israel.

(Al-Uqayli, Al-Najmu al-Saqib, )

It is as if he were one of the Children of Israel.

(Fera Idu Fevaidi'l Fiqr, )

HIS HEIGHT

The Mahdi will be of aver age height.


The Mahdi's name is Muhammad ibn Abdullah. He is of

mid dling height...

(Fera Idu Fevaidi'l Fiqr, p. 11)

We learn from accounts that he is the same height

as our Prophet (saas):

Anas stat ed that: ‘The Prophet (saas) was of mid dling

height." As we know, the word "rab'a" in the had ith

means nor mal, medi um stat ure. But there is a limit to

nor mal height in the eyes of tall peo ple, because nor -

mal height refers seven hand spans.

(Hadith at-Tirmidhi, Shamail Sharif, p. 15)

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HE HAS A BROAD BODYThe had iths reveal that the Mahdi has a broad abdo -

men, chest, brow, and a gap between his legs and

thighs. His head will be large in pro por tion to the width

of his fore head. All of these descrip tion sin di cate that

the Mahdi's body will be broad.

He is large of body...

(Al-Uqayli, An-Najmu al-Saqib, )

His brow is clear… His abdo men is large, the space

between his thighs is broad…


The space between his thighs is open...

(Ibid)

The Mahdi is from the line of Hassan (ra). There is a gap

between his legs.


His ... brow is wide. He will fill Earth with jus tice and

hand out goods in abun dance.

(Ibid., p. 22)

HIS BROW IS CLEAR AND BROADThe had iths relate that the Mahdi's brow will be clear

and broad, and that his head will be pro por tion ate ly

large.

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The Mahdi is one of my peo ple ... His brow is open.

(Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi Alamat, p. 21)

The Mahdi is one of us, and his brow is open...

(Ibid., p. 21)

Allah will send a son of my line, with a clear brow, who

will fill Earth with jus tice and dis trib ute goods and prop -

er ty in abun dance.

(al-Haythami, Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar, p .23)

He is broad of brow.

(Fera Idu Fevaidi'l Fiqr)

Allah will send one of my line who is broad of brow.

(Ibid., p. 11)

HE HAS A LARGE STOMACH

His brow is open … his stom ach large, and the space

between his thighs is open…

(Ibid., p. 13)

HIS THIGHS ARE LONG

His thighs are long, he is Arab in col or ing.

(Barzanji, Al-Isha'ah, pp. 162-63)

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HIS GAIT

One fea ture of his is that as he walks there is a space

between his thighs, and they are at a dis tance from one

anoth er.


HIS AGEThe had iths men tion how old the Mahdi will be when

he embarks upon his task, when peo ple will recog nize

him, and when they will see and fol low his activ i ties.

He will be sent when he is between 30 and 40. The

Mahdi is one of my chil dren… He is around 40.

(Ibid., p. 41)

He is 40 years old. According to anoth er account he is

between 30 and 40


The Mahdi is one of my peo ple. He is 40 years old. His

face is like a bright star.

(Fera Idu Fevaidi'l Fiqr )

HIS BEARD

His beard will be thick and lux u ri ous.


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His beard is thick.


HIS NOSE IS BEAUTIFUL

His brow is broad, and his nose will be thin.

(Hadith al-Tirmidhi)

He will have a clear brow and a small nose…


He has a clear brow and a fine nose.

(Imam Ahmad, II-291, III-17; Sunan Abu Dawud, vol. 14,

p. 404)

HIS EYEBROWS AND EYES

He has a clear brow, a small nose, and large eyes...


His eye brows are curved.

(Ibid., p. 163)

The Mahdi's eye brows ... will have a space between

them.


The had iths state that there will be a space between

the Mahdi's eye brows and that the gap between his

eyes and eye brows will be large.

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THE BEAUTY AND BRIGHTNESS OF HIS TEETH

His teeth will be bright.

(Nu'aym ibn Hammad, vr. 52a; al-Haythami, Al-Qawl al-

Mukhtasar, p. 41)

The Mahdi will have a thick beard, and his front teeth

will be bright.


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THE MAHDI IS A SUBJECT NEEDING

TO BE WIDELY BROADCAST

RATHER THAN KEPT HIDDEN

Talk of the Mahdi is one of the Portents of

His Appearance

In his works, Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, the reviv er

(mujad did) of the 13th cen tu ry Hijri, has made a num ber

of impor tant state ments that serve as a guide to all

Muslims con cern ing the com ing of the Mahdi and the

way that he will be a rea son for Islamic moral val ues to

pre vail all over the world. Some cir cles, how e ver, main -

tain that, "it would be wrong and objec tion a ble in many

ways to speak open ly of the sub ject of the Mahdi," to

which Bediuzzaman devot ed con sid er a ble space in his

works.

The fact is, how e ver, that "The Mahdi is a sub ject

need ing to be broad cast, rath er than hid den or con -

cealed." The glad tid ings, of the com ing of the Mahdi,

have been impart ed by our Prophet (saas) him self; there

are a num ber of had iths of our Prophet (saas) on the

sub jects that are regard ed as com plete ly reli a ble. In

one had ith, the Prophet (saas) revealed that the sub -

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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be pub lished. However, the sit u a tion is the exact oppo -

site of this when it comes to the sub ject of the Mahdi.

Bediuzzaman devot ed hun dreds of pages to elu ci dat -

ing the com ing of the Mahdi, made the mat ter a pub lic

one, and open ly stat ed that it was not an issue that

need ed to be kept hid den. Indeed, the fact that the trea -

tis es have been read by mil lions over the years makes

it clear that the sub ject is one for pub lic con sump tion,

not a secret one.

However, although Bediuzzaman's view is crys tal

clear, some peo ple have sought to sup port this mis -

con cep tion by load ing var i ous false mean ings onto

Bediuzzaman's words. One state ment by Bediuzzaman

that has been mis in ter pret ed to that end is this:

My broth ers' sec ond error: they ascribe a mor tal iden -

ti ty that is prone to decay to that help less broth er who

rep re sents the spir it u al enti ty of the Disciples of Light

and who forms the van guard in the first duty in cer tain

respects. Although these two errors do no harm to the

true puri ty of the Treatise on Light nor even in any way

to its use in spir it u al and heav en ly spheres, they cause

polit i cal cir cles to fall into an unfound ed error and the

pub li ca tion of the Treatise of Light is harmed. Since this

time is one of a spir it u al enti ty, such great and eter nal

truths can not be built on mor tal, help less iden ti ties that

are lia ble to error. In con se quence, it is wrong to give

the name of that per son age who will come and per form

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three tasks. Both the puri ty in the Treatise that can not

be mis used will be harmed, and the truths will become

defi cient in the eyes of believ ers with lit tle knowl edge

of spir it u al things; even indis pu ta ble argu ments will turn

into an opin ion that is only part ly the truth, and the vic -

to ry over stub born proof and arro gant athe ism will begin

to not be seen among the con fused peo ple of faith.

Political cir cles and some reli gious teach ers will begin

to feel doubts. Therefore, it does not seem appro pri ate

to give that name in the Treatises. It may be said that

he is a reviv er, a pre cur sor." (The Seal of Affirmation of

Hidden Things, p. 10)

The facts stat ed by Bediuzzaman in this extract are

dis tort ed, and it is sug gest ed that "he said it would be

extreme ly dam ag ing for the sub ject of the Mahdi to be

spo ken about pub lic ly." Yet this idea is total ly based

on a mis in ter pre ta tion; what Bediuzzaman is say ing

here refers to his own time. He says that his dis ci ples

har bour a mis con cep tion about him with regard to the

Mahdi, but that "this is an error that stems from con fu -

sion." For that rea son, he tells them not to "speak in

this way or make any claims with regard to the Mahdi."

On close inspec tion, how e ver, Bediuzzaman is say ing

that it is not speak ing of the Mahdi that is objec tion a -

ble and dam ag ing, but direct ing claims regard ing the

rank of Mahdi towards him self, since these are found -

ed on an erro ne ous opin ion. He reminds them that at

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that time, bring ing up such a mis tak en idea regard ing

him self will dam age the truth and may cause cer tain

pol i ti cians unease, harm the pub li ca tion of the Treatise

of Light and mean that the trea tise enjoys only half a

vic to ry over the deniers. Bediuzzaman says that hold -

ing such an erro ne ous view will lead to the vic to ry of

"what is prob a bly the truth" and thus to the mis di rec tion

of the peo ple of faith; as a result of this uncer tain ty, this

will pre vent Muslims from being able to rec og nise the

true Mahdi.

With the terms he also employs here, Bediuzzaman

has many times reit er at ed that he is not the Mahdi. For

exam ple, he does not say, "I have per formed the

Mahdi's three tasks at the same time." Note that he

says that he has only led the way for the Mahdi in the

first of the Mahdi's duties, that of regard ing the truths

of faith, and that he has only per formed this in one way.

By say ing "it will be wrong … to give the name of that

per son age who will come in the future," he is stat ing

that it will be wrong for him to be given this name

although he is not the Mahdi and that this will dam age

the truth, for which rea son the name of Mahdi should

be given, not to him, but to that indi vid u al who will come

in the future. Regarding him self, he says that he may

be referred to as a reform er and "the pre cur sor" of the

Mahdi.

In addi tion to all this, as we know, the date given by

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Bediuzzaman regard ing the appear ance of the Mahdi

is 2011. There is, of course, no ques tion of such an

impor tant mat ter being kept con cealed and not talk ed

about with so lit tle time remain ing.

Bediuzzaman's words are per fect ly clear. He states

that his trea tis es are works that "every one, from a

labour er to the wis est schol ar, a mid dle school stu dent

to a phi los o pher, can eas i ly under stand." (Kastamonu

Addendum, p. 10, Rays of Light, p. 549) Some extracts

from Bediuzzaman on this sub ject read:

...The Treatise of Light proves this duty, at the most

severe, essen tial and sen si tive time, in a man ner every -

one can under stand, the deep est and most secret truths

of the Qur'an and of faith, with the most pow er ful evi -

dence. (Rays of Light, p. 748)

... The Treatise of Light can be read and under stood by

all lev els of soci e ty, such as a woman, a man, a civil

ser vant and a trades man, a schol ar and a phi los o pher…

(Rays of Light, p. 549)

To sug gest, none the less, that only spe cial peo ple

pos sessed of spe cial secrets and spe cial abil i ties can

under stand the Treatise and to so depart from the evi -

dent mean ing of Bediuzzaman's words is a grave mis -

take. In that event, every one can draw his own erro ne -

ous con clu sions from Bediuzzaman's words. Thus the

trea tis es will become works that reflect, not the true

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words of Bediuzzaman him self, but of those who inter -

pret those words accord ing to their own knowl edge and

under stand ing. The ques tion of the dam ag ing effect

that such a logic could have on the Collection, writ ten

by Bediuzzaman in such a com pact and sin cere style,

is one call ing for care ful con sid er a tion.

Bediuzzaman has told, with full sup port ing

evi dence, those who imag ine him to be the

Mahdi that he is not the Mahdi

A num ber of ques tions were direct ed towards

Bediuzzaman in his own day from his dis ci ples and

those around him regard ing wheth er or not he was the

Mahdi. In fact, sim i lar ques tions had been put to other

reviv ers (mujad dids) before Bediuzzaman, and their fol -

low ers claimed that these peo ple were the Mahdi. They

also told their stu dents, with proof, that they were not

the Mahdi, and that their attrib utes were incom pat i ble

with his. They gave detailed descrip tions of when and

where the Mahdi would appear, the kind of fea tures he

would pos sess, his strug gle, and how he would cause

Islamic moral val ues to pre vail. They made state ments,

in the light of the had iths of our Prophet (saas), along the

lines of "I am not the Mahdi, because the Mahdi will be

aged such and such, appear from such and such a

place, pos sess such and such fea tures, and be a say -

y id."

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Bediuzzaman gave two kinds of response to those

ask ing for his thoughts on the sub ject;

1) He made it clear that he was not the Mahdi and

wrote pages of state ments regard ing why he was not

the Mahdi aimed at those who claimed that he was.

2) He also respond ed to those who ascribed the rank

of Mahdi to him by say ing, "mis con cep tions have been

around for a long time, that can not be denied; there -

fore, I had no quar rel with those hold ing such mis con -

cep tions, and told these peo ple that "he reject ed claims

regard ing the rank of Mahdi"

1. Bediuzzaman said, "All my broth ers will bearwit ness that I never accept ed the rank ofMahdi" (Rays of Light, p. 365) and proved thisover hun dreds of pages in the trea tis es.The answer pro vid ed by Bediuzzaman, when asked

about a sub ject is impor tant, and he clear ly stat ed that

he was not the Mahdi. In his works, Bediuzzaman stat -

ed that he was not the Mahdi (Emirdag Addendum, p.

266), that the Mahdi would appear a cen tu ry after him

(Kastamonu Addendum, p. 57), that he was a pri vate

sol dier and a mem ber of the van guard of the Mahdi

(Barla Addendum, p. 162), that he had pre pared the

way for the Mahdi with his work and books (The Seal

of Affirmation of Hidden Things, p. 189), and that it was

an error and a con fu sion to imag ine that he and the

Treatise of Light were the Mahdi (Emirdag Addendum,

p. 266).

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He also stat ed that the Mahdi would be a say y id

(Exposition, Rays of Light, p. 365), that he will per form

three tasks in the worlds of pol i tics, author i ty, and reli -

gion at one and at the same time (Rays of Light, p. 456)

(Rays of Light, p. 590) (Emirdag Addendum, p. 259-

260), that the Mahdi will rean i mate the essence of

Islamic moral val ues by bear ing the titles of the cal iph

of our Prophet (saas) and the spir it u al lead er of all

Muslims (The Seal of Afformation of Hidden Things, p.

9), that he will bring peace and jus tice to all the world

(Emirdag Addendum, p. 2590 (Letters, p. 411-412), that

he will bear the title of "the Great Reformer" (Tilsimlar

Magazine, p. 168), that he will bring about Islamic Union

(Emirdag Addendum, p. 260), that he will receive the

sup port of all Islamic schol ars, say y ids descend ed from

our Prophet (saas), and all Muslims (Emirdag

Addendum, p. 260), that he will forge an alli ance with

the Christian world (The Seal of Affirmation of Hidden

Things, p. 9), that he will pray togeth er with the Prophet

Isa (Rays of Light, p. 493), and that he will install the

moral val ues of the Qur'an over all the world and

encour age all peo ple towards the true path (The Seal

of Affirmation of Hidden Things, p. 9) (Letters p. 473).

In Bediuzzaman's day, "no Islamic Union col lect ing

all Muslims under a sin gle roof had been estab lished,

and nobody bore the title of spir it u al lead er of all believ -

ers." "Justice and domin ion had not been brought to

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the entire world," and "Islamic moral val ues did not pre -

vail all over the world." Nobody bore the title of Great

Leader and Ruler; nobody enjoyed "the sup port of all

Islamic schol ars, say y ids descend ed from the line of

the Prophet (saas), and all Muslims," and nobody had

per formed such a great serv ice to the faith as com mu -

ni cat ing the mes sage of the moral val ues of the Qur'an,

ded i cat ing his life to and risk ing every thing for it.

(**Suggestion: All these points, in the past 2-3 par a -

graphs, about the traits of the Mahdi could be bet ter

under stood if made as points/bul lets with in the arti cle.

Using semi-colons, as orig i nal ly done is not exact ly

prop er sen tence struc ture. However, by mak ing them

bul lent points, it would be eas ier to under stand for the

read er.)

He ful filled the role of reform er of his own cen tu ry in

the most honour a ble man ner. Yet, his mes sage was

com mu ni cat ed, not with force and impo si tion, but in

the face of dif fi cult phys i cal and spir it u al cir cum stan -

ces and enor mous dif fi cul ties. He did not assume the

posi tion of com mand er; on the con tra ry, he was

oppressed and spent his life as a cap tive, faced with

phys i cal troub les and dif fi cul ties. He received no wide -

spread sup port, but was rath er sub ject ed to var i ous

injus ti ces, oppressed, and spent much of his life under

such harsh cir cum stan ces as pris on and exile. He

report ed that the means and respon si bil i ties to be dis -

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charged as list ed above, would belong to the Mahdi,

the reform er of the cen tu ry fol low ing his.

2. Bediuzzaman stat ed with full sup port ing evi -dence that he was not the Mahdi, but that hehad no quar rel with peo ple who har bouredsuch mis con cep tions:There were peo ple close to him in his day who held

mis con cep tions about Bediuzzaman being the Mahdi.

Indeed, Bediuzzaman added some men tions of these

atti tudes of his fol low ers to var i ous parts of his trea tis -

es.

However, as we know, pleas ing thoughts about a

per son are no proof that they actu al ly reflect the truth.

Bediuzzaman also stat ed this in his trea tis es, say ing:

"There may be peo ple who hold pleas ing ideas about

one; these have been around for a long time, that can -

not be denied, but they are in fact an error and a con -

fu sion." One extract in which Bediuzzaman sets this

out reads:

... They right ly per son al ly regard the spir it u al enti ty of

the Treatise of Light as a kind of Mahdi. Since they imag -

ine that this spir it u al enti ty has a rep re sent a tive, a spir -

it u al enti ty com ing from the stu dents of Light, and that

this spir it u al enti ty has a (do you mean the word "rep -

re sent a tive"??) who is a mere inter pret er, they some -

times give him that name (the Mahdi). This is, in fact, a

con fu sion and an error, but not one for which they are

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respon si ble; mis con cep tions have been around for a

long time and can not be object ed to. Since I regard

what my broth ers do as a kind of prayer, a hope, and a

reflec tion of the pure con vic tion of the stu dentsn of

Light, I made no great objec tion. (Emirdağ Addendum,

p. 248)

Bediuzzaman states that it is some times imag ined

that as the spir it u al enti ty of the Treatise of Light and

the author of these works he may him self be the Mahdi,

but that this is an error and a con fu sion. He says that

peo ple who think along those lines make an anal y sis

with regard to describ ing the truths of faith, but that

they do not take into con sid er a tion that the Mahdi's

other two duties - "estab lish ing an Islamic Union, being

the lead er of the Islamic world, and caus ing Islamic

moral val ues to pre vail over the world, are absent from

him." Therefore, equat ing the role of Mahdi with the

Treatise on Light and with him self is mere ly a "sup po -

si tion."

Bediuzzaman has stat ed sev er al times in his works

that the Mahdi will be a say y id, and that he is not a say -

y id, but a Kurd.

In one of the proofs revealed by Bediuzzaman

demosn trat ing that he is not the Mahdi, he states that

"the Mahdi will be a say y id, but that he him self is not a

say y id." Some extracts in which Bediuzzaman open ly

express es this fact read as fol lows:

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... All my broth ers will bear wit ness that I have never

accept ed the impu ta tion of being the Mahdi. Indeed, in

response to what learned peo ple in Denizli said about

wheth er Said claims to be the Mahdi, con tra ry to what

all his dis ci ples believe, Said stat ed in his objec tion, "I

am not a say y id, the Mahdi will be a say y id," and refut -

ed them. (Rays of Light, p. 365)

I know that I am not a say y id (descend ed from the line

of our Prophet (saas)). Generations are not known at

this time. Yet, that great fig ure of the end times will be

descend ed from our Prophet (saas). (Emirdağ

Addendum, p. 247-250)

Bediuzzaman also recalled one of the had iths of our

Prophet (saas) in his works - "it is incom pat i ble with

Qur'anic moral val ues for one who is a say y id to con ceal

the fact," thus mak ing it clear that what he said on this

sub ject was the truth:

Those peo ple who are not say y ids, but who say they

are, and those who are say y ids, but who say they are

not, are both sin ners, and in the same way that such

claims and deni als are for bid den … so add ing any thing

to or remov ing any thing from the had iths and Qur'an is

for bid den. (Judgements, p. 52)

Had Bediuzzaman been a say y id, there would have

been no rea son to con ceal it because being descend -

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ed from the line of our Prophet (saas) is not a fea ture

requir ing to be con cealed. On the con tra ry, it is a great

honour for all Muslims. Therefore, had Bediuzzaman

been a say y id, then when he was asked, he would have

said, "Yes, I am a say y id, but I am not the Mahdi," and

he would have been honoured to say that he was

descend ed from the line of the Prophet (saas) because

admit ting that one is a say y id does not nec es sa ri ly

mean that one is the Mahdi. However, he nev er the less,

sev er al times reit er at ed that he was not a say y id.

Bediuzzaman also con firmed this sev er al times in the

trea tis es by say ing that he was "Kurdish" (Disputations,

p. 84, History of Life, p. 228, Bediuzzaman and His

Students' Trial Defence, p. 18). In the same way, had

he been of the opin ion that he was the Mahdi, he would

not have spent hun dreds of pages in works read by mil -

lions say ing the exact oppo site; he would not have said

that he did not match the attrib utes of the Mahdi nor,

with a great deal of evi dence, that this holy indi vid u al

would be com ing after him.

In addi tion, "there is no ques tion of every one who is

a say y id being the Mahdi." There are mil lions of say y -

ids in the world. Since the fact that some one is a say -

y id does not nec es sa ri ly mean that he is the Mahdi, and

every one who is a say y id can free ly and open ly admit

the fact. Moreover, Bediuzzaman did not say, "The only

thing I lack in this regard is being a say y id, had I been

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a say y id I would have been the Mahdi." On the con tra -

ry, he pro vid ed lengthy descrip tions of all the attrib utes

of the Mahdi and the match less activ i ties he would

engage in, and stat ed that these had not yet come

about in his own day.

The effects of the sys tem of the Dajjal and

the Sufyan, opposed to the Mahdi, had not

been felt when Bediuzzaman was alive

The cur rent state of Islamic coun tries and of the

Muslims of the world clear ly reveals that the duties to

be dis charged by the Mahdi had not come about in

Bediuzzaman's day. The effect of the Sufyan and the

sys tem of the Dajjal were not yet fully felt in Muslim

coun tries. Religious free dom does not apply in many

coun tries of the world. When Bediuzzaman was alive,

the dif fi cul ties, troub les and oppres sion fac ing Muslims

were not that intense. This shows that, like those of the

Mahdi, the activ i ties of the Sufyan and the Dajjal had

not yet taken place at that time. It is impos si ble to speak

of the Mahdi per form ing his duties in a cli mate in which

the strug gle against the Dajjal and the Sufyan had not

yet aris en.

In addi tion, the whole Islamic world and Muslims are

today divid ed amongst them selves. In Bediuzzaman's

day, there was a uni fy ing effect on the Muslims of the

world. It is revealed in the had iths of our Prophet (saas)

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that the Mahdi will have a uni fy ing effect on all Muslims.

Bediuzzaman also reports this char ac ter is tic of the

Mahdi:

…that indi vid u al will seek to ful fill that great duty with the

spir it u al assist ance of all believ ers, and the sol i dar i ty

of Islamic UUnion, and all schol ars and learned men,

and in par tic u lar with the con tri bu tion of mil lions of

devot ed say y ids descend ed from the line of our Prophet

(saas). (Emirdag Addendum, p. 260)

In this extract, Bediuzzaman is describ ing the third

duty of the Mahdi. According to this, at a time when the

moral val ues of the Qur'an are ignored, the Mahdi will

be a means where by peo ple turn back to reli gious

moral i ty; he will estab lish an islam ic Union, and all

Muslims will unite and join for ces and assist the Mahdi

in this task. Such com pre hen sive alli ance and sup port,

in which all Muslims will be includ ed, had not yet come

about in Bediuzzaman's day. As revealed by

Bediuzzaman, the spir it u al assist ance from this wide

com mu ni ty will only emerge in the end times with the

Mahdi, and will play a major role in Islamic moral val -

ues com ing to rule the world.

Bediuzzaman said that the accounts in the trea tis es

were suf fi cient con cern ing all mat ters.

Bediuzzaman, many times, assert ed dur ing his life -

time the truth of every thing he had writ ten, say ing, "I

also abide by these as a stu dent of the Treatise of

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Light." Each trea tise is a book pub lished in many edi -

tions. If, there fore, he open ly states, "I know I am not

a say y id" in his works, then it would be a vile insult and

slan der against Bediuzzaman Said Nursi for cer tain

peo ple to say: "Bediuzzaman's state ments are untrue;

he called us one day and said that he was both a say -

y id and the Mahdi." Because this would be equiv a lent

to claim ing that what such a wor thy and moral indi vid -

u al as Bediuzzaman had writ ten was a "lie." A claim to

the effect that, con tra ry to what he wrote over hun dreds

of pages, Bediuzzaman "only told two or three peo ple

that what he had writ ten was a lie," is a grave impu ta -

tion against those who make such claims. No claim to

the effect that "Bediuzzaman deceived mil lions of peo -

ple, but only told a hand ful of peo ple the truth," is com -

plete ly unac cept a ble.

On the other hand, it is suf fi cient for Bediuzzaman

to say, "I am not the Mahdi" to put the record straight.

It is non sen si cal to main tain that such a holy per son -

age "wrote detailed and com pre hen sive lies over hun -

dreds of pages, and what he wrote is all a decep tion."

Such a grave insult is unac cept a ble, even if made out

of love.

It is com plete ly out of the ques tion for a reviv er of

such deep faith as Bediuzzaman to have writ ten the

exact oppo site of what he thought and believed in his

works. Therefore, it is a grave slan der, albe it made out

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of love for Bediuzzaman, albe it with the very best of

inten tions, to make such a claim years after his death.

An atti tude that accus es him of lying and main tains that

he spent hun dreds of pages deceiv ing the pub lic can -

not be accept ed by any con science.

In addi tion, var i ous unre al is tic claims regard ing the

Prophet Isa (as) may also be made in order to sup port

this ground less claim. As we know, we are told in the

had iths of our Prophet (saas) that the Prophet Isa will

return to Earth dur ing the time of the Mahdi. The Prophet

Isa and the Mahdi will pray togeth er, with the Mahdi act -

ing as imam, and they will rule togeth er on Earth for

seven years. However, none of these devel op ments

took place while Bediuzzaman was alive. Bediuzzaman

did not live along side the Prophet Isa (as). Various

attempts are made to explain this any way. Unfounded

ideas, such as that the Prophet Isa (as) will return only

in spir it, or that he lived, died and was bur ied dur ing

Bediuzzaman's life time, are put for ward. The fact is,

how e ver, that Bediuzzaman has made it crys tal clear,

and many times, in his works that the Prophet Isa (as)

will return to Earth as "a per son," with his human body.

He also stat ed that the Prophet Isa (as) would forge an

alli ance with Christian lead ers and fight against and

intel lec tu al ly neu tral ise the Dajjal. In one of these state -

ments, Bediuzzaman says that the Prophet Isa will be a

per son, not a spir it u al enti ty:

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... THE PROPHET ISA (as), who is in the world of the

heav ens WITH HIS PHYSICAL BODY, will assume the

lead er ship of the true.... (Letters, p. 60)

In addi tion, in those extracts in which Bediuzzaman

refers to the Prophet Isa's (as) strug gle against the

Dajjal, he speaks not of a strug gle between one spir it -

u al enti ty and anoth er, but of one between the true per -

son of the Prophet Isa (as) and the per son age of the

Dajjal:

... Those whose faith is weak find it hard to believe that

"the Prophet Isa (as) will come and labour with the law

of Islam and will slay the Dajjal," as is report ed in a had -

ith of abso lute trust wor thi ness. If the truth of that is set

out, no room for doubt will remain. (Letters, p. 58-59)

In anoth er extract, Bediuzzaman says that the influ -

ence of the Dajjal can only be done away with by a

proph et pos sessed of the power of mir a cles, and once

again states that the Prophet Isa (as) will be a per son

with the attrib ute of work ing mir a cles, and not a spir it -

u al enti ty:

... he can only be A PERSON pos sessed of mar vels and

mir a cles and accept ed by the peo ple; THAT PERSON is

THE PROPHET ISA (as), the most con cerned and the

proph et of most peo ple..... (Rays of Light, p. 463)

Such claims as these, point ing to pri vate con ver sa -

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tions as evi dence, despite Bediuzzaman's une quiv o -

cal words regard ing the com ing of the Mahdi and the

Prophet Isa (as), are very dan ger ous inter ven tions that

may cast doubt on all the trea tis es writ ten by such a

val u a ble reform er. How valid can these be if many peo -

ple come up with very dif fer ent claims, say ing,

"Bediuzzaman Said Nursi may have said this here, but

this is only a strat a gem, a lie; he told us the truth?" Not

long after this, any thing at all will be able to be said

about any mat ter in the Treatise of Light, and

Bediuzzaman's works will increas ing ly lose their true

mean ing and wis dom. The only way to fore stall this dan -

ger is to accept the words of such a wor thy Islamic

schol ar, writ ten and con firmed by him self, at their face

value. Indeed, in his works, Bediuzzaman has recalled

that the trea tis es con tain the most truth ful expo si tion

of this sub ject, as they do of all oth ers, and has stat ed

that when some one reads what is writ ten in the trea -

tis es they can acquire the most accu rate infor ma tion,

just as if they were speak ing to him in per son.

Each book in the Treatise of Light is a Said. Whichever

book you look at, you can ben e fit from it ten times more

than by speak ing to me in per son, and you will real ly

have spo ken to me in truth. The Treatise of Light leaves

no need for me. (Emirdağ Addendum, p. 159)

… because he says: "If any one wish es to speak with

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me, about the here aft er, or the Treatise of Light, the

Treatise of Light has left no need for me at all. The mil -

lions of cop ies are as much use as ten Saids… If it

regards serv ing or dis sem i nat ing the Treatise of Light,

it is enough for true fol low ers who serve me and my

spir it u al chil dren and broth ers to deal with my coun ter -

part, there is no need for me… (Emirdağ Addendum-2,

p. 214)

Bediuzzaman also devot ed space in his works to the

words of his stu dents who expressed the same fact.

Some of these read:

O teach ers and peo ple of the heart! You can find the

answers to your ques tions in the Treatise of Light. One

of those who, as a bless ing from Allah, know secret,

invis i ble truth, asks some one as help less as me about

the Mahdi, "When will he come?" He knows noth ing of

the Mahdi and does not know who the Dabbetu'l Arz is.

There is a descrip tion of this in the trea tis es. Look for

the answer to every dif fi cult ques tion in the trea tis es,

and you will find it there. (Mustafa Hulusi, Barla

Addendum, p. 143)

…On this sub ject, may I sub mit that, in some times gen -

er ous ly read ing to a dis ci ple from the Treatise of Light,

our teach er Bediuzzaman would not explain it, say ing:

"The Treastise of Light explains mat ters of faith suf fi -

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cient ly and deep ly. The teach er of the Treatise of Light

is the Treatise of light itself. The Treatise of Light leaves

no need to study with any one else." (Extracts, p. 772)

THE COMING OF THE MAHDI

Was Imparted by Our Prophet (saas) Himself

There are a great many had iths of our Prophet (saas)

regard ing the Mahdi that are gen er al ly regard ed as reli -

a ble. Our Prophet (saas) impart ed that this is good news

for Muslims in the words of one gad ith, "LEARN OF THE

MAHDI. He is from the Quraysh and is one from my

house." (Book of Sayings of the Portents of the End

Times, p. 13) In anoth er had ith, our Prophet (saas) says:

"The Mahdi will appear, EVERYONE WILL SPEAK ONLY

OF HIM, drink of his love and NOBODY WILL SPEAK

OF ANYTHING ELSE" (Book of Sayings of the Portents

of the End Times, p. 33), stat ing that every one will speak

of this holy indi vid u al when he appears.

Bediuzzaman Also Imparted the Glad

Tidings of the Mahdi

The hon esty, open ness, and clar i ty in Bediuzzaman's

nature and which dom i nat ed his life are reflect ed in his

works, the Treatise of Light.

Bediuzzaman Said Nursi devot ed con sid er a ble

space to the Mahdi in his works, pro vid ing a detailed

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descrip tion of the sub ject over hun dreds of pages. It is

quite clear that had he thought that the sub ject need -

ed to be con cealed, or if he thought there was no need

to read about it, he would not have includ ed all these

state ments in the trea tis es.

Bediuzzaman made the mat ter pub lic with his state -

ments, and open ly stat ed that it was not a prob lem

need ing to be con cealed. Indeed, the fact that the trea -

tis es have been read by mil lions of peo ple over many

years clear ly dem on strates that it is a sub ject placed

in the open, rath er than hid den.

The Treatise of Light is a most val u a ble col lec tion of

works in which Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, the reviv er

(mujad did) of the last cen tu ry, expressed the truths

emerg ing from his heart and tongue.

Bediuzzaman open ly stat ed that he was not the Mahdi

(Emirdağ Addendum, p. 266),

That the Mahdi would come a cen tu ry after him

(Kastamonu Addendum, p. 57),

That he was a pri vate sol dier and mem ber of the van -

guard of the Mahdi (Barla Addendum, p. 162),

That he had pre pared the way for the Mahdi with his

books and work (The Seal of Affirmation of Hidden

things, p. 189),

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And that it was an error and a con du sion for him and

the Treatise of Light to be equat ed with the Mahdi

(Emirdağ Addendum, p. 266).

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CONCLUSION

Throughout this book, we have exam ined what the

had iths of our Prophet Muhammed (saas) say about the

por tents of the Mahdi's com ing, a man who will appear

in the End Times hav ing par tic u lar char ac ter is tics that

will ena ble him to be recog nized.

In these had iths, our Prophet (saas) pro vides much

infor ma tion about the Mahdi's moral val ues and phys -

i cal appear ance. For exam ple, the Mahdi's moral val ues

will resem ble those of our Prophet's (saas), who will

proise him for his fear and respect of Allah and prop er

mor als. He also states that the Mahdi is a most val u a -

ble indi vid u al who help peo ple attain sal va tion in this

world and in the Hereafter, and that when he appears

peo ple will "fol low him, even by crawl ing over the

snow":

Ibn Abi Sayba and Naim ibn Hammad recount this in

the Fitan, as do Ibn Majah and Abu Naim from Ibn

Mas'ud. He said: "He (the Mahdi) will rule the world

and fill Earth, which was pre vi ous ly filled with oppres -

sion and cru el ty, with jus tice. Whoever is liv ing at

that time, let him/her come to the Mahdi and join him,

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even by crawl ing over the snow, because he is the

Mahdi. (Al-Suyuti, Portents of the Mahdi, p. 14)

The peri od in which we are now liv ing is the time

when this his tor i cal event, the glad tid ings of which are

impart ed by our Prophet (saas), will soon take place.

All Muslims who know this and want the honor of being

along side the Mahdi when he appears must read this

infor ma tion with great care, seek every means of prop -

er ly rec og ni zing this await ed indi vid u al, and use it as a

guide to recog nize him.

Muslims have a major respon si bil i ty for pre par ing

the ground for and assist ing this await ed indi vid u al,

who will be a means where by Islam returns to its true

essence, the Qur'an's moral val ues will pre vail, and who

will estab lish great unity among Muslims. Being close

to the Mahdi in order to sup port and assist him in his

aus pi cious activ i ties direct ed toward all peo ple is a

great bless ing and honor.

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THE DECEPTION OF EVOLUTION

Darwinism, in other words the the o ry of evo lu tion,

was put for ward with the aim of deny ing the fact of cre -

a tion, but is in truth noth ing but fail ed, unsci en tif ic non -

sense. This the o ry, which claims that life emerged by

chance from inan i mate mat ter, was inval i dat ed by the

sci en tif ic evi dence of mirac u lous order in the uni verse

and in liv ing things. In this way, sci ence con firmed the

fact that Allah cre at ed the uni verse and the liv ing things

in it. The prop a gan da car ried out today in order to keep

the the o ry of evo lu tion alive is based sole ly on the dis -

tor tion of the sci en tif ic facts, biased inter pre ta tion, and

lies and false hoods dis guised as sci ence.

Yet this prop a gan da can not con ceal the truth. The

fact that the the o ry of evo lu tion is the great est decep -

tion in the his to ry of sci ence has been expressed more

and more in the sci en tif ic world over the last 20-30

years. Research car ried out after the 1980s in par tic u -

lar has revealed that the claims of Darwinism are total -

ly unfound ed, some thing that has been stat ed by a large

num ber of sci en tists. In the United States in par tic u lar,

many sci en tists from such dif fer ent fields as biol o gy,

bio chem is try and pale on tol o gy recog nize the inva lid i -

ty of Darwinism and employ the fact of cre a tion to

account for the ori gin of life.

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We have exam ined the col lapse of the the o ry of evo -

lu tion and the proofs of cre a tion in great sci en tif ic detail

in many of our works, and are still con tin u ing to do so.

Given the enor mous impor tance of this sub ject, it will be

of great ben e fit to sum ma rize it here.

The Scientific Collapse of DarwinismAlthough this doc trine goes back as far as ancient

Greece, the the o ry of evo lu tion was advanced exten -

sive ly in the nine teenth cen tu ry. The most impor tant

devel op ment that made it the top topic of the world of

sci ence was Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species,

pub lished in 1859. In this book, he denied that Allah

cre at ed dif fer ent liv ing spe cies on Earth sep a rate ly, for

he claimed that all liv ing beings had a com mon ances -

tor and had diver si fied over time through small chan -

ges. Darwin's the o ry was not based on any con crete

sci en tif ic find ing; as he also accept ed, it was just an

"assump tion." Moreover, as Darwin con fessed in the

long chap ter of his book titled "Difficulties on Theory,"

the the o ry fail ed in the face of many crit i cal ques tions.

Darwin invest ed all of his hopes in new sci en tif ic dis -

cov er ies, which he expect ed to solve these dif fi cul ties.

However, con tra ry to his expec ta tions, sci en tif ic find -

ings expand ed the dimen sions of these dif fi cul ties. The

defeat of Darwinism in the face of sci ence can be

reviewed under three basic top ics:

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1) The the o ry can not explain how life orig i nat ed on

Earth.

2) No sci en tif ic find ing shows that the "evo lu tion a ry

mech a nisms" pro posed by the the o ry have any evo lu -

tion a ry power at all.

3) The fos sil record proves the exact oppo site of what

the the o ry sug gests.

In this sec tion, we will exam ine these three basic

points in gen er al out lines:

The First Insurmountable Step:The Origin of LifeThe the o ry of evo lu tion pos its that all liv ing spe cies

evolved from a sin gle liv ing cell that emerged on the

prim i tive Earth 3.8 bil lion years ago. How a sin gle cell

could gen er ate mil lions of com plex liv ing spe cies and,

if such an evo lu tion real ly occurred, why tra ces of it

can not be observed in the fos sil record are some of the

ques tions that the the o ry can not answer. However, first

and fore most, we need to ask: How did this "first cell"

orig i nate?

Since the the o ry of evo lu tion denies cre a tion and any

kind of super nat u ral inter ven tion, it main tains that the

"first cell" orig i nat ed coin ci den tal ly with in the laws of

nature, with out any design, plan or arrange ment.

According to the the o ry, inan i mate mat ter must have

pro duced a liv ing cell as a result of coin ci den ces. Such

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a claim, how e ver, is incon sist ent with the most unas -

sail a ble rules of biol o gy.

"Life Comes From Life"In his book, Darwin never referred to the ori gin of life.

The prim i tive under stand ing of sci ence in his time rest -

ed on the assump tion that liv ing beings had a very sim -

ple struc ture. Since medi e val times, spon ta ne ous gen -

er a tion, which asserts that non-liv ing mate ri als came

togeth er to form liv ing organ isms, had been wide ly

accept ed. It was com mon ly believed that insects came

into being from food left o vers, and mice from wheat.

Interesting exper i ments were con duct ed to prove this

the o ry. Some wheat was placed on a dirty piece of

cloth, and it was believed that mice would orig i nate

from it after a while.

Similarly, mag gots devel op ing in rot ting meat was

assumed to be evi dence of spon ta ne ous gen er a tion.

However, it was later under stood that worms did not

appear on meat spon ta ne ous ly, but were car ried there

by flies in the form of lar vae, invis i ble to the naked eye.

Even when Darwin wrote The Origin of Species, the

belief that bac te ria could come into exis tence from non-

liv ing mat ter was wide ly accept ed in the world of sci -

ence.

However, five years after the pub li ca tion of Darwin's

book, Louis Pasteur announced his results after long

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stud ies and exper i ments, that dis proved spon ta ne ous

gen er a tion, a cor ner stone of Darwin's the o ry. In his tri -

um phal lec ture at the Sorbonne in 1864, Pasteur said:

"Never will the doc trine of spon ta ne ous gen er a tion

recov er from the mor tal blow struck by this sim ple

exper i ment."1

For a long time, advo cates of the the o ry of evo lu tion

resist ed these find ings. However, as the devel op ment

of sci ence unrav eled the com plex struc ture of the cell

of a liv ing being, the idea that life could come into being

coin ci den tal ly faced an even great er impasse.

Inconclusive Efforts of the Twentieth CenturyThe first evo lu tion ist who took up the sub ject of the

ori gin of life in the twen ti eth cen tu ry was the renowned

Russian biol o gist Alexander Oparin. With var i ous the -

ses he advanced in the 1930s, he tried to prove that a

liv ing cell could orig i nate by coin ci dence. These stud -

ies, how e ver, were doomed to fail ure, and Oparin had

to make the fol low ing con fes sion:

Unfortunately, how e ver, the prob lem of the ori gin of

the cell is per haps the most obscure point in the whole

study of the evo lu tion of organ isms.2

Evolutionist fol low ers of Oparin tried to carry out

exper i ments to solve this prob lem. The best known

exper i ment was car ried out by the American chem ist

Stanley Miller in 1953. Combining the gases he alleged

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to have exist ed in the pri mor di al Earth's atmos phere in

an exper i ment set-up, and add ing ener gy to the mix -

ture, Miller syn the sized sev er al organ ic mol e cu les

(amino acids) present in the struc ture of pro teins.

Barely a few years had passed before it was revealed

that this exper i ment, which was then pre sent ed as an

impor tant step in the name of evo lu tion, was invalid,

for the atmos phere used in the exper i ment was very

dif fer ent from the real Earth con di tions.3

After a long silence, Miller con fessed that the atmos -

phere medi um he used was unre al is tic.4

All the evo lu tion ists' efforts through out the twen ti -

eth cen tu ry to explain the ori gin of life ended in fail ure.

The geo chem ist Jeffrey Bada, from the San Diego

Scripps Institute accepts this fact in an arti cle pub lished

in Earth mag a zine in 1998:

Today as we leave the twen ti eth cen tu ry, we still face

the big gest unsolved prob lem that we had when we

entered the twen ti eth cen tu ry: How did life orig i nate

on Earth?5

The Complex Structure of Life The pri ma ry rea son why the the o ry of evo lu tion ended

up in such a great impasse regard ing the ori gin of life is

that even those liv ing organ isms deemed to be the sim -

plest have incred i bly com plex struc tures. The cell of a

liv ing thing is more com plex than all of our man-made

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tech no log i cal pro ducts. Today, even in the most devel -

oped lab o ra to ries of the world, a liv ing cell can not be

pro duced by bring ing organ ic chem i cals togeth er.

The con di tions required for the for ma tion of a cell

are too great in quan ti ty to be explained away by coin -

ci den ces. The prob a bil i ty of pro teins, the build ing

blocks of a cell, being syn the sized coin ci den tal ly, is 1

in 10950 for an aver age pro tein made up of 500 amino

acids. In math e mat ics, a prob a bil i ty small er than 1 over

1050 is con sid ered to be impos si ble in prac ti cal terms.

The DNA mol e cule, which is locat ed in the nucle us of

a cell and which stores genet ic infor ma tion, is an incred -

i ble data bank. If the infor ma tion coded in DNA were

writ ten down, it would make a giant library con sist ing of

an esti mat ed 900 vol umes of ency clo pe di as con sist -

ing of 500 pages each.

A very inter est ing dilem ma emer ges at this point:

DNA can rep li cate itself only with the help of some spe -

cial ized pro teins (enzymes). However, the syn the sis of

these enzymes can be real ized only by the infor ma tion

coded in DNA. As they both depend on each other, they

have to exist at the same time for rep li ca tion. This brings

the sce nar io that life orig i nat ed by itself to a dead lock.

Prof. Leslie Orgel, an evo lu tion ist of repute from the

University of San Diego, California, con fess es this fact

in the September 1994 issue of the Scientific American

mag a zine:

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It is extreme ly improb a ble that pro teins and nucle ic

acids, both of which are struc tur al ly com plex, arose

spon ta ne ous ly in the same place at the same time.

Yet it also seems impos si ble to have one with out the

other. And so, at first glance, one might have to con -

clude that life could never, in fact, have orig i nat ed

by chem i cal means.6

No doubt, if it is impos si ble for life to have orig i nat -

ed from nat u ral caus es, then it has to be accept ed that

life was "cre at ed" in a super nat u ral way. This fact

explic it ly inval i dates the the o ry of evo lu tion, whose main

pur pose is to deny cre a tion.

Imaginary Mechanism of Evolution The sec ond impor tant point that negates Darwin's

the o ry is that both con cepts put for ward by the the o ry

as "evo lu tion a ry mech a nisms" were under stood to

have, in real i ty, no evo lu tion a ry power.

Darwin based his evo lu tion alle ga tion entire ly on the

mech a nism of "nat u ral selec tion." The impor tance he

placed on this mech a nism was evi dent in the name of

his book: The Origin of Species, By Means of Natural

Selection…

Natural selec tion holds that those liv ing things that

are strong er and more suit ed to the nat u ral con di tions

of their hab i tats will sur vive in the strug gle for life. For

exam ple, in a deer herd under the threat of attack by

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wild ani mals, those that can run fast er will sur vive.

Therefore, the deer herd will be com prised of fast er and

strong er indi vid u als. However, unques tion a bly, this

mech a nism will not cause deer to evolve and trans form

them selves into anoth er liv ing spe cies, for instance,

hors es.

Therefore, the mech a nism of nat u ral selec tion has

no evo lu tion a ry power. Darwin was also aware of this

fact and had to state this in his book The Origin of

Species:

Natural selec tion can do noth ing until favour a ble indi -

vid u al dif fer en ces or var i a tions occur.7

Lamarck's ImpactSo, how could these "favor a ble var i a tions" occur?

Darwin tried to answer this ques tion from the stand -

point of the prim i tive under stand ing of sci ence at that

time. According to the French biol o gist Chevalier de

Lamarck (1744-1829), who lived before Darwin, liv ing

crea tures passed on the traits they acquired dur ing their

life time to the next gen er a tion. He assert ed that these

traits, which accu mu lat ed from one gen er a tion to anoth -

er, caused new spe cies to be formed. For instance, he

claimed that giraffes evolved from ante lopes; as they

strug gled to eat the leaves of high trees, their necks

were extend ed from gen er a tion to gen er a tion.

Darwin also gave sim i lar exam ples. In his book The

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Origin of Species, for instance, he said that some bears

going into water to find food trans formed them selves

into whales over time.8

However, the laws of inher it ance dis cov ered by

Gregor Mendel (1822-84) and ver i fied by the sci ence

of genet ics, which flour ished in the twen ti eth cen tu ry,

utter ly demol ished the leg end that acquired traits were

passed on to sub se quent gen er a tions. Thus, nat u ral

selec tion fell out of favor as an evo lu tion a ry mech a -

nism.

Neo-Darwinism and MutationsIn order to find a solu tion, Darwinists advanced the

"Modern Synthetic Theory," or as it is more com mon -

ly known, Neo-Darwinism, at the end of the 1930s. Neo-

Darwinism added muta tions, which are dis tor tions

formed in the genes of liv ing beings due to such exter -

nal fac tors as radi a tion or rep li ca tion errors, as the

"cause of favor a ble var i a tions" in addi tion to nat u ral

muta tion.

Today, the model that stands for evo lu tion in the

world is Neo-Darwinism. The the o ry main tains that mil -

lions of liv ing beings formed as a result of a proc ess

where by numer ous com plex organs of these organ isms

(e.g., ears, eyes, lungs, and wings) under went "muta -

tions," that is, genet ic dis or ders. Yet, there is an out -

right sci en tif ic fact that total ly under mines this the o ry:

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Mutations do not cause liv ing beings to devel op; on the

con tra ry, they are always harm ful.

The rea son for this is very sim ple: DNA has a very

com plex struc ture, and ran dom effects can only harm

it. The American genet i cist B. G. Ranganathan explains

this as fol lows:

First, gen u ine muta tions are very rare in nature.

Secondly, most muta tions are harm ful since they are

ran dom, rath er than order ly chan ges in the struc ture

of genes; any ran dom change in a high ly ordered

sys tem will be for the worse, not for the bet ter. For

exam ple, if an earth quake were to shake a high ly

ordered struc ture such as a build ing, there would be

a ran dom change in the frame work of the build ing

which, in all prob a bil i ty, would not be an improve -

ment.9

Not sur pris ing ly, no muta tion exam ple, which is use -

ful, that is, which is observed to devel op the genet ic

code, has been observed so far. All muta tions have

proved to be harm ful. It was under stood that muta tion,

which is pre sent ed as an "evo lu tion a ry mech a nism," is

actu al ly a genet ic occur rence that harms liv ing things,

and leaves them dis a bled. (The most com mon effect of

muta tion on human beings is can cer.) Of course, a

destruc tive mech a nism can not be an "evo lu tion a ry

mech a nism." Natural selec tion, on the other hand, "can

do noth ing by itself," as Darwin also accept ed. This fact

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shows us that there is no "evo lu tion a ry mech a nism" in

nature. Since no evo lu tion a ry mech a nism exists, no

such any imag i nary proc ess called "evo lu tion" could

have taken place.

The Fossil Record: No Sign of IntermediateFormsThe clear est evi dence that the sce nar io sug gest ed

by the the o ry of evo lu tion did not take place is the fos -

sil record.

According to this the o ry, every liv ing spe cies has

sprung from a pred e ces sor. A pre vi ous ly exist ing spe -

cies turned into some thing else over time and all spe -

cies have come into being in this way. In other words,

this trans for ma tion pro ceeds grad u al ly over mil lions of

years.

Had this been the case, numer ous inter me di a ry spe -

cies should have exist ed and lived with in this long trans -

for ma tion peri od.

For instance, some half-fish/half-rep tiles should have

lived in the past which had acquired some rep til i an traits

in addi tion to the fish traits they already had. Or there

should have exist ed some rep tile-birds, which acquired

some bird traits in addi tion to the rep til i an traits they

already had. Since these would be in a tran si tion al

phase, they should be dis a bled, defective, crip pled liv -

ing beings. Evolutionists refer to these imag i nary crea -

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tures, which they believe to have lived in the past, as

"tran si tion al forms."

If such ani mals ever real ly exist ed, there should be

mil lions and even bil lions of them in num ber and vari -

e ty. More impor tant ly, the remains of these strange

crea tures should be present in the fos sil record. In The

Origin of Species, Darwin explained:

If my the o ry be true, num ber less inter me di ate vari e -

ties, link ing most close ly all of the spe cies of the

same group togeth er must assur ed ly have exist ed...

Consequently, evi dence of their former exis tence

could be found only amongst fos sil remains.10

Darwin's Hopes ShatteredHowever, although evo lu tion ists have been mak ing

stren u ous efforts to find fos sils since the mid dle of the

nine teenth cen tu ry all over the world, no tran si tion al

forms have yet been uncov ered. All of the fos sils, con -

tra ry to the evo lu tion ists' expec ta tions, show that life

appeared on Earth all of a sud den and fully-formed.

One famous British pale on tol o gist, Derek V. Ager,

admits this fact, even though he is an evo lu tion ist:

The point emer ges that if we exam ine the fos sil

record in detail, wheth er at the level of orders or of

spe cies, we find – over and over again – not grad u -

al evo lu tion, but the sud den explo sion of one group

at the expense of anoth er.11

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This means that in the fos sil record, all liv ing spe cies

sud den ly emerge as fully formed, with out any inter me -

di ate forms in between. This is just the oppo site of

Darwin's assump tions. Also, this is very strong evi dence

that all liv ing things are cre at ed. The only expla na tion of

a liv ing spe cies emerg ing sud den ly and com plete in

every detail with out any evo lu tion a ry ances tor is that it

was cre at ed. This fact is admit ted also by the wide ly

known evo lu tion ist biol o gist Douglas Futuyma:

Creation and evo lu tion, between them, exhaust the

pos si ble expla na tions for the ori gin of liv ing things.

Organisms either appeared on the earth fully devel -

oped or they did not. If they did not, they must have

devel oped from pre-exist ing spe cies by some proc -

ess of mod i fi ca tion. If they did appear in a fully devel -

oped state, they must indeed have been cre at ed by

some omnip o tent intel li gence.12

Fossils show that liv ing beings emerged fully devel -

oped and in a per fect state on the Earth. That means

that "the ori gin of spe cies," con tra ry to Darwin's sup -

po si tion, is not evo lu tion, but cre a tion.

The Tale of Human EvolutionThe sub ject most often brought up by advo cates of

the the o ry of evo lu tion is the sub ject of the ori gin of

man. The Darwinist claim holds that mod ern man

evolved from ape-like crea tures. During this alleged

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evo lu tion a ry proc ess, which is sup posed to have start -

ed 4-5 mil lion years ago, some "tran si tion al forms"

between mod ern man and his ances tors are sup posed

to have exist ed. According to this com plete ly imag i -

nary sce nar io, four basic "cat e go ries" are list ed:

1. Australopithecus

2. Homo habi lis

3. Homo erec tus

4. Homo sapi ens

Evolutionists call man's so-called first ape-like

ances tors Australopithecus, which means "South

African ape." These liv ing beings are actu al ly noth ing

but an old ape spe cies that has become extinct.

Extensive research done on var i ous Australopithecus

spec i mens by two world famous anat o mists from

England and the USA, name ly, Lord Solly Zuckerman

and Prof. Charles Oxnard, shows that these apes

belonged to an ordi nary ape spe cies that became

extinct and bore no resem blance to humans.13

Evolutionists clas si fy the next stage of human evo -

lu tion as "homo," that is "man." According to their

claim, the liv ing beings in the Homo series are more

devel oped than Australopithecus. Evolutionists devise

a fan ci ful evo lu tion scheme by arrang ing dif fer ent fos -

sils of these crea tures in a par tic u lar order. This scheme

is imag i nary because it has never been proved that

there is an evo lu tion a ry rela tion between these dif fer ent

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class es. Ernst Mayr, one of the twen ti eth cen tu ry's most

impor tant evo lu tion ists, con tends in his book One Long

Argument that "par tic u lar ly his tor i cal [puz zles] such as

the ori gin of life or of Homo sapi ens, are extreme ly dif -

fi cult and may even resist a final, sat is fy ing expla na -

tion."14

By out lin ing the link chain as Australopithecus >

Homo habi lis > Homo erec tus > Homo sapi ens, evo lu -

tion ists imply that each of these spe cies is one anoth -

er's ances tor. However, recent find ings of pale o an thro -

pol o gists have revealed that Australopithecus, Homo

habi lis, and Homo erec tus lived at dif fer ent parts of the

world at the same time.15

Moreover, a cer tain seg ment of humans clas si fied

as Homo erec tus have lived up until very mod ern times.

Homo sapi ens nean dar thal en sis and Homo sapi ens

sapi ens (mod ern man) co-exist ed in the same region.16

This sit u a tion appar ent ly indi cates the inva lid i ty of

the claim that they are ances tors of one anoth er.

Stephen Jay Gould explained this dead lock of the the -

o ry of evo lu tion although he was him self one of the lead -

ing advo cates of evo lu tion in the twen ti eth cen tu ry:

What has become of our lad der if there are three

coex ist ing lin e a ges of hom i nids (A. afri ca nus, the robust

aus tra lop i the ci nes, and H. habi lis), none clear ly derived

from anoth er? Moreover, none of the three dis play any

evo lu tion a ry trends dur ing their ten ure on earth.17

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Put brief ly, the sce nar io of human evo lu tion, which is

"upheld" with the help of var i ous draw ings of some "half

ape, half human" crea tures appear ing in the media and

course books, that is, frank ly, by means of prop a gan -

da, is noth ing but a tale with no sci en tif ic foun da tion.

Lord Solly Zuckerman, one of the most famous and

respect ed sci en tists in the U.K., who car ried out

research on this sub ject for years and stud ied

Australopithecus fos sils for 15 years, final ly con clud -

ed, despite being an evo lu tion ist him self, that there is,

in fact, no such fam i ly tree branch ing out from ape-like

crea tures to man.

Zuckerman also made an inter est ing "spec trum of

sci ence" ran ging from those he con sid ered sci en tif ic

to those he con sid ered unsci en tif ic. According to

Zuckerman's spec trum, the most "sci en tif ic"—that is,

depend ing on con crete data—fields of sci ence are

chem is try and phys ics. After them come the bio log i cal

sci en ces and then the social sci en ces. At the far end

of the spec trum, which is the part con sid ered to be

most "unsci en tif ic," are "extra-sen so ry per cep tion"—

con cepts such as telep a thy and sixth sense—and final -

ly "human evo lu tion." Zuckerman explains his rea son -

ing:

We then move right off the reg is ter of objec tive truth

into those fields of pre sumed bio log i cal sci ence, like

extra sen so ry per cep tion or the inter pre ta tion of

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man's fos sil his to ry, where to the faith ful [evo lu tion -

ist] any thing is pos si ble – and where the ardent

believ er [in evo lu tion] is some times able to believe

sev er al con tra dict o ry things at the same time.18

The tale of human evo lu tion boils down to noth ing

but the prej u diced inter pre ta tions of some fos sils

unearthed by cer tain peo ple, who blind ly adhere to their

the o ry.

Darwinian Formula!Besides all the tech ni cal evi dence we have dealt with

so far, let us now for once, exam ine what kind of a

super sti tion the evo lu tion ists have with an exam ple so

sim ple as to be under stood even by chil dren:

The the o ry of evo lu tion asserts that life is formed by

chance. According to this claim, life less and uncon -

scious atoms came togeth er to form the cell and then

they some how formed other liv ing things, includ ing

man. Let us think about that. When we bring togeth -

er the ele ments that are the build ing-blocks of life

such as car bon, phos pho rus, nitro gen and potas si -

um, only a heap is formed. No mat ter what treat -

ments it under goes, this atom ic heap can not form

even a sin gle liv ing being. If you like, let us for mu -

late an "exper i ment" on this sub ject and let us exam -

ine on the behalf of evo lu tion ists what they real ly

claim with out pro noun cing loud ly under the name

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"Darwinian for mu la":

Let evo lu tion ists put plen ty of mate ri als present in

the com po si tion of liv ing things such as phos pho rus,

nitro gen, car bon, oxy gen, iron, and mag ne si um into big

bar rels. Moreover, let them add in these bar rels any

mate ri al that does not exist under nor mal con di tions,

but they think as nec es sa ry. Let them add in this mix -

ture as many amino acids and as many pro teins—a sin -

gle one of which has a for ma tion prob a bil i ty of 10-950—

as they like. Let them expose these mix tures to as much

heat and mois ture as they like. Let them stir these with

what ev er tech no log i cal ly devel oped device they like.

Let them put the fore most sci en tists beside these bar -

rels. Let these experts wait in turn beside these bar rels

for bil lions, and even tril lions of years. Let them be free

to use all kinds of con di tions they believe to be nec es -

sa ry for a human's for ma tion. No mat ter what they do,

they can not pro duce from these bar rels a human, say

a pro fes sor that exam ines his cell struc ture under the

elec tron micro scope. They can not pro duce giraffes,

lions, bees, cana ries, hors es, dol phins, roses, orchids,

lil ies, car na tions, banan as, oran ges, apples, dates,

toma toes, mel ons, water mel ons, figs, oliv es, grapes,

peach es, pea fowls, pheas ants, mul ti col oured but ter -

flies, or mil lions of other liv ing beings such as these.

Indeed, they could not obtain even a sin gle cell of any

one of them.

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Briefly, uncon scious atoms can not form the cell by

com ing togeth er. They can not take a new deci sion and

divide this cell into two, then take other deci sions and

cre ate the pro fes sors who first invent the elec tron

micro scope and then exam ine their own cell struc ture

under that micro scope. Matter is an uncon scious, life -

less heap, and it comes to life with Allah's supe ri or cre -

a tion.

The the o ry of evo lu tion, which claims the oppo site,

is a total fal la cy com plete ly con tra ry to rea son. Thinking

even a lit tle bit on the claims of evo lu tion ists dis clos es

this real i ty, just as in the above exam ple.

Technology in the Eye and the EarAnother sub ject that remains unans wered byevo lu tion a ry the o ry is the excel lent qual i ty ofper cep tion in the eye and the ear. Before pass ing on to the sub ject of the eye, let us

brief ly answer the ques tion of how we see. Light rays

com ing from an object fall oppo site ly on the eye's ret -

i na. Here, these light rays are trans mit ted into elec tric

sig nals by cells and reach a tiny spot at the back of the

brain, the "cen ter of vision." These elec tric sig nals are

per ceived in this cen ter as an image after a series of

proc ess es. With this tech ni cal back ground, let us do

some think ing.

The brain is insu lat ed from light. That means that its

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inside is com plete ly dark, and that no light reach es the

place where it is locat ed. Thus, the "cen ter of vision"

is never touched by light and may even be the dark est

place you have ever known. However, you observe a

lumi nous, bright world in this pitch dark ness.

The image formed in the eye is so sharp and dis tinct

that even the tech nol o gy of the twen ti eth cen tu ry has

not been able to attain it. For instance, look at the book

you are read ing, your hands with which you are hold ing

it, and then lift your head and look around you. Have

you ever seen such a sharp and dis tinct image as this

one at any other place? Even the most devel oped tel -

e vi sion screen pro duced by the great est tel e vi sion pro -

duc er in the world can not pro vide such a sharp image

for you. This is a three-dimen sion al, col ored, and

extreme ly sharp image. For more than 100 years, thou -

sands of engi neers have been try ing to achieve this

sharp ness. Factories, huge prem is es were estab lished,

much research has been done, plans and designs have

been made for this pur pose. Again, look at a TV screen

and the book you hold in your hands. You will see that

there is a big dif fer ence in sharp ness and dis tinc tion.

Moreover, the TV screen shows you a two-dimen sion -

al image, where as with your eyes, you watch a three-

dimen sion al per spec tive with depth.

For many years, tens of thou sands of engi neers have

tried to make a three-dimen sion al TV and achieve the

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vision qual i ty of the eye. Yes, they have made a three-

dimen sion al tel e vi sion sys tem, but it is not pos si ble to

watch it with out put ting on spe cial 3-D glass es; more -

over, it is only an arti fi cial three-dimen sion. The back -

ground is more blurred, the fore ground appears like a

paper set ting. Never has it been pos si ble to pro duce a

sharp and dis tinct vision like that of the eye. In both the

cam era and the tel e vi sion, there is a loss of image qual -

i ty.

Evolutionists claim that the mech a nism pro duc ing

this sharp and dis tinct image has been formed by

chance. Now, if some body told you that the tel e vi sion

in your room was formed as a result of chance, that all

of its atoms just hap pened to come togeth er and make

up this device that pro du ces an image, what would you

think? How can atoms do what thou sands of peo ple

can not?

If a device pro duc ing a more prim i tive image than

the eye could not have been formed by chance, then it

is very evi dent that the eye and the image seen by the

eye could not have been formed by chance. The same

sit u a tion applies to the ear. The outer ear picks up the

avail a ble sounds by the auri cle and directs them to the

mid dle ear, the mid dle ear trans mits the sound vibra -

tions by inten si fy ing them, and the inner ear sends these

vibra tions to the brain by trans lat ing them into elec tric

sig nals. Just as with the eye, the act of hear ing final iz -

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es in the cen ter of hear ing in the brain.

The sit u a tion in the eye is also true for the ear. That

is, the brain is insu lat ed from sound just as it is from

light. It does not let any sound in. Therefore, no mat ter

how noisy is the out side, the inside of the brain is com -

plete ly silent. Nevertheless, the sharp est sounds are

per ceived in the brain. In your com plete ly silent brain,

you lis ten to sym pho nies, and hear all of the nois es in

a crowd ed place. However, were the sound level in your

brain meas ured by a pre cise device at that moment,

com plete silence would be found to be pre vail ing there.

As is the case with image ry, dec ades of effort have

been spent in try ing to gen er ate and repro duce sound

that is faith ful to the orig i nal. The results of these efforts

are sound record ers, high-fidel i ty sys tems, and sys -

tems for sens ing sound. Despite all of this tech nol o gy

and the thou sands of engi neers and experts who have

been work ing on this endeav or, no sound has yet been

obtained that has the same sharp ness and clar i ty as

the sound per ceived by the ear. Think of the highest-

qual i ty hi-fi sys tems pro duced by the larg est com pa -

ny in the music indus try. Even in these devi ces, when

sound is record ed some of it is lost; or when you turn on

a hi-fi you always hear a hiss ing sound before the music

starts. However, the sounds that are the pro ducts of

the human body's tech nol o gy are extreme ly sharp and

clear. A human ear never per ceives a sound accom pa -

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nied by a hiss ing sound or with atmos pher ics as does

a hi-fi; rath er, it per ceives sound exact ly as it is, sharp

and clear. This is the way it has been since the cre a -

tion of man.

So far, no man-made vis u al or record ing appa ra tus

has been as sen si tive and suc cess ful in per ceiv ing sen -

so ry data as are the eye and the ear. However, as far

as see ing and hear ing are con cerned, a far great er truth

lies beyond all this.

To Whom Does the Consciousness that Sees andHears with in the Brain Belong? Who watch es an allur ing world in the brain, lis tens

to sym pho nies and the twit ter ing of birds, and smells

the rose?

The stim u la tions com ing from a per son's eyes, ears,

and nose trav el to the brain as elec tro-chem i cal nerve

impuls es. In biol o gy, phys i ol o gy, and bio chem is try

books, you can find many details about how this image

forms in the brain. However, you will never come across

the most impor tant fact: Who per ceives these elec tro-

chem i cal nerve impuls es as ima ges, sounds, odors,

and sen so ry events in the brain? There is a con scious -

ness in the brain that per ceives all this with out feel ing

any need for an eye, an ear, and a nose. To whom does

this con scious ness belong? Of course it does not

belong to the nerves, the fat layer, and neu rons com -

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pris ing the brain. This is why Darwinist-mate ri al ists,

who believe that every thing is com prised of mat ter,

can not answer these ques tions.

For this con scious ness is the spir it cre at ed by Allah,

which needs nei ther the eye to watch the ima ges nor

the ear to hear the sounds. Furthermore, it does not

need the brain to think.

Everyone who reads this explicit and sci en tif ic fact

should pon der on Almighty Allah, and fear and seek ref -

uge in Him, for He squeez es the entire uni verse in a

pitch-dark place of a few cubic cen ti me ters in a three-

dimen sion al, col ored, shad owy, and lumi nous form.

A Materialist FaithThe infor ma tion we have pre sent ed so far shows us

that the the o ry of evo lu tion is incom pat i ble with sci en -

tif ic find ings. The the o ry's claim regard ing the ori gin of

life is incon sist ent with sci ence, the evo lu tion a ry mech -

a nisms it pro pos es have no evo lu tion a ry power, and

fos sils dem on strate that the required inter me di ate forms

have never exist ed. So, it cer tain ly fol lows that the the -

o ry of evo lu tion should be push ed aside as an unsci -

en tif ic idea. This is how many ideas, such as the Earth-

cen tered uni verse model, have been taken out of the

agen da of sci ence through out his to ry.

However, the the o ry of evo lu tion is kept on the agen -

da of sci ence. Some peo ple even try to rep re sent crit -

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i cisms direct ed against it as an "attack on sci ence."

Why?

The rea son is that this the o ry is an indis pen sa ble

dog mat ic belief for some cir cles. These cir cles are

blind ly devot ed to mate ri al ist phi los o phy and adopt

Darwinism because it is the only mate ri al ist expla na -

tion that can be put for ward to explain the work ings of

nature.

Interestingly enough, they also con fess this fact from

time to time. A well-known genet i cist and an out spo -

ken evo lu tion ist, Richard C. Lewontin from Harvard

University, con fess es that he is "first and fore most a

mate ri al ist and then a sci en tist":

It is not that the meth ods and insti tu tions of sci ence

some how com pel us accept a mate ri al expla na tion

of the phe nom e nal world, but, on the con tra ry, that

we are forced by our a pri o ri adher ence to mate ri al

caus es to cre ate an appa ra tus of inves ti ga tion and a

set of con cepts that pro duce mate ri al expla na tions,

no mat ter how coun ter-intu i tive, no mat ter how mys -

ti fy ing to the unin i ti at ed. Moreover, that mate ri al ism

is abso lute, so we can not allow a Divine [inter ven -

tion]...19

These are explicit state ments that Darwinism is a

dogma kept alive just for the sake of adher ence to mate -

ri al ism. This dogma main tains that there is no being

save mat ter. Therefore, it argues that inan i mate, uncon -

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scious mat ter cre at ed life. It insists that mil lions of dif -

fer ent liv ing spe cies (e.g., birds, fish, giraffes, tigers,

insects, trees, flow ers, whales, and human beings) orig -

i nat ed as a result of the inter ac tions between mat ter

such as pour ing rain, light ning flash es, and so on, out

of inan i mate mat ter. This is a pre cept con tra ry both to

rea son and sci ence. Yet Darwinists con tin ue to defend

it just so as "not to allow a Divine inter ven tion."

Anyone who does not look at the ori gin of liv ing

beings with a mate ri al ist prej u dice will see this evi dent

truth: All liv ing beings are works of a Creator, Who is

All-Powerful, All-Wise, and All-Knowing. This Creator

is Allah, Who cre at ed the whole uni verse from non-exis -

tence, designed it in the most per fect form, and fash -

ioned all liv ing beings.

The Theory of Evolution: The Most Potent Spellin the World Anyone free of prej u dice and the influ ence of any

par tic u lar ide ol o gy, who uses only his or her rea son and

logic, will clear ly under stand that belief in the the o ry of

evo lu tion, which brings to mind the super sti tions of

soci e ties with no knowl edge of sci ence or civ il i za tion,

is quite impos si ble.

As explained above, those who believe in the the o -

ry of evo lu tion think that a few atoms and mol e cu les

thrown into a huge vat could pro duce think ing, rea son -

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ing pro fes sors and uni ver si ty stu dents; such sci en tists

as Einstein and Galileo; such art ists as Humphrey

Bogart, Frank Sinatra and Luciano Pavarotti; as well as

ante lopes, lemon trees, and car na tions. Moreover, as

the sci en tists and pro fes sors who believe in this non -

sense are edu cat ed peo ple, it is quite jus ti fi a ble to

speak of this the o ry as "the most potent spell in his to -

ry." Never before has any other belief or idea so taken

away peo ples' pow ers of rea son, refused to allow them

to think intel li gent ly and log i cal ly, and hid den the truth

from them as if they had been blind fold ed. This is an

even worse and unbe liev a ble blind ness than the totem

wor ship in some parts of Africa, the peo ple of Saba

wor ship ping the Sun, the tribe of Prophet Ibrahim (as)

wor ship ping idols they had made with their own hands,

or the peo ple of Prophet Musa (as) wor ship ping the

Golden Calf.

In fact, Allah has point ed to this lack of rea son in the

Qur'an. In many vers es, He reveals that some peo ples'

minds will be closed and that they will be pow er less to

see the truth. Some of these vers es are as fol lows:

As for those who do not believe, it makes no dif fer -

ence to them wheth er you warn them or do not warn

them, they will not believe. Allah has sealed up their

hearts and hear ing and over their eyes is a blind fold.

They will have a ter ri ble pun ish ment. (Surat al-

Baqara, 6-7)

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… They have hearts with which they do not under -

stand. They have eyes with which they do not see.

They have ears with which they do not hear. Such

peo ple are like cat tle. No, they are even fur ther

astray! They are the una ware. (Surat al-A‘raf, 179)

Even if We opened up to them a door into heav en,

and they spent the day ascend ing through it, they

would only say: "Our eye sight is befud dled! Or rath -

er we have been put under a spell!" (Surat al-Hijr, 14-

15)

Words can not express just how aston ish ing it is that

this spell should hold such a wide com mu ni ty in thrall,

keep peo ple from the truth, and not be bro ken for 150

years. It is under stand a ble that one or a few peo ple

might believe in impos si ble sce nar i os and claims full

of stu pid i ty and illog i cal i ty. However, "magic" is the

only pos si ble expla na tion for peo ple from all over the

world believ ing that uncon scious and life less atoms

sud den ly decid ed to come togeth er and form a uni verse

that func tions with a flaw less sys tem of organ i za tion,

dis ci pline, rea son, and con scious ness; a plan et named

Earth with all of its fea tures so per fect ly suit ed to life;

and liv ing things full of count less com plex sys tems.

In fact, the Qur'an relates the inci dent of Prophet

Musa (as) and Pharaoh to show that some peo ple who

sup port athe is tic phil os o phies actu al ly influ ence oth -

ers by magic. When Pharaoh was told about the true

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reli gion, he told Prophet Musa (as) to meet with his own

magi cians. When Musa (as) did so, he told them to dem -

on strate their abil i ties first. The vers es con tin ue:

He said: "You throw." And when they threw, they

cast a spell on the peo ple's eyes and caused them to

feel great fear of them. They pro duced an extreme -

ly pow er ful magic. (Surat al-A‘raf, 116)

As we have seen, Pharaoh's magi cians were able to

deceive every one, apart from Musa (as) and those who

believed in him. However, his evi dence broke the spell,

or "swal lowed up what they had forged," as the verse

puts it:

We revealed to Musa: "Throw down your staff." And

it imme di ate ly swal lowed up what they had forged.

So the Truth took place and what they did was shown

to be false. (Surat al-A‘raf, 117-8)

As we can see, when peo ple real ized that a spell had

been cast upon them and that what they saw was just

an illu sion, Pharaoh's magi cians lost all cred i bil i ty. In

the present day too, unless those who, under the influ -

ence of a sim i lar spell, believe in these ridic u lous claims

under their sci en tif ic dis guise and spend their lives

defend ing them, aban don their super sti tious beliefs,

they also will be humil i at ed when the full truth emer ges

and the spell is bro ken. In fact, world-renowned British

writer and phi los o pher Malcolm Muggeridge, who was

an athe ist defend ing evo lu tion for some 60 years, but

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who sub se quent ly real ized the truth, reveals the posi -

tion in which the the o ry of evo lu tion would find itself in

the near future in these terms:

I myself am con vinced that the the o ry of evo lu tion,

espe cial ly the extent to which it's been applied, will be

one of the great jokes in the his to ry books in the future.

Posterity will mar vel that so very flim sy and dubi ous an

hypoth e sis could be accept ed with the incred i ble cre -

du li ty that it has.20

That future is not far off: On the con tra ry, peo ple will

soon see that "chance" is not a deity, and will look back

on the the o ry of evo lu tion as the worst deceit and the

most ter ri ble spell in the world. That spell is already rap -

id ly begin ning to be lift ed from the shoul ders of peo ple

all over the world. Many peo ple who see its true face

are won der ing with amaze ment how they could ever

have been taken in by it.

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1936, 1953 (reprint), p. 196.

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Evolution of Early

Atmosphere and Life,"

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4. Stanley Miller, Molecular

Evolution of Life: Current

Status of the Prebiotic

Synthesis of Small

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5. Jeffrey Bada, Earth,

February 1998, p. 40.

6. Leslie E. Orgel, "The

Origin of Life on Earth,"

Scientific American, vol.

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7. Charles Darwin, The

Origin of Species by Means

of Natural Selection, The

Modern Library, New York,

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Origin of Species: A

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Origin of Species: A

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11. Derek A. Ager, "The

Nature of the Fossil

Record," Proceedings of the

British Geological

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12. Douglas J. Futuyma,

Science on Trial, Pantheon

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13. Solly Zuckerman,

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Beyond The Ivory Tower,

Toplinger Publications, New

York, 1970, 75-14; Charles

E. Oxnard, "The Place of

Australopithecines in

Human Evolution: Grounds

for Doubt", Nature, vol 258,

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14. "Could sci ence be

brought to an end by sci en -

tists' belief that they have

final answers or by soci e ty's

reluc tance to pay the bills?"

Scientific American,

December 1992, p. 20.

15. Alan Walker, Science,

vol. 207, 7 March 1980, p.

1103; A. J. Kelso, Physical

Antropology, 1st ed., J. B.

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Olduvai Gorge, vol. 3,

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272.

16. Jeffrey Kluger, "Not So

Extinct After All: The

Primitive Homo Erectus May

Have Survived Long Enough

To Coexist With Modern

Humans," Time, 23

December 1996.

17. S. J. Gould, Natural

History, vol. 85, 1976, p. 30.

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Beyond The Ivory Tower, p.

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19. Richard Lewontin, "The

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The New York Review of

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28.

20. Malcolm Muggeridge,

The End of Christendom,

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