2c] The error of the collective personality concerning the Prophet Jesus (as) and Hazrat Mahdi (as)-2-

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It is otherwise impossible for him to have a community without his
being an individual.
2- This community of Hazrat Mahdi (as) will form one century after
Bediuzzaman's own time, and all oppression will be eliminated by means
of that community. As has already been made clear, the existence of
these students is only possible with Hazrat Mahdi (as) existing as a
person.
15) ... We anticipate from the divine mercy that HIS community andthe
sayyid will make thecommunity.
16) The Mahdi's luminous community...
... His community...
... Mahdi's luminous community...
In the above two extracts,states that there will be a community
consisting of Hazrat Mahdi's (as) students. This communityis the
collective personality that will form Hazrat Mahdi (as) being atits
head. "The community of Hazrat Mahdi (as)" refers to a society headed
by Hazrat Mahdi (as) and made up of people who follow him and abide by
his message. However, the most important feature of this communityis
the presence of Hazrat Mahdi (as), the person who constitutes this
collective personality. Therefore, Bediuzzaman's concept of "Hazrat
Mahdi's(as) luminous community"again shows that Hazrat Mahdi (as) will
come as a person.
Bediuzzaman has made it clear in the passages about the duties of
HazratMahdi (as) that he is a person and not a collective personality.
17) Also, the circumstances of the Great Mahdi do not fit the
narrations alluding to the earlier Mahdis, and these have become
allegorical Hadiths.
18) ... a guide, a kind of Mahdi and reformer comes in every century,
but in terms of discharging each of these three duties, nonehave
received the title of THE GREAT MAHDI OF THE END TIMES.
19) ...one interpretation of these various narrations is this: the
Great Mahdi will have numerous functions. He will carry out duties in
the world of politics, theworld of religion, the world of government,
and in the many spheres of the world of jihad...
In these three passage, Bediuzzaman states that various Muslim
individualshave come in previous centuries for the purpose of causing
the moral values of the Qur'an to rule the world, but that none of
these have been able to perform the three major tasks that the "Great
Mahdi (as)" who comes in the End Times will perform. It is apparent
from these statements by Bediuzzaman that Hazrat Mahdi (as) he refers
to is aperson:
1- Bediuzzaman has set out the difference between the Great Mahdi
(as) and previous Mahdis, all of whom have been individual people.
This means that the Great Mahdi (as) is also a person.
2- These previous individuals have been unable to perform the tasks
set out. But the Great Mahdi (as) will perform them. This also means
that the Great Mahdi (as) is a person.
3- These previous individuals do not match the features used by the
Prophet (saas) in his hadith describing Hazrat Mahdi (as). But the
Great Mahdi (as) will meet them. It is a fact known toall Islamic
scholars for hundreds of years that Hazrat Mahdi (as) whose physical
and moral characteristics are described in the hadith is a person, not
a collective personality. Therefore, in this passage Bediuzzamanagain
reminds us that Hazrat Mahdi (as) is a person who will match the
descriptions in the hadith of our Prophet (saas).
All the statements of Bediuzzaman cited above reveal with clear,
indubitable statements that the Prophet Jesus (as)and Hazrat Mahdi
(as) will appear in the End Times as individuals. By Allah's leave,
the Prophet Jesus (as) and Hazrat Mahdi (as) will appear in the End
Times together with the collective personality of the communities of
believers they lead and beinstrumental in the installment of the moral
values of the Qur'an over the entire world.
THE ERROR OF THE COLLECTIVE PERSONALITYCONCERNING THE PROPHET JESUS
(as) AND HAZRAT MAHDI (AS)/