One must avoid suchheedlessness as saying, ''where is the antichrist?'' at a time when Muslims are being martyred all over the world, hundreds of thousand of people are living on the edge of starvation and funeral services are held for martyrs

Many of the hadiths of our Prophet (saas) refer to a period of the
movement of the antichrist prior to the Day of Reckoning, when
anarchy, disorder and oppression reign. Accounts also reveal thatthe
movement of the antichrist will be the worst corruption in the history
of the world, andour Prophet (saas) warnsof the threat of the movement
of the antichrist as follows:
"There has been no creation (creating more trouble) than the
antichrist, from the creation of Adam to the Last Hour. (Al-Barzanji,
Al-Isha'ah li-ashrat al-sa'ah, p. 225)
The appearance of the antichrist is described as one of the major
portents of the End Times in accounts from our Prophet (saas). The
antichrist will turn masses of people away from Allah and inflict
unhappiness and uneaseon them, and a loveless, insecure and oppressive
environment is described as one of the many portents heraldingthe
imminent end of the world. However, there will be good news
accompanying the emergence of the antichrist. That is that a great
spiritual power will appear in opposition to the antichrist, and it is
Hazrat Mahdi (as) who will save mankind from the devilish spirit of
the movement of the antichrist and will bring people back to the
radiance of Islam.
Hazrat Mahdi (as) whose coming before the Day of Reckoning is foretold
by our Prophet (saas) will be descended from him, and will be the
greatest ever mujaddid and mujtahid, the greatest ever commander, the
greatest kutb-u azam, the lord of time and a luminous individual whois
spiritual leader of the Islamic world. His physical features, moral
values, lineage, activitiesand the timing of his coming are all
described in detail in many trustworthy hadiths, andall Sunni scholars
are unanimously agreed on the reliability of those hadiths. The Sahih
al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, Sunan at-Tirmidhi, Sunan Abu Dawud, Sunan
Ibn Majah, Imam Rabbani, Suyuti, Bediuzzaman Said Nursi and many other
scholars have comprehensively set out in their works how the coming of
Hazrat Mahdi (as) is true and certain.
Indeed, as can be seen from the works of these Islamic scholars,
Hazrat Mahdi (as) will appear inHijri 1400, and there willbe hundreds
of signs of his holy coming. We are now in Hijri 1431, and more than
200 physical portents have come about just as described in the
hadiths. This once again shows we are in a very precious,
significantand radiant age.
Both the antichrist and Hazrat Mahdi (as) are at work, and a great
intellectual struggle has begun between truth and falsehood.
Therefore, people living at this time must decide which side of this
mentalstruggle to support. Being on the side of Hazrat Mahdi (as)
means to support the great intellectual struggle against the
antichrist in order to be one of the helpers and supporters of this
holy individual. And that is very easy. One can be a student,
forerunner and follower of Hazrat Mahdi (as) by telling people of the
evidence of the existence of Allah, spreading Qur'anic moral values,
announcing the glad tidings of the coming of Hazrat Mahdi (as) and
intellectually demolishing Darwinism, the supposed scientific
foundation for all destructive ideologies.
In addition, our Muslim brothers must not forgetthat to ignore the
systemof the movement of the antichrist means, to fail to comprehend
we are in the age of Hazrat Mahdi (as), to turn one's back on the
hundreds of signs of the Day of Reckoning that have taken place and to
remain silent in the face of persecution means to support the system
of the antichrist. There is no need to speak or act against religion
in order to support the antichrist.Silence in the face of his actions
also effectively means to support him, and that imposes a
hugeresponsibility on people.It is therefore terribly dangerous for
Muslims at such a time to adopt alogic that is incompatible with the
hadiths and verses by saying things like, "And where is the
antichrist? Why bother referring to the antichrist? Why concentrate so
much on the movement of the Mahdi?" Most important of all, that is
heedlessness one will be unable to explain away in the hereafter.
The movement of the antichrist has now inflicted a worse corruption
than has everbeen seen before on all societies. The antichrist has
made people captive, wreaked an economic crisis on them and made them
unable to leave their homes, trust their friends, live inpeace or even
breathe. The system of the antichrist is killing mothers, fathers,
children and loved ones, it is tearing families apart, impoverishing
them, taking away their honor and character andcondemning them to
livealone and unhappy, deprived of love and respect. But some
peopleliving in the midst of these scourges still behave as if there
were no movement of the antichrist, no such affliction, and reject the
urgent need for the movement of the Mahdi.
What all our Muslim brothers must see is this:by his actions, the
antichrist has flooded the world with blood, and is still doing so.
People who say "The antichrist will not come at this time" or "The
coming of Hazrat Mahdi (as) is hundreds of years off" should look at
the state of the world from amore honest perspective.
The oppression and persecution China has been inflicting on East
Turkestan for the last 60 years is still going on. In East Turkestan,
where 36million Uighur Muslims have been subjected to genocide over
the last 60 years, 796 MUSLIMS WERE SENTENCED TO DEATH AND MARTYRED IN
JUST ONE MONTH LAST YEAR, 10,000 MUSLIMS DISAPPEARED OVERNIGHT AND
100,000 OF OUR UIGHUR SISTERS WERE FORCIBLY TAKEN AWAY FROM THEIR
HOMES. Thesesisters of ours are forcedinto illicit relation under
threat of death. The fate of 10,000 Muslims who disappeared in one
night is still unknown. The streets of Sinjan were filled with bodies.
Uighur Turks have been forced to migrate. The dead bodies of the 156
Uighur Turks killed in the events in Urumchi, the majority of whom
were killed by a single bullet from the security forces, were laid out
on the ground. Uighur Turks are chased out of mosques with sticks and
forbidden to recite prayers.
Muslims are bombed as they pray in mosques in Nepal. Houses,
businesses, associations and mosques belonging to Nepalese Muslims are
set on fire. In Afghanistan, 1,013 civilians were killed in six
months. Muslims in Palestine are literally prisoners in their own
motherland and live under the threat of martyrdom every day. Hundreds
of civilians were recently killed in Chechnya and thousandsmore forced
to abandon their homes. According to the latest research in Iraq,
uranium has been used with no allowance made for the civilian
population. Incidences of cancer have risen by four times in Fallujah,
12times in the under 14 age group, cases of leukemia have risen by 38
times and a significant rise in brain tumors has also begun inadults.
There was a 17-fold increase in cases of leukemia after Hiroshima, but
a 38-fold rise in Fallujah. Never a day goes by without bombs
exploding in Pakistan. Bombs rock Peshawar and Lahore just about every
day.
Somalia is on the brink of starvation, and it has been stated that one
in four children under five go to bed hungry. It has been calculated
that 1 million people are on the verge of starvation. Young girls are
raped by the Buddhist Thai army in Pathani, scholars are murdered and
mosques burned. Muslim blood is shed every day in Pathani.
Everyone in this time clearly sees and experiences the oppression of
the movement of the antichrist. The antichrist reveals himself through
clashes on the streets and brother killing brother. The burial of the
bodies of martyrs on a daily basis in different parts of Turkey is the
antichrist's way of saying, "I am here."
Those who say, "Where is the antichrist?" or "I cannot see the
antichrist" should look at what is going on in Fallujah, Afghanistan,
Palestine, East Turkestan,Sudan or Nepal. That is where they will find
the answer to the question, "Where is the antichrist?" The antichrist
is in America, Afghanistan, Iraq, Nepal, East Turkestan, and Kashmir
and all over the world. He is continuing to kill people and shed their
blood with all his might.
The antichrist has revealed himself, in all his satanic aspects. But
even though the antichrist shows himself everywhere, some people still
expect him tohave the word "antichrist" written on his forehead, to be
a monstrous creature withhorns on his head, and are gravely mistaken
when they say, "I will not believe in the movement of the antichrist
until I see suchan entity." The antichristhas now unsheathed his claws
and is slashing with that at Muslims and people all over the world.
In his works, the great Islamic scholar Bediüzzaman Said Nursi said
that the antichrist, the worst corruption of the End Times, would
spread evil by encouraging Darwinist and materialist movements, and
warnedMuslims on the subject:
A tyrannical current bornof naturalist and materialist philosophy will
gradually become strong and spread at theend of time by means of
materialist philosophy, reaching such a degree that it denies Allah.
... And the greatest of them, the antichrist, who will come to lead
them, will manifest awesome wonders, a sort of spiritualism and
hypnosis; he will go even further, and imagining his
tyrannical,superficial rule to be a sort of dominicality, he will
proclaim his godhead [surely Allah is beyond that]. (Bediuzzaman Said
Nursi, Letters, Fifteenth Letter)
But despite all these facts, one can almost count the number of people
in the world of 7 billion people who espouse the moral values of the
Qur'an, the delights of Islam and themovement of the Mahdi on the
fingers of one hand. Most people ignore all the corruptionand disorder
in the world, while others are solely concerned with maintaining their
own interests.
But like all things, of course, this is also part of Allah's destiny.
Allah has charged Hazrat Mahdi (as) with demolishing the system of the
antichrist, leadingpeople to peace and security and to causing the
warmth, love and trustworthiness of Islamic moral values to rule the
world. Indeed, itis a miracle from Allah that even though it is quite
easy to wage an intellectual struggle against the movement ofthe
antichrist most people make no effort on the subject. The majority of
religious scholars avoid the issue and never mention this, the worst
corruption of the End Times. Not to mention the name of theantichrist
or to say that he will be coming only very much later, when Muslims
are being martyred en masse all over the world, is equivalent to not
imparting the glad newsof the coming of Hazrat Mahdi (as). So much so
that to date almost nobody has criticized or struggled against the
movement of the antichrist.
Yet Hazrat Mahdi's (as) victory is certain in destiny, By Allah's
leave, the antichrist will be defeated in his war aimed at turning
people from religious moral values. Muslims who wish to support Hazrat
Mahdi (as) and his followers, the people of Allah, in their honorable
victory must oppose Darwinism, materialism and irreligion with all
their might, using knowledge, art, science and culture, in the
awareness we are living in the End Times.
It is of the greatest importance and urgencyfor our Muslim brothers to
tell people of the proofs of the existence of Allah, to spread the
scientific evidence that Darwinism is a fraud, to impart the glad
tidings of Hazrat Mahdi (as) and strive for the immediate
establishment of Turkish-Islamic Union in order to overcome the
movement of the antichrist.
There is no doubt that the Golden Age that will take place in the End
Times is drawing closer every day, Very soon, insha'Allah, everyone
will attain a world in which people fully live by love, compassion and
affection, in which abundance, wealth, well-being and peace prevail,
and in which wesee the highest levels of art and beauty. Women,
children and the elderly will be able to move around safely, and
everywhere there will be a climate of joy, vivacity and friendship.
Our Prophet (saas) tells us of this happy and enlightened time in a
hadith:
"...At a time when the world will be in harj u marj, corruption will
appear, people will be attacked, the old will nothave mercy on the
young, and the young will not show respect to the old, Allah will send
someone [Hazrat Mahdi (as)] to eradicate hostility, conquer the
castles of perversion, uphold faith in the End Times just as I upheld
it formerly; someone who will fill this Earth with justice where
violence prevailed before. (Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi Alamat
al-Mahdi Akhir az-Zaman, p. 12)