the history of Islam, people are being mass-conditioned to think that ''The Prophet Jesus (as) willnot return, and Hazrat Mahdi (as) will not come.''

and Hazrat Mahdi (as) are two of the most valuable individuals
foretold by our Prophet (saas) and whose appearance has been excitedly
awaited for some 1400 years. However, for the first time in those 1400
years some people are now striving, in their own eyes, to cover up
these glad tidings and conditioning masses to think that "The Prophet
Jesus (as) will not return and Hazrat Mahdi (as) will not come." These
people make intensive use of such tools of mass communication as the
radio, television, the internet, newspapers and magazines and are
trying to influence both Muslims and the majorityof the world
population.Muslims must therefore neutralize this mass conditioning by
constantly remembering Allah, constantly recalling that we are living
in the End Times, telling others that the Prophet Jesus (as) and
Hazrat Mahdi (as) are at work and striving for the unification of the
Islamic world and the global dominion of Islamic moral values.
The antichrist would be striving in a thousand and one different ways
to conceal and distract people from the system of the Mahdi. It
therefore causes a great many people to turn their backs on it by
causing some people to deny the system of the Mahdi entirely; by
making others talk about the system of the Mahdi as if it is something
totally unbelievable; by ensuring that some never speak about it at
all; by making it seem like it would take place hundreds of years
later; by causing some people to think that the Mahdi is a "collective
personality" and finally by convincing other people to believe in the
lie that "the Mahdi has already come and gone,"which is far from the
reality. It distracts many people with unimaginable quibbles and
tales they would never attach any credence to under normal
circumstances so they are unable to recognize even the existence of
Hazrat Mahdi (as).
One of the dictionary definitions of the word "antichrist " is someone
who subverts the truth, portraying good as evil and evil as good. The
antichrist, who wants to see people come to physical and spiritual
harm and aims to spreadstrife and corruption, will cover up everything
that is fine and good, conceal the facts and thus try to prevent
people discovering the truth. The greatest and most excellent reality
of the End Times is that we are living in the age of the Prophet Jesus
(as) and Hazrat Mahdi (as). The antichrist will therefore work mostly
on that subject. The antichrist and his supporters will strive by a
thousand and one means to conceal and gloss over the coming of the
Prophet Jesus (as) and the system of the Mahdi and, in their own eyes,
to deflect these subject matters. Almighty Allah tells us in the
Qur'an that those with a sickness in their hearts will say, 'What
Allah and His Messenger promise us was mere delusion.'
When the hypocrites andpeople with sickness in their hearts said,
'What Allah and His Messenger promised us was mere delusion.' (Surat
al-Ahzab, 12)
Figuratively, this verse also alludes to the situation of those
peoplewho lose hope in the coming of the Prophet Jesus (as) and Hazrat
Mahdi (as). That is because under the influence of the antichrist,
these people deny 'the coming of the Prophet Jesus (as) and Hazrat
Mahdi (as), as our Prophet (saas) reveals in the hadiths, and maintain
that our Prophet's (saas) words on the subject are "unfounded."
Today articles, which state that the Prophet Jesus (as) and Hazrat
Mahdi (as) will not come,appear in many places. More importantly, some
people regarded as Islamic scholars issue statements agreeing with
this view, as well. The fact is, however, all these people believing
that "the coming of the Prophet Jesus (as) and Hazrat Mahdi (as) is
untrue" and supposedly an "empty promise" is actually one of the
phenomena that our Prophet (saas) has promised will take place.It is
revealed in the hadiths of our Prophet (saas) that one of the signs of
the End Times showing that the coming of the Prophet Jesus (as) and
Hazrat Mahdi (as) is imminent isfor people to increasingly say,
"Hazrat Mahdi (as) will not come,there is no Hazrat Mahdi (as)". Some
of the hadiths relating this are as below:
"ALLAH WILL SEND HAZRATMAHDI (AS) when people are in despair and say,
"THERE IS NO MAHDI" … (al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi Alamat
al-Mahdi Akhir al-Zaman,p. 55)
HE (HAZRAT MAHDI (AS)) WILL APPEAR AT THE MOMENT THE PEOPLE LOSE HOPE
OF HIS COMING! Howhappy those who live to help him will be! Woe to
those who harbor enmity toward him (Hazrat Mahdi (as)), who oppose him
or his commands and to his enemies! (Sheikh Muhammad ibn Ibrahim
Numani, al-Ghaybah al-Numani, p. 301)
Dawud ibn Kathir Riqqi says: I asked Imam Abu Abdullah: ...He [Hazrat
Mahdi) (as)] is long in coming, our hearts are saddened and we are
dying from a profound sorrow. He said: "HIS COMING WILL TAKE PLACE
WHEN THERE IS EVEN GREATER DESPAIR AND SORROW." (Sheikh Muhammad ibn
Ibrahim Numani, al-Ghaybah al-Numani, p. 208)
Bediuzzaman Said Nursi also reveals that Hazrat Mahdi (as) will only
be recognized through the light of faith and that only a few people
will thus recognize and take their places beside him:
The force and spiritual army this duty depends on is some followers in
full possession of titles ofloyalty and solidarity. Nomatter how few
they may be, they are spiritually as powerful and valuable as an
army.That abundant and capable army is the family of the Messenger of
Allah (saas) and a verypure army of Hazrat Mahdi (as). (Emirdag
Addendum, p. 259).
Imam Zayn al-Abidin (as)stated:
"There are some similarities between our Qaim [Hazrat Mahdi (as)] and
Allah's Messengers. He has similarities to each one of the
ProphetsNoah (as), Abraham (as), Moses (as), Jesus (as), Job(as) and
Muhammad (saas) .... to Jesus (as) in people being in conflict about
him (some people will say Hazrat Mahdi (as) will come while others
will say he will not) (Sheikh al-Saduq, Kamal al-Din, p. 322, Section
31, Hadith number 3)
All the efforts made to conceal the return of theProphet Jesus (as)
and the coming of Hazrat Mahdi (as) are in vain. These two holy events
are Allah's promise and will come about. This period, in which the
portents of the End Times have taken place one after the other, shows
that the second coming of the Prophet Jesus (as) and the emergence of
Hazrat Mahdi (as) are imminent.By Allah's leave, these two holy
individuals will appear exactly as described in the hadiths of our
Prophet (saas) and install the moral values of Islam across the world.
Many people have fallen into a variety of errors on the subject of the
coming and existence of Hazrat Mahdi (as). Some of these are as
follows:
Even Though All the Portents Have Come about, Why Is It That Some
People Still Deny That the Prophet Jesus (as) and Hazrat Mahdi (as)
Will Come As Individuals?
It is a great miracle for Hazrat Mahdi (as) to remain unknown despite
all the portents of his coming having taken place and these signs
being so clear and so explicit. However, a veil has come down overmost
people's eyes and they are unable to recognize Hazrat Mahdi (as)
despite all these evident facts. This showsthe severity of the End
Times, and how much foresight has disappeared, and the kind of thought
structure that people now possess. However, by Allah's leave, the
whole world will eventually see that the Prophet Jesus (as) and Hazrat
Mahdi (as) are both individual people and will wage their intellectual
struggle in this century.
By how many means is the coming of Hazrat Mahdi (as) concealed?
The claims of those who try to conceal the coming of the Hazrat Mahdi (as) are:
1. Hazrat Mahdi (as) has come and gone. He appeared in the past.
2. Hazrat Mahdi (as) is a collective personality, in other words, an
invisiblespirit. And there is therefore no point in waiting for him to
appear as an individual.
3. Hazrat Mahdi (as) will come, but in many centuries' time.
4. Hazrat Mahdi (as) will be a regular human being. Hazrat Mahdi (as)
will be an ordinary political leader who will not perform the second
and third of the tasks that Bediuzzaman described in his works inthe
words "Hazrat Mahdi(as) has three duties," who will not wage an
intellectual struggle against materialist, Darwinist and atheist
philosophies and who will not tell people of the signs leading to
faith. He will be an ordinary political leader who will merely read
theRisale-i Nur Collection, and therefore will not be a spectacular
personality.
5. There is no such person as Hazrat Mahdi (as) and he will never come.
6. Hazrat Mahdi (as) may come but it is wrong to investigate these
matters. Hazrat Mahdi (as) must find us busy working when he comes, so
there is no need to investigate him. If he comes, he comes, and if
not, then he does not.
7. There will be an Angel over his head telling people, "This is
Hazrat Mahdi (as), follow him," and he should be immune to tanks and
guns. Someone lacking these attributes cannot be Hazrat Mahdi (as).
8. Many Mahdis will comein the End Times. Three, five or ten Mahdis
may come. They will all work silently and discharge the duties of the
Mahdi and then die, so very few people will be aware of this fact.
Trying to confuse, complicate and cover up this issue, which the
Messenger of Allah (saas)sets out so clearly in trustworthy hadiths
and which Bediuzzaman SaidNursi describes so clearlyand explicitly, is
one of the peculiar characteristics of the EndTimes.
Hundreds of millions of people have fallen into the errors concerning
the existence and coming of Hazrat Mahdi (as) listed above. In the
beginning there will be very few who think that Hazrat Mahdi (as) will
come in this century. Thereason for this is the misconceptions we have
listed above. Some people would really not understand the existence of
Hazrat Mahdi (as), and some will pretend not to understand because of
their evil aims and this will continue to be like that until the
emergenceof Hazrat Mahdi (as).
It is a great miracle for Hazrat Mahdi (as) to remain unknown despite
all the portents of his coming having taken place and these signs
being so clear and so explicit. However, a veil has come down overmost
people's eyes and they are unable to recognize Hazrat Mahdi (as)
despite all these evident facts. This showsthe severity of the End
Times, and how much foresight and perspicacity have disappeared, and
the kind of thought structure that people now possess.
Some of the Verses of the Qur'an Indicating theComing of the Prophet
Jesus (as) and Hazrat Mahdi (as) and the Global Dominion of the Moral
Values of Islam
And other things you love: SUPPORT FROM ALLAH AND IMMINENT VICTORY.
Give good newsto the believers! (Surat As-Saff, 13)
We wrote down in the Psalms, after the Reminder came: 'It is My
servants who are righteous who will inherit the earth.' (Surat
Al-Anbiya, 105)
Allah has promised thoseof you who believe and do right actions that
HE WILL MAKE THEM SUCCESSORS IN THE LAND as He made those beforethem
successors, and willfirmly establish for them their religion with
which He is pleased and give them, in place of their fear, security.
'Theyworship Me, not associating anything with Me.' Any who are
unbelievers after that, such people are deviators. (Surat An-Nur, 55)
Our word was given before to Our servants, the messengers, that they
would certainly be helped. It is Our army which will be victorious.
(Surat as-Saffat, 171-173)
Allah has written, "I will be victorious, I and and My Messengers."
Allah is Most Strong, Almighty. (Surat al-Mujadala: 21)
It is He Who sent His messenger with the Guidance and the Religion of
Truth to exaltit over every other religion and Allah suffices as a
witness. (Surat al-Fath, 28)
It is He Who sent His messenger with guidance and the Religion of
Truth to exaltit over every other religion, even though the idolaters
detest it. (Surat at-Tawba, 33)
Then We appointed you after them to be successors on the earth so We
might observe how you would act. (Surah Yunus, 14)
And We bequeathed to the people who had been oppressed the easternmost
part of the land We had blessed, and its westernmost partas well.
(Sura al-Ar'af, 137)
They desire to extinguish Allah's light with their mouths but Allah
will perfect His light, though the unbelievers hate it. (Surat
as-Saff, 8)
He bequeathed their land, their houses and their wealth to you, and
another land you had not yet trodden on. Allahhas power over all
things. (Surat al-Ahzab, 27)
Those who, if We establish them firmly on the earth, will establish
prayer and pay alms, and command what is right and forbid what is
wrong. The end result ofall affairs is with Allah. (Surat al-Hajj, 41)
It is assumed that Islam is not spreading in the world because the
Qur'an and the hadith are not being told. However for attaining true
devotion to religion, signs leading tofaith should be told and false
idols should be destroyed.
Excerpt from Mr. Adnan Oktar's interview on Kaçkar TV on 5 September, 2010
The Prophet Jesus (as) and Hazrat Mahdi (as) Will Come in This Century
However by the leave of Allah the whole world will come to realize in
the near future that the Prophet Jesus (as) and Hazrat Mahdi (as), in
fact, will wage an intellectual struggle in this century.
Great and entirely reliable Sunni scholars have made it clear in their
works, such as the Sunan Abu Dawud and the Maktubat of Imam Rabbani,
that an individual is sent by Allah once every hundred years in order
to revive the religion and rid it of later additions:
According to Abu Hurairah's account, the Messenger of Allah
(saas)said: Allah will raise for this community AT THE BEGINNING OF
EVERY HUNDRED YEARS the one who will revive its religion for it.
(Sunan Abu Dawud 5/100)
One hadith revealing that Hazrat Mahdi (as) will come in Hijri 1400
has come down from our Prophet (saas) as follows:
People will gather around Hazrat Mahdi (as) in the year 1400. (Risalat
al-Khuruj al-Mahdi, p. 108)
The moral values of Islam will rule the world in a specific process
during this hundred years and the system of the antichrist that
opposes the moral values of the religion will be entirely eradicated.
However, following this period of rising which will last 100or so
years, the world will again enter a periodof degeneration in the Hijri
1500s.
According to a hadith narrated by many scholars, including ImamAhmad
ibn Hanbal, the great hadith scholar andfounder of the Hanbali school,
the Prophet (saas) refers to the beginning of a certain calendar,
saying, the time that had passed in the world up until him was 5600
years:
Ahmad Ibn Hanbal transmitted in his 'Ilal: FIVE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED
YEARS HAVE PASSED FROM THIS WORLD. (Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi
Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir az-Zaman, p. 89)
On the other hand, otherhadiths contain explicit references to the
life span of the world being 7000 years:
Anas Ibn Malik narrates that the Messenger of Allah (saas) said: THE
LIFE SPAN OF THE WORLD IS SEVEN DAYS IN THE DAYS OF THE HEREAFTER.
Almighty Allah has said: ONE DAY IN THE SIGHT OF YOUR LORD IS LIKE A
THOUSAND OF YOUR YEARS. ALLAH WILL ASCRIBE THE EQUIVALENT OF GOOD
DEEDS OF THE SEVEN THOUSAND YEARS OF THE AGE OF THIS WORLD to the one
who meets the need of any ofhis brothers in the faith on the path of
Allah as if he spends his days in fasting and his nights in worship.
(Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir az-Zaman, p.
88)
Narrated from Daqqaq Ibn Zaid Al-Juhani: I told the Messenger of Allah
(saas) of a dream I had had. In that dream the Messenger of Allah
(saas)was at the top step of a seven-stepped pulpit. Hesaid: THE
SEVEN-STEPPED PULPIT YOU SEE IS THE SEVEN THOUSAND YEARS OF AGE OF
THIS WORLD. (Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir
az-Zaman, p. 89)
Said Nursi, the mujaddidof the Hijri 1300s and the greatest one of the
last millennium, cited the Hijri 1400s as the period of dominion of
Islamic moral values. He stated that Muslims would enjoy a time of
clear and explicit victory up until then. He said that in the years
after that, the rise of the moral values of Islam would come to an end
and that the Last Day would break for the unbelievers in the Hijri
year 1545. (Allah knows the truth.)
"A group from my community will remain in truth until Allah's command
[the JudgmentDay]."
The abjad calculation of the clause "A group frommy community..."
which is 1542 (2117) implies its [the community's] time of survival.
The abjad calculation of the clause "will remain in truth" (when the
gemination mark is counted) gives 1506 (2082); it indicates until that
date it will continue its work of enlightenment evidentlyand
obviously, and maybe victoriously; then until 1542 (2117) in secrecy
and defeat. The abjad calculation of the clause "until Allah's
command" (when the gemination mark is counted) suggests that THE
JUDGMENT DAY WILL BEFALL the unbeliever in 1545 (2120). (Kastamonu
Addendum, p. 33)
The great Sunni scholar Barzanji also states that the life of the
world will not reach Hijri 1600, in other words, that the Day of
Judgment will come in the Hijri 1500s. (Allah knows the truth.)
THE LIFE OF THIS COMMUNITY WILL EXCEED 1000 YEARS, YET BE LIMITED TO
1500 YEARS... (Al-Barzanji, Al-Isha'ah li-ashrat al-sa'ah, p. 299)
As-Suyuti's statement made on the basis of thehadith handed down from
our Prophet (saas) is as follows:
THE LIFE OF MY COMMUNITY WILL NOT EXCEED 1500 YEARS. (As-Suyuti,
Al-Kashf 'an Mujawazat Hazihi al-Ummah al-Alf; As-Suyuti, Al-Hawi
Lil-Fatawi, 2/248; Tafsir Ruh al-Bayan. Burusawi 4/262; Ahmad ibn
Hanbal, Kitab al-`Ilal, p. 89)
As can be seen from the hadiths of our Prophet (saas) and from
statements by great Islamic scholars, the Hijri 1400s we are living in
are the age of the appearance of Hazrat Mahdi (as). The Prophet Jesus
(as) will return to Earth in this century, Hazrat Mahdi (as) will
appear and, by Allah's leave, Islam will rule the world.
Statements on the subject by Mr. Adnan Oktar
"The hypnosis of the system of the antichrist also represents a veil
for the system of the Mahdi. Hazrat Mahdi (as) makes progress by means
of this hypnosis. Those whopierce that hypnosis immediately see the
truth."
"That spell casted by the antichrist is currently partially broken by
the light of the system of theMahdi. But not completely. Hazrat
Mahdi(as) is advancing by breaking that spell and hypnosis. The
luminosity in Hazrat Mahdi (as) burns it up. In other words, Hazrat
Mahdi (as)is the anti-dajjal, the anti-satan. Satan burns in the
presence of HazratMahdi (as) and cannot withstand him. The antichrist
also burns. OurProphet (saas) says, "I would immediately eliminate him
if it were my own day. But he will come in the future." In other
words, he will burn it with his radianceand luminosity. It can have no
effect. But Almighty Allah does not totally do away with that
hypnosis, so that it can act as a foundation for Hazrat Mahdi (as).
Because the system of the Mahdi is advancing within it. At the same
time, it is also a veil for the system of the Mahdi. I mean, the
presence of Hazrat Mahdi (as) is not felt under this hypnosis and it
thus develops. "Hewill be known through the light of faith," says
Bediuzzaman. Muslims are unaware of him because of that hypnosis, the
hypnosis caused by the antichrist .But those who pierce that hypnosis
see Hazrat Mahdi (as) perfectly clearly. They immediately
understand.They say "It is very explicit, Allah knows the truth". They
feel him, in other words. That is what Bediuzzaman means by "the light
of faith." Faith has an illuminating and burning effect. It
piercesspells and hypnosis. It is something that burns and crushes the
satan and demolishes his influence. A believer's eyes destroy them
when he looks through insight. Hazrat Mahdi (as) eyes, for instance,
will burn satan. His glance burns. He burns wherever he looks. That is
one of his attributes. That is why satan avoids him and the people
around him. If he approached, he would burn, insha'Allah. See that
Bediüzzaman says;"through the light of faith" the Prophet Jesus (as)
will also be recognized by "his close followers and disciples". In
other words, "his elect, faithful followers will recognize him through
the light of faith." By that, the spells and hypnosis would be removed
from them. (From Mr. Adnan Oktar's interview on Kanal Avrupa and Çay
TV on 3 October, 2010)
"Let us pray for the hypnosis of the antichrist to be broken. Prayer
is the best thing against this hypnosis. The spell of the antichrist
is being partially broken by the luminosity of the system of the
Mahdi."
Let us pray against this hypnosis, let all Muslims pray for the
hypnosis to be broken. Prayer is the best thing against the hypnosis
of the antichrist. Because the antichrist obtains that bybegging it
from satan, by summoning him. This system, the system of
theantichrist, is in its own chain of command at themoment. And it has
hypnotized innocent Muslims. People feel a heaviness in their
brains.They should be feeling itas a peculiar idol. Almosteveryone
feels it, in other words. But they will suddenly awake. In the time of
the Prophet Jesus (as) and Hazrat Mahdi (as), they will enter in a
state of perfect clarity as if they were awaking from a sleep. When
they come out of that hypnosis theywill say, "It is obvious. That is
what Bediuzzaman meant. Hazrat Mahdi (as) will come. It is explicitly
stated that he will come as an individual." They will understand then.
They will clearly understand the hadiths of our Prophet (saas) at that
time. (From Mr. Adnan Oktar's interview on Kanal Avrupa and Çay