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Status: Offline Posts: 616 Join Date: Jan 2006 Gender:  Way of Life: Muslim |  The Golden Age -
03-28-2006
 During the terrible chaos of the final times, Allah will use a servant having superior morality known as the Mahdi (the guide to the truth), to invite humanity back to the right path.
The Mahdi's first task will be to wage a war of ideas within the Islamic world and to turn those Muslims who have moved away from Islam's true essence back to true belief and
morality. At this point, the Mahdi has three basic tasks:
1. Tearing down all philosophical systems that deny Allah's Existence and support atheism.
2. Fighting superstition by freeing Islam from the yoke of those hypocritical individuals who have corrupted it, and then revealing and implementing true Islamic morality based on the rules of the Qur'an.
3. Strengthening the entire Islamic world, both politically and socially, and then bringing about peace, security and well-being in addition to solving societal problems.
Many hadiths indicate the existence of a period when the Qur'an's values will pervade Earth. This period, known as the Golden Age, will last for more than half a century and, in many ways, will resemble 'the Blessed Period' of our Prophet (saas).
According to one hadith, people will be so content that they will spend their days with no idea as to how time passes and how one day turns into the next. They will pray to Allah to prolong their lives in order to receive more benefits from these graces. Another Prophetic hadith states
that;
'The younger ones wish they were grown-ups, while the adults wish they were younger.... The good become even more good, and even the wicked ones are treated well.' (Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir al-zaman, p. 59)
Many hadiths reveal that there will be an unprecedented abundance of crops and goods, all of which will be distributed without measure:
'During this (period), my ummah (people) will lead a kind of
comfortable and carefree life that they have never known before.(The land) will bring forth its yield and will not hold anything back... (Ibn Majah)
'In the last of times there will be a khalifa who will distribute wealth without even counting it.' (Muslim)
'The inhabitants of the heavens and the inhabitants of the earth will be pleased with him and such plants will be produced by the earth that the living will wish the dead could come back to life.'(At-Tabarani and Abu Nu'aym)
'The land will turn like the silver tray growing vegetation... (Ibn Majah)
#Also Technological developments will provide abundance in the Golden Age
#The high cost of living and poverty will end:
'A time will come when a person, with his golden alms in his hand, will go around, finding no one (in need) who is willing to receive the alms.' (Mukhtasar Tazkirah Qurtubi)
'Then will my Ummah be blessed, the number of animals will increase and the land will bear its fruits.' (Ibn Hajar al-Haythami, Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar fi `Alamat al-Mahdi al-Muntazar, p. 26)
'Definitely possessions will be in abundance then, flowing like water. Yet no one will (condescend) to take any.' (Mukhtasar Tazkirah Qurtubi)
#Religion will be restored to its original state:
In the Golden Age, all heretical misunderstandings that entered Islam after the Prophet Muhammad(saas) will be eliminated, and the original religion will be restored. Just as in the case of the Prophet, the requirements of the religion will be fulfilled.
After the death of our Prophet (saas) and his Companions, history records that unrelated heresies and forms of worship were introduced into the original religion, and that countless hadiths and judgments, most of which have survived to our day, were fabricated and attributed to our Prophet (saas). Despite the best efforts of true Muslims to eliminate these fabrications, many practices done in the name of Islam today are not based upon the Qur'an.
As the Qur'an is the only source that can distinguish between the correct and mistaken practices, only its guidance can expose and remove these fabricated heresies. This way, the true religion will resurface.
In the End Times, Allah will restore the religion to its original state and make the Qur'an's morality prevail. When this time comes, He will remove all deviations that hinder people from living by His religion, and will purify Islam from all heresies, false beliefs, and forms of worship.
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They have sworn by Allah with their most earnest oaths that if a Sign comes to them they will believe in it. Say: 'The Signs are in Allah's control alone.' What will make you realise that even if a Sign did come, they would still not believe? (Surat al-An'am: 109) 
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