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)

Is all this to happen before the return of Jesus.

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ye this is before jesus, all this will happen and then the anti-christ will come to ruin everythin thats when jesus will come bak out and kill the anti-christ (Dajjal), after this Isa (as) will truelly die.

PEACE!

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It is quite different in the Bible. this is the Bibles view rather quickly..

We are told that a world leader (Political and religious leader)will come and make peace instead of war between differenet nations...and everyone will live peaceful for 3 1/2 years...
In those 3 1/2 there will be no wars...Israel will be able to build their temple again in Jerusulam and continue their sin scarifices to God. And this man will seem the perfect person.

The Church (Christs body)=all born-again Christians will be raptured up into heaven during this time...they will not suffer the great tribualtion to come..
earthquakes, famine, disese, 1/3 of mankind dieing with nucular weapsons? peoples eyes will sink in and their skin fall off their bodies..

We are told then, that this same world leader will suddenly change because the next 3 1/2 years will be the great tribulation...Everyone will have to obey his rulings and laws, their will be no more religious freedom etc anywhere...Everyone must follow his religion all over the world if not they will be killed..they will not be able to buy or sell anything if they do not obey him.

But God tells us if the people left on earth do follow this mans way...they will not enter the Kingdom of God..

10 nations and this world leader will destroy Israel...then Jesus returns with his church (Saints) to earth, and locks Satan up for 1000years.



We undstand from the Bible no one will every die again in Gods Kingdom...including Jesus.

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im sry to say i dont kno or understand much about the bible (plz forgive). All i kno is that this earth was given as a test and like every other test at some point this test too will have to end. And then Allah will mark our test and judge us on our deeds... (scariest day, i shudder to think!!!!) and then he will send us to heaven or hell....

PEACE!

salam
jazakallah for posting, it was good to read that
wasalam

Thanks...I'm sorry to say I don't know that much about the Koran so I'm here to learn...our similaries and differences...
We don't believe it was given as a test...we believe Adam and Eve where our representives here on earth...and they blew it...
Since that time we needed away back to God so we could return back to him...sinless in his sight...He tells us many times, he will turn his face from us if we sin, so there is no point praying etc to him because he will ignore our prayers...

God ordered animal scarifices...so the Jewish did those once a year, and they will do them again...once their temple is re-built in Jerusalam...

But God tell us in the OT that still wasn't enough to pay for our sins.(the Blood of an unblemished animal)..

We understand because God is so Holy and pure he cannot abide the sight of sin and turns away from it...all sin..Jesus tells us if you commit one sin, we have committed all sins.

God choose blood to cover and pay for their sins..all through the OT. But His plan was to make an everlasting conevent..with us..so He turned his word into flesh which is Jesus...he then scarificed himself for us...
We has Chrisitans now believe we can now have communion again with God...like Adam and Eve did before they fell.

So for us it isn't really like a test...it's if we choose to live with our Holy Father God for eternity or die.

Going off topic about satan but-

I read that the Jews at first didn't believe in the devil. (I learned from a scholar from a religion class) There was nothing of it in the Torah at first I think. They said that all bad things that happened were the human's faults. Then when too many bad things were happening, they had to seek a higher power to blame. They took the idea of the devil from the Zoorastrians (sp?) The Zoorastrians believed in two gods, one dark and one good. Hence God and the devil became two opposing forces.

ok........that is a bit of Jewish history, don't know what to make of it.

I disagree

though we are tempted by Satan everyday, it is our choice at the end of the day whether to do right or wrong.

Can u quote for me where u have quoted all the things above pls.

I disagree. If blood sacrifices were so important, the Bible didn't record the first Man, Adam, as having offered one to God. So did Noah and some other Prophets. These are beloved by God but they are not required to do blood sacrifices. Sacrifices are made as act of worship. God tells us to sacrifice. It is a command. Obeying that command is obeying God, hence an act of worship to God. God Almighty is so Powerful that He can Forgive even the greatest sins provided that the servant sincerely repents to Him.

Furthermore, like in our previous discussions, they (the ancient Prophets and pious men) have not accepted Jesus as their Saviour or Son of God because if they did it would all have been recorded in the "Word of God".

Really? I am mildly interested in the idea of a Mahdi and the textual basis for that belief, but I have taken enough punishment in this thread for one day so I think I'll pass. But first, may I ask you to explain the difference in Islam between the two?

(And actually the Jewish Messiah is not Jesus and cannot be a figure like Jesus, but has to come to Earth to create a reign of Justice and Peace over the whole Earth. That sounds like the Muslim Mahdi to me but then I am not a Muslim).

Yupp. JESUS is the MESSIAH.

Al Mahdi is different person.