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THE PEACEMAKER OF THE WORLD
All men await the one true Peacemaker who will fill the world with justice and peace. Today, humanity is going towards preparing the ground work for the advent of the coming of the Peacemaker. Indeed, perhaps one of the most important signs of His coming is the hatred men feel towards war and violence, and their support of human rights, justice, and peace. That today Christian and Moslem scholars and indeed the scholars of other faiths alike, talk, in all sincerity, of the coming of a savior, makes one to come to the belief that this harmony of thought along the lines of the appearance of an absolute Peacemaker and the establishment of justice and peace on earth has not been purely accidental, and indeed any differences in that respect pertain solely to the name with which the Peacemaker is referred to, which is in itself a harmless thing. That it is said that with the coming of the Peacemaker the number of the dead will increase, is certainly a false and incorrect theory. This is, in fact, nothing but slander directed at Imam Mahdi (May God Hasten His Advent). As witness and reasoning, we refer to religious traditions which talk of the ways of Imam Mahdi, and it is said that His mannerisms are much like those of the Holy Prophet (PBUH), in that He brings His ideals to man with kindness and good manners. The Holy Koran, too, has referred to this magnificent issue: “And indeed, you possess a great character,” (Al-Qalam, 4).
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