The Length of al-Mahdi's Life We believe that the...

The Length of al-Mahdi's Life We believe that the lengthening of a man's life is not an impossibility, because it is explicitly stated in the Qur'an that, "We sent Nuh to his people and so he lived among them a thousand years, all but fifty." (29:14) Even modern science does not deny the possibility of lengthening the human lifespan.

If a greatly extended life is not an impossible event, there is nothing to prevent God from keeping a man alive for thousands of years because the regulations of a man's life is in the hands of God. He can bring a new order into existence which has precedence over the usual order of things, just as He did in the case of all the miracles.

The miracles of the prophets: the cooling of the fire for Ibrahim, the turning of Musa's staff into a serpent; bringing the dead to life through Isa, and so forth, are all against the usual flow of things but God brought another order into existence by His own power and a…