The Fulfillment of the Traditions in Respect of the Mahdi's Characteristics and Perfection 1

[10] When God wanted to make the people of the thirteenth century ³ blissful and to link it with the [first] century [of the hijrī calendar] which was honoured by the existence of the Prophet, He caused the Mahdi to be manifest in spirit and in body from the world of concealment. Through him, He revived Islam after it had become merely a trace (rasm), nay, a name. God singled out the Sudan for the manifestation of the Mahdi so as to strengthen its people who are, spiritually, the weakest people of all the countries.