People will live longer in the end times in which Hazrat Mahdi (as) will appear

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02 August, 2009

By Allah’s leave, technological progress in the End Times will lead to tremendous advances in the field of medicine. All kinds of scientific and technological progress will speed up medical research and again by Allah’s leave, reduce the scope for error, prevent many diseases, make it easier to diagnose illnesses and increase the chances of successful cure.

Our Prophet (saas) notes such advances in the field of medicine in the End Times when Hazrat Mahdi (as) lives in a hadith. He described how diseases that could not be treated in his own time would later be cured:

THE BLIND WILL GET VISION and THE SICK WILL BE CURED in the time of Imam az-Zamaan [Hazrat Mahdi (as)].

Bihar al-Anwar, vol. 51, p. 70

Great importance will be attached to human life and health in the End Times, people will not be left helpless because they cannot obtain doctors or drugs or because they are given the wrong treatment, and everyone in need will be given immediate assistance. Great care will be taken over everyone’s health problems, with no discrimination between rich and poor or old and young. All possible means will be employed for the sake of people’s health and all paths explored.

Nutrition policies essential for people to live healthy lives will be perfected in the light of scientific and technological advances. Scientific research will be conducted in order to rid foodstuffs of any harmful ingredients. Scientific methods will be developed in order to eliminate cholesterol or other harmful contents in foodstuffs. Precautionary measures will be taken against all potentially harmful foods or beverages, and people will have access to high-quality and pure food. As a result, there will be a decline in deaths due to disease; heart attacks or high blood pressure, and people’s life spans will be prolonged in a hitherto unseen manner. (Allah knows the truth.)

Our Prophet (saas) refers to all these developments in the fields of health and medicine that will take place in the Golden Age, and states that people will “live much longer” in that time:

In his [Hazrat Mahdi's (as)] time ... life spans will grow longer.

(Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar fi'alamat al-Mahdi al-Muntazar, p. 43)

As well as noting how life expectancy will be prolonged in the End Times, our Prophet (saas) also says that Hazrat Mahdi (as), who will appear in the End Times, will be long-lived like the prophets Adam (as) and Nuh (as):

“Hazrat Mahdi (as) will possess certain characteristics of earlier prophets. Among these is his BEING LONG-LIVED, LIKE THE PROPHET ADAM (AS) AND THE PROPHET NUH (AS).”

(Bihar al-Anwar, Vol. 51, Ansariyan Publications, collected by: Muhammad Baqr al-Majlisi, Iran-Qum, 2003 p. 217)