Disorder and Strife in the End Times Will Place People in a Difficult Position

According to what our Prophet (saas) tells us in the hadiths, the
period prior to the appearance of the Mahdi will be a difficult one of
widespread strife and disorder, when people suffer pain and trouble,
of much want and of pitiless wars. Some hadiths on this subject read
as follows:
BEFORE THE APPEARANCE OF MAHDI, COMMERCE WILL BE TERMINATED, ROADS
WILL BE CUT among nations, FITNAH WILL MULTIPLY.... 4
WHEN DISORDER REIGNS ON EARTH, FITNAH APPEAR, the elderly do not feel
compassion for the young ones, the young ones do not respect the
elderly, Allah will SEND SOMEONE (the Mahdi) who will eradicate enmity
from them, conquer the fortresses of perversion, who will uphold the
religion in the End Times, just as how I did in the past and who will
fill the Earth with justice which was formerly full of cruelty. 5
The information contained in the hadiths shows that in the End Times
there will be greatbloodshed, widespread attacks, increased violence,
massacres, wars and conflicts, justice replaced by injustice and
oppression,greater hunger and poverty, mutual distrust and fraud,
lying will begin being regarded asa legitimate form of behavior among
a large section of society, and there will be terrible moral
degeneration. Accordingly, people will be subjected to a succession of
disasters and woes, and trouble and suffering will be unending. In one
hadith we are told that:
QUITE DIPLORABLE AND MISERABLE SITUATIONS, AND PAINFUL VIEWS ARE SEEN.
Fitnah appear in succession…Among themappear FITNAH,
VIOLENCE,DESTRUCTIONS AND VIOLATIONS. When people think they are over,
they persist to continue. These events reach to such severity that no
house entered, no Muslim being hurt remains left. 6
Our Prophet (saas) has imparted the glad tidings that it is the Mahdi
who will be a means whereby people emerge into the light out of this
dark environment, who will show them solutions, and will bring about
the peace and security they long for.