The Mahdi Will Eliminate the Despair into Which People Have Fallen

It is the fact that people have turned their backs on the moral values
of the Qur'an and on the holy Sunnah of our Prophet (saas) that lies
at the root of the great troubles they will be subjected to during the
End Times. People will experience enormous suffering in the End Times
since the love, affection, honesty, justice, tolerance, moderation,
patience and love of peace required by religious moral values will
have been replaced by selfishness, ruthlessness, aggression, injustice
andself-interest propagated by atheistic ideologies. One hadith
reports how people will have departed from religious virtues in the
End Times:
With one of my descendants, the Mahdi, Allah REANIMATES THE SUNNAH
when they weaken due to the disappearance of the Sunnah, appearance of
bi'dat ( false judgment and practices not sanctioned by the Qur'an),
and disappearance of the opportunities of enjoining the good and
forbidding the evil. 7
As we are informed in the hadiths and in the works of Islamic
scholars, the Mahdi will engage in a major intellectual struggle in
order to overcome atheistic ideologies, to teach people about
religious moral values and the essence of the faith, and to lead them
in the direction of belief in Allah and moral virtue. Our Lord will
make the Mahdi and his great intellectual struggle a means whereby the
troubles of the End Times are eradicated. This attribute of the Mahdi
is revealed in these terms:
THE PERSONAGE, the mostauspicious of Muhammad's ummah and YOUR
GUARDIAN ELIMINATING YOUR DIFFICULTIES… He is the Mahdi.. 8
In another hadith, we are told that corruption will be brought to an
end through the Mahdi, and that with this peace and security will take
their place in the world:
Allah WILL RESOLVE BLINDFITNAH THROUGH HIM (the Mahdi) Everywhere
will becomesecure... 9
According to the information contained in the hadiths, people
suffering pain, difficulties and want willseek shelter behind the
justice, compassion, loveand generosity of the Mahdi. In one hadith it
isreported that:
In the same way that bees gather round the queen, so people will
gather round the Mahdi.He will fill the world, once filled with
oppression, with justice instead.... 10
When the Mahdi causes Islamic moral values to prevail on Earth, want,
hunger, suffering and troubles will come to an end, the flow of blood
will cease, and people will find the true happiness, peace and
security for which they have been searching for so many years. This
climate of abundance and plenty, filled with love and peace, is
described as follows in hadiths:
Once the Earth is full of cruelty and enmity, one of my line will
emerge. He will fill the Earth withequity and justice, just as it was
previously filled with oppression and tyranny. 11
He fills the Earth with justice and excellence. The Earth gives out
its plants, the heavens pours its rain. My ummah attains
unprecedented blessings. 12
At that time the heavens will hold not a single drop of rain and the
Earth will attain abundance. 13
In his time, such justice prevails that the dead envies the alive. 14