A Fitnah (tribulation) Spreads Everywhere

 

A kind of corruption will surface, from which no party will be able to protect itself, and spread immediately to all directions. This situation will persist until one comes and says: “O people, from now on your leader is the Mahdi.” (Ibn Hajar al-Haythami, Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar fi' 'Alamat al-Mahdi al-Muntazar, p. 23)

 

The hadiths speak of a corruption that will touch everybody and spread quickly. In other words, a certain type of corruption that is known to everybody and opposes religion and God will target the people's faith. Today, materialist philosophy is the largest and most comprehensive trend designed to deny God's Existence and creation. Underlying this philosophy is the “theory of evolution,” which provides it with a self-proclaimed “scientific” basis. Even though it is not based on any scientific and logical evidence, certain materialist circles throughout the world continue to work for its acceptance by using methods associated with dense propaganda, deceit, and even fraud.

Today, as this theory has penetrated almost every household by means of both the press and television, almost everyone in the Muslim world and everywhere else has heard of it. This theory is first presented as fact during childhod by means of countless lies and deceit even placed in school books. As they grow older, they continue to be misled by such funny nonsense that they, and humanity as a whole, came into being merely as a result of coincidences and that they descended from monkeys. Youths of all age are brainwashed at all stages of their education by evolutionist lies. (For further information on the propaganda attempts on the theory of evolution and our scientific answers to such propaganda, please refer to Harun Yahya, A Definitive Reply to Evolutionist Propaganda, Global Publishing, 2003)

There is a noteworthy point here. As our Prophet (may God bless him and grant him peace) noted in one of his hadiths, corruption's global pervasiveness and rapid spread can materialize only when current technological means (e.g., the press, publications, broadcasting, the Internet, and satellite communication) are available. As the relevant technology did not exist in the past, corruption could not spread throughout the world in a short period of time. As a result, no other worldwide corruption that had declared war against God's Existence, creation, and morality of religion was seen. All of these are among the important signs that the Mahdi's advent and the coming of the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) coincide with the present time.

At this point we need to remind one point: the hadiths herald that this fitnah (tribulation) will come to end by the appearance of Mahdi.