If the Imam Mahdi (pbuh) came as a non-Arab, will most Muslims reject him?

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Re: If the Imam Mahdi (pbuh) came as a non-Arab, will most Muslims reject him?

@mAd_ScIeNtIsT

Plenty of scholars have hailed plenty of people as the mahdi before and it’s proven to be wrong every time, and has often led to a lot of Muslim dying. I’ll only believe the mahdi is here when I see the actual specific signs described in the Hadith being fulfilled.

Peace mAd_ScIeNtIsT

I think since the signs of the Mahdi all are described when he is an adult, the ones that talk about how he is first recognised/discovered talk about how the existing scholars start to agree amongst themselves who shows the signs of this great leader.

At which point he is still “hidden” to the public (not hidden in the sense of not being in physical reality - but hidden in the sense that he may be just an ordinary person) and even the ulema will be hesitant to state a name at this stage. When he is identified according to hadith, he will already be an adult.

It means that up until the point that he is openly made public news - there will be a period of time from his birth onwards to that point that where:

1. The other signs that need to happen will happen
2. The ulema will start to get reasons to silently nominate among themselves candidates for Mahdi

It is hence quite credible that Mahdi is alive - and at least no one knows who he is or that some people may have a strong feeling due to dreams, visions or signs of great character to nominally indicate who he is from among the people alive today … only when there reaches some consensus will certain things that we have read about Mahdi will start to happen.