Re: imam mehdi
^ Peace Lahore_Ka_Cheetah
I was beginning to agree with you until everything that remained was presented in a metaphoric watering down of scripture.
From the scholarly sources that I have read, Dajjal comes in three stages ... Please read Dajjal - the AntiChrist by Ahmad Thomson ... he says first there are dajjalic system, then a Dajjalic elite and then the Dajjal himself.
All of the hadith that are coming true are gradually becoming more and more apparent. So their truth is manifesting all the time.
I can see and appreciate the metaphoric arguments, but I still believe all the hadith do not fit and if they do then we should be in the time of Isa (AS) or else then if everything is metaphor then we cannot possibly blame the likes of Ahmadiyya and Rationalists for coming up with things like they do.
I know of many scholars who are not following the metaphoric argument and in fact there are hadith that say the Mahdi will come in a time when he is least expected or when people will begin to lose hope and faith that he will actually arrive.
The symptom of making up metaphoric arguments on these events is telltale of a symptom which is cashing in on the wake of a prophecy. We must continue to work hard and prepare the ummah for the coming of the Mahdi. And ready ourselves for the Dajjal person or we might be caught out.