With his love, affection and compassion Hazrat Mahdi (as) will be someone whom everyone loves, approves of and is sincerely devoted to. Love, compassion and affection will be so extensive, joy will be so widespread, wealth will so increase and there will be such peace and calm that "In his day, the old will say ‘I wish I was young’ and the young will say ‘I wish I was older’."^[1] Through Hazrat Mahdi’s (as) love, compassion, moral virtue and profound faith, his time will be one when "the goodness of good people increases, and even the wicked are treated well."^[2] 

In the hadith our Prophet (saas) describes how Hazrat Mahdi (as) will be full of love and affection and will gather everyone around him with great love and fervor, how not just other people but even the fish in the sea and the birds in the air will be content with him, and how he will be a source of joy for all.

 

HAZRAT MAHDI (AS) WILL BE SO COMPASSIONATE THAT no one will be woken up from their sleep or have a bleeding nose. (Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar fi `Alamat al-Mahdi al-Muntazar, p. 42)

Hazrat Mahdi’s (as) services will be so significant and very great that IT IS SAID THAT NOT JUST OTHER PEOPLE, BUT ALL THE DWELLERS IN THE EARTH AND SKY WILL BE CONTENT WITH HIM. (Ish'afu'r-Ragibin, p.146; al-Hawi, 2:66, 67)

HIS COMING WILL BE A SOURCE OF JOY, NOT JUST FOR BELIEVERS, BUT FOR ALL THE PEOPLES OF THE EARTH AND SKY. So much so that even birds, wild animals and the fish in the sea will rejoice. (Portents of Doomsday, pp. 162, 163)

PEOPLE WILL SEEK REFUGE IN HAZRAT MAHDI (AS) AS HONEY BEES CLUSTER AROUND THEIR SOVEREIGN. He will fill the world that was once full of cruelty, with justice. His justice will be as such that he will not wake a sleeping person or even shed one drop of blood. The Earth will return to the age of happiness. (Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar fi `Alamat al-Mahdi al-Muntazar, p.29)

[Hazrat Mahdi (as)] will follow the way of the Prophet. He will not wake up a sleeping person or shed blood.... The world with be filled with justice instead of oppression and torture. He [Hazrat Mahdi (as)] will distribute all things with equal measures of truth and justice. THUS IN THE SAME WAY THAT THE INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH AND SKY BE PLEASED WITH HIM, SO THE BIRDS IN THE AIR, SAVAGE ANIMALS IN THE FORESTS AND EVEN FISH IN THE SEA WILL BE DELIGHTED WITH HIM. (Al-Barzanji, Pamuk Publishing, Istanbul, 2002, p. 163)

[In the age of Hazrat Mahdi (as)] The sheep will graze with the wolf” and “children will play with snakes and scorpions but will come to no harm.” One will sow a handful of seed and reap 700 handfuls... (Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar fi `Alamat al-Mahdi al-Muntazar, p. 43)

 

 

Hazrat Mahdi’s (as) love, affection and compassion will be instrumental in people treating one another with love, affection and compassion.  This is revealed as follows:

In the time of Hazrat Mahdi (as), as in the Age of Felicity, WITHERED EMOTIONS WILL FLOURISH AND FLOWER AGAIN. (Al-Hawi al-Fatawa, p. 67, 68; Rahbavi, Portents of Doomsday, p. 162, 163)

BY ALLAH’S LEAVE, HE [HAZRAT MAHDI (AS)] WILL BE ABLE TO SOFTEN HEARTS THAT HAVE BECOME HARDENED, MAKE DIAMONDS OUT OF SOULS THAT ARE LIKE COAL and resurrect the dead with the radiance of his faith... (Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar, p. 24; Saban Dogen, The Mahdi and the Dajjal, pp. 194-195)

These hadith tell us that before Hazrat Mahdi (as), people will lack love and compassion that some people’s hearts will be hardened and some people will lack depth and that beauty of soul will decline, but with the coming of Hazrat Mahdi (as), virtues such as love, compassion, affection and warmth will again come to life in people’s souls.  


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[1] (Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar fi `Alamat al-Mahdi al-Muntazar, p. 48)
[2] " (Al-Burhan fi Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir al-zaman, p. 17)