The Reality of Khilafah — Page 69
Chapter Two— About the Mahdi The Mahdi is the Adam of this Ummah & the Seal of the Imams Know, that it has been the eternal practice of God—who cre- ated the night and the day, and initiated the darkness and the light—that He does not set about reforming a people until He sees extreme deterioration. When the scourge reaches its climax and the calamity attains its peak, it is then that Divine provi- dence is directed towards its removal and towards the creation of something that will bring this about. There are clear examples and evidence of this in the physical world for those who are igno- rant or in doubt. The greatest example of this Divine law is found in the rains that cause the plants and trees to grow. The beneficial rain does not fall but at a time of necessity, and its time is recognized when the need is severe and the danger is near. If the earth dried up and grew desolate and all that had grown and germinated in it became yellow and withered, and if poverty struck the people and calam- ities descended upon them, such that they thought they were going to perish, and catastrophes overcame them, such that not a drop of water was to be found in the rivers and the brooks grew polluted, it would be at such a time that they would be rescued.