:salam2: well first of all for any muslim specialy for a scholor...its not
the islamic way to predict like that...that such and such an incident is going to occur at such and such a date...ALLAH forbids it in
surah Kah'f...when we muslims were taught through the Prophet(p.b.u.h) not to say for sure for the happening of any incident in future.
now as for the coming of Mehdi(R.A.) and Jesus(p.b.u.h.)...if one studies all the hadiths narrating the circumstances prior to their coming till eventualy they appear on the face of this earth...i think everyone gets convinced to at least the fact that we are living in the era which is very much adjacent to the coming of Imam Mehdi and so on....
Now as far as date i.e. assigining the year to their coming is concerned...one can only make guess...by giving a tentative figure and not an exact one...bcz exact figure is somewhat pertaining to
elam-al-khaib...i.e. the knowledge of unknwon...which only ALLAH knows!!..
so on one extreme one shouldn't say that ...
we dont know...we can't know...we don't have to know....but as a matter of fact...a very few of people know...other can know...and all of us must know...
the second extreme is...
i or we know exactly that when is this going to happen...and we should do nothing except waiting for themselves...as they are our saviors....it's only then we should be dynamicaly working with them ...and not now!!!..
one of hadiths says....ALLAH will raise up people of among this Ummah at the brink of every centuary (hijrah;the islamic calender)who will renew the (same) teachings and practices of islam as previously had become unknown and hence abandoned by muslims...such a person is called
mujad'did.
Imam mahdi will be a
mujad'did...and in the light of this hadith he's very likely to come at the end of this ongoing 15th centuary of islam...which according to this guagarin solar calender can be in 60th or 70th of this 2000 centuary...
as i previously mentioned,if one studies the circumstances that would prevail to the muslim world and the whole world actualy;as described in Hadiths and in accordance with the present senarios of muslims living anywhere and everywhere....and in the light of the above hadith that i mentioned...it convinces us that their appearence is very much likely in 60s or 70s of this centuary....
it is also narrated...i don't know the authenticity of this hadith....that a star with a huge tail will appear before the appearence of mehdi!!..and this star according to scientists appears after every 75 to 79 years and last seen in 1986...and you can calculate when it's going to appear next!!!...and by historians...every time this star appeared...something big and unusual happened!!...some even say....that the flood storm on the people of Noah(P.b.u.h.)...the drowning of pharoah and his army....the throwing of Ibrahim(P.b.u.h.)into the fire...all of these happened after the appearence of this star...now important to remember that its only ALLAH who controls all the events through His complete Knowledge and Power...such things could only be the indications...as when Prophet was going to be given the Prophethood...shayateen said that we found the heavens...the skys with the most strict protection against us...so whenever any of them tried to hear to...to know some of what was going to happen...they were punished with stars....and with the lots of
shihab-un-saqib on the sky...the burning ones...it showed that Almighty ALLAH is going to reveal something exotic...
somethimg more to say....but next time insha-ALLAH!!!..