The Mahdi will come, but are we ready for him? Look at the Muslim Ummah, split up, wala and bara over the smallest issues of fiqh! There are muslims that are illiterrate, what are we going to do with them? We need to educate them first.
Shaykh Al Albani said:
We know that our Islam today is not like it was when Allah revealed "today I have completed your religion", many things have indeed been added to Islam, do you not agree?
So we need the basics, to educate the muslims about Aqidah, get them upon the Sunnah, and to change the mentality of people because it is a fact that there are places in this world a person from one madhab will fight with another madhab because of a simple Fiqhi difference. We need Tarbiyyah among the youth, understanding between the old, and patience and a solid foundation for the coming generation so they wont repeat our mistakes and mistakes of the generations of our parents.
The leaders of each sect should come out and do as Shaykh Uthaymeen advised:
[FONT=verdana,arial,helvetica]It is obligatory for the leaders of these sects to get together and say, “Between us is the book of Allah, and the Sunnah of His messenger, so lets us judge by them and not according to desires, opinions and not according to personalities. Everyone makes mistakes and achieves correctness no matter what he has reached with regards to knowledge and worship. Infallibility is [only] in the religion of Islam." [/FONT]
As Imam Malik said,
“Nothing will rectify the latter part of this Ummah except that which rectified the first part of it.”
Before we wait for one man to come and recitfy this Ummah, ask ourselves, are we even worthy of his coming? Where is the Ummah's bond with the Qur'an? Where is the love for the Sunnah?
“And the Messenger will say: “O my Lord! Verily, my people deserted this Qur’aan.” [Al-Furqaan: 30]
The Mahdi will come when Allaah wills him too, and Islam will be victorious, and that is a promise from Allah and it will certainly happen. But, it can be today, and it can be a thousand years from now, the knowledge thereof is only with Allah. Before we await him, lets ask ourselves, is the Ummah even ready for him to come?