The Mahdi

The Mahdi is, in the view of most Sunnis, a man of the house of Muhammad who appears before the Hour in a time of intense corruption and injustice, filling the earth with justice as it was filled with injustice, ruling by the law of Islam and guiding people to the right path. Some hold that the Mahdi is Jesus son of Mary, who descends from heaven; others combine the two. This belongs to the unseen, about which nothing beyond revealed text is certain, so the believer hopes for what the texts establish without asserting details they do not.