During the time prior to the advent of Imam Mahdi ( ‘a )...

During the time prior to the advent of Imam Mahdi ( ‘a ), however, there will be no such protests and the only gesture of protest will be this: “Why were such indecent acts undertaken in the middle of the crossroads?” This is the highest form of forbidding evil that will be undertaken and such a person will be the most pious of his time. Now, let us look at the hadith s in order to comprehend the profundity of the tragedy of the loss of Islamic values and the spread of corruption at that time.

The Messenger of Allah (S) said: “The Day of Resurrection will not commence unless a woman would be openly taken away from her guardian in broad daylight and be molested in public in the middle of the road and no one would condemn and prevent this.

The best among the people is he who will say: ‘I wish you would have gone a bit away from the middle of the road and done your work!’”[^5] He (S) also said: “I swear to the One in Whose hand is the life of Muhammad (S) that this ummah will not vanish until such a time when man would ambush a woman like a wild lion and molest her.

The best among the people is he who will say: ‘I wish you would have hidden her behind this wall and did not do such a thing in public’.”[^6] Elsewhere, he (S) said: “Those men, being like animals, will fight one another in the middle of the road, and then one of them will publicly molest the other one’s mother, sister and daughter in the middle of the road. Thereafter, he will let others molest them, and they, one after the other, will do this lewd act.

But no one will condemn this lewd act or change it. The best among them would be he who will say: ‘It would have been better if you would have been far from the highway and away from the public eye’.”[^7] The Spread of Immodest Acts Muhammad ibn Muslim said: “I asked Imam al-Baqir ( ‘a ): ‘O son of the Messenger of Allah!

When will the Qa’im from among you appear?’” The Imam said: “It will be at the time when men would resemble women and women would act like men; at the time when men would suffice themselves with men (i.e. they would do sodomy), and so would women with other women (i.e.