Awe and fear will descend upon the survivors who will...

Awe and fear will descend upon the survivors who will finally surrender to the rightful, just government. On seeing the fulfillment of many of the signs promised in the traditions, a large number of unbelievers will turn towards Islam. Those who persist in their disbelief and wickedness shall be killed by the soldiers of the Mahdi. The only victorious government in the entire world will be that of Islam and people will devotedly endeavor to protect it.

Islam will be the religion of everyone, and will enter all the nations of the world. The Destiny of the Unbelievers Dr. Jalali: What will happen to the unbelievers (kuffar) and those who associated partners with God (mushrikin)? Mr.

Hoshyar: From the readings in the Qur'an and the hadith literature it appears that during the Mahdi's rule the government and the power will be taken away from non-monotheistic[^3] and materialistic disbelievers, and will be vested in the hands of the Muslims and other worthy people of the world.

Let us, for example, look at certain verses from the Qur'an: It is He who has sent His Messenger with the guidance and the religion of truth, that he may uplift it above every religion, though the unbelievers be averse.

(Saff [61], 9) God has promised those of you who believe and do righteous deeds that He will surely make you successors in the land, even as He made those who were before them successors, and that He will surely establish their religion for them that He has approved for them, and will give them in exchange after their fear security: 'They shall serve Me, not associating with Me anything.' (Nur [24], 54) Yet We desired to be gracious to those that were abased in the land, and to make them leaders, and to make them the inheritors, and to establish them in the land.

(Qasas [28], 4) These passages from the Qur'an give the glad tidings of that which will come when world power and government are in the hands of the qualified and worthy believers and Muslims, and the religion of Islam ("submission to the will of God") overshadows all other religions and actually eclipses them all. The traditions speak about the period of the Mahdi's rule and assure the believers that the forces of disbelief and hypocrisy will be annihilated from the face of the earth.

Everywhere there will be a true believer in God's unity.