ADNAN OKTAR: My brother, suddenly coming face to face with Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) has shocked them. I mean they were not expecting to come face to face with Hazrat Mahdi in 2000's. That is because he has been awaited for 1400 years saying;"he came", "he is about to come", " he will come".. In every century, even in the times of the Companions Mahdi has been awaited after our Prophet (saas) passed away. There had been some who said "Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) has come". But no one has ever called the people who are heralded with the coming of the Mahdi (pbuh) as profanes; no one has ever formed a group opposing them. The companions also said that. I mean they didn't say this is the Mahdi (pbuh) but they were convinced that the Mahdi (pbuh) has come; I mean they said that they were going to see him a while later. When did this happen before? It happened in the time of the ones who saw the companions and in the time the ones who see the ones who saw the companions, in the time of Abd el-Kadir Gilani, in the time of the Imam-i Rabbani; Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) has always been awaited. Many people said; "Hazrat Mahdi already came but we cannot see him." But that privilege was meant for this century; that was predestined by Almighty Allah. Since there is no more time left. According to the hadiths of our Prophet (saas) we have come to the limit date. That is because our Prophet (saas) defined a 7000 years calendar and says that 5600 years of that have already passed. Now when we subtract 5600 from 7000 years; we have 1400 to 1500. And which year are we in; 1432 [According to the Hegira style calendar].  According to the hadiths it is impossible for Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) not to have come already. I mean it is impossible for him not to have come. I mean even if a person has never read the other hadiths, only according to these 8 hadiths it is impossible to claim that Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) has not come yet. There is no other way at the moment. I mean He [Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh)] definitely has arrived already.