This seems to be a pretty accurate prediction of what has happened in Muslim history and what is to come:
Ḥudhayfa b. al-Yamān (rA) reported that the Prophet ﷺ said, “Prophethood will remain amongst you for as long as Allah wishes. Then Allah will remove it whenever He wishes to remove it, and
there will be a caliphate upon the prophetic methodology. It will last for as long as Allah wishes it to last, then Allah will remove it whenever He wishes to remove it.
Then there will be an abiding dynasty, and it will remain for as long as Allah wishes it to remain. Then Allah will remove it whenever He wishes to remove it.
Then there will be tyrannical (forceful) kingship, and it will remain for as long as Allah wishes it to remain. Then He will remove it whenever He wishes to remove it, and
then there will be a caliphate upon the prophetic methodology.”
Collected by Aḥmad (18406); deemed ḥasan by al-Arna’ūṭ, and “at least ḥasan” by al-Albāni in as-Silsila aṣ-Ṣaḥīḥa (5).
Our history has been summed up by No# 1, 2, 3 below. No# 4 is what comes next:
- Caliphate based on Sunnah - First 30 years of Islamic Caliphate (Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, Ali)
- "Abiding dynasty" - monarchy throughout pretty much most of our history. It ended with Ottoman Caliphate in 1924
- "Tyrannical (forcefule) kingship" - sounds a lot like military dictatorships - look at Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, Libya, Sudan, Indonesia, Algeria, etc. So many Muslim countries were under military rule at one point.
- Caliphate based on Sunnah