As we approach Yaumul Arafah, the day before the celebration
of the Eid of the Hajj pilgrimage, it is notable that one of the prophecies
concerning the End Times from the Purified Family of the Prophet Muhammad
(sawaws), the Ahlul Bayt (as), concerns the announcement on this day of the death
of the last ruler of the Hijaz (in modern-day Saudi Arabia), who perhaps not
coincidentally is named Abdullah, the name of the current monarch of the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, at the hands of his homosexual lover. This sign of the
events preceding the coming of Imam Mahdi (atfs) is not accorded as much
significance as other signs, such as the two most important signs, namely the
rise of the evil Sufyani in Syria, and the two calls in the month of Ramadhan,
one holy call rallying the people against the Sufyani, and the second call from
Satan, deceiving the people into supporting the Sufyani; or the list of five
signs given as indicating the immediate return of the Mahdi. While I cannot
vouch for the authenticity of the ahadith concerning this sign of Arafah, and
it is not given as much importance as the other signs, I would nonetheless be
remiss not to include it in our countdown to the Faraj of al Hujjat al Qa’im
bil Haqq, the Imam Mahdi (as), in the month of Muharram on the day of Ashura.
Here are some of the relevant ahadith:
وعن امام الصادق (ع) قال:
بينا الناس وقوفاً بعرفات إذ أتاهم
راكب على ناقة ذعلبة ، ويخبرهم بموت خليفة، عند موته فرج آل محمد وفرج الناس جميعاً.
البحار:52/240
From Imam Sadiq (pbuhaf):
While the people are staying in Arafat (for Hajj), a rider on a light and fast
camel comes to them, and gives them news of the death of the Khalifah (king).
At his death is the faraj (relief) of the family of Mohammad and the faraj
(relief) of all the people.
Biharul Anwar volume 52, page 240
عن الإمام الباقر(ع):
يكون سبب موته أنه ينكح خصياً له فيقوم
فيذبحه ويكتم موته أربعين يوماً ، فإذا سارت الركبان في طلب الخصي لم يرجع أول من
يخرج حتى يذهب ملكهم.
كمال الدين ص 655
From Imam Baqir (pbuhaf):
The reason for his death is that he will have
intercourse with one of his (male) servants, so he will rise and kill him, and
his death will be concealed for 40 days. When the riders go to seek the
servant, the first of those who left will not return untill their kingdom is
over.
Kamalul Deen P.655
24 -
Narrated to us Ali bin Ahmad bin Abdullah bin Ahmad bin Abi Abdullah Barqi that
he said:
Narrated to me my father from his grandfather Ahmad bin Abi Abdullah Barqi from
his father
Muhammad bin Khalid from Ibrahim bin Uqbah from Zakariya from his father from
Amr bin
Abil Miqdam from Abi Ja’far (a.s.) that he said:
“A fool
from the Bani Abbas will be murdered secretly. The cause of his
death
shall be that he would have married a eunuch who will slay him when he
gets an
opportunity. This murder will remain unreported for forty days before it
would be
discovered. So the police will go out in search of this eunuch but they
will not
return before the downfall of their rule.”
سمعت أبا عبدالله (ع) ، يقول : من يضمن
لي موت عبدالله أضمن له القائم ، ثم قال : إذا مات عبدالله لم يجتمع الناس بعده
على أحد ، ولم يتناه هذا الأمر دون صاحبكم إن شاء الله ، ويذهب ملك السنين ، ويصير
ملك الشهور والأيام، فقلت : يطول ذلك ؟ قال : كلا
بحار الأنوار- ج 52: 21
From Abi Baseer who heard from Imam Sadiq
(pbuhaf):
Whoever guarantees for me the death of Abdullah, I will guarantee for him the
Qa'im (Imam Mahdi).
When Abdullah dies, then people will not gather/agree on anyone after him, and
this matter will not except for your companion (Imam Mahdi) inshallah, and the
kingdom of years will be over, and it will become the kingdom of months and
days.
So I asked: Will that be prolonged? He said: No.
Biharul Anwar, Volume 52, page 21
عن رسول الله (ص):
(يحكم الحجاز رجل اسمه اسم حيوان ، إذا
رأيته حسبت في عينه الحول من البعيد ، وإذا اقتربت منه لاترى في عينه شيئاً ،
يخلفه أخ له اسمه عبدالله. ويل لشيعتنا منه ، أعادها ثلاثاً ؛ بشروني بموته أبشركم
بظهور الحجة )
مئتان وخمسون علامة: 122
From Rasulollah (pbuhaf):
Hijaz (Saudi Arabia) will be ruled by a man
whose name is the name of an animal, when you see him from a distance, you
would think he has a lazy eye, and if you get close to him, you do not see
anything (wrong) in his eyes. He will be succeeded by a brother of his, named
Abdullah. Woe to our Shia (followers) from him! Woe to our Shia (followers)
from him! Woe to our Shia (followers) from him! - he repeated it three times -
Give me the good news of his death, and I shall give you the good news of the
appearance of the hujjah (Imam Mahdi).
Reference: Two Hundred and Fifty Signs, sign
number 122
عن الإمام الباقر (ع)
إذا ظهر السفياني على الأبقع وعلى
المنصور والكندي والترك والروم ، خرج و صار الى العراق ، ثم يطلع القرن ذو الشفا ،
فعند ذلك هلاك عبدالله
المعجم الموضوعي لأحاديث الإمام
المهدي ع الكوراني553
From Imam Baqir (pbuhaf):
When the Sufyani rises against Al-Abqa', and Al-Mansour, and Al-Kindy, and the
Turks, and the Romans, he will leave and go to Iraq, then the horn of (or the
century of) healing will come out, and at that point will be the death of
Abdullah.
Al-Mo'jam Al-Mawthou'i Le Ahadith Imam Mahdi
by Al-Kourani p. 553
[Please note that most of these quotes were taken from a
posting by a now banned member of the Hashem Studios message board,
sayyid_haamid , and that my citation from users of this site does not at all constitute
an endorsement of the website. In fact, their claim that an individual to whom
they refer to as Imam Ahmad al Hassan is the prophesied Yamani smacks of psy-ops
(psychological operations) by Western intelligence services – I believe that
the Yamani is in all likelihood Sayyid Nasrallah, leader of Hezbollah. The
following is the link to the original posting:
http://www.hashemstudios-board.com/viewtopic.php?p=23963
]
A few comments on these riwayat: The Saudi king prior to the
current king Abdullah was in fact his brother “Fahd”, whose name in Arabic
denotes an animal, the panther or leopard. Under Abdullah we have seen the
Saudi military invade Yemen to kill mostly Houthi Zaidi (Fiver) and some Imami (Twelver)
Shia, invade Bahrain at the invitation of its Sunni minority monarchy to burn majority
Twelver Shias' mosques (with the copies of the Qur’an in them of course),
schools, and hospitals, and kill Saudi minority Twelver Shia in the Eastern
provinces and Madinah, simply for protesting to demand basic democratic rights.
(That is indeed woe to the Shia three times: the Shia of Yemen, Bahrain, and
Saudi.) As to the means whereby Abdullah is killed by the eunuch lover, it may
be outright homicide, or it may be the result of a disease transmitted to him
by the eunuch. As recently as last month, reports indicated Abdullah planned to
undergo medical treatment of some kind in the United States, but with
conflicting reports as to the nature of his illness. In any case, if we do in
fact learn of Abdullah’s death, this will only confirm the other signs
indicating that the return of the Mahdi (atfs) is at hand.
The last major sign prior to the death (or death announcement)
of Abdullah on the Day of Arafah was that of the two calls, or saihah, in the
month of Ramadhan. Insha’Allah I will go into more detail regarding these calls
in an upcoming post in the lead-up to the Ashura return of the Mahdi (as), but
suffice it to say that I believe the two calls did indeed come to pass this
past month of Ramadhan 1433 (August 2012) on the 23rd night and day
just as predicted. Although some narrations refer to only one call, and describe
it in terms which many understood to mean some sort of earth-shattering sound
which would be heard world-wide, I believe the first call, the holy call, was
in fact a call to action. Given that the event of the call(s) in the month of
Ramadhan is often paired in hadith with the emergence of the Sufyani in Syria,
it should perhaps not be surprising that the calls in the month of Ramadhan
were in fact political responses to the Sufyani’s reign of destruction in
Syria. I maintain that the first cry or call to action was the moral and
political statement issued by the Islamic Republic of Iran and the emergency
Tehran Consultative Meeting on Syria, a statement issued on 9 August 2012 in
the evening, which in the Islamic calendar would be the beginning of the day of
Jumu’ah or Friday 23 month of Ramadhan (since the beginning of a “day” as reckoned by the Islamic
calendar is not midnight or dawn, but rather dusk or sunset, similar to the
Jewish calendar).This multi-lingual statement was a call for peace and dialogue
in Syria endorsed by 27 nations who attended the conference, which rejected increasingly
evident foreign intervention and the dramatic deterioration of conditions in
Syria witnessed starting in the month of Rajab 1433 (May/June 2012) with the
beginning of major offensive military campaigns by the Sufyani’s army, namely
the Wahhabi/Salafi terrorist network, including international al Qaeda
militants imported to Syria by Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey , at the behest
of the United States, the United Kingdom, and Israel. Here is my Facebook
posting on this event immediately after it took place, and the link to a report
on this “Call” by Iran’s PressTV:
The Saihah (Shout/Call) on a Friday
in the Month of Ramadhan? - The Tehran Consultative Meeting on Syria, attended
by officials and representatives from 27 countries, wrapped up in Tehran, on
Thursday night.
The meeting discussed ways “to lay the groundwork for
consultations among countries in a peaceful atmosphere and to reinforce all-out
regional and international efforts aimed at helping the Syrian people find a
way out of the ongoing crisis in the country, “a statement issued at the end of
the meeting read.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/08/10/255478/iran-wraps-up-confab-on-syrian-situation/
Let us compare this news event to a few of the ahadith
regarding the prophesied “Saihah”, and it will become clear that this was in
fact the “Saihah” or “Call” which the Ahlul Bayt (as) predicted:
6 - And
through the same chain of narrators from Husain bin Saeed from Hammad bin
Isa from
Ibrahim bin Umar from Abi Ayyub from Harith bin Mughaira from Abi Abdullah
(a.s.)
that he said:
“The call
from the sky shall be raised on the 23rd night of the month of Ramadhan.”
7 - And
through the same chain of narrators from Husain bin Saeed from Muhammad
bin Abi
Umair from Umar bin Hanzala that he said: I heard Abi Abdullah (a.s.) say:
“Five
signs will become manifest before the reappearance of the Qaim:
Advent of
Yamani and Sufyani, call from the sky, the killing of the Pure Soul
(Nafse
Zakiyyah) and the sinking of Baida land.”
8 -
Narrated to us my father: Narrated to us Saad bin Abdullah: Narrated to us
Muhammad
bin Husain bin Abil Khattab from Ja’far bin Basheer from Hisham bin Saalim
from
Zurarah from Abi Abdullah (a.s.) that he said:
“A caller
will call out in the name of the Qaim.” I asked: “Will it be for
some
people or for all?” He replied: “It would be for all. And every community
will hear
it in its own language.” I asked: “Would the opponents of Qaim be also
called in
his name?” “No,” he said, “For them Iblees will call out at the end of the
night and
put suspicion in the hearts of the people.”
Kamaaluddin
wa Tamaamun Ni’ma p 288
The
Iranian call for a peaceful resolution of the Syrian crisis through dialogue
between the Syrian government and the Syrian political opposition (not the foreign
armed mercenaries who had hijacked the Syrian protest movement) - this was a
call in the name of the Qaim (Qaim means the One who Rises, and is one of the
epithets with which the Holy Imams (as) told us to refer to the Mahdi (as)).
Notably, the Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, often invoked the 12th
Imam (as), that is Imam Mahdi, the Awaited Saviour of Humanity, in his speeches
at the United Nations General Assembly, and his eighth and final speech at the
UN meeting in New York in September 2012 was no exception. Getting back to the “Call”
in the month of Ramadhan, this statement was immediately translated into and
issued in several languages by the 27 nations endorsing it, and given the
internet and the global telecommunications network of the 21st century,
it is no longer unusual for all the peoples of the world, not just some of
them, to be targeted in this message, and for every community or nation in the
world to be able to “hear it in its own language.” The last hadith above concerning the Saihah
refers to the second call in Shahru Ramadhan as well, and it says “Iblees”
(Satan) would “put suspicion in the hearts of the people.”
Given the
attempts by the US to isolate Iran from the community of nations over its
nuclear program, and the painfully obvious fact that they had failed to successfully
do so, which was proven by Iran’s ability to rally approximately 30 countries
to unite against US aggression in Syria, America pathetically attempted to
sideline the issue by taking a swipe at Hezbollah. America announced sanctions
on the Resistance to Zionist occupation of the Middle East, trying to sow seeds
of doubt in the Arab and Muslim world, and amongst anti-imperialists worldwide,
by falsely accusing Hezbollah of human rights abuses and militarily aiding
Syria in crushing peaceful protest. Another hadith gives us a more nuanced
understanding of the second call:
He [Imam Muhammad
al Baqir (as)] also said: “The sound will be in the month of Ramathan,
in Laylatul Jum’a (the night before Friday), in the night (before) the 23rd, so
do not doubt in that, and listen and obey. And in the end of the day the sound
of the cursed Iblis shouting: “Lo, so and so was murdered while oppressed” – so
to make doubt amongst the people. How many doubters there will be on that day,
whom are lost and have fallen for Hell.”
“If you hear the sound in the month of Ramathan, then do not doubt in it, it is
Gabriels voice, and the sign of that is he will call with the name of the Qaim
and his fathers name...”
“These two sounds are definite before the rise of the Qaim.” (Al-Ghayba by No’mani P. 254, also quoted by Shafi’i
Alsalami in Aqd Aldorar P. 105)
The devil says ,“Lo, so and so was murdered while
oppressed – so to make doubt amongst the people” – This has been the line that America,
the mouthpiece of the accursed Satan Iblis, and America’s colonialist allies
have been using against Hezbollah and Syria. In reality, America and the
Israelis are the oppressors, as shown in the 2006 Lebanon war, in which Israeli
aggression against the Lebanese people martyred approximately 1400 men, women,
and children, mostly civilians. Even with the ongoing support of the support of
the world’s sole remaining “superpower”, who during the course of the war was
sending in weapons to kill babies, Israel was defeated in this 33 day war by Hezbollah,
who beat the Zionists despite their billions of dollars of high-tech American
weapons. The year of Hezbollah’s victory, 2006, saw the highest level of Muslim
unity in history. The Arab street, or the Muslim street, when asked who their
favorite political leader was, consistently named Sayyid Nasrullah, the leader
of Hezbollah, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, as their top two
or three heroes – this in spite of the fact that the majority of Arabs and
Muslim are Sunnis, and these two men are Shias – or perhaps, it could be
argued, because they were Shia. The Muslim Ummah was awed by the courageous
resistance to America and Israel by these solitary figures, at a time when, before
the Arab Spring/Islamic Awakening, practically every Arab government was a
puppet of the US, and in fact at a time when this unipolar post-Soviet era saw practically
almost every government on earth bow down to the will of America. Yet these
Muslims were not only speaking out against the Empire, but were actually able
to attain victory against it, as David slew Goliath. Most Sunni Muslims (except
for the Wahhabi clerics in Saudi Arabia, who revealed their allegiances by
issuing fatwas making it “haram” to assist Shia Hezbollah against Israel!),
most of them didn’t care that these two men were Shia… they were perhaps even
intrigued that these men could fight back with words and weapons the way no
Arab puppet dictator dared (could it be, some no doubt wondered, that their being
Shia was in fact the key to their steadfast pursuit of justice? A Sunni brother
at a Yaumul Quds (Jerusalem Day) rally in Washington, DC, around that time speculated
to me as much – almost all the major elements resisting Israeli and American
occupation in the Middle East were Shia, he said to me in admiration). Iran was on the rise, unintentionally strengthened
by America’s elimination of its enemies Saddam Hussein in Iraq and the Taliban
in Afghanistan, and by the subsequent Shia majority government which emerged in
Iraq, which became Iran’s natural ally. Things were looking good for the Shia,
for Muslim unity, for Muslims in general…
And then the Syria crisis happened (well, admittedly a lot
more happened between 2006 and 2011). The Syria crisis became the perfect
opportunity for the West and Israel to knock down a pillar of the Axis of
Resistance to Zionism (and Western imperialism generally) in the Middle East. I
would even go so far as to say that the Syria crisis was not only the perfect
opportunity for the enemies of Islam to drive a wedge between Shia and Sunni
Muslims, and divide and conquer the Resistance, but that in fact the Syria
crisis was engineered by Western intelligence agencies and Mossad to do precisely that. If the prophecies from
the Ahlul Bayt (as) give any indication, it won’t be long before the Sufyani’s
Salafi/Wahhabi army takes over Syria and large swathes of its neighbors, and
makes its way toward Iraq and even Medinah, Saudi Arabia. The Syrian crisis has
“spilled over” into Lebanon, but not organically – concerted efforts have been
made to promote sectarian hatred, as most recently evidenced by the likely
false flag bombing of Lebanon’s security chief, Wissam al Hassan. The MSM, or mainstream (Jewish-dominated) media (MSJM?), maintain
that Hassan was killed by either Hezbollah or Syria because as a Sunni he
criticized Assad’s Alawi-dominated government’s treatment of Syria’s Sunni
majority, and earlier on led an investigation implicating Hezbollah and Syria
in the bombing of Rafik Hariri in 2005 (another probable false flag). But what
mainstream reporting neglects is that Hassan more recently uncovered Israeli
spy rings in Lebanon, and that only Israel stands to benefit from the Hezbollah
(Shia) and March 14 (Christian-Sunni) coalition government in Lebanon under
Hezbollah’s leadership falling apart.
It is notable that since the two calls in Shahru Ramadhan,
other prophecies of the Ahlul Bayt (as) concerning Sham, or Syria, have also
come to pass. The Purified Imams (as), had warned us that in the months leading
up to the Mahdi’s re-emergence from his Greater Occultation (Ghaibat-ul Kubra),
the land known as Sham, now in modern-day Syria, would be attacked by the
Turks. Some had interpreted this description of the ethnicity of these foreign
attackers broadly, and understood the word Turks in this context to be
referring to Russia, who have some Turkic descent. This interpretation was noted
in the influential work concerning the return of the Mahdi by Ayatollah Ali
al-Kurani, ‘Asr-e Zuhur (Asr e Zahoor), and given that the
book was written in 1984, perhaps reflected a Cold War attitude toward
understanding prophecy at a time when Russia was still part of the Soviet Union
and still officially atheist and Communist. This lens in viewing prophecy
through contemporary political events is mirrored in the works of Hal Lindsey,
who in his “The Late, Great Planet Earth” identified the King of the North who
attacks Israel with cavalry in the Book of Daniel as Russia, which at the time
of the first edition of the book in 1970 was the center of the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics (USSR, or CCCP). Lindsey in later post-Soviet editions of
his book prided himself on having from the start named the attacker in this
incident specifically as Russia and not the no-longer existent Soviet Union, as
if his interpretation of prophecy had weathered the test of time and the collapse
of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Bloc, though others have argued that Lindsey
really did not foresee the imminent collapse of the Marxist, or more
specifically Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist, state, unlike say Ayatollah Khomeini,
who had sent a letter personally inviting
Gorbachev (a Jew and avowed atheist) to Islam prior to the collapse of
the Soviet Empire.
As a side note, Hal Lindsey has more
recently set his “Christian Zionist” sights on Islam in his 2011 book, “The
Everlasting Hatred: The Roots of Jihad”, which incidentally quotes Khomeini on
its first page. It is sad to see self-purported experts in Biblical prophecy
defend American and Israeli imperialism, when the Bible itself foresees and
condemns Gog and Magog (Yajuj and Majuj in the Qur’an), who are none other than
England and the United States of America (a fact esoterically acknowledged by
Zionist Henry Churchill in his Iron Curtain speech at Westminster College, a
stone’s throw away from the site the Gog and Magog statues at Guildhall, London
– and again not coincidentally, the Qur’an tells us that Dhul Qarnain
temporarily blocked the expansion of Gog and Magog by building an Iron Wall or
Curtain, which at the end of time would be taken down, resulting in Gog and
Magog dominating the entire globe). The Torah and Gospels prophesy the Prophet
Muhammad (sawaws) and his first Imam, Ali bin abi Talib (one of several
examples: John the Baptist is asked whether he is one of three theretofore
unrevealed prophesied figures: the Messiah, Jesus (Isa al Masih); “that prophet”,
the prophet like unto Moses, namely Muhammad (sawaws); and “Elias”, or Ali
(as). Salient to our discussion of Syria is also the fact that both the Torah (Isaiah
17:1-3, Jeremiah 49:23-27) and the Purified Imams of the Ahlul Bayt (as)
prophesy the destruction of Damascus, which according to some accounts is the
oldest still-inhabited city in the world. (I also wonder if Jeremiah 49:34-39,
which refers to Elam, modern-day Persia, can be interpreted as the downfall of
the American CIA puppet Shah, the subsequent Iranian diaspora, the invasion of
Iran by Iraq under Saddam Hussein, and the divinely ordained victory of the
Islamic Republic of Iran, the only government on earth today whose constitution
acknowledges the authority of the 12th Imam, the Mahdi, the just
leader of humanity. The final verse’s reference to Elam’s captivity could be to
the effects of the Western sanctions which seek to enslave Iranians through
economic blockade, elite banker currency manipulation, and the like.)
Getting back to the Turkish attack on Syria, it has been no
secret that for several months Turkey was backing, funding, and arming
terrorists, al Qaeda and otherwise, who have been sent into Syria to fight its
government. This is not surprising, given the domination of post Ottoman
empire, post Caliphate Turkey by the Donmeh, or Sabbatean Jews. These are
Crypto-Jews who took Sabbatai Zevi, a European Jew, to be the Messiah, and
played an integral role in the development of modern-day Kabbalism, but
ostensibly converted to Islam when Sabbatai was imprisoned by the Caliph on his
way to Jerusalem, and subsequently proclaimed Islam. In reality Sabbatai and
his followers are and were hypocrites, a literal cabal who while outwardly
proclaiming Islam, in reality practiced Kabbalah, and in their hearts maintained
their hatred of Islam and their desire for Jewish world domination. Hence the
anti-Islamic Young Turk movement resulting in Ataturk’s secularization of the
country, and contemporary Turkey’s maintenance of diplomatic relations with
Israel. This policy of destruction of Islam from within (begun by the British
divide-and-conquer policy of overthrowing the Ottoman empire through their
Wahhabi puppets in Arabia by proclaiming their support for Arab nationalism
through intelligence agent Lawrence of Arabia and the like) continues with
Turkey doing Israel’s dirty work, attacking Syria because of its role in the
Axis of Resistance to Zionism in the Middle East.
Other developments in the past couple of months in the
Middle East are worth noting. Syrian Hajj pilgrims have been denied entry by
Saudi Arabia this year, echoing prophecies from the Ahlul Bayt (as) concerning the
people being prevented from the hajj prior to the Mahdi’s (atfs) emergence. The
Muslim Brotherhood candidate, Muhammad Mursi, has taken the presidency, and
rather than ending Egypt’s treaty with Israel, he took the opportunity of his
attendance at the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit in Tehran of approximately 120
nations to attack Syria, the only Arab government willing to stand up against
Israel. The emir of Qatar, a major sponsor of Salafi terrorists in Syria,
visited the Gaza strip for the first time, cementing HAMAS (another Muslim
Brotherhood offshoot) re-alignment away from Syria. We still await the results
of the US Presidential election, with Obama, the favorite of American Jews,
likely to be re-elected (Mitt Romney is also beholden to the Zionists, e.g.
financial backer Sheldon Adelson), but in any case the debates showed us that
both candidates and their parties hold essentially the same (Israeli) position on
Syria and Iran. It won’t matter, in any case, because the true,
divinely-appointed, just leader of all of humanity, Imam Mahdi (as) will
re-emerge within a month, God willing, to resist oppression and establish justice,
fighting with “swords” covered with a thousand words, each word of which leads
to a thousand more words (HTML (s)words, if you will). May we be counted amongst
his 313 Companions, or his 10,000 Followers.
