Celebrating a Very Auspicious Day

Heartiest felicitations to all our dear listeners on a very auspicious day.

Today, the 9^th of Rabi al-Awwal marks the start of the divinely-designated mission of the 12^th and Last Infallible Heir of the Almighty’s Last and Greatest Messenger, Prophet Mohammad (SAWA). He is the Prophet’s namesake, and was a boy of only five years when he was orphaned the day before on the 8^th of Rabi al-Awwal, 260 AH, with the martyrdom through poisoning of his father, Imam Hasan Askari (AS). The divine mantle of imamate came to rest on his shoulders under circumstances when the self-styled caliph of the usurper Abbasid regime, after assassinating his father, was bent upon finding him and murdering him as well. But by the Grace of Allah Who bestowed prophethood upon Jesus (AS), while still a boy in the cradle and saved him from the conspiracies of the Israelites, the 12^th Imam went into occultation, and will reappear as Qa’em al-Mahdi in the end times to cleanse the Planet of all vestiges of oppression and corruption by establishing the global government of peace and justice. This has been promised in the holy Qur’an. For instance in ayah 5 of Surah Qassas, we read:

“And We desired to show favour to those who were abased in the land, and to make them Imams, and to make them the Heirs;”

God’s promise is true. Whatever the arrogant and the ignorant do, with all their material and military power, they cannot belie it.

Today, the Pharaohs, the Babylonians, the Assyrians, the Achaemenians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Omayyads, the Abbasids, the Ottomans, the British and all other empire-builders have long vanished from the world scene.

Tomorrow, it will be the turn of the United States of America – so far the most satanic of world powers – which is all poised to fall into the dustbin of history, despite its arsenal of doomsday weapon and its monopolization of global economy.

According to Imam Ali ibn Abi Taleb (AS), the Gateway of the City of Wisdom and Knowledge, the ayah that we recited to you, refers to the Imams of the Ahl al-Bayt or blessed household of the Prophet of Islam, whose rights were usurped and the day will come when the 12^th and Last Infallible Heir of the Seal of Messengers, will reappear to establish the global government of peace, prosperity and justice.

Yesterday, we commemorated the martyrdom of Imam Hasan al-Askari (AS), the Prophet’s 11^th Infallible Heir, who was forced to leave the world in the prime of his youth, at the age of 28 years, through a fatal dose of poison administered on the orders of the arrogantly ignorant Mo’tamed, the self-styled caliph of the usurper Abbasid regime.

The head of the superpower of those days then launched a manhunt in vain for the son of his victim, on learning that the Prophet’s 12^th Heir, the Promised Mahdi, who would rid the world of corruption and oppression and whose birth he had tried to prevent, was already born.

Unable to find any trace of the 5-year old orphan and deeming him too weak to pose any danger to their rule, since his mother had predeceased his father and his uncle Ja’far was also against him, the Abbasids continued their misrule of sins, corruption and oppression for a few more centuries, until another bloodthirsty tyrant, the Mongol Marauder Hulaku Khan, thrust the so-called caliph into several sacks and trampled him under the hooves of horses.  

As for the boy-Imam, God Almighty – Who had given wisdom to Yayha (John the Baptist) while still a mere child and had granted the scripture to the infant Jesus along with the miraculous power to speak from the cradle when the ever rebellious Israelis tried to slander his virgin mother, Mary – ensured that Imam Mahdi (AS) grows into youth and manhood during the Minor Occultation before start of the lengthy period of the Major Occultation (Ghaybat al-Kubra), guiding the faithful all the time, like the resplendent sun on cloudy days.  

Over a century before the birth of Imam Mahdi (AS), Imam Ja’far as-Sadiq (AS), was expounding to a group of faithful the hadith which says: “The earth has not been devoid of a representative of God, since God created Adam; a representative that was either visible and well-known or invisible and concealed. (Likewise) The earth will not remain devoid of such a representative of God till the occurrence of the Hour (Doomsday), for if it were to remain without God’s representative, then God would not be worshipped!”

A person asked: So how does mankind benefit from an invisible and hidden representative?

The 6^th Imam replied: “Just as they benefit from the sun when the clouds hide it!”

In view of these undeniable facts, for the past 1179 lunar years, the devotees of the Ahl al-Bayt have continued to benefit from the presence of the Imam of the Age, while eagerly awaiting his reappearance for materialization of God’s promise to establish the global government of peace, prosperity and justice.

So firm has been their faith that they have not just weathered the storms of seditions generated by the enemies of Islam and humanity, such as the modern day Wahhabis and Takfiris, but have spread the liberating ideology of God’s promise to make the weak the inheritors of the earth when the promised Redeemer of mankind reappears.

No wonder, Prophet Mohammad (SAWA) said to his divinely-designated vicegerent: 

"O Ali, know that the strangest of the people of faith and the greatest of them in certainty are those people who will be in end times. They had not seen the Prophet and their Imam is hidden from them, but they will believe (only) due to black upon white."

Imam Ja’far as-Sadeq (AS) explaining this hadith has said:

“The "black upon white" means the writings on paper. It means that these people will believe in the Qur’an and the sunnah as recorded in the books, even though they may not see their Imam.”

 The 6^th Imam has also said:

“When the Qa’em shall arise, he will rule with justice, the tyrants of his time shall fear him, the righteous will be safe, the earth shall reveal its treasures, all the truth-seekers will seek his company and no follower of any religion would remain except that they see Islam and declare their faith in it.”

Now that the caliphate of the criminals has ended with the defeat of Daesh in both Iraq and Syria, let us cast a look at the concept of Imam Mahdi amongst our Sunni brethren. There are six major collections of hadith compiled by Sunni scholars. These are: “Sahih Bukhari”, “Sahih Muslim”, “Sahih Tirmidhi”, “Sunan Ibn Majah”, “Sunan Abu Dawud”, and “Sunan an-Nisa’i”. All these books are unanimous that Imam Mahdi (AS) will come in the last days to establish the global government.

These books clearly state that Imam Mahdi (AS) is a member of the Prophet’s Immaculate Ahl al-Bayt; he is from the progeny of the Prophet’s Daughter, Hazrat Fatema Zahra (SA); he is from the progeny of Imam Husain (AS); and Prophet Jesus will also reappear and pray behind him Imam Mahdi (AS).

Many other leading Sunni scholars have written books after books exclusively about Imam al-Mahdi (AS)

Ahmad Ibn Hanbal has quoted a hadith in his “Musnad” that reads: The Prophet said: “Allah will bring out from concealment Mahdi from my Family and just before the Day of Judgment; even if only one day were to remain in the life of the world, and he will spread on this earth justice and equity and will eradicate tyranny and oppression.”

This is also mentioned by another Sunni scholar, Ibn Hajar al-Haythami, who wrote: “The Ahl al-Bayt are like the stars through whom we are guided in the right direction, and if the starts are taken away (or hidden) we would come face to face with the signs of the Almighty as promised (i.e., the Day of Resurrection). This will happen when the Mahdi will come, as mentioned in the hadith, and Prophet Jesus will say his prayers behind him, the Dajjal will be slain, and then the signs of the Almighty will appear one after another.”

Let us pray to God Almighty to hasten the reappearance of the Imam of the Age, who will be accompanied by Prophet Jesus (AS), and this will make most Christians become devout Muslims. Amen

AS/MG