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Subject: The Awaited Imam Mahdi
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kekasih 11.08.10 - 06:23am
Allah will use Hazrat Mahdi (as) as His instrument in the destruction of the intellectual system of the sufyan
...At the head of his army ... there is one called Shuaib ibn Salih [Shuaib ibn Salih is one name of Hazrat Mahdi (as)]. That commander will inflict defeats on the Sufyanis... People will be hoping for and seeking the Mahdi at that time.
(Ibn Hajar al-Haythami, al-Fatawa al-Hadithiyya, 40)
This hadith handed down from our Prophet (saas) notes that thanks to Hazrat Mahdis (as) appearance and subsequent intellectual struggle, people will be entirely freed from the influence of the thinking of the sufyan.
Allah will use Hazrat Mahdi (as) as His instrument in intellectually defeating the mindset of the antichrist and the sufyan, that rejects religious moral values and the spirit of the Quran, turns its back on the existence and oneness of Allah and wages an open campaign against the system of the Mahdi. As a result of this great moral and intellectual struggle of Hazrat Mahdis (as), Muslims who have for centuries been oppressed because of their belief in Allah, who have been subjected to persecution and violence, who have been exiled from their homes and begged Allah to send them a savior and a guide to salvation, will be completely freed from the pernicious effects of this system of the sufyan.
The hadith also notes that another name of Hazrat Mahdi (as) will be Shuaib ibn Salih. The great Islamic scholar Haytami stated that the word shuaib, which our Prophet (saas) employs in the hadith in reference to Hazrat Mahdi (as), is used in the sense of small unit; by using this term Haytami said that this meant that Hazrat Mahdi (as) will have only a very small group of followers to wage an intellectual struggle against vast numbers of unbelievers. The term ibn Salih also notes that Hazrat Mahdis (as) father will be a highly virtuous person.
Hazrat Mahdi (as) will bring his intellectual struggle to a successful conclusion and eliminate the thinking of the sufyan together with this Muslim community of a very small number of virtuous people who have submitted to Allah and strive with all their might to tell people of the existence and oneness of Allah. With the neutralization of the system of the sufyan and the antichrist across the world, the moral values of the Quran will reign and Muslims and all believers will attain a climate of peace and tranquility. *
kekasih 11.08.10 - 06:35am
Lives will be longer in the time of Hazrat Mahdi (as)
As reported in the hadith, one of the portents of the End Times and the appearance of the blessed Mahdi is increased life expectancy during this holy period. Some of the hadith and accounts regarding this are as follows:
Life expectancy will increase in his [Hazrat Mahdis (as)] time. This increased life expectancy also means that he [Mahdi) will be long-lived. (Al-Barzanji, Al-Isha'ah li-ashrat al-sa'ah, p. 184)
In his time ... lives will be longer and things entrusted for safekeeping will not be lost... (Ibn Hajar al-Haythami, Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar fi Alamat al-Mahdi al-Muntadhar, p. 43)
Lives will be longer, and things entrusted will be returned to their place. (Jalaluddin as-Suyuti, Kyamet alametleri, Olum ve Dirilis [Portents of the Judgment Day, Death and Resurrection], p. 179)
There has been a relative increase in life expectancy in recent times, but none to match the increase observed in the 21st century. Research has revealed that human life expectancy will rise by 50% this century and that there will be many more people living to see their 100th birthdays in the years to come.
Increases in life expectancy according to centuries
1800s: average life expectancy 24 years
1900s: average life expectancy 48 years
2000s: average life expectancy 63 years *
kekasih 11.08.10 - 06:40am
It will rain in abundance in the time of Hazrat Mahdi (as)
He will fill Earth with justice and well-being. The earth gives forth its fruits, and the sky rains. My community will be blessed in a hitherto unseen way. (Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir az-Zaman, p. 35)
[In Hazrat Mahdi (as)s time] the sky will begrudge none of its rain and will cause rain to fall generously. The earth will hold back none of its plants and will give them forth to perfection (Al-Sharani, Mukhtasar Tazkirah al-Qurtubi, p. 437)
During his [Hazrat Mahdis (as)] time, both the communitys good and wicked people will be blessed with a blessing, the like of which they have never seen before. Despite the abundance of rain, not a drop will go to waste. The land will grow fruitful and fertile, without demanding a single seed... (Ibn Hajar al-Haythami, Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar fi Alamat al-Mahdi al-Muntadhar, p. 20-21)
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kekasih 11.08.10 - 06:41am
It is an error to explain the hadiths regarding the advent of Hazrat Hahdi (as) in a superstitious manner
In his Kastamonu Addendum, Bediuzzaman Said Nursi states that some ignorant men of religion will interpret the hadiths by looking only at their surface meaning, making statements that do away with the free use of reason, for which reason they will fall into doubt over matters that can very easily be understood by the use of reason and good conscience, and that they can also in this way harm Muslims whose knowledge is weak. Said Nursi sets out with complete clarity this matter that Muslims of the End Times frequently encounter:
... SOME SUPERFICIAL SCHOLARS (who have judged on the basis of the seeming meanings of the hadiths) HAVE FALLEN INTO DOUBT LOOKING AT THE EXTERNAL MEANING OF THOSE ACCOUNTS AND HADITH. They have either DENIED THEIR ACCURACY OR else have ATTRIBUTED A SUPERSTITOUS MEANING [a wrong one as if something fanciful in tales] TO THEM AS IF EXPECTING AN IMPOSSIBLE APPEARANCE [of a literally impossible person who has characteristics that abolish ones faculty of reason to decide conscientiously], and thus inflict harm [for people will have difficulty in believing such metaphysical speculation, so they inflict harm on those common Muslims who do not have knowledge] on Muslims faith. (Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, Kastamonu Addendum, p. 80)
In our day, too, some ignorant religious scholars emerge and interpret the hadiths of our Prophet (saas) in the same superficial manner as described by Said Nursi, and thus try to cover up the coming of Hazrat Mahdi (as), at least in their own eyes. The religious scholars Said Nursi refers to in this passage are today trying to deceive people in exactly the same way and this, by the will of Allah, is a marvel and a prophecy, of Bediuzzamans.
For example, some ignorant and bigoted men of religion today CLAIM, IN A MANNER THAT TOTALLY CONFLICTS WITH THE HADITH OF OUR PROPHET (SAAS) AND WITH THE LAW OF ALLAH, that Hazrat Mahdi (as) will be a most extraordinary person and will be recognized by the public as soon as he appears, that not even tanks, shells, guns or atom bombs will have any effect on him, that when people look above Hazrat Mahdis (as) head they will see angels on a cloud, and that these angels will constantly identify Hazrat Mahdi (as) to people.
It is revealed in the hadith of our Prophet (saas) that there will be Angels alongside Hazrat Mahdi (as) and that they will help him:
GABRIEL AND MICHAEL AND FORTY-SIX THOUSAND (46000) ANGELS WILL BE IMAM MAHDIS [HAZRAT MAHDIS (AS)] FOLLOWERS AND COMPANIONS. (Sheikh as-Saduq, Al-Amali, Session 92, p. 504; Sheikh Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Numani, al-Ghaybah al-Numani, p. 56; Tafseer al-Ayyaashi, Vol. 1, p. 197; Muhammad Baqir Majlisi, Bihar al-Anwar, Vol. 19, p. 284; Ibn Qulawayh al-Qummi, Kamil al-Ziyarat, pp. 52, 326 ; Vol. 52, p. 356; Vol. 53, pp. 14, 87; Hashim ibn Sulayman al-Bahrani, Kitab al-burhan fi tafsir al-Qur'an Vol. 1, p. 313; Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir az-Zaman , p. 77; Mikyalul Makarim, Vol. 1, pp. 29, 73-74)
HOWEVER, THE APPEARANCE OF THE ANGELS THAT WILL BE ALONGSIDE HAZRAT MAHDI (AS) IS SOMETHING THAT WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD ALONE, AND WILL THEREFORE BE VISIBLE ONLY TO THE ANGELS.
Allah reveals in the Quran that some people from the tribe of our Prophet (saas) claimed that an Angel should come down as proof that the Prophet Muhammad (saas) was actually a Prophet. After that, He reveals that our Prophet (saas) was simply a human being sent as a warner, a messenger:
Perhaps you are leaving aside part of what has been revealed to you and your breast is constricted by this because they say, Why has treasure not been sent down to him OR AN ANGEL NOT ACCOMPANIED HIM? You are only a warner and Allah is Guardian over all things. (Surah Hud, 12)
In another verse it is revealed that people who denied the Prophets generally demand to see Angels as a condition of belief:
Why do you not BRING ANGELS TO US if you are telling the truth? The Angels only descend with the truth and then they would be granted no reprieve. (Surat al-Hijr, 7-8)
They say, Why has AN ANGEL NOT BEEN SENT TO HIM? If We were to send down an Angel, that would be the end of the affair and they would have no reprieve. (Surat al-Anam, 8)
Even if WE SENT DOWN ANGELS TO HEM, AND THE DEAD SPOKE TO THEM, AND WE GATHERED TOGETHER EVERYTHING IN FRONT OF THEM RIGHT BEFORE THEIR EYES, THEY WOULD STILL NOT BELIEVER UNLESS ALLAH WILLED. The truth is that most of them are ignorant. (Surat al-Anam, 111)
What are they waiting for BUT FOR THE ANGELS TO COME TO THEM or for your Lord Himself to come, or for one of your Lords Signs to come? On the day that one of your Lords Signs does come, no belief which a self professes will be of any use to it if it did not believe before and earn good in its belief. Say: Wait, then; We too are waiting. (Surat al-Anam, 158)
What are they waiting for but THE ANGELS TO COME TO THEM or your Lord's command to come? That is like what those before them did. Allah did not wrong them; rather they wronged themselves. (Surat an-Nahl, 33)
The ruling circle of those of his people who were unbelievers said, This is nothing but a human being like yourselves who simply wants to gain ascendancy over you. IF ALLAH HAD WANTED HE WOULD HAVE SENT ANGELS DOWN. We never heard of anything like this among our ancestors, the earlier peoples. (Surat al-Muminun, 24)
They say, What is the matter with this Messenger, that he eats food and walks in the market-place? WHY HAS AN ANGEL NOT BEEN SENT DOWN TO HIM SO THAT SO THAT IT CAN BE A WARNER ALONG WITH HIM? (Surat al-Furqan, 7)
Why have gold bracelets not been put upon his arms and WHY IS THERE NOT A TRAIN OF ANGELS ACCOMPANYING HIM? In that way he swayed his people and they succumbed to him. They were a people of deviators. (Surat az-Zukhruf, 53, 54)
When the Messengers came to them from in front and from behind, saying, Do not worship anyone but Allah.they said, IF OUR LORD HAD WILLED, HE COULD HAVE SENT ANGELS DOWN, SO WE REJECT THE MESSAGE YOU HAVE BEEN SENT WITH. (Surah Fussilat, 14)
Or make the sky, AS YOU CLAIM, fall down on us in lumps; or BRING ALLAH AND THE ANGELS HERE AS A GUARANTEE; or possess a house built out of gleaming gold; or ascend up into heaven and even then we will not believe in your ascent unless you bring us down a book to read! Say: Glory be to my Lord! Am I anything but a human messenger? Nothing prevents people from believing when guidance comes to them but the fact that they say, Has Allah sent a human being as Messenger? SAY: IF THERE HAD BEEN ANGELS ON THE EARTH GOING ABOUT IN PEACE, WE WOULD HAVE SENT DOWN TO THEM AN ANGEL FROM HEAVEN AS MESSENGER. (Surat al-Isra, 92-95)
As is clear from these verses, unbelievers have produced the same excuses in all periods of history. In the same way that the deniers demanded the presence of Angels in order to believe in our Prophet ( *
kekasih 11.08.10 - 06:42am
Information in the hadiths referring to the date of the Day of Reckoning that might appear contradictory is actually transcription errors, one must look for the common points in what the hadiths relate
When we look at the hadith signifying the time of the Day of Judgment, it is seen that there is not an unanimity amongst the hadiths regarding the time given.
In such a case, one needs to look at the common point on which all hadiths agree. For instance when we an*lyse the 8 hadith, compiled by the great scholar of Ahl-Sunnah, al-Suyuti, that narrates the age of the Earth to be 7000 years, we see that all these hadiths reveal one single point which they agree on unanimiously. The similarity of the events related in the hadith yet the disagreement on the time signify an error made during the transmission of the hadith from our Prophets (saas) time to our day. For this reason one needs to accept the transmission errors on the hadiths about the Day of Judgment and notice the common point they relate.
1. EXPLANATION
From the hadith regarding the time of the Day of Judgment, we understand that people will live 120 years from the beginning of the End Times to the Day of Judgment. This period will be the last times of the earth that will commence with the prevelance of irreligious systems, continue with the appearance of Hazrat Mahdi (as) and the second coming of Prophet Jesus (as) and the prevelance of the morality of religion over the entire world, and end with the eradication of the morality of Islam and dominance of irreligion. That is to say, at the begining and end of this period of 120 years, the movement of irreligion will be severe while in the middle the morality of Islam will prevail and the Golden Age will dominate.
It is not a wise and rational attitude to indicate the time of the Day of Judgment in the distance and to prevent people to feel the due awe for it. Even if it will be far off, every individual will witness the Day of Judgment when he dies.
In a hadith related from our Prophet (saas):
During a conversation, a deep noise came. Our Prophet (saas) said: That is the sound of a rock which has been rolling down hill for seventy years and has at this moment come to rest in the very pit of Hell. Five minutes after he made this strange announcement, someone came and said: Such-and-such a dissembler has died. He was seventy years old, and has gone to Hell, (Muslim, Janna, 31, No: 2844; Musnad, iii, 341, 346)
As this hadith also states, although our Prophet (saas) and other people around him were alive, the hypocrite mentioned in the hadith died, he was put on trial and sent to the Hell. All these events occurred very rapidly. For this reason, because all people who die will experience the Day of Judgment, trying to show that it will occur far in the future only to make people feel no fear for it would not be a decent act. Besides, this will not change the facts.
2. EXPLANATION
The second explanation of the hadith, sun rising from the West may be the appearance of Hazrat Mahdi (as) from the West. Indeed, in another hadith revealed by our Prophet (saas) Hazrat Mahdi (as) is compared to a Sun.
HAZRAT MAHDI (AS) IS THE SUN WHO WILL DO AWAY WITH ALL TROUBLES AND OPPRESSION. When he bestows goodness he is fertile rain. (Al-Barzanji, Al-Isha'ah li-ashrat al-sa'ah, p. 188)
Besides, in a hadith revealed by our Prophet (saas) it is related that Hazrat Mahdi (as) will appear from the West. In the hadith revealed by Hafiz Abu Nuaim our Prophet (saas) told:
In such a troublesome time a person FROM THE FAR END OF THE (WESTERN) COUNTRY and one of the sons of our Prophets (saas) blessed daughter Fatima will appear. That individual is Hazrat Mahdi (as) who will engage in activities at the End Times. The appearance of Hazrat Mahdi (as) is the first of the portents of the Day of Judgment. (Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir az-Zaman, p.16)
As is known, Turkey is located in the West end of Islamic countires. The information in the hadith reveal that Hazrat Mahdi (as) will appear from Turkey. When this hadith is considered, one may think that the information in the hadith revealing that the Sun will rise from the West signifies that Hazrat Mahdi (as) will also appear from the West.
In this case, based on the information in the other hadith revealed by our Prophet (saas), for the appearance of Hazrat Mahdi (as), if we take the Hijri 1400 year for the appearance of Hazrat Mahdi (as) as a basis, the phrase that the Day of Judgment will commence after 120 years the Sun rises from the West corresponds to the Hijri year 1520.
The date provided by Said Nursi, that is the Hijri year 1520 are the years that Muslims will lose their strenghth and the system of irreligion will prevail the world. According to the explanations of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi 20-25 years after these years the Day of Judgment is awaited. (Allah knows the truth.) *
kekasih 11.08.10 - 06:44am
Bediuzzaman said that the accounts in the treatises were sufficient concerning all matters
Bediuzzaman, many times, asserted during his lifetime the truth of everything he had written, saying, I also abide by these as a student of the Treatise of Light. Each treatise is a book published in many editions. If, therefore, he openly states, I know I am not a sayyid in his works, then it would be a vile insult and slander against Bediuzzaman Said Nursi for certain people to say: Bediuzzamans statements are untrue; he called us one day and said that he was both a sayyid and a sharif and the Mahdi (as). Because this would be equivalent to claiming that what such a worthy and moral individual as Bediuzzaman had written was a lie. A claim to the effect that, contrary to what he wrote over hundreds of pages, Bediuzzaman only told two or three people that what he had written was a lie, is a grave imputation against those who make such claims. No claim to the effect that Bediuzzaman deceived millions of people, but only told a handful of people the truth, is completely unacceptable.
On the other hand, it is sufficient for Bediuzzaman to say, I am not the Mahdi (as) to put the record straight. It is nonsensical to maintain that such a holy personage wrote detailed and comprehensive lies overe hundreds of pages, and what he wrote is all a deception. Such a grave insult is unacceptable, even if made out of love.
It is completely out of the question for a reviver of such deep faith as Bediuzzaman to have written the exact opposite of what he thought and believed in his works. Therefore, it is a grave slander, albeit made out of love for Bediuzzaman, albeit with the very best of intentions, to make such a claim years after his death. An attitude that accuses him of lying and maintains that he spent hundreds of pages deceiving the public cannot be accepted by any conscience.
In addition, various unrealistic claims regarding the Prophet Jesus (as) may also be made in order to support this groundless claim. As we know, we are told in the hadiths of our Prophet (saas) that the Prophet Jesus (as) will return to Earth during the time of the Mahdi (as). The Prophet Jesus (as) and the Mahdi (as) will pray together, with the Mahdi (as) acting as imam, and they will rule together on Earth for seven years. However, none of these developments took place while Bediuzzaman was alive. Bediuzzaman did not live alongside the Prophet Jesus (as). Various attempts are made to explain this anyway. Unfounded ideas, such as that the Prophet Jesus (as) will return only in spirit, or that he lived, died and was buried during Bediuzzamans lifetime, are put forward. The fact is, however, that Bediuzzaman has made it crystal clear, and many times, in his works that the Prophet Jesus (as) will return to Earth as a person, with his human body. He also stated that the Prophet Jesus (as) would forge an alliance with Christian leaders and fight against and intellectually neutralise the antichrist. In one of these statements, Bediuzzaman says that the Prophet Jesus (as) will be a person, not a spiritual entity:
... THE PROPHET JESUS (as), who is in the world of the heavens WITH HIS PHYSICAL BODY, will assume the leadership of the true.... (Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, Letters, p. 60)
In addition, in those extracts in which Bediuzzaman refers to the Prophet Jesus (as) struggle against the antichrist, he speaks not of a struggle between one spiritual entity and another, but of one between the true person of the Prophet Jesus (as) and the personage of the antichrist:
... Those whose faith is weak find it hard to believe that the Prophet Jesus (as) will come and labour with the law of Islam and will slay the antichrist, as is reported in a hadith of absolute trustworthiness. If the truth of that is set out, no room for doubt will remain. (Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, Letters, pp. 58-59)
In another extract, Bediuzzaman says that the influence of the antichrist can only be done away with by a Prophet possessed of the power of miracles, and once again states that the Prophet Jesus (as) will be a person with the attribute of working miracles, and not a spiritual entity:
... he can only be A PERSON possessed of marvels and miracles and accepted by the people; THAT PERSON is THE PROPHET JESUS (as), the most concerned and the Prophet of most people... (Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, Rays, p. 463)
Such claims as these, pointing to private conversations as evidence, despite Bediuzzaman's unequivocal words regarding the coming of the Prophet Jesus (as)and Hazrat Mahdi (as) are very dangerous interventions that may cast doubt on all the treatises written by such a valuable reformer. How valid can these be if many people come up with very different claims, saying, Bediuzzaman Said Nursi may have said this here, but this is only a stratagem, a lie; he told us the truth? Not long after this, anything at all will be able to be said about any matter in the Treatise of Light, and Bediuzzamans works will increasingly lose their true meaning and wisdom. The only way to forestall this danger is to accept the words of such a worthy Islamic scholar, written and confirmed by himself, at their face value. Indeed, in his works, Bediuzzaman has recalled that the treatises contain the most truthful exposition of this subject, as they do of all others, and has stated that when someone reads what is written in the treatises they can acquire the most accurate information, just as if they were speaking to him in person.
Each book in the Treatise of Light is a Said. Whichever book you look at, you can benefit from it ten times more than by speaking to me in person, and you will really have spoken to me in truth. The Treatise of Light leaves no need for me. (Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, Emirdag Addendum, p. 159)
because he says: If anyone wishes to speak with me, about the Hereafter, or the Treatise of Light, the Treatise of Light has left no need for me at all. The millions of copies are as much use as ten Saids If it regards serving or disseminating the Treatise of Light, it is enough for true followers who serve me and my spiritual children and brothers to deal with my counterpart, there is no need for me (Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, Emirdag Addendum, p. 214)
Bediuzzaman also devoted space in his works to the words of his students who expressed the same fact. Some of these read:
O teachers and people of the heart! You can find the answers to your questions in the Treatise of Light. One of those who, as a blessing from Allah, know secret, invisible truth, asks someone as helpless as me about the Mahdi (as), When will he come? He knows nothing of the Mahdi (as) and does not know who the Dabbat al-Ard is. There is a description of this in the treatises. Look for the answer to every difficult question in the treatises, and you will find it there. ( *
kekasih 11.08.10 - 06:44am
Bediuzzaman said that the accounts in the treatises were sufficient concerning all matters
Bediuzzaman, many times, asserted during his lifetime the truth of everything he had written, saying, I also abide by these as a student of the Treatise of Light. Each treatise is a book published in many editions. If, therefore, he openly states, I know I am not a sayyid in his works, then it would be a vile insult and slander against Bediuzzaman Said Nursi for certain people to say: Bediuzzamans statements are untrue; he called us one day and said that he was both a sayyid and a sharif and the Mahdi (as). Because this would be equivalent to claiming that what such a worthy and moral individual as Bediuzzaman had written was a lie. A claim to the effect that, contrary to what he wrote over hundreds of pages, Bediuzzaman only told two or three people that what he had written was a lie, is a grave imputation against those who make such claims. No claim to the effect that Bediuzzaman deceived millions of people, but only told a handful of people the truth, is completely unacceptable.
On the other hand, it is sufficient for Bediuzzaman to say, I am not the Mahdi (as) to put the record straight. It is nonsensical to maintain that such a holy personage wrote detailed and comprehensive lies overe hundreds of pages, and what he wrote is all a deception. Such a grave insult is unacceptable, even if made out of love.
It is completely out of the question for a reviver of such deep faith as Bediuzzaman to have written the exact opposite of what he thought and believed in his works. Therefore, it is a grave slander, albeit made out of love for Bediuzzaman, albeit with the very best of intentions, to make such a claim years after his death. An attitude that accuses him of lying and maintains that he spent hundreds of pages deceiving the public cannot be accepted by any conscience.
In addition, various unrealistic claims regarding the Prophet Jesus (as) may also be made in order to support this groundless claim. As we know, we are told in the hadiths of our Prophet (saas) that the Prophet Jesus (as) will return to Earth during the time of the Mahdi (as). The Prophet Jesus (as) and the Mahdi (as) will pray together, with the Mahdi (as) acting as imam, and they will rule together on Earth for seven years. However, none of these developments took place while Bediuzzaman was alive. Bediuzzaman did not live alongside the Prophet Jesus (as). Various attempts are made to explain this anyway. Unfounded ideas, such as that the Prophet Jesus (as) will return only in spirit, or that he lived, died and was buried during Bediuzzamans lifetime, are put forward. The fact is, however, that Bediuzzaman has made it crystal clear, and many times, in his works that the Prophet Jesus (as) will return to Earth as a person, with his human body. He also stated that the Prophet Jesus (as) would forge an alliance with Christian leaders and fight against and intellectually neutralise the antichrist. In one of these statements, Bediuzzaman says that the Prophet Jesus (as) will be a person, not a spiritual entity:
... THE PROPHET JESUS (as), who is in the world of the heavens WITH HIS PHYSICAL BODY, will assume the leadership of the true.... (Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, Letters, p. 60)
In addition, in those extracts in which Bediuzzaman refers to the Prophet Jesus (as) struggle against the antichrist, he speaks not of a struggle between one spiritual entity and another, but of one between the true person of the Prophet Jesus (as) and the personage of the antichrist:
... Those whose faith is weak find it hard to believe that the Prophet Jesus (as) will come and labour with the law of Islam and will slay the antichrist, as is reported in a hadith of absolute trustworthiness. If the truth of that is set out, no room for doubt will remain. (Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, Letters, pp. 58-59)
In another extract, Bediuzzaman says that the influence of the antichrist can only be done away with by a Prophet possessed of the power of miracles, and once again states that the Prophet Jesus (as) will be a person with the attribute of working miracles, and not a spiritual entity:
... he can only be A PERSON possessed of marvels and miracles and accepted by the people; THAT PERSON is THE PROPHET JESUS (as), the most concerned and the Prophet of most people... (Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, Rays, p. 463)
Such claims as these, pointing to private conversations as evidence, despite Bediuzzaman's unequivocal words regarding the coming of the Prophet Jesus (as)and Hazrat Mahdi (as) are very dangerous interventions that may cast doubt on all the treatises written by such a valuable reformer. How valid can these be if many people come up with very different claims, saying, Bediuzzaman Said Nursi may have said this here, but this is only a stratagem, a lie; he told us the truth? Not long after this, anything at all will be able to be said about any matter in the Treatise of Light, and Bediuzzamans works will increasingly lose their true meaning and wisdom. The only way to forestall this danger is to accept the words of such a worthy Islamic scholar, written and confirmed by himself, at their face value. Indeed, in his works, Bediuzzaman has recalled that the treatises contain the most truthful exposition of this subject, as they do of all others, and has stated that when someone reads what is written in the treatises they can acquire the most accurate information, just as if they were speaking to him in person.
Each book in the Treatise of Light is a Said. Whichever book you look at, you can benefit from it ten times more than by speaking to me in person, and you will really have spoken to me in truth. The Treatise of Light leaves no need for me. (Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, Emirdag Addendum, p. 159)
because he says: If anyone wishes to speak with me, about the Hereafter, or the Treatise of Light, the Treatise of Light has left no need for me at all. The millions of copies are as much use as ten Saids If it regards serving or disseminating the Treatise of Light, it is enough for true followers who serve me and my spiritual children and brothers to deal with my counterpart, there is no need for me (Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, Emirdag Addendum, p. 214)
Bediuzzaman also devoted space in his works to the words of his students who expressed the same fact. Some of these read:
O teachers and people of the heart! You can find the answers to your questions in the Treatise of Light. One of those who, as a blessing from Allah, know secret, invisible truth, asks someone as helpless as me about the Mahdi (as), When will he come? He knows nothing of the Mahdi (as) and does not know who the Dabbat al-Ard is. There is a description of this in the treatises. Look for the answer to every difficult question in the treatises, and you will find it there. ( *
kekasih 11.08.10 - 06:46am
Bediuzzaman has told, with full supporting evidence, those who imagine him to be the Mahdi (as) that he is not the Mahdi (as)
A number of questions were directed towards Bediuzzaman in his own day from his disciples and those around him regarding whether or not he was the Mahdi (as). In fact, similar questions had been put to other revivers (mujaddids) before Bediuzzaman, and their followers claimed that these people were the Mahdi (as). They also told their students, with proof, that they were not the Mahdi (as), and that their attributes were incompatible with his. They gave detailed descriptions of when and where the Mahdi (as) would appear, the kind of features he would possess, his struggle, and how he would cause Islamic moral values to prevail. They made statements, in the light of the hadiths of our Prophet (saas), along the lines of I am not the Mahdi, because the Mahdi will be aged such and such, appear from such and such a place, possess such and such features, and be a sayyid.
Bediuzzaman gave two kinds of response to those asking for his thoughts on the subject;
1) He made it clear that he was not the Mahdi (as) and wrote pages of statements regarding why he was not the Mahdi (as) aimed at those who claimed that he was.
2) He also responded to those who ascribed the rank of Mahdi (as) to him by saying, assumptions have been around for a long time, that cannot be denied;
therefore, I had no quarrel with those holding such assumptions, and yet told these people that he rejected claims regarding the rank of Mahdi.
1) Bediuzzaman said, All my brothers bear witness that I never accepted the rank of Mahdi (as) (Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, Rays, p. 365) and proved this over hundreds of pages in the treatises.
The answer provided by Bediuzzaman, when asked about a subject is important, and he clearly stated that he was not the Mahdi (as). In his works, Bediuzzaman stated that he was not the Mahdi (Emirdag Addendum, p. 266), that the Mahdi (as) would appear a century after him (Kastamonu Addendum, p. 57), that he was a private soldier and a member of the vanguard of the Mahdi (as) (Barla Addendum, p. 162), that he had prepared the way for the Mahdi (as) with his work and books (The Ratifying Stamp of the Unseen, p. 189), and that it was an error and a confusion to imagine that he and the Treatise of Light were the Mahdi (as) (Emirdag Addendum, p. 266).
He also stated that the Mahdi (as) would be a sayyid (Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, , the Rays, p. 365), that he will perform three tasks in the worlds of politics, authority, and religion at once and at the same time (Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, the Rays, p. 456) (Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, Rays, p. 590) (Emirdag Addendum, p. 259-260), that the Mahdi (as) will reanimate the essence of Islamic moral values by bearing the titles of the successor of our Prophet ( *
kekasih 11.08.10 - 06:55am
.Bediuzzaman has stated several times in his works that the Mahdi (as) will be a sayyid, and that he is not a sayyid, but a Kurd.
In one of the proofs revealed by Bediuzzaman demonstrating that he is not the Mahdi (as), he states that the Mahdi (as) will be a sayyid, but that he himself is not a sayyid. Some extracts in which Bediuzzaman openly expresses this fact read as follows:
... All my brothers will bear witness that I have never accepted the imputation of being the Mahdi (as). Indeed, in response to what learned people in Denizli said about whether Said claims to be the Mahdi (as), contrary to what all his disciples believe, Said stated in his objection, I am not a sayyid, the Mahdi will be a sayyid, and refuted them. (Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, Rays, p. 365)
I know that I am not a sayyid (descended from the line of our Prophet (saas)). Generations are not known at this time. Yet, that great figure of the end times will be descended from our Prophet (saas). (Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, Emirdag Addendum, pp. 247-250)
Bediuzzaman also recalled one of the hadiths of our Prophet (saas) in his works - it is incompatible with Quranic moral values for one who is a sayyid to conceal the fact, thus making it clear that what he said on this subject was the truth:
Those people who are not sayyids, but who say they are, and those who are sayyids, but who say they are not, are both sinners, and in the same way that such claims and denials are forbidden so adding anything to or removing anything from the hadiths and Quran is forbidden. (Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, Reasonings, p. 52)
Had Bediuzzaman been a sayyid, there would have been no reason to conceal it because being descended from the line of our Prophet (saas) is not a feature requiring to be concealed. On the contrary, it is a great honour for all Muslims. Therefore, had Bediuzzaman been a sayyid, then when he was asked, he would have said, Yes, I am a sayyid, but I am not the Mahdi, and he would have been honored to say that he was descended from the line of the Prophet (saas) because admitting that one is a sayyid does not necessarily mean that one is the Mahdi (as). However, he nevertheless, several times reiterated that he was not a sayyid. Bediuzzaman also confirmed this several times in the treatises by saying that he was Kurdish (Disputations, p. 84; History of Life, p. 228; Bediuzzaman and His Students Trial Defence, p. 18). In the same way, had he been of the opinion that he was the Mahdi (as), he would not have spent hundreds of pages in works read by millions saying the exact opposite; he would not have said that he did not match the attributes of the Mahdi (as) nor, with a great deal of evidence, that this holy individual would be coming after him.
In addition, there is no question of everyone who is a sayyid being the Mahdi. (as) There are millions of sayyids in the world. Since the fact that someone is a sayyid does not necessarily mean that he is the Mahdi (as), and everyone who is a sayyid can freely and openly admit the fact. Moreover, Bediuzzaman did not say, The only thing I lack in this regard is being a sayyid, had I been a sayyid I would have been the Mahdi (as). On the contrary, he provided lengthy descriptions of all the attributes of the Mahdi (as) and the matchless activities he would engage in, and stated that these had not yet come about in his own day. *
kekasih 11.08.10 - 01:48pm
All conflicts and disagreements will end in the time of Hazrat Mahdi (as)
The (competents of) battle will abandon its load (arms and equipment). (Sunan Ibn Majah, 10/334)
Earth will be filled with peace, just as a bowl is filled with water. No enmity will remain between anyone. All enmity, conflict, and disagreement will surely vanish. (Sahih Muslim, 1/136)
(The competents of) War will abandon its load (namely, arms and the like). (Al-Sharani, Mukhtasar Tazkirah al-Qurtubi, p. 496)
He will do away with enmity and hatred. The venom will be removed from poisonous animals. Even a small boy will place his hand in a serpents mouth, and the serpent will not harm him. The wolf will be like a dog in a herd of sheep or goats. (Sunan Ibn Majah, p. 331-35)
In his time, the wolf will play with the sheep and snakes will not harm children. A person will sow a handful of seed and will receive back 700 handfuls of grain. (Ibn Hajar al-Haythami, Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar fi Alamat al-Mahdi al-Muntadhar, p. 43) *
kekasih 11.08.10 - 01:52pm
A response to the claim that one must know Arabic and the proper recitation of the Qur'an in order to understand the Qur'an and the hadiths: Hazrat Mahdi (as) will use internet knowledge
1) In our day there are hundreds of millions of Arabs around the world reading the Quran and the hadiths flawlessly in their native languages. However this proves to be insufficient to know the Quran and live by it.
2) Knowing the Quran and living by it becomes possible by sincerity. What matters is not knowing the Quran and the hadith by heart but to understand them and live by them sincerely. Allah relates in the Quran thus: You will be repaid for what you did- except for Allahs sincere servants. (Surat as-Saffat, 40 and 74)
3) In these countries there are thousands of communists, irreligious or Darwinist people. If they wish, these people, who speak Arabic fluently, can read the Quran flawlessly. This is not a sign showing their devoutness and fear of Allah.
4) The people who oppressed Muslims in the past and became instrumental in holding many Muslims under severe conditions of prisons in Iraq, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia also speak very good Arabic. There are also freemasons, communists and fascists who read the Surah Al-Fatiha of the Quran very well. Consequently it is a flawed rationale to say, Those who know Arabic are good Muslims and Those who do not speak Arabic are not good Muslims.
5) Darwinists, materialists, atheists, communists around the world are not influenced by ones knowledge of Arabic or tawjeed (perfecting the recitation of the Quran) but his piousness. They are scared to death by the knocking off Darwinism through science and philosophy.
6) Indeed the most important and influential feature of Hazrat Mahdi (as) will be his profound faith. Otherwise, HAZRAT MAHDI (as) WILL ALSO BE ILLITERATE like our Prophet (saas).
7) Hazrat Mahdi (as) will not have time to make detailed research about many subjects, learn foreign languages or explore the origins of languages. However, this state will not influence the perfection of his service. Bediuzzaman stated that Hazrat Mahdi (as) will NOT BE AVAILABLE IN TERMS OF TIME AND STATE, FOR THIS REASON HE WILL BENEFIT FROM READY WORKS.
Since preserving believers from depravity (preventing believers straying from the true path) and that this duty necessitates leaving behind the world and everything, and being occupied with research and bringing forth the truth, all of which requires a great deal of time, HAZRAT MAHDI (AS) WILL HAVE NO TIME OR MEANS TO PERFORM THAT TASK HIMSELF. Governance in the struggle of succeeding Muhammed [in other words, the great efforts made to spread Islam, bequeathed to Muslims by our Prophet (saas)] leaves no time for that. Someone before him will probably be engaged in that duty in one respect.
THAT PERSON WILL MAKE A READY PROGRAM OF RESEARCH ALREADY CONDUCTED AND WRITTEN BY THAT COMMUNITY. He will fulfill that first duty in its full sense, by which he will have fulfilled his first duty. (Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, Emirdag Addendum, p. 266-267) *
kekasih 11.08.10 - 02:02pm
Hazrat Mahdi (as) will make use of the Risale-i Nur in his work
It appears from this truth that; THIS BLESSED PERSON WHO WILL COME LATER WILL DISSEMINATE AND IMPLEMENT THE RISALE-I NUR AS A PROGRAM (Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, The Ratifying Stamp of the Unseen, p. 9)
In this extract, Bediuzzaman is once again expressing the glad tidings of the coming of Hazrat Mahdi (as) and saying that he will make use of the works of Bediuzzaman who describes himself as a forerunner preparing the way for Hazrat Mahdi (as).
Bediuzzaman also uses the term WILL COME here, which he repeats in a great many passages referring to Hazrat Mahdi (as). Bediuzzaman says in these passages that Hazrat Mahdi (as) had not come in the time of earlier mujaddids (revivers) or in Bediuzzaman's own day; he says that this holy individual will come AFTER them all. In addition, Bediuzzaman uses a very explicit language here, not only with a verb in the future tense, but reinforcing that with the word AFTER.
Bediuzzaman also specifies the word PERSON and sets out WHAT KIND OF PERSON Hazrat Mahdi (as) is. Bediuzzaman says Hazrat Mahdi (as) is a BLESSED PERSON. The word BLESSED means possessed of Divine goodness. With the title blessed he employs here, Bediuzzaman is praising Hazrat Mahdis (as) faith and the tasks he will perform. With all these details he provides, Bediuzzaman describes Hazrat Mahdis (as) moral virtues and struggle and describes how this individual with such superior virtues can be recognized.
In his works, Bediuzzaman describes himself as a forerunner of Hazrat Mahdi (as) and a pioneering soldier preparing the background for him, since he was the mujaddid (reviver) *
kekasih 11.08.10 - 02:07pm
.Hazrat Mahdi (as) will make use of technology in obtaining information about events in the world
The universe will be as visible as the palm of his hand for Hazrat Mahdi (as). (Bihar al-anwar, vol. 52, p. 328)
The hadith indicates that Hazrat Mahdi (as) will make use of technology in the End Times. Wide-ranging information about the universe will be obtained in the End Times. By the will of Allah, many things that were hitherto unknown will be learned through advances made in the End Times. Hazrat Mahdi (as) will use hand-held computer technology to obtain any information he wants or to establish communication with anywhere in the world. *
kekasih 11.08.10 - 02:10pm
Hazrat Mahdi (as) will expound hadiths of our Prophet (saas) about the End Times in the truest manner
Abu Bashir says: I heard Imam Muhammad Baqr say: ... He said: When Hazrat Mahdi (as) appears he will follow in the path of the Messenger of Allah (saas). ONLY HE [HAZRAT MAHDI (AS)] WILL EXPLAIN THE WORKS OF THE MESSENGER OF ALLAH... (Sheikh Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Numani, al-Ghaybah al-Numani, p. 191)
This hadith particularly refers to the End Times. Since it is Hazrat Mahdi (as) who will personally know the truth of these hadiths it is he who will most accurately elucidate the hadiths of our Prophet (saas) concerning the End Times. *
kekasih 11.08.10 - 02:19pm
The life of the Prophet Joseph (as) contains references to Hazrat Mahdi (as)
Muhammad Bakr said: THE OWNER OF THIS TASK [HAZRAT MAHDI (AS)] WILL HAVE A RESEMBLENCE TO JOSEPH (AS)]. (Sheikh Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Numani, al-Ghaybah al-Numani p. 189) (The owner of this task means he who possesses the guardianship. All our imams have guardianship. In addition, the guardianship in the relevant hadiths lies solely with Hazrat Mahdi (as).
Abu Bashir says: I heard Imam Muhammad Bakr say: HE WHO POSSESSES THIS OCCULTATION [HAZRAT MAHDI (AS)] WILL HAVE THE SUNNAH OF FOUR PROPHETS I SAID: WHAT IS THE SUNNAH OF JOSEPH (AS)? AND HE SAID: IMPRISONMENT AND OCCULTATION. (Sheikh Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Numani, al-Ghaybah al-Numani, p. 191)
THEN IT IS CERTAIN THAT HAZRAT MAHDI (AS) RESEMBLES THE PROPHET JOSEPH (AS) AND THAT HE [HAZRAT MAHDI (AS)] WILL SEE PEOPLE BUT PEOPLE WILL NOT SEE HIM [HAZRAT MAHDI (AS)] and that as Hazrat Ali (ra) states, HE [HAZRAT MAHDI (AS)] WILL NOT BE SEEN UNTIL A VOICE CALLS FROM THE SKY. (Sheikh Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Numani, al-Ghaybah al-Numani p. 167)
The hadiths of our Prophet (saas) say that there are many similarities between the life of the Prophet Joseph (as) as described in the story of Joseph in the Quran and the life of Hazrat Mahdi (as). Looking at the verses of the Quran in the light of this information provided by our Prophet (saas), they contain many events in agreement with the hadiths concerning Hazrat Mahdi (as). (Allah knows the truth.)
The Prophet Joseph (as) Is the Mahdi of His Own Time
Allah reveals in the Quran that He sends a Messenger leading to faith in every age. Since all the prophets have been sent as guides to faith, as instrumental in salvation, then every prophet is a Mahdi. The Prophet Joseph (as) is the Mahdi of his own time. In that respect, too, there is a great resemblance between the life of Hazrat Mahdi (as) who will appear in the End Times and that of the Prophet Joseph (as).
Like the Prophet Joseph (as), Hazrat Mahdi (as) Will Also Possess Special Knowledge and Wisdom from the Presence of Allah
Allah reveals in the Quran that the Prophet Joseph ( *
kekasih 11.08.10 - 02:25pm
Signs to technology in the End Times from the hadiths about the antichrist
It is reported from Ibn al-Munadi (ra) that:
He will hold the clouds in his right hand, extend to where the Sun sets, walk on the ocean, and yet the water will come only up to his heels There will be smoke in front of him and a green mountain behind He will issue such a cry that all those between the earth and the skies will hear it... He will command the soil and it will grow crops... (Al-Barzanji, Al-Isha'ah li-ashrat al-sa'ah, p. 219)
He will hold the clouds in his right hand...TM
This hadith reported from the Prophet (saas) refers to the antichrist holding the clouds in his right hand. This may be a reference to airplanes capable of reaching the uppermost levels of the atmosphere. Planes ascend to the level of the clouds and make it possible for human beings to reach them. This technology seems to be connected to the words of the hadith regarding the antichrist holding the clouds in his right hand. And Allah knows the truth.
He will extend to where the Sun sets...
The reference in the hadith to extending to where the Sun sets, may well be significant in terms of modern technology. Sunset can be observed all over the world using technological devices such as telescopes and satellites. Satellite systems can provide images of all countries, and these can then be watched all over the planet on the Internet. The reference in the hadith to the antichrist extending to where the Sun sets may be pointing to the satellite system in question. (Allah knows the truth).
He will walk on the ocean, and yet the water will come only up to his heels... *
kekasih 11.08.10 - 02:29pm
Cars in the time of Hazrat Mahdi (as)
Hazrat Mahdi (as) is moderate of virtue and excellent of creation... HIS STEED WILL SHINE LIKE A FULL MOON. HE [HAZRAT MAHDI (AS)] WILL GO AT THE HEAD OF THE MOST AUSPICIOUS COMMUNITY. They are enfolded by Allahs religion; they will seek to approach Allah with him... (Sheikh Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Numani, al-Ghaybah al-Numani, p. 171)
The hadith suggests that cars will be one of the technical vehicles available in the time of Hazrat Mahdi (as), and that these will have headlights and interior lighting. It appears from the information provided in the hadith that the headlights of Hazrat Mahdis (as) car will also shine brightly. *
kekasih 11.08.10 - 02:31pm
With advancing technology and the spread of the internet in the time of Hazrat Mahdi (as), information will become easily accessible
In the time of Hazrat Mahdi (as) information will be so pervasive that even a woman in her home will judge according to the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of the Prophet (saas). (Bihar Al-Anwar, Vol. 52, p. 352)
With advancing technology and the spread of the Internet in the time of Hazrat Mahdi (as), information will become easily accessible. Housewives sitting at home will have the opportunity to obtain information of all kinds from their own homes, and they will thus be able to scrupulously abide by the moral values of the Qur'an and the Sunnah of our Prophet (saas). *
kekasih 11.08.10 - 02:40pm
Hazrat Mahdi's (as) identity will remain secret to people even though he is living in their midst
...HE IS HIDDEN, BUT HE IS ALSO SITTING OPPOSITE YOU. HE RESEMBLES LIGHT...AND THE GUIDE BELOW HIM IS HIS LAMP.
(Mawlna, beyit II, 815-820).
Mawlana says that Hazrat Mahdi (as) will have links to people. But even though people are constantly in his presence, they will not recognize Hazrat Mahdi (as) and he will remain hidden. Those guides ranking immediately below him will be the lamps of Hazrat Mahdi (as), the wali al-asr (the guide of the century, the sole lord of time) and the greatest mujtahid (renovator), in other words, they will assist him with their light. *
kekasih 11.08.10 - 02:44pm
Various numerological calculations regarding the end time by Ahmed Feyzi Kul Efendi, a student of the Risale-i Nur -2
FROM THE MISCHIEF OF DARKNESS AS IT OVERSPREADS; (SURAT AL-FALAQ, 3)
1971 AD
(ANARCHY AND TERROR INCIDENTS BEGAN IN THE YEAR 1971)
STRIVING [IN THE WAY OF ALLAH] IS PRESCRIBED FOR YOU EVEN IF IT IS HATEFUL TO YOU. IT MAY BE THAT YOU HATE SOMETHING WHEN IT IS GOOD FOR YOU AND IT MAY BE THAT YOU LOVE SOMETHING WHEN IT IS BAD FOR YOU. ALLAH KNOWS AND YOU DO NOT KNOW. (SURAT AL-BAQARA, 216)
2010-2050
(In his works the Maidet-l Kuran and Hazinet-l Brhan Ahmed Feyzi Kul Efendi gives 2050 as the date when morality of Islam will prevail the world up to its highest point and come to perfection)
THEY FOUND A SERVANT OF OURS WHOM WE HAD GRANTED MERCY FROM US AND WHOM WE HAD ALSO GIVEN KNOWLEDGE DIRECT FROM US. (SURAT AL-KAHF, 65)
ISLAMIC CALENDAR: 1430-1431
2009-2010 AD
WE HAVE ONLY SENT YOU AS A MERCY TO ALL THE WORLDS... (SURAT AL-ANBIYA, 107)
1430-1431 AD
HE [JESUS] SAID: I AM INDEED A SERVANT OF ALLAH. HE HAS GIVEN ME REVELATION AND MADE ME A PROPHET. (SURAT AL-MARYAM, 30)
1410-1412-1462 AD
AND AS FOR THE BLESSING OF YOUR LORD, SPEAK OUT!. (SURAT AD-DUHA, 11)
ISLAMIC CALENDAR: 1376
1956 AD
BE FEARFUL OF TRIALS WHICH WILL NOT AFFLICT SOLELY THOSE AMONG YOU WHO DO WRONG. KNOW THAT ALLAH IS SEVERE IN RETRIBUTION. (SURAT AL-ANFAL, 25)
1913 AD
BEGINNING OF WORLD WAR I
BOMBARDING THEM WITH STONES OF HARD-BAKED CLAY(SURAT AL-FIL, 4)
ISLAMIC CALENDAR: 1359
1940 AD
WORLD WAR II *
kekasih 11.08.10 - 02:45pm
All the cities of the world can be seen in great detail using satellite technology over the internet
When matters are entrusted to competent Hazrat Mahdi (as) ALMIGHTY ALLAH WILL RAISE THE LOWEST PART OF THE WORLD FOR HIM AND LOWER THE HIGHEST PLACES. SO MUCH THAT HE WILL SEE THE WHOLE WORLD AS IF IN THE PALM OF HIS HAND. WHICH OF YOU CANNOT SEE A SINGLE HAIR IN THE PALM OF HIS HAND?
(Bihar Al-Anwar, Vol. 5, p. 328)
THE UNIVERSE WILL BE AS VISIBLE AS THE PALM OF HIS HAND FOR HAZRAT MAHDI (as).
(Bihar Al-Anwar, Vol. 5, p. 328)
In the time of Hazrat Mahdi (as), satellite imaging, television and Internet systems will all serve him. All the cities of the world can be seen in detail using satellite technology over the Internet.
It appears from the hadith that Hazrat Mahdi (as) and his followers will make use of Internet technology in the End Times.
According to Muhammad, son of Imam Jaffari Sadiq, the imam said: WHEN THE QAIM [HAZRAT MAHDI (AS)] APPEARS, he will send a messenger to every country, and will say to them: YOUR AGREEMENT IS IN YOUR HAND. If you encounter a situation you do not understand and find it difficult to rule on, LOOK AT YOUR HAND AND DO WHAT IS WRITTEN THERE...
(Sheikh Muhammad bin Ibrahim Nomani, al-Ghaybah al-Nomani, p. 381)
In the time of Hazrat Mahdi (as), people in management positions will communicate and learn things using hand-held computers and computerized cell phones over the Internet. *
kekasih 11.08.10 - 02:47pm
Passages from Said Nursi referring to Hazrat Mahdi (as) as an 'individual,' not a corporate entity
To oppose him, A LUMINOUS INDIVIDUAL CALLED MUHAMMAD MAHDI OF THE FAMILY OF THE PROPHET WILL COME TO LEAD the people of sainthood and perfection, who are bound to the luminous chain of the Family of the Prophet, and he will kill the current of dissemblers, which will be the collective personality of the Sufyan, and scatter it.
(Letters / Fifteenth Letter - p. 79)
In his Letters, Said Nursi states that Hazrat Mahdi (as) will be an individual descended from the line of our Prophet (saas). He clearly states in this extract that Hazrat Mahdi (as) is not a corporate entity consisting of a community or a society, but that he is a radiant individual descended from our Prophet (saas) and possessed of pure faith, and one who will assume the leadership of all guides. He says that Hazrat Mahdi (as) will wage an intellectual struggle against hypocrite tendencies that serve as the corporate entity of the Sufyan, one of the personages of the End Times, and that he will effectively neutralize these.
THAT SUPREME PERSON of the Last Days will be a descendant of the Prophet (saas)
(The Rays / The Fourteenth Ray - p. 440)
On page 440 of the Rays, the master reiterates that Hazrat Mahdi (as) is an individual descended from our Prophet (saas). Only a person can be descended from a family line, and there is no question of a corporate entity being descended from the Ahl al-Bayt. By referring to that supreme person of the Last Days the master is clearly discussing an individual, and to claim that Hazrat Mahdi (as) is a corporate entity and not a person flies in the face of the facts.
Sayyid Salih Ozcan, one of the masters most outstanding followers, stated that in a conversation the master said that he would not see Hazrat Mahdi (as), but that Sayyid Salih Ozcan would. This means that both the master and Salih Ozcan know that Hazrat Mahdi (as) is a person and that he will appear after the masters death.
THAT PERSON will make a program of research already conducted by that community and writing, by which he will have fulfilled his first duty.
(Emirdag Addendum, pp. 266-267)
The master says that when Hazrat Mahdi (as), whom he addresses as a personage, appears, following a long period of research and inquiry, he will adopt the Risale-i Nur as a ready-made program for him, and that he will undertake this first duty together with the Risale. The fact that the master refers to Hazrat Mahdi (as), who will appear in the End Times, as a personage shows he believes he will be a human being. The master also makes it clear, by the use of the word him, that Hazrat Mahdi (as) will make use of the Risale-i Nur as an individual, not as a corporate entity. The pro noun him is used to refer to individuals. This expression alone is significant evidence that the master knew that Hazrat Mahdi (as), who would appear after his own time, will be a human being.
Sheikh m Kibrisis representative Sheikh Ahmet Yasin also referred to the 1400s (Islamic calendar) in which we are living as the century in which Hazrat Mahdi (as) would appear.
You can watch these statements in which Sheikh Ahmet Yasin says that Hazrat Mahdi (as) will emerge in the End Times in which we are living now on video on the
And I told them: I am not a sayyid [descended from our Prophet (saas)]. Descendants are unknown in this time. Whereas that GREAT PERSON of the End Times will be from the Ahl al-Bayt [be descended from the Prophet (saas)]
(Emirdag Addendum, p. 267)
The master says that he himself is not a sayyid and that no research into the sayyid line could be conducted in his own day, but that Hazrat Mahdi (as) who will appear in the End Times will very definitely be a sayyid, a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad (saas). This means that the descendants of the Prophet (saas) will be known in the time of Hazrat Mahdi (as), and that there will be documentary evidence of his status as a sayyid, which also proves at the same time that he is an individual.
I believe I am a servant of this WONDROUS PERSON WHO will appear in the future, a rear-guard to set a background for him, and a pioneering soldier of that GREAT COMMANDER...
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kekasih 11.08.10 - 02:50pm
The awaited Mahdi (as) will not come with unbelievable properties - which would be against Allah's law; but as with all the Prophets, he will come with believable characteristics - in conformity with Allah's law
Hazrat Mahdi (as) will not have the kind of appearance that will oblige people to believe. On the contrary, Hazrat Mahdi (as) will have a very reasonable appearance in complete conformity with the law of Allah and again in conformity with that law, with a perfectly reasonable life. It is for that reason that it will not be easy for people to recognize Hazrat Mahdi (as), and his identity will only gradually be realized. As Bediuzzaman Said Nursi has said, even his close followers will only recognize Hazrat Mahdi (as) through the luminosity of his faith when they really focus on him.
But already have come some tokens thereof (Surah Muhammad, 18), was written in order to protect the belief of the mass of believers and preserve it from doubt. Like allegorical verses of the Quran, some Hadiths about the events of the End Times have profound meanings.
They cannot be expounded in the same way as incontestable verses, and not everyone can understand them. Rather than being expounded, they are interpreted.
In compliance with the secret, But none except Allah and those who are deeply rooted in knowledge, knows its final meaning (tawil) their interpretation (real meanings) and what is intended by them is understood only after the event, so that those firmly grounded in knowledge say:
We believe in it; the whole [of the Divine writ] is from our Sustainer, (Surah Al Imran, 7) and they disclose those hidden truths.
(The Rays / The Fifth Ray, p. 455)
First Point:
Since belief and accountability are a test, a trial, a competition within the bounds of mans will, theoretical issues that are obscure, profound, and in need of careful study and experiment cannot be obvious. They should not be so compelling that everyone has to affirm them will-nilly. For in this way the Abu Bakrs may rise to the highest of the high and the Abu Jahls descend to the lowest of the low. If there is no will, there is no accountability. It is because of this mystery and wisdom that miracles are displayed only rarely, and in this realm of accountability, like some allegorical verses of the Quran, the signs of the end of the world, which will be visible and seen, are obscure and open to interpretation. Since when the sun rises in the west, it will be so clear everyone will be compelled to affirm it, the door of repentance will be closed and repentance and belief will no longer be accepted. For the Abu Bakrs and the Abu Jahls will be equal in their affirmation of it. In fact, although when Jesus (Peace be upon him) comes he himself will know he is Jesus (pbuh), not everyone will know.
Second Point:
Some of the matters of the Unseen, outside the realm of mans perception, that were made known to the Prophet were made known in detail. These he could in no way alter or interfere with, like the incontestable verses of the Quran and Sacred Hadiths. Others, employing his eloquence, he would illustrate and explain in detail or in allegorical form suitably to the wisdom of mans accountability. For example, one time when conversing with some people, a deep rumbling was heard. He said: That is the sound of a rock which has been rolling down hill for seventy years and has at this moment come to rest in the very pit of Hell. (Muslim, Janna, 31, No: 2844; Musnad, iii, 341.) Five minutes after he made this strange announcement, someone came and said: Such-and-such hypocrite has died. He was seventy years old, and has gone to Hell, showing the meaning of the Prophets eloquent words.
The Third Point:
The First [of two Points]:
Because in the course of time ordinary people attached literal meanings to some Hadiths which had been narrated in the form of comparisons and allegories, such Hadiths are apparently not conformable with reality. Although they are pure truth, they appear not to be so.
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Fourth Point:
Just as for numerous reasons and instances of wisdom hidden matters of the Unseen like death and the appointed hour remain secret, so does the end of the world, which is its death and the appointed hour of mankind and that of the animal kingdom, has been left secret for many good reasons.
... It is for numerous benefits such as these that matters related to the Unseen remain secret. Everyone therefore continually bears in mind both his death and his continued life, and he works both for this world and the Hereafter. He is also aware that the end of the world may occur in any age, or that it may continue, and so works for eternal life within the transitoriness of this world, and strives to build the world as though he were never going to die.
In order not to be disrespectful and disobedient in the face of the principle none knows the Unseen save Allah, those who with dominical leave even, give news of the Unseen other than concerning mans accountability and the truths of belief, have done so only allusively and indirectly. In fact, the good tidings about the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) in the Torah, Gospels, and Psalms, are veiled and obscure, in consequence of which some of the adherents of those scriptures put various meanings on those passages and did not believe them. However, since the wisdom in mans accountability necessitates that the questions included among the tenets of belief are communicated explicitly and repeatedly, the Quran of Miraculous Exposition and its Glorious Interpreter (Peace and blessings be upon him) tells of the matters of the Hereafter in detail, and of future worldly events only in summary fashion.
Fifth Point:
Also, since the wonders of both the Antichrists (Dajjal), which are related to their centuries, have been narrated in connection with them, those wonders have been imagined to proceed from their persons and this has led to the narrations becoming allegorical and their true meanings being concealed. Like, for example, his travelling by aeroplane and railway train.
And, for example, it is well-known that when the Islamic Antichrist dies, the satan who serves him will shout out the news to the whole world (Muslim, Fitan, 34) from Dikili Tas, the obelisk in Istanbul, and everyone will hear its voice saying that he is dead. That is to say, the news will be broadcast by radio, which is wonderful and leaves even satans in amazement.
Also, since the strange cir tances and fearsome activities of the Antichrists regime, and the covert organization and government that he founds, have been narrated as referring to his person, their true meaning has remained obscure. For example, He will be so powerful and long-lived that only Jesus (pbuh) will be able to kill him; nothing else will be able to. (Tirmidhi, Fitan, 62; Abu Daud, Malahim, 14; Musnad, iii, 420; iv, 226; al-Hakim, al-Mustadrak, iv, 529-30.) That is, it will only be a revealed, elevated, pure religion that will be able to overturn his way and rapacious regime, and eliminate them. Such a religion will emerge among the true followers of Jesus (pbuh), and it will follow the Quran and become united with it. On the coming of Jesus (pbuh) and emergence of the true Christian religion, the Antichrists irreligious way will be wiped out and will cease. The Antichrists person could otherwise be killed by a mere germ or by influenza.
... Also, the explanations and statements of some narrators, made through their own exertions and interpretations, which are open to error, have been mixed up with the words of the Hadith. Their words have been supposed to be part of the Hadith, and the meaning has been obscured. It does not appear to be conformable with reality and in a way has become allegorical.
Also, in early times the social collectivity and its collective personality had not developed as it has at the present and the idea of the isolated individual was predominant, the extensive attributes and widescale actions of the community, therefore, were ascribed to the persons who led them. In order to be worthy and fitting for superhuman, universal attributes, those persons had to have gigantic bodies and be of vast stature and have colossal power and strength a hundred times surpassing their own, so that is how they were depicted. This was not conformable with reality, and the narration became allegorical.
... Also, the cir tances of the Great Hazrat Mahdi (as) do not fit the narrations alluding to the earlier Mahdis, and these have become allegorical Hadiths...
(The Rays / The Fifth Ray - pp. 101-102.)
In his Kastamonu Addendum, Bediuzzaman Said Nursi states that some ignorant men of religion will interpret the hadith by looking only at their surface meaning, making statements that do away with the free use of reason, for which reason they will fall into doubt over matters that can very easily be understood by the use of reason and good conscience, and that they can also in this way harm Muslims whose knowledge is weak. Said Nursi sets out with complete clarity this matter that Muslims of the End Times frequently encounter:
... Some superficial scholars [who have judged on the basis of the external meanings of the hadith] have fallen into doubt looking at the external meaning of those accounts and hadith. Or, they have either denied their accuracy or else have attributed a superstitious meaning [a wrong one as if something fanciful in tales] to them [describing them] as if expecting an impossible appearance [of a literally impossible person who has characteristics that abolish ones faculty of reason to decide conscientiously] and thus inflict harm on common people of Muslims [for people will have difficulty in believing such metaphysical accounts, so they inflict harm on those common Muslims who do not have knowledge].
(Kastamonu Addendum, p. 80)
Excerpt from Mr. Adnan Oktar's live interview on Dem TV, October 16th, 2009
Presenter: Will he [the Mahdi] perform any miracles? Is that how he will introduce himself?
Adnan Oktar: Said Nursi says that not even Hazrat Mahdi (as) himself will know who he is. But Cubbeli rather misinterprets the hadith. He says the whole of the sky will be filled with angels. The angels will shout out, he says, that so-and-so is Hazrat Mahdi (as). But Hazrat Mahdi (as) will say he is not the Mahdi. He says there will be 7 billion angels, an angel for every person. He says the angels will speak to everyone in his own language, English, French, Russian, Serbo-Croat or Croatian. He says people will see the angels. He says they will say that so-and-so is Hazrat Mahdi (as). That means 7 billion angels. Would Hazrat Mahdi (as) stand up and say that 7 billion angels are lying and that he is not the Mahdi? Is that at all realistic? That is a childish thing to say.
What else does he say? He says that the Adriatic Sea will dry up in Italy. He says the Mediterranean Sea will freeze like glass and Hazrat Mahdi ( *
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In his intellectual struggle against Darwinism and materialism, Hazrat Mahdi (as) will show people the proofs of creation, and will point to the verses of the Qur'an and trustworthy hadith handed down from our Prophet (saas)
The Qaim [Hazrat Mahdi (as)] will later appear among you with the truth; He will bring you the truths and act with the evidence;...
(Selected Prayers from Al-Sahifa Al-Mahdiyya, Sayyid Murtadha Muchtahidi Sistani, p. 65, Al-Bihar 51: 131) *
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Garden in the words of the Prophet (saas)
The Blessings Allah Has Prepared for the People of the Garden
Isnt there anybody hastening to the Garden? Because in the Garden there are unimaginable blessings. (Mukhtasar at-Tadhkirah, al-Qurtubi, pp. 306-307/499)
The Abundant Wealth of the Garden
One brick of gold and one brick of silver, its mortar is of strongly scented musk, its stones are pearls and emeralds, and its soil is of saffron (Narrated by Abu Hurayra, at-Tirmidhi)
The Beauty of the Dwellings of the Garden
If as much of what is in the Garden as could be carried by a fingernail were to appear, the space between the cardinal points of the heavens and the earth would be adorned on account of it. If a man of the inhabitants of the Garden were to look down and his bracelets were to appear, his light would obliterate the light of the Sun just as the Sun obliterates the light of the stars. (Narrated by Sad ibn Abi Waqqas, at-Tirmidhi)
The Extent of Property in Garden
It would take 2000 years even for someone of the lowest degree of Garden to traverse all his property in Garden and the furthest part of that property will seem to be the closest... [Ramuz al-Ahadith-1, p. 113/8]
Precious Stones and Metals
Those who dwell in the Garden of Eternity will wear crowns encrusted with pearls, the radiance of the smallest of which will illuminate the space separating the east from the west! (At-Tirmidhi) [Ramuz al-Ahadith-1, p. 99/8]
The Beauty of the Dwellings of the Garden
A brick of gold and a brick of silver, its mortar is of strongly scented musk, its stones are pearls and emeralds, and its soil is of saffron. Those who enter it will be in affluent cir tances and will not be destitute; they will live for ever and not die (Narrated by Abu Hurayra, at-Tirmidhi)...
The Mansions of the Garden
The mansions of Garden are made of red ruby, green emerald and white pearl. There is no flaw or defect in them. The dwellers in Garden look at them as you look at the stars shining in the sky, in the east and west ... [Ramuz al-Ahadith-1, p. 225/6]
There are such mansions in Garden that those inside see those outside, and those outside see those inside... [Ramuz al-Ahadith-1, p. 125/9]
Cities in the Garden
There is a river known as Rayyan in the Garden. A city of coral has been built upon it. It has seventy thousand gates of gold and silver. (Ahmad Diya ad-Din al-Kamushkhanawi, Ramuz al-Ahadith, vol. 2, p. 326/4)
In the Garden there is a gold pillar with cities of beryl [a bright, green precious stone resembling emerald] on it, and these shine like stars in the Garden (Ahmad Diya ad-Din al-Kamushkhanawi, Ramuz al-Ahadith, vol. 1, p. 125/6)
The Palaces of the Garden
In the Garden, there are palaces built of emeralds and jewels and in each building there will be 70 rooms of red colour and in each room 70 sub-rooms of green colour and in each sub-room there will be one throne There will be 70 dining cloths in each room and 70 kinds of food on each dining cloth. There will be seven servants in each room (Imam Ghazzali, Ihya Ulum ad-Din, vol. 4)... (Mukhtasar Tadhkirah al-Qurtubi, 323/554)
The Cool Pavilions of the Garden:
In the Garden the believer will have a tent made of a single hollow pearl, whose width will be sixty miles. The believer will have wives in it, and he will go to each of them without any of them seeing each other. (Narrated by Abu Bakr ibn Abdullah ibn Qais, Sahih Muslim, vol. 4, hadith no: 2838)
The least of the people of the Garden in rank is the one who will have eighty thousand servants and seventy two wives, and for whom will be set up a dome of pearls, aquamarine and rubies similar in dimensions to the distance between Jabiyah and San'a. (Abu Said al-Khudri, at-Tirmidhi)
The Markets of the Garden:
So we will come to a market surrounded by angels in which there is that which eyes have never seen the like of, the ears have never heard and which has never occurred to human hearts. That which we desire will be carried to us, and nothing will be sold in it or bought. In that market the people of the Garden will meet each other, so that a man of high rank will come forward and meet those who are lesser than himself [and none of them will be low people] and the clothes he has on will amaze and delight him. Before he ceases speaking, even finer raiment will appear upon him. That is because it is not fitting for anyone to sorrow in it. (Narrated by Abu Hurayra, Sunan Ibn Majah; at-Tirmidhi)
There is in the Garden a market wherein there will be no buying and selling, but forms of men and women. So when a man wishes a form, he will enter into it. (Narrated by Ali, at-Tirmidhi)
It is certain that there are such markets in the Garden in which no goods are exchanged. When the inmates of the Garden arrive there, they will recline on fresh and bright pearly earth of musk. They will meet with each other as they did in this world. They will talk of how they were in this world and how they worshipped our Lord, of how they enlivened the nights in prayer, of how they fasted during the day, of the wealth and poverty of the world, of death and of how they are the people of the Garden. (Mukhtasar Tadhkirah al-Qurtubi, p. 326/565)
The Food of the Garden
It is narrated that it was said, Place him in lofty Garden, where the fruits hang down. [Great Hadith Collection-5, p. 413/10120]
The Abundance of Fruit:
When opened, each fruit of the lote-tree of the Garden yields seventy-two colours and types of food, and no colour or type is like any other. (Mukhtasar Tadhkirah al-Qurtubi, p. 312/517)
... When one fruit of garden is broken off, another appears to replace it. [Ramuz al-Ahadith-1, p. 98/9]
Examples of the Food in the Garden:
Dates
The branches of the date palms in Garden are of a reddish gold. Their stalks are of green emerald. Their leaves are like pearls. Their fruits are the size of towers, softer than creal and have no pits. [Ramuz al-Ahadith-2, p. 451/4
Figs
Our Prophet (saas) was given a plate of figs. He ate from them and said to his followers: If I had to mention a fruit that descended from the Garden I would say this is it (Mukhtasar Tadhkirah al-Qurtubi, p. 313)
Water melons
Benefit from the watermelon and respect it, because its juice is from the Garden and its taste is from the Garden the watermelon is [one of the fruits] of the Garden. (Mukhtasar Tadhkirah al-Qurtubi, p. 313)
Bananas
The only fruit that resembles the fruit in the Garden is the banana. Because Almighty Allah says (of the fig), Its figs are continual. But you can find the banana in winter or summer, at all seasons of the year., (Death-Doomsday-The Hereafter and the Portents of the End Times, p. 312-313)
Meat
The most delicious of the food accompanying the bread of the People of the Garden is meat. Praise be to Allah, Lord of all the worlds. (Mukhtasar Tadhkirah al-Qurtubi, p. 363/654)
If on seeing a bird, one desires to eat its meat, it will be brought immediately, tastily fried. (Buyuk Hadis Kulliyati (Great Ahadith Collection), Cem'ul-Fevaid min Cami'il-usul and Mecma'iz-zevaid, Imam Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Sulayman ar-Rudani, vol. 5, p. 414/10123)
Human Beauty in the Garden
The maidens of the Garden are like ruby and coral. One looks at one maidens face and sees himself even more clearly than he would in a mirror, and the smallest jewel therein will illuminate the east and the west. (Ahmad Diya ad-Din al-Kamushkhanawi, Ramuz al-Ahadith, vol. 2, p. 337/7)
The inhabitants of the Garden will be hairless on their bodies, beardless and black-eyed; their youth will not end, nor will their clothes become old. (Narrated by Abu Hurayra, at-Tirmidhi)
In the Garden there is a market to which they will come every Friday. The north wind will blow and will scatter fragrance on their faces and on their clothes and add to their goodness and beauty, and then they will go back to their wives who will also have increased in goodness and beauty, and their wives will say to them: By Allah, you have increased in goodness and beauty after leaving us, and they will say: By Allah, you have also increased in goodness and beauty after us. (Narrated by Anas ibn Malik, Sahih Muslim)
... If one of the women of the Garden peeped into this world, she would illuminate and fill with fragrance everything between [heaven and earth]. Her veil is better than the earth and everything in it. (Imam Ghazzali, Ihya Ulum ad-Din, vol. 4; Sahih al-Bukhari)
The Beauty and Variety of Clothing in the Garden
... There are glorious mansions there, and broad rivers, and plentiful and ripen fruit, and beautiful maidens and many long-lasting and brightly colored clothes. That is a place of lofty, beautiful and pue lands, where sparkling water runs,... [Ramuz al-Ahadith-1, p. 170/1]
... None of them is lacking in anything, so nobody will be distressed by the fine clothing they see on others. They wear finer clothes, which it would take an eternity to describe... [Tezkireti'l Kurtubi, p. 325-326/563]
The Trees of the Garden
... The lower parts of the trunks of the trees in the Garden are pearl and gold, and the upper parts are fruit. [Tezkireti'l Kurtubi, p. 315/523]
The branches of these trees never dry up, their leaves never fall, their water never fails and their fruit never ends. [Belief in Paradise in the Divine Faiths, p. 54]
The Rivers and Seas in the Garden
There is a sea of honey, a sea of wine, a sea of milk and a sea of water in Garden. Other rivers will spring from these [(Tirmidhi), Geat Hadith Collection-5, p.409/10097]
The Beautiful Landscape of the Garden
The trees to be planted in the Garden are very lush. Because the water there is good, and the soil bountiful... [Ramuz al-Ahadith-1, p. 72/14]
[It is built of] one brick of gold and one brick of silver, its mortar is of strongly scented musk, its stones are pearls and emeralds, and its soil is of saffron ( *
