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(Nimrod) and Buhtunnassar (Nebuchadnezzar). Fifthly, the
earth will be owned by one of my descendants, Mahdî.”
A hadîth declares: “Before Doomsday, Allâhu ta’âlâ will
create one of my descendants, whose name, father’s name
and mother’s name will be the same as those of mine, and
who will fill the world with justice. The earth, which will
have been filled with cruelty before him, will be filled with
justice during his time.” Another hadîth declares: “The
As’hâb-i kahf will be Mahdî’s assistants and Îsâ (Jesus) will
descend from heaven during his time. As Îsâ fights the
Dajjâl, Mahdî will be with him. During his reign, unusually,
contrary to calculations, there will be a solar eclipse on the
fourteenth day of the blessed month of Ramadân and there
will be a lunar eclipse on its first night.” Then, let them be
reasonable enough to see if these symptoms exist [in those
people whom the ignorant suppose to be Mahdî or] in that
abovementioned dead man. Many other symptoms of Hadrat
Mahdî have been predicted by Mukhbir-i Sâdiq ‘alaihissalâtu
wassalâm’. Hadrat Ahmad ibni Hajar-i Makkî wrote almost two
hundred symptoms of Hadrat Mahdî in his book
Alqawlulmukhtasâr fî-alâmât-il-Mahdî. While the symptoms of
the reported Mahdî are so obvious, those who think of others as
Mahdî are so ignorant. May Allâhu ta’âlâ bless them with the lot
of seeing the truth! [The book Juz’un minal-ahâdith wa’l-âsâril-wâridati
fî-haqq-il-Mahdî, by Jalâladdin-i Suyûtî, informs with
the symptoms of hadrat Mahdî].
Our Prophet ‘sallallâhu alaihi wa sallam’ declared: “The
Beni-Isrâil (Sons of Israel) parted into seventy-one groups.
Seventy of these went to Hell and only one of them was
saved. And the Nasârâ parted into seventy-two groups,
seventy-one of which went to Hell and one was saved. After
some time, my Ummat also will part into seventy-three
groups. Seventy-two of these will go to Hell and one will be
saved.” When asked by the Sahâba who were this one group,
“The group which will be saved from Hell are those who
follow my Sahâba’s way,” he said. [It is written in the
translation of Milal-Nihal that this hadîth exists in the four books
called Sunan.] The saved group is the Ahl as-sunnat wa ’ljamâ’at,
who have held fast to the way of the best of mankind.
O our Allah! Do not make us dissent from the îmân, from the
belief communicated by the savants of the Ahl as-sunnat! Take
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