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Imam Jafar e Sadiq (a.s.) said that the other side of the sea there is a city whose width is
equal to the journey made by the sun in forty days. The inhabitants of the city are
unaware of sinful acts and they even don’t know the name of Satan. Whenever they meet
us, they ask lot of questions and are very pleased to hear our answers. They ask as to
when the Last, the Twelfth Imam (a.s.), will arrive. These people keep themselves busy in
the worship of Allah. They recite the Holy Quran as instructed by us. They are our true
followers. These people will join the Jehad when the Twelfth Imam (a.s.) makes his
appearance to banish evil from the face of the earth. No weapon will have any effect on
their bodies. Their swords are made of such tempered steel that if they hit a rock with
them, the rock will get sliced.
The Imam (a.s.), after his appearance, will be accompanied by these troops to Rome,
Turkey, Deelam and Tabriz. Then he will make a skirmish on a place lying between Ja
Balqa and Ja Balsa. These are the two cities, one in the East and the other in the West.
People of all the places will be invited to profess the Faith of Islam. A time will come
when the entire population of the world would have embraced Islam.
Imam Hassan (a.s.) says that there are two cities, one in the East and the other in the
West. Around each of the two cities there is a rampart made of steel. Every rampart has
seventy gates and from every gate seventy thousand caravans enter. The people of every
caravan speak a different tongue. But we can understand and converse in all these
languages. None other than my brother Hussain (a.s.) and me can visit these cities.
The Prophet of Islam (a.s.) has said, “ O Abu Dharr! Allah has compared my Ahl al Bayt
to the Canoe of Noah. Whosoever boarded the Canoe, got deliverence.. . The dissenters
got drowned in the rough waters of the storm. The people who board the ship of my Ahl
al Bayt’s love and obedience, will get free of the curse of infidelity. .Others who turn
away from them, will drown in the sea of wretchedness and depravity. The only way to
deliverence is through love and affection (Mawaddath) for us.”
Imam Hassan Askari (a.s.) wrote to Ishaq bin Ismael, “ The duties made mandatory for
you by Allah are His favors on you because He is not in need of your prayers. His
purpose in making prayer compulsory has been to distinguish between the righteous and
the evil. He gauges the righteous through the yardstick of regularity in offering of prayers
and awards them the higher place and position.
Therefore, it is mandatory on you also to perform Haj, give Zakat, fast during the month
of Ramadhan, offer mandatory prayers and have Faith in the Wilayeth of the Ahl al Bayt.
For you the entrance to all virtue is through the obedience of the Ahl al Bayt. If
Mohammed (a.s.) and his Vicegerents (a.s.) were not there, the people would have been
in gross ignorance like the animals. Can you enter a city without going through the
gateway? Allah has appointed the Imams (a.s.) after the Prophet (a.s.) for the Guidance of
the people. It is His Favor on the mankind. Allah says in the Holy Quran, ‘ Today I have
completed the Faith of Islam, completed all the favors and bounties for you and Am
satisfied with it.’.”
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