Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

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
aforesaid 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 al-Qawlulmukhtasâr fîalâmât-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-âsâr-il-wâridati fî-haqq-il-Mahdî,
by Jalâladdîn-i Suyûtî, informs with the symptoms of hadrat
Mahdî.]
Our Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ declared: “The
Beni-Isrâil (Sons of Israel) parted into seventy-one groups.
Seventy of those groups went to Hell and only one group were
saved. And the Nasârâ parted into seventy-two groups, seventyone
of which went to Hell and one group were saved. After some
time, my Ummat also will part into seventy-three groups. Seventytwo
of them will go to Hell and one will be saved.” When asked by
the Sahâba who this one group were, “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 are the Ahl assunnat
wa-l-jamâ’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 taught by the savants of the Ahl as-sunnat! Take us
out of this world as we are together with them! Yâ Rabbî! Let us
be together with them on the Day of Rising. After being guided
into the true faith, do not let our hearts slip away from the right
way and give us rahmat from Your High Kingdom. You are the
greatest of those who give blessings.
The first principle of Islam is belief in Allâhu ta’âlâ and His
Prophet. That is, it is to love them, and like and admit their words.
After correcting the belief, it is certainly necessary to do the
commands of Islam, to avoid its prohibitions, that is, to carry out
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