Introduction For The Chronological Order Of The Reappearance Signs of Imam AlMahdi Research

 

In the name of Allah, the All Merciful, the Most Merciful; and prayers and greetings on the last of the prophets, Mohammad and his chaste and pure progeny ...

 

Aslamu Alikum. Peace be upon you, and mercy and blessings of Allah ...

By favors of Allah, there exist many books, articles, and lectures, printed, visual, and audible, in libraries and religious centers, and on the internet and satellite programs, which deal with the signs of reappearance of the Imam AlMahdi (May Allah expedite His Reappearance: AJ).

When Allah, Exalted and High is He (EH), guides us to stimulate our desire to investigate the issue of Imam AlMahdi (AJ), (and that is why you are with us here now), and begin to probe into this large amount of resources, we are shocked and get lost by the following many questions:

 

  • Is there really an Imam AlMahdi who will reappear at the end of time?

  • If he is really there, was he born then disappeared or died; or shall he be born or reappear at the end of time?

  • When shall he reappear; soon and I should be prepared now; or that will be later on after I am dead, so I should not preoccupy myself with him?

  • What is his name, and his father's name?

  • What is his family descent, and is he from Ahlulbayt (People of the Prophetic House) peace upon them?

  • How old is he, and how old shall he be when he reappears?

  • Who shall fight against him, and who shall fight on his side?

  • How shall he govern, and according to which canonical law or scripture?

  • What are we expected to do by Islamic code to be prepared and get ready for that day?

  • More than that, in which narratives of the different schools of thought and sects are we to believe?

  • And in which interpretation and sayings of the scholars are we to believe?

 

To begin with this site is not a religious site, and does not follow any particular scholar of religion. This is the position of most of us.

We have no time to waste in lecturing or in arguments based on sectarian, political, or ethnic grounds.

We are not bothered by any details that may have no effect on our lives, our families, or our future; nor do we have any political or sectarian objective; and we are not after any financial or ideative returns.

We only want to live in peace and tranquility. Our most important aim is to secure our hereafter.

We are after knowledge and information that are likely to influence our world and our hereafter, without being lost between the opinions and differences of the authoritative sources.

Aren’t we all like that?

 

Therefore, why are we to know the close signs of the reappearance of Imam AlMahdi (AJ) and their order of occurrence, in spite of this confusion?

Do you agree with us that the trustworthy Prophet Mohammad, peace be upon him and his progeny, does not speak from whims, and that what he says is by inspirations from the Lord of the worlds?

 

In the name of Allah, the All Merciful, the Most merciful ( * By the star when it pounces down * Your companion had not gone astray nor has he erred * Nor does he speak out of whims * It is but an inspiration revealed * He was taught by one who is intense in power * It (star) is of powerful influence and set firm * While it is in the highest horizon * Then it approached and dangled * and became at a two curves distance or closer * Then He inspired to His servant what He did inspire * The heart (of the prophet) did not deny what it saw * Do you argue with him about what he really saw * And he actually saw it in another descent * Near (Sidrat Al-Muntaha) the utmost sensible universe * Along it is the paradise of abode * Where the Sidrat is obscured by what obscures it * The eyesight did not swerve, nor did it prevail upon * He certainly saw the greatest of his Lord's signs.). Quran; Al Najm '53', 1-18.

 

In the name of Allah, the All Merciful, the Most merciful ( * Need not to swear by what you observe * and by what you do not observe * It is certainly the statement of a noble messenger * and it is not the statement of a poet, little it is what you believe in * Nor is it a statement of a soothsayer, little it is what you remember * A revelation from the Lord of the worlds * Should he make up about Us some false statements * We would have seized from him with might capability * And would have severed his life artery * And no one of you hinders him * and it is a reminder for the cautious * And We do know that some of you are deniers * and it is an agony for the disbelieves * and it is the certain reality.). Quran: AlHaaqqah: 38-51.

 

Therefore, if you agree about that, The Prophet, peace be upon Him and his progeny, said ( There will befall on my nation at the end of time a great affliction from their governors, nothing worse than it had ever been heard of, so much so that the wide earth would be constrained on them, and earth would be full of oppression and injustice. The believers would not be able to find a refuge to which they resort from injustice. Then Allah, exalted and high is He, shall send a man of my progeny from my Ahlulbayt (People of the Prophetic House), who by him He will fill earth with justice, after it was full of oppression and injustice. Earth shall spare nothing of its seeds but brings them out, and the sky shall leave no amount of its water but pours it in torrents. He shall live in it for seven years, or eight or nine. The living shall covet for the dead what Allah, exalted is He, has bestowed on the people on earth of His bounties.). Mi'jam Ahaadeeth Al Imam AlMahdi, vol 1, pp. 83-85, hadeeth 44. Narrated by 45 sources of different sects, and parts of which are in many other sources.

 

If we tell you that scientists were certain that a strange virus might spread out and cause the death of thousands of people, would you not go on looking for information about the reality of that virus, its properties, and the details about what it can cause, how it could be prevented, and when it is likely to appear; even overlooking their scientific capabilities?

The truthful and trustworthy, the messenger of Allah, Allah pray on him and on his progeny, who does not speak out of whims, asserts that that the Mighty all Knowing has informed Him that the vast and wide earth shall be constrained on us as a result of the great affliction, oppression and injustice that would afflict us. Would not that require that we look for the information about the nature and details of those catastrophes and what are the means of protecting ourselves from them, and when they would occur?

According to the following narrative, Imam Jaafar Alsadiq (AS) orders us to make ourselves well informed about those signs before they occur, and to propagate among the people the facts about their nature, in order to be familiar with them and to be prepared. Not only that; but he also taught us, fourteen centuries ago, the different views about the properties of the signs of the time of reappearance.

 

According to Imam AlSadiq (AS), who says to Zorarah (A caller shall call from the sky: so and so is the emir (governor); and a caller shall call: Ali and his partisans are the winners). I said: And whom shall fight AlMahdi after that? He (AS) said (Satan shall call: so and so and his partisans are the winners, meaning a man from the clan of Omayyah). I said: And who shall know the truthful from the liar? He said (He is known by those who narrate our Prophetic statement and say: He is, before that he was; and they know that they are the truthful and rightful). Mi'jam Ahaadeeth AlImam AlMahdi, 34, p. 457, hadeeth 1018 (three sources).

 

From the leader of the believers Imam Ali (Ameer AlMo'mineen) (AS) in AlJafr (Know you and keep it secret, and on the proper time announce the signs to the world, and call upon the people of knowledge and the men of the pen, and who kept secret what he knew, and muster people into action.). AlMofaaja’ah (The surprise) by Mohammad Eesa bin Dawood: p.313.

 

The research work in the nature of the signs of the reappearance of AlMahdi (AJ) does not necessitate that you are a scholar in religious sciences of jurisprudence, or in the Prophetic statement or the doctrine. They are signs of certain physical events which shall occur to draw the attention of common people to the approach of the expected reappearance. It does not require that you are a scholar in religion or in natural sciences in order to understand them.

Moreover, you do not need a scholar in religion, or any person or a certain method for that matter to inform you that what is taking place are the intended signs. The All Mighty, exalted and high is He, has designed the main signs to be obvious and clear to the most common of the people, to shake and awake them from their stupor which are caused by the strains of daily burdens that confuse them.

In this research work we have applied modern methods of scientific research which depend on discovering the signs, and looking for the connections between them, in order to determine the true nature of the signs of reappearance of AlMahdi (AJ) and the order of their occurrence. This effort took since 2002 to complete what we arrived at within the limits of possible accuracy. Here, we put in your hands what we have arrived at, and we are still investigating the issue, as we are certain that there must be many more sources and manuscripts of different sects and ethnicities, in different languages and religions, which we did not have the chance to examine, by the means of which to confirm or amend the results which we arrived at.

Therefore, we do not claim that this research work is complete and its results are correct and accurate enough and pertain to what is going to take place. Perfection and all knowledge are only to Allah, exalted and high is He. But we are certain that its results are at a high degree of accuracy and objectivity.

It is reasonable to refer to objective doubts about the authenticity or accuracy of the texts. The hadiths of the Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, were burned several times, and illiteracy was rampant. Then he began collecting hadiths and narrations during the time of the Umayyad caliph Umar bin Abdul Aziz, within the limits of 98 AH in the method of what a narrator remembers hearing from excerpts from the hadith on the authority of a narrator, on the authority of a narrator, on the authority of a narrator.... and so on. Rather, the majority of what we are circulating now was compiled centuries later and often from sources that were lost!... And what is printed now has been “revised” under the pretext of scrutiny and investigation!!

Yet, due to the considerable seriousness of the events of the reappearance of the awaited for Imam AlMahdi (AJ), and the disability of a single investigator to collect, know about, and analyze all the relevant sources; and in order to eliminate any errors, and to enrich the investigation, aiming to arrive at more accurate details about the nature of the signs and the order in which they take place, we have founded this new neutral site to make this investigation open, to which may contribute all the specialists of different specializations, sects, religions, ethnicities, and disciplines, in order to discuss its contents and support it with sources to evaluate its results, for the benefit of all.

Let us all participate in discovering the reality of what is going to happen. This is a site of neutral scientific research work, not of religious information, and it is not affiliated to any religious sect or a school of thought or a religion, or to any particular side.

There is no room here for any kind of unscholarly argumentation, or any discussions beyond the parameters of the subject matter. Let us be serious and accurate in investigating the actual nature of the signs of reappearance of the awaited Imam AlMahdi (AJ), and the order of their occurrence, in order to be well prepared, and to protect ourselves and families.

The pages of the site shall be continuously updated to modify the results, or to support them with additional evidence according to your scientific critique, which is supported by evidence and additions.

We beg Allah the all Mighty and all Potent, to accept this endeavor and guide us all to His straight path, and to the way of deliverance from the coming dreadful ordeals. We dedicate this research of us to the messenger of Allah Mohammad, peace be upon him and his progeny, and to his pure and chaste Ahlulbayt (People of the Prophetic House), the boat of deliverance, peace be upon them, and their last one, the awaited for, Imam AlMahdi, may Allah expedite his noble reappearance, close and near, by the will and the mercy of Allah.

 

 

 

 

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