The very first individual of human species created on this old earth was Adam (PBUH), the starter of this human race. In other words, Allah -the Compassionate and Merciful- first created a Hojjat and Proof, a Representative and Caliph of Allah, before creating the rest of human race on earth, so that His people would never be without an Allah-Chosen Infallible Proof to follow. This has been the unchangeable Sunnah of the Merciful Allah; the human race on earth has never been and will never be deprived of a Divinely Chosen Guide and Hojjat of Allah.

Ever since the year 260 A.H. that Hadrat Mahdi (PBUH) has been in Occultation, sincere and devoted Believers, with tearful eyes and hopeful hearts, have been Anticipating his glorious and Promised Emergence, but many passed away brokenhearted without witnessing that which they had wholeheartedly anticipated.

Confessions of a British spy

PART 5A

It was on one of those days when Muhammad of Najd and I had become very intimate friends that I received a message from London ordering me to leave for the cities of Karbala and Najaf, the two most popular Shiite centers of knowledge and spirituality. So I had to put an end to my company with Muhammad of Najd and leave Basra. Yet I was happy because I was sure that this ignorant and morally depraved man was going to establish a new sect, which in turn would demolish Islam from within, and that I was the composer of the heretical tenets of this new sect.

Approaching two blessed moments in time, the glorious birth anniversary of the Lady of all ladies ever created, Hadrat Fatemah (PBUH), and, the magnificent birth anniversary of the only Amir and Commander of all Mo'menin and Believers, Hadrat Ali (PBUH), we wish to narrate a delightful true story regarding "Fadak", hoping for a smile, though momentarily, on their beloved Mahdi's (PBUT) beautiful face … . This story clearly reveals that the Wilayat of the AhlulBayt (PBUT) was the story behind Fadak! In fact, the Lady (PBUH), through demanding Fadak, was actually reminding the usurpers about the Allah-Bestowed Successorship of Ali (PBUH), a fact which was clearer than the day light for those usurpers. Ah! Alas! If Ali's (PBUH) Allah-Bestowed Right was not usurped, the human Path to Blissful Eternity would not have become so mirage-full!

In the first verse of Surah Nooh (71) of the Karim Qur'an, Allah -Glory be to He-, after confirming the Prophethood of the Prophet Nooh -Noah- (PBUH), has stated that he (PBUH) was commanded to deliver His message" Warn your people before there come upon them a painful chastisement".

A while back we introduced to you a very precious Australian lady whose maiden name was Lynette Vivienne Burton. She used to be a Christian, but -All Praise be to Allah- through sincere imploration to God and unbiased research she embraced the True Islam. The name she uses now is Shifa Lynette Vivienne Mustapha. This is what she has said herself in regard to the name she has chosen:

"After embracing Islam I took the first name "Shifa".  This I did because I believed that I had undergone spiritual healing, being thus now able to see the truth of Islam. While many converts refuse to keep their original names, I believed that as a mark of respect to my parents I should keep the names they, in love, gave me. My first name was close to the name of my father's brother who was killed in an accident years before I was born, and my second name was the feminine form of my father's name. . . We take our husband's surname when we marry over here."

It is valuable to emphasize the point that she embraced Islam through imploration and research and not only through her marriage. The following is a paper in regard to Hadrat Fatemah (PBUH) which she presented last year:

Allah -Glory be to He- in verse 35 of Surah Maa'edah (5) of the Karim Qur'an has said:

O' you who Believe! Have Taqwa and fear Allah (guard against sins …), and seek AL-WASEELAH (the Means) toward Him, and strive with might in His Sabeel (Path), so that you may achieve salvation.

Allah -Glory be to He- in verse 148 of Surah Baqarah (2) of the Majeed Qur'an has said:

And for each, there is a direction toward which he shall turn to; therefore vie in "Khayraat" [good deeds]; wherever you may be, Allah will bring you together; surely Allah is Omnipotent over all things.

The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH&HP) has said:

Fatimah is a part of me; any one who bothers her, has bothered me, and whosoever bothers me, has bothered Allah.

(Sunni document: Sahih Bukhari)

Allah -Glory be to He- in verse 62 of the Surah Naml (27) of the Karim Qur'an has stated:

Or, Who answers 'the Moztar' [the Distressed] -when he calls upon Him-, and removes the suffering, and makes you the successors and viceroys of the earth? Is there a god with Allah? Little it is that ye heed!