Topic: Savior-Imam Mahdi

A sweet story

I want to tell you a story which began in my childhood:

When I was a kid my toys were my friends. I used to talk with them and tell them my secrets, believing that they could really hear me. When I was upset and crying I used to grab and hold them tight so that I might forget all my sorrow. But when I got a little older, I realized that they were not hearing me! I mean they were not able to hear me. In the depth of their eyes, there was no emotion. I had lost my intimate companions.

HEAVEN on earth

Part 2

Then I (Haji Ali Baghdadi) asked another question from the Sayyed: I told him that in the year 1269 A.H. I had gone for the Ziyaarat of Imam Reda (PBUH); then in Darroot [approximate pronunciation of the name of a town] we met a Sharooqiyeh Arab -who were desert living Arabs in the east side of Najaf-, and we invited him to be our guest, so we asked him about the WELAAYAT of Imam Reda (PBUH), and he said that it was "HEAVEN".

At the end of the month of Safar, year 410 A.H., Hadrat Mahdi (PBUH), by Allah's Permission, sent a Toqee' (Signed Letter) to Mohammad son of Mohammad son of No'maan, the Shaikh Mofeed, in which the Imam (PBUH), while referring to himself as the Depositary of the Covenant made with the servants of Allah, addressed that very learned and pious Shi'ah scholar and Faqeeh (jurisprudent and theologian) as a steadfast brother and guided friend and follower.

The Amir-Ol-Mo'menin, Hadrat Ali (PBUH), has declared:

“One who takes his religion from the mouths of the people, the people will deviate him. But the one who acquires Religion from the Book (Qur'an) and Traditions, mountains may move but he will not.�

(Wasaa'el-O-Shshi'ah, vol. 18, p. 95; …)

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.

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".

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.

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!

On the very auspicious occasions of birth anniversaries of the most beautiful and perfect creation of Allah, the most kind and benevolent Hadrat Muhammad (PBUH&HP), and his Allah-Chosen sixth Successor, the manifestation of Divinely Bestowed Knowledge, Hadrat Saadeq, Ja'far son of Muhammad (PBUT), we wish to offer those who truly love and follow them, a celestial Golden Key decorated with the heavenly white ribbon of Ever-Anticipated Peace, and celestial blue bows of True Monotheism and Justice.

While the time of Appearance is not prefixed and no one except Allah knows when it shall occur, but Imam Saadeq (PBUH) has given us a Golden Key which can open the dark door of Occultation, sooner rather than later! In a lengthy Hadith, the Imam has mentioned that when the hardships of Bani-Israel, being captured under the rulership of Pharaoh of Egypt, became too long and intolerable, for forty consecutive mornings, they cried and prayed wholeheartedly and implored Allah to hasten the Promised Relief. Hence, Allah communicated with Hadrat Moosa and Hadrat Haaroon (PBUT) through Divine Revelations, and commanded them to go to Egypt and free the Bani-Israel from their calamity. In this manner, as the result of their sincere supplication and repentance, Allah reduced one hundred and seventy years from the previously ordained four hundred years of hardship (due to their disobedience and …).