¶ Door Number Forty-One
¶ The Book of Revelation
¶ “When the Word falls on them, We shall bring forth for them out of the earth a beast that shall speak unto them: ‘Mankind had no faith in Our signs’”
Fear. That is what most people are operating on. Fear of going to hell. Fear of being deceived. Fear of the devil, the Antichrist, fear of change. That fear is what the non-working scholars use to deceive people into blind obedience. It was the fear the Egyptians had of God which allowed Pharaoh to use the priests from the temple of Amun to enslave the population. It is the fear of breaking through the programming that we were brought up with that causes us to be slaves. In the Qur'an, the disbelievers said:
“And when it is said to them, “Follow what has revealed Allah,” they said, “Nay we follow what we found [on it] our forefathers (following)”. Even though [were] their forefathers (did) not understand anything and not were they guided?”
People are like blind cattle and sheep following the crowd and the familiar:
“Or do you think that most of them do hear or understand? They are nothing but as cattle; nay, they are straying farther off from the path.”
You will always find the non-working scholars demonizing anyone and anything which challenges their power or threatens it. You find the priests of Amun demonizing Moses (PBUH), the Rabbis demonizing Jesus (PBUH), the Jewish and Christian scholars demonizing Mohammed (PBUH & His Family). Why? In order that the people are afraid to follow them. And why were Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed the ones who were labeled the most determined? Because they were the ones with will-power to leave the books of those before them and their methods and scriptures. From Uthman ibn Isa, from Sama’a, he said:
I said to Abi Abdillah (PBUH): “The saying of God, ‘So be patient as the determined ones were,’ ” he said: “[They are] Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed (peace be upon them and upon all the Prophets of God and His Messengers).” I said, “How did they become Ulul-Azm?” He said, “Because Noah was sent with a Book and jurisprudence, so all those who came after Noah worked by the Book of Noah and his jurisprudence and his method, until Abraham came with the scriptures, and with will-power he left the Book of Noah, not out of disbelief in it. And every Prophet who came after Abraham came forth with the jurisprudence of Abraham, his method and his scriptures, until Moses came with the Torah and with will-power he left the scriptures. And so every Prophet who came after Moses worked by the Torah, his jurisprudence and his method, until the Messiah came with the Gospels and with will-power he left the jurisprudence of Moses and his method. And so every Prophet who came after the Messiah worked by his jurisprudence and his method, until Mohammed (PBUH & His Family) came and brought forth the Qur’an, his jurisprudence and his method. So his hallal (permissible) will remain hallal (permissible) until the Day of Judgment, and his haram (impermissible) will remain haram (impermissible) until the Day of Judgment, so these are the Ulul-Azm (those with determination) from the Messengers.”
¶ The Lifting of Friday Prayer
And now it is the Day of Judgment or day of the Rise of the Qaim, and Ahmed Al-Hassan (From Him is Peace) had enough will-power to leave the books and jurisprudence of those before him, not out of disbelief in them but rather because he came with the Seventh Covenant, a new and more perfect and complete Covenant with its new book and jurisprudence and with the true meaning of religion, the prostration to Adam, or to the Caliph of Allah, the divinely appointed King or Messenger. This is the true prayer and true worship of God. In order that Ahmed Al-Hassan (From Him is Peace) demonstrate this point, he once asked me to take a pledge of allegiance from the believers to the Mahdi Adam (PBUH). I brought forth Adam (PBUH) on that day in front of a large group of believers and I recited the words:
“And (remember) when We ordered the angels: “Prostrate before Adam,” they all prostrated except Satan; he refused and was proud and was one of the disbelievers.”
And instantly all the believers there that day prostrated down. Some had filmed the incident and when it got back to Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan (From Him is Peace),
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “Blessed you are and blessed are all of the family of believers, and may God bless your blessed gathering, and congratulations to the believers whilst they are amongst two of the most beloved creations of God to my heart, Joseph and Adam, may God safeguard you both. How beautiful is that, and how beautiful are you, may God protect you. God is greatly Great and all thanks due to God and Glory be to God, there is no God but God alone, He has fulfilled His promise, and defeated the parties alone, religion is purely for Him, even if the disbelievers hate it! Lo and behold, the act of prostration to Adam by the angels has happened once again. For God is thanks and praise. You have ripped Iblis into pieces in this very moment, may God curse him. God bless you, all of you. By this prostration and through this obedience, God has forgiven every single sin of the believers. Inform them all of this, and I have also lifted the obligatory Friday prayers from you for four weeks! God is Great and all thanks due to God! You are the prayer my son, you and Adam, peace be upon you, are the obligatory acts of worship. What shall they do with Friday prayer? May God safeguard you! You always lift my head, my beloved son.”
I said, “I only seek you to be pleased with me.”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “I am completely pleased with you, God bless you beloved son and may God increase you from His goodness and blessings.”
¶ The Degree of the Free
As you saw, through the acts of obedience, a believer may and can reach a degree where the apparent acts of worship are dropped from him and are no longer necessary, for God does not need our worship but rather, we are the ones in need.
I said to my Father (From Him is Peace), “Teach me the hallal and the haram.”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “My son, and shall you handle it? Shall you be patient…?”
I said, “So is the jurisprudence here for us the jurisprudence of paradise?”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “Yes, my son, yes, understand it son, understand and be free!”
I said, “What about normal believers that are not Proofs of God? Does the jurisprudence of Earth fall for them as well?”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “The jurisprudence only drops off the believers who have absolute and complete submission to God. As for you, you are above the jurisprudence if your mind has absolute certitude in that. Does your mind have certitude in that? I want you to prove that to me, prove to me that your mind believes completely what I am saying. My son, rip out of your head everything that you have ever learned, for you are above the jurisprudence, and you are not subjected to it, you are from another world, its hallal is other than this hallal and its haram is other than this haram here, understand please I beg you, understand what I want, understand and become free, become free my son, become free!”
I said, “So this thing that you said was impure is not impure?”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “Yes, it is impure because you think it to be wrong while it is hallal, but only if you believe it to be hallal. It is a difficult equation, as I said, that needs a high degree of awareness and intellect. And this is the case in everything, alcohol, etc.”
I said, “So if the mind of the human being is a servant of the world and from the world then it is chained by the chains of the jurisprudence?”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “Great job! Great job! Great job!”
I said, “How can a person tell if he reached the degree of the free?”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “Only the Imam can unchain the slave and inform him.”
I said, “What if he unchains his own chains and stops praying and does what he wills?”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “Then this one is disobedient and is not a believer and is held to account and will be judged for these acts.”
¶ The Disciples are Disturbed
I thought a lot of those words and I know that for many these words of the Imam (From Him is Peace) are heretical in their minds, and have left them disturbed, thinking he is a devil or Antichrist. This reminded me of a dream that the disciples of Jesus (PBUH) had which left them disturbed and the dream too had to do with the jurisprudence and what is right and what is wrong. It was in the manuscript found in Nag Hammadi, the Gospel of Judas. I asked Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan (From Him is Peace) about this dream.
I said to my Father (From Him is Peace), “My Father, in the Gospel of Judas, the disciples saw a vision, it states: ‘Another day Jesus came up to them. They said to him, “Master, we’ve seen you in a dream, because we had great [dreams last] night.” But Jesus said, “Why […] hidden yourselves?” And they [said, “We saw] a great [house, with a great] altar [in it, and] twelve people – we’d say they were priests – and a name. And a crowd of people was waiting at the altar [until] the priests [finished receiving] the offerings. We kept waiting too.” [Jesus said], “What were they like?” And they said, “[Some] fast [for] two weeks. Others sacrifice their own children; others their wives, praising and humbling themselves among each other. Others sleep with men; others murder; yet others commit many sins and do criminal things. [And] the people standing [before] the altar invoke your [name]! And in all their sacrificing, they fill the [altar] with their offerings.” When they said this, [they] fell silent because they were troubled.”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “Yes.”
I said, “These twelve men that they saw in the dream that disturbed them, are they the Mahdis, or are they the twelve that remain in the end, or were they the twelve disciples?”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “Yes, they are the Mahdis.”
The disciples were disturbed because the acts which the people were performing as offerings to the Lord in the dream were acts which they considered to be against the jurisprudence. What they did not take into account, was the intention behind the acts that were presented as offerings and the results of those actions, just as the actions of the Righteous Servant in the story of Moses (PBUH) in Surah Al-Kahf.
¶ Another Misunderstood Vision
One of the most mysterious books of the Bible is the book of Revelation. It’s the final book of the New Testament, there is no consensus on who wrote it nor is there a consensus on what it even means. It is a mysterious vision that was recorded by the author who identifies himself simply as John. Some people consider the author to be the same John who wrote the Gospel of John. Modern scholars say that is quite unlikely. Scholars even differ amongst one another on whether the author of the Gospel of John was Jesus’ disciple John, or whether it was a student of the disciples whose name was also John. Scholars have also dated the manuscript to the first century after Christ. The reason for this is because they think that there are references in the book to the emperor Nero who lived in that time.
In summary, the book of Revelation is a book understood by most Christians to be detailing the events of the end times or the Apocalypse. Jesus appears in a vision to John and commands him to deliver messages to various churches and then shows John different scenes concerning the return of Jesus, the appearance of the Antichrist, and the events of Armageddon. The book of Revelation is one of the books most often used to demonize Islam and Prophet Mohammed (PBUH & His Family) as well as the Mahdi (PBUH & His Family). The reason for this is because some Christian preachers and so-called scholars have interpreted the book of Revelation to be talking about a final showdown between the Mahdi and Jesus. They believe references in the book of Revelation which speak of a white rider, such as mentioned in Revelation 6:2, to be speaking of the Mahdi (PBUH & His Family),
“I looked, and there before me was a white horse! Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest.”
The book of Revelation details the emergence of three characters whom Christians understand to be the manifestation of pure evil or the unholy trinity, the Dragon, the Beast of the Sea, and the Beast of the Earth. The Dragon is understood to be Satan, the Beast of the Sea is understood to be the Antichrist and the Beast of the Earth is understood to be the False Prophet, an individual who goes out calling towards the first Beast. Before going any further, we shall examine the verses of the book of Revelation that deal with the topic:
¶ The Woman and the Dragon
“A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads. Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that it might devour her child the moment he was born. She gave birth to a son, a male child, who “will rule all the nations with an iron scepter.” And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne. The woman fled into the wilderness to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of for 1,260 days.
Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him. Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say:
“Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ. For the accuser of our brothers, who accuses them before our God, day and night, has been hurled down. They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death. Therefore rejoice, you heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has gone down to you! He is filled with fury, because he knows that his time is short.”
When the dragon saw that he had been hurled to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child. The woman was given the two wings of a great eagle, so that she might fly to the place prepared for her in the wilderness, where she would be taken care of for a time, times and half a time, out of the serpent’s reach. Then from his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river, to overtake the woman and sweep her away with the torrent. But the earth helped the woman by opening its mouth and swallowing the river that the dragon had spewed out of his mouth. Then the dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to wage war against the rest of her offspring—those who keep God’s commands and hold fast their testimony about Jesus.”
¶ The Beast out of the Sea
“The dragon stood on the shore of the sea. And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on its horns, and on each head a blasphemous name. The beast I saw resembled a leopard, but had feet like those of a bear and a mouth like that of a lion. The dragon gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority. One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed. The whole world was filled with wonder and followed the beast. People worshiped the dragon because he had given authority to the beast, and they also worshiped the beast and asked, “Who is like the beast? Who can wage war against it?”
The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise its authority for forty-two months. It opened its mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander his name and his dwelling place and those who live in heaven. It was given power to wage war against God’s holy people and to conquer them. And it was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation. All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written in the Lamb’s book of life, the Lamb who was slain from the creation of the world. Whoever has ears, let them hear. “If anyone is to go into captivity, into captivity they will go. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, with the sword they will be killed.” This calls for patient endurance and faithfulness on the part of God’s people.”
¶ The Beast out of the Earth
“Then I saw a second beast, coming out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon. It exercised all the authority of the first beast on its behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed. And it performed great signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to the earth in full view of the people. Because of the signs it was given power to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived the inhabitants of the earth. It ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived. The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name. This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. That number is 666.”
¶ The Interpretation of 666
I said to my Father (From Him is Peace), “My Father, in the Gospels you have the number 666 and its connection to the Beast of the Earth, the people of the Gospels interpret the Beast to be the Antichrist and that he marks the people. In the Qur’an you have the Beast of the Earth, and he marks the people with the ring of Solomon, etc. You also have a repetition of this number many times in strange areas. What is the meaning of this number and is this Beast the Qaim who is interpreted in the Bible to be the Antichrist?”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “The Beast is the Qaim yes, in this age, and for every age there is a Beast. As for the number 666 it is addition and multiplication.”
I said, “Addition and multiplication?”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “If you multiply two numbers and add them with the third you shall receive a number. 6x6=36.”
I said, “Yes.”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “36+6=42.”
I said, “42?”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “42. What does this number remind you of? Ha? 42 men.”
I said, “Exactly.”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “And if you go back and add the number 42, how much would it be?”
I said, “It would be 6?”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “6. The companions of the Cloak are how many?”
I said, “The companions of the Cloak are 5 plus Gabriel so 6.”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “6, now you have understood.”
I said, “Glory be to God. There is no God but God.”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “No one else shall interpret it besides me until the end of time.”
¶ The Identity of the Two Beasts in this Age
I said, “I have read about the Beast in the Bible and have found it saying: “Then I saw a second beast, coming out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon. It exercised all the authority of the first beast on its behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed. And it performed great signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to the earth in full view of the people. Because of the signs it was given power to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived the inhabitants of the earth. It ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived.”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “Yes.”
I said, “The first Beast is the one that the people prostrate to and the second is the one who causes the people to prostrate to him, is this referring to you and I?”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “Yes.”
I said, “My Father, from a long time ago and I know that the Qur’an says that it is the Beast from the Earth who speaks to the people and now I know the reality of its identity from you, but in the Bible it speaks about the Beast as if he is satanic, is this because of the corruption of the text or is this intentional in order to lead people astray from Imam Mahdi or what happened in the book of Revelation?”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “Yes my son, without a shadow of a doubt it is corrupted in order to misguide the followers of the religion and show them the truth as false and the false as truth.”
I said, “Yes, I thought as much but I wanted to be sure.”
¶ The Mark
Now it is clear that we have a very contentious situation. The Bible is saying that the Beast is a soldier of Satan and an enemy of Jesus and God, while the Qur’an is saying that there is a Beast which shall emerge and speak to the people concerning their disbelief and the Imam (From Him is Peace) is saying that he is the Beast from the Sea, and the Qaim is the Beast from the Earth, but they are supposed to be good. Could it be different Beasts? Absolutely not. How do we know? Well, in the book of Revelation, the Beast marks the people on their right hand or forehead:
“It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.”
Does the Beast of the Qur’an and Islam also mark people? Prophet Mohammed (PBUH & His Family) said:
“The Beast shall emerge and with it he carries the ring of Solomon and the staff of Moses, and he marks the face of the believer with the staff, and he marks the nose of the disbeliever with the ring and the people will gather and say that’s a believer and say that’s a disbeliever.”
In another tradition, it clarifies that the Shia in the days of Imam Ali (From Him is Peace) considered him to be the Beast from the Earth who marks the people. Ibn Nabata narrates that Muawiyah said:
“O Shia! You claim that Ali is the Beast of the Earth?” Ibn Nabata said: “We say that, and the Jews say it too.” So Muawiyah sent to Raas Al-Jalut and he said: “Woe to you, you find the Beast of the Earth written in your books?” So he said: “Yes.” So Muawaiyah said: “Do you know what its name is?” He said: “Yes, its name is Elijah.” So Muawiyah turned to Asbagh and said: “Woe to you, O Asbagh, how close is Elijah to Ali.”
This narration also shows that the Jews in the time of Imam Ali (From Him is Peace) considered the Beast of the Earth to be a man and to be a good man, the return of their Prophet Elijah (PBUH).
Imam Ali Al-Ridha (From Him is Peace) is directly asked about the matter to which he says:
“ ‘And we brought forth a Beast from the Earth to speak to them.’ This is Ali.”
And in yet another narration, the Prince of the Believers (From Him is Peace) himself says:
“I am the Beast of the Earth.”
Prophet Mohammed (PBUH & His Family) also confirmed that Imam Ali (From Him is Peace) was the Beast of the Earth. In one narration, the Prophet approached Imam Ali (From Him is Peace) while he was sleeping in the masjid and he gathered some sand and placed it on his head, and then pushed him with his foot and said:
“Rise O Beast of God.” A man from the companions said: “O Messenger of God, shall we call each other that name?” So the Prophet (PBUH & His Family) said: “No, by God, it is only especially for him, and he is the Beast which is mentioned by God in His book: ‘And if the word befalls them, we caused a Beast to come out of the Earth and speak to them that they did not have faith in our signs.’ ” Then he said: “O Ali, if it is the end times, God will bring you forth in the best of images and you shall have with you a branding iron to brand your enemies.”
If indeed Imam Ali (From Him is Peace) is the Beast from the Earth, then Prophet Mohammed (PBUH & His Family) must be the Beast of the Sea that the Beast of the Earth calls towards. But does Imam Ali (From Him is Peace) confirm a relationship between the Beast and the Mahdi who emerges in the end time? In a narration Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib (From Him is Peace) says:
“Shall I not speak to you about three things before someone walks in upon you and I? I am the servant of Allah and I am the Beast of the Earth, its sincerity and justice, and the brother of its Prophet, shall I tell you about the nose of the Mahdi and his eye?” His companion said: “Yes.” Imam Ali (PBUH) struck his chest with his hand and said: “I”.
Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan (From Him is Peace) said in the book of Monotheism:
And Abu Ja’far (PBUH) said: ‘Verily he shall come down in domes from light, when he comes down in the back of Kufa upon Al-Farouq (The Distinguisher), so that is when he descends. As for {the matter has been ordained} that is the marking on the trunk, the day of the marking where the disbeliever will be marked’ - Tafsir Al-Ayashi, volume 1, page 103. And the marking on the trunk means what the Qaim (The Riser) does, or the Beast of the Earth {And when the word befalls them, We will bring forth for them a beast from the earth speaking to them, [saying] that the people were, of Our signs, not certain [in faith]} [Surah 27:82].”
¶ God as a Dragon, Angels as Beasts
It becomes clear that the Beasts of Revelation are the Ahlul-Bayt (From Them is Peace) and they will mark the disbelievers and believers in the time of the emergence of the Qaim. It is clear too that the Beast comes forth with the belongings of the Prophets and the Messengers, the staff of Moses (PBUH) and the ring of Solomon (PBUH), so the Beasts cannot be negative figures but rather inheritors of the Prophets and Messengers, for the ring of Solomon and staff of Moses were imbued with divine power and passed from one vicegerent to another. In the same vision, we see the word “Beasts” used to describe the four Cherubim that surround the Throne of God.
“And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind. And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle. And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.”
The Dragon metaphor is also not necessarily an evil one or one only used to represent Satan, but rather in the Torah, the symbol of the Dragon was used to represent and describe God. David (PBUH) describes God as a fire-breathing Dragon in his song of praise in 2 Samuel 22:
“In my distress I called to the LORD; I called out to my God. From his temple he heard my voice; my cry came to his ears. The earth trembled and quaked, the foundations of the heavens shook; they trembled because he was angry. Smoke rose from his nostrils; consuming fire came from his mouth, burning coals blazed out of it. He parted the heavens and came down; dark clouds were under his feet. He mounted the cherubim and flew; he soared on the wings of the wind. He made darkness his canopy around him-- the dark rain clouds of the sky. Out of the brightness of his presence bolts of lightning blazed forth. The LORD thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded. He shot arrows and scattered [the enemies], bolts of lightning and routed them. The valleys of the sea were exposed and the foundations of the earth laid bare at the rebuke of the LORD, at the blast of breath from his nostrils.”
That is not the only place in the Old Testament where God is compared to a Dragon. In Isaiah 30:27-33 we also see God being described as a flying Dragon breathing fire:
“See, the Name of the LORD comes from afar, with burning anger and dense clouds of smoke; his lips are full of wrath, and his tongue is a consuming fire. His breath is like a rushing torrent, rising up to the neck. He shakes the nations in the sieve of destruction; he places in the jaws of the peoples a bit that leads them astray. And you will sing as on the night you celebrate a holy festival; your hearts will rejoice as when people playing pipes go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel. The LORD will cause people to hear his majestic voice and will make them see his arm coming down with raging anger and consuming fire, with cloudburst, thunderstorm and hail. The voice of the LORD will shatter Assyria; with his rod he will strike them down. Every stroke the LORD lays on them with his punishing club will be to the music of timbrels and harps, as he fights them in battle with the blows of his arm. Topheth has long been prepared; it has been made ready for the king. Its fire pit has been made deep and wide, with an abundance of fire and wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of burning sulfur, sets it ablaze.”
¶ Good thought to be Evil
The description of the Qaim and his companions when examined in light of the narrations of the Holy Household, we find that the people think that they are evil when they appear, and they will curse them and think that they are devils or the Antichrist but with God they are good and righteous. One narration says about the appearance and return of Imam Al-Hussein (From Him is Peace) in the time of the Qaim,
“…those who inform the people that this is Al-Hussein who has emerged in order that the believers do not doubt in him, he is neither an Antichrist nor a devil and he is the standing proof between them, so if the knowledge of this becomes stable in the hearts of the believers that he is indeed Al-Hussein (PBUH), then death will come to the Hujjah…”
Here we see that even the believers doubt Imam Al-Hussein (From Him is Peace) and think he is a devil or Antichrist for a certain period. It is therefore no wonder, that Prophet Mohammed (PBUH & His Family) described the companions of the Qaim saying:
“Verily, they are disbelievers with the people and with God they are pious, and they are liars in the eyes of the people but they are truthful in the eyes of God, and they are impure in the eyes of the people and they are clean in God’s eyes, they are cursed in the eyes of the people but they are blessed with God, they are oppressors in the eyes of the people but in the eyes of God they are just, they have won by their faith and the hypocrites have lost.”
It is clear then, that the matter that the Qaim comes with is a dangerous one because it resembles evil, but in reality it is good, and people mistake him for evil and fear him and curse him and his companions and his banner, because they think he is a devil or Antichrist. For that reason, all those who thought they would be companions of the Imam, go out of this matter and there enters this matter the likes of the worshipers of the Sun and the Moon. The Beast of the Earth, Metatron, calls everyone to prostrate to the companion of the Seventh Covenant in this day and age, Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan (From Him is Peace), the Beast of the Sea and the Spirit of Truth, the voice who spoke to Moses (PBUH) from the burning bush.
¶ Sources
- The Holy Qur’an, Chapter 2 (Al-Baqarah), Verse 170
- The Holy Qur’an, Chapter 25 (Al-Furqan), Verse 44
- Bihar Al-Anwar, Al-Allamah Al-Majlisi, Vol. 65, p. 326
- The Holy Qur’an, Chapter 2 (Al-Baqarah), Verse 34
- The Gospel of Judas
- The Holy Bible, Book of Revelation, Chapter 6, Verse 2
- The Holy Bible, Book of Revelation, Chapter 12
- The Holy Bible, Book of Revelation, Chapter 13, Verses 1-10
- The Holy Bible, Book of Revelation, Chapter 13, Verses 11-18
- The Holy Bible, Book of Revelation, Chapter 13, Verses 11-14
- The Holy Bible, Book of Revelation, Chapter 13, Verses 16-17
- Kashf Al-Haqaiq, Al-Shaikh Ali Ale Muhsin, p. 88
- Bihar Al-Anwar, Al-Allamah Al-Majlisi, Vol. 39, p. 244
- Bihar Al-Anwar, Al-Allamah Al-Majlisi, Vol. 39, p. 244
- Bihar Al-Anwar, Al-Allamah Al-Majlisi, Vol. 39, p. 244
- Tafsir Al-Qummi, Ali ibn Ibrahim Al-Qummi, Vol. 2, p. 130
- Bihar Al-Anwar, Al-Allamah Al-Majlisi, Vol. 39, p. 234
- Book of Monotheism, Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan (From Him is Peace), p. 42
- The Holy Bible, Book of Revelation, Chapter 4, Verses 6-8
- The Holy Bible, Book of 2 Samuel, Chapter 22, Verses 7-16
- The Holy Bible, Book of Isaiah, Chapter 30, Verses 27-33
- Al-Kafi, Al-Shaikh Al-Kulayni, Vol. 8, p. 206
- Al-Malahim wal Fitan, Al-Sayyid ibn Tawus, Vol. 1, p. 268