¶ Door Number Eleven
¶ The Soul Family
¶ Ahmed Al-Hassan said: “The Mohammedan soul can replicate itself into another twin soul which is an identical copy of itself.”
In Al-Haft Al-Shareef, Imam Al-Sadiq (From Him is Peace) said:
“Verily, God chose between the souls in the shadows and then made them enter the bodies, and if our Qaim emerges he shall make the brother inherit from the brother whom God paired him with in the shadows, and he does not make him inherit from his physical brother, know him from that, and whoever knows him from that there shall not remain upon him a stronger proof.”
One of the great matters and signs that the Seventh Covenant has come with is the matter of the soul. Not only are familial ties re-arranged according to the soul world but also the jurisprudence which is implemented in the Seventh Covenant is based on the soul world. Jesus (PBUH) indicated towards this soul family which would be implemented in the future. In the Gospels it says:
While Jesus was still talking to the crowd, his mother and brothers stood outside, wanting to speak to him. Someone told him, “Your mother and brothers are standing outside, wanting to speak to you.” He replied to him, “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?” Pointing to his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers. For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”
It was already revealed in the Holy Qur’an 1,400 years ago that true familial bonds are based on faith and not on biological relations, for God said:
“Verily, the believers are siblings.”
And Imam Ali (From Him is Peace) said:
“Two true friends are a single soul in different bodies.”
And Prophet Mohammed (PBUH & His Family) in the beginning of Islam set the basis for this new system of familial ties when he set up the brotherhood system between the companions. Prophet Mohammed (PBUH & His Family) paired between the Muhajireen and Ansar making it obligatory that each one help his brother, to the extent that the two new brothers could inherit from each other. But this condition was later abrogated with Allah’s saying:
“But, according to the Book of Allah, the blood relations have a greater right on one another”
and it was delayed to the time of the Qaim/Riser and the Seventh Covenant.
One day Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan (From Him is Peace) said to me, “Son, do you see these people here?”, pointing towards the buildings and people living in Badr, Egypt, across from home.
I said, “Yes.”
He (From Him is Peace) said, “Thirty years from now if there was to come someone and tell them that marrying your blood sibling is forbidden by God, they will stone him.”
I said, “So it will be allowed to marry your blood sibling as it was for Abraham and Sarah, Enoch and Isis, and the children of Adam?”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “Yes, what is not allowed is to marry your sibling in the soul world.”
I asked, “So are the family members from the soul world mehram on each other?”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) replied, “Yes.”
Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan (From Him is Peace) said, “In the soul world there is a family tree, and I will have you publish part of it in the future.” Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan was once asked: “What is the meaning of the narration ‘Verily, Fatimah is nicknamed ‘the mother of her father’?’ ” The Imam (From Him is Peace) replied: “It means that Fatimah Al-Zahra is the mother of Mohammed in the soul world.”
Attached in this section is a small part of the soul family tree of the Family of Mohammed, and the Prophets and the Messengers (Figure 1). We see that Imam Ali and Fatimah Al-Zahra are at the base of the tree. Imam Ali (From Him is Peace) has several sons, including Adam and Noah (PBUT). Imam Ali and Fatimah Al-Zahra are soulmates. Prophet Mohammed has several children in the soul world, including Michael and Al-Hussein and Mary, Mother of Christ. Al-Hussein has three children, Joseph, Moses, and Zainab. Michael has three children including Al-Hammam and Al-Yaman. Lady Layla, the soulmate of Al-Hussein, is the mother of Jesus in the soul world and Jesus is the father of Eve, who is the soulmate of Adam. The soulmate of Jesus is Mary Magdalene. Moses has children including Elias, whose soulmate is Nefertiti and who is the father of Joachim and Solomon. Joseph, whose soulmate is Mary, Mother of Christ, has three children, from them is Mary Magdalene. Al-Sadiq has children and from them is Abraham, whose soulmate is Sarah, and who fathers Ishmael and Elisha. And so as you can see, the family tree of the souls is arranged differently than the biological families on Earth. And this is just a small sample of the soul family tree which is too big to include in this Book and it is not yet time to reveal it in its entirety.
Figure 1: Soul Family Tree
One day I asked Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan (From Him is Peace), “My Master, your generosity makes me greedy in regards to another question.”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “Go ahead, my beloved.”
I said, “Men in this physical world are very attached to their sons. So how is the relationship between the father and the son in the soul world? Is the relationship stronger?”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) replied, “It is not any less than the physical, rather it is stronger and better.”
In explaining how souls beget other souls, Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan (From Him is Peace) said:
Not every soul has a mother, but every soul has a father because the females were created from the males. And just as every human being in this physical world has a father, every soul has a father as well. And the father in the physical world is not necessarily the father in the soul world, for each soul has one father and we came to this world many times. And in each incarnation, the father and the mother and the siblings are different. And this is the sign by which we know the Qaim, and it is the absolute proof of who he is, for Imam Al-Sadiq (From Him is Peace) said: “Verily, Allah chose between the spirits in the Shadows then He made it inhabit the bodies. So when our Qaim emerges, he inherits from the brother that Allah partnered him with in the Shadows and he does not inherit from the brother from bodily/physical birth. Know him from that and whoever knows then there remains on him no further proof.” And we have come forth and the Qaim of the Family of Mohammed is now using this as a proof against everyone. And he is the one who knows your true fathers and your true siblings from the soul world.
Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan (From Him is Peace) further said, “And I have for you, my son, an important piece of information regarding the soul. The Mohammedan soul can replicate itself into another twin soul which is an identical copy of itself. I hope you understand this.”
I said, “Like Mohammed and Ali?”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “Yes, and not just once, but rather at times multiple times.”
I said, “Then, the Mahdis are the Imams’ souls or they are twin replicates of their souls.”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “All thanks due to Allah, great job my son.”
I said, “So some of the Mahdis are the Imams and some of them are not, but the ones who are not are twin copies of the Imams.”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) said, “Great job! Yes.”
I said, “So then my Father, you are Imam Al-Hussein (From Him is Peace) and I am a copy, so who am I the copy of?”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) replied, “Imam Al-Hussein.”
One day I said to Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan (From Him is Peace), “My Father, why are there four out of the fourteen Infallibles (Mohammed, Fatimah, and the twelve Imams) that are named Mohammed and four that are named Ali?”
So the Imam (From Him is Peace) responded, “Do you not know? Or do you know and wish to know?”
I said, “I don’t know anything except that which you taught me, you tell me, Father, I had a feeling but God knows best.”
He (From Him is Peace) said, “I told you before son, I hid many things in order to avoid certain questions and to avoid exposing certain secrets.”
I asked, “Was every Mohammed, Mohammed and every Ali, Ali (PBUT)?”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) responded, “All praises due to God.”
I said, “God is great!” eleven times, and the Imam (From Him is Peace) said it thrice.
I said, “How great of a secret this is! How great of a secret this is! And Imam Al-Hassan (PBUH) is Imam Al-Sadiq (PBUH) and he is also Imam Al-Hassan Al-Askari (PBUH)? And you are Imam Al-Kathim (PBUH) and Imam Al-Hussein (PBUH) and Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan (From You is Peace).”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) replied, “You are correct son.”
And this is how we came to know the incarnations of the Family of Mohammed (From Them is Peace).
Among the Incarnations of Prophet Mohammed (PBUH & His Family) are:
- Prophet Mohammed ibn Abdullah
- Imam Mohammed Al-Baqir (The Fifth Imam)
- Imam Mohammed Al-Jawwad (The Ninth Imam)
- Imam Mohammed Al-Mahdi (The Twelfth Imam)
Among the Incarnations of Imam Ali (From Him is Peace) are:
- Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib (The First Imam)
- Imam Ali Zainul Abideen (The Fourth Imam)
- Imam Ali Al-Ridha (The Eighth Imam)
- Imam Ali Al-Hadi (The Tenth Imam)
Among the Incarnations of Imam Al-Hassan (From Him is Peace) are:
- Imam Al-Hassan ibn Ali (The Second Imam)
- Imam Ja’far Al-Sadiq (The Sixth Imam)
- Imam Al-Hassan Al-Askari (The Eleventh Imam)
Among the Incarnations of Imam Al-Hussein (From Him is Peace) are:
- Imam Al-Hussein ibn Ali (The Third Imam)
- Imam Musa Al-Kathim (The Seventh Imam)
- Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan (The First Mahdi)
Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan (From Him is Peace) also revealed that Prophet Mohammed (PBUH & His Family), Imam Ali (From Him is Peace) and Imam Al-Hassan (From Him is Peace) also have incarnations as Mahdis in the same way that Imam Al-Hussein (From Him is Peace) does. He (From Him is Peace) also revealed that some of the best Prophets and Messengers were sent in this day and age as Mahdis, including the Ulul-Azm Prophets, or the Covenant Prophets (Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, and Jesus). He revealed the names and order of the twelve Mahdis.
- The First Mahdi is Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan (From Him is Peace) whose incarnation is one of the Imams, Imam Al-Hussein. The copies of his soul are his sons Joseph and Moses.
- The Second Mahdi is Aba Al-Sadiq, Abdullah Hashem, whose incarnation is Joseph. His soul is a copy of his father, Imam Al-Hussein.
- The Third Mahdi is Moses and his soul is a copy of his father, Imam Al-Hussein.
- The Fourth Mahdi is Adam and his soul is a copy of his father’s soul, Imam Ali (From Him is Peace).
- The Fifth Mahdi is Ishmael and his soul is a copy of his father’s soul Abraham, who is actually a copy of his father’s soul, Imam Al-Sadiq.
- The Sixth Mahdi is Abraham whose soul is a copy of his father’s soul, Imam Al-Sadiq.
- The Seventh Mahdi is Michael whose soul is a copy of his father’s soul, Prophet Mohammed.
- The Eighth Mahdi is Noah whose soul is a copy of his father’s soul, Imam Ali.
- The Tenth Mahdi is Al-Murtada whose children, Adam, Noah and Jesus are copies of his soul.
- The Eleventh Mahdi is Aaron Al-Sadiq whose incarnation is Imam Al-Sadiq and whose children and grandchildren Abraham, Ishmael, and Elisha, are copies of his soul.
- The Twelfth Mahdi Mohammed ibn Al-Zahra is Prophet Mohammed and his son Michael is a copy of his soul.
So we can see that the twelve Mahdis (PBUT) consist of the return or reincarnation of three Imams, all six of the previous Covenant Prophets, in addition to Prophets Joseph, Ishmael, and Michael (PBUT). Here is a list of some of the incarnations of each of the remaining Mahdis.
The incarnations of Aba Al-Sadiq are:
- Prophet Enoch
- Prophet Amid
- Prophet Joseph
- Prophet Jeremiah (Khidr)
- Alexander the Great
- The look-alike of Jesus
- Prophet Mani
- Jamblichus (One of the Seven Sleepers or Companions of the Cave)
- Abdullah ibn Abdul-Muttalib
- Malik Al-Ashtar
- Abdullah ibn Al-Imam Al-Hussein
- Abdullah Hashem
Some of the incarnations of the Third Mahdi are:
- Moses
- One of the Seven Sleepers or Companions of the Cave
- Mohammed ibn Nusayr
Some of the incarnations of the Fourth Mahdi are:
- Adam
- Arnobius of Sicca
- Joseph the Carpenter
- Ali Al-Akbar
Some of the incarnations of the Fifth Mahdi are:
- Ishmael son of Abraham
- Ishmael son of Ezekiel
One of the incarnations of the Sixth Mahdi is:
- Abraham
Some of the incarnations of the Seventh Mahdi are:
- Archangel Michael
- Abel
- Aaron brother of Moses
- The good man crucified next to the look-alike
- Maximilian (One of the Seven Sleepers or Companions of the Cave)
- Salman the Mohammedan
Some of the incarnations of the Eighth Mahdi are:
- Horus
- Noah
- Isaac son of Abraham
- Job
- Pythagoras
Some of the incarnations of the Ninth Mahdi are:
- Ahura Mazda
- Jesus Christ
- Abdul-Muttalib the grandfather of Mohammed
- Aba Al-Khattab the companion of Imam Al-Sadiq
- Aba Al-Fadhl Al-Abbas the brother of Imam Al-Hussein
We are mentioning some of the incarnations and not all, because these are the ones that Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan (From Him is Peace) has announced publicly at this time.
One day Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan (From Him is Peace) was asked, “I feel my family are alien to me. I do not feel a connection anymore to my parents nor my siblings. It is as if they are total strangers. They have no interest in what I have interest in. They have no similar beliefs nor do they understand me after I have come to know all these truths in this Call.”
The Imam (From Him is Peace) replied, “This is a normal part of spiritual elevation. When the soul obtains more and more control over the body it begins to feel this way. It is natural. The biological family is not the spiritual family.”
And it reminded me of the words of Jesus:
“Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.”
The rearrangement of families in the Seventh Covenant is a reality. For faith is what bonds us and the Lord is our Father. And as Prophet Mohammed (PBUH & His Family) said:
“O Ali, me and you are the fathers of this nation.”
¶ Sources
- Al-Haft Al-Shareef, Al-Mufaddel ibn Omar Al-Jofi, Door 66, p. 129
- The Holy Bible, Book of Matthew, Chapter 12, Verses 46-50
- The Holy Qur’an, Chapter 49 (Al-Hujurat), Verse 10
- Mizan Al-Hikmah (Scale of Wisdom), Mohammed Al-Reyshahri, Vol. 2, p. 1582
- The Muhajireen are the early Muslims who migrated from Mecca to Medina, the Ansar are the people from Medina who supported the Messenger of Allah.
- The Holy Qur’an, Chapter 33 (Al-Ahzab), Verse 6
- Mehram refers to a member of one’s family with whom marriage would be considered haram (prohibited).
- Al-Khasa’is Al-Fatimiyah, Shaikh Mohammed Al-Baqir Al-Kajouri, Vol. 1, p. 126
- The copy of the soul is an exact copy but lesser than the original in the same way that a person can use a photocopier to scan and print an exact copy of an image, but it is still inferior in quality to the original.