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Publications of Ansar Al-Imam Al-Mahdi (a.s) / Issue (8)

The Labyrinth or The Path to Allah

by: Imam Ahmad Al Hassan (a.s) Successor and Messenger from Imam Al-Mahdi (a.s)

Translated by: Ansar Allah

Second Edition 1431 H 2010 AD

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In the Name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful.

Dedication
To the noble Prophet (sawas) And the unique military commander And the vicegerent of Aaron son of Imran (peace be upon him) Who has led the children of Israel out of the Labyrinth To one of the two men Allah has blessed upon; as He Exalted said:

(Said two men from those who feared [to disobey] upon whom Allah had bestowed favor, "Enter upon them through the gate, for when you have entered it, you will be predominant. And upon Allah rely, if you should be believers.")
Surat Al-Ma'idah (Verse 23) To the lord Joshua son of Nuh (peace be upon him) My lord this poor presents you this humble good, so give us full measure and be charitable to us. Indeed, Allah rewards the charitable.

Introduction
In the Name of Allah the Compassionate, the Merciful...

And all thanks due to Allah who said: And We have not sent you except comprehensively to mankind as a bringer

of good tidings and a warner, but most of the people do not know. And they say, "When is this promise, if you should be truthful? For you is the appointment of a Day [when] you will not remain thereafter an hour, nor will you precede [it]. [1]
To you all Praises our Lord, that you introduced us to thy appointed promise that does not break, and your cutting sword, your compelling stone, and your servant whom you drawn to yourself and are satised with to prevail your religion, and selected him with your knowledge and protected him from sin and made him innocent of faults and showed him the unseen. And blessed him and puried him from impurities and sanctied him from lth and made his obedience your obedience, and his support your support, and made him known to your slaves on the tongue of your ummi Prophet (sawas), and on the tongue of whom preceded of Prophets, and mentioned him in the Torah, Gospels, and Qur'an and warned your slaves of negligence and said Exalted He who said:

In the name of the Merciful, the Benecent (And the Day the wrongdoer will bite on his hands [in regret] he will say, 'Oh, I wish I had taken with the Messenger a way. Oh, woe to me! I wish I had not taken that one as a friend. He led me away from the remembrance after it had come to me. And ever is Satan to man, a deserter." [2]
In these papers are few from an abundance, and a little from much of what gets in the hearts of the faithful. And in those papers a thing from the past, a thing from the present, and a lot for the future. And in the past are undeniable lessons as well as it is a Godly tradition that does not change. The Seal (sawas) said:

By Who my soul is in His hand, you will follow in the footsteps of those before you, shoe by shoe, footstep by footstep, that you will not miss their way and the tradition of the children of Israel will not miss you. [3]
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[1] Surat Saba' (Sheba): 30-28 [2] Surat Al-Furqan(The Criterian):29-27 [3] Ayashi book of interpretation: part 1 p.303, and narrated in his Musnad: part 5 p.340, & Al Termethi in his sunna: part 3 p.322, & Al-Haythamy in Mujma Alzawed: part7 page 216, with difference in words and unity in meaning and context.

And in these papers an Ummah that went into deviation and got out of it and a nation got into it and still is in it, and in these papers are guidance to the way out of the Labyrinth. I...the poor, the little in work, the many faults, saw to write so that it would be a shout out for every stooge in the face of tyrants. So it would be a shout out from the Lord of the stooges, the Proof upon all creation the Mahdi (rightfully guided one) of this Nation (as) to every believer (man and woman), to support them with it and to become a proof on every disappointed one from his support, peace be upon him today before his rise and tomorrow after his rise. Then I hope to God the Holy, the Mighty, the Merciful, the Generous, that He makes it an argument of His arguments in the excruciating hardships of the Day of Judgment. And all thanks to Allah Who created me, and He [it is who] guides me. "My Lord, join me with the righteous.

And do not disgrace me on the Day they are [all] resurrected - The Day when there will not benet [anyone] wealth or children. But only one who comes to Allah with a sound heart."
Lord accept from me this little work, and please the heart of the owner of time with me... My Master, O' owner of the time, O' proof of Allah on his land, O' remainder of Prophets and vicegerents, O' one whose right is misjudged, O' dearest. Harm inicted us and our people and we came to you with this humble goods, so give us full measure and be charitable to us, Indeed, Allah rewards the charitable.... Patience has died in your wait....O reviver of Divine jurisprudence. So rise for forbearing has left..............nothing but anxious insides. Ive torn the attire of sorrow............................poem by author.

In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful...

All thanks to Allah Lord of the worlds, King of the Kingdoms, Mover of astral ships, Harnesser of winds, Breaker of dawn, the Creator of religions, Lord of the worlds. Praise be to Allah, the fear of whom rumbles the sky and it's inhabitants, trembles the earth and it's inhabitants, and the undulation of the seas and who swims in it's darkness. O' Allah, send your prayers upon Muhammad and the family of Muhammad, the safely shipping arks in the most overwhelming of darkness. Safe is he who boards it and sinks he who forsakes it. Whoever faces them off is an apostate and whoever is dated from them is left behind, vanished, and who sticks to them follows up saved.

The Labyrinth of Bani Israel

Bani Israel were lost in the desert of Sinai for 40 years after their Exodus from Egypt with Moses and Aaron (peace be upon them). And the Labyrinth was a punishment for them, for the rebellion against Moses (as) against the Divine order of entering the holy land of (Palestine). That also was to reform and save them from the forms of corruption that were established in their souls as a result of Pharaoh and his partys tyranny over them in Egypt. And the labyrinth is mentioned in Qur'an, the almighty says:

(And [mention, O Muhammad], when Moses said to his people, "O my people, remember the favor of Allah upon you when He appointed among you prophets and made you possessors and gave you that which He had not given anyone among the Worlds O' my people, enter the Holy Land which Allah has assigned to you and do not turn back from ghting in Allah 's cause and thus become losers They said, "O Moses, indeed within it is a people of tyrannical strength, and indeed, we will never enter it until they leave it; but if they leave it, then we will enter Said two men from those who feared [to disobey] upon whom Allah had bestowed favor, "Enter upon them through the gate, for when you have entered it, you will be predominant. And upon Allah rely, if you should be believers They said, "O' Moses, indeed we will not enter it, ever, as long as they are within it; so go, you and your Lord, and ght. Indeed, we are remaining right here [Moses] said, "My Lord, indeed I do not possess except myself and my brother, so part us from the deantly disobedient people [ Allah ] said, "Then indeed, it is forbidden to them for forty years [in which] they will wander throughout the land. So do not grieve over the deantly disobedient people) [1]
Before the Labyrinth Bani Israel lived in Egypt, and the rst that inhabited Egypt from them was Yusuf, son of Jacob (upon them peace). And then he invited his parents and his brothers to Egypt when he became minister forcefully by one of the pharaohs over the house of money. And from that time Israel or prophet of Allah Jacob, son of Isaac son of Abraham (peace be upon them), and his sons moved from the life of the desert, where they were herding some cattle to Egypt and the life of the city and settlement.
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[1] Surat Al-Ma'idah (The Table Spread):20-26.

And the descendant of Prophet Jacob continued living in Egypt after that, calling for Monotheism and the truthful religion, abandoning the worship of idols and the deication of the Pharaoh, and that call was sometimes made publicly or in secret, and the numbers of Bani Israel increased in Egypt. And the call for truth clashes with the interests of the unjust Rulers of the Pharaohs, so these wrongdoers feared the disappearance of their rule and the transfer of the earthly rule to the great prophets from the children of Israel. Therefore, they exercised the harshest types of oppression and terrorism upon the children of Israel, conquered and enslaved them and killed their children and prevented them from practicing worship and the rites of Allah. And tried in every way to obliterate the teachings of monotheism and to force the Egyptians and the children of Israel to Polytheism and disbelieving in God and His faith, and to obey the Pharaoh and all that he commanded of worship of statues and images and killing the believers. And if it wasnt for the doctrine that was present in the souls of Bani Israel, by the tidings of the prophets (peace be upon them) of the awaited offspring that will destroy Pharaoh and Haman and their soldiers, there would have not remained among them a single believer, and they would not have gathered around that savior when he arrived. But sadly it was a gathering of a conquered people around a leader that would save them from the injustice of a tyrant only, and they did not realize that to be there was a great prophet sent to them to purify them and cleanse their souls and restore the religion of monotheism and teachings that almost vanished. And Moses was sent forth with signs and evidences, but Pharaoh and Haman and their hosts of the afuent in the children of Israel like Qarun were arrogant and continued with their transgression and harming whoever believed in Moses (peace be upon him), the Almighty said:

(And we did certainly send Moses with Our signs and a clear authority To Pharaoh, Haman and Qarun; but they said, " He is a magician and a liar And when he brought them the truth from Us, they said, "Kill the sons of those who have believed with him and keep their women alive."but the plan of the disbelievers is not except in error And Pharaoh said, "Let me kill Moses and let him call upon his Lord. Indeed, I fear that he will change your religion or that he will cause corruption in the land." But Moses said, "Indeed, I have sought refuge in my Lord and your Lord from every arrogant one who does not believe in the Day of Account.") [1]
After this stage, it was necessary to emigrate in the vast land of God, and Moses (as) got out of Egypt and the children of Israel got out from Egypt, migrating in the way of Allah. But pharaoh did not appease to
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[1] Surat Ghr (The Forgiver): 23 - 27

see those oppressed free and getting out of his clutch and oppression, so he and his soldiers followed them, and that was the great position and test. The children of Israel stood there, ahead of them the sea and behind them started appearing the army of pharaoh, so they became frightened and said we are caught and did not turn to the one who guided them to that place, who was a great Prophet sent by Allah Exalted, so he alerted them to that fact that they were emigrating in the way of Allah by him saying: [Moses] said,

"No! Indeed, with me is my Lord; He will guide me." [1]

God revealed to him to strike with his staff the sea and so the sea split for him; because the sea is a slave from the slaves of Allah, and it has not the ability to stand as an obstacle in front of that devoted and relying servant of Allah, and that sea is not able to stand as obstacle in front of Moses (as), because Moses was a Human and everything in Earth was created to serve the man, who is the creature with the vastest ability to know Allah. But if he (man) obeyed Satan, he becomes more ignorant and harsher than stone, and of the stones that water explodes out of and of it is what drops down out of fear of Allah. And that miracle was the last sign that Pharaoh and his soldiers saw from Musa (as), but their hearts were harsher than stone, so they did not stand in doubt but walked down between the two mountains of water and their selves lled with stubbornness and arrogance, so they were drowned, so away with them. And Bani Israel were saved and they crossed the sea and found themselves in a desolate desert after they lived in the fertile Nile-valley. But Moses (as) came to them with the glad tidings and the Divine Command of entering the Holy land and promised them victory from Allah. It was supposed after all these signs and miracles that they had seen in Egypt, and after the sea had split and drowned Pharaoh and his soldiers, that they would not be reluctant with obedience, and they were supposed to be certain of victory, but they rebelled and refused to go into the Holy land!! And perhaps the most important reasons of that refusal were: 1. Weakness of their faith in the Prophethood of Musa (as) and his message; as many of them saw him as a leader not as a great prophet, but some of them rebelled even against his leadership (as). 2. Weakness of their piety and fear of Allah, that it lead them into mutiny and disobedience without care. 3. Weakness of their souls and fear of the tyrants and submission and surrender to them and settling for injustice and hence abandoning the work or Jihad in the way of Allah.
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[1] Surat the Poets:62

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4. The care for this dunya earthly life more than the hereafter, and thus entrenched in them love of the world and adherence to life in an unnatural way, as is the case with many Muslims today. 5. The spread of self-love among them; even some of them saw themselves better than Moses and Aaron (as) and did not accept their leadership upon them!! As stated in the Torah, Book of Numbers chapterXVI: And behold Core the son of Isaar, the son of Caath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiron the sons of Eliab, and Hon the son of Pheleth of the children of Ruben, [2] Rose up against Moses, and with them
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two hundred and fty others of the children of Israel, leading men of the synagogue, and who in the time of assembly were called by name. [3] And when they had stood up against Moses and Aaron, they said: Let it be enough for you, that all the multitude consisteth of holy ones, and the Lord is among them: Why lift you up yourselves above the people of the Lord? [4] When Moses heard this, he fell at on his face.... And In the Quran came what is close to that meaning. And it is worth mentioning that love of the self and arrogance are both a moral scourge that doomed the children of Adam and casted many of them into the pits of hell, and how much did the satan accomplish by luring the son of Adam through arrogance. How many times was arrogance the main obstacle that prevented the people from obeying the prophets (as) and believing (in) them, and the most arrogant people over the prophets and the vicegerents (as) were the rich and the afuent and the heads of people, he exalted says:

(And We did not send into a city any Warner except that its afuent said, "Indeed we, in that with which you were sent, are disbelievers.") [1] As they see themselves better than the Prophets and the vicegerents (as), and every leader that is assigned by Allah religiously or earthly, and they envy them over what Allah gave them, Almighty says: (Or do they envy people for what Allah has given them of His bounty? But We had already given the family of Abraham the Scripture and wisdom and conferred upon them a great kingdom. And some among them believed in it, and some among them were averse to it. And sufcient is Hell as a blaze.) [2]
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[1]Surat Saba' (Sheba): 34-34 [2] Surat An-Nisa' (The Women): 54-55

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And from that which is known to us is that the hearts of Bani Israel who went out with Moses (as) were involved in many ethical disadvantages. Therefore the Labyrinth with which they were punished by God for refusing to enter into the holy land was necessary; to cleanse their souls and bring them back to the sound instincts of monotheism and goodness. As well as in the forty years of The Labyrinth that the generation from the Bani Israel were raised in the desert, and they were the sons and grandchildren of those who went out with Moses (as) and they did not have a home to settle in nor much of the ornaments of this world to draw them to it, or connect them with its people, and they were not under the authority of any Juggernaut to inict them with the worst of torture, and to install in their hearts fear and weakness, so they were raised as free people and lovers of freedom. And perhaps the miracles that they saw in The Labyrinth had a great impact on their upbringing, one of high faith and spirituality. So in the Labyrinth grew a faithful generation....strong, brave, capable of holding the Divine message and spreading it, capable to ght the darkness and ght in the way of Allah and enter into the Holy land. And from here is claried the reason the divine care to the parents and sending a great prophet from Prophets of initial determination to them who is Moses (as), even though the majority of them were corrupt and were not good to carry the Divine message, but those who went out with Moses (as) died in the labyrinth, all of them, and did not remain of them except Caleb and Joshua (as) to later lead the children and grandchildren to enter the holy land and be victorious over the tyrants. And in conclusion what is to be beneted from the labyrinth is that it was a reformatory process as well as a punishment, and the main target of it was reforming the souls of the children of Israel and raise them on refusing injustice and corruption and rulers of Injustice and the juggernaut after they had familiarized with it and surrendered to it, and did not move a muscle to change their bad situation in Egypt. And the location of the labyrinth had a great effect, being a wild desert where man resorts to Allah and puts his trust in Him and seeks refuge with the Rulership of Allah and Dhikr of Allah. Also his personality (as) had a great impact on the reformation of Bani Israel and their rehabilitation to carry the Divine message. That Religious body which Allah Almighty and Exalted had made for himself to support his religion as Quran [1] tells he fought in the way of Allah when he was alone in the palace of pharaoh, so he helped the oppressed and stood in the face of the arrogant ones, and when there was no other way but to use force, he killed one of those oppressors as came in Quran, Almighty said:
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[1] (A.S.) refers to the Almightys saying: (And I produced you for Myself. Go, you and your brother, with My signs and do not slacken

in My remembrance. Go, both of you, to Pharaoh. Indeed, he has transgressed.) Surat Taha (Ta-Ha): 14-43 12

(And he entered the city at a time of inattention by its people and found therein two men ghting: one from his faction and one from among his enemy. And the one from his faction called for help to him against the one from his enemy, so Moses struck him and [unintentionally] killed him. [Moses] said, "This is from the work of Satan. Indeed, he is a manifest, misleading enemy.") [1]
As for his saying (as): (that is from the work of Satan) perhaps he said it meaning the matter that because of which the killing occurred or perhaps the person killed himself, for he is a work of Satan as whoever disancties the instinct of monotheism and good is a devil. And Moses (as) went out after that incident, out of Egypt scared for his religion anticipating Gods mercy, promising Allah for what he gave him of power and faith and guidance that he would not be an associate to the unjust, not even with silence over his injustice. So he emigrated to Allah leaving behind the vile materialistic world and the extravagance in the pharaohs palace, satised convicted with the division of Allahs sustenance, so Allah granted him to catch up with a great prophet, who is Shoeib (as) and marrying one of his daughters and stayed with him ten years, shepherding cattle, and perhaps that is from the production of Allah (to Moses (as)). Then Allah willed to bring him back to his people in Egypt after that absence from them; to take them out of the darkness to the light and from slavery to freedom, so he brought out of them a good godly generation qualied to carry the Divine message as previously mentioned, and those free children submissive to Allah from those slaves rebellious against the command of Allah, if it was not for Allahs mercy and blessing upon them, and for that religious body; Moses (as) whom Allah has produced and puried. ***

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[1] Surat Al-Qasas (The Stories): 15

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The Labyrinth in the Islamic Nation

Muslims lost the way after Prophet Muhammad (sawas) passed away, when Abu Bakr and a group of hypocrites jumped and took over the authority and the Caliphate of the Prophet Muhammad (sawas). And most of the companions failed to support the successor of the Prophet (sawas), who was appointed by Allah, Ali ibn Abi Talib (as), as the Prophet (sawas) appointed him by the command of Allah (swt) to be a prince for the believers and the successor of the Prophet of Allah (sawas) after him in Ghadir Qum, in the Farwell Pilgrimage (Hujjat Al-Wadaa), and they not only took over the right of Imam Ali (as), and the right of humanity to get to the word there is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is His Messenger....rather Omar ibn Khattab crossed the line with a group of hypocrites and burned the home of Fatima al-Zahraa (as) and she is the only daughter from the lineage of the Prophet (sawas) and together with Al-Hassan and AlHussain and Ali (pbut) who Allah obliged us to obey and love, Allah said:

I ask of you no fee therefore, save loving kindness among kinsfolk. [1]
And when this attempt failed to forcefully get Ali (as) to pay allegiance to Abu Bakr, they broke into the house of Fatima al-Zahraa (as) and broke her rib, causing a miscarriage and a nail pierced her in the chest, while she is the one whom the Prophet (sawas) said about her: The mother of her father and the part of me,

and Allah is satised when she is satised, and angry when she is angry, and she is the lady of all the women of the worlds in the rst and the last. [2]
So Muslims wouldn't have been able to avoid getting into the Labyrinth, after they had taken the same path of the Children of Israel, Prophet of Allah (sawas) said: By Allah, Whom my life is in His Hand, you

will follow exactly the steps of your predecessors, step by step, and you won't miss the path of the Children of Israel. [3]
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[1] Surat Ash-Shra (The Consultation): 32 [2] Sahih Al-Bukhari, v.4, p. 210 [3] Tafsir Al-Ayashi, v. 1, pg. 303

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And this nation lost it's luck and befriended it's enemy and became an enemy to it's Imam and made Allah angry, so it started to go into the Labyrinth (the maze) and got lost since that time until it settled today in the heart of the desert, from Muwaiyyah and Ziad, to Yazzid and the son of Yazzid, and Moslem ibn Oqba to Marawan and Abdul Malik and his sons, and Al Hajaj to the son Al-Abbas the killer and AlMansour Al- Dowaniqy and Al-Hadi and Al-Mahdi and Al-Rashid the misguided ones to Al-Ameen and Al-Mamoun the not to be trusted ones to Al-Motawakel (dependent) on satan to... to...to... A terrible journey that this nation went through, for how many cities were attacked and it's good people were killed, and it's women were raped, and even the city of the Prophet of Allah (sawas) and Al-Kabah were not spared (Yazzid may the curse of Allah be upon him) sent Muslim to kill thousands of Muslims in AlMadinah, including 700 of the companions, and raped more than 1,000 virgins, and not only this... he made his way to the Kabah, but Allah (swt) destroyed him as He destroyed the people of the Elephant). And how many free were killed and tortured, and how many of them were thrown into jails and dark dungeons, in where you can't tell the difference between the night and the day, and if you take a look at what the sons of Umayyah and the sons of Al-Abbas did to the Muslims, you will be lled with terror, and if you knew about their heresy and how much they withdrew from religion, you will be in a state of wonderment. Al-Masoody said about Al-Waleed bin Yazid bin Abdul Malik in the Meadows of Gold: Ibn Ayisha sang:

So Al-Waleed said, Good...by Allah, repeat in the right of Abd Shams, so he repeated and Al-Waleed said: 'Repeat in the right of Umayyah', so he repeated. So Al-Waleed did not leave any part of the singer's body except that he kissed it, then he (Al-Waleed) leaned in to kiss his penis, so the singer turned away from him, so Al-Waleed said: By Allah I shall kiss it!!!, and he insisted until he kissed it, and he gave him (the singer) one thousand dinars and a donkey, and said walk with the donkey over my carpet, so he did, and then he lled a tub with wine and he was swimming in the tub with the immorals, and drinking from it until it began to recede, thenhe tried to approach his own daughter and said, Whoever tries to sneak faces a sad death. [1]

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[1] Anzar Al-Kany wa Alaleckab, v. 1, p. 346

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Al-Sayed Al-Mortada said in the Aura of Hopes: Abu Obeid Allah Al-Mezrabani said: 'Ahmed bin Kamel said: 'Al-Waleed ibn bin Yazid was a heretic and that he opened the Qur'an one day and he saw: And they

sought help (from their Lord) and every froward potentate was brought to naught; [1] so he took the Qur'an and threw it on the ground and began shooting arrows at it, while saying: You are warning every froward potentate, here I am a froward potentate. On the day when you meet your lord, say O' lord, Al-Waleed has pierced me. [2]
And I (Imam Ahmad) am sorry to convey the history of such dirt, and I wouldn't have mentioned a small portion of that history, if it wasn't for those oppressors/rulers killing the progeny of the Prophet of Allah (peace be upon him and his progeny) and who displaced them to far-away lands, where we nd nowadays the progeny of the Prophet (as) living in Iran and Afghanistan, and India, and all the far away countries from their grandfather's city (sawas), and this would be enough of a proof that they went far away from religion and they fought Islam, and that would be enough of a proof that they have hatred for the Prophet of Allah (sawas). And this corruption and oppression continues to this day, our wealth is in the hands of the tyrants doing with it all kinds of corruption in the countries and towards the servants and bestows it upon whoever worships them apart from Allah. History didn't witness such prisons as theirs, where in it there are types of torture that makes the body shiver, and their armies equipped with all kinds of weapons, not to defend the Islamic countries, but to oppress the Muslim people. And whoever says there is no god but Allah, and whoever calls the Muslims to implement Allah's Rulership get thrown into these dark dungeons, or killed, and we don't know where this Labyrinth ends, and when Islam will return to rule the Muslim, as was in those days of the Prophet of Allah (sawas). And we don't know when justice will spread in the Islamic countries, thus in all of the earth, but we know for sure that it will come back, because the Prophet of Allah (sawas) promised and told us that Islam will come back tender in the end of times through his son AlMahdi (as). And this blessed Appearance of that major Reformer won't happen until the reason for his absence ends and a new generation in this nation arises ready to carry the Divine Message to all people of the Earth, to fulll the Divine promise of making this religion victorious, so if we really want this justice to happen on earth and want to come out of this desert, and this Labyrinth and want the appearance of Imam Al-Mahdi (as), we have to go back to the Islam that Allah wants, not the Islam that the Tyrants want, Allah said:
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[1] Surat 'Ibrhm (Abrahim): 15 [2] Amali Al-Sayed Al-Mortada, v. 1, p. 90

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And verily We have raised in every nation a messenger, (proclaiming): Serve Allah and shun false gods. Then some of them (there were) whom Allah guided, and some of them (there were) upon whom error had just hold. Do but travel in the land and see the nature of the consequence for the deniers! [1]
Those Tyrants who took over the nation with the help of America-though they show enmity to it (America), to complete the chapters of this abhorrent play-wants to make Islam insignicant and to make the core of the Muslim empty or deprived of any faith in Allah, only wrapped up in religious matters which do not exist, and if they can ght these matters they won't hesitate, just like they did with Turkey today. And whoever doubts that they are agents of America and Zionism-especially those who claim that they are it's enemy-let him study their dark history and he will nd that every day they remain in power, they serve their masters, the Americans and the Zionists, by waging wars on the Muslims and the Arabs, and to oppress every Islamic movement and religious revivals, and whoever wants more proofs let him go back to the Torah in the chapter of Daniel, and he will nd that in the region of the Middle East, there are ten kings who are agents to America, or as it symbolizes in the chapter that it is an Iron-Kingdom, eating and stamping all the kingdoms of the earth, but God-Willing the Mahdi of this nation (as) will stamp on it, just as it was mentioned in the Chapter of Daniel. Plus a tyrant only cares about himself and whatever keeps him in power, and his throne is only based on blood and bodies, so he kills whoever rejects his rulership and his oppression, and he always makes the people worried and busy about the never-ending crisis, which actually never ends accept by the ending of his rulership, so he wages wars and plants between the tribes evil prejudices, he even deprives the people from having the bread, so they can always be busy acquiring it, life under the shadow of the tyrant is humility, it is death and life, it is losing this life and the After Life. Plato says in describing the government of a tyrant and how it is formed: Between the people who calls for democracy and protects the people, are the most violent and cunning, so he banishes the rich and executes them, and cancels the debts, and divides the lands, and makes for himself a way to protect him from evil conspiracies, and exults with it the people and gets to power, and distracts the people from it and makes the people always in need of him. He wages war on his neighbors after he was in peace, so he can fulll his wish on the inside and cuts the head of every competitor or critic and excludes every virtuous man, and sticks to a group of mercenaries and redeemers, and is generous with the poets whom we banished from our city, so they can praise him, and squeezes the people to feed his guards and associates,
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so the people realize that he moved from freedom to tyranny, and this is the latter government. As for the servants and the mercenaries of the tyrants, they have the illusion that they are safe and that their lives are stable, for as long as they keep on serving the tyranny they won't be harmed, because their master is powerful who cuts the necks while people surrendered and are subject to oppression. And this is illusion, because re remains under the ashes, Allah said:

The likeness of those who choose other patrons than Allah is as the likeness of the spider when she taketh unto herself a house, and lo! the frailest of all houses is the spider's house, if they but knew. [1]
And whoever follows the history of the nations and the people know that the end of every tyrant with his mercenaries is through the revolution of the oppressed and the oppressors will know to which end they will face. As for those who surrendered for the tyrants while claiming that they are Muslims, they are out of the rulership of Allah but they don't know, Allah said:

Hast thou not seen those who pretend that they believe in that which is revealed unto thee and that which was revealed before thee, how they would go for judgment (in their disputes) to false deities when they have been ordered to abjure them? Satan would mislead them far astray. [2]
And the tyrants push them into wars with the Islamic people and they won't cease to help them fearing them, and they ght the Caliphs of Allah and they violate the sanctity of the believers, so what disbelief is greater than their disbelief, those who support the enemies of Allah.

And Allah said: Those who believe do battle for the cause of Allah; and those who disbelieve do battle for the cause of idols. So ght the minions of the devil. Lo! the devil's strategy is ever weak. [3]
And some of them use the excuse that they fear the tyrants and fear getting killed, but it is an ugly unacceptable excuse, for if there is a need to carry the weapon, let's carry it in the face of the tyrants, not carrying it to make the tyrants victorious, Allah said:
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[1] Surat Al-`Ankabt (The Spider): 41 [2] Surat An-Nis' (The Women): 60 [3] Surat An-Nis' (The Women): 76

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Lo! as for those whom the angels take (in death) while they wrong themselves, (the angels) will ask: In what were ye engaged? They will say: We were oppressed in the land. (The angels) will say: Was not Allah's earth spacious that ye could have migrated therein? As for such, their habitation will be hell, an evil journey's end; [1]
And Allah said: Those who were proud say unto those who were despised: Did we drive you away from the

guidance after it had come unto you? Nay, but ye were guilty. - Those who were despised say unto those who were proud: Nay but (it was your) scheming night and day, when ye commanded us to disbelieve in Allah and set up rivals unto Him. And they are lled with remorse when they behold the doom; and We place carcans on thenecks of those who disbelieved. Are they requited aught save what they did? [2]
Also supporting the tyrants and counting on them is forbidden, for leaving the Jihad and leaving the propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice is forbidden, and moving away from the life of the Muslims doesn't drop the assignment, and whoever doesn't care about the matters of the Muslims is not one of them, even if he is a great scholar claiming to be a representative of the Imam (as), and let every Muslim look at his heart and what's in it, is it the fear of Allah, or fear of the tyrant? And the two fears do not combine in the heart of the believer, because the fear of Allah makes the tyrants in the eyes of the believer more despicable than a mosquito, so they don't have any affect on him or his decisions, except in the limits of the obliged Taqiya, Allah said:

Hast thou not seen those unto whom it was said: Withhold your hands, establish worship and pay the poordue, but when ghting was prescribed for them behold! a party of them fear mankind even as their fear of Allah or with greater fear, and say: Our Lord! Why hast Thou ordained ghting for us? If only Thou wouldst give us respite yet a while! Say (unto them, O Muhammad): The comfort of this world is scant; the Hereafter will be better for him who wardeth off (evil); and ye will not be wronged the down upon a date-stone. [3]
And thank God that the Islamic nation today is starting to get back to the way of Allah, and on the path of the Islamic Awakening that we are witnessing today, we see it growing to include all the Islamic countries,

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[1] Surat An-Nis' (The Women): 97 [2] Surat Saba' (Sheba): 32 & 33 [3] Surat An-Nis' (The Women): 77

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and threatens the thrones of the tyrants, who took over this nation and did their best to drown the Muslim youth in their physical and sexual desires, and they spread the alcohol and prostitution, and the nightclubs in the Islamic countries, and broadcast through television all what Allah has forbidden, like songs and naked women, and stories about people of the west, with the goal of dismantling the Islamic family, but Allah foiled their plans and destroyed their foundation and the roof shall collapse on their heads soon, God-Willing. Those tyrants are under an illusion just as their predecessors were under the illusion that they can wipe the face of the true monotheistic religion, and deform Islam and to kill the true beliefs which threatens their thrones, especially the belief of the Awaited Mahdi (as), but they are far from it and the Qur'an between our hands, exclaims in our ears:

And We desired to show favour unto those who were oppressed in the earth, and to make them examples and to make them the inheritors, - And to establish them in the earth, and to show Pharaoh and Haman and their hosts that which they feared from them. [1] And verily we have written in the Scripture, after the Reminder: My righteous slaves will inherit the earth: - Lo! there is a plain statement for folk who are devout. [2] Allah hath promised such of you as believe and do good work that He will surely make them to succeed (the present rulers) in the earth even as He caused those who were before them to succeed (others); and that He will surely establish for them their religion which He hath approved for them, and will give them in exchange safety after their fear. They serve Me. They ascribe no thing as partner unto Me. Those who disbelieve henceforth, they are the miscreants. [3]
And the meanings that were brought to us by the Prophet of Allah (sawas) exclaims in our ears: If there

isn't any time left in this world except one day, one of my sons would come out and ll it with justice as it was lled with tyranny and oppression. [4]
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[1] Surat Al-Qaa (The Stories): 5 & 6 [2] Surat Al-'Anby' (The Prophets): 105 & 106 [3] Surat An-Nr (The Light): 55 [4] Anthar Mathala: Ayon Akhbar Al-Rida (a.s.), v. 1, p. 397

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And the Muslims benet from the Mahdi (as), just as the Earth and whoever lives on it still benets from the sun, if the clouds cover it. [1] O' Muslims, O' beloved ones, believe in Allah and disbelieve in the tyrant, and hold on to the most trustworthy, which is the proof of Allah in His land, Al Mahdi (as), and know that believing in Allah is inherent to disbelieving in the tyrant, and they are one thing just like the fading of darkness and the emergence of light,for nothing can be understood about the fading of the darkness except the emergence of light. The Almighty said: The right direction is henceforth distinct from error. And he who rejecteth false deities and

believeth in Allah hath grasped a rm handhold which will never break. Allah is Hearer, Knower.

[2]

Fear satan and the desires of the self and follow what the Prophet of Allah (sawas) brought to you, and his puried progeny (as) from Allah (swt), Allah forgives all sins, but He does not forgive associating others with Him. Allah said: Lo! Allah forgiveth not that a partner should be ascribed unto Him. He forgiveth (all) save that to whom

He will. Whoso ascribeth partners to Allah, he hath indeed invented a tremendous sin. [3]
And believing in the tyrant and counting on him, and supporting him, and surrendering to him, are all acts of association with Allah, and losing the straight path of Allah, and what misguidance it is when you see a disbeliever or someone who associates others with Allah, when he fasts and prays, is it accepted from him? And acts of worship were made so the servant could prove through it his obedience to Allah, so if he is obedient to the tyrant and an enemy of Allah, what meaning is left for his acts of worship, the moment that a human being obeys the orders of a tyrant and his rules, is the moment he disbelieves in Allah and gets out from the Rulership of Allah to the rulership of the tyrant, and from the light to the darkness.
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[1] is narrated from 'Jabir-ibn-'Abdillah' thus: Jabir said: "I asked him: 'O' Messenger of Allah will his followers avail of him

during his occultation?' He answered: 'Yes. By the One Who appointed me to prophethood, they will seek brightness from his light and will avail by devotion in his absence the same as the availing of people from the (glow of) sun when clouds cover it...'
(Ikmal-ud-Din, vol. 1, p. 253, with nearly similar meaning in Yanabir-ul-Mawaddah, p. 117) [2] Surat Al-Baqarah (The Cow): 256 [3] Surat An-Nis' (The Women): 48

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Allah said: Hast thou not seen those who pretend that they believe in that which is revealed unto thee and that which

was revealed before thee, how they would go for judgment (in their disputes) to false deities when they have been ordered to abjure them? Satan would mislead them far astray. [1]
For the path to get back to Allah and His Rulership is the same path of disbelieving in the tyrant and to get out of his rulership, and actually they are both one path, and it is the straight path which the acts are accepted by, because it is for Allah the One. So if we really want to get back to the original Islam of Muhammad (sawas), we have to believe in all that was brought by Muhammad bin Abdullah (sawas), we have to believe in all the Islam and it's rulings, not to believe in what suits our desires and leave the rest. We have to stick to the path that was drawn by the successors of Muhammad (pbut), they are the ships of survival, for those who are ahead them are apostates, and those who are behind them vanishes, and those who are with them follow them, as for those who disbelieve in some of the Book and believe in some of it, will nd themselves at the end following a mirage in the desert. And for us as believers let the magicians who believed in Moses (as) be an example, and those believers were far from the Divine Approach, rather they were the followers of the tyrant and stood with the Pharaoh (may Allah curse him) in the beginning to argue against Moses (as), but when they stood against their desire the truth was shown to them, so they believed in Allah, and disbelieved in the Pharaoh, and the light of truth rose in their hearts, and the darkness of the tyrant was lifted from their sights and they stood this time with Moses (as), to do Jihad for the sake of Allah and to ght the curse of Pharaoh and to show the people his lies and his weakness. Allah said: Then the wizards were (all) ung down prostrate, crying: We believe in the Lord of Aaron and Moses.

- (Pharaoh) said: Ye put faith in him before I give you leave. Lo! he is your chief who taught you magic. Now surely I shall cut off your hands and your feet alternately, and I shall crucify you on the trunks of palm trees, and ye shall know for certain which of us hath sterner and more lasting punishment. * They said: We choose thee not above the clear proofs that have come unto us, and above Him Who created us. So decree what thou wilt decree. Thou wilt end for us only this life of the world. [2]
The world in the eyes of those believers became really small, so the threat of Pharaoh (may Allah cursehim) about cutting their hands and legs off, and crucifying them, did not have any effect on their decision to follow the truth, and they didn't prefer life, on the contrary, it was shown to them the truth of
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[1] Surat An-Nis' (The Women): 60 [2] Surat h (Ta-Ha): 70 & 72

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this life and this physical world that the Pharaoh and Haman and Qarun and the likes of them were ocking towards it, and the magicians passed the test and crossed the obstacle, so they won the satisfaction of Allah and glad tidings to them and a good journey. The slaughtered from the family of Muhammad (as), Al-Hussain (as) said:

If the dunya is considered to be precious............then the rewards of Allah is higher and more noble. And if the livelihoods are predestined.............then the lack of care about the gain is more beautiful. And if all the money is for the leaving...................then what about someone who is stingy about it. And if bodies are created for death..................then killing someone by the sword for Allah is better. [1]
And we should ask ourselves, isn't it time for our hearts to subject to the call of Allah and that we repent a true repentance by supporting the Caliphs of Allah, and antagonize the enemies of Allah, and make Islam a constitution and a platform for our life, and the Qur'an a slogan for us, and the word there is no god but Allah a refuge and a fortress for us!! Isn't it time for us to say to the tyrant to spend whatever you spend, you are only spending this worldly life!! Isn't it time for us to choose the rulership of Islam and to reject the rule of the days of ignorance!! Isn't it time for our hearts to rise with the light of truth, so the darkness of the tyrant can be lifted!! Will we remain in this Labyrinth, and in this desert running behind a mirage, while getting out is in our hands, and water is so close to us? Allah said: Nor canst thou guide the blind out of their error. Thou canst make none to hear save those who believe in

Our revelations so that they surrender (unto Him). [2]

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[1] Bihar Al-Anwar, v. 44, p. 374 [2] Surat Ar-Rm (The Romans): 53

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Islam and The Politics and The Rule

The tyrants who are ruling the Islamic countries are trying to spread the idea of separation between religion and politics, and raise the slogan (religion is for religion, and politics is for politics), and those ignorants didn't invent this idea, rather they brought it from the Western Materialists, and this materialistic idea would have never been spread in the west between Christians and Jews if the Gospel and the Torah had not been altered, and if the monks and the priests weren't caring about their positions and this world. And this is a fallacy that no Muslim who is aware of his religion would stand for, because the Islamic religion spoke about every little detail in the life of the people, as it spoke of all the acts of worship, so there is no economic or social transaction that the Islamic Jurisprudence didn't speak of, as well as the military matters and Jihad and how to deal with non-muslims, and also the covenants and the contracts and the reconciliation, and what is politics except these things combined. But tyrants are not satised with that; for politics for them is the tricks that they are practicing to take over the Islamic people, their policy is against the people, and the politics which Allah wants is for the people, and whoever wants to deviate from the politics which Allah dened in Islam, is heading towards the darkness of the days of ignorance: Allah said: Is it a judgment of the time of (pagan) ignorance that they are seeking? Who is better than Allah for

judgment to a people who have certainty (in their belief)? [1]

And Allah said: Whoso judgeth not by that which Allah hath revealed: such are disbelievers. [2] And Allah said: Whoso judgeth not by that which Allah hath revealed: such are wrong-doers [3] And Allah said: Whoso judgeth not by that which Allah hath revealed: such are evil-livers [4] Politics is closely linked to the rule and the ruler, for the policy of a tyrant is to trick and hurt the people and to besiege them culturally, intellectually, and economically, and to spread corruption and oppression between the servants.
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[1] Surat Al-M'idah (The Table Spread): 50 [2] Surat Al-M'idah (The Table Spread): 44 [3] Surat Al-M'idah (The Table Spread): 45 [4] Surat Al-M'idah (The Table Spread): 47

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As for the policy of the Prophet (sawas) or the Infallible (as), or whoever represents them; It is the spreading of mercy between the people and the worship of Allah (swt), and to push people towards prudence, and to spread justice and equality in the community, and to provide people with food and to entertain them economically. The goal of a tyrant is to remain in power, and the goal of the Prophet (sawas) is to get the people out of the darkness and into the light and to spread justice between them. And if it is like that, does it make sense that Allah (swt) leaves the Muslims after the Prophet of Allah (sawas) without appointing Infallible Leaders for them, who guards the religions and spreads justice between the people? How? And He is the Most Wise, the Most Knowledgeable, who didn't leave the small family without a leader, and mentioned in the Qur'an that men are the guardians of the women. Does it make sense that Allah leaves the Islamic nation without an appointed leader, and leave the matter for the enemies of Allah, the likes of Muwaiyyah to kill Al-Hussain (as), and transgresses on Al-Madinah al-Monawara, and attacks the House of Allah with catapults. Any person who owns a small ship with a group of workers, does he leave them without appointing a leader for the ship? And if he left them without a leader and the ship sank, don't we call this person an ignorantand unwise? Then how can we accept that Allah (swt) left his ship-full of His servants-roaming the space without a leader!? A nuclear war between those servants today is enough to sink this ship, and to break it into pieces scattered in space, so is it wise to leave those on the ship without a Divine Law, and without a just Infallible leader implementing this Law? Allah (swt) is far from it, the Just, the Wise, the King, the Holy One. And we as Muslims agree that the Law in this age is the Islamic religion, the seal of the religions, and Allah (swt) appointed just, pure, and Infallible leaders to attend to the matters of the world and the religion justly, but the tyrants raped their rights and took over the wheel ruthlessly, and people failed the puried leaders and did not support them so they lost their luck and made their God angry.

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And Muslims agreed that their numbers are twelve, as it was mentioned in the prophetic hadith [1], and we say; That their rst is Ali (as) and their last is Al-Mahdi (as), and the hadith about the twelve which will come after me will not be achieved except with them, and each one of them claimed the leadership and the Imamate of the nation in the religious and worldly matters, and mentioned the one who will follow him, just as the Prophet (sawas) mentioned them by name. And in every age the people agreed that they are the perfect and most knowledgeable people of their age, and it was not reported from anyone that they sought knowledge from any of the people, rather the knowledge is an inspiration from Allah (swt), and they are the progeny of Muhammad (as), and from the progeny of Abraham (as), or who were mentioned in the Qur'an as in being Imams, and promised whoever disbelieves in them the hellre, Allah said: Or are they jealous of mankind because of that which Allah of His

bounty hath bestowed upon them? For We bestowed upon the house of Abraham (of old) the Scripture and wisdom, and We bestowed on them a mighty kingdom. - And of them were (some) who believed therein and of them were (some) who disbelieved therein. Hell is sufcient for (their) burning. [2]
And the Muslims have agreed upon the Imamate of their last; which is Al-Mahdi (as), and whoever disbelieves in him it's as if he disbelieves in the Prophet of Allah (sawas), and the hadith's which mentions him are in the hundreds. And unfortunately many who claim to be Muslims will disbelieve in his blessed appearing, and will stand with sufyani, the leader of misguidance, who claims to be Muslim and defending the Muslims, Allah said:

Hast thou seen him who maketh his desire his god, and Allah sendeth him astray purposely, and sealeth up his hearing and his heart, and setteth on his sight a covering? Then who will lead him after Allah (hath condemned him)? Will ye not then heed? [3]
And they will know him through miracles and through the verses, but they will misinterpret it, for they will interpret the Land-Swallowing as a natural occurrence, just as their predecessors made the death of the army of Abraha Al-Habashy, as if it happened from a plague and not a Divine torment.
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[1] It is narrated by Ahmad in Al-Masnid Bisanda: The Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: The Religion will not remain in place

except so that there may be 12 Vicegerents from Quraysh. v. 5, p. 86

[2] Surat An-Nis' (The Women): 54 & 55 [3] Surat Al-Jthiyah (The Crouching): 23

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And the proofs of the Imamate of the rst of the Imams who is Ali (as), are more than we can count; one of them being the saying of the Prophet (sawas): (Ali (as) is the most just among you) [1], and (Greet him by

the prince of the believers) [2], and (You are the Caliph after me) [3], and (You are the guardian of every believer after me) [4], and (You are for me like Aaaron was Moses (as), and (And Aaron was the Caliph for Moses in his life.) [5]
And he is the same as the Prophet (sawas) in the Qur'an, in the verse of the Mutual Prayer (Challenge of Imprecation), Allah said: And whoso disputeth with thee concerning him, after the knowledge which hath come unto

thee, say (unto him):Come! We will summon our sons and your sons, and our women and your women, and ourselves and yourselves, then we will pray humbly (to our Lord) and (solemnly) invoke the curse of Allah upon those who lie. [6]
And the interpreters agreed that the Prophet (sawas) brought out Ali and Fatima, and Al-Hassan and AlHussain (pbuta). And Fatima (as) is all the women; because she is the Lady of the women, of the rst and the last, Allah said about Abraham (as), that he is a nation though he is just one person [7]. And Al-Hassan (as) and Al- Hussain (as) are the sons and there is no doubt about it. And Ali (as) is the like of the Prophet (sawas). As for claiming that the self in the verse is the self of the Prophet (sawas), it is nothing but following the desire and making the words of Allah (swt) like useless chatter, and Allah far from it; for there is no meaning for someone to call himself, while it is already with him. And Allah said: Your friend can be only Allah; and His messenger and those who believe, who establish worship

and pay the poordue, and bow down (in prayer). [8]
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[1] The Peak of Eloquence, Ch. 1, P. 18 [2] Al-Aqtasad Al-Toosi, P. 203 [3] The Ten Messages by Al-Toosi, P. 97 [4] The Ten Messages by Al-Toosi, P. 97 [5] Sahih Muslim, V. 7, P. 120 [6] Surat 'li `Imrn (Family of Imran): 61 [7] Yasheer (a.s) regarding the saying of the Almighty; Indeed, Abraham was a [comprehensive] leader, devoutly obedient to Allah ,

inclining toward truth, and he was not of those who associate others with Allah . - Surat An-Nal (The Bee): 120
[8] Surat Al-M'idah (The Table Spread): 55

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And most of the interpreters agreed that this verse is about Ali (as), when he gave his ring as charity while he was bowing. And the plural form is about his eleven sons after him (as), so he (as) became and his eleven sons (as)- and they are the sons of the Prophet (sawas) from Fatima (as)-after him more worthy to handle the believers affairs after the Prophet of Allah (sawas); for their appointing is derived from the appointment of the Prophet of Allah (sawas), and his appointment is derived from the Divine appointment. And since it was associated in this verse with the appointment of Allah, then there is no meaning to interpret it as other than handling the worldly and the religious matters. Allah said: O ye who believe! Obey Allah, and obey the messenger and those of you who are in authority. [1]

The guardians here are the twelve Infallible Imams (as) after the Prophet (sawas), and if it meant other than them then the command would have meant obeying sinners; because it was associated with the obedience to Allah (swt), and this is not true; that would mean that Allah (swt) is commanding us to obey His enemies, and the least that it could mean is the disobeying of Allah, Allah forbid. And it chose that the ones to obey after the Prophet (sawas) are Ali and his Infallible sons (as). And their infallibility is mentioned in the Qur'an. Allah said:

Allah's wish is but to remove uncleanness far from you, O Folk of the Household [2]
And the Prophet (sawas) mentioned that they are Ali and Fatima, and Al-Hassan and Al-Hussain (as), as it was stated in many interpretations [3]. ______________________________
[1] Surat An-Nis' (The Women): 59 [2] Surat Al-'Azb (The Combined Forces): 33 [3] Muslim narrated in Sahih Muslim: Narrated Aisha: One day the Prophet (PBUH&HF) came out afternoon wearing a black

cloak (upper garment or gown; long coat), then al-Hasan Ibn Ali came and the Prophet accommodated him under the cloak, then alHusain came and entered the cloak, then Fatimah came and the Prophet entered her under the cloak, then Ali came and the Prophet entered him to the cloak as well. Then the Prophet recited: "Verily Allah intends to keep off from you every kind of uncleanness O' People of the House (Ahlul-Bayt), and purify you a perfect purication (the last sentence of Verse 33:33)." Sahih Muslim, Chapter of virtues of
companions, section of the virtues of the Ahlul-Bayt of the Prophet (PBUH&HF), 1980 Edition Pub. in Saudi Arabia, Arabic version, v4, p1883, Tradition #61.

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And the Prophet (sawas) said in the Farewell Pilgrimage in Ghadeer Qum during the noon: O' people, am I

not more worthy of you than yourselves? They said: 'Yes O' Prophet of Allah.' He said: 'Whoever I am his master, Ali is his mater, O' Allah befriend with whoever befriends with him, be an enemy to whoever is his enemy, and make whoever makes him victorious, victorious...and let down whoever lets him down, and make the right turn wherever he turns. [1]
In this hadith the Prophet (sawas) proved his appointment to Ali ibn Abi Talib (as), and the Prophet is more worthy of the believers than themselves, and this is a frequent hadith from the Prophet (sawas), with tens of sources from the books of the Muslims in which the Prophet (sawas) asked the Muslims to pay allegiance to Ali ibn Abi Talib (as) after his sermon in the Farewell Pilgrimage in Ghadeer Qum. And Abu Bakr and Omar paid allegiance to him and greeted him by the prince of believers [2], and we will be asked and they will be asked on the Day no money or sons will be of avail to anyone except those who approach Allah with a sound heart. And the Prophet (sawas) mentioned the Imams from Ali (as), as it was narrated from the authority Ja'ber bin Abdullah al-Ansary (may Allah be pleased with him), when he heard Allah's verse:

O ye who believe! Obey Allah, and obey the messenger and those of you who are in authority; and if ye have a dispute concerning any matter, refer it to Allah and the messenger if ye are (in truth) believers in Allah and the Last Day. That is better and more seemly in the end. [3]
Ja'ber said: O' Prophet of Allah we knew Allah, so we obeyed Him, and we knew you, so we obeyed you, so who are the guardians that Allah is commanding us to obey? He (sawas) said: 'They are my successors O'

Ja'ber and the guardians after me, their rst is my brother Ali (as), then after him is son Al-Hassan (as), then AlHussain (as), then Ali ibn Hussain (as), then Muhammad ibn Ali (as), and you will live to witness him O' Ja'ber, so when you reach him send him my Salam, then Ja'far ibn Muhammad (as), then Musa ibn Ja'far (as), then Ali ibn Musa al-Rida (as), then Muhammad ibn Ali (as), then Ali ibn Muhammad (as), then Al-Hassan ibn Ali (as), then Muhammad ibn Al-Hassan (as), who will ll the earth with justice as it was lled with tyranny and injustice. [4]
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[1] From the Life of the Successor Umar ibn Al-Khattab, P. 321 [2] Tareekh Damshaq, Ch. 42, P. 220; Al-Badaya Wa Al-Nahaya, Ch. 7, P. 386 [3] Surat An-Nis' (The Women): 59 [4] Al-Ahtijaj, V.1, P. 87

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Also the Prophet (sawas) said to Al-Hussain (as): This is my son Al-Hussain, he is an Imam from an Imam, a

brother of an Imam, father of nine Imams, the ninth is the riser and their best. [1]
And chapter Al-Qadr is a proof for their Imamate (as), and the descending of the angels (as) and the Spirit with the command on them on the night of power after the Prophet (sawas) has gone, or it would have been said that it had gone with him, which is invalid because it was narrated that it remains after him (sawas), and that it is in the last ten days of Ramadan. And the proofs of the Imamate of Ali and his sons (pbut), the twelve Infallibles after the Prophet (sawas) are many, and I only mentioned some of them, and I apologize to Allah and the Prophet (sawas) and the Imams (as), and the believers for my short-comings. For there is no excuse left for those who deviated from them (as) and followed those who raped their rights, while knowing that it's their right and not the right of those who took it from them, the prince of the believers (as) said: Beware! By Allah the son of Abu Quhafah (Abu Bakr) dressed himself with it (the caliphate)

and he certainly knew that my position in relation to it was the same as the position of the axis in relation to the hand-mill. The ood water ows down from me and the bird cannot y up to me. I put a curtain against the caliphate and kept myself detached from it. Then I began to think whether I should assault or endure calmly the blinding darkness of tribulations wherein the grown up are made feeble and the young grow old, and the true believer acts under strain till he meets Allah (on his death). I found that endurance thereon was wiser. So I adopted patience although there was pricking in the eye and suffocation (of mortication) in the throat. I watched the plundering of my inheritance till the rst one went his way but handed over the Caliphate to Ibn al-Khattab after himself. (Then he quoted al-A`sha's verse). My days are now passed on the camel's back (in difculty) while there were days (of ease) when I enjoyed the company of Jabir's brother Hayyan.(3) It is strange that during his lifetime he wished to be released from the caliphate but he conrmed it for the other one after his death. No doubt these two shared its udders strictly among themselves. This one put the Caliphate in a tough enclosure where the utterance was haughty and the touch was rough. Mistakes were in plenty and so also the excuses therefore. One in contact with it was like the rider of an unruly camel. If he pulled up its rein the very nostril would be slit, but if he let it loose he would be thrown. Consequently, by Allah people got involved in recklessness, wickedness, unsteadiness and deviation.
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[1] Bihar Al-Anwar, V. 36, P. 372

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Nevertheless I remained patient despite length of period and stiffness of trial, till when he went his way (of death) he put the matter (of Caliphate) in a group and regarded me to be one of them. But good Heavens! what had I to do with this "consultation"? Where was any doubt about me with regard to the rst of them that Iwas now considered akin to these ones? But I remained low when they were low and ew high when they ew high. One of them turned against me because of his hatred and the other got inclined the other way due to his in-law relationship and this thing and that thing, till the third man of these people stood up with heaving breasts between his dung and fodder. With him his children of his grand-father, (Umayyah) also stood up swallowing up Allah's wealth like a camel devouring the foliage of spring, till his rope broke down, his actions nished him and his gluttony brought him down prostrate. At that moment, nothing took me by surprise, but the crowd of people rushing to me. It advanced towards me from every side like the mane of the hyena so much so that Hasan and Husayn were getting crushed and both the ends of my shoulder garment were torn. They collected around me like the herd of sheep and goats. When I took up the reins of government one party broke away and another turned disobedient while the rest began acting wrongfully as if they had not heard the word of Allah saying:

That abode in the hereafter, We assign it for those who intend not to exult themselves in the earth, nor (to make) mischief (therein); and the end is (best) for the pious ones. [1]
Yes, by Allah, they had heard it and understood it, but the world appeared glittering in their eyes and its embellishments seduced them. Behold, by Him who split the grain (to grow) and created living beings, if people had not come to me and supporters had not exhausted the argument and if there had been no pledge of Allah with the learned to the effect that they should not acquiesce in the gluttony of the oppressor and the hunger of the oppressed I would have cast the rope of Caliphate on its own shoulders, and would have given the last one the same treatment as to the rst one. Then you would have seen that in my view this world of yours is no better than the sneezing of a goat.) [2] And peace be upon him said: O' people hear my words and understand it from me for the Parting (death) is near, I am the Imam of the world and the trustee of the best of creation, the husband of the master of the women of the nation and the father of the puried progeny and the guiding Imams. I am the brother of the messenger of Allah (sawas), his vicegerent, his trustee and his vizier, his companion, his preferred, his beloved, his closest friend. I am the prince (commander) of the believers, and the leader of the ornamented with shining light (on the Day of Judgement) and the master of vicegerents (of prophets), my war is the war of Allah, and my peace is the peace of Allah, my obedience is the obedience of Allah, and my Wilaya is the Wilaya of Allah, and my Shias are friends of Allah, and my Ansars are Ansar Allah. By Allah who created me and I was nothing; the keepers from the companions of Muhammad (sawas) that the treacherous, the unjust and the apostates are cursed by the tongue of the Ummi/Goyim Prophet and fails the one who oppresses) [3] ______________________________
[1] Surat Al-Qaa (The Stories): 83 [2] The Peak of Eloquence, Chapter 1, Page 30. Known as the Sermon of ash-Shiqshiqiyyah. [3] Al-Amali Al-Sadouq, P. 702

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And when the Caliphate came to Ali, the prince of the believers (as), he tried to get the Muslims out of the darkness and into the light, and to spread justice after oppression had spread, by the hand of the supporter of Othman, but how hard it is when the people are slaves to this world and religion is only on their tongues, except few who were sincere to Allah. And how hard it is when Abi Sufyan, the leader of the disbelievers, and ibn Hend the eater of the liver of Hamzah, the master of the martyrs, jumped over authority...and he (as) did his Jihad against the liars and the renegades, (may Allah curse them all), and this is well known to everyone, for he (as) made his right clear and guided the people to the straight path of Allah, so the people won't have any excuse to deviate from the Imams (as), but the people failed them (as) and didn't support them. For Muwaiyyah (may Allah curse him) killed Al-Hassan (as), and Yazid (may Allah curse him) killed AlHussain (as), and only seventy people or less supported Al-Hussain (as), and he is the fth companion of the Cloak, and the Master of the Youth of Paradise (as), and the last son of the Prophet's daughter on the face of the earth, and the third successor of the Prophet (sawas). And you have to know to what extent of surrendering to the tyrants the Muslims had reached in the age of Al-Hussain (as), which led him to sacrice the progeny of the Prophet (as) and his holy self; to alert the Muslims that they went far away from religion and got out of the rule of Allah, to the rule of the tyrant and satan by submitting to Yazzid and the likes of him (may Allah curse them). And the successors of the Prophet after Al-Hussain (as) continued the path of Jihad for Allah and to callthe people to return to the true Islamic religion, which Muhammad (sawas) brought, not to what those tyrants who took over the nation were calling them to. And the blood of Al-Hussain (as) had a major impact to make many Muslims return to the rule of Allah (swt), and since that time a popular Islamic base started to form led by the family of Muhammad (as), which represents the true Muhammadan Islam, and they (as) continued to call to Allah, and the tyrants continued to call to satan, and they (the tyrants) found who supports them of those who favored this world over religion. And the successors of the Prophet (as) were extremely harmed and their followers were killed, and the tyrants of this nation did as the Pharaoh did with the believers from the Children of Israel, and arms and legs were cut off, and the believers were crucied on the stumps of the palms, but the more they harmed the believers, the followers increased by the thousands. And when the Imamate reached the seal of the successors of the family of Muhammad (as), Allah willed to protect him and kept him hidden from the eyes of the tyrants, so they couldn't kill him (as), like they did to his fathers (as), and he (as) kept leading the Islamic nation for more than 70 years through devoted
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believers, who were in regular contact with him (as), and they sent the questions of the Muslims to him and his answers about the different matters and his instructions were sent to them. And when this period passed Allah willed to get him into a long occultation until Allah permits him to rise when a generation of this ummah is ready to support him and support the religion of Allah and to show it for the whole world, and it is narrated from him (as) and his fathers (as), some of the narrations by the narrators of their sayings, which can be benecial in the worldly and religious leadership of the Islamic nation. And some interpreted that the narrators of hadith are the just scholars in the age of his (as) occultation, and this in case there is no representative for him (as), who delivers his commands to the believers. But in case he (as) sends a messenger from him, then he has to be obeyed, even by the scholars, they should even support him and if they fail him or disobey his commands, then they are out of the rule of Ahlul Bayt (as), and must not be obeyed (the scholars), and they must be disobeyed and to obey the messenger sent from the Imam (as). And it is mentioned in the book The Repertoire of the Righteous, by Al-Sheikh Abdul Kareem AlZengany, (may Allah rest his soul) on pages 7, 8, and 9: As for the rule of the one who fullls the conditions of fatwa, it is a derivative branch out of the rule of the Imam (as), which is derived from the rule of the Prophet (sawas), which is derived from the Divine Rule and Authority. And to clarify this: It is obvious that the power of the Creator over His creation is the most superior type of power and rule, and the rule of the Prophet (sawas) is derived from this Divine Rule and Power, and it is mentioned in the verse: The Prophet is closer to the believers than their selves [1], then the rule of the Imam (as) is derived from this prophetic rule, as the Prophet (sawas) pointed out in the frequent hadith of AlGhadeer, which is in the books of the two sects. For the Prophet of Allah (sawas) paved the way for the rule of the Imam (as), with his saying: Am I not more worthy of you than yourselves? They said: 'Yes', He said:

'Whoever I am his master, Ali is his master....... [2] (etc.) So this pavement could be an ultimate presumption
that he (sawas) wanted to show the people that Ali is most worthy and that the rule of Ali (as) is a branch from the rule of the Prophet (sawas), and to show his position. ______________________________
[1] Surat Al-'Azb (The Combined Forces): 6 [2] Al-Ghadeer, Ch. 1, P. 7

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And the thorough sayings support that the Imam (as) is a proof upon the people and that he (as) has the ultimate authority over the people from Allah (swt), and this rule is the fundamentals and the support of this sect which it was built on. And one of the branches of the rule of the Imam (as) is the rule of the Jurist, who fullls the conditionsof issuing the Fatwa, which is summarized in the interpretations of Imam Hassan al-Askary (as) in the following sentence: And whoever among the Jurists who preserve himself and maintains his religion and disagrees

with his own desires, and who obeys the command of his master, then it is for the common public to follow him. [1]
And the Imam (as) showed the truth about disagreeing with your own desires in the hadith that was narrated by Al-Tabrassy in the book Al-Ahtajjaj on the authority of the eighth Imam, Al-Rida (as): Ali ibn Hussain (as) said: 'If you see a man who elevated his characteristics, and was guided and humble in his logic and actions, don't be tempted by him, for how many are unable to gain this world and what's forbidden, just because of his weakness and cowardly heart, so he set the religion as a trap for it, for he still deceived people with his outer appearance, but once he is able to do the forbidden he does it, and if you nd him staying away from forbidden money, don't be deceived for the temptations differ from one to another, for how many stay away from the forbidden money even if it's a large amount, but approach forcefully an ugly woman and fornicate with her. So if you nd him staying away from that, don't be deceived until you see what his mind intended, for how many stay away from all of that and still without a sane mind, so he corrupts with his ignorance more than he upholds righteousness with his mind. So if you nd his mind sane don't be deceived, until you see if his mind is with his desires or his desires are with his mind, and how he loves the presidencies, for there are people who lost this world and the hereafter, and see that the pleasure of the presidency is better than the pleasure and the wealth. So he leaves all that for the presidency, until it is said to him fear Allah and he becomes prideful, for his end is in the hell-re and he stumbles, his falsehood leads him to the greatest loss, and Allah gives him as much as he can transgress, and he allows what Allah forbids and forbids what Allah allows, without caring about the real loss once the presidency that he struggled for is handed to him, for those are the ones that Allah are angry with and curses, and preparing for them a humiliating torment, but the best of men is the one who makes his own desires according to the command of Allah, and his strength is for the satisfaction of Allah, and sees the humility of truth as eternal glory. He knows that he can only ______________________________
[1] Tafsir of Imam Hassan Al-Askary (a.s), P. 300

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bear a little of the false glory, and guided for the eternal bliss in a eternal house, and if he follows his own desire then it's acquisition leads him to an eternal torment without end, and this is the best of men, so follow his sunnah and seek your Lord, and beg Allah through him, for Allah does not refuse his supplication, and doesn't disappoint him in what he is asking..... [1] And the elements of the rule of the one who is fullling the conditions are three: 1: The Fatwa to the common person in his work, and its source is sub-issues and the devised issues in terms of giving an Islamic ruling for it. 2: The position of the judge in the pleadings and other specic cases. 3: The position of mandating funds and selves, and it is a negotiable position from the general mandate. And in the book 'Rening the Assets of the Appendages and Curiosity', by Abd Al-Ala Al-Sbzwary (may Allah rest his soul) in the second volume, pg. 128: The matters of the Jurist who is fullling the conditions is not only about the authenticity of the fatwa and the rule, but he also has a existentialistic authenticity even if he remains silent; because he can be Allah's hujjat (proof) on the Day of Resurrection, and he can complain to Allah (swt) about the ignorants if they didn't go back to him in the understanding of the provisions, and it is narrated in the hadith: Three will complain to their Lord on the Day of Judgment, a scholar

who the people don't ask about-the hadith- also he has the regular mandate, meaning regulating the people and their policies with a Divine system, only with the condition when he is the ruler over everything.
So the duty of the Muslims in the age of the occultation is to support the religion by supporting the Imam's private representative sent by him, or the Jurist who is fullling the conditions, the Just, the Ascetic, in case there is no representative for the Imam (as) ruling over everything.As it is the duty of the scholars today to face the tyrants; because it is a defensive Jihad for Islam in this age, where the tyrants are trying to obliterate Islam completely, and to get the Islamic countries to the days of ignorance, just as Yazzid (may Allah curse him) did in the age of Al-Hussain (as), and even more than that, they lled the Islamic countries with idols, and the images, and forced the Muslims to respect and sanctify; because it represents their evil abhorrent selves, and this case represents the clearest form of polytheism, for the scholar must show his ______________________________
[1] Al-Ihtajaj, Ch. 2, P. 52

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knowledge and ght them and support the Mujahadeen, even if it's by an advisory opinion and getting it to the people, and working on educating the people religiously. As for the scholars or let's say the ignorants, because the non-working scholar is ignorant in reality, as it was narrated by them (as) [1], those who languish in the dark dungeons without even caring to hear about the status of the Islamic community, or to rise up with the Islamic religion through an effective and true rise in the community or to move, for they don't belong to this saved sect at all, and they will nd themselves on the Day of Resurrection in these same dark dungeons with blackened faces, the Prophet of Allah (sawas) said: The most evil one on the Day of Resurrection is the scholar whose knowledge was not beneted from. [2]

From the above it was shown that the Islamic religion has its own political integrated theory, as legislation and implementation, and Muslims should not be excess with it; because it is the most complete political theory ever known by humanity, and there is no political theory that could live up to it; because it was put by Allah (swt), the All-Knowledgeable, the All-Wise, and the one who must implement it is the Prophet (sawas), or the Infallible Imam (as) after him (sawas), or the scholar who is fullling for the conditions, the Just, the Ascetic... in case of the absence of the Imam (as), and the representative for him (as), and all praises due to Allah alone. ***

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[1] Sermon in The Peak of Eloquence, Ch. 1, P. 153. [2] Ruda Al-Watheen, P. 10.

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The Path to get out of The Labyrinth

All of the ones O' believers, let's work together to be the generation who will get out of The Labyrinth and The Desert which we have found ourselves in, and let's start reforming ourselves and our Islamic community, each one according to his ability, Allah said:

And the believers, men and women, are protecting friends one of another; they enjoin the right and forbid the wrong, and they establish worship and they pay the poor-due, and they obey Allah and His messenger. As for these, Allah will have mercy on them. Lo! Allah is Mighty, Wise. [1]
O' loved ones, staying away from the Islamic religion and the Divine method has put locks on the hearts and the covers which are on the eyes will not be lifted except by the devotion to Allah, and the rushing away from the humility of disobeying Allah, to the glory of obeying Allah, and from the humility of obeying the tyrant and the surrender to him, to the glory of obeying Allah and surrendering to Him; so the light can shine in the hearts and the darkness unfolds off the eyes. Allah said: Therefore remind (men), for of

use is the reminder. - He will heed who feareth, - But the most hapless will out it [2]
I seek refuge for myself and yourselves from misery, and may Allah make us from the people who hears the words and follows the best of it, may Allah hasten the appearance of our sire, Muhammad ibn Al-Hassan (as) for us, so we win the two good outcomes, the martyrdom after victory, and the killing of the enemies of religion and the hypocrites.

That is the bounty of Allah; which He giveth unto whom He will. Allah is of Innite bounty. [3]
On the path of getting out of the Labyrinth there is prayer, and zakat, and fasting, and the propagation of virtue, and the prevention of vice, and the Jihad for the sake of Allah, and love for the sake of Allah, and hate for the sake of Allah, and on the path of getting out of the Labyrinth, there is the commitment to all of the Islamic laws and the devotion to Allah, and to work for Him (swt), and on the path of getting out of the Labyrinth, there is spilled blood and discharged sweat. ______________________________
[1] Surat At-Tawbah (The Repentance): 71 [2] Surat Al-'A`l (The Most High): 9 - 11 [3] Surat Al-Jumu`ah (The Congregation, Friday): 4

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Walking on the way out of the Labyrinth is not easy, but it's end is good; because at the end of the path is the satisfaction of Allah (swt) and the Prophet (sawas), and at the end of the path there is the establishment of the rule of Divine Justice on the earth, and the spreading of the word Allahu Akbar (God is Great) on every spot of the earth. And there are clear signs for the path out which the walkers to Allah are guided by on His straight path, and no one can tell you about these signs like the expert of this path, who is Allah (swt), and like the scholars who are Muhammad and the family of Muhammad (as), and in this research I address some of the verses from the Precious Book, and some of the hadith of Muhammad and the family of Muhammad (as) and their cases (as), may Allah make it benecial for whoever hears it and reects upon it, and the most important signs on this path: Prayer: And it is the pillar of religion and how the believer ascends, and it is honor, if it is accepted everything else is, and if it is rejected everything else is, and by it the souls are puried from lth, as the bodies are puried by water, and on the authority of the Prophet of Allah (sawas): Allah (swt) swore not to punish the worshipers

and the prostraters, and not to frighten them with hell-re on the Day the people are resurrected to the Lord of all worlds. [1]
So if it is time for it don't delay it, because the delay is the start of omission and it drags to taking the matter of prayer lightly, the Prophet of Allah (saw) said:Whoever locks himself in an obliged prayer and

completes its bowing and prostration and humbleness, then glories Allah and praises Him until the time is due for the next obliged prayer, and didn't take time off between them, Allah rewards him the reward of the pilgrim, and makes him among the high people. [2]
And on the authority of Al-Baqir and Al-Sadiq (peace be upon them) they said: You are only rewarded about

your prayer as much as you put in it, so if there is heedlessness about its manner, it will be returned and the face of the worshiper will be struck by it. [3]
And reect upon the greatness of Allah while you are standing between His hands, and prolong the prostration and the bowing, for it is your gift to the True King and its reward is greater than it. And ______________________________
[1] Al-Amali Al-Sadouq, P. 154, Bihar Al-Anwar, Ch. 93, P. 357 [2] Bihar Al-Anwar, Ch. 81, P. 260 [3] Al-Ka, Ch. 3, P. 363, Bihar Al-Anwar, Ch.81, P. 260

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whenever you can don't miss the group prayer in mosques, for the virtue of the group prayer is great. And do some of the recommended prayers, especially Salat Ghufailah, and the night prayer (Salatul Layl), don't ever leave it for it's reward is great, and it is eight rakat's and two Sha'fa rakat's and one Witr' Rakat, after each two rakat's you make salam, just like the morning prayer except the Witr rakat, for it is only one rakat, and you can limit the night prayer to only praising Allah (Dhikr), and you can pray the two Shafa rakat's and the one Witr only. And it is narrated that whoever wakes up before the Fajr prayer and prays Witr and the Fajr Nafela-it is two rakat's before the Fajr prayer-will be rewarded with the reward of the night prayer, so don't miss your luck. On the authority of Abi Abdullah (as): A man came to the Prophet (sawas) and said, 'O' Prophet of Allah, does

Allah ask about other than the obliged prayers'? So he (sawas) said: 'No', so he said: 'By the One who sent you with Truth I only get close to Allah through it.' He (sawas) said: 'Why'? He said: 'Because Allah made me ugly', so the Prophet (sawas) held back, and Gabriel (as) descended and said: 'O' Muhammad Allah is sending you His Salam, and is saying send my Salam to my so and so servant, and say to him: 'Won't you be satised if I resurrect you tomorrow among the safe people'? So he said: 'O' Prophet of Allah, did Allah mention me'!? He (sawas) said: 'Yes', so he said: 'By the one who sent you with the Truth, there is nothing that can be done which gets the one closer to Allah that I won't do.' [1]
And who among us didn't sin, and who among us doesn't want to be safe on the Day of Resurrection? Du'a (Supplication): Allah said: My Lord would not concern Himself with you but for your prayer. [2] Allah said: And your Lord hath said: Pray unto Me and I will hear your prayer. Lo! those who scorn My service,

they will enter hell, disgraced. [3]

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[1] Narrated from Muwayiah, regarding Al-Sadiq (a.s) that he heard him say: As for the one who is pleased with waking up

before dawn break and preforms Witr and prays the two Rakats of Salat-ul-Fajr, it is recorded for him the reward of the Night Prayer.
Wasail Al-Shia (Ahlulbayt), Ch. 4, P. 258 [2] Surat Al-Furqn (The Criterian): 77 [3] Surat Ghr (The Forgiver): 60

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Supplicate to Allah in ease and hardship and in every small or big matter, and do not look at a matter whether small or big, that cannot be asked of Allah, for you never did good except through the help of Allah, and no one ever pushed evil away from you except Allah. And it was narrated that Allah inspired Moses (as): O' Moses, ask Me even for the salt for your food, and for the

lace of your shoes, and for the food of your animal.

O' loved ones, know that Allah (swt) can not be limited with an attribute and His tender is endless, descending in precise proportions; because our world is limited, so ask whatever you want from the good of this world and the hereafter, that can benet your religion and makes your Lord satised, and don't miss the du'a in the blessed Psalms of Islam, for they are the Psalms of ala Muhammad (as), and especially the du'a of Kumayl on the eve of Friday, and the du'a of Abi Hamzah Al-Thumaly, and the du'a of Shaban.And I mention here this supplication, may Allah make it a salvation from the plots and the deception of the world, and may Allah help the people in understanding it's meaning, or to memorize it, and supplicate with it in every way. In the name of Allah, the All-Compassionate, the All-Merciful

My God, Thou hast settled us in an abode which has dug for us pits of deception, and thou hast fastened us by the hands of death in the snares of that abode's treachery! In thee we seek asylum from the tricks of its guile, and to thee we hold fast, lest we be deluded by the glitter of its ornaments! It destroys its pursuers and ruins its settlers, it is stuffed with blights and loaded with calamities. My God, induces us to renounce it and keep us safe from it by Thy giving success and Thy preservation from sin. Strip from us the robes of opposing Thee, attend to our affairs through Thy good sufciency, amplify our increase from the boundless plenty of thy mercy, be liberal in our gifts from the overow of Thy grants, plant in our hearts the Tree of Thy love, complete for us the lights of Thy knowledge, give us to taste the sweetness of Thy pardon and the pleasure of Thy forgiveness, gladden our eyes on the day of meeting Thee with the vision of Thee, dislodge the love of this world from our spirits, just as Thou hast done for the righteous, Thy selected friends, and for the pious, those whom Thou hast singled out! O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Most Generous of the most generous! [1]
And always supplicate to Allah in any case, in work or in free time, in night and in day, and especially after the obliged prayer before you leave your sitting. And often praise Muhammad and ala Muhammad, and don't leave the prostration of gratitude after every prayer, and every blessing that Allah (swt) blesses you ______________________________
[1] Du'a of The Abstainers in the Psalms of Islam by: Imam Zainul Abidin (as)

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with, and do it after every harm that is pushed away from you. And the way to do it is that you prostrate, then place your right cheek on the ground, then the left cheek, then back to prostration, and the least that can be said in it is Shukran lellah (All Praises to Allah) three times, and the best is one hundred times. And some of the supplications that the believers should be persisting in doing, especially after the morning prayer are: 1. La Ilaha ila Allah, wahdahu Shareeka Lahu Al-Molk wa Lahu Al-Hamd, Yohee wa Yomeet wa Yomeet wa Yohee wa Howa Hai La Yamoot, Be-Yadehee Al-Khair wa Howa Ala Kol Shai Qadeer. (No god but Allah, the One without any associates to Him, to Him is all sovereignty and to Him all praises, He gives life and causes death and causes death and gives life and He is alive and He never dies, all good is in His hand, and He has the the power over everything. (Ten times) After morning prayer and before sunset. 2. Subhan'Allah Al-Azeem wa Be-Hamdeh, wa La Hawla wa La Quata illah Bellah Al-Aley Al-Azeem. (Allah is the All-Sufcient and all praises to Him, and there is no ability or power except for the Almighty) Ten Times. 3. Ashhadu Anna La ilaha illa Allah Wahdahu La Shareek Lah, Elahan Wahedan Ahadan Fardan Samadan Lam Yattakhez Saheba wa La Waladan. (I bear witness that there is no god but Allah, without any associates/partners, One God without any equivalent, the One Whom all the people turn to, who did not take a spouse and did not beget.) (Ten Times). 4. Allahumma Salli Ala Muhammad wa Ajjel Farajahum. (O Allah send your peace and blessings upon Muhammad and hasten their return.) (One Hundred Times). 5. Subhan'Allah, waAlhamdulillah, wa La ilaha Ila Allah, wa Allahu Akbar. (Allah is the All-Sufcient, and all praises to Allah, and no god except Allah, and Allah is Greater.) (Thirty Times).And as these supplications have benets for the hereafter, they also have worldly benets as well, and they push away the evil of the authority and Satan.

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Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice: And it is one of the most important duties that the Islamic community as a whole can do, for the seeker of religious sciences and the doctor, and the farmer, and the architect, and every person in the Islamic community is responsible for propagating the virtue and preventing the vice. And the Prophet of Allah (sawas) warned this nation that leaving this will make Allah give power to the evil ones over it (the nation), so when the good ones supplicate to Him, they won't be answered, and are there more evil tyrants than the ones who are taking over the nation today?! So go back to the propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, and don't fear anyone except Allah, and let the voices be raised in the face of every disobedient, may Allah have mercy on us, and take away this scourge, Allah said:

And your Lord hath said: Pray unto Me and I will hear your prayer. Lo! those who scorn My service, they will enter hell, disgraced. [1]
And it is narrated on their authority (as): Through propagation of virtue obligations are held and sects are secured, and gains are bestowed, and injustices are prevented, and the land is inhabited, and the rights will be taken from the oppressors and given back to the oppressed, and people are still well as long as they propagate the virtue and prevent the vice and cooperate in doing righteousness, because if they didn't do that, the blessings will be removed from them and they will be enemies to each other with no helper on the earth or in the heavens. And the Prophet (sawas) said: How will you be if your women are corrupt, and your youth are debauched, and

you didn't propagate the virtue and prevent the vice?' So it was said to him: 'Is that possible, O' Prophet of Allah?' He said, 'Yes' and he (sawas) said, 'How will you be if you propagate the vice and prevented the virtue?' So it was said to him: 'Is that possible O' Prophet of Allah?' So he said: 'Yes, and there is evil in this, how will you be if you see the virtue as vice, and the vice as virtue? [2]
So every believer, male and female, should propagate virtue and prevent the vice today, and work day and night to reform the corrupted selves that is now seeing the virtue as vice, and the vice as virtue, and all praises to Allah alone. ______________________________
[1] Surat 'li `Imrn (Family of Imran): 104 [2] Al-Ka Ch. 5, P. 59, Wasail Al-Shia (Ahlulbayt), Ch. 16, P. 122, Tahzeeb Alahkam, Ch. 6, P. 177

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Khums and Zakat (Charity): It was mentioned in many narrations that whoever prevents zakat is a disbeliever, and Al-Baqir (as) said:

The hardest condition that the people will be in on the Day of Resurrection is when the owner of khums claims his khums. [1] And the Imam of the Age (May Allah hasten his blessed Appearance) said: Whoever eats something from our money, re is in his stomach, and he will suffer the hell-re. [2]
And paying the Khums and Zakat has all the good of this world and the hereafter, and blesses and increases the money, Allah said:

Lo! those who read the Scripture of Allah, and establish worship, and spend of that which We have bestowed on them secretly and openly, they look forward to imperishable gain, - That He will pay them their wages and increase them of His grace. Lo! He is Forgiving, Responsive. [3]
And the most important thing you need to know is that whoever doesn't spend his money for the sake of Allah, does not spend himself for the sake of Allah, for whoever doesn't pay Khums and Zakat will not be with those ghting with the Imam, the Hujjat (Proof (as). And it's not far-fetched that he will ght against the Imam (as) if the justice of the Imam (as) contradicted with his own benets, and look justly that all the money is for Allah, for He is the Owner of everything, and still He made four-fths to you, which made you a beneciary of it, and made it an obligation upon you to pay Khums and Zakat so you can express your obedience to Him, and your love to Him, and His Prophet (sawas) and his progeny (as), not because Allah needs this money, for you are spending it on the poor when you give it. And I give an example: An owner of a farm who gives it to his workers and said, Work in it and take fourfths of the products, and give the fth to your poor neighbors; because I don't want them to be hungry or without shelter. So the workers were greedy and took even the fth and ate it, do you see a more generous one than the owner of the farm, and do you see meaner than those workers?! And praises to Allah, Lord of all Worlds. ______________________________
[1] Al-Ka Ch. 1, P. 547. [2] Kamaaluddin wa Tamaamun Nima P. 521, Wasail Al-Shia (Ahlulbayt), Ch. 9, P. 541 [3] Surat Fir (Originator): 29 & 30

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Fasting: And this form of worship instills the care of the poor Muslims in the self, in addition to being pious, so don't spend the day of your fasting thinking about your breakfast and the kind of food you will have, so when you feel hungry when you are fasting, remember how many Muslims are spending most the days of the year hungry, and don't be like those:

And when it is said unto them: Spend of that wherewith Allah hath provided you, those who disbelieve say unto those who believe: Shall we feed those whom Allah, if He willed, would feed? Ye are in naught else than error manifest. [1]
And feeding the poor is not the only thing you can do, rather we all have to work to lift the poverty off of those Muslims, who today represents the majority of the Islamic nation, which is rich with all kinds of resources, like agricultural lands, and minerals, and oil, and if what's in the land of Muslims is being spent on the Muslims according to the Islamic Law, the Muslim today would be one of the richest people, but unfortunately the rich Islamic lands have been taken over today by tyrants who do not care, except for plundering those resources, and building palaces, and lewdness, and drinking alcohol. One of those tyrants travels to one of the countries of the west with seven huge airplanes, and two hundred tons of food supplies, and luxury goods, and other than that, and with some servants, and others that he spends on which is enough to feed the starving people of one of the Islamic cities. And one of them is spending on some of the means of media, what's enough to feed the believing people that he took over through shedding blood while they are starving. All this to cover his dark face and his mouth, whose dripping the blood of those believers so he can remain in power over the Muslims, even if for one more day to plunder the nances, and eats lots of food, may Allah never make his stomach content. O' Loved ones, in fasting there is reection about the conditions of the Muslims. And in fasting there is Jihad (strife) against the self and Satan, and the desires, and the ornaments of this world, and in fasting there is love for the sake of Allah, and hate for the sake of Allah, and in the heart of a faster there is mercy for the believers, and ruggedness for the disbelievers and hypocrites, so beware that your fasting is not only about hunger and thirst. It is narrated on the authority of the Prophet of Allah (sawas): Fasting does not take from anything, and ______________________________
[1] Surat Y-Sn (Ya Sin): 47

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hunger does not add to anything. [1]

And the Prince of the believers (as) said: How many of those fasting do not gain anything from their fasting

accept thirst, and how many night-worshipers do not gain anything from their night-worshiping except the effort, they preferred the bed sleeping and their breakfast. [2]
And it is narrated that the Prophet of Allah (sawas) said to Jaber bin Abdullah Al-Ansary: O' Jaber, this is

the month of Ramadan, whoever fasts in it's day and supplicates in it's night, and spares his stomach and sexual desires, and guards his tongue, comes out of his sins the way he comes out of the month.' Jaber said: 'What a beautiful saying it is', so the Prophet of Allah (sawas) said: 'O Jaber, and how hard these conditions are. [3]
And the most important form of worship which is associated with the month of fasting is the reading of the Qur'an. So keep on reecting upon the Qur'an and studying the Qur'an, so you can live the life of the happy, and die the death of the martyrs. On the authority of the Prophet of Allah (sawas): There will come

a time upon the people where nothing of the Qur'an will remain except it's inscription. [4]
And how many copies are there of the Qur'an today? And how many are those who recite the Qur'an today? And praise be to Allah, but do they reect upon the Qur'an? Do we hold the manners of the Qur'an? Do we think about it's verses? Are we the servants of Allah? Do we disbelieve in the tyrant as we were told in the Qur'an? Are we certain? Allah said: Had it been possible for a Lecture to cause the mountains to move, or the earth to be torn asunder, or the

dead to speak, (this Qur'an would have done so). Nay, but Allah's is the whole command. [5]
Subhan'Allah, all this in the Qur'an and we are heedless about it!! We belong to Allah and to Him we return, and do we think that we reected upon the Qur'an while we don't tremble during the smallest calamity that happens to us? For in the Qur'an there are unaccounted lessons in patience and relying upon ______________________________
[1] Bihar Al-Anwar, Ch. 93, P. 293. [2] The Peak of Eloquence (Nahjul Balagha), Ch. 4, P. 35. [3] Al-Ka, Ch. 4, P. 87, Tahzeeb Alahkam, Ch. 4, P. 196. [4] Al-Ka, Ch. 8, P. 8, Thowab Al-Amal, P. 253. [5] Surat Ar-Ra`d (The Thunder): 31

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And when the two hosts saw each other, those with Moses said: Lo! We are indeed caught. (61) He said: Nay, verily! for lo! My Lord is with me. He will guide me. [1]
Did we reect on these verses?? The companions of Moses (as) are conrming that they are falling in the hands of the Pharaoh and his soldiers, and Moses (as) is conrming that Allah will guide him and save him from the Pharaoh and his soldiers:

....my Lord is with me. He will guide me.

Did you ever use this verse as a weapon to defeat your enemy with, as Moses did (as)?! Patience:

O my dear son! Establish worship and enjoin kindness and forbid iniquity, and persevere whatever may befall thee. Lo! that is of the steadfast heart of things. - Turn not thy cheek in scorn toward folk, nor walk with pertness in the land. Lo! Allah loveth not each braggart boaster. - Be modest in thy bearing and subdue thy voice. Lo! the harshest of all voices is the voice of the ass. [2]
On the authority of Abi Abdullah (as): The Prophet of Allah (sawas) said, 'Allah does not have a need in

whoever does not have a share in his money and body. [3]
And on the authority of the Prophet of Allah (sawas) when he was asked who is the aficted one in the world, so he said: The prophets, then the ones next in degree, then the ones next to them, then the believer is put in

hardship for as much faith and good deeds that he has, so whoever has the right faith and good deeds, his hardship will be harder, and whoever is low in faith and has weak deeds, his hardship will be less. [4]
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[1] Surat Ash-Shu`ar' (The Poets): 61 & 62 [2] Surat Luqmn (Luqman): 17 - 19 [3] Al-Ka, Ch. 2, P. 256, Bihar Al-Anwar, Ch. 64, P. 215. [4] Al-Ka, Ch. 2, P. 252, Wasail Al-Shia (Ahlulbayt), Ch. 3, P. 261.

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And the Prince of the believers (as) said: If a mountain loves me it would scramble. [1] And he said (as): Whoever loves us Ahlulbayt, let him be ready for hardship. [2] For the believer is put in hardship and he has to be patient, for patience is a strong weapon that he can face every calamity with. And patience in the sake of Allah is one of the greatest forms of worship and has many aspects: Patience over worship, patience when avoiding a sin, patience in calamities, and one of the greatest touchstones of patience is to bear the hardship and the calamities that the believing person faces, who is devoted in the obedience to Allah; as he faces the falsehood with its tyrants and its ignorants and its lavish, so be patient O' believers about the harm you face from the tyrants and their lavish servants and their fools. So bite down hard on your religion, and be patient about the hard living, and don't put yourselves in the position of the doomed, for in the hour of death, the person only sees this life as it was only one hour, in which he was just getting to know the people in it. And know that a world which keeps you away from Muhammad ibn Abdullah (sawas) is a world which has no good in it, so work on reforming your religion, so your world and your hereafter is reformed, on the authority of the Prophet of Allah (sawas): There shall come a time upon people when no man of religion shall be

sound with his religion except who leaves from height to height and from a tight place to a tight place, like a fox with its cubs.' They said: 'And when is that time O prophet of Allah?' He (sawas) said: 'If living is not earned except by the forbiddings of Allah so at that time single-hood is made halal.' They said: 'You commanded us to marry!!' He said: 'Yes, but if it was that time the destruction of man is by the hand of his parents, if he had no parents then the hands of his wife and children, and if he had no wife and no child then by the hand of his kins and neighbors.' They said: 'And how is that O prophet of Allah?' He (sawas) said: 'They tease him by the tightness of living, and they put upon him what he cannot (provide) till they drive him to the sources of destruction. [3]
O' Loved ones, bear the hardship and accept what's little in halal, and refrain from striving for this world, and don't atter the tyrants and their agents, for the glad tidings for the family of Muhammad (sawas) and ______________________________
[1] The Peak of Eloquence (Nahjul Balagha), Ch. 4, P. 26. Bihar Al-Anwar, Ch. 34, P. 284. [2] The Peak of Eloquence (Nahjul Balagha), Ch. 4, P. 26. [3] Mustadrak Al-Wasail, Ch. 11, P. 388, Sharah Ibn Abi Al-Hadid, Ch. 10, P. 37.

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for you will be soon, God-Willing. With hardship comes ease....with hardship comes ease. On the authority of the Prophet of Allah (sawas) he said: Do not be of those whom were deceived by the immediate and are tricked

by the wish, so they fell for the trick and settled in the abode of evil, quick to be extinct impending to go. There is not left from this dunya of yours except it is like the stopping and getting off of a rider or like the press of a milker. So for what are you faltering and what are waiting for? For by Allah you and what you became in this dunya are like (something that) never became, and what you proceed to of the hereafter is long lasting, so do prepare for the impediment moving, and prepare the supplies for the approaching journey and know that every man is coming upon what they put forth, and upon what they left is regretful. [1]
Know that what is left today for this world is not a thing worth mentioning, for maybe the Imam al- Mahdi (as) will appear this year or the next. So do we remain heedless asking for this world, and heedless about what is intended for us?! Abu Dharr (may Allah be satised with him) was asked, 'why do we hate death'? So he answered: 'Because you built your world and ruined your hereafter, and a person hates to move from comfort to

ruin. [2]
Allah created us to worship and our time must be for the worship, and what is in excess is for livelihood and work, not the opposite. The Prophet of Allah (sawas) said: O' people, livelihood is divided amongst everyone, and no one will take more

than his share, so be good in asking, and life-time is limited, and no one will exceed what is meant for him. [3]
And the Prophet of Allah (sawas) said, when he was leaving someone: O' people, approach what you are

supposed to reform for your hereafter, and stay away from what is guaranteed for you in your world. [4]
And Ali (as) said: You will not miss what is meant for you, so be good in asking, you will never grasp what was

kept away from you, so be good in earning. [5]

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[1] Bihar Al-Anwar, Ch. 74, P. 183, Nahj Al-Saada, Ch. 7, P. 61. [2] Khasais Al-Aimma, P. 112, and from the Narrations of Imam Ali (a.s.). [3] Mustadrak Al-Wasail, Ch. 13, P. 29, Bihar Al-Anwar, Ch. 74, P. 179. [4] Bihar Al-Anwar, Ch. 74, P. 182, Nahj Al-Saada, Ch. 7, P. 329. [5] Mustadrak Al-Wasail, Ch. 13, P. 33, Nahj Al-Saada, Ch. 7, P. 330.

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And he said (as): Your destiny will come for you, so be good in asking, what was meant for you will come for you, so

be humble in your earning. [1]

And he said (as): I wonder about those who know that Allah guarantees the livelihood and that his strife won't add

anything to what is meant for him, and yet he is still eager in asking for the livelihood. [2]
And know that these sayings do not contradict with working for livelihood and seeking the walks of the world, but it is against the work that makes you leave the worship, or to be a short-comer in it, or delaying the prayer from it's right time, or destroying your body while working for your livelihood, for your body has a right on you. And know that whoever exhausts his body won't be able to perform worship, for we have to make time for the obliged and the recommended prayers, and be prepared for it, especially the night prayer, don't ever leave it in anyway. Imam Hassan (as) said: O' you do not strive for asking of a struggler, and do not rely on estimation the relying of a

submissed, for seeking sustenance is from the sunnah and summing/limiting going after it is from virtue, and virtue does not push away sustenance, and keenness does not bring sustenance, for sustenance is divided, life's duration is timed and using keenness inherits problems. [3]
Taqqiya (Religious Dissimulation): We all practice taqqiya in our daily life, for the human being has the innate nature of avoiding the physical damage, rather the animal who is silent does as well, but we need to ration this nature according to the Islamic Legislation. For in Islam taqqiya is one of the most important forms of worship which the believers must commit to it fully and precisely, and leaving taqqiya in its own places is forbidden, as practicing it in other than its own place gets the believer to a doomed fate. Many believers practice taqqiya excessively, and few believers neglect it, and it is narrated from the Imams ______________________________
[1] Mustadrak Al-Wasail, Ch. 13, P. 32, Bihar Al-Anwar, Ch. 7, P. 330. [2] Mustadrak Al-Wasail, Ch. 13, P. 33, Bihar Al-Anwar, Ch. 7, P. 330. [3] Al-Hakayat LilMufeed, P. 95.

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(as) to neither practice excessively nor neglect it, on the authority of al-Sadiq (as): Taqqiya is my religion and

the religion of my fathers. [1]

And from him (as): Whoever has no taqqiya, has no religion. [2]

As it is narrated from him (as): If you were invited to support us, you would have loved taqqiya more than your

fathers. [3]
So while he (as) conrms taqqiya and the practicing of it in its own place, he mentions that some people fail to support the family of Muhammad (as), with the excuse of practicing taqqiya, especially in the Age of Appearance of Imam al-Mahdi (as). So taqqiya doesn't mean quitting or leaving the Jihad (strife) for the sake of Allah, but it means to work cautiously, for example: if you want to kill a poisonous snake, you have to approach it quietly to strike it on it'shead, but if you make a lot of noise the snake will notice that you are approaching it, and maybe it will start to attack you. And on the authority of Abi Ja'far (as) in Sahih Al-Hazaa: By Allah, the most loved

companions to me are the most pious and knowledgeable, and the concealer of our sayings. [4]
And concealing the sayings of Ahlul Bayt (as) from those who don't believe in the Imamate of ala Muhammad (as), those who obstinate them (as) and are not among their (as) mandate. Jihad (Strife): Allah said: Those who have been driven from their homes unjustly only because they said: Our Lord is Allah - For

had it not been for Allah's repelling some men by means of others, cloisters and churches and oratories and mosques, wherein the name of Allah is oft mentioned, would assuredly have been pulled down. Verily Allah helpeth one who helpeth Him. Lo! Allah is Strong, Almighty. [5]
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[1] Al-Muhasan, Ch. 1, P. 255, Daiaim Al-Islam, Ch. 1, P. 110. [2] Awaly Al-Alaaly, Ch. 1, P. 342, Awail Al-Makalat, P. 216. [3] Tahzeeb Al-Ahkam, Ch. 6, P. 172. [4] Al-Ka, Ch. 2, P. 223. [5] Surat Al-aj (The Pilgrimage): 40

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O' believers, those rulers took over the Muslims by power, and spilled the blood which Allah forbade through deception and deceit, and buying the services of the mean mercenaries, and they started ghting every free human being who rejected to be a slave of their laws, because they see themselves as gods who must be obeyed apart from Allah. They consider themselves higher than human beings, and that people must praise their sayings and actions, they are arrogant and are not aware of the good word, rather they take it by power, and only force the solution between us and those arrogant oppressors, and this is our fate. Allah (swt) willed to test the believers through Jihad, to discern the difference between the sincere in his faith, and from the liar who claims to be faithful. Allah said: Alif. Lam. Mim. * Do men imagine that they will be left (at ease) because they say, We believe, and

will not be tested with afiction? * Lo! We tested those who were before them. Thus Allah knoweth those who are sincere, and knoweth those who feign. * Or do those who do ill-deeds imagine that they can outstrip Us? Evil (for them) is that which they decide. * Whoso looketh forward to the meeting with Allah (let him know that) Allah's reckoning is surely nigh, and He is the Hearer, the Knower. * And whosoever striveth, striveth only for himself, for lo! Allah is altogether Independent of (His) creatures. [1]
Those tyrants have focused only on two matters, either theft or humiliation, as was said by our master AlHussain (as) and Allah, and His Prophet (sawas), and the believers do not accept humility for us, so we must do Jihad against those tyrants and their mercenaries who are sucking the blood of the Muslims, before a day comes where we are bodies without blood, and like dead walking the earth, and no Muslim should say, 'I don't get involved in politics'; because every Muslim who is committed to his Islam and who is knowledgeable in his religion is a politician. Look at the books of the Islamic Jurisprudence, the rule of the economic, social, judicial, and political transactions are much more than the rule of the acts of worship, and isn't the Qur'an the constitution of our lives, and isn't the path which it draws a straight path which we must walk on? So if we contemplate over the Qur'an we will nd it as an upheaval of the Prophets (as), and the vulnerable believers in the face of the arrogant tyrants, and if we contemplate over the saying of the Prophet (sawas) we will nd him saying: The best Jihad is a just word in the face of an oppressive sultan. [2]

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[1] Surat Al-`Ankabt (The Spider): 1 - 6 [2] Masnid Ahmad, Ch. 3, P. 19, Sanan Al-Nasai, Ch. 7, P. 161.

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In this saying there is a predilection for the Jihad against the oppressive ruler; and that is because he is ruling with the rule of ignorance, and he is following his desires and transgresses over blood and money and women, and he doesn't leave anything of Islam except what agrees with his desires, and he buys from the scholars of evil whoever interprets the Qur'an according to his desires, so for him Who Are in Authority in the verse:

O ye who believe! Obey Allah, and obey the messenger and those of you who are in authority; [1]
They are the oppressive rulers and not the twelve Infallible Imams (as), so Moses and Ali, and Al-Hussain (as) become oppressors against the Imams of their age, like the Pharaoh, and Muawiyya, and Yazid (may Allah curse them), and by this people return to the ignorance and nothing remains from the Qur'an except its inscription, and nothing of Islam except its name. And from that we know that the Jihad against the oppressive ruler is a Jihad to defend Islam, for the Muslims must do Jihad against the tyrants who took over the Islamic countries and to eliminate their mercenaries, and to establish the Divine Islamic Government, thus implement what Allah (swt) prescribes in the Holy Qur'an on the tongue of His great Prophet (sawas), and what was brought by the twelve Infallible Imams (as) from the Prophet of Allah (sawas) about the countries and the servants, and to spread justice and eliminate the corruption. And the armed Jihad is a must, and in order to prepare the nation for this stage, the following matters is a must: 1. Spreading the religious doctrine between the believers: And it is a task of every believer, and it is a judicial duty; because it is the prelude of all worship and the righteousness of transactions, but for each as he can comprehend, for the duty of the university graduates is not like the duty of the illiterates; for example the university graduate must study Jurisprudence, or some of the Jurisprudential matters, and get the assistance of the students of religious sciences, and this is their duty as mentors, then it is his duty to spread jurisprudence between the believers. ______________________________
[1] Surat An-Nis' (The Women): 59

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As for the illiterate, he can learn some of the Jurisprudential matters in the mosque or from some of the believers, then he can spread it between the believers, and no one should underestimate his own knowledge, for if you know one Jurisprudential matter, make sure to spread it between the believers. And know that by spreading jurisprudence and by the research of the believers about the Islamic legislation and the matters of the Muslims today, the tyrants and their agents who are claiming to be Muslims are stripped, and the Muslims get to know how those oppressive rulers deviated away from the Divine Law, and how they mock it, and how they ght the Divine people of Allah and the religious believers. 2. Propagating Virtue and the Prevention of Vice: I mentioned previously that this is the work of the entire community, and it is one of the most important duties in the Islamic Law, in by which we can win the satisfaction of Allah and expose the tyrants. And we have to focus on reforming the self of those who are submitting to the tyrant and remind them of the Qur'an and the Prophets (as) and their Jihad against the tyrants: Allah said: Lo! We verily do help Our messengers, and those who believe, in the life of the world and on the day

when the witnesses arise. [1]

And Allah said: Allah hath decreed: Lo! I verily shall conquer, I and My messengers. Lo! Allah is Strong, Almighty.

- Thou wilt not nd folk who believe in Allah and the Last Day loving those who oppose Allah and His messenger, even though they be their fathers or their sons or their brethren or their clan. As for such, He hath written faith upon their hearts and hath strengthened them with a Spirit from Him, and He will bring them into Gardens underneath which rivers ow, wherein they will abide. Allah is well pleased with them, and they are well pleased with Him. They are Allah's party. Lo! is it not Allah's party who are the successful? [2]
And Allah said: And verily Our word went forth of old unto Our bondmen sent (to warn) - That they verily would

be helped - And that Our host, they verily would be the victors. [3]
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[1] Surat Ghr (The Forgiver): 51 [2] Surat Al-Mujdila (The Pleading Woman): 21 & 22 [3] Surat A-fft (Those who set the Ranks): 171 - 173

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Whoever has in himself, if even an ember of truth, will remember and get back to the Rule of Allah and will not obey the commands of the tyrant, and will join the ranks of the believers. As for the doomed who think that by submitting to the tyrant he will be saved, don't push him, for he thinks that life is in the hand of the tyrant, not in the hand of Allah! And his self became fearful of the tyrant until it became like second nature to him. As for the agents of the tyrant, most of their hearts are blackened and their perceptions have become blind, and they are seeing the vice as virtue, and the virtue as vice, but that doesn't mean that we leave them to be wood for hell-re, for there might be amongst them one who we can reform and get him back to the Rule of Allah. And let there be for us as believers an example in Al-Hussain (as), as he advised the army of Yazzid bin Muwaiyya (may Allah curse them), and propagated virtue to them and sought to prevent the vice, so the result was the return of one of the leaders of the Ummayads army who is Al-Hor bin Yazid Al-Raiahy (may Allah be satised with him) to the truth, and if this is the only result from the sermon of Abi Abdullah (as) it would have been enough. And believers should be cautious when advising this lost group, and whoever is safe from their harm should try to advise and reform them, and the believers should not give up reforming the Islamic community, for they are the party of Allah and His soldiers. Allah has written victory for them, and Allah (swt) will send to them the Divine Leader Al-Mahdi (as), the great Reformer, and the Executor of Allah's Law on the earth, and the word in which proceeded from Allah to His missionary servants and His (swt) promise of victory to them, and the sun must rise after this long absence, and this bitter hardship, so work day and night, and secretly and openly, and know that the reward of the believer who works in this time for the establishment of the State of the Owner of the Age (as) is great. On the authority of Abi Abdullah (as) said: The Prophet of Allah (sawas) said: 'Glad tidings to those who will

reach the Riser from my progeny and follow him before his rising, who follow his successor and repudiate his enemy, and take the guided Imams (as) before him as masters, those are my companions and have my sympathy and my affection, and the most generous of my nation to me.' Rafaa said: 'And the most generous of Allah's creation to me. [1]
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[1] Ghaibah Al-Toosi, P. 457.

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And on the authority of Al-Sadiq (as), said: The Prophet of Allah (sawas) said to his companions: 'There will

come a people after you, the one man of them will have the reward of fty of you', they said: 'O' Prophet of Allah (sawas) we were with you in Badr, and Uhud, and Honayn, and we were mentioned in the Qur'an', so he (sawas) said: 'If you faced what they faced, you wouldn't of had their patience. [1]
On the authority of Muhammad bin Abd Al-Khaleq and Abi aseer, said: Abu Abdullah (as) said: 'O' Aba

Muhammad, by Allah we have one of Allah's secrets and one of Allah's knowledge, by Allah no close Angel, or a sent Prophet, or a believer who Allah has tested his heart for faith can bear, by Allah...Allah didn't sign for that anyone except us, and no one has been subjugated with that anyone except us. And we have a secret of Allah's secrets and a knowledge of Allah's knowledge. Allah commanded us to communicate it, so we communicated from Allah the Almighty what He commanded us to communicate, so we didn't nd any place or people or porter to bear it, until Allah created for that matter people who were created from the mud of Muhammad (sawas) and his progeny (as), and from the light which Allah created Muhammad (sawas) and his progeny (as) from, and made them from the mercy which He made Muhammad (sawas) and his progeny (as) from, so we communicated from Allah what He commanded us to communicate, so they accepted and bore it, and when we were mentioned their hearts leaned towards knowing us and our sayings, for if they had not been created from that, they wouldn't have been like that, and by Allah they wouldn't have bore it.
Then he (as) said: Allah created for the hell-re a creation, and He commanded us to communicate to them and we

did, so they were repulsed by it and gave it back to us, and couldn't bear it, and they disbelieved in it, and said 'A Magician and Liar'. So Allah stamped on their hearts and made them forget that, then Allah made their tongues speak some of the Truth, for they speak it and their hearts deny it, so the harm can stay away from Allah's people and His obedient ones, and if it wasn't for that, Allah wouldn't have been worshiped on Earth, and Allah commanded us to retract and conceal from them, so retract from whoever Allah commanded you to retract from, and conceal from whoever Allah commanded you to conceal from.'
Then he raised his hand and cried, and said: 'O Allah, those are few so make our life their life, and our death

their death, and don't make your enemy take over them, so we become grieved about them, for if You caused us to grieve about them, You won't be worshiped ever on Your land, send Your peace and blessings upon Muhammad and his progeny, with a thorough greeting. [2]
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[1] Ghaibah Al-Toosi, P. 457. [2] Asoul Al-Ka, Ch. 1, P. 405.

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3. Spreading the idea of the Islamic Revolution: The Islamic Revolution is the revolt of Muhammad bin Abdullah (sawas) and the believers, and the vulnerable over the tyrant of his age, the likes of Abi Sufyan and Kesra and Cesar and their agents, and this revolution will not end until every one on earth says There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is His Prophet, and the Divine Justice is established and spread all over the land on the hand of the Mahdi of this nation (as). And no Muslim doubts that the revolution of Al-Hussain (as) is a continuation of the revolution of the Prophet (sawas), as he (as) said in a famous hadith: Hussain is from me. [1]

For the revolution of Al-Hussain (as) is the revolution of the party of Allah and His soldiers over the tyrant and his party, and the emergence of Al-Hussain (as) is the emergence of the Prophet (sawas) manifested in his son Al-Hussain (as), master of the youth of Paradise. The emergence of Al-Hussain (as) wouldn't have achieved military victory in the battleeld while he knows that he has seventy men or a little more with him (as). Rather Al-Hussain (as) emerged with a promise from his grandfather, the Prophet of Allah (sawas), and he knew that he will be killed, and his companions would be killed, and even his infant child, and that the women would be taken hostages, including Zainab, the daughter of Fatimah (as), daughter of the Prophet of Allah (sawas). The revolution of Al-Hussain (as) aimed to revive the Islamic Muhammadan revolution and its reforming nature, which the Ummayads wanted to turn into just a military renaissance, to establish an Arabic empire in the name of Islam, so the renaissance of Al-Hussain (as) came to say to all the people in every place and Age, that Islam doesn't aim to establish an Arabic or Islamic empire. The aim of Islam is for everyone on Earth to say There is no god, but Allah.

The aim of Islam is to establish the Divine Justice on Earth. ______________________________

[1] Masnid Ahmad, Ch. 4, P. 172, Sanan Ibn Maja, Ch. 1, P. 51.

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The revolution of Al-Hussain (as) came to declare the disassociation of Allah (swt) and His Prophet (sawas) from the rulers who took over this nation, and kept the Caliphs of Allah in His land, the successors of Muhammad (sawas), the twelve Imams (as) away from the rule. What happened in Karbala on the 10th of Muharram in the year 61 Hijra conrms that the Islamic nation went back to the days of ignorance after the death of the Prophet (sawas), and the most important aspect of this apostasy is the killing of Al-Hussain ibn Ali (as), and raising his head on a spear, and the capturing the fourth guardian from the guardians of the family of Muhammad (sawas), Ali bin Al-Hussain (as) and dragging him to al-Sham, wrapped in chains of iron. So what this nation did with the guardians of it's Prophet (sawas) was a continuation to what the children of Israel did with their Prophets (as), if not more worse and bitter. And what happened in Karbala became a curse over this generation of the Islamic nation, who accepted the killing of Al-Hussain (as), and at the same time, it is a mercy for the generations of this Ummah who came after the killing of Al-Hussain (as), where the idea of the Islamic revolution delved deeper into the hearts of many, which Allah (swt) has put, and implemented by Muhammad and the family of Muhammad (as) after Him. And today we are realizing this truth; because it is a practical fact for there is no day of Ashura without us hearing the loud weeping on every spot on the Earth where there are believers. Al-Hussain (as) sacriced everything to become the most obvious of signs of the Path to Allah, and to break out of the Labyrinth, which this nation fell in; and to establish the strong foundation which every Muslim can refer to. The Muslim who raises his sword in the face of the tyrants who took over this nation in order to get her back to the days of ignorance, for the Muhammadan Islamic true Revolution of AlHussain (as) aimed to reform the hearts of the children of this Nation, and to prepare a qualied generation to carry this Divine message, a Divine generation who worship Allah and only accepts the Qur'an as a constitution, and an appointed infallible by Allah, or whoever represents him as a ruler. For if the death of Al-Hussain (as) was a major matter, the aim behind it is as much as its grandeur, it is the establishing of the great state of 'There is no god but Allah' on earth, the state of the Divine Justice under the leadership of Ibn Al-Hassan (as), the awaited Imam Mahdi (may Allah hasten his blessed appearance). 4. Preparing the force for Jihad:

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If the Muslims understand their religion and started to propagate virtue and prevent the vice and grasp the goal of the Islamic Revolution, which is carrying the word 'There is no god but Allah' to the people of the Earth, and to establish the Divine Justice on Earth, then we will have a prepared generation to face the tyrants. So the fourth stage is to get prepared for the physical Jihad, and to prepare the armors, even if it is a small knife or just a piece of iron, and don't underestimate it, for the companions of the Prophet (sawas) won over the swords of the disbelievers of Quraysh with the branches of palm trees. And know that Allah is with you and He is the One who makes you rm and victorious through His angels (as), if you are devoted to Him (swt), as satan is with the soldiers of the tyrant provoking them and he will fall on his knees when the two groups are clashing, and they will be defeated and retreat back, Allah said:

And Satan saith, when the matter hath been decided: Lo! Allah promised you a promise of truth; and I promised you, then failed you. And I had no power over you save that I called unto you and ye obeyed me. So blame me not, but blame yourselves. I cannot help you, nor can ye help me, Lo! I disbelieved in that which ye before ascribed to me. Lo! for wrong-doers is a painful doom. [1]
With these mentioned stages, the soldiers of the Mahdi (as) (Soldiers of Allah (swt)) are prepared for the psychological and physical Jihad. And let every believer conjure in his heart that he is with Allah (swt), the most powerful in the heavens and the earth, so he shall not fear from the tyrant and his soldiers how many they are, and what type of armor they may have:

Lo! the devil's strategy is ever weak. [2]

And then Allah (swt) will bring ease to this Nation and send the Divine leader Al-Mahdi (as), who will lead it out of the Labyrinth and into the Holy Land Insha'Allah. And the Mahdi (as) is Muhammad bin Al-Hassan bin Ali bin Muhammad bin Ali bin Musa bin Ja'far bin Muhammad bin Ali bin Al-Hussain bin Ali bin Abi Talib (as), he is from Ali (as) and Fatimah (as), the daughter of Muhammad, the Prophet of Allah (sawas). ______________________________
[1] Surat 'Ibrhm (Abrahim): 22 [2] Surat An-Nis' (The Women): 76

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And the Muslim agrees that he will emerge in the end times, and the hadiths about that are frequent, andwhoever denies him disbelieved in what was brought by Muhammad (sawas), as it was mentioned in the hadith by him (sawas). He (as) was born in the year 255 H. ve years before the martyrdom of his father, Imam Hassan Al- Askary (as), and his mother is the granddaughter of the Cesar of Rome, and her lineage goes back to one of the disciples of Jesus (peace be upon him), and many of the believers saw him during the life of his father Imam Hassan Al-Askary (as), and after he took the position as an Imam his four representatives were seeing him in the small occultation for more than seventy years, then Allah willed for the major occultation to happen, and he (as) will remain alive until he lls the Earth with Justice, as it was lled with injustice. And he was mentioned in the Torah and the Gospel by the name Ancient of days for his long age. And in the age of his rising, Prophet Isa (as) will descend from the sky as a minister to him (as) and a supporter for his (as) right. His (as) rising in Mecca, his companions will gather for him in it, and their number is 313 men, like the number of the people of Badr, and the companions of Saul who crossed the river with him, then devoted believers will ock to Mecca from all the countries of the Muslims until they become 10,000, and they are the rst of his (as) army, and when he goes out from Mecca to ght the tyrants. Allah will cause the Earth to sink between Mecca and Medina and the army of sufyani will fall in it, which is an army who is sent to eliminate the movement of Al-Mahdi (as), and after this event he will start purging the Islamic lands from the tyrants and their servants around them, and will eliminate the sufyani and his lthy soldiers, and free the holy land and cause the people to enter into the religion of Allah in great numbers. But the tests in the age of his (as) appearance are many, like the dajjal and the armies of the west, but Allah will make Al-Mahdi (as) and the soldiers of Allah who are with him victorious over their enemies; to reveal the Divine religion over all religions, even if the disbelievers hate it, as promised by Allah (swt) in His Holy Book. [1] And among the signs of his (as) near appearance, the sky will hold its rain, and there will be extreme heat, ______________________________
[1] Yasheer (a.s.) regarding the Almighty saying: It is He who has sent His Messenger with guidance and the religion of truth to

manifest it over all religion, although they who associate others with Allah dislike it. Surat At-Tawbah (The Repentance): 33

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and the disagreeing among the Shia, and the deaths of the scholars, and the killing of many of them in AlNajaf, and an economical siege on Iraq as was mentioned: barely no dirham [1] or bushel will be levied for Iraq, and the people of Iraq will be prevented from making hajj, and the people who will prevent them are the Romans,' (the people of the west today), as was narrated from al-Saddiq (as) on his speech to some of the people of Iraq: ...at that time you will be prevented from hajj and the fruits will be short, and the country will

be waterless, and you will be tested with ination, and the tyranny of the sultan, and oppression and injustice will appear among you during the test and the diseases and the hunger, and trials will confront you from all horizons. [2]
And the mosques will be decorated and the Qur'an will be an ornament, and people will be eating in the mosques, and the year will be like a month, and the month like a week, and the week like a day, and a day like an hour, and the killing of four thousand Muslims in the mosque of Al-Kufa on Friday by the rulers of Iraq, and the demolishing of the wall of the mosque of Al-Kufa, and the rulers of Iraq will disagree amongst each other. And this disagreement is the rst of the signs that their kingdom will vanish, and people will be greedy over them, and the appearing of a Comet-Planet glowing like the moon glows and turns until it's tails almost meet, and the call from the sky in the month of Ramadan on the 23rd, and the appearance of sufyani in Al-Sham; in Jordan and his invasion into Syria and some of Palestine, and before it there will be some disagreement over the rule in Al- Sham, and sufyani will enter Iraq and kill it's ruler, and the eclipse of the moon in the end of the month of Ramadan, for its remaining fth, and the eclipse of the sun during the middle of the month of Ramadan, and those two signs are in one month. And the ood will ll Al-Kufa in the year of his (as) rising, and the sky will rain twenty-four times, and the blessing will be seen on the ground in the year of his rising (as). And the dates on the palms will be ruined, and it was narrated that the fruits in the trees will, and the re will appear in Al-Hajjaz, and a re will appear inthe sky, and a redness will appear in the sky, and the recession of the sun at its Meridian, and the sabotaging of Baghdad by wars and trials, and the sabotaging of Al-Basra, and the mentioning of his (as) appearance on the tongue of the people, and his appearance in an odd year, and the killing of the puried soul in Al-Ka'bah between the Rukn and Maqam, and fteen days or less after this sign, the riser will rise. And after his rising there are signs pointing to him (as), and it is the sinking of the Earth with the army of sufyani in Al-Baydaa between Mecca and Medina, and perhaps the call after his rising (as) is to point to his right, especially that the caller is Jabriel (as) in the heavens. ______________________________
[1] Narrated from Abi Nazra who said, we were with Jabir Bin Abdullah, and he said: Regarding the people of Iraq it is said

that no dirham or bushel will be levied for them. Bihar Al-Anwar, Ch. 51, P. 91, Sahih Muslim, Ch. 8, P. 184.
[2] Amali Al-Mufeed, Ch. 64, Bihar Al-Anwar, Ch. 47, P. 122.

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This is some of what was narrated in the hadith from them (as) and Allah knows best, and we didn't receive knowledge except little and we ask Allah (swt) for more. And peace be upon the HujjatAllah in His land and the Mercy of Allah and His blessings. And may the peace and mercy of Allah be upon the believers, and His blessings.

Our Lord! We believe in that which Thou hast revealed and we follow him whom Thou hast sent. Enroll us among those who witness (to the truth) - Our Lord! Cause not our hearts to stray after Thou hast guided us, and bestow upon us mercy from Thy Presence. Lo! Thou, only Thou, art the Bestower. [1]
In the Name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful

Lo! Allah hath bought from the believers their lives and their wealth because the Garden will be theirs: they shall ght in the way of Allah and shall slay and be slain. It is a promise which is binding on Him in the Torah and the Gospel and the Qur'an. Who fullleth His covenant better than Allah? Rejoice then in your bargain that ye have made, for that is the supreme triumph. - (Triumphant) are those who turn repentant (to Allah), those who serve (Him), those who praise (Him), those who fast, those who bow down, those who fall prostrate (in worship), those who enjoin the right and who forbid the wrong and those who keep the limits (ordained) of Allah - And give glad tidings to believers! [2]
The sinful short-comer,

Ahmed
1420 H.

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[1] Surat 'li `Imrn (Family of Imran): 7 & 8 [2] Surat At-Tawbah (The Repentance): 111 & 112

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