[0:01]That perhaps for me is one of the most fascinating and important narrations that we have. In the end time, the prophet of Allah is saying that Iblis himself is going to be a muhaddith, a narrator of hadith. He's going to be an a'am. He's going to be somebody who's walking around informing the people what the prophet and the Imams from the Ahi said. Iblis himself will manifest as a non-working scholar.
[0:59]I seek refuge in Allah from the accursed Satan In the Name of Allah, the Abundantly Merciful, the Intensely Merciful. O Allah, send Your peace and prayers upon Mohammed and the Family of Mohammed, the Imams and the Mahdis. My dear sister and companion and supporter, Feiruz. Wa alaikum assalam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh, dear Abu Sadiq. Thank you for joining me. Thank you so much for having me. So today we want to talk about a lecture that was brought to our attention by a particular scholar, his name is Sheikh Mahdi al-Murshid. And in the speech or the lecture that was titled basically will the Mahdi slaughter or kill Ahmed al-Hassan, when he emerges. He proceeds to make the case that the Shia have to be careful and pay close attention to you know, this this phenomenon that's going to happen close to the rise and that phenomenon is the appearance of liars. He proceeds to state that there is a narration from the that says that the first thing that the Qaim begins with at the time of his his rise is the slaughtering of the liars of the Shia. These are his first line of enemies and for that reason, we have to be very careful. And then he makes the case, he begins to interpret the words the liars of the Shia and begins to say that the liars of the Shia are people that lie upon the Imam of the time. And he says that in the past there were liars and he names off people that were cursed by in the narrations by Imams in their time. For example, you have a man named Abu Khatab. There's narrations Abu Khatab was cursed for lying upon Imam al-Sadiq. So therefore, he is a liar from the Shia. And therefore the term liars of the Shia that's going to take place you know, in the time of the must be a similar thing. The liars of the Shia are or is somebody who will appear or people that will appear before the Qaim or before the Mahdi and they will claim things on the tongue of the Mahdi that he actually didn't say, or they'll claim you know, to be doors to the Mahdi or they'll claim certain positions. And then he begins to state that there were there was a man 20 years ago, whose name was Ahmed al-Hassan, whom started a dawah in which he claimed to be a messenger from Imam al-Mahdi, and he proceeds to give a little bit of the history of the Imam. And then he says that this man, it was over 20 years since he made his claims, that's a long time, so therefore he is a liar. In addition to the fact that he actually his hometown is Basra, Iraq, and therefore he must be somebody who is meant in the narrations by a dajjal from Basra. So he mentions another narration from the that states that there will be a dajjal from the sons of Fatima, who will emerge from Basra. And then he says that this must be Ahmed al-Hassan who is the dajjal, who is meant by this. So he basically is warning the people of false claiments. He's saying that there is sign of the appearance of the Qaim. He's saying that they are the first line enemies of the Qaim and then he makes the case that we have one of those, we're living in the end times and we have one of those false claiments, one of those dajjals, that's alive today and his name is Ahmed al-Hassan. And he's the same guy who made the claim to be the Yamani over 20 years ago. And then he makes another reference to a Mahdi from Africa, who is speaking in English, and this is obviously a clear reference in this context to myself. For several reasons and that is because I'm claiming that I'm the successor of Ahmed al-Hassan. My dawa is the same as Ahmed al-Hassan's dawa, so it's appropriate that he places me in that context. I also am I have African heritage in me and also we have a satellite station in the English language, which is probably where he found out about our dawa from. In which we are giving glad tidings that the Mahdi is coming to Africa or the message of the Mahdi is coming to Africa, and so he mentions me alongside with the case of portraying Ahmed al-Hassan as a dajjal. He wants to say basically essentially that I'm also a dajjal and that me and Ahmed al-Hassan are signs of the end times and that we are the liars of the Shia and that when the Qaim emerges, we are his first line of enemies that is going to slaughter. And that the people need to essentially back off and not pay attention to us and not pledge allegiance to us and not be dragged into the fitna that we are creating. I would have to say that I object and I think that he is not being the Sheikh is not being intellectually honest.
[6:54]And he's not being a truthful scholar when he makes the statement that he does and he's kind of stretching a little bit to make the case that he is making against us. Because I would say that without a shadow of a doubt it's proven from the narrations of Mohammed and the family of Mohammed, that the first line of enemies that the Qaim or the Mahdi begins with is actually the scholars themselves. And so the pattern that has occurred in the past with the previous prophets and messenger messengers, it repeats itself in the time of the Qaim. The Sunnah of Allah is one, history repeats itself, it you know, is cyclical in nature and if you want to know, as Solomon said, if you in in in the Songs of Solomon, if you want to know the future, just look at the past because it presents itself, you know, it repeats itself. And we don't find really that the first line of opposition to any of the divine dawas that have occurred in the past has been false claiments. We don't find that that is the case. What we do find is that in the very beginning, the first line of people that oppose the prophet or the messenger are the scholars, right? So we find that the idol worshipping priests in Mecca are the and and the and the Meccans are the the first people that object to the Prophet Mohammed, long before Musailama the liar, right? You find that in the dawa of Jesus Christ, you find that it is the rabbis and the Pharisees that are opposing the call of Jesus way before the Antichrist, right? And you have the same thing occurring in the dawa of Moses, you you have the Egyptian priests in the temple and they are the first ones that oppose Moses and they're going out and the magicians, they're the ones that are going out there and doing the mubahalah against Moses and this kind of challenge with the with the snakes and the magic tricks before the Samari ever emerges on the stage. Right? And so the same thing would occur in the dawa of the Qaim. The first thing that the first line of people or group of people that oppose the Qaim and oppose the Mahdi, it's the scholars. And for that reason, we have not just one but many narrations that emphasize this point and one of the things that he did was he pulled out a book and he began to read some narrations and he emphasized the fact that he was reading the narrations so that the people would be able to tell that he's not making up any narrations and that these narrations exist. And for that reason I also brought together a group of narrations from the very books that he reads from and all of the Shia scholars in order to demonstrate and make the point that that I want to make. Before we move on to the narrations proving that the first line of enemies of the Qaim is the scholars, I just want to say that the narration that he pointed to, which stated that basically there's going to be a dajjal that comes out from Basra, to take that and to apply it to Ahmed al-Hassan simply because he was born in that area, I think it's an intellectual fallacy, it's not appropriate to do so. Because if we did that, then we would have to do the same for anybody who's born in any other particular area. So for example, the the Sheikh himself would have to admit that if that is the case, then the next famous person who's also born from another place that the narrations state is the hometown of the dajjal or you know, or the place of the emergence of the dajjal, then he would have to admit that the narration applies to them too. And we have this. We have a narration that states basically that the dajjal emerges from Sijistan, and Sijistan has another name for and it's called Sistan, that's where Sistan comes from. And we have a very influential scholar and his name is Ali Sistani and Ali Sistani comes from this city called Sistan or Sijistan. Hence the name Ali the Sistani or Ali the one from Sistan or from Sijistan. And this one is is a scholar of great influence and this one also has had to have had surgery on one of his eyes and there's a lot of talk that this eye of his is not functioning. There is also this idea that Ali Sistani, he is the first one to actually really in a major way mislead all of the Shia away from traditional Shia Islam thought and practice to something which is completely different. So, so him being a dajjal is much more likely than the character of Ahmed al-Hassan being a dajjal simply because of the the hometown. Why? I'll tell you why. Because Ahmed al-Hassan who is from Basra, that's about the beginning and the end of where the comparison between him and his dajjal can can occur. Because when we look at what Ahmed al-Hassan is calling towards, Ahmed al-Hassan is calling towards the fact that the believers or the Shia should hold on to the will of the Prophet Mohammed, which he left on his death bed. He's he raised the banner of the supremacy and allegiance is only to Allah. So we have these narrations that state that the Mahdi's banner is written in it which states that the Mahdi's banner is written in it or the pledge of allegiance is only to God. Loyalty is only to somebody who's appointed by God. And the narrations stated that the banner of the Mahdi would have that. Nobody since the time of the Prophet Mohammed, all the way till this time has ever raised that banner with the exception of Ahmed al-Hassan and myself. And so the thing that he is calling towards, right, which is pledging allegiance only to God and and and the one that we pledge allegiance to has to be somebody who's appointed in the will of the Prophet Mohammed, is something that we find in line with traditional Shia thought and ideology, right? And practice. Because that is essentially the essence of Shia Islam. And why they broke away from the mainstream Sunni Islam. After the prophet's death, the Sunnis, they went forward and they chose for themselves or a group of them chose for themselves the future leader of the Muslims and they chose Abu Bakr, right? And then after him, he appointed Omar ibn Khattab and then after that, Omar ibn Khattab made this group of six, seven individuals that were to choose the Khalif after that and they chose Osman ibn Affan. But the Shia said, no, we have to stick to the successor who was appointed by the Prophet Mohammed in his will and that is the Imam Ali. The husband of the daughter and the father of the grandchildren of the Prophet Mohammed. As to where Ali Sistani, what he did is for the very first time, he supported the invasion of the Americans, whom the Iraqi and the Iranian Shia for many, many years have been saying that America is the greatest Shaitan and it's the Antichrist, right?
[15:19]And he also issued a fatwa to legalize the American democratic system in Iraq and he supported that and he made it obligatory for the Shia to go out and to elect and to fingerprint and sign with their own hands and and vote for a candidate who was not appointed by Allah. And therefore, he he changed it from being a system where where for the Shia for over a thousand years, they would only appoint and they would only follow an infallible leader who was appointed by Allah, to it being a thing where the Shia have the right to elect whoever it is that they want to elect and appoint them as a leader, so long as he was a Shia by name, right? Or a member of their particular religion. So this inhiraf or this leading the Shia astray, right, would would actually be more of a proof that Ali Sistani is a dajjal than him merely being having been born or coming out from Sistan or Sijistan. And the fact that there's a narration on top of his actions, right, that state that actually it's not just his deeds that look dajjalish but he himself is mentioned in a narration or the dajjal is mentioned in a narration as having come out from the same city that he came out from. That's just additional, you know, cream on top of the pudding so to speak. Yes. All right. So let's move now into the narrations from Mohammed and the family of Mohammed that prove without a shadow of a doubt that the enemy of the Qaim is none other than the scholars.
[17:30]In the first narration, Imam al-Sadiq says, when the Qaim emerges, he shall take revenge from those who issued fatwas without knowledge. So woe to them and their followers. Was religion incomplete and they sought to complete it? Or was it crooked and they sought to correct it? So there you go. The first narration and it's mentioned in the book Ilzam al-Nasib. The enemy that the Qaim takes revenge against is the people of fatwas and nobody issues fatwas except for the scholars of Islam. Another narration states, the Messenger of Allah, also said about them, meaning the scholars. There will come a time upon my nation when nothing will remain from the Quran except its calligraphy, and nothing will remain from Islam except its name. They will be called by it, while they are the farthest people from it. Their masjids will be full, but devoid of guidance. The scholars of that time are the worst scholars under the sky. From them the fitnas emerged, and to them it shall return. So according to the logic and the lecture of Sheikh Mahdi al-Murshid, if we are indeed living in the end times and even if he wanted to state or believe that Ahmed al-Hassan is a liar from the Shia and he is a sign of the close emergence of the Qaim, then he has to also consider that he himself and all of the scholars are the worst of creatures underneath the sky because they go hand in hand together.
[19:16]The dajjal's emerge at that time but also the scholars are the worst scholars under the sky. And so that narration was in Bahar al-Anwar, volume 52, page 190.
[19:29]Another narration states, the Messenger of Allah, said, I do not fear for my nation a mob that will kill them, nor an enemy that will invade them, but I fear for my nation against the misguided scholars. If they obey them, they will lead them astray, and if they disobey them, they will kill them. And this is in Ilzam al-Nasib, volume 1, page 196. Another narration states, from Abu Abdullah, who said, by Allah, they did not call them to worship them, and if they had called them, they would not have responded. But they made the impermissible, meaning the haram, permissible, meaning halal, for them and they made the halal haram. And so the people they followed them and they worshipped them without realizing it. And of course we're going through all of these narrations Feiruz, intentionally, because I want them on the screen one after the other so that the people out there this is a great opportunity since this transgressed against us, it's a great opportunity for us to show the people the truth by logic, by evidence for all to see. Narration after narration after narration after narration that proves that these people are the worst creatures underneath the sky and that actually they're the real enemies of the Imam and that we have to start distancing ourselves from these scholars.
[24:31]Another narration says, Abu Ja'far said, if the Qaim is to go to Najaf, and the Sufyani is in Kufa, the people of Kufa and the people of Najaf will be with the Sufyani, this will be on a Wednesday. He will call them and plead with them for his right, informing them that he is oppressed and wronged. He will say, whoever argues with me about Allah, I am the most deserving of Allah. They will respond, return from where you came. We have no need for you. We have tested and tried you. So the Qaim, he goes to Najaf. The Sufyani, he's in Kufa and he comes forward. And the people are with him, the people of Kufa and the people of Najaf are with who? Are with the Sufyani. This will be on a Wednesday. He will call them and plead with them for his right, informing them that he is oppressed and wronged, meaning the Qaim. He will say, whoever argues with me about Allah, I am the most deserving of Allah. They will respond, return from where you came, we have no need for you. We have tested and tried you. So here Imam al-Sadiq has informed the people that the scholars of Islam and the Shia are going to side with the Sufyani.
[25:52]The Shia and the scholars of Iraq, exactly as they did in the time of Imam al-Hussein. When the Shia, after calling out Imam al-Hussein, the people of Kufa, they turned their back on Imam al-Hussein and they sided with the Banu Umayyah, the Nasibis, right? The same thing occurs. Just like they they sided with the son of Abu Sufyan in the first round, they they side with the son of Abu Sufyan in this day and age, in the time of the Qaim. And so we cannot at all trust the scholars, the jurists and anybody who's claiming themselves to be a Shia. And I think it's important also to note Feiruz that the narrations were very clear, extremely clear that the Qaim or the Mahdi only needs 313 true Shia to appear. And he only needs 10,000 Shia, who make the halaqah after that, or the circle after that in order for him to emerge. So he only needed 313 companions and 10,000 soldiers and he would have spread justice and equity on the earth. Yes. But we find that these so-called self-proclaimed Shia have a state, the Islamic Republic, the so-called Islamic Republic of Iran. They have citizens in there, they have armies, they have planes, they have all kinds of things. They got a media machine. They got tons of land. They had influence over, they still do have influence over Iraq. Iraq is filled with Shia. Sistani has a whole following of hundreds of millions of people. He's famous worldwide, one of the most influential people, according to many different western magazines, one of the most influential people in the world. And yet, there's no Imam Mahdi. There's no divine just state. There's no Qaim. So who do we believe? Do we believe Sistani and Khamenei that their followers and they themselves are true Shia? Or do we believe the narrations of Mohammed and the family of Mohammed that state that if they only have 313 and 10,000 true Shia, they would have emerged? So that narration was in Bahar al-Anwar, volume 52, page 387.
[28:31]Another narration says, His enemies are the imitators of the jurists, the people of ijtihad, due to them seeing him rule and judge by that which is contrary to what their Imams have judged and ruled by.
[28:50]They enter under his rule reluctantly, out of fear of his sword and might, and out of desire for what he possesses. So the Mahdi's enemies, meaning the Qaim's enemies, are the imitators of the jurists, the people of ijtihad.
[29:11]Due to them seeing him rule and judge by that which is contrary to what their Imams have judged and ruled by, they enter under his rule reluctantly, out of fear of his sword and might, and out of desire for what he possesses. Wow! So here we have insight. The scholars, they issued fatwas. They issued fatwas. They said, oh guys, this is how it should be done, this is how it should be done, this is how it should be done. And the fatwas that they issued were wrong, but the people believed them. And so when the Qaim comes and actually says, no, guys, it's not like this, it's like that, they don't believe the Qaim and they believe their scholars and out of that, these scholars made enemies for the Qaim. Imagine...
[29:50]They, meaning those Shia, enter in the end under his rule, the Qaim's rule reluctantly. They don't support him. They're forced to accept him. Out of fear of his sword and might, and out of desire for what he possesses. So they're monafiq and they're jubana and afraid.
[54:06]So basically you're saying that the religious scholars will fight Imam Mahdi. Let me tell you this: if the Mahdi comes out now, if he rises and he wishes to fight the marjas, by Allah, we will fight him. Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God! Remember that! Oh my God! Are you serious?! Because no one fights the clergy. If the Mahdi comes out and fights the clergy, we shall fight him. If the Mahdi comes out, you're confessing with your own tongue. Oh people, listen to what the clergy is saying, if the Mahdi comes out and goes against the clergy, the clergy will fight him. I'll be the first one to fight him. Oh my God! Oh my God! Imagine... The level of disbelief that they have reached to get to that point where they openly declare on the satellite stations their disbelief in Mohammed and the family of Mohammed and their loyalty to scholars who have no authority whatsoever from Allah. Indeed, these people are the worst creatures under the sky. And the curse of Allah upon all of them. And praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and peace be upon Mohammed and the family of Mohammed, the Imams and the Mahdis, and greetings of peace.
