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Freedom, What Is It?

Freedom, What Is It?


AS I LAY IN MY BED, SLEEP ELUDES ME....... THOUGHTS OF THE PAST FEW WEEKS RUN THROUGH MY HEAD ...

THE WORD FREEDOM KEEPS FLOODING MY THOUGHTS... I'VE HEARD IT MY WHOLE LIFE ... BEING BORN IN A PLACE WHERE ITS HELD IN THE HIGHEST ESTEEM AND ENJOYING ALL IT'S BENEFITS ...

AS I LAY HERE AND PONDER IT'S MEANING ... I REALIZE ... IT'S NOT JUST A WORD THAT ROLLS OFF THE TIP OF THE TONGUE SO EASILY... NOR THE RINGING OF THE BELLS IN THE CITY STREETS IN CELEBRATION OF IT ...

I CONTEMPLATE WITH SUCH AN EARNEST DESIRE TO KNOW THE TRUE MEANING OF SUCH A THING ... THAT SO MANY WOULD... SACRIFICE THEIR LIVES FOR TO OBTAIN OR KEEP ...
AND SO MANY WOULD TRY TO WITHHOLD IT FROM OTHERS ...

PERPLEXED AT ALL THIS... MY MIND STILL DANCING WITH THESE THOUGHTS ... I TRY TO SLEEP BUT FREEDOM STILL RINGING ALOUD ! ! ! ...

THIS MAKES NO SENSE ... YOU CAN NOT PUT IT IN A BOX... OR LOCK IT UP IN A VAULT ... YET IT SEEMS TO BE A MOST PRECIOUS COMMODITY ...

A THING TO WHICH YOU CAN NOT HOLD IN YOUR HANDS ... LIKE THE WIND ... YOU CAN NOT SEE IT ... BUT YOU KNOW IT EXIST ... BECAUSE YOU FEEL THE EFFECTS OF IT AND YOU ENJOY IT'S GREAT BENEFITS ...

AS TIME MOVED FORWARD ... MY MIND WAS STUMBLING AROUND IN THE DARKNESS OF MY ROOM ... SECONDS ... THEN MINUTES ... THEN HOURS WENT BY... WHEN IN A QUICKNESS ... THE LIGHT BROKE THROUGH THE DARKNESS OF MY ROOM ...

THEN SUDDENLY I SAT UP AND REALIZED ... I HAD NOT SLEPT AT ALL... WITH THAT CAME THE REVELATION OF WHAT I HAD BEEN SEARCHING FOR ...

MY MIND WAS ENLIGHTENED ... AS THE VERY ROOM I WAS SITTING IN ... FREEDOM WAS A GIFT ... A BIRTH RIGHT ...

IT IS A GIFT FROM OUR CREATOR ... ENCODED IN OUR BEING ... IT'S IN OUR VERY SOUL ... IT IS AS MUCH A PART OF US AS OUR OWN BREATH ...

THE VERY PART OF US ... THAT ALLOWS US TO SOAR ... TO THE HEIGHTS OF OUR TALENTS ... OUR DREAMS AND OUR VISIONS ... THE ENDLESS PART OF CREATIVITY THAT MAKES US ...AN INDIVIDUAL ...

UNIQUE LIKE NON OTHER ... THEN ANOTHER THOUGHT CAME TO ME ... WHY SO MANY TRY TO STOP SUCH A GIFT FROM OPERATING IN ONES LIFE ...

JUST LIKE OUR BREATH IF IT'S TAKEN AWAY WE DIE. WHEN FREEDOM IS TAKEN AWAY OUR DREAMS AND VISIONS PERISH...

NO ONE CAN SEPARATE THAT GIFT FROM THE HEART. THE YEARNING FOR FREEDOM IS ALWAYS THERE!

SO WHY WOULD SOME ONE DO SUCH A HORRIBLE THING AS TO NOT ALLOW ANOTHER TO OPERATE IN HIS OWN FREEDOM.

THEN IT CAME TO ME IN SUCH A BITTER SWEET THOUGHT, IT IS USED TO CONTROL.

WE TAKE THE FREEDOM AWAY FROM A MAD DOG TO KEEP HIM FROM HURTING OTHERS, A MURDEROUS TWISTED OR DEMENTED PERSON FOR THE SAFETY OF ALL...

BUT WHAT ABOUT THOSE WHO WANT TO LIVE AS THE CREATOR HAD INTENDED...SHARING AND GIVING TO MANKIND?

SO WHAT ABOUT THOSE WHO ARE DESERVING TO HAVE SUCH A GIFT YET IT IS WITHHELD FROM THEM?

WHY THEN, WHEN THEY WOULD CLEARLY USE IT TO ENHANCE THE WORLD AROUND THEM WITH THEIR TALENTS AND GOOD DEEDS?

MAYBE JUST PLAIN IGNORANCE OR ARROGANCE. IT'S ALL PART OF HUMAN NATURE.

SO WHY THEN WOULD THEY TRY TO IMPRISON THAT WHICH THEY CAN NOT HOLD?

OH FOOLISH ONE , YOU CAN NOT HOLD THE WIND IN YOUR HAND NOR SEPARATE ONES FREEDOM FROM THEIR HEART.

YOU CAN NOT TAKE AWAY WHAT THE CREATOR HAS GIVEN AS A GIFT.

YOU "CAN" TAKE AWAY ALL MY WORLDLY POSSESSIONS AND EVEN MY BREATH ... BUT YOU MAY NOT HAVE WHAT IS IN MY HEART!

BECAUSE IT IS MINE AND MINE ALONE, GIVEN BY MY CREATOR... IT IS MY RIGHT TO HAVE IT AND TO LIVE WITHIN ITS DESIGN...

FREEDOM PRECIOUS FREEDOM!!!

By: Freedom Annie

How to Survive the Great Obama Depression

How to Survive the Great Obama Depression

Dear Fellow Conservative,

You know what really irritates me about liberals? (Besides the fact that they're spineless little girls in pretty dresses who can't play rough because it musses up their hair...)

They always think liberalism fixes the problem -- even when it was liberalism that caused the problem in the first place!

Case in point, the Financial Meltdown of 2008 (and counting). To hear liberals tell it, it all goes back to Ronald Reagan -- who with his seductive "B-actor" charm fooled America into thinking that by slashing taxes, regulation, and government spending we could unleash free enterprise and create a new wave of prosperity.

Sure, liberals concede, that seemed to work for, oh, the better part of three decades, but now we're paying the price for all that "greed." The solution? A return to the pre-Reagan policies of Jimmy Carter, LBJ, FDR... Speaking of which, what will victory look like in the "War on Poverty"? When are they going to produce an "exit strategy" from that quagmire?

Unfortunately, the facts -- as always when you're talking about liberal theories -- tell a different story. A story in which all the major villains, it turns out, have one thing in common: government.

That's right. From the "Community Reinvestment Act" that pressured banks into affirmative-action lending, to those "government-sponsored enterprises" Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- who bought up all the resulting subprime loans and repackaged them as "investment grade" securities -- the greasy thumb-prints of government were all over this fiasco from beginning to end.

But those, as I say, are facts. And facts have no place in the fantasy world of Democratic policy-makers. Nor does history -- true history, that is, as opposed to the public-school propaganda that teaches, for instance, that FDR's New Deal got us out of the Great Depression, when in reality it only deepened and prolonged it.

But the question remains: What can those of us in the fast-dwindling, Reality-Based Community do to survive financially as the Obamacrats prepare a "New New Deal" that threatens to outspend the original by about ten thousand to one?

Personally, I don't have a clue. But thank goodness I know of someone who does.

His name is Mark Skousen, Ph.D., editor of the investment newsletter Forecasts & Strategies -- and he just might be the smartest financial advisor working today.

Don't let that "Ph.D." fool you -- this is no pointy-headed leftist like Obama's economic team who seem to think that all the economy needs in order to flourish are more liberals running the economy.

Skousen, after all, launched his career by predicting during the 1980-82 recession -- and to the scornful laughter of nearly all the other so-called experts -- that "Reaganomics will work."

Boy, did he get that right. And boy, has he gotten it right ever since:

Like when he issued a "sell everything" recommendation to his Forecasts & Strategies subscribers just 41 days before the stock market crash of 1987 -- then told them to get fully invested again several weeks later, just in time for the recovery.


And when he called the Gulf War of 1990 "a turning point for U.S. stocks" -- and the Dow subsequently began a bull market that didn't end for nearly 10 years.


And when he told his subscribers in 1995 that the NASDAQ would double, and then double again -- which is exactly what it did.


And when, just weeks before the NASDAQ collapsed in 2000, he warned his subscribers that tech stocks were dangerously overvalued.


And when, in 2006 -- more than two years before the financial meltdown -- he warned subscribers that "we clearly are headed for fiscal disaster," and showed them how to protect themselves.
What's Skousen's secret? I think it begins with understanding the real laws of economics -- not the warmed-over Marxism that passes for "new thinking" to Obama's media groupies.

And here's the best thing about Mark Skousen. He knows how to make you money no matter how bad things get in the financial markets and the economy overall.

After all, he points out, the late billionaire John Templeton -- whom Money magazine called "the greatest stock-picker of the 20th century" -- began to build his vast fortune in the depths of the Great Depression.

Maybe you're not looking to be a billionaire. Maybe you're just looking to keep your head above water while the Obamacrats do their best to sink the economy. Either way, Mark Skousen can help -- and I urge you to give his Forecasts & Strategies a try.

The cost? Less than the tip on a John Edwards haircut -- in today's dollars, that is. After Obama gets done driving down the value of the dollar it wouldn't be enough to buy Governor Rod Blogojevich a haircut

Sincerely,

Ann Coulter

P.S. My friend Dr. Mark Skousen has just identified 6 "Obama-Proof" investments to help you survive -- and thrive -- during the presidency of "The One We Have Been Waiting For." It's all part of a FREE Investor's Dossier Dr. Skousen has prepared called "Obamanomics and Your Money."

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Pakistan: Swat jihadists hiding, fleeing among civilians

May 11, 2009
Pakistan: Swat jihadists hiding, fleeing among civilians
When danger reared its ugly head, they bravely turned their tails and fled; the brave jihadists turned about, and gallantly, they chickened out... (with apologies to Monty Python). "Pakistan: Militants 'join exodus from Swat'," by Syed Saleem Shahzad for the Adnkronos International, May 11:

(AKI) - Many militants were joining hundreds of thousands of residents fleeing the troubled northwestern Swat valley as the military eased a curfew late on Monday, informed sources told Adnkronos International (AKI). It was the last chance for the local population to leave their homes and head for safer areas ahead of an expected escalation of military operations against the Taliban, the sources said.
“Most of the militants are on the run. Those left are heavily under siege by the security forces but they are hiding in the population and that’s why security forces relaxed the curfew hours from 6 pm to 10 pm," a senior security officer told AKI, speaking on condition of anonymity.
"So that people would evacuate the areas and shift their families to the safer places so that military would carry out its operations without the fear of any collateral damage,” the source added.
In Peshawar, the commissioner for the Afghan refugee camp Syed Jamaluddin Shah told the reporters that three new camps would be established in Noshera and Charsada in the surrounding North West Frontier Province region which would have the capacity to provide shelter to at least 4,000 displaced families.
The military says it killed 200 militants in and near the Swat valley over the weekend. The army has deployed up to 15,000 troops to route [sic] some 500 militants fighting for the imposition of Islamic law in the Swat valley and neighbouring districts....
If the Taliban is faring as poorly as Pakistan reports, can offers of a "truce" and "negotiations" be far behind? At that point, we'll see if they learned anything in Islamabad since the initial truce in 2006.

Confronting Islamization of the West

Confronting Islamization of the West
By: Jamie Glazov
FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, July 11, 2008



How can the West prevail against the Islamist agenda? To discuss this question with us today, Frotnpage Symposium has assembled a distinguished panel. Our guests are:

Abul Kasem, an ex-Muslim who is the author of hundreds of articles and several books on Islam including, Women in Islam. He was a contributor to the book Leaving Islam – Apostates Speak Out as well as to Beyond Jihad: Critical Views From Inside Islam.

Steve Emerson, the executive director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism (www.investigativeproject.org), a non profit Washington DC based research group that investigates militant Islamic activities and networks on American soil and their ties to Islamic extremist groups overseas. He is the author or co-author of 6 books on national security or terrorism, including the bestseller "American Jihad." He and his staff have testified and briefed Congress dozens of times. He has outed numerous Islamic groups (i.e. CAIR, MPAC and MAS) that feign moderation but which, as Emerson has proven, are closet extremists and militants and all tied to the Muslim Brotherhood.


Robert Spencer, a scholar of Islamic history, theology, and law and the director of Jihad Watch. He is the author of seven books, eight monographs, and hundreds of articles about jihad and Islamic terrorism, including the New York Times Bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His latest book is Religion of Peace?


Ayla Iqbal, a recent graduate from the University of Sussex with a degree in International Relations. She is currently working as a research analyst at the International Center for Political Violence and Terrorism Research (ICPVTR) in Singapore.


Rohan Gunaratna, the author of Inside Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror (Columbia University Press). He is Head of the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research at the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore.A former Senior Fellow at the United States Military Academy's Combating Terrorism Centre at West Point, he is currently a Senior Fellow both at Fletcher School for Law and Diplomacy's Jebsen Centre for Counter Terrorism Studies and at the Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism, Oklahoma.


and


Ari Kruglanski, a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. He has recently served as member of the National Academy of Science panels on counterterrorism, and educational paradigms in homeland security, and is serving on the NAS Board for Cognitive, Social and Sensory Processes. Kruglanski also serves as a co- PI at START (National Center for the Study of Terrorism and the Response to Terrorism), at the University of Maryland.


FP: Abul Kasem, Steve Emerson, Robert Spencer, Ayla Iqbal, Rohan Gunaratna and Ari Kruglanski, welcome to Frontpage Symposium.


Abul Kasem, let’s begin with you. In a recent interview we did together, you shed light on how Muslims exploit our own policy of multiculturalism to destroy our multiculturalism. In other words, they use our tolerance to destroy our tolerance. You call this “Islamic Multiculturalism.”


Let’s start with these questions: Is there any way we can stop it? And how can we achieve this as a free society?


Kasem: Surprisingly, it will not be that difficult to defeat the agenda of Islamists to plant the root of Islamic Multiculturalism in a free and democratic society. All that is needed is a good (or working) knowledge of Islam, its history of propagation through violence and terror, and its adoption of taqiyya and kitman when the going is tough.


Once non-Islamic the policy makers comprehend what Islam is about, it is quite straight forward to defeat it in its own game. In our interview, as well as in many of my other interviews, I have indicated a few methods to contain the rapid ingress of Islamic Multiculturalism,


Here are a few specific steps that the un-Islamic world might adopt to stop this menace:


[1] Adopt tough policies on the entry of Islamists to non-Islamic countries. However, we must make a distinction between the large number of in-name-only Muslims and the diehard, jihad-infused, conniving, pan-Islamists.


[2] Enforce strict restrictions on the construction of mosques and Islamic seminaries. If this sounds unethical/ and or infringing on the religious rights, please note the non-existence and disallowance of construction of non-Islamic worshipping centres in Islamic Paradises. We must call spade a spade.


[3] Stop paying jizya to the Islamists. Do not accede to any unreasonable demands solely by the Islamists. Keep other religious people in mind. Why must Islam be treated more favourably than other religions? Ask the Islamists this simple question.


[4] Halt the interfaith dialogue with Islam. Remember, Islam is uncompromising. There is no way Islam will accommodate un-Islam. Please read this sentence one more time and memorize. You will save a lot of time and money wasted to please Islam. We do not have to please Islam.


[5] Assert the un-Islamic (non-Islamic) cultures, traditions, customs and ethos. We must let the Islamic world learn a bit that the world is not prepared to accept its 7th century Arab Bedouin customs and laws.


[6] Reject any demand to impose Sharia in a non-Islamic society; even if it is in the pretence for Muslims only. Remember, Muslims are the first victims of Islam.


[7] Muslims migrating to non-Islamic countries must sign a declaration that they do not believe in pan-Islamism. If found contravening their signed declaration they should be stripped of their citizenship and promptly deported to the Islamic Paradise they had migrated from.


[8] Proselytizing by Islamic dawa must be strictly controlled, and if necessary, banned. If you think I am being unreasonable. Please look at the laws of Islamic Paradises (such as Malaysia, Pakistan, Sudan, Nigeria…) with regard to the propagation of other faith among the Muslims.


Once the civilized world adopts the above measures, we shall see how quickly Islamic Multiculturalism vanishes from the non-Islamic world.

"Mahdi" The Guided One...what or who is this???

Imam Mahdi.. The 12th Imam

Also See Maitreya Channeling

And

The Dajjal (Below)



The term "MAHDI" is a title meaning "The Guided one".

CONTENTS

Who Is Imam Mahdi?
What Muhammed Said
Summary
Physical Description of The Imam Mahdi
Signs that Will Precede His Coming
Iran President Paves the Way For Arabs' Imam Return
Waiting For the Rapture in Iran



Who Is Imam Mahdi?
“According to the Shiite version of Islam the 12th descendant of Mohammed, known as the 12th Imam or the Mahdi, (Also known as the "Hidden Imam”) went into hiding in 941, some 1300 years ago. At an earlier time of rising tensions, the 10th imam was forced from his home in Medina by the powerful Sunni caliph in Baghdad and was sent to live in Samarra, where he could be kept under closer supervision. Both he and his son were believed to have been poisoned by the caliphate. Fearing such persecution, Muhammad al-Mahdi, who was just a child when he became the 12th imam. Then he is said to have gone into what Shiites call occultation, a kind of suspended state from which it is believed he will return. Shiites believe he will reappear when the world has become full of oppression and tyranny. They believe that he is hidden in the Jamkaran well in Iran, which is a place of pilgrimage for believers who drop their requests for help into the well in the hope that the Imam will read them and come to their aid”.

The February 22nd bombing of Shiite Islam's holiest shrines, the Golden Mosque in the town of Samarra has sparked considerable retaliatory killing as, according to legend, the 12th Imam, was at the site of the shrine before he disappeared. (2 of the 12 imams revered by mainstream Shiites are buried there including the 11th imam, Hassan al-Askari).

According to the wsu.edu web site ..

“The core of the Shi'ite religious world view is the Hidden Imam, Muhammad al-Mahdi, "The Guided One." While the stories of the first eleven Imams are historical in nature, the history of the twelfth Imam is mystical and miraculous. Born in 868 AD / 255 AH, Abu'l-Kasim Muhammad (which is the name of the Prophet himself), and when Hasan al-Askari, the Eleventh Imam, died in 874 AD / 260 AH, the seven year old boy declared himself to be the Twelfth Imam and went into hiding. The Shi'ites believed that he hid himself in a cave below a mosque in Samarra; this cave is blocked by a gate which the Shi'ites call Bab-al Ghayba , or the "Gate of Occultation." This is one of the most sacred sites in Shi'a Islam, and the faithful gather here to pray for the return of the Twelfth Imam.

The central Shi'a doctrines revolving around the Hidden Imam are the doctrines of Occultation (Ghayba ) and Return (Raj'a) . The Doctrine of Occultation is simply the belief that God hid Muhammad al-Mahdi away from the eyes of men in order to preserve his life. God has miraculously kept him alive since the day he was hidden in 874 AD / 260 AH; eventually God will reveal al-Mahdi to the world and he will return to guide humanity.

The Occultation has two distinct stages, the Lesser Occultation and the Greater Occultation. In the Lesser Occultation, the Hidden Imam continued to communicate with humanity through representatives. Since the Imam was the spiritual guide or light to the rest of humanity, the Lesser Occultation only removed the Imam's body from the world, not his spiritual guidance. However, under the threat of orthodox Muslims, the Hidden Imam entered the period of Greater Occultation which is still continuing. In the Greater Occultation, the Imam is still the spiritual guide and light of the world with one exception: there is no longer any direct communication between humanity and the Imam. The Occultation, then, is a profound spiritual tragedy for the world. It means that the spiritual guide to the earth, the gift of God to humanity, which, throughout the ages has lived, breathed, and conversed with humanity, is out of reach. The Imam is the center of light in the world; the Occultation is the extinguishing of that light for the rest of humanity. The Shi'a world view, then, is profoundly tragic and nostalgic. The Shi'ite longs for a return to a time when spiritual truth walked among us, a time when human perfection stood as an icon for all humans to emulate.

The Hidden Imam, however, will eventually leave his Greater Occultation and appear (zuhur) to the world of humanity. This return is the most significant event in the future for the Shi'ite faithful and has thunderous eschatological consequences. This return will occur shortly before the Final Judgement and the end of history. Imam Mahdi will return at the head of the forces of righteousness and do battle with the forces of evil in one, final, apocalyptic battle. When evil has been defeated once and for all, the Imam Mahdi will rule the world for several years under a perfect government and bring about a perfect spirituality among the peoples of the world. After the Imam Mahdi has reigned for several years, Jesus Christ will return (raj'a), as will Husayn and others. It is the return of the dead that falls under the Doctrine of Return; the Mahdi will only appear to humanity”.(Richard Hooker)

Also

“The Holy Prophet Muhammad(SAW) has prophesied about several events that will occur just before the advent of the day of judgment. Among these, Rasulullah(SAW) has foretold the advent of one of his descendants, Al Mahdi (the guided one), which will materialize when the believers are severely oppressed in every corner of the world. He will fight the oppressors, unite the Muslims, bring peace and justice to the world, rule over the Arabs, and lead a prayer in Mekkah at which Isa(pbuh) (Jesus) will be present”. (Source)

Note: “Please do not confuse Imam Mahdi with Hadhrat Isa (Jesus) Alayhis Salaam. They are two different persons, and both will come during the last days. According to Hadeeth, Imam Mahdi will appear first, and Hadhrat Isa (A.S.) will appear during Imam Mahdi's lifetime. Furthermore, only Hadhrat Isa (A.S.) will be able to kill Dajjal (the "anti-Christ")”. (Source)


What Muhammed Said
The Following quotations are alleged by various people to have been made by Muhammed. [Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam)] and are considered to be authentic.

Hadhrat Abdullah bin Mas'ood (R.A.) said;

"This world will not come to an end until one person from my progeny does not rule over the Arabs, and his name will be the same as my name."

(Tirmidhi) Hadhrat Ali (R.A.) said;

"Even if only a day remains for Qiyamah to come, yet Allah will surely send a man from my family who will fill this world with such justice and fairness, just as it initially was filled with oppression." (Abu Dawood)

Abu Sa'id al-Khudari(RA) said;

Al Mahdi will be from my progeny. His forehead will be broad and his nose will be high. He will fill the world with justice and fairness at a time when the world will be filled with oppression. He will rule for seven years. (Emphasis Added)

Hadhrat Abu Saeed Khudri (R.A.) said,

"Al Mahdi will be from my progeny. His forehead will be broad and his nose will be high. He will fill the world with justice and fairness at a time when the world will be filled with oppression. He will rule for seven years." (Emphasis Added)

Abu Hurairah said:

"The shall not occur until the Euphrates will disclose a mountain of gold, over which people will fight. 99 out of every hundred shall die, and every one of them shall say, 'perchance I shall be the one to succeed" (Source)

There is apparently no consensus among Muslim scholars as to the authenticity of the following quote

Abu al-Hujaf(RA) quotes the Prophet(SAW) saying three times:

Listen to the good news about the Mahdi! He will rise at the time when people will be faced with severe conflict and the earth will be hit by a violent quake. He will fill the earth with justice and equity as it is filled with injustice and tyranny. He will fill the hearts of his followers with devotion and will spread justice everywhere. (Bihar al-anwar, Vol. 51, P. 74)


Summary
According to The Universally Accepted Narrations

Be from among the family of Prophet(SAW),
among the descendants of Fatima(RA);
Have a broad forehead and pointed noise;
Appear in one night;
Appear just before the day of judgment;
Have same name as hazrat Muhammad(SAW);
Escape from Madina to Makkah where people will pledge allegiance to him;
Receive pledge and help of Iraqi people;
Fight in battles;
Rule over the Arabs for seven years according to Sunnah;
Spread justice and equity on earth;
Eradicate tyranny and oppression;
Lead a prayer in Mekkah which Jesus(pbuh) will follow in;
NOT be the same individual as the Promised Messiah (Jesus). (Source URL is no longer valid)


Physical Description of The Imam Mahdi
According to other hadeeth:

* He will be tall
* He will be fair complexioned
* His facial features will be similar to those of Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam)
* His character will be exactly like that of Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam)
* His father's name will be Abdullah
* His mother's name will be Aamina
* He will speak with a slight stutter and occasionally this stutter will frustrate him causing him to hit
his hand upon his thigh.
* His age at the time of his emergence will be forty years
* He will receive Knowledge from Allah.. (Source)


Signs that Will Precede His Coming
“While the people will be pledging their allegiance to Imaam Mahdi, a voice from the unseen will call out:

"This is the representative of Allah,

The Mahdi, listen to him and obey him"

This announcement which will be heard by all those present will establish his authenticity. Another sign which will indicate the authenticity of Imaam Mahdi wil be that in the Ramadhaan prior to his emergence an eclipse of the sun and moon will occur”. (Source)



Iran President Paves the Way For Arabs' Imam Return
Nov 17, 2005
Reuters By Paul Hughes

His call for the destruction of Israel may have grabbed headlines abroad, but it is President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's devotion to a mystical religious figure that is arousing greater interest inside Iran.

In a keynote speech on Wednesday to senior clerics, Ahmadinejad spoke of his strong belief in the second coming of Shi'ite Muslims' "hidden" 12th Imam.

According to Shi'ite Muslim teaching, Abul-Qassem Mohammad, the 12th leader whom Shi'ites consider descended from the Prophet Mohammed, disappeared in 941 but will return at the end of time to lead an era of Islamic justice.

Our revolution's main mission is to pave the way for the reappearance of the 12th Imam, the Mahdi," Ahmadinejad said in the speech to Friday Prayers leaders from across the country.

"Therefore, Iran should become a powerful, developed and model Islamic society."

"Today, we should define our economic, cultural and political policies based on the policy of Imam Mahdi's return. We should avoid copying the West's policies and systems," he added, newspapers and local news agencies reported.

Ahmadinejad refers to the return of the 12th Imam, also known as the Mahdi, in almost all his major speeches since he took office in August.

A September address to the U.N. General Assembly contained long passages on the Mahdi which confused Western diplomats and irked those from Sunni Muslim countries who believe in a different line of succession from Mohammed.

This fascination has prompted wild stories to circulate.

Presidential aides have denied a popular rumor that he ordered his cabinet to write a letter to the 12th Imam and throw it down a well near the holy city of Qom where thousands of pilgrims come each week to pray and drop messages to the Imam.

But what really has tongues wagging is the possibility that Ahmadinejad's belief in the 12th Imam's return may be linked to the supposed growing influence of a secretive society devoted to the Mahdi which was banned in the early 1980s.

Founded in 1953 and used by the Shah of Iran to try to eradicate followers of the Bahai faith, the Hojjatieh Society is governed by the conviction that the 12th Imam's return will be hastened by the creation of chaos on earth…” (Source)



Waiting For the Rapture in Iran
Excerpts from An Article by Scott Peterson

“Among the true believers is Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who predicted with "no doubt" his June election victory, months in advance, at a time when polls gave him barely 1 percent support. The president also spoke of an aura that wreathed him throughout his controversial UN speech in September.

"O mighty Lord," Mr. Ahmadinejad intoned to his surprised audience, "I pray to you to hasten the emergence of your last repository, the promised one, that perfect and pure human being, the one that will fill this world with justice and peace."...

... “From redressing the gulf between rich and poor in Iran, to challenging the United States and Israel and enhancing Iran's power with nuclear programs, every issue is designed to lay the foundation for the Mahdi's return.”...

...” The Mahdi's eventual return is an article of faith for Shiite Muslims that taps deeply into Persian consciousness and mystical tradition. Signs began to appear in Tehran three years ago, announcing that "He's Coming." But only a portion of Iranians actively prepare for that moment.

Part of the tradition holds that the Jamkaran mosque was ordered built by the Mahdi himself, during a dream revealed to a "righteous man" some 1,000 years ago. It is here that believers are closest to the Mahdi. Written prayers dropped into the adjacent well (which, local guides point out has no religious basis) are thought by pilgrims to be divinely answered.

Officials deny rumors that Ahmadinejad, as mayor last year, secretly tasked the Tehran City Council with reconfiguring the capital to prepare a suitable route for the Mahdi's return. They also deny that a list of Ahmadinejad's new cabinet members has been dropped into the well - a superstition that even Ayatollah Khomeini, the father of Iran's revolution, refused to associate with”...

“...an early cabinet decision earmarked $17 million for Jamkaran. And there is talk of building a direct train link from Tehran to the elegant blue-tiled mosque, which lies 65 miles south of the capital, east of the Shiite religious center of Qom.

Already, Jamkaran is estimated to receive the second-largest number of pilgrims of any holy site in Iran.”... With hands over their hearts in supplication, they approach the radiant mosque for evening prayers, and scrawl requests to the Mahdi on preprinted prayer forms. Many pilgrims say their prayers are answered, and health problems are healed”...

...“few doubt the sincerity of Ahmadinejad's belief. Some point to his seemingly impossible prediction of electoral success, three months before the June vote.

"You will see, on the day of the election, I will be the winner - I have no doubt about it," says political editor Mohebian, quoting those who heard the remarks. "People change, and we can calculate [politically] why he won. But this [gives a] kind of self-confidence," he says. "Mr. Ahmadinejad thinks he has a mission."




Dajjal

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ad-Dajjal (Arabic: د?ج?ّ?ا?ل?) ("The Deceiver") is an evil figure in Islamic eschatology, who will appear before Yaum al-Qiyamah (Day of the Resurrection). He is the Antichrist, as viewed in Christianity.

Attributes

Various hadith, or traditions, are preserved about the attributes of ad-Dajjal like the following:

· He will be physically misshapen, and see everything only with his left eye. His right eye will be present but it will be dark (black) and he won't be able to see through it.

· He will ride a beast which can cross seas, fly over land, and crawl under Earth.

· He will be able to see and hear many things in many places.

· He will deceive the faithful, teaching them that Heaven is Hell and vice versa.

· He will have the power to work miracles in order to mislead believers.

· He will try to put Man on God's throne.

· He will have the Arabic letters kaf, fa and ra (kafir) -meaning unbeliever- branded on his forehead, but only Muslims will be able to see this.

· He will have the ability to revive the dead, and consequently claim to be God.

Some traditions of Islam relate that he will appear at Isfahan, and that he will rally the Isfahan Jews and many former Muslims and Christians to his support. His followers will have two reddish horns sprouting from their heads in time.

The occurrence of the Dajjal will correspond with the appearance of the Imam Mahdi, who will rally the faithful on earth to oppose him. Eventually, Isa (the name of Jesus in Arabic) will return from Heaven and slay the Dajjal. No one is advised to try to fight the Dajjal because the final killing will be done by Isa (Jesus). According to many interpretations this will occur near The Gate of Ludd (ancient city of Lydda)