الأحمر

I asked Imam Ja’far Sadiq (a.s), “Is there in the Book of Allah a similitude for the Qaim?” He said: “Yes, the verse of the owner of the donkey, Allah made him die for a hundred years and then raised him up again.”

“I came to the Master of the time (a.s) and he told me to bring red sandalwood, which I did. Then he asked: Do you know me? I said: Yes. He asked: Who am I? I said: My master, and the son of my master. He said: I did not ask you this. Tareef said: I said: May I be sacrificed on you, tell me. He said: I am the seal of the successors; and through me will Allah, the Mighty and Sublime ward off calamities from my family and my Shia.”

“I said to Abu Abdillah (as): “May I be sacrificed for you! When will al-Qa’im appear?” He said: “O Abu Muhammad (Abu Baseer), we, the Ahlul Bayt, do not time. Muhammad (sw) has said: “The diviners have lied!” O Abu Muhammad, before this matter there will be five signs; a call (from the Heaven) in the month of Ramadan, the rising of as-Sufyani, the rising of al-Khurasani, the killing of Nafs al-Zakiyya, and a sinking in the desert. Before the appearance of al-Qa’im there must be two plagues; the white plague and the red plague.” I said: “What are they?” He said: “The white plague is a torrential death and the red plague is killing by the sword. Al-Qa’im does not appear until his name will be called out from the Heaven in the twenty-third night of Ramadan, which will be a night of Friday.” I said: “What will be called out?” He said: “The caller will call out the name of al-Qa’im and the name of his father and will say: “So-and-so the son of so-and-so is al-Qa’im of Muhammad’s progeny. You are to listen to him and to obey him.” And nothing created by Allah that has a spirit will remain except that it hears the shout, the sleepers will awake and get out to courtyards and the virgins will get out of their veils. Then al-Qa’im will appear after hearing the call. It will be the call of Gabriel (as).”

“On the Day of Resurrection the human beings will be resurrected in four categories; riders, walking people, groveling people and deaf, dumb and blind people, who do not understand, are not spoken to and not permitted to apologize. These are whom (the fire shall scorch their faces, and they therein shall be in severe affliction).” It was said to him: “O Ka’b, who are these people, whose condition will be so?” He said: “It is those, who have kept on deviation, apostasy and breaking the homage. Evil is that which their souls have sent before for them when they will meet Allah with the sin of fighting the caliph and the guardian of their prophet, their most aware jurisprudent, their most virtuous master, the bearer of the banner, the guard of the pond, the hope and the hoped one out of all this world, the knowledge that is never ignored, the straight path, from which whoever deviates will perish and fall in Fire. It is Ali, by the god of Ka’b, who is the most aware of them, the senior in peace (Islam) and the most discerned of all of them. I wonder at those, who prefer others to Ali. From among the descendants of Ali is al-Qa’im al-Mahdi, who will change the world into another one and by whom Jesus Christ (as) will argue against the Christians of Rome and China. Al-Qa’im al-Mahdi is the most similar one to Jesus Christ (as) in form, character, nobility and dignity. Allah will give him all what He has given to the prophets and more than that and He will prefer him to the all. Al-Qa’im, the descendant of Ali (as), will disappear like the disappearance of Prophet Joseph (as) and will reappear like the reappearance of Jesus the son of Mary (as). He will reappear, after his disappearance, with the appearance of the red star, the destruction of az-Zawra’ (ar-Riy), the sinking of al-Muzawarra (Baghdad), the rising of as-Sufyani, the war of the progeny of al-Abbas against the people of Armenia and Azerbaijan, in which thousands and thousands will be killed. Each one of the warriors will seize on an adorned sword, over which black banners will flutter. It will be a war full of red death and terrible plague.”

“Amirul Mo’mineen (as) said: “When the two spears (two armies) disagree in Sham, it will not come to an end except with a sign of Allah.” He was asked: “What is it, O Amirul Mo’mineen (as)?” He said: “It is an earthquake in Sham, by which more than one hundred thousands of people will perish. Allah will make it as mercy to the believers and torment upon the disbelievers. When that occurs, you will see the riders of the gray horses with the yellow banners coming from the west until they stop at Sham. There will be great terror and red death. Then you will see a sinking of one of the villages of Damascus called Harasta. Then the son of the livers-eater will come out of the dry valley to sit on the minbar of Damascus. After that you expect the appearance of al-Mahdi (aj).”