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The Will of Muhammad Clarifies the Divine Revelation to John
Ahmed the Promised One · Alaa Alsalem
10. The The Will of MuhammadPBUHAP Clarifies the Divine Revelation to John
The Gospel states: [1] After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.” [2] At once I was in the Spirit, and behold, a throne stood in heaven, with one seated on the throne. [3] And he who sat there had the appearance of jasper and carnelian, and around the throne was a rainbow that had the appearance of an emerald. [4] Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and seated on the thrones were twenty-four elders, clothed in white garments, with golden crowns on their heads. [5] From the throne came flashes of lightning, and rumblings. . . (Revelation 4).
With respect to the one seated on the throne, by reading the Will of God’s MessengerPBUHAP, we find that he himself is the one seated on the throne. As for the possessors of the twenty-four thrones, they are his righteous vicegerents-the twelve Imams and twelve Mahdis-as his Holy Will has stated. The text of the will is as follows:
Prophet MuhammadPBUHAP said to AliPBUH: “O Abu Al-Hassan, bring a sheet and inkwell.” Then the Messenger of GodPBUHAP dictated his Will to him: “O Ali, after me there will be twelve Imams, and after them there will be twelve Mahdis. . . When he [the eleventh Imam] is approaching death, let him hand it over to his son Muhammad, the preserver of the the progeny of MuhammadPBUHAP [who is Imam Al-Mahdi]. Those are twelve Imams. Then there will be twelve Mahdis. When he is approaching death, let him hand it over to his son, the first of the close ones and the first of the Mahdis. He has three names: a name like mine and my father's, which is Abdullah, Ahmed and the third name is Al-Mahdi. He is the first of the believers.”95
Those twenty-four Imams are the same ones mentioned in the books of the Sunni Muslims. Kaab Al-Ahbar said: “They are twelve. When their time is coming to an end, those twelve will be replaced by another twelve like them. This is what God has promised this nation. Read: {God has promised those who have believed among you and done righteous deeds that He will surely grant them succession [to authority] upon the earth just as He granted it to those before them.} Quran Chapter “The Light” 24:55. This is what He had done with the Children of Israel."96
It is important for us to know the Imam and the thirteenth from the twenty-four [which leads us to what follows].