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Ahmed-The Companion of the Most Guided Banner and the One Who Sets Up a Signal for the Nations
Ahmed the Promised One · Alaa Alsalem
13. Ahmed: The Companion of the Most Guided Banner and the One Who Sets Up a Signal for all the Nations
Going back to a previous text from the Torah, we read:
[11] In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant that remains of his people, from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the coastlands of the sea.
[12] He will raise a signal for the nations and will assemble the banished of Israel, and gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. (Isaiah 11).
The question is: Did JesusPBUH assemble the banished of Israel (who is Jacob in their view)? And did he gather the dispersed of Judah (who is Jacob's son in their view) from the corners of the earth? If they say he assembled and gathered them through belief in him, this is incorrect, because from the time it began, Jesus'PBUH call didn’t exceed a few villages. Yet we find the text saying this person gathers the dispersed of Judah from the corners of the earth, meaning that in the time of his dispatch, people from almost all countries believe in this person. In fact, it means people from countries far away from his place of dispatch in particular: "corners of the earth". In the text: “He will raise a signal for the nations and will assemble the banished of Israel, and gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth”: as previously mentioned, the word “Judah” means “Hamad or Ahmed in Arabic, and the word “Israel” means “Abdullah” in Arabic. Accordingly, the text reads as follows:
“He will raise a signal for the nations and will assemble the banished of Israel" i.e., Abdullah, "and gather the dispersed of Judah" i.e., Ahmed, "from the four corners of the earth.” These names were stated in the Holy Will of MuhammadPBUH as belonging to the Riser and first Mahdi Ahmed, as we have come to know.
As for the dispersed who come together from the corners of the earth like the gathering of Autumn clouds to support the Riser, they are the supporters (Ansar) of Imam Al-MahdiPBUH in the end times, as it is known from the narrations of Muhammad and his progenyPBUT.108 In explaining the words of the Almighty, {Wherever you may be, God will bring you forth all together} Quran Chapter “The Cow” 2:148, Imam Al-Baqir said: “It is about the three hundred and thirteen companions of the Riser. By God, they are the numbered nation, they will gather in one hour like the gathering of autumn clouds.”109
Similarly, regarding the Supporters of Imam MahdiPBUH, Ibn Hamad Al-Marwazi reported the following: “Then God will dispatch a people like clouds of autumn. I know the name of their commander and the halting place of their mounts."110
Their prince’s name is the Yamani vicegerent, Ahmed: “The prince of anger is not from this or that place. Rather they will hear a voice not made by a human or Jinn telling them to pay
allegiance to a certain person. He is not from this or that place, but he is the Yamani vicegerent."111
Imam Al-Baqir said, "There is no banner more guided than the banner of the Yamani. It is the Banner of Guidance because he calls to your Sahib (Imam MahdiPBUH). If the Yamani emerges, selling weapons to people or any Muslim becomes prohibited. If the Yamani emerges, rush to him, because his is the banner of guidance. It is not allowed for any Muslim to turn away from him. Whoever does that is from the people of hell, because he calls to the truth and to a straight path".112
Here, the messenger of Imam Al-Mahdi, the one who calls to him [Imam Al-Mahdi], and the companion of the most guided banner, namely the promised Yamani, is the very same person who is: the closest to his father, the first to believe in him, and the first Mahdi of the twelve Mahdis, as mentioned in the Will of the Messenger of GodPBUHAP. He is also "Judah the thirteenth = Ahmed" in the words of Jesus; or "the one who will stand from the stump of Jesse"113 in the text from the Torah.
But why was Ahmed described as "the Yamani"? It is because he is the successor and right-hand man of his father. Furthermore, he is from the progeny of MuhammadPBUHAP, who are all "Yamani". This is because their lineage traces to Mecca, which is from Tuhaama which, in turn, is from Yemen. The ProphetPBUHAP said: “Faith is from Yaman, and I am a Yamani”114 This is why the author of the book Bihar [Seas] called the words of Ahl al-Bayt "Yamani Wisdom."115 The ProphetPBUHAP said, "Faith is from Yaman, and Wisdom is Yamani."116 In the Torah:
[1] A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, according to Shigionoth.
[2] O LORD, I have heard the report of you,
and your work, O LORD, do I fear.
In the midst of the years revive it;
in the midst of the years make it known;
in wrath remember mercy.
[3] God came from Teman,
and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah
His splendor covered the heavens,
and the earth was full of his praise.
[4] His brightness was like the light;
rays flashed from his hand;
and there he veiled his power.
[5] Before him went pestilence,
and plague followed at his heels (Habakkuk 3).
The Riser Ahmed said: The meaning is as follows:
"God came from Teman" means God came from Yemen. "The Holy One from Mount Paran" means the Holy One came from Mecca. God is far above coming from the sky, let alone from the earth, because coming and going require movement and therefore occurrence, which would negate absolute divinity. So the one who comes from Teman,117 or Yemen, cannot be Almighty God. Likewise, the one who comes from Paran cannot be the Holy One, the Almighty. This is not to mention that God is far above the other attributes such as the hand: "His brightness was like the light; rays flashed from his hand; and there he veiled his power. Before him went pestilence, and plague followed at his heels." Rather the one who comes is the servant of God MuhammadPBUHAP and his progenyPBUH after him, since they are from Mecca, and are Yamanis as well. . . .The fact that Teman is Yemen has been mentioned even in the Gospel in the words of JesusPBUH when he described the Queen of Yemen as the Queen of the South, or “Teman”:118 [42] The Queen of the South119 will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here (Matthew 12:42).120
The regions of "the remnants of his people" previously mentioned in the Torah: Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and the coastlands of the sea, are equivalent to: Iraq, Syria (Sham), Egypt (North Africa), and Iran. They have also been specified in the religious accounts of Muhammad's progenyPBUHAP which state that these regions will have Supporters (Ansar) of the Savior and Riser Ahmed. Here is one such narration: Imam Al-BaqirPBUH said: “More than three hundred from the people of Badr will pledge allegiance to the Riser between the Corner and Station (Rukn and Maqam). They include the noble from the people of Egypt, the replacements from the people of Syria, and the best from
the people of Iraq.”121 As for Iran, a religious account was previously mentioned regarding the people of Taliqan whose slogans are “Ahmed, Ahmed”.