Introduction

In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Intensely Merciful

﴾He has ordained for you of religion what He enjoined upon Noah and that which We have inspired to you, and what We enjoined upon Abraham and Moses and Jesus-to establish the religion and not be divided therein. Difficult for those who associate others with Allah is that to which you invite them. Allah chooses for Himself whom He wills and guides to Himself whoever turns back [to Him].﴿^[1]

Allah chooses the messengers pbut and guides to the messengers pbut whoever turns back [to Him] and fights (the “I”) [الأنا ~ al-ana], and kills himself to draw closer to Allah swt. So in the amount of (the “I”) existent within the human self, the human being delays in guidance to the truth and recognition of the messenger.

In the dua from Imam Al-Mahdi pbuh, ﴾“O Allah, allow me to know You, for if You do not allow me to know You, I will not know Your messenger.”﴿^[2] And how does Allah allow knowledge to be given to the one who has not killed himself?!! How does Allah allow knowledge to be given to the one whose soul is afflicted by the disease of Iblis (Allah curse him)? ﴾He said, “What prevented you from prostrating when I commanded you?” [Iblis] said, “I am better than him. You created me from fire and created him from clay.”﴿^[3]

Sayyed Ahmad Al-Hassan

Successor and Messenger of Imam Al-Mahdi

(May Allah empower him in the Earth)

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