In Clarifying the Sacrifice and the Cornerstone

The entire religion of God is almost one matter by which the creation of the earthly human was initiated; Almighty God mentioned it in His saying: ﴾I am making upon the earth a vicegerent﴿ Quran Chapter “The Cow” 2:30, and the entire Quran is in the Fatiha (the opening) and the Fatiha is in the Basmalah [Bismillah al-Rahman al-Raheem] and the Basmalah is in the Ba (‫ )ب‬and the Ba (‫ )ب‬is in the dot and the dot is Ali℗. The Prince of Believers said, “I am the dot.” And what was the Prince of Believers Ali℗ besides the vicegerent of God on His earth?! Therefore the dot, the Basmalah, al-Fatiha, the Quran and the entire religion is the vicegerent of God on His earth. And the Quran and the entire religion are the pledge and the covenant taken from the worshippers to obey the vicegerents of God, and God placed it in the foundation stone or the black stone or the cornerstone or the stone taken from Muhammad℗ to demolish the reign of Satan and tyranny, and this stone was mentioned in the divine books and the narrations. And when Quraysh disagreed about who would carry the stone they knew that this stone was indicative of a great matter and for this reason they disagreed about who would carry it, and the will of God was for Muhammad℗ to be the one to carry the stone and place it in its position in order for the sign of God to be complete, and His indication that the Riser of truth and the servant, the one in whom God placed the pledge and the allegiance, the Riser who is indicated by the stone, will come from Muhammad℗ who carried the stone.

Saeed bin Abdullah al-Araj said that Imam Abu Abdullah℗ said, ﴾“In the era prior to Islam, Quraysh demolished the House, so when they wanted to build it, something prevented them and horror was cast upon them until one from among them said, ‘Let each man from you bring his finest money and do not bring money which you earned by prohibited means or by severing family ties.’ So they did so and the way for building it was made clear so they built it until they reached the place of the black stone, and they quarreled about it and about which one of them shall put the black stone in its place until evil had almost spread among them, so they decided that the first one to enter the door of the mosque would be the judge, and the Messenger of God℗ entered. So when he came to them he requested a robe, he laid it flat and then placed the stone in its center, and the tribes took the sides of the robe and lifted it and then he℗ took it and put it in its place, thus God made it specifically for him.”﴿ Al-Kafi (The sufficient) Vol 4 page 217. So Muhammad℗ carried the black stone, and this is an indication that the “Riser” and the “Bearer of Sin” and the “Bearer of the Black Banner” which indicates sin will come from Muhammad, peace be upon him and his progeny. Moreover, Muhammad℗ is the one who carries him in his back because he is bestowed within Fatima, the daughter of Muhammad℗; and for such the real “Bearer of Sin” is the Messenger of God Muhammad℗. As for the black color with which God wanted to cover this stone, it indicates the guilts of the servants and it reminds them of their sins so they would perhaps repent and ask forgiveness while they are in the House of God, and it is the same color as the black banners of the Riser of Truth. Thus, the black banners indicate the stone and the stone indicates them. And they both, by their black color, indicate the sin of breaking the pledge and the covenant taken from the creation in Thar.^[1] Also, they indicate the trouble that the Bearer of this Sin tolerates, and the Bearer of the Black Banner which indicates the sin, the servant who was entrusted with the Book of the Pledge and the Covenant, and he

is the black stone and he is the Riser of the progeny of Muhammad. And the stone is connected to the issue of sacrifice existent in the divine religion and along the blessed journey of this religion, as the religion of God is one because it is from One. And sacrifice appeared in Islam in the most clear form through al-Husain℗, and before Islam you find the sacrifice in the Hanafi religion of Abraham℗ through Ishmael, and you also find it through Abdullah, the father of the Messenger Muhammad℗. You also find it in Judaism, the religion of Moses℗, through John son of Zachariah, and you find it in Christianity through the crucified one. And regardless of the fact that the Christians imagine that the crucified one is Jesus℗ himself, they believe that the crucified one is the bearer of sin, and it does not mean that their beliefs come from complete nothingness, even if there is distortion within them, neither does it mean that they have no origin in the religion of Almighty God from which they were distorted; rather, many of the distorted beliefs are in fact based on a religious origin taken by the non-working clerics of misguidance who distorted it and built upon it a corrupt belief. So the issue that the messengers bear some of the sins of their nations in order to take the nation as a whole to God is existent in the religion of God, and it did not come from nothing. And you can refer to the passages of the Torah for instance to see that Moses℗ bore extra trouble due to the sins his people committed. And the Messenger of God Muhammad℗ bore the sins of the believers. The Almighty said, ﴾That God may forgive for you what preceded of your guilt and what will follow and complete His favor upon you and guide you to a straight path﴿. Quran Chapter “The Victory” 48:2. And its interpretation by the apparent: that he bore the sins of his nation and God forgave them for him. Omar bin Yazeed Biyaa al- Sabiri said, ﴾“I asked Abu Abdullah℗ about the saying of God in His book, ﴾That God may forgive for you what preceded of your guilt and what will follow﴿, and he said, “He did not have a guilt, nor a concern about a guilt, but God caused him to bear the guilts of his followers and then forgave them for him.”﴿^[2] And the messengers’ bearing of the sins of their nations does not mean that they bear the sin of breaking the pledge and the covenant

on behalf of the rejectors of the vicegerents of God who die upon this rejection. They rather bear the sin of he who neglected remembering the pledge and the allegiance and broke it for a period of time in this worldly life. Also, their bearing of the sins of their nations does not mean that they become people of sin on behalf of their nations, it rather means that they bear additional weight and trouble in conveying their messages to the people in this world. And this of course is by their own desire because they are the ones who request this, as the father who is merciful to his children bears the results of their mistakes in many instances, even if they caused him trouble and hardship and perhaps pains and to be killed for the sake of God, as is the case for al-Husain℗. And this is because the father hopes for the righteousness of his children in the end, and perhaps many do not remember the pledge until the blood of their father, the supporter of God, is spilled; so it causes them to remember the pledge and the covenant. For this reason, you find that al-Husain℗, whom God wished to make a reason for a great number of the creation to remember, had left the pilgrimage and was pressing forward with his footsteps to the place of his slaughter℗. As for the relationship of the stone to the sin of Adam℗, the Imams℗ provided clarification of this matter, even if it was previously hidden from the people due to a reason Almighty God wished for; rather, the relation of the stone to the sins of the creation, as well, is something they have clarified. And the Messenger of God Muhammad℗ clarified this matter most clearly by action when he kissed the stone, but it is a clarification for those who have hearts and recognize the actions of Muhammad℗ the wise who applies wisdom, unlike Omar bin al- Khattab who states that he does not understand why the Messenger of God Muhammad℗ kissed the stone. And he states that his soul and his truth does not accept kissing the stone, but he only does it because he saw the Messenger of God℗ do it in front of thousands of Muslims, and he cannot go against Muhammad℗ because he claims that he is Muhammad’s vicegerent, so he stultifies the act of Muhammad℗ and does it forcefully. So what kind of deceit is this?! Bukhari, Muslim and Ahmed narrated that Omar came to the stone and kissed it and said, “I verily know that you are a stone which does not harm nor benefit, and if I had not seen the Messenger of God℗ kiss you, I would not have

kissed you.” And Ahmed narrated from Suwaid bin Ghafla that he said, “I saw Omar kissing the stone and saying, “I know that you are a stone that does not harm nor benefit, but I saw Muhammad℗ handle you with sincere care.” So when Omar bin al-Khattab kissed the stone, he stated that he hates this act and that he denies it and that he underestimates this stone and the fact that it is the witness over the worshippers to fulfill the pledge and the covenant taken from them in Thar. ﴾And [mention] when your Lord took from the children of Adam - from their loins - their descendants and made them testify of themselves, [saying to them], “Am I not your Lord?” They said, “Yes, we have testified.” [This] - lest you should say on the day of Resurrection, “Indeed, we were of this unaware.”﴿ Quran Chapter “The Heights” 7:172. And this is a clear sign to those who have hearts with which they realize, that Omar bin al-Khattab is a denier of the pledge and the allegiance taken. Therefore, his soul abhors the witnessing stone, consequently Omar tries to deny that the stone is a real witness, so Omar bin al-Khattab addresses the witnessing stone and the stone of foundation and the black stone by saying, “I know that you are a stone that does not harm nor benefit.” And since the people who surrounded Omar in this situation saw that the Messenger of God Muhammad℗ showed sincere caring for this stone and was very concerned about it and he kissed this stone and prostrated on it, rather they themselves inherited from the Hanafi religion of Abraham℗ sanctification of this stone and care for it, for this reason Omar rectified his saying with his action, so he kissed the stone, but after what?! After Omar stultified kissing the black stone saying it is a stone that does not harm nor benefit, thus there is no wisdom in kissing it. Therefore, by his saying and action Omar wanted to marginalize the black stone and negate that it is a witness, and make Muhammad’s kissing of the stone and his prostration on it an ambiguous matter which is not understood and is devoid of wisdom. The truth is that if the black stone did not harm nor benefit, the act of the Messenger of God℗ would be devoid of wisdom, and he is far above that. And the act of the Messenger of God℗ cannot have meaning or be wise if this stone did not harm or benefit by the permission of Almighty God, His strength and might.

Therefore, the will of God is to show the stance that Omar withholds toward the stone, or the servant assigned with the pledge and the covenant, or the Riser of the progeny of Muhammad. And exalted is God, no human being withholds evil without God showing it with slips of his tongue. And the Messenger of God Muhammad℗ clarified the importance of the black stone and its virtue by his sayings and actions, and it is enough for you to know that the Messenger of God℗ kissed it and prostrated upon it, and the Messenger of God℗ did not prostrate upon any part of the Kaaba besides the black stone, and the greatness of this matter and its importance reached to the point that the Messenger of God℗ said, ﴾“Face the corner, as it is the right hand of God within His creation, with it He shakes hands with His creation, the handshake of a servant or a foreigner and it testifies that those who face it fulfill the pledge.”﴿^[3] And the intended by the corner is the black stone because it is placed within the corner. And the Imams℗ followed the way of the Messenger of God℗ in clarifying the importance of the stone by their sayings and actions, so they clarified that the stone is the “Bearer of the Book of the Pledge and the Covenant”, and that Adam cried for forty days and formed an assembly for crying by the stone to atone for his sin of breaking the pledge. ﴾And We had already taken a pledge from Adam before, but he forgot; and We found not in him intense ability.﴿ Quran Chapter “Ta Ha” 20:115. And the stone was an illuminating white pearl but it turned black on the earth due to the sins of the servants. So these blessed words and actions which they have repeated several times in front of their companions are all an emphasis and a clarification of the importance of the black stone and of the relationship of the stone to the first sin, rather to the sins throughout the journey of mankind on this earth … And the Messenger of God Muhammad℗ entered the House of God so he started with the stone and finished with the stone. And he commanded his companions to make facing the stone their last act at the House. Moreover, it is favored that the stone is faced in every circumambulation. And touching the stone causes forgiveness of sins and guilt. Also, the Messenger of God Muhammad℗ prostrated on the

black stone and put his forehead on it after he kissed it. So what would you understand from this other than that this stone is the most important thing about the House? Abdullah bin Sinan said that Imam Abu Abdullah℗ said, ﴾“So when the Messenger of God℗ reached the door of the mosque he faced the Kaaba and praised God and prayed upon his father Abraham then went to the stone and faced it, so when he circumambulated the House he prayed two rakats behind the station of Abraham℗ and he entered Zamzam and drank from it then said, “O God, I ask you for beneficial knowledge and extensive provision and healing from every disease and illness.” He continued saying this while facing the Kaaba, and then said to his companions, “Let the last of your acts in the Kaaba be facing the stone,” so he faced it and then went to al-Safa.”﴿.^[4] And al-Bahiqi narrated that Ibn Abbas said, “I saw the Messenger of God (may God be satisfied with him) prostrate upon the stone.” And a very important matter must be noted which is that Messenger of God℗ made a sunna the two rakats of circumambulation at the station of Abraham, and the Messenger of God℗ and the Imams℗ used to pray at the station of Abraham℗, and he who stands at the station of Abraham℗ during his prayer will have the black stone between his hands and in his direction of prayer, and this shows with complete clarity that this verse applies to the Riser of the progeny of Muhammad or the Joseph of the progeny of Muhammad or the black stone. ﴾When Joseph said to his father, “O my father, indeed I have seen eleven stars and the Sun and the Moon; I saw them prostrating to me.”﴿ Quran Chapter “Joseph” 12:4. And I have previously clarified the meaning of this prostration when I clarified the interpretation of this verse in reference to Imam al-Mahdi℗; but the prostration here, when interpreted in reference to the Riser, is to both Fatima and the secret bestowed within her, exactly as that the prostration is to the Kaaba and the black stone bestowed within it, so here the Sun would be Muhammad℗ and the Moon would be Ali℗ and the eleven planets would be the Imams℗ from the children of Ali℗ and Fatima℗, and they are al-Hasan, al-Husain, Ali, Muhammad, Jafar, Musa, Ali, Muhammad, Ali, al-Hasan and Muhammad, and their prostration means that they pave the way for the Riser and for

establishing justice and being just toward the oppressed, and specifically taking the right of the woman who suffered the first and greatest injustice since God created the creation and until the Hour rises. As for the prostration of the rest of the creation from among those who were obligated to prostrate to the Kaaba and therefore to the black stone, it is like a clear sign and a clarification that they all pave the way for the Riser whether they wish to or not. The Almighty said, ﴾Do you not see that to God prostrates whoever is in the heavens and whoever is on the earth, and the Sun, the Moon, the stars, the mountains, the trees, the moving creations and many of the people? But upon many the punishment has been justified. And he whom God humiliates - for him there is no bestower of honor. Indeed, God does what He wills.﴿ Quran Chapter “The Pilgrimage” 22:18. So everyone paves the way for the Inheritor or the Riser whether they wish to or not, so the Sun and the Moon and the stars pave the way for the Riser, as well as those upon whom the punishment is justified, and each to his own extent. So the movement of the creation and their general journey is a paving for the Riser who gives justice to the oppressed ones, although most of the creation do not know this. This is just like their circumambulation around the Kaaba and the black stone bestowed within it; they barely know anything about their circumambulation.

As for the previous religions, the stone was also mentioned in the Torah and the Gospel: [42 Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: ‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes’? 43 Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruits. 44 And the one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.”] Matthew 21:42-44. So the stone that Jesus℗ talked about is in a nation other than the one he was addressing, so the Kingdom of Heaven is taken from the nation which Jesus℗ addressed, who are the Children of Israel and those who believed in Jesus℗, because by his words he was addressing his students who believed in him and other people as well, and it is given to the nation that is connected to the stone which applies the fruits of

the Kingdom of Heaven; so the words of Jesus℗ are absolutely clear, showing the virtue of the cornerstone and that the Kingdom of Heaven will eventually be taken from those who claim to follow Jesus and be given to the nation of the stone and they are the nation of Muhammad and the progeny of Muhammad, so Jesus℗ wisely connected the stone to the nation that is in the end given the Kingdom of Heaven. Moreover: he countered this nation by the Children of Israel and those who claim to follow him and he showed them that they will not have the Kingdom of Heaven in the end, so Jesus℗ made the stone the reason why the Kingdom of Heaven is given to a nation other than the one claiming to follow Moses℗ and Jesus℗; meaning that the one who testifies that they fulfilled the pledge and the allegiance is the stone, and those who support him are those who inherit the Kingdom of Heaven, whether in this earth by establishing the supremacy of God or in the skies when God reveals His kingdom to them and lets them see it, or in the end when God houses them in the paradises in the Kingdom of Heavens. And whoever wants to interpret these words in another form and say that Jesus℗ meant himself by these words and insists on this interpretation, then he is being fallacious and is not requesting to know the truth, otherwise let him read the origin of the saying and it is from David℗ in the Psalms, so the Jews can also say that David meant himself, and so on, the argumentation does not end. But the truth is that David℗ and Jesus℗ meant the Savior who comes in the name of the Lord in the end times, and Jesus℗ promised of him in other places of the Gospel and named him “the comforter” and “the wise servant”, and here he has named him “the cornerstone”. So the question is: Who was known or can be known as the cornerstone? Were David or Jesus℗ known to be the cornerstone in the house of the Lord? Or were they mentioned in another place to be the cornerstone in the house of the Lord? And is there a stone placed in the corner of the house of the Lord or the Temple that indicates David or Jesus℗? The truth is that there is no such thing, but there is such a thing in the other nation from the children of Abraham℗ and in the house of the Lord built by Abraham℗ and his son Ishmael℗, and it exists in the corner, and in particular the corner named the Iraqi corner; and all these matters indicate one thing, which is the Savior who comes at the end times or the one who was referred to by David in the Psalms to be

the cornerstone and the one who comes in the name of the Lord. [19 Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter through them and give thanks to the Lord. 20 This is the gate of the Lord; the righteous shall enter through it. 21 I thank you that you have answered me and have become my salvation. 22 The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. 23 This is the Lord’s doing; it is marvelous in our eyes. 24 This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. 25 Save us, we pray, O Lord! O Lord, we pray, give us success! 26 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! We bless you from the house of the Lord.] Psalms 118:19-26. And to emphasize further that the one intended by the cornerstone in the Torah and the Gospel is the Savior who comes in the end times and in Iraq and is the Riser of truth, I mention this vision seen by the king of Iraq at the time of prophet Daniel℗, and it was interpreted by prophet Daniel℗ and it almost needs no clarification: And this is the saying of Daniel℗ to the king of Iraq, and he is telling him his vision and its interpretation as it is in the present Torah: [31 “You saw, O king, and behold, a great image. This image, mighty and of exceeding brightness, stood before you, and its appearance was frightening. 32 The head of this image was of fine gold, its chest and arms of silver, its middle and thighs of bronze, 33 its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay. 34 As you looked, a stone was cut out by no human hand, and it struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces. 35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold, all together were broken in pieces, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, so that not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth. 36 “This was the dream. Now we will tell the king its interpretation. 37 You, O king, the king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, and the might, and the glory, 38 and into whose hand he has given, wherever they dwell, the children of man, the beasts of the field, and the birds of the heavens, making you rule over them all - you are the head of gold. 39 Another kingdom inferior to you shall arise after you, and yet a third kingdom of bronze, which shall rule over all the earth. 40 And there shall be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron, because iron breaks to pieces and shatters all things. And like iron that

crushes, it shall break and crush all these. 41 And as you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter’s clay and partly of iron, it shall be a divided kingdom, but some of the firmness of iron shall be in it, just as you saw iron mixed with the soft clay. 42 And as the toes of the feet were partly iron and partly clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly brittle. 43 As you saw the iron mixed with soft clay, so they will mix with one another in marriage, but they will not hold together, just as iron does not mix with clay. 44 And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever, 45 just as you saw that a stone was cut from a mountain by no human hand, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold. A great God has made known to the king what shall be after this. The dream is certain, and its interpretation sure.”] Daniel 2:31-45. Therefore, the stone or the Savior, who demolishes the structure of falsehood and the rule of the tyranny and Satan upon this earth, and in whose sovereignty there is spreading of truth and justice in the earth, comes in the end times and comes in Iraq as is clear from the vision of Daniel, and he is the stone who destroys the idol or the rule of the tyrant and the “I”; whereas, neither Jesus℗ or David℗ were sent in Iraq and in the end times, so neither of them can be the cornerstone mentioned; rather, it is shown clearly from all the above that the cornerstone in Judaism and Christianity is the same as the black stone placed in the corner of the sacred House of God in Mecca. And the black stone placed in the corner of the House of God, which is a manifestation and a symbol of the one assigned to the pledge and the covenant, is the same cornerstone which David and Jesus℗ mentioned, and it is the same stone which demolishes the government of tyranny in the Book of Daniel℗, and it is the same Riser of the progeny of Muhammad or the first Mahdi who comes in the end times like narrated by the Messenger of God℗ and his progeny, peace be upon them.