Preparing the Force for Jihad

If the Muslims studied their religion, began to command good and forbid evil, and comprehended the goal of the Islamic Revolution, which is carrying the word “There is no god except Allah” to the people of the earth and establishing the divine Justice on earth, then we would have a generation prepared to fight the tyrants, so the fourth stage is to physically prepare for jihad, and prepare the arms, even if it is a small knife or just a piece of iron, and do not belittle it, as the companions of the Prophet pbuhap were victorious over the swords of the disbelievers of Quraysh with the branches of palm trees . And know that Allah is with you and He is the One who makes you firm and victorious by His angels if you are devoted to Him swt . And with the soldiers of the tyrant there is Satan who is provoking them, and he will fall on his knees when the two groups clash, and they will be defeated and retreat . The Almighty said, ﴾And Satan said when the matter had been concluded, “Indeed, Allah had promised you the promise of truth . And I promised you, but I betrayed you . But I had no authority over you except that I invited you, and you responded to me . So do not blame me; but blame yourselves . I cannot be called to your aid, nor can you be called to my aid . Indeed, I deny your association of me [with Allah] before . Indeed, for the wrongdoers is a painful torment .”﴿^[1] By these mentioned stages, the soldiers of al-Mahdi pbuh , the soldiers of Allah swt , prepare for the jihad psychologically and physically . And let every fighting believer evoke in his soul that he is with Allah swt , the Most Powerful in the heavens and the earth, so he shall not

fear the tyrant and his soldiers regardless of their great number or armor . ﴾Indeed, the plot of Satan has ever been weak .﴿^[2] And then Allah swt will relieve this nation and send to it the divine leader al-Mahdi pbuh , who will lead it out of the wilderness and into the Holy Land Allah willing swt . And the Mahdi pbuh is Muhammad son of al-Hassan son of Ali bin Muhammad son of Ali bin Musa son of Jafar son of Muhammad son of Ali son of al-Hussain son of Ali bin Abi Talib pbuh , he is from Ali pbuh and Fatimah pbuh , the daughter of Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah pbuhap . And the Muslims agree that he will emerge at the end of time, and the narration about that are numerous, and whoever denies him disbelieves in what was brought by Muhammad pbuhap, as mentioned in the narration from him pbuhap . His birth pbuh was in the year of 255 a .h ., five years before the martyrdom of his father Imam al-Askari pbuh , and his mother is the granddaughter of the Caesar, the King of the Romans, and her lineage goes back to one of the disciples of Jesus pbuh , and many of the believers saw him during the life of his father Imam al-Askari pbuh , and after he took the position of Imamate, his four deputies were meeting him in the minor occultation for a period of over seventy years, then Allah willed for the major occultation to occur, and he pbuh will remain alive until he fills the earth with justice and fairness, just as it was filled with injustice and oppression . And the mentioning of him came in the Torah and the Gospel, and in them he was named “The Ancient of Days” due to his long life . And in the age of his rising, Jesus pbuh descends from the sky as a minister of his pbuh and a supporter of his truth pbuh . His rising pbuh is in Mecca, his companions will gather for him there, and their number is three hundred and thirteen men, like the number of the people of Badr, and the companions of Saul who crossed the river with him, then the devoted believers will flock to Mecca from all the countries of the Muslims until they become ten thousand, and they are the first of his army pbuh . And he does not leave Mecca to fight the tyrants until when Allah causes for the earth to consume the

army of al-Sufyani between Mecca and Medina, which is an army sent to eliminate the movement of al-Mahdi pbuh , and after this event he will start his movement in purifying the Islamic lands from the tyrants and their servants gathered around them . And he will eliminate al-Sufyani and his filthy soldiers, and liberate the Holy Land and the people will enter into the religion of Allah in great numbers . But the tests in the age of his appearance pbuh are many, including the Dajjal and the armies of the West, but Allah supports al-Mahdi pbuh and the soldiers of Allah who are with him against their enemies to reveal the divine religion over all religions, even if the disbelievers hate it, as Allah swt promised in His Holy Book, the Quran .^[3] And among the signs of the nearness of his appearance pbuh are that the sky withholds its rain, and there will be extreme heat, disagreement among the Shia, death occurring among the clerics, the killing of many of them in al-Najaf, an economic siege on Iraq as was mentioned such that barely no dirham nor bushel will be levied for Iraq, and the people of Iraq will be prevented from making Hajj, and the ones who prevent them are the Romans, who are the people of the West today, as was narrated by al-Sadiq pbuh in his speech to some of the people of Iraq, ﴾At that time you will be prevented from Hajj and the fruits will be less, and the country will be waterless, and you will be tested with inflation and with the oppression of the sultan, and oppression and hostility will appear among you, as well as infliction, plague and hunger, and trials will misguide you from all horizons .”﴿^[4] And the mosques will be decorated and the Quran will be embellished, and people will be eating in the mosques, and the year will be like a month, and the month like a week, and the week like a day, and the day like an hour, and there will be the killing of four thousand Muslims in the mosque of al-Kufa on Friday by the rulers of Iraq, and the demolishing of the wall of the mosque of al-Kufa, and the rulers of Iraq will disagree amongst each other . And this disagreement is the first of the signs that their kingdom will vanish, and that people will be greedy concerning them [trying to harm, kill, or steal from them - Trans .], and the appearance of a cometary planet which glows like the

moon and which turns until its ends almost meet, and the call from the sky in the month of Ramadan on the twenty-third, and the appearance of al-Sufyani in al-Sham; in Jordan and his occupation of Syria and some of Palestine, and before it there will be some disagreement over the rule in al-Sham, and al-Sufyani will enter Iraq and kill its ruler, and there will be the eclipse of the moon in the end of the month of Ramadan in one of the last five remaining days, and the eclipse of the sun during the middle of the month of Ramadan, and these two signs are in one month . And a flood fills al-Kufa in the year of his rising pbuh , and the sky will rain twenty-four times of which the effects and blessings will be seen in the land in the year of his rising pbuh . And the dates on the palm trees will be ruined, and it was narrated that the fruits on the trees will be ruined,^[5] and there will be the appearance of fire in al-Hijaz, and the appearance of fire in the sky, and and the appearance of redness in the sky, and the receding of the sun at its meridian, and the sabotaging of Baghdad through wars and trials, and the sabotaging of al-Basra, and the mentioning of his appearance pbuh on the tongue of the people, and his appearance in an odd year, and the killing of the Pure Soul (nafs al-zakiyah) in al-Kaaba between the Corner and the Station, and within fifteen days or less after this sign, the Riser will rise . And after his rising there are signs indicative of him pbuh , and they are the earth consuming the army of al-Sufyani in the desert between Mecca and Medina, and perhaps the call after his rising pbuh is to guide to his truth, especially since the caller is Gabriel pbuh in the heavens . This is some of what was mentioned in the narrations from them pbut and Allah knows best, and we were not given from the knowledge except for a little and we ask Him swt for more . And peace be upon the proof of Allah in His land and the mercy of Allah and His blessings . And peace be upon the believers, and the mercy of Allah and His blessings . ﴾Our Lord, we have believed in what You sent down and have fol-

lowed the messenger, so register us among the witnesses .”﴿^[6] ﴾Our Lord, let not our hearts deviate after You have guided us and bestow upon us from Yourself mercy . Indeed, You are the Bestower .﴿^[7] In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Intensely Merciful ﴾111 Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their souls and their properties [in exchange] for that they will have Heaven . They fight in the way of Allah, so they kill and are killed . [It is] a true promise [binding] upon Him in the Torah and the Gospel and the Quran . And who is truer to his covenant than Allah? So rejoice in your transaction which you have contracted . And it is that which is the great attainment . 112 The repentant, the worshippers, the praisers [of Allah], the travelers [for His cause], those who bow and prostrate, those who command what is good and forbid what is evil, and those who observe the boundaries of Allah . And give glad tidings to the believers .﴿^[8] The Guilty Shortcomer, Ahmad 1420 a .h . •