I heard that scholars are saying that Imam Mehdi will come after this Hajj...and they base this on the fact that most of the minor signs of the day of judgement have already happened. Now could you clarify the whole Imam Mehdi arrival and who he is exactly..and wheres he coming from...and whats going to happen after his arrval (like the Hajuj Majuj and everything).
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ok so i
heard that scholars are saying that Imam Mehdi will come after this Hajj...and
they base this on the fact that most of the minor signs of the day of judgement
have already happened. Now could you clarify the whole Imam Mehdi arrival and
who he is
exactly..and wheres he coming from...and whats going to happen after his arrval
(like the Hajuj Majuj and everything).
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Mahdi and Yajuj
Majuj
In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask
for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever
He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that
there is no one (no idol, no person, no
grave, no prophet, no imam, no dai,
nobody!) worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that
Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.
Your Statement: i
heard that scholars are saying that Imam Mehdi will come after this Hajj...and
they base this on the fact that most of the minor signs of the day of judgement
have already happened.
Dear and Beloved Brother in Islam, there is only One Being
Who Knows what has transpired, what is transpiring, and what exactly will
transpire in the future; and that Being is The One and Only Lord of the Worlds,
Allah Subhanah!
Thus for anything that will happen in the future, we can,
should, and must rely only and only on what is said by our Lord Most High in
His Glorious Quran, or what He pleased to make known to our beloved Prophet
(saws) through revelation.
The coming of the Imam Mahdi and the emergence of the
tribes of Yajuj and Majuj are indeed amongst the Signs of the Day of Judgment
as related by Allah and His Messenger (saws); but when exactly these events of
the future will take place is in the knowledge of none, except our Lord Most
High, Most Supreme.
Your Question: Now
could you clarify the whole Imam Mehdi arrival and who he is exactly..and
wheres he coming from...and whats going to happen after his arrval (like the
Hajuj Majuj and everything).
Whatever we know of the events that will transpire before
the Penultimate Day of Judgment, is what is related to us in Truth by the
Messenger of Allah (saws):
Sunan of Abu-Dawood
Hadith 4272 Narrated by AbuSa'id
al-Khudri
The Prophet (peace
be upon him) said: The Mahdi will be of my stock, and will have a broad
forehead a prominent nose. He will fill the earth with equity and justice as it
will be filled with oppression and tyranny, and he will rule for seven years.
Al-Tirmidhi Hadith
5455 Narrated by AbuSa'id al-Khudri
The Prophet (peace
be upon him) said in the course of the story about the Mahdi, that a man would
come to him and say, "Give me, give me, Mahdi," and he would pour
into his garment as much as he was able to carry.
Tirmidhi
transmitted it.
Al-Tirmidhi Hadith
6278 Narrated by Ja'far as-Sadiq
Allah's Messenger
(peace be upon him) said, "Rejoice and rejoice again. My people are just
like the rain, it not being known whether the last or the first of it is
better; or it is like a garden from which a troop can be fed for a year, then
another troop can be fed for a year, and perhaps the last troop which comes may
be the broadest, deepest and finest. How can a people perish of which I am the
first, the Mahdi the middle and the Messiah the last? But in the course of that
there will be a crooked party which does not belong to me and to which I do not
belong."
Razin transmitted
it.
Sunan of Abu-Dawood
Hadith 4271 Narrated by Umm Salamah,
Ummul Mu'minin
The Prophet (peace
be upon him) said: The Mahdi will be of my family, of the descendants of Fatimah.
Yajooj
and Majooj are the names of the people of two wild tribes of the north-east
Asia, who from the earliest times, had been making inroads on settled empires
in Asia and
Sahih Muslim Hadith 6931 Narrated
by Hudhayfah ibn Usayd Ghifari
Allah's Messenger (saws) came to us all of a sudden as we were
(busy in a discussion). He (saws) said:
‘What do you discuss about?’ (the
Companions) said: ‘ We are discussing about the Last Hour.’ Thereupon he (saws) said: ‘It will not come until you see Ten Signs
before and (in this connection) he made a mention of the Smoke, the Dajjal, the
Beast, the rising of the sun from the
west, the descent of Jesus son of Mary
(Allah be pleased with him), The Gog and
Magog, and landslides in three places,
one in the east, one in the west and one in Arabia at the end of which fire
would burn forth from the Yemen, and
would drive people to the place of their assembly.’
It
is related in the Holy Quran that in times gone by, Allah Subhanah sent a great
ruler and believer (Zul-Qarnain), and he
built a wall of molten lead to contain the menace of the tribes of Yajooj and
Majooj.
Allah Says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 18 Surah Kahf verses 94-97:
94 They said: "O
Zul-qarnain! the Gog and Magog (people) do great mischief on earth: shall we
then render thee tribute in order that thou mightest erect a barrier between us
and them?"
95 He said: "(The
power) in which my Lord has established me is better (than tribute): help me
therefore with strength (and labor): I will erect a strong barrier between you
and them:
96 "Bring me blocks of
iron." At length when he had filled up the space between the two steep
mountain sides he said "Blow (with your bellows)." Then when he had
made it (red) as fire he said: "Bring me that I may pour over it molten
lead."
97 Thus were they made powerless to scale it or to
dig through it.
And
it is related in the Holy Quran, that
near the end of time, Yajooj and Majooj
will emerge again, and cause a terrible menace. This will happen after Prophet Jesus (a.s.)
has ridden the world of the menace of the Dajjal. Then Prophet Jesus (a.s.) and the believers
will supplicate Allah Subhanah to help them;
and Allah will send a swarm of insects who will kill the full tribe of
Yajooj and Majooj.
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 21 Surah Anbiyaa verses 96-97:
96 Until the Gog and Magog
(people) are let through (their barrier) and they swiftly swarm from every
hill.
97 Then will the True
Promise draw nigh (of fulfillment): then behold! the eyes of the Unbelievers
will fixedly stare in horror: "Ah! woe to us! we were indeed heedless of
this; nay we truly did wrong!"
The current situation and
position of the believers must be to strive to obey each and every command of Allah
and His Messenger (saws), and strive to make the word of Allah Supreme in the
world. Imam Mahdi will come exactly at
the time Allah has Decreed, and the events will unfold exactly as prophesized
by the Messenger of Allah (saws). Allah
has not made it our duty to search for the Mahdi; he will come when he comes! On the Day of Judgment, Allah Subhanah will
judge us according to our deeds; neither
will Allah question us why we did not appoint a Mahdi, nor will He ask us why we did not wait for
Mahdi’s coming! Thus, instead of waiting for Imam Mahdi to
come and put things aright in this world; we must strive to do whatever we can
to be better muslims, and strive to the best of our abilities to declare the
Message of Allah to all those who care to listen to good caution.
Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to
Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me alone. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only
Source of Strength.
Your brother and well wisher in
Islam,
Burhan
