\n Then the Will of Rasool Allah -saww is quoted...

\n Then the Will of Rasool Allah -saww is quoted: where it is stated: \n \u2018O Ali, you are my successor over my family, their living and their deceased, and over my women……(then 12 Imams are introduced one by one).\u00a0 These are the twelve Imams. After him there will be twelve Mahdis. So if God receives him, let him hand it over to his son, the first of the close ones. He has three names, one like mine and my father\u2019s: Abdullah (servant of God), Ahmed, and the third name is al-Mahdi.

He is the first of the believers.\u201d \n Ahmed Al-Hasan says in \u2018Sermon of Hajj\u2019: \n The truth I say unto you, that I did not initiate asking for allegiance to be given to me; rather, what happened in the time of the tyrant Saddam was that a group of students from the Hawza Elmiyya in Najaf Al-Ashraf decided to give allegiance to me as a messenger from Imam Al-Mahdi after seeing visions, revelations, and miracles.

They then began requesting allegiance be given to me from the other students of the Hawza Elmiyya in Najaf, Allah knows so and they know so. And that was the first allegiance. Then people apostated except for a few who were loyal to Allah\u2019s swt covenant, and the ones who apostated began saying that the visions and revelation were from jinn, and that the miracles were witchcraft.

\n Ahmed Al-Hasan\u00a0 further says in the same sermon: \n All praise be to Allah who made me similar to Thul Qarnain and made me similar to Ali, the Prince of Believers, and all praise be to Allah who did not make me request Imamate but made it request me instead. (ref. From Sermon of Hajj: http:\/\/www.saviorofmankind.com ).

\n Our reply: \n Ahmed Al-Hasan says, his movement (as per his website) started in 1999, when some students of Islamic school (Houza) in Najaf (Iraq), through \u2018visions\u2019, believed in him as a \u2018messenger from Imam Al-Mahdi\u2019, however later on most of them realised that those visions were from jinn and part of witchcraft.\u00a0 This, however, encouraged Ahmed Al-Hasan to make further claims and even to bring himself to the level of \u2018Ismah\u2019 (the Infallibility \u2013 which is reserved for the Prophets -as and Imams -asws ).\u00a0 His claims are based on the followings four points and we will reply to each of those in the following sections: \n \n Visions and Dreams \n The Twelve Mahdis \n Al-Yamani \n \u2018Ismah\u2019 (Infallibility) \n \n 1.