The prominent and acknowledged poet...

The prominent and acknowledged poet, Agha Sayyid Hasan has thus mentioned about His Eminence: “The elegance came up (arose) through his clear face The morning breeze spread from his calming countenance.” [2] Resemblance of Imam of the time with the Prophet Among all the people, His Eminence is most resembling His great grandfather, the Messenger of Allah (a.s), by way of method, Jihad and revolution against oppression and transgression and transformation of the system of the oppressive rulers in society, from theft and destruction humiliation, affliction and problems.

He would replace all this with a system that would provide every kind of comfort and security and be a cause of general welfare and happiness of the people. When the Qaim of the progeny of Muhammad would appear, he would work in the same way as his great grandfather had done. That is why he would destroy the false powers and tyrannical rulers whose power is based on falsehood and hypocrisy and he shall eradicate them completely.

He would then establish justice and equity in every sense of the term. Numerous traditions of the Holy Prophet (a.s) and the Imams of guidance have reached us that mention that Imam Mahdi (a.s) resembles his great grandfather, the Messenger of Allah (a.s). Some of them are mentioned below: [1] Yanabiul Mawaddah, Pg.

423 [2] Minanur Rahman, 2/237 Abdullah Ibne Masud narrates from the Messenger of Allah that he said, “A man from my family would arise having my name, and his manners and habits would be like my manners and habits and he would make the earth abound with justice and equity.” Huzaifah relates from the Messenger of Allah (a.s) that he said: “Even if there remains one day in the life of the earth, God will bring forth a man whose name and character will be like mine, and whose patronymic will be Abu Abdillah.

People would pay allegiance to him between the Rukn and Maqam [1] of Ka’ba. Through him God will revive His religion and bring it back to its early glory. God will also endow him with many victories and there will remain on earth none other than the ones who will declare: There is no god, except Allah.” Sulaiman got up from his place and asked as to which of his children’s descendent he would be.

The Prophet struck his hand on Husain (a.s) and said, “From his [descendants] .” Ayesha has narrated from the Messenger of Allah (a.s) that he said: “Mahdi is a person from my progeny.