This was so because astrologers had predicted to Pharaoh...

This was so because astrologers had predicted to Pharaoh that his power and kingdom would be brought to end through a young man who would be born in that same period. In the same way was the incidence of the conception and birth of His Eminence, Mahdi, the awaited one, that the most Wise Lord kept him concealed because the Abbaside tyrants were in search of him so that as soon as he is born he should be murdered.

So much so that the house of Imam Hasan Askari (a.s) was surrounded by the security forces and filled with male and female informers so that they may identify the newborn child of Imam Hasan Askari, who according to the sayings of the Holy…