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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books The Promised Mahdi (part Two) 33 Chapter Thirty-Three: What will happen at the time of the Reappearance of Imam Zamana (a.s.) according to the report of Mufaddal bin Umar Some of our associates have narrated from Husain bin Hamadan from Muhammad bin Ismail and Ali bin Abdullah Hasani from Abi Shuaib from Muhammad bin Nusair from Umar bin Furat from Mufaddal bin Umar that he said: Once I asked my master, Imam Ja’far Sadiq (a.s.): “Is any time fixed for the reappearance of the awaited Mahdi (a.s.) that can be declared?” He said: “By Allah, there is no such fixed time that can be told to our Shia.” “Why is it so, my master?” I asked.
He replied: “It is the same Hour regarding which the Almighty Allah says: يَسْأَلُونَكَ عَنِ السَّاعَةِ أَيَّانَ مُرْسَاهَا قُلْ إِنَّمَا عِلْمُهَا عِندَ رَبِّي لاَ يُجَلِّيهَا لِوَقْتِهَا إِلاَّ هُوَ ثَقُلَتْ فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالأَرْضِ “They ask you about the hour, when will be its taking place?
Say: The knowledge of it is only with my Lord; none but He shall manifest it at its time; it will be momentous in the heavens and the earth…” (Surah Araaf 7:187) He said: “And it is the same Hour regarding which the Almighty Allah has said: يَسْأَلُونَكَ عَنِ السَّاعَةِ أَيَّانَ مُرْسَاهَا “They ask you about the hour, when it will come.” (Surah Naziyat 79:42) عِندَهُ عِلْمُ السَّاعَةِ “…with Whom is the knowledge of the hour.” (Surah Luqman 31:34) وَإِنَّهُ لَعِلْمٌ لِّلسَّاعَةِ “And most surely it is a knowledge of the hour…” (Surah Zukhruf 43:61) That is, He did not say that anyone had any knowledge of it.
He also said: فَهَلْ يَنظُرُونَ إِلَّا السَّاعَةَ أَن تَأْتِيَهُم بَغْتَةً فَقَدْ جَاء أَشْرَاطُهَا “Do they then wait for aught but the hour that it should come to them all of a sudden?
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