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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Universality of the Mahdi's Mission Ii.2 Middle Resurrection - Al-raj'ah Or the Return of Selected Dead Persons To Life "Or (bethink thee of) the like of him who, passing by a township which had fallen into utter ruin, exclaimed: How shall Allah give this township life after its death? And Allah made him die a hundred years, then brought him back to life. He said: How long hast thou tarried? (The man) said: I have tarried a day or part of a day.

(He) said: Nay, but thou hast tarried for a hundred years. Just look at thy food and drink which have not rotted! Look at thine ass! And, that We may make thee a token unto mankind, look at the bones, how We adjust them and then cover them with flesh! And when (the matter) became clear unto him, he said: I know now that Allah is Able to do all things." Quran (2:259) Again, the Quran speaks in many places about this resurrection and authenticates the leadership of the designated, rightful Imams.

In his role, the Prophet explained the intended meanings of the Quran's verses. Take this verse as a starting example: "And We desired to show favour unto those who were oppressed in the earth, and to make them examples and to make them the inheritors." Quran (28:5) To his daughter Fatimah, the Prophet confided that she will be the first one who will follow his departure from this temporal world. To his companions, he stated: "Fatimah is a piece of me. Whoever pleases her, he pleases me.

And, whoever displeases her, he displeases me." Ample historic evidence exist that Fatimah was martyred only 75 days after the Prophet's martyrdom. Proof: she was extremely angry at the two sheikhs. In her will, she even asked Imam Ali to deny them the participation in her funeral procession. She also asked to make her graveyard anonymous.

While allowing the two sheikhs to be buried beside the Prophet's tomb in Madinah, Aeysha denied the burial of Imam Hassan there after he was poisoned by Mu'aawiyah in 50 A.H. Thus a bitter commotion rose between Bani Hashim and Marwan's men - who showered Imam Hassan's corpse with intense arrows.

Observing the sanctity of the place and paying reverence to the burial place his grandfather, Imam Hussian put an end to that unnecessary, futile argument by burying his brother somewhere else and he quoted the Quran: "O ye who believe!