From his loins the Almighty Allah would bring out the completion of twelve Imams...

From his loins the Almighty Allah would bring out the completion of twelve Imams, Imam Mahdi. He would endow him especially with His blessings and make lawful for him the sacred position. One who awaits the twelfth Imam is like one who fights on the side of the Holy Prophet (S) and defends him.” Ibrahim says that a supporter of Bani Umayyah entered and the Imam stopped his discourse.

After that I attended the Holy Imam (as) eleven times to listen to the rest of the discourse but no opportunity arose for this. After a long time when I went to Imam (as) he was sitting. He said, “O Ibrahim, he (Imam Qaim) (aj) will reappear after a long period of distress, calamities, fear and sorrow for the Shias. Thus Tooba (congratulations) for those who live in his time.

O Ibrahim, this much is sufficient for you.” Ibrahim says that no statement had ever caused such happiness to me and brightened my eyes before.[^5] It is narrated from His Eminence, Amirul Momineen Ali (as) that he said regarding the conditions of the believers during the rule of tyranny: “Till the time that none of you will be able to find a place to put your foot, so much so that you will become of less worth in the view of the people than a dead animal in the view of its owner and you shall be in this way when (all of a sudden you will receive the help of Allah and victory).

And that is the interpretation of the saying of the Almighty in His book: حَتَّىٰ إِذَا اسْتَيْأَسَ الرُّسُلُ وَظَنُّوا أَنَّهُمْ قَدْ كُذِبُوا جَاءَهُمْ نَصْرُنَا فَنُجِّيَ مَنْ نَشَاءُ “Until when the apostles despaired and the people became sure that they were indeed told a lie, Our help came to them.” (Qur’an, Surah Yusuf 12:110) In Biharul Anwar it is quoted from Ghaibat of Shaykh Tusi that Wahab bin Munabbah reported from Ibne Abbas a lengthy tradition in which he said: “…O Wahab, then the Mahdi will rise.” I asked, “Is he from your progeny?” He said, “No, by Allah, he is not from my progeny.

He is from the progeny of Ali (as). Bliss be for the one who reaches his time. Through him Allah will relieve the Ummah’s stress, until he makes the earth full of equity and justice…”[^6] In the supplication of Imam Sadiq (as) of 21st Ramadan for His Eminence quoted in Iqbalul A’maal it is mentioned: “And that You give permission for the reappearance of one through whose Faraj Your friends and chosen ones would also get Faraj .”[^7] If Allah wills, we shall again refer to this supplication.

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