I would also demolish all the constructions around it that...

I would also demolish all the constructions around it that were carried out by tyrants. And I will perform the Hajj of Islam with the people and I will go to Yathrib (Medina) Then I will demolish the Hujra and all that is in it, that is I would take out those two afresh, and I will order that they be hung at Baqi from two dry branches. Then those two dry branches would put forth vegetation (when they are hung from it).

At that time people would be subject to a trial greater than the first evil as a caller will call out from the sky: Swallow them up, O earth, and take them. Then none would remain on the face of the earth except the believer who has made his heart sincere for faith. I asked: O my master, what will happen after that? He replied: The return, the return, Raja’t , Raja’t .

Then he recited the following verse of Qur’an: ثُمَّ رَدَدْنَا لَكُمُ الْكَرَّةَ عَلَيْهِمْ وَأَمْدَدْنَاكُمْ بِأَمْوَالٍ وَبَنِينَ وَجَعَلْنَاكُمْ أَكْثَرَ نَفِيرًا “Then We gave you back the turn to prevail against them, and aided you with wealth and children and made you a numerous band.” (Qur’an, Surah Isra 17:6) In Biharul Anwar in the report of Abu Baseer, it is reported that Imam Ja’far Sadiq (as) said: “When Qaim (aj) arises he would demolish the Masjid al-Haraam till it assumes its original form and he would return the Maqaam to its prior location.”[^2] In another tradition it is narrated that His Eminence said: “Qaim (aj) would demolish the Masjid al-Haraam till it returns to its ancient form and he would also return the Prophet’s Masjid (Masjidun Nabawi) to its original construction and he would return the Holy Kaaba to its location and raise it on its own foundations.”[^3] And in the same book it is quoted from the Ghaibat of Shaykh Tusi through his own chain of narrators that Amirul Momineen (as) said in his speech regarding the Kufa Masjid that it was made from mud, bricks and clay.

Then he said: “When Qaim (aj) reaches Kufa Masjid, its walls would be made of solid bricks and mortar, he would look at it and say: Woe be on the one who demolished you, woe be on the one who facilitated your razing, and woe be on the one who constructed you with solid bricks and changed the Qibla of Nuh. And fortunate are those who would witness razing in the company of the Qaim of us, Ahle Bayt.

They are the best of the peoples.”[^4] In the same book in the tradition of Abu Baseer it is mentioned in brief as follows: “When the Qaim arises he would enter Kufa.

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