This is what the Beneficent God promised and the apostles told the truth.

This is what the Beneficent God promised and the apostles told the truth. [^4] I say: ‘Leader of the creatures denotes His Eminence, Qaim (aj) and their saying: ‘O woe to us! who has raised us up from our sleeping-place? This is what the Beneficent God promised’ implies that His Eminence, by the leave of the Almighty Allah, would make them alive and take revenge from them, as is mentioned in traditional reports.

In Usool Kafi , it is narrated from Imam Ja’far Sadiq (as) that he said: The Messenger of Allah (S) said: A time will come upon the people when rulership will not be obtained except through killing and oppression and wealth will not be obtained except through usurpation and miserliness and love and friendship will not be got except through throwing out the religion and following selfish desires; thus one who lives till that time should be patient on poverty even though he may be able to obtain riches.

And he should be patient on the enmity of the people even though he may be able to earn love of the people by giving up his religion and following carnal desires.

And he should be patient on humiliation even though he might be capable of becoming powerful; the Almighty Allah will give him the reward equal to that of fifty Siddiqs (truthful ones) who have testified me.[^5] It is mentioned in Kharaij, that the Messenger of Allah (S) said: After you will come a people such that one of them alone will earn the reward of fifty of you. They asked: O Messenger of Allah (S), we accompanied you in Badr, Uhad and Hunain and the Qur’an descended among us!

The Prophet said: You cannot bear that which would descend on them and you don’t have as much patience as they have. I say: This is with reference to the condition of patient believers in the period of occultation of the Imam of the Age (as) as proved by other traditional reports. It is mentioned in Burhan under the interpretation of the verse: يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اصْبِرُوا وَصَابِرُوا وَرَابِطُوا وَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ لَعَلَّكُمْ تُفْلِحُونَ O you who believe!

be patient and co-operate in patience and remain steadfast. (Qur’an, Surah Aale Imran 3:200) That Imam Ja’far Sadiq (as) said: Be patient on the troubles you have to face in our path. The narrator asked: What does, ‘co-operate in patience and remain steadfast,’ mean? The Imam replied: Co-operate with your Wali regarding your enemies and be steadfast with your Imam.

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