Episode Fourteen: The False Messiah (1)
The meaning of Messiah: Abu Abdullah Al Qurtubi mentioned twenty-three sayings as regard the etymology of this word; the author of the book “Al Qaamuus” mentioned it to be fifty sayings. This word “Messiah/المسيح” can be said to mean “The truthful person”, and “The misguided person that misleads people and perpetual liar”. Allah qualified Isa […]
Episode Thirteen: The Appearance of Mahdi: Between Superstition and Truth (2)
Those who opine the appareance of the Mahdi is a superstition also presented an hadeeth related by Al Haakim and Ibn Maajah, the hadeeth narrated by Anas bn Maalik, in which the Prophet was reported to have said: “and no Mahdi except Isa the son of Maryam لا مهدي إلا عيسى بن مريم” Some scholars […]
Episode Twelve: The Appearance of Mahdi: Between Superstition and Truth(1)
The name “Mahdi” means someone who is rightly guided. That is derived from the word “هدي guidance”. Anyone can name his child Mahdi without the claim of being the reformer of the last hour; as anyone can also name his child Isa without claiming being the expected messenger of Allah; there is no prohibition in […]
Episode Eleven: Fallacies Surrounding The Appearance of Mahdi
An authenticated hadeeth narrated by Abu Hurayrah, the Prophet said: “At the beginning of every century, Allah will send to this ummah someone who will renew its religious understanding.” On a new century day, the first of Muharram 1400AH, the masjid Al-haraam in Makkah experienced a terrible seizure led by a Saudi militant (Juhayman Utaybi) […]
Episode Ten: The Mahdi(2)
In the previous episode, we were able to discuss the reformer of the last hour, the person of Mahdi. We talked about his name and attribute, his appearance before Isa alayhi salaam and Dajjaal. We continue from these points. His place of exit: certainly, there are different narrations regarding where Imam Mahdi will appear from. […]
Epidose Nine: The Mahdi(1)
Ali radiya Allahu anhu said: “The Messenger of Allaah said: The Mahdi is one of us, a member of my family. Allaah will guide him in a single night.” Musnad Imam Ahmad. Imam Ibn Katheer said: “This means that Allaah will forgive him, grant him help, inspire him and guide him, when he was not […]
Episode Eight: The Nature of the Major Signs(2)
In the previous epidose, we mentioned a few number of ahadeeth in which the Prophet solla Allahu alayhi wa sallam, mentioned the greater signs of the Day of Judgment together. However, we must know that there is no explicit texts that mention the order of qappearance of the major signs of the Day of Judgment. […]
Episode Seven: The Nature of the Major Signs(1)
The major signs are those signs that will occur relatively close to the Day of Judgment and involve matters that can be considered, in general, “out of the ordinary” or which are sensational. There are a number of hadeeth in which the Prophet solla Allahu alayhi wa sallam, mentioned the greater signs of the Day […]
Episode Six: The Minor Signs(21-25)
21: The conquest of Constantinople by the Muslims. Constantinople was the capital city of the Roman Empire, the Eastern Roman Empire, and the Ottoman Empire. Constantinople was important for the expansion of the Ottoman Empire. When the Ottoman Turks took the city, it was a symbol of the rise of Islam and the fall of […]
Episode Five: The Minor Signs(16-20)
16: Mass Death The Prophet solla Allahu alayhi wa sallam said:لا يدري القاتل فيم قتل ولا المقتول فيم قتل“A person who is being killed won’t know “Why I am being killed”, and a person killing won’t know “Why I am killing.” There are armies firing, bombing. They don’t know why they are doing, killing innocent […]