06-24-2007, 11:40 PM
:bismillah:
:wasalam:
Brother Hadji you seem quite knowledgeable and I suspect that you are already familiar witht the argument I will present. But I will present it anyways.
Quote:Yet, I will ask, who is this guide and warner that is living amongst us today?
The Shia maintain that this guide or warner who lives amongst us today must fulfill the certain conditions.
1. He is the awatied Savior Mahdi who will appear and fill the earth with peace and righteousness.
2. He is the twelfth successor in a line of Caliphs.
3. He is from Quraish, from the AhlulBayt through the lineage of Fatima.
4. he bears the same name as the Prophet.
Sahih Muslim
Book 020, Number 4477:
It has been narrated on the authority of Jabir b. Samura who said: I joined the company of the Holy Prophet (may peace be upon him) with my father and I heard him say: <b>This Caliphate will not end until there have been twelve Caliphs among them.</b> The narrator said: Then he (the Holy Prophet) said something that I could not follow. I said to my father: What did he say? He said: He has said: <b>All of them will be from the Quraish.</b>
http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/h...t.html#020.4477
Sahih Muslim
Book 041, Number 6961:
He (Jabir b. Abdullah) kept quiet for a while and then reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) having said <b>There would be a caliph in the last (period) of my Ummah</b> who would freely give handfuls of wealth to thd people wiothout counting it. I said to Abu Nadra and Abu al-'Ala: DO you mean 'Umarb. 'Abd al-Aziz? They said: <b>No (he would be Imam Mahdi.)</b>
http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/h...t.html#041.6961
Book 36, Number 4269:
Narrated Abdullah ibn Mas'ud:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: The world will not pass away before the Arabs are ruled by a <b>man of my family whose name will be the same as mine.</b>
http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/h...t.html#036.4269
Sunan Abu Dawud
Book 36, Number 4271:
Narrated Umm Salamah, Ummul Mu'minin:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: <b>The Mahdi will be of my family, of the descendants of Fatimah.</b>http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals...l#036.4271
These conditions we believe are fulfilled by the man M.O.H.A.M.M.A.D ibn al-Hasan al-Mahdi al-Hujjah who we say is in "Ghaibah" or occultation similar to the occultation of the Prophet Khidr and Yusuf (as).