A concerned seeker of truth asks: "the Shias are expecting Imam
Mahdi to come, and so do the Sunnis. My question is: Will Imam
Mahdi be a Sunni or a Shia?'
Actually, this story beings from a considerable period of time
BEFORE the Sunnis/Shias also voted themselves to waiting in the
queue comprising followers of the different faiths-keenly
excepting someone who is "coming".
Adherents of the various religions of the world are all awaiting
the arrival of "The One Who is Coming". It is their unshakable
belief that the Expected One will come during the last days of
the world just before Qiyaamat, and he will overcome (destroy)
all the other faiths, and make his own religion the hold sway
over all the others.
Thus:
-The Hindus are excepting a Kalanki Autaar who is coming to
secure ascendancy of the Vedic Dharam over all other faiths.
-The Buddhists are waiting for Mahatma Buddha's Matiyaa Autaar
who is coming to institute Buddhism as the preponderant faith
over all the other persuasions.
-The Jainis are expecting the last Mahaweer to come through whom
Jainish will rule the world as the ONLY creed.
-The Majoos (fire-worshippers) are awaiting a Mateera to come
who will destroy ALL other traianism as the ONLY predominant
religion.
-The Jews are waiting for the advent of a final Isreali prophet
who will see to it that Judaism is, and the Children of Israel
are, SUPREME over all the other nations and religions of the
world.
-The Chrstians are keenly expecting the coming of Jesus Christ
who will proclaim Christianity as the SOLE religion all over the
world.
"HONOUR" Since EVERY religion teaches that it awaits the coming
of one who is going to promulgate its own particular faith as
the supreme and ONLY faith in the whole world, Muslims wondered
that why should they be deprived of this "honour" and be left
out in the cold!
To this end they too claim that they are expecting "Imam Mahdi"
to come who will establish Islam as the ONLY world religion,
superseding all other faiths.
Ponder a little on the situation:
Each of these gentlemen who are supposed to be coming, will come
near Qiyaamat. Each of them will arrive during the SAME period.
Each of them will be invested with the responsibility of
eliminating ALL other religions, and making his own faith
predominant and supreme. Visualise now the scenario mankind is
going to witness at the same time! Will there not be a colossal
pandemonium. a gigantic cataclysm, a veritable "Qiyaamat" of
gargantuan proportions BEFORE the actual Qiyaamat?!
IMAAM-E-AAKHIRUZ ZAMAAN
Let us revert to the Muslims: The Shias are waiting for the
Imaam-e-Aakhiruz Zamaan (imam of the latter era, near Qiyaamat)
to come and establish Shi'ism and Shia rule over ALL other
Muslims. Not only this, it is also the FIRM Shia belief
(Aqeedah) that the Imaam will resurrect the three Khulafa of the
Sunnis (Hazrat Abu Bakr, Hazrat Umar and Hazrat Usman (R)) and
will KILL them! (This belief is called the Creed of "RAJ'AT")
On the other hand, the Sunnis, too, are expecting the
Imaam-e-assuredly, undoubtedly, and most positively come to
proclaim Sunni Islam as the ONLY faith in the whole world.
The question that arises here is: which paricular sect of Sunni
Islam is he going to choose-the AHLE-FIQH or AHLE-HADITH? If he
chooses te AHLE-FIQh, then which particular Mazhab from the
Ahle-Fiqh - Hanafi, Shaafi'ee, Maaliki or Hanbali?
As far as Hazrar Eesa (A) is concerned: Hazrat Mujaddid Alf
Thaani had already learnt that (in a state of "Kashf", i.e.
inspiration) from Hazrat Eesa) will be of the Hanafi Mazhab.
Thus he writes in the 3rd volume of his "Maktoobaat" that Hazrat
Khwaja Khizr had disclosed to him as follows:-
("if it is presumed that a prophet will be born in this Ummah,
he will act according to the Hanafi Mazhab. It has become known
that Hazrat Eesa, after his descent, will follow the Mazhab of
Imam Abu Haneefah.")
IMAM MAHDI'S MAZHAB
Since it is the belief of Muslims that Hazrat Eesa (A) will be a
follower of Imam Mahdi, it is obvious then, that the Mazhad of
Imam Mahdi will be the Hanafi Mazhab.
Cntrary to all the above, Shaikh Akbar Muhiuddenen Ibn Arabi
writes in the "Futoohaat-e-Makkiyyah" that when Imam Mahdi
appears, the jurists (Fuqaha) will oppose him vehemently. It
becomes evident from this that according to Ibn Arabi, Imam
Mahdi will be from the "Ahle-Tareeqat" (Sufis/ Mystics).
The followers of other faiths may believe whatever their heart
desires about "The One Who is Coming". But as far as the QURAN
is concerned, it contains NO evidence and NO indicatin
whatsoever of someone who is still going to come AFTER
Rasuluallah (S)... neither Imam Mahdi, nor Hazrat Eesa (A)!!
Submitter's Comment: "Instead of waiting for any hero/saviour of
mankind, the time has come to become a hero/saviour. And it is
not difficult, because all the heros/saviours were normal beings
and followed the Divine Guidance. Now, the final Divine Guidance
is protected in the form of Quran"
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