The risings of Sufyani and Khurasani

Al-Qaidah and ISIS are portents of the appearance of Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh)

96- Ghaibat Nomani: It is narrated from Ibne Uqdah from Ahmad bin Yusuf from Ibne Mahran from Ibne Bataini from his father from Wuhaib from Abu Basir from Imam Muhammad Baqir (a.s.) that he said: “The risings of Sufyani and Khurasani will be in the same period. They will be like the beads of a rosary; one following the other. Sufferings will be from every side. Miserable will be whoever resists them… The loss of the rule of the family of so-and-so will be like the breaking of pottery or like a man, who has a piece of pottery in his hand while he is walking. It falls from his hand while he is inattentive, but immediately he becomes attentive to find that it is broken. So is the loss of their rule. They will be so inattentive when their state will be lost.

(The Promised Mahdi, Allamah Muhammad Baqir Al-Majlisi, English Translation of Biharul Anwar, Volume 13 (Old Edition)/ Volum 51-52-53 (New Edition), Kitabul Gaibah-Book of Occultation, Imam Mahdi(a.t.f.s)- The Twelfth Imam of the Twelver Shia, Part II, Translator; Sayyid Athar Husain S.H. Rivzi)

 http://www.harunyahya.com/en/New-Information/208651/Al-Qaidah-and-ISIS-are-portents-of-the-appearance-of-Hazrat-Mahdi-%28pbuh%29

In 1993, The Independent presented Osama Bin Laden as if he were a dove of peace

Excerptfrom Mr. Adnan Oktar's Live Conversation on A9TV dated July 1st, 2015

ADNAN OKTAR: There is a news article about Osama Bin Laden, do you have that?

BÜLENT SEZGİN: I have the photo of the article.

ADNAN OKTAR: Alright. Do you have its annotation?

BÜLENT SEZGİN: No, I don't. Let me ask about it.

ADNAN OKTAR: Let them send you the annotation as well.

BÜLENT SEZGİN: I received the annotation. I can read it now

ADNAN OKTAR: Alright.

BÜLENT SEZGİN: If they can show the photo...

ADNAN OKTAR: Do show it.

BÜLENT SEZGİN: In 1993, in an article with the heading "Anti-Soviet warrior puts his army on the road to peace" The Independent presented Osama Bin Laden as if he were a dove of peace.

ADNAN OKTAR: We have found this, with this picture three months ago, while we were researching in the archives. We were keeping it aside thinking that we can use it in our books. That is a very interesting document. Show it once more.

BÜLENT SEZGİN: In 1993, in the article with the heading "Anti-Soviet warrior puts his army on the road to peace" The Independent presented Osama Bin Laden as if he were a dove of peace.

ADNAN OKTAR: See that they were in complete unison back then. Later on they  presented him as a terrorist.

BÜLENT SEZGİN: There was another photograph.

ADNAN OKTAR: Yes...

BÜLENT SEZGİN: This photo shows Ronald Reagan hosting the Taliban in the White House.

ADNAN OKTAR: Supposedly they are fiercely against them but here they get on like a house on fire. They are getting along just fine.

Pakistan in the Taliban – Al Qaeda – ISIL Triangle

http://www.harunyahya.com/en/Articles/203200/Pakistan-in-the-Taliban-%E2%80%93-Al-Qaeda-%E2%80%93-ISIL-Triangle

The US administration regarded Afghanistan’s coming under Soviet rule following the Soviet invasion in 1979 as against its own global interests, and began supporting and arming radical groups resisting the occupation. It accomplished this task to a large extent via the military and intelligence agencies of neighboring Pakistan.

The Growth of Radical Terror Following the Soviet Invasion

That tactic enjoyed considerable success in the fight against the occupation. Having suffered severe losses by the late 1980s, the Soviets eventually withdrew from Afghanistan. On the other hand, however, the seeds were sown for the radical terror groups that would come to represent a major problem for both Pakistan and Afghanistan and for much of the Islamic world.

The foundations for the climate of insecurity, instability, terror and turmoil that still persists today in the region were laid at that time. Moreover, it led to radical terrorism making its way into such parts of the Islamic world as Iraq, Syria, Libya and Yemen in a developed and strengthened form.

It is this intensive military and logistical support over many years for radical groups both during and after the Soviet occupation that lies behind the appearance of al-Qaeda, the Taliban and the latest incarnation, ISIL, in an organized and well-equipped manner with considerable numbers of supporters. It is also due to that backing that certain areas on Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan are today under the influence of radical groups which are difficult to combat with military means.

This border area, which consists of seven administrative regions in northwest Pakistan, including Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and North and South Waziristan, covers an area of some 30,000 square kilometers. Various radical groups, such as the Pakistan Taliban, al-Qaeda and the Haqqani Network are based – and active – in the region.

It is because of this historical framework that Pakistan has overtaken countries such as Iran, Iraq and Syria and come to the top of Western countries’ terror lists. People who live a radical mindset generally pass through Pakistan, despite not being Pakistani themselves.

Pakistan Is One of the Main Victims of Radical Terror

It is of course Pakistan and the Pakistani people who are paying the greatest price for these radical organizations growing within the country. Bomb attacks targeting civilians and approaching shocking levels of  barbarism in recent months have once again revealed the threat posed by radicalism to the Islamic world and the world in general.

More than 150 people, 134 of them children, died in an attack on a military high school in Peshawar last December. More than 60 civilians lost their lives in an attack on a Shiite mosque in the town of Shikarpur on 30 January.

Six people died recently in a suicide bombing near the Lahore security department.

Another attack on a Shiite mosque in Peshawar during the Friday prayers resulted in the deaths of 20 people and in more than 50 being injured.

Bearing in mind that one wing of the Pakistan Taliban, which claimed responsibility for the majority of the attacks, recently swore allegiance to ISIL, one may conclude that radical activities in Pakistan will reach critical dimensions in the days ahead. ISIL is looking to open new fronts in Central and South Asia following the instability in the Middle East, and is particularly interested in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

An Intellectual Campaign against Radicalism is the Only Solution for Pakistan

Although a series of military operations initiated in the northern areas of the country last June and continuing this year are portrayed as a success against terror, it has still proved impossible to completely prevent the recent acts of savagery listed above: On the contrary, as a result of these operations, terrorists are reported to have mingled with refugees and infiltrated major cities such as Karachi and Lahore and are believed to be preparing even more barbaric suicide attacks.

Indeed, at least 14 people were killed and more than 70 injured in suicide attacks on two churches in Lahore on March 15 for which the Pakistani branch of the Taliban claimed responsibility. Violence leads to nothing more than further violence and to rising rage, hatred and feelings of revenge.

Since radical terror is cunningly supposedly perpetrated in the name of Islam and uses methods of indoctrination and propaganda aimed at winning Muslims over to its perverse way of thinking, it has a powerful capacity to influence the ignorant people who make up a large part of society. The result is not terrorists numbering in the hundreds or thousands, but a mass of supporters numbering in the millions.

Apart from a few secret service agents and the occasional provocateur, the great majority of this mass of people are misled into following the perversions of radicalism, genuinely thinking it to be Islam, and thereby becoming the pawns of terror organizations. It is obviously impossible to stop this mass of people with guns or military operations, and that these will merely encourage feelings of vengeance and increase the number of supporters many times over. In addition, killing ignorant but sincere people who have been deceived and misled through military operations rather than educating them and raising their awareness is little more than murder.

The only solution, therefore, is to tell the masses of the vast gulf between radicalism and the true Islam described in the Qur’an by means of a rational and scientific education campaign. It is essential to reveal that the nonsense and fabricated accounts that incite terror, violence, bloodshed, lovelessness and hatred are the diametric opposite of the verses of the Qur’an, which teach love, affection, peace and justice, and for radicalism to be eradicated through education. Only in this way can ‘bigotry,’ the lifeblood of radical terror be eradicated, and the threat of radicalism be comprehensively brought to an end.

Adnan Oktar's piece on The Daily Mail:

http://dailymailnews.com/2015/05/19/pakistan-in-the-taliban-al-qaeda-isil-triangle/

The Solution To Terror In Pakistan

http://www.diplomacypakistan.com/articles/the-solution-to-terror-in-pakistan/

By Harun Yahya

Having been home to several civilizations, the nation known today as Pakistan is a country with a rich cultural and historical fabric. Its strategic importance is also growing by the day, as it stands at the intersection of the Middle East, and Central and Southeast Asia, which play such an important role in world politics, or in other words, along the world’s oil corridors. Yet since it harbors numerous ethnic communities that share a common Islamic faith but are not properly welded together, the country is also the scene of much conflict based on sectarian divisions. In particular, there is an unending power struggle between Punjabis, Sindhis, Baluchis and Pashtuns. Add to this the tensions caused by problems such as tribal affiliations, political and sectarian divisions and ethnicity, acts of terror by al-Qaeda and the Taliban, ongoing border disputes with India, the departure of what was East Pakistan under the new name of Bangladesh, endless conflicts of the Afghan border and economic difficulties, and life in Pakistan becomes highly problematic.

In addition, as a country that has spent half of its 68-year political history under military rule, Pakistan deserves credit for the steps it has taken toward democracy in recent years. Power in Pakistan, which spent decades deprived of democracy since independence in 1947 and has regularly witnessed coups, first changed hands through elections in May 2013. For the first time, an elected government managed to serve out its entire term, meaning that Pakistan had successfully taken the first step on the long road to democracy.

Another success of the elections was the 60% turnout. Before the elections, the Pakistan Taliban killed more than 130 people, including electoral candidates, and spread terror throughout the country. Even so, the public risked their lives to get to the ballot boxes, and the election duly took place, albeit under the shadow of acts of terror. This high turnout revealed how seriously the population desired democracy. The army, a formidable presence even under 34 years of civilian rule, restored the people’s confidence in it through its support for the democratic process.

Clear efforts are being made to achieve democracy in the country. However, there are still many problems that need to be solved, such as a lack of consensus on the form that relations between the state and religion should take, religious, sectarian and ethnic clashes and basic issues of identity, and other questions that need to be addressed promptly arising from Pakistan’s federal system, such as power imbalances between the provinces.

Pakistan’s greatest problem is the Tehreek-e Taliban Pakistan, or Pakistan Taliban. This organization has come to represent a major threat to national security with its attacks in recent years, is weakening the country, damaging its prestige at the global level and placing Pakistan at the top of the terror lists. Following an airport attack in June 2014, the Taliban attracted the attention of the entire world public with an attack on a school in Pashawar in December, in which 148 innocent people lost their lives, mostly children and teachers. It then led to the deaths of dozens more people one month later in an attack on a Shiite mosque and in an assault last month on a Catholic school in the city of Lahore.

The government restored the death penalty last month, and many Taliban members have been executed. While anti-terror operations were taking place, Pakistan experimented with its first own domestically produced drones, and the General Staff announced that they would be more effective in the fight against terror from now on.

Pakistan, which will now be producing its own unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), has in fact long been the target of drone attacks that have caused the deaths of a good many innocent people in attacks on civilian areas. American UAVs have carried out some 400 attacks in Pakistan over the last 11 years and have led to the deaths of more than 3,400 people, the majority of them civilians. According to the London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism (BIJ), 61% of the targets in drone attacks have been civilian settlements. UAVs are known to mainly target civilian buildings such as homes, madrassas and mosques. Susan Schuppli, a senior researcher, says that the real victims of UAVs are civilian women and children caught in homes when they are bombed. Amnesty International also says that the UAV operations conducted by the USA are a violation of international law, and may even fall under the category of war crimes. Yet despite all these condemnations, the buying and selling of UAVs between countries is growing all the time.

Countries are blatantly and carelessly ignoring the fact that the killing of civilians is murder. They have ostensibly convinced themselves that this is the only way of dealing with terror organizations. Yet even if security measures are sometimes instrumental in success against individuals involved in radical terror organizations, they do not get rid of the organizations themselves; the problem of terror cannot be resolved through force alone. In particular, radical organizations with false conceptions of religion, such as the Pakistani Taliban, are bodies that harbor people with an ideology, albeit a false one, and who are even prepared to die for these false values which they believe to be true. Therefore, so long as the false ideas they hold are not neutralized by true ideas, it is impossible for such organizations to be eliminated.

What needs to be done at this point is to make it clear that the ideas espoused by terror organizations, who as a general rule act out of a radical and erroneous conception of religion, have no place in Islam and that the way of thinking they have developed in the light of fabricated hadiths and other nonsense is in no way compatible with Islam. Islam is a religion of love, brotherhood, affection, compassion, tolerance, peace, union and unity. The correct solution is to adopt a policy of education in which these facts are set out with full supporting evidence from the Qur’an, the true source of Islam. Indeed, regarding UAVs as the answer – and imagining that responding to violence with more violence can put an end to terror – will in fact create an even greater danger.

We hope that our brother country, Pakistan, with which we share a common culture and values, will soon resolve all its problems, and particularly the scourge of terror, that it will take sound steps on the passage to democracy and that the country’s innocent and sincere people will soon attain the security they deserve.

The writer has authored more than 300 books translated in 73 languages on politics, religion and science. He may be followed at @Harun_Yahya and www.harunyahya.com

Pakistan’s superstitions

http://tribune.com.pk/story/828388/pakistani-teachers-get-gun-training-after-peshawar-massacre/

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/opinion/23-Mar-2015/pakistan-s-superstitions

Pakistani teachers are now armed and enter classes carrying weapons. Students are taught to use weapons and defuse bombs by the police

A 12-year-old student solves a mathematical equation on a blackboard in an ordinary school. The teacher looks on with a serious expression, while the other students silently take notes. A Kalashnikov rifle and spare cartridge clips lie on the teacher’s desk. This is not a scene from some dystopian fantasy film, just a snapshot from a day in the life of an ordinary educational institution in Pakistan. Pakistani teachers are now armed and enter classes carrying weapons. Students are taught to use weapons and defuse bombs by the police. This is the result of a bloody attack by the Taliban on a school in Peshawar in the last days of 2014.

Of the victims ruthlessly slaughtered in this attack by the Taliban, 132 were innocent schoolchildren. The scale of this particular atrocity led to it being described as Pakistan’s September 11th. It was said to be a reprisal for Operation Zarb-e-Azb, initiated by the Pakistan army against Taliban militants in North Waziristan during the summer of 2014. This once again shows that violence leads to worse violence and bloodshed to further bloodshed. Pakistan is a country where acts of terror are common. There is nothing odd about Pakistani students receiving anti-terror training. However, equipping educational institutions with weapons is certainly not going to deter the Taliban, put an end to acts of terror or reduce the bloodshed. The radical terrorists who perpetrate such slaughter already intend to die and will not therefore be put off by armed teachers confronting them.

People who believe in the same God and the same prophets are slaughtering one another. They seek solutions through guns and bombs rather than through love, brotherhood and friendship. They are possessed by a spirit of hate, conflict and wrongdoing, which basically causes these incidents. Immediately after the school massacre, the Pakistan government announced a programme aimed against radical organisations. It established a 20 point plan known as the National Action Plan. The plan was intended to combat terror through harsh measures, military operations and executions. However, there was a crucial flaw in it — the plan focused on killing the mosquito rather than drying up its breeding swamps.

The Pakistani Taliban and various other groups that have sworn loyalty to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), regard terror and violence as their only means of operation. They are far more radical in nature than the Afghan Taliban, which leans towards negotiations. They are capable of ruthlessly killing little children, innocent women, Shiite Muslims worshipping in mosques and health workers trying to vaccinate children. They are so filled with hatred that they attack and throw acid in the faces of innocent female students.

In order to dry up the breeding swamps, we need to grasp the true origin of this hatred and hostility. However, we must also not labour under the influence of prejudice, anger and emotionality. The Pakistani Taliban seek to overthrow the Pakistan government and impose their own radical model, and they recognise no right to life for any belief or way of thinking other than their own. They commit acts of violence and terror in the name of their ideology. It is this radical ideology that makes the Taliban dangerous, not their weapons. The Taliban ideology consists largely of superstitions, fabricated hadiths and assorted fanatical beliefs that have no place in the true Islam. The faith for which they kill and die is a mistaken one diametrically opposed to the Islam described in the Quran.

The source of the radical belief system that gives birth to and feeds the Taliban’s terror is not the American or Indian secret services or international forces. The root of the problem is not external, but rather it lies in the socio-political institutional structures in Pakistani society, especially the education system. Pakistani youngsters are generally educated either in madrassas or in public schools. There are estimated to be 30,000 madrassas in the country with about 1.5 million students. The madrassas provide free religious education and accommodation, particularly for poor families. However, a significant number of them provide religious training largely based on superstitions and are a far cry from the official curriculum. Some of them are active without the knowledge of the state and their sources of funding are unclear. Most importantly, students receive an education that is fanatical, loveless and filled with hatred in the name of Islam. When they graduate, they propagate these teachings to society at large as religious officials. Such a false education makes it infinitely easy for radicals acting in the name of Islam to gather followers.

Of course, supporters of violence and terror do not come from the madrassas alone. Public educational institutions also produce many young brains with a fanatical way of thinking. Ideas like “Islam and Pakistan are in danger” and “Pakistan is waging a kind of war against the west” are part of the official curriculum. The only way of ridding Pakistan of the breeding grounds of terror and radicalism is education based on the true Islam. No other mode of instruction or threat can produce a solution. Pakistani schools must put an immediate end to their hate-filled talk, and must teach the Islamic messages of love, friendship, affection and compassion. Pakistani madrassas must be places that teach an unadulterated form of Islam and Quranic moral values and they must create a people of love. With the recent school massacre, the people of Pakistan have truly seen how dangerous and horrifying radicalism can be. We sincerely hope that, unlike in the past, the measures adopted will be more than purely superficial ones; we hope that the emphasis this time will be on education, rather than on armed conflict.

Adnan Oktar's piece on Daily Times:

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/opinion/23-Mar-2015/pakistan-s-superstitions

Adnan Oktar:If Pakistan wants to fight the Taliban, it must first put an end to Darwinist education

Excerpt from Mr. Adnan Oktar's Live Conversation on A9TV dated December 20th, 2014

- Following that attack in Peshawar by the Taliban, Pakistan declared that it will again be enforcing the death penalty, which had been suspended. And two terror suspects were then hanged.

Adnan Oktar: They cannot resolve these problems through executions. They can do so only through education. Pakistan provides Darwinist and materialist education. They say in schools that there is no God and our Prophet did not speak the truth. So long as that is the case, they will get nowhere by hanging people. They will only get with love, compassion, affection, the signs leading to faith and the miracles of the Qur’an, and through putting an end to Darwinist materialist education. These people never wonder, ‘Why is God afflicting us like this? Why is He sending this corruption?’ They are living in anguish when they could be living at ease. That means there is something triggering these afflictions. And that is Darwinist materialist education. So long as this persists, troubles will continue to afflict the world. A language that defies God, may He forbid, is employed in schools, and this is happening right across the world. 'There is no God. Darwin was right, you were created by chance,’ they say. These words offend God, and everywhere in the world is afflicted with pain and bloodshed as a result. And the sufferings are getting worse. They must listen to sense and renounce that.

- The CIA issued a statement saying that the killing of terror leaders has just made terror worse. You always say that, ‘One leader will replace another. There needs to be an intellectual struggle.’  

Adnan Oktar: Of course. They killed Osama bin Laden, but that drove them crazier and they are now a thousand times stronger.

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There can be no national awareness in young people who are ignorant of the scientific response to Darwinism and materialism

Excerpt from Mr. Adnan Oktar's Live Conversation on A9TV dated June 07th, 2014

- The Taliban have attacked Karachi airport in Pakistan. The fighting, in which 12 people have died, is said to be still going on.

Adnan Oktar: The Taliban’s attacks will never end. The Taliban are in charge there. Other communities are just guests. These things can never be ended. There is no other solution than education.

The Taliban provide what they think of as education. They educate the ignorant masses by ignorant means and win people over. It is the same with the PKK [terror group]. They take ignorant people away. They directly propagandize communism. The person they educate then thinks that communism is the truth of life. They give no other alternative. They allow none to be known. Yet those young people should be taught to give a rational response. What should you say? Darwin proposed a primitive theory, but science was weak in his day, 100 years ago. The evidence they point to is invalid. Let us give some examples. There are 600 million fully formed and complete fossils. They all prove creation. Do these young people know that? No. Are these fossils on display in public museums? No. They are all in stock rooms. What do we see in public museums? Signs on the doors saying, “You will see how life forms came into being through evolution.” The state is not telling the truth. It says you will see evidence from the micro-level to the macro-level. But you will not find any evidence inside. Someone who reads that sign will believe in evolution when he goes in. Dinosaurs are used as evidence of evolution. Dinosaurs are also perfect beings, from their cells to all their other systems.

- It is revealed in one verse that, “Rather We hurl the truth against falsehood and it cuts right through it and it vanishes clean away!”

Look, the truth has been covered up by superstition. My books about the invalidity of Darwinism and materialism are shattering superstition everywhere. Through learning and virtue.

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Look, my brother, I have shown the easy way. I have shown the cause of the disease. Darwinist and materialist education produces communism. That is why they [the PKK terror organization in Turkey] think they are in the right. Young people need to be told that Darwinism and materialism are wrong. The state itself teaches Darwinism. This is a miracle, it is unbelievable. You are building something that will destroy you, but you fail to realize. You are constructing a system that will be a scourge for your own back, but you fail to see it. I am not saying that Darwinism should not be taught. Tell people about it. But let us describe how invalid it is, with scientific evidence. Then they wonder where this separatism came from. My brother, you have been teaching it day and night.

Turkish youth is not educated. If we had educated and aware young people in all our provinces, they would have debated with them and crushed them scientifically. Young people cannot argue. They cannot enter into debates with the PKK [terror organization]. You cannot do it with sticks and tanks and guns. In that case you will be saying, “I cannot deal with you through ideas, so I shall use a large stick instead.” When someone challenges you to a debate, you cannot argue scientifically. That is very easy.

- When anyone talks against Darwinism in Germany they say, “How can anything taught by the state be wrong?” It is also taught by the hand of the state in Turkey.

Then they ask if the state is lying to them. They ask if the state and universities are deceiving them. If you give universities and academies the task of telling people about Darwinism, if Darwinism is taught in thousands of public institutions, then what will become of the nation? Then they will wonder where the scourge came from. That is why God sends down the scourge. God will afflict you for what you have done. Because you say in Darwinist books that there is no creator. You say the universe came into being by chance. You educate young people to be Darwinists, so they behave as Darwinists. What is surprising in that? It is inconceivable to think that a Darwinist is not also a Marxist.

What are you saying? You say the universe started with evolution. You say that matter evolved. Then what do you say? You say that living things evolved and history evolved and then religions evolved. If [you teach that] history evolves, then you (the state that teaches Darwinism) accept Marx’s teachings and communism. So why do you shout and make a fuss? Marx says there was a first communal society and everything was held in common. He says that homes and women and everything were shared. Then pagan structures began emerging. Then feudal society and then capitalism. Now he says history is turning full circle and we are turning back to communist society, he says. He regards it as legitimate for them to resist since the capitalists are taking away their possessions. He says the only way is to crush their resistance. In this way there will be a communal society again, he says. Everyone who signs up to evolution has to sign up to that. Isn’t that right?

If there is evolution at the beginning, if living things evolve, if history evolves, then you go along with what the communists say. They say there is no religion. That religions are fabrications, may God forbid. We say, on the basis of the Qur’an, that God created them. But you (the state that teaches Darwinism) say not. You say the Qur’an is not true. Official books say the Qur’an is not true. If there is no religion, you have signed up to communism. So why all the fuss? If you accept religion, then when Darwinism is criticized scientifically, you have to tell people of that criticism. If not, communism will prevail. And you will be in a wretched position. You can respond to Darwinism with the signs leading to faith and the miracles of the Qur’an. The existence of God is explicitly seen. The proponents of evolution are hypnotizing you. They say there is no God. And you say, “If you say so, then there is no God (May He forbid).” You agree that religions came into being through evolution. So why be surprised when communism grows in the country?

They underestimated Darwinism and regarded it as a simple matter. Do you not see where it is leading the country? If the state and the PKK are teaching Darwinism with all their might, how can we strive against that?  Assuming we fight the PKK, what are we to say to the state? The state is actively engaged in Darwinist education. The state’s Darwinist education must be stopped. It is a grave danger.

What to do with Boko Haram?

http://en.harakahdaily.net/index.php/articles/analysis-a-opinion/8917-what-to-do-with-boko-haram.html

What to do with Boko Haram?

Harun Yahya,

13 May 2014

There is no need to always look for external forces to see what actually is harmful for Islam. We should first look inside ourselves. Like the inhuman and hate-filled practices such as those of ISIS in Syria and Iraq, al-Shabaab in Somalia and the Taliban in Afghanistan, the savage actions of Boko Haram in Nigeria give rise to Islamophobia.  The atrocities committed by fanatics bring down troubles on the entire Islamic world. Islamophobia is spreading across the world because of a handful of fanatics; the savage practices of fanatical belief terrify the world.

Two hundred female students between 12 to 15 years old were kidnapped in the Nigerian state of Borno on April 15^th; eight more girls were seized on May 6^th. Boko Haram, alleged to have links to al-Qaeda, assumed responsibility for these inhuman actions. Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau continues his defiance and issues threats saying he will sell the girls into slavery.

Hundreds of acts of terror supposedly committed in the name of Islam by numerous radical organizations have taken place in Africa in the last 50 years. These organizations use violence to try to impose their own beliefs and living systems. Boko Haram says it does not want to see a scientific and European-style education system in Nigeria; their very name means “Western education is forbidden.” They therefore attack schools, students and state institutions. The terror organization killed 50 people, 42 of them students, in an attack on a school boarding house in the state of Yobe in September 2013. In the last year, this radical organization is responsible for the deaths of more than 1,500 people.

The USA offered assistance to Nigeria in the wake of the seizure of the female students. However both the USA and the European countries have largely failed  to produce policies that lead to success when it comes to dealing with radicalism. As talk of “eliminating radicalism through force” rises in the West, it leads to the radicals who declare the Western world to be “the enemy” to resort to violence even more. Radicals attract supporters by spreading propaganda saying that the West is a foe preparing to destroy them. Victims of violence turn to violence and those who have access to guns use guns. Hatred and violence do nothing but incite further hatred and violence. As a result, every death, invasion or  war turns into an agent that strengthens radical propaganda; it creates what's known as a positive feedback loop.

Contrary to what people think, fanaticism is not an unconscious and blind system. Fanaticism is the name given to a “dark philosophy of life” furnished with misinformation. People in it are loveless and sick at heart.

For example, Boko Haram is opposed to Western education, but engages in intensive educational efforts using its own sources filled with superstitions. It regards the Holy Qur’an, the main source of Islam, as insufficient - may Allah forbid - and fabricates hundreds of rules based on false and unrealistic sources. As a result of these perverse and sinister philosophies, they issue fatwas concerning the kidnapping of female students, selling them into slavery or otherwise legitimizing violence. The members of this group therefore lose the ability to judge and analyze by the light of the true Islam and imagine that they are in fact on the true path. At this point, one needs to reconsider the issue: Since radicalism is based on a false belief, all it needs is education with the truth. Indeed, teachers of love who will tell people of Islam using true sources, who are capable of approaching people with love, friendship, brotherhood, peace and reason, and of telling them of love and compassion need to be supported.

Fanaticism can be treated. Their sickness, fears and doubts can be overcome through systematic and scientific educational mobilization, without hating the fanatics. That is how they can be re-integrated into society. It is important to understand their concerns in striving against radicalism and to build a solution accordingly.

The underlying reason why a fanatic opposes science, technology and Western-style education is that he fears these concepts will undermine his own beliefs; he tends to believe that science is used against religion. The fact is, however, that all scientific advances prove the truth of the divine faiths. The hostile attitudes of the fanatics can be quite easily done away with by including these scientific advances in education systems. This education system will also prevent the emergence of new fanatics. If people are intellectually, philosophically and culturally equipped with accurate information about Islam, then fanaticism will lose the very support it needs in society in order to function.

In truth, misogyny – another issue commonplace among those with the fanatical mindset - is a long-standing historical problem as well and we must not look for it only among fanatical Islamic groups. Bearing in mind that women across the world were only given the right to vote and stand for the office in the 20^th Century, we can see a very twisted attitude toward them in many societies and belief systems. These rights were finally bestowed in 1944 in France and in 1971 in Switzerland. Abuse of and violence toward women is at very high levels, even in the European countries we consider to be the most civilized. Women have been regarded as half-human for thousands of years. Yet in the Qur’an, men and women are equal in all respects. This is clearly explained in the 13th verse of the Surat al-Hujurat.

As it is seen clearly, there is a world of difference among the false sources used by the fanatics and the Qur’an, the true source of Islam. Let us remind ourselves of the one thing that urgently needs to be done – education.

Afghanistan’s Future Depends on Pakistan

Afghanistan’s Future Depends on Pakistan

Afghanistan’s Future Depends on Pakistan’s Democratic Success
By Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

After being ruled as a monarchy until 1973, Afghanistan became a republic (Daoud’s Republic of Afganistan) with the declaration of a constitution by Daoud Khan in 1977. With the help of the Marxist-socialist party of PDPA, People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan, Daoud led a bloodless coup to oust King Zahir Shah from power. However, the passage to a republic also brought with it conflict in this ancient land made up of different tribes. Generally speaking, Daoud Khan’s secular government was also made up of two rival Marxist factions known as Khalq (The Masses) and Parcham (The Flag). After achieving a coup, Daoud turned against both of these groups and tried to exterminate them from the government. His failure to exterminate all the leaders of these two Marxist parties, would ultimately lead to his own demise, during the coup lead by the Khalq’s to remove Daoud from power. Once in power, the Khalq’s achieved superiority with Russian backing. Following popular protests against military agreements reached with the USSR, the Khalq’s already under Soviet influence, took a decision to invite the Soviets into the country. This initiated a conflict that would profoundly affect all the countries in the region but also Afghanistan and the Soviets in particular.

From the outset, The Marxist parties of Khalq and Parcham were bitter rivals, and contrary to the Soviets’ expectations, the military, and low-ranking soldiers in particular, who made up 85% of the army, took up arms alongside the people resisting the Red Army. At the international level, the United States became concerned about Soviet ambitions for expansion into the Middle East, and began supporting the resistance. This combined with the difficult terrain in Afghanistan, Pakistan’s backing for the Afghan mujahedeen, and the worsening Soviet economy created the conditions for a long and painful war. As a result, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was forced to announce that Russian troops would very gradually be withdrawn from the country. During the invasion, civil war and turmoil, which lasted for 28 years, 1.5 million people lost their lives and around 6 million had to flee the country as refugees.

AfterSoviet withdrawal, the country was drawn into a very different form of turmoil. Two major groups under the leadership of Hikmetyar and Rabbani began fighting among themselves, and a period of further horrific blood civil war began. It was in this period that Taliban movement was established.

The New Period, September 11 and the Taliban

Following the attack on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, the United States sent troops to Afghanistan under the pretext that it had provided assistance for the Taliban and Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda organization, whom it regarded as responsible for the attacks. America was not the only country that sent troops there. Soldiers from 30 other countries joined, including troops from Turkey, which enjoys a great historical and religious proximity to the region, were now in the country, on the condition they took no direct part in the fighting. During this process, which started in 2001, some 14,200 troops on both sides and 30,000 civilians lost their lives. Scores of people are still dying every week from bombs and in clashes.

Following the death of Osama bin Laden, however, the Taliban took control over much of the country because of popular sentiment against the NATO intervention and the terrible consequences it gave rise to. Neither the Afghan Army nor NATO forces had any serious control outside the capital, Kabul.

After Karzai, and Pakistan-Taliban Relations

The year 2014 is very important for Afghanistan, because by the end of this year American and NATO forces will gradually be withdrawn from the country. New elections for a new president will also be held. While he has differences of opinion with America on some matters, President Karzai’s term, whom the US has supported from the outset, is coming to an end, and he has no chance of being elected again. Many candidates are taking part in the elections, due to be held in April, and this newly elected government will face serious problems. Improving relations with Pakistan will play a particularly critical role in resolving the problem of the Taliban, who are becoming more embedded in the country every day. Pakistan is the country that can play the greatest role in influencing the Taliban to adopt a more moderate and democratic line. Everyone is agreed that peace, calm and security can never come to the region unless an agreement is reached with the Taliban, who are very strong in both Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Enter Turkey, a country that is playing host to peace talks between the two neighbors and ensuring diplomatic coordination is attracting attention. As a longstanding friend of both countries, Turkey has striven for the building of peace for many years. Turkey has also contributed to talks in Ankara between the governments of Pakistan and Afghanistan in the new period, and is the only country to possess the support of the Taliban, taking a tacit part in the talks. Of course, there are countries with major military and political influence in the region viz a viz America and Russia that also need to be convinced to contribute to this peace process.

Afghan and Turkish officials discussing the replacement of NATO forces who will be leaving the country by 2014 with Turkish troops, have made significant progress. Building relations not just with its immediate neighbors in the region, such as Syria and Iraq, but also with Afghanistan and Pakistan, which are further away with which it has close historical links, is a telltale sign of a more active foreign policy on the part of Turkey. Turkey now has to discharge a historic responsibility by always prioritizing peace and togetherness in relations with countries in the region, inclusive of major powers with interests in the region. That obligation requires Turkey to have good economic relations with these countries.

All these developments are grounds for optimism for Turkey, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, countries that were good friends until only a century ago. The friendship and love between Turkish women and the Afghan and Pakistani women who sent their gold bracelets to support Turks during the Gallipoli Campaign is but one example of this. The training and defense services provided by Turkish troops in Afghanistan and Pakistan ever since the time of the Ottoman Empire are the product of this feeling of brotherhood.

In addition, The Republic of Turkey has recently been a source of hope for all the oppressed peoples of the world. Turkey is the most important country for the purpose of building a world in which peace, well-being and security are established. Afghanistan and Pakistan need Turkey, a country thousands of kilometers away, in order to attain peace, and both Afghanistan and Pakistan need it to live in peace with each other as well as their neighbors. Turkey is therefore an important country acting as a conduit, bridging and fostering understanding among them.

http://www.opinion-maker.org/2014/03/afghanistans-future-depends-on-pakistan/

American and European companies are paying tribute money to the Taliban

American and European companies are paying tribute money to the Taliban (15.11.2013)

American and European companies are paying tribute money to the Taliban

Excerpt from Mr. Adnan Oktar's Live Conversation on A9TV dated November  15th, 2013

Didem Ürer: According to a U.S. government report, many tenders have been awarded to companies financing pro-Taliban and Haqqani groups in Afghanistan. To date more than $150 million has been transferred through tenders awarded to companies financing these groups. And the U.S. Department of defense has said it will not be canceling the contracts signed with the companies in question linked to these groups since that would mean violating their legal rights.

Adnan Oktar: No company that does not enjoy support from the Taliban and al-Qaeda can in any case operate there. That is a known fact. People and communities there are generally linked to the Taliban or al-Qaeda. Some are tied to them out of fear. So what those groups say, goes. That is a known fact. They have just set it on the record. We knew that years ago. No company can remain there any other way. It is the same in Pakistan. They can only operate with Taliban backing, otherwise they rake their facilities with Kalashnikovs. They throw bombs. They go in illegally. It is not enough to get their support. They also have to pay them off. They negotiate. The Taliban are paid off. Maybe half and half, or maybe more.

America’s helplessness shows the need for the Mahdi. We see what America has come to. The Taliban are paid off. A great many American companies give millions in pay-offs to the Taliban. That is a known fact, but it is the first time they have gone on record. Once they obey the Mahdi, they will not be spending money on arms or pay-offs or anything else wrongful. Money will only be spent on good things.

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Madina-e-Sani

Madina-e-Sani (Second Madina)

Holy city al-Madīnah al-Munawwarah:

The Arabic word madinah simply means "city." Before the advent of Islam, the city was known as Yathrib but was personally renamed by Prophet Muhammad (صلى الله عليه وسلم). The first mention of the city, under its old Arabic name Yathrib, dates to the 6th century BC. In 622 AD/1 AH, Prophet Muhammad (صلى الله عليه وسلم) and around 70 Meccan Muhajirun believers left Mecca for sanctuary in Yathrib, an event that transformed the religious and political landscape of the city completely; the longstanding enmity between the Aus and Khazraj tribes was dampened as many of the two Arab tribes and some local Jews embraced Islam. Prophet Muhammad (صلى الله عليه وسلم), linked to the Khazraj through his great-grandmother, was agreed on as civic leader. The Muslim converts native to Yathrib of whatever background—pagan Arab or Jewish—were called Ansar ("the Patrons" or "the Helpers"). [Wikipedia]

Yathrib is called al-Madīnah al-Munawwarah because Prophet Muhammad (صلى الله عليه وسلم) migrated to this city and established first Islamic Caliphate or union after uniting Meccan Muhajirun and local Ansar where the early Muslim community (ummah) developed under the Prophet's (صلى الله عليه وسلم) leadership, then under the leadership of the first four caliphs of Islam Abu Bakr (رضی اللہ تعالیٰ عنہ), Omar (رضی اللہ تعالیٰ عنہ), Othman (رضی اللہ تعالیٰ عنہ) and Ali (رضی اللہ تعالیٰ عنہ). This city is burial place of Prophet Muhammad (صلى الله عليه وسلم) and will be burial place of Prophet Isa (علیہ السلام) Messiah after his second coming. Without Prophet Muhammad (صلى الله عليه وسلم) Yathrib is not called al-Madīnah al-Munawwarah.

Constantinople (Istanbul) is Madina-e-Sani:

Istanbul is Madina-e-Sani because Imam Mahdi (علیہ السلام) will capture this city spiritually without bloodshed similar to Prophet Muhammad (صلى الله عليه وسلم) who captured the city Yathrib spiritually without bloodshed.

Prophet Muhammad (صلى الله عليه وسلم) started struggle of Islam and invite people to truth in holy city Mecca but he (صلى الله عليه وسلم) migrated and established Islamic caliphate in al-Madīnah al-Munawwarah. Imam Mahdi (علیہ السلام) will come from will come from the village of Kara to Madina-e-Sani. He will start his struggle and invite people to truth from Madina-e-Sani and capture this city spiritually. He will migrate to holy city Mecca where people will swear allegiance to him. He will descend to Jerusalem and struggle for the true faith in Jerusalem until the coming of the Prophet ‘Isa (علیہ السلام).

The Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) said:

“… a man [Hazrat Mahdi (علیہ السلام)] of the people of Madina (a large city) will come forth to Mecca. Some of the people of Mecca will come to him, bring him out against his will and swear allegiance to him between the Corner and the Maqam. …” (Sunan Abu Dawud)

The word Medina is used in a metaphorical sense in the hadith handed down from our Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم). In other words, our Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) uses the word Medina to mean very different things. There are many large cities or “Medinas” in the Islamic world. For that reason, one can only tell in what sense the word Medina is being used by looking at other accounts on the subject.

In the hadith cited above, our Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) says that Hazrat Mahdi (علیہ السلام) will come from Medina, whereas in another hadith he says that Hazrat Mahdi (علیہ السلام) “will come from the village of Land.” Imam Qurtubi’s At-Tadhkirah refers to Hazrat Mahdi (علیہ السلام) coming from the western part of the Islamic countries. This statement shows that the large city in which Hazrat Mahdi (علیہ السلام) will be born is in the western part of the Islamic nations.

In another hadith, our Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) tells his interlocutor that Hazrat Mahdi (علیہ السلام) will perform the spiritual capture of Medina, in other words, a large city. In the account, because there were many Medinas (or large cities), the person speaking to our Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) was uncertain which Medina, in other words which large city, Hazrat Mahdi (علیہ السلام) who will achieve the spiritual conquest of. He therefore asked our Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) which Medina (or large city) he meant.

Our Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) answered that this Medina (city) was Constantinople (Istanbul).

Ahmad recorded a hadith by Allah ibn 'Amr, who said:

"… The Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) said, 'Six things will happen to this Ummah: … The sixth is the conquest of a city.' I asked, 'O Messenger of Allah, which city?' He said, 'Constantinople.'" 

Therefore, the word Medina is used by our Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) in this hadith in the sense of a great city in order to refer to Istanbul.

Another hadith reveals that Hazrat Mahdi (علیہ السلام) will emerge from the city that contains the sacred relics, including the sacred banner, of our Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم). The banner and other holy relics of our Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) are currently kept in a special section of Istanbul’s Topkapi Palace.

It is related from Abdullah ibn Shurafa that:

“The banner of our Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) will be adorned, together with Hazrat Mahdi (علیہ السلام).“

(Al-Burhan fi Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir al-zaman, p. 65)

“He will appear with the camel hair banner of our Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم). That banner has four corners, is unstitched and black in color. There is a halo on it. It has not been unfurled since the death of our Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم), but it will be opened when Hazrat Mahdi (علیہ السلام) appears.“

(Al-Burhan fi Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir al-zaman, p. 23)

As for signs, he will have with him the shirt, the sword, and the banner of our Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم). That banner has never been unfurled since the death of our Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم). And, it will not be unfurled until the appearance of the Mahdi.

(Portents of Doomsday, p. 164)

It appears from the above hadith that the sacred relics of our Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) are where Hazrat Mahdi (علیہ السلام), and that the banner will be opened up when he appears. Since the holy relics are in Istanbul, it is clear that Hazrat Mahdi (علیہ السلام) will be in Istanbul, too.

However, one can also see from looking at other accounts that the city of Hazrat Mahdi’s (علیہ السلام) birth and the city in the west of the Islamic world is a different Medina or city from the one that he will spiritually conquer. For example, it can be seen from the description in this hadith that the city that Hazrat Mahdi (علیہ السلام) will capture, Istanbul, is one in which a dry path will be opened up in the sea, in other words, in which a bridge system will be used.

During the conquest of Constantinople he [Hazrat Mahdi (علیہ السلام)] will plant a standard when he goes to make ablution for the morning prayer, and the water will divide in two and withdraw from him. He will cross to the other side through this path that opens and say,

“O people, learn from this. The sea has parted its waters for us, just as it did for the tribe of Israel.” 

They will utter the takbir again and again and with twelve takbirs the twelve towers of the city will collapse.

(Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar fi Alamat al-Mahdi al- Muntadhar, p. 57)

The hadith also states that Hazrat Mahdi (علیہ السلام) will plant a standard in this city, making it clear that the city is the one that contains the holy banner of our Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم).

See following links for detail…

Hazrat Mahdi (علیہ السلام) will emerge from Istanbul

During Hazrat Mahdi's (علیہ السلام) struggle that will begin in Istanbul there will be a Meccan period, a Jerusalem period and a Roman period

Is Pakistan Madina-e-Sani?

The Land of Pure People:

Many Pakistani writers claim that Pakistan is a Madina-e-Sani (second Madina after holy city of Prophet Muhammad (صلى الله عليه وسلم) al-Madīnah al-Munawwarah “the radiant city”) and Imam Mahdi (علیہ السلام) will emerge from Pakistan. In picture below they have tried to prove that wordy meaning of Persian word “Pakistan” (پاکستان) and Arabic word “Madina Tayyaba” (مدینہ طیبہ) are both equivalent to “The Land of Pure People”. They believe Imam Mahdi (علیہ السلام) or his force will shed blood to create Madina-e-Sani and then he and his force will establish Caliphate in Makkah to unit Muslims. Many terrorists and radicals use these writings to justify killings and terror as they believe they are force of Imam Mahdi (علیہ السلام) and they are protecting land of pure people. These writers have following points for their claim...

Why we say that Pakistan is a Madina-e-Sani?

Purpose:

• The main purpose of establishing state of Medina was providing a strong center for Muslims.
• Objective of ideology of Pakistan (Two Nation Theory) is also providing a separate strong center for Indian Muslims in subcontinent.

Migration:

• Muslims migrated from place of idolaters Mecca to Madina
• Indian Muslim also migrated from place of idolaters India to Pakistan

Wars:

• Muslims of Madina fought 3 big wars with Arab idolaters and apparently lost one of them (Ghazwa-e-Uhud)
• Muslims of Pakistan fought 3 big wars with Indian idolaters and apparently lost one of them (1971 war)

Conspiracy:

• Idolaters of Mecca made conspiracies against Madina with help of Jews.
• Indian Idolaters also made conspiracies against Pakistan with help of Israel.

Fatah-e- Mecca and Fatah-e-Hind:

• Muslims of Madina defeated idolaters of Mecca and conquered Mecca.
• Hadith of Prophet Muhammad (صلى الله عليه وسلم) says Pakistan will also conquer India in Ghazwa-e-Hind.

Superpower:

• After Fatah-e-Mecca Muslims rose as superpower.
• Insha’Allah after Fatah-e-Hind Muslims of Pakistan will rise as superpower.

They use following Hadiths to prove Imam Mahdi (علیہ السلام) or his force will emerge from Pakistan, India or Afghanistan …

Hadith about cool breeze from Hind:

Shah Waliullah Muhaddith Dehlavi (ra) mentioned a Hadith, referenced by Al-Tibrani-Al-Aust (الطبرانيالأوسط), Holy Prophet (صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم) said,

"I am Arab, but Arab is not in me and I am not in Hind but Hind is in me"

میں عرب ہوں, لیکن عرب مجھ میں نہیں اور میں ہند میں نہیں لیکن ہند مجھ میں ہے

They claim Allama Iqbal used a part of this Hadith in his couplet of Bang-e-Dra.

The House from which the world had heard Tauhid’s tune (Doctrine of Oneness of God)

From where the Arabian Leader (صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم) had felt cool breeze

They claim Prophet Muhammad (صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم) feel cool breeze from Hind but actually this is saying of Sayyidina Ali (علیہ السلام). The text is found in Mustadrak Al-Haakim as a saying of Sayyidina Ali (علیہ السلام);

عن ابن عباس رضي الله عنهما ، قال : قال علي بن أبي طالب : أطيب ريح في الأرض الهند

Ibn Abbas (رضی اللہ تعالیٰ عنہ) said, Ali (علیہ السلام) said:

"I feel cool breeze from Hind."

Mustadrak Al-Haakim Hadith 3954. Hakim said, 'This Hadith is Sahih on the conditions of [Sahih] Muslim [3995]’.

Here's the full narration from Mustadrak with Hakeem's tawtheeq, it also includes about Adam (علیہ السلام):

حدثنا محمد بن الحسن الكارزي حدثنا علي بن عبد العزيز حدثنا حجاج بن منهال حدثنا حماد بن سلمة عن حميد عن يوسف بن مهران عن بن عباس رضى الله تعالى عنهما قال قال علي بن أبي طالب أطيب ريح في الأرض الهند أهبط بها آدم صلى الله عليه وسلم فعلق شجرها من ريح الجنة هذا حديث صحيح على شرط مسلم ولم يخرجاه

Exact and full translation is:

"The best wind on earth is in al-Hind, Adam (علیہ السلام) was sent down with it, and its trees caught some of the wind of paradise."

It doesn't prove that Hind will become center of Islam in future. Middle East is also known as the home of the prophets (pbut) and center of all great Abrahamic religions mentioned in Holy Quran and it will remain center of Islam in future. Hadith, saying of Sayyidina Ali (علیہ السلام) and poetry of Allam Iqbal are only relating significance of India with descendant of Prophet Adam (علیہ السلام) and mass conversion of people of India from polytheism to monotheism.

See The Middle East in the end times

Hadiths about Khorasan:

These writers claim that Imam Mahdi (علیہ السلام) will come from east region of Khorasan which is Afghanistan and Pakistan (AfPak) with an army carrying black flags to invade Constantinople and Jerusalem. See article Black Banners From Khurasan (Afghanistan) To Jerusalem. These writers use following Hadiths for their claim…

Ahmad, Nu'aym ibn Hammad, al-Hakim and Abu Nu'aym narrated from Thawban (رضی اللہ تعالیٰ عنہ) that he said: "The Messenger of Allah (صلى الله عليه وسلم) said:

"When you see the black banners have come forward from Khorasan, then go to them even if you have to crawl over ice, for among them is Allah's khalifah, the Mahdi."

Al-Hasan ibn Sufyan and Abu Nu'aym narrated from Thawban (رضی اللہ تعالیٰ عنہ) that he said: "The Messenger of Allah (صلى الله عليه وسلم) said:

"The black banners will come from the east, with hearts like iron bars. So whoever hears of them, let him go to them and give them bay'ah, even if he must crawl over ice."

Narrated by Abdur Rehman Al-Jarshi that I heard companion of dear Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم)  Hazrat Amr Bin Marra Al-jamli (رضی اللہ تعالیٰ عنہ) that Dear Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) said:

“Surely Black Flag will appear from the Khorasan until the people will tie their horses with the Olive Trees between Bait-e-Lahya and Harasta. We asked are there any Olive trees between these places. He said, ‘If there isn’t then soon it will grow so that those people will come and tie their horses there.’”

[Ref: Kitab-al-Fitan Page 215. Also at Page 108 in the book “Islam main Imam Mahdi ka Tasawer” by Maulana Professor Muhammad Yousaf Khan, Jamia Ashrafia Lahore, Pakistan]

Thawban said,

"The Prophet said: 'Three men will be killed at the place where your treasure is. Each of them will be the son of a Khalifah, and none of them will get hold of the treasure.  Then black banners will come out of the east...' If you see him, go and give him your allegiance, even if you have to crawl over ice, because he is the Khalifah of Allah, the Mahdi.'"

This hadith is reported in Sunan Ibn Majah vol 3 number 4084 in ‘Kitab al-Fitan, Baab Kharuj al-Mahdi' and 'Mustadrak' al-Hakim. Hakim classified it as saheeh on the conditions set by al-Bukhari and Muslim and al-Dhahabi agreed. Ibn Kathir wrote about it in his 'al-Nihaya (al-Fitan wa al-Malahim)' that its isnaad is 'qawii' (strong). al-Albani considers some of the chains as unacceptable, but writes the hadith is correct in meaning without the addition, 'he is the Khalifah of Allah, the Mahdi.' He rates the isnaad of Ibn Majah from 'Alqama from Ibn Mas'ud as hasan which does not have the words, 'khalifa-tullah.' He then goes on to discuss why this addition is not acceptable. ('Silsilah al-Ahadeeth al-Da'eefah wa al-Maudu'a', vol 1, p. 195-198, Hadith #85)

Will Imam Mahdi (علیہ السلام) be among them?

According to they claim the Imam Mahdi (علیہ السلام) is among force of east. If we analyze all hadiths carefully then we see this is not the case. These hadiths clearly say that find Imam Mahdi (علیہ السلام) when black banners come forward from Khorasan. Above Hadiths don’t state that Imam Mahdi (علیہ السلام) will come from Khorasan along them.

Hadiths about Shuayb ibn Saleh (Mansoor) and Banu Hashim also do not state that the Mahdi is among them. They describe the same situation. They will defeat the cavalry of the sufyani in Khorasan and when they settle in Kufah the Mahdi (علیہ السلام) appears in holy city Mecca. Following Hadiths clearly state that black banners from east will come to Imam Mahdi (علیہ السلام).

He also narrated from al-Hasan, that the Messenger of Allah (صلى الله عليه وسلم) mentioned a tribulation that his household would encounter:

"Until Allah sends a black banner from the east; whoever helps them, Allah will help him, and whoever lets them down, Allah will let him down; until they COME TO A MAN whose name is like my name, so He will make him their ruler, and Allah will help him and grant him victory."

He also narrated from Abu Ja'far (رضی اللہ تعالیٰ عنہ) that he said:

"The black banners that come out from Khurasan will settle at al-Kufah. WHEN the Mahdi APPEARS in Makkah, they WILL SEND the bay'ah TO HIM."

Narrated by Abdullah bin Masood (رضی اللہ تعالیٰ عنہ) that Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) said:

“A Nation will come from the east with black flags and they will ask for some “Khayr” (because of them being needy) but the people will not give them, then, they will fight and win over those people (who did not give them what they asked). Now the people will give them what they asked for but they will not accept it until they will HAND IT OVER to a person from my progeny who will fill this earth with justice just as it was previously filled with oppression and tyranny. So if anyone of you finds this nation then you must join them even if you have to crawl over ice.”

(Al-Asha'ah, Page 240)

Above hadith clearly states that Imam Mahdi (علیہ السلام) will be not among them but they will help him and give bay'ah (oath) to him.

Are Afghanistan and Pakistan (AfPak) Khorasan?

The ancient Khorasan was the last eastern province of the Persian Empire. Khorasan means the “land of the sunrise” in Persian. Khorasan in its proper sense comprised principally the cities of Mashhad, Nishapur and Sabzevar (now in northeastern Iran), Balkh, Herat and Taloqan (now in Afghanistan), Merv, Nisa and Abiward (now in southern Turkmenistan), and Samarqand and Bukhara (now in Uzbekistan). Some believe that at certain times Khorasan covered a wider area, which included parts of Transoxiana, Soghdiana, Sistan, and extended to the boundaries of the Indian subcontinent [Wikipedia]. At time of Prophet Muhammad (صلى الله عليه وسلم), Khorasan region was included east area of Caspian Sea, west south of river Amu Darya, Transoxania (Tajikistan, Uzbekistan etc) and cities Ar-Ray (Iran) and Taloqan (Afghanistan). These areas are also referred in Hadiths and by Islamic scholars for Khorasan region.

Ibn Khaldun and al-Qurtubi record:

“Hazrat Mahdi (علیہ السلام) will come from the Mashriq (the East), Khorasan (the area to the west of the Caspian Sea) and the Amu Darya (these being regions inhabited by the Turks).”

(Macdonald, Encyclopedia of Islam, 7:478)

Prophet Muhammad (صلى الله عليه وسلم) said:

“Pity poor Taloqan. At that place are treasures of Allah. These are not of gold and silver, but consist of people who have recognized Allah as they should have. They are the Mahdi's servants.”

(Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi `Alamat al-Mahdi, p. 59) (Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir al-zaman, p.59)

Hadis Al-Mahdiyul Muntazar:

"Good for Al Taloqan! Surely, for Allah in it are treasures, not of gold or silver but men who know Allah through truthful knowledge and they will support Al Mahdi at the end of Time."

Following the same narrative chain, Al-Baqir narrated the following on the authority of Jabir:

“[Allah Almighty has a treasure in Taloqan; it is of neither gold nor silver but consists of twelve thousand (men) in Khorasan, having “Ahmad Ahmad” for emblem. They will be led by a Hashemite young man riding a gray mule and wearing a red headband. I can almost see him crossing the Euphrates; should you hear of his coming, rush to him even if you have to crawl over the snow.]”

Narrated 'Ali son of Abu Talib:

"The Prophet said, 'A man named al-Harith son of Hirath will come from Transoxania (Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, southern Kyrgyzstan and southwest Kazakhstan). His army will be led by a man named Mansoor. He will be pave the way for and establish the government of the family of Muhammad, just as the Quraysh established the government of the Messenger of Allah. Every believer will be obliged to support them.'"

Al-Harith son of Hirath; Mansoor Ali said,

"The Prophet said, ‘A man named al-Harith son of Hirath will come from Transoxania [Central Asia] His army will be led by a man named Mansoor. He will be pave the way for and establish the government of the family of Muhammad, just as the Quraysh established the government of the Messenger of Allah.Every believer will be obliged to support them.’” (Abu-Dawud.)

Narrated Abu Huraira:

The Prophet said, "The Hour will not be established till you fight a nation wearing hairy shoes, and till you fight the Turks, who will have small eyes, red faces and flat noses; and their faces will be like flat shields. And you will find that the best people are those who hate responsibility of ruling most of all till they are chosen to be the rulers. And the people are of different natures: The best in the pre-lslamic period are the best in Islam. A time will come when any of you will love to see me rather than to have his family and property doubled."

One of Hazrat Mahdi's Names Will Be ''THE LION' – Hz. Mehdi’nin İsimlerinden Biri “ARSLAN” Olacaktır

“Hazrat Messiah, Son of David; Mahdi, represented with a lion figure is mentioned in Zohar, commentary of Torah. It is believed to be from Hazrat Abraham’s period and Hazrat Mahdi is represented with a lion figure. The lion clawing, that represents Hazrat Mahdi.

In Torah, “He swears by that truth,” King Messiah Mahdi “He is a lion and he who is known as the lion is loving.” “His name is Lion, but he is very loving, he says” is mentioned. “Morning describes the compassion that refers to Messiah [Mahdi].The Gospel says “you lie down till morning, until Messiah [Mahdi], son of David, who is the light of compassion and is called the lion emerges in the morning.” The dawn of Islam, insha’Allah.

Our Prophet says

“A man (Hazrat Mahdi will appear from Transoxania,” What is Transoxania? The place where the Mahdi’s ancestors lived. The Caucasus region, region where Turks live. “He will be called Al-Haris ibn al-Harras.” Haris, meaning Lion, son of the lion, in other words.” 

Esteemed Adnan Oktar, 27 April 2012 A9 TV

"MAN CALLED AL-HARITH IBN HARRATH (LION) WILL COME FORTH FROM MA WARA AN-NAHR (TRANSOXANA). His army will be led by a man called Mansur who will establish or consolidate things for Muhammad's family as Quraysh consolidated them for the Messenger of Allah (saas). Every believer must help him."

(Sunan Abu Dawud, Book 36, 4277;Narrated Ali ibn AbuTalib;At-Taj al-jami' lil 'usul fi ahadith al-Rasul, Mansur 'Ali Nasif, Vol. 5, p. 617)
* Haris means lion.

“O Master of believers, tell us about Hazrat Mahdi (as).” And the Master of believers said"... HAZRAT MAHDI (AS) IS A WELL-PREPARED, VICTORIOUS LION WITH AN EXTENSIVE IMPACT..."

(Sheikh Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Numani, al-Ghaybah al-Numani, [Bihar al-Anwar, Vol. 51], Ansariyan Publications, Collected by: Muhammad Baqir Majlisi, Iran-Qum, 2003, p. 184)

Narrated Abu Huraira:

The Prophet said, "The Hour will not be established till you fight with the Khudh and the Kirman (Province in Iran) from among the non-Arabs. They will be of red faces, flat noses and small eyes; their faces will look like flat shields, and their shoes will be of hair."

Al Hasan Al Basri said:

"A man of medium stature will come from Ar-Ray. He will be dark and from the children of Tamim -- a Wasaj, named Shuayb son of Salih with four thousand men. Their clothes will be white and Banners black, and at his front is the Mahdi. He meets no one that he does not defeat and scatter."

Above Hadith is clearly indicating that black banners will come from city Ar-Ray of southern Khorasan which is not in Pakistan neither in Afghanistan but in Iran. See Wikipedia Ray, South Khorasan. There is another city Rey near Tehran and Caspian Sea in Iran.

Mughal Emperor Babur wrote in his memoirs that Indians used to call all non-Indians as Khorasanis. Regarding the location of Khorasan, it is written: "On the road between Hindustan and Khorasan, there are two great marts: the one Kabul, the other Kandahar." i.e. these cities were not part of Khorasan as they are present in way to Khorasan.

In modern day world the ancient Khorasan is divided into five central Asian countries Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Some Pakistani scholars claim little tribal area in northern Pakistan is also part of Khorasan region but at time of Prophet Muhammad (صلى الله عليه وسلم) and Caliphate major area of Pakistan is called Sindh, Taank and Kashmir. Historical any area of Pakistan was not part of Khorasan.

Region Sindh is also referred in following Hadiths of Ghawa-e-Hind.

Hazrat Abu Hurairah (رضی اللہ تعالیٰ عنہ) says that my intimate friend Hadhrat Muhammad (Sall-Allaho-'Alayhe-Wasallam) told me that:

“In this Ummah, the troops would be headed towards SINDH & hind”

Hadhrat Abu Hurairah (R.A.) says that, one day Huzoor (Sall-Allaho-'Alayhe-Wasallam) said while talking about India (Hindustan):

“Surely, your one troop would fight with Hindustan & Allah would Bless those Warriors (Mujahid) with success, that they would bring the leaders of SINDH in fetters, Allah would forgive the Warriors. Then, when they would return, they would find Isa Ibn-e-Maryam (علیہ السلام) in Syria”.

Who are Khorasanis?

People of Khorasan are Persian and Turkic people. Pashtun are basically Persian ethnic group lived in east of Persian Empire. Wikipedia says "Early precursors to some of the Pashtuns may have been old Iranian tribes that spread throughout the eastern Iranian plateau. According to the Russian scholar Yu. V. Gankovsky, the Pashtuns probably began as a "union of largely East-Iranian tribes which became the initial ethnic stratum of the Pashtun ethnogenesis, dates from the middle of the first millennium CE and is connected with the dissolution of the Epthalites (White Huns) confederacy." He proposes Kushan-o-Ephthalite origin for Pashtuns but others draw a different conclusion. According to Abdul Hai Habibi some oriental scholars hold that the second largest Pasthun tribe, the Ghilzais, are the descendants of a mixed race of Hephthalite and Pakhtas who have been living in Afghanistan since the Vedic Aryan period". For detail see Pashtun People and Ethnic groups in Afghanistan in Wikipedia. Today Pashtun people live in Khorasan in minority like in Iranian provenances North Khorasan and South Khorasan, cities Balkh, Herat and Taloqan of Afghanistan.

Other ethnic group lives in Khorasan is Khorasani Turks. Qizilbash are Khorasani Turkic-speaking people inhabiting part of northeastern Iran, and in the neighboring regions of Turkmenistan up to beyond the Amu Darya River; and speak the Khorasani Turkic, and live in the North Khorasan, Razavi Khorasan and Golestan provinces of Iran. See Khorasani Turks in Wikipedia.

Persian People 

Turkic people

The Turkic peoples are a collection of ethnic groups that live in northern, eastern, central and western Asia, northwestern China and parts of eastern Europe. See Turkic People in Wikipedia.

Many other ethnic groups were Turkified like Turkic-Mongol whole ruled vast area. See Turco-Mongol in Wikipedia.

Mughal were also Turkic-Mongol who ruled over India for 330 years. See Mughal Tribe and Mughal Empire in Wikipedia.

Mongol people were also Turkified just like people of Anatolian, Balkan, Caucasian and Middle East people were Turkified. Turkification is a process of cultural or political change in which anyone can adopt politics or culture of Turkic people and become Turk. For detail see Turkification in Wikipedia.

Turkish Islamic Union:

Turkish Islamic Union is a Islamic Union which will not be an arbitrary, bureaucratic union. It will not be based on oppression. It will exist to build world peace, not to engage in enmity or take revenge or as a threatening element. Through this union, members of all faiths will be able to worship freely and visit all those sites that are sacred to their particular faith, while their possessions, lives and honor will be under the protection of the Turkish-Islamic Union.

Under this union, unbelievers and the irreligious will also live in peace and be free to express their opinions. It will not based on any ethnic group but Turkification and modernization of corrupt political system under leadership of Turkey. For detail see A Call For Turkish Islamic Union.

Hadiths about Constantinople:

Some writers used following hadith to prove that people of Khorasan are Pashtun or Talibaan as they believe they are lost tribe of Bani Israel as mentioned in a research paper The Bilad-e-Khurasan in Making but history doesn't prove this claim.

Narrated Abu Hurayrah: Allah's Apostle (صلى الله عليه وسلم) said:

“You have heard of the city, one side of which is inclined and the other is on the coast (Constantinople). They said: Yes, Allah's Apostle (صلى الله عليه وسلم). Thereupon he said: The Last Hour will not come until 70,000 people from the children of Israel attack it. When they land there, they will neither fight with weapons nor shower arrows but will only say: ‘There is no god but Allah and Allah is the Greatest,’ and one side of it will fall. Thawr (one of the narrators) said: I think that he said: The area on the coast. Then they will say for the second time: ‘There is no god but Allah and Allah is the Greatest,’ and the other side will also fall. They will say: ‘There is no god but Allah is the Greatest,’ and the gates will be opened for them and they will enter. They will be collecting spoils of war and distributing them among themselves when a noise will be heard and it will be said: Verily, the Dajjal has come. Thus they will leave everything there and turn to (confront) him.”

(Sahih Muslim Book No: 40 No: 6979)

They concluded Imam Mahdi (علیہ السلام) will attack Constantinople (Istanbul) with help of Talibaan (Pashtun) and conquered this city as Pashtun are belonged to lost tribe of Bani Israel. If we read Hadith carefully then it is clearly stated that children of Israel will be helper of Imam Mahdi who will capture Istanbul spiritually and peacefully by preaching religion without using weapons. They will preach people about existence and greatness of Allah. They will defeat materialistic and atheist ideologies like Darwinism and Communism intellectually. They will correct first faith of people of Constantinople. Who are these people? They are many (70,000 means many in Arabic) helpers of Imam Mahdi. They will by Sayyid and Sharif descendants from Sayyidina Ali (علیہ السلام) and they are also Israelite.

According to Jewish belief, even if one is a convert, the fact that a person has a Jewish bloodline from a mother makes that person of Jewish origin. Blessed mother 'Fatima bint Asad ibn Hashim' of Sayyidina Ali (علیہ السلام) was daughter of Jewish princes ZAHNA whose father was Hofnai 32nd EXILARCH KAPHNAI of Baghdad, descendant of King David or Prophet Daud (علیہ السلام) of Jerusalem, ruled 560-581. Her brother, also born to KAPHNAI [in English, sometimes written as Hofnai] is Haninai. Consequently, the sons born to Sayyidina Ali (علیہ السلام), grandson of the princes ZAHNA, and their descendants are all physically linked to Prophet Daud (علیہ السلام) and are Israelites. See Exilarch in Wikipedia. So descendant of Sayyidina Ali (علیہ السلام) are children of Israel mentioned in above Hadith. They are not Pashtun or Taaliban as people of east or Khorasan are not mentioned in this particular hadith.

Imam Mahdi (علیہ السلام) will resemble those of Children of Israel in appearance:

Following Hadith proves Imam Mahdi (علیہ السلام) will be descendant of Prophet Daud (علیہ السلام) as his physical appearance will resemble those of Children of Israel.

“Hazrat Mahdi (علیہ السلام) is one of my grandchildren. ... HIS COMPLEXION RESEMBLES THAT OF THE ARABS AND HIS BODY RESEMBLES THOSE OF THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL...”

 [Abu Abdillah Muhammad bin Yusuf Ganji Shafei, Al-Bayan Fi Akhbar Sahib az-Zaman)

“Hazrat Mahdi's (علیہ السلام) stature and posture resemble those of the People of Israel.”

(Ibn Hajar al-Haythami, Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar fi `Alamat al-Mahdi al-Muntadhar, pp. 36-29.)

“His body is an Israelite one.”

(Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir az-Zaman, p. 24)

Abdullah bin Harith says:

“HAZRAT MAHDI (علیہ السلام) will rise at the age of forty and will RESEMBLE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL (in terms of appearance).”

(Al-Hawi lil-fatawi, vol. 2, p. 135)

See Characteristics of Hazrat Mahdi (علیہ السلام) in the Hadiths for detail.

According to Judaic scriptures Imam Mahdi (علیہ السلام) will be present in Constantinople.

Just as Moses was brought up in the house of Pharaoh among the enemies of his people, so also will Messiah dwell in the city of Rome*, among the destroyers of his land. [Exodus Rabbah, Chap. I; Tanhuma, Shemoth, 8, and Tazri’a, 8. Cf. also Sanhedrin 19b.]

* Constantinople, the capital city of Roman Empire, was given the name “Nova Roma” in Latin, i.e. “New Rome” by Constantin I in 324.

Just as Moses was raised in the House of Pharaoh in Egypt, so the Messiah will be in Rome. [Kohelet Rabbah, I, 9][ii]

Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi meets Elijah the Prophet and asks, “… Where can I find Mashiach?” Elijah tells him, “Go to the gates* of Rome and there you’ll find him.” [Talmud Sanhedrin 98a]

* 50 gates exist on Constantinople city walls.

"WHEN THE KING MOSHIACH WHO IS IN THE NORTH WIL ARISE, he will come and build the Beis Hamikdash [Masjid of the Prophet Solomon (علیہ السلام)] which is situated in the South."

(Mishnah, Midos 2:1; Jerusalem Talmud, Megillah 1:11)

See following links for detail…

An indication to King Messiah's presence in Istanbul according to Judaic scriptures

The Passage from Torah indicating that King Messiah [Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh)] will come from North of Israel

Let we first examine holy city al-Madīnah al-Munawwarah (first Madina) then try to find which city is actual Madina-e-Sani (second Madina).

Imam Mahdi (علیہ السلام) will never shed blood:

EVERYONE WHO EXPECTS BLOODSHED IN THE NEXT PART OF THE END TIMES ARE MAKING A SERIOUS ERROR. NEITHER THE PROPHET JESUS (pbuh) NOR HAZRAT MAHDI (pbuh) WILL EVER SHED BLOOD. ON THE CONTRARY, THEY WILL CAUSE THE MORAL VALUES OF THE RELIGION TO PREVAIL WITH LOVE, AFFECTION, GENTLE WORDS AND COMPASSION.

http://www.mahdinevershedsblood.com/