According to Islamic tradition, the dispute between the majority Sunnis and the Shiat Ali (Party of Ali) began upon the death of Muhammad in 632, although it had its roots in incidents from even before that. The Sunnis contended that the prophet of Islam had made no provision for a successor as political, military, and spiritual leader of the Muslim community, and that therefore the Muslims should choose the best man among them as their leader. The Party of Ali, on the contrary, claimed that Muhammad had designated his son-in-law Ali ibn Abi Talib as his successor, and that the successor of Muhammad had to be a member of the prophet’s household.
What’s more, far from being a mere functionary, this successor would bear some of Muhammad’s prophetic spirit, as well as infallibility in deciding disputed questions. Ali was finally chosen as the fourth caliph in 656, but in 661 was assassinated. Hassan, his eldest son (and successor, as far as the Shi’ites are concerned), was murdered in 670 on the orders of the Sunni caliph Muawiya. Then the Sunni/Shi’ite split became definitive and permanent when Ali’s younger son, Husayn, was killed in the Battle of Karbala in 680.
After the beheading of Husayn, the Shi’ites continued a succession of Imams, members of Muhammad’s household and his prophetic heirs. Each one in turn, over two centuries, was killed on orders of the Sunni caliph. According to the traditions of Twelver Shi’ism, the official religion of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the twelfth of these Imams, a boy of five years old, disappeared under mysterious and disputed circumstances in the year 874 — but remained alive. After his disappearance, he communicated to the world through four agents, the last of whom died in 941. At that point the Twelfth Imam went silent, entering the period of “Great Occultation.”
“Hearts,” warned Mohammad al-Mahdi, the Twelfth Imam, in his last message, “will become inaccessible to compassion. The earth will be filled with tyranny and violence.” He was speaking of the time of his reappearance, explaining that he would only come back to the world when the evil that Muslims were suffering was at its absolute apex. In this he echoed a Shi’ite tradition of the words of the prophet of Islam himself, Muhammad, who prophesied that the Twelfth Imam would be “the Resurrector” and explained: “He will fill the world with peace and justice as today it is filled with violence and tyranny.”
That violence and tyranny is not incidental to the theology of the Twelfth Imam, which has revenge as its core and essence. The Shi’ites began to teach that the Twelfth Imam would return at a time when the Muslims were oppressed as never before, and suffering worse than ever. The Imam, in the company of Jesus (reimagined, as in Sunni Islam, as a Muslim prophet), would finally end the horrific persecution of the true believers, taking up arms against their enemies and conquering and Islamizing the world.
“Gilgit Shia cleric vows to ‘break jaws’ of those who insult Imam Mehdi,” News Intervention, September 9, 2023 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Shias in Pakistan-occupied Gilgit-Baltistan (POGB) are agitated and protesting against the Sunni cleric Qazi Nisar for insulting Imam Mehdi and calling him fake.
Recently, a Shia cleric Allama Syed Ali Rizvi lambasted Qazi Nisar and pledged to break his jaws during the Arabeen procession in Skardu. He said, “Imaam Hussain se ahad, Immam-e-Zaman se ahad hum dat jaenge, mar jaenge magar hum Imam ko nahi chhorenge.” (Taking oath of Imam Hussain and Imam-e-Zaman, we will die but will never leave Imam). He went on to say, “Ya Imam-e-Mehdi, jisne aapki ghustakhi ki hai, uskke jabrdon ko tod kar rakh denge.” (Oh! Imam Mehdi, whosoever, has insulted you, we will break his jaws).
He asked the people in prosession that whether they were ready, to which, the crowd raised their hands in affirmation. This was followed by loud sloganeering saying – “Ye lashkar kiska – Mehdi ka” (Whose procession is this? – Its Imam Mendi’s).
In another protest rally in Kharmang, Shia cleric Sheikh Akbar Rajai demanded strict punishment for the Sunni cleric Qazi Nisar for insulting Iman Mehdi. Amidst his address, the gathered crown chanted “ghustakh-e-nabi ki ek hi saza, sar tan se zuda” (Insulting Prophet has only one punishment, behading).
Additionally, not only in POGB, Shia clerics in other parts have also erupted in protest. In Karachi, a Shia cleric Allama Sadiq Raza Taqvi addressed a rally and stated warned Pakistan govt that it should promptly arrest Sunni cleric Qazi Nisar for allegedly insulting the Hidden Imam. He also warned the govt that it should not test their patience. He said, “If there’s no action against him, we shall kill him ourselves.”…
FYI says
And then allah spoke and he said..
“That 12th imam is a putz and a total loser”
But the muslims couldn’t do anything.They wanted to break allah’s jaws but they couldn’t.
allah would annihilate them.
What do you do if the insult comes from allah?
Walter Sieruk says
Many Muslim believe that after this current time period which they called “the Occultation “ in which this Twelfth Imam , the Mahdi , will awaken emerge from the place that he was resting and then heading the armies of Islam will conquer all the nations of the for Islam the establishment of Sharia in all countries
As this Jihad Watch explains “The Imam, in the company of Jesus (reimagined, as in Sunni Islam, as a Muslim prophet), would finally end the horrific persecution of the true believers, taking up arms against their enemies and conquering and Islamizing the world.”
To give some Bible based information with authorized Islamic literature also taken into account and yet not to go into detail and that state that this is a theory of Bible prophecy and not a complete prophecy fact. This is what might happen. This awful and terrible conflict in the twenty -first century is part of the war between the Judo- Christian West and the Islamic East. The Mahdi will arise in the Middle East he will appear a wonderful man to many people, in reality he will be wicked man and will be so very deceitful and lying to he will seem, very much, like a good righteous and rightly guided man who will make a short and false “peace” in the Middle East. The Mahdi with have a partner who will be the false “jesus” of Islam. This Islamic ”jesus” will give Christian’s a choice , which is convert to Islam or die by beheading, this is the Koranic way to killing non-Muslims, as in 47:4. Those vicious murders of Christians in the future are predicted in the Bible. As seen in Revelation 20:4.
Furthermore in Israel the Mahdi “shall divide the land” Daniel 11:39. [K.J.V.] between the Jews and Muslims and the Mahdi will also by many deceiving lying signs and wonders, will unify Shi ‘ite and Sunni Islam together common goal destroying the State of Israel ,once and for all. The Mahdi will then take the all the military force of Islam with Satanic intention of totally destroying the Jewish State, one and for all. The when the Second Coming of real Jesus will occur .This is at the Battle of Armageddon where the final and complete defeat of the Mahdi, along with false ”jesus,” and his Islamic military forces. After the great Victory there will be then the total destruction of Islam. As found in the Bible in, for example, Ezekiel chapter 37 and 38. Zechariah Chapter 12 and then 14:9-21 well as in Revelation 19:11-21.
There is an Christian Arab pastor ,Michael Youssef who had written two well researched and informative books about the Islamic messiah called the Mahdi the are END TIMES AND THE SECRET OF THE MAHDI also the book entitled JESUS , JIHAD AND PEACE Furthermore, another Christian author on the topic of the Mahdi and prophecy is other than pastor Youssef is Joel Richardson who wrote THE ISLAMIC ANTICHRIST :THE SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT THE NATURE OF THE BEAST and the other book entitled THE MIDEAST BEAST : THE SCRIPTURAL CASE FOR THE ISLAMIC ANTICHRIST.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Awesome! Take that jihad to the rest of Pakistan, & confront sipah-e-sehaba, the leading Pak anti-shi’a jihad group. Break their jaws, & whatever else of theirs you wish to break!