On the authority of the Commander of
the Faithful (AS), he said: "I will build a
pulpit in Egypt, destroy Damascus stone
by stone, expel the Jews and Christians
from the whole Arab nation, and guide
the Arabs with this staff that I have." The
narrator of this Hadith, ’Ibayat Al-Assadi,
then asked: "O Commander of the
Faithful, are you saying that you will live
again after you die?" He answered: "How
far you went ’Ibayat! You did not fathom
what I said. A man from my progeny
shall do it –i.e. the Mahdi (AS)."][7]
The Beast of the Earth is none other than
the one who will pave the way and about
whom the following was said: "He will
call upon you to join your Imam and the
right path", and whom the Commander of
the Faithful (AS) mentioned in his
sermon: "…Know that if you follow the
one who will come out from the east, he
will walk you on the path of the
Messenger (PBUH), and you will then be
cured from blindness, deafness, and
muteness and relieved from the hardship
of asking and oppression as well as from
the heavy burden weighing down on your
necks…"[8].
He is the leader of the standards of the
east, the successor of Al-Mahdi to whom
the Messenger of Allah (PBUH)
commanded you to pledge allegiance,
even if crawling over the snow, for he
will relieve you from the hardship of
asking for the Imam, and end your quest
for him.
{Most surely He Who has made the
Quran binding on you will bring you
back to the destination}.
On the authority of Saleh Bin Maitham,
he said: "I asked Abu Jafar (AS): Tell me
(of the Beast of the earth). Abu Jafar (AS)
replied, "Have you not heard it from your
father?" My father died when I was a
boy, I answered. I then said, I will tell
you (what I know); if it is true, you shall
remain silent and if it is not, you shall
correct me. "This is easier", he replied. I
said: I believe that Ali is the Beast of the
Earth. Then I kept silent. He (Abu Jafar
(AS)) said: "By Allah, I see you will say
that Ali will return to us"; and he cited
the following verse...
{He Who has made the Quran binding on
you will bring you back to the
destination.}. By Allah, it is indeed what
I wanted to ask you about, but I lost the
remembrance, I said. Abu Jafar (AS) then
said, "Let me tell you something much
greater [9] than this... {and We have not
sent you but to all the men as a bringer of
glad tidings and a warner}, people in the
four corners of the world will testify
saying “There is no God (worthy of
worship) but Allah and Muhammad is
His Messenger”. He then pointed his
hand towards the horizon.][10]
The Earth will obviously be filled with
justice before the Return, when the State
of Divine Justice is established, what
confirms the return to the aforementioned
destination, and the testimony (There is
no God (worthy of worship) but Allah
and Muhammad is His Messenger) will
be heard in every corner. The Return will
not take place unless after the society is
lifted to the highest degrees of the
acknowledgement of the Oneness of
Allah and after Imam Al-Mahdi (AS)
brings out 27 letters from the Divine
Knowledge. At that time, the
acknowledgement of the Oneness of
Allah will absolutely be heard throughout
the whole Earth prior to the Return.
On the authority of Abu Jafar (AS), he
said: [Allah Almighty said, {He Who has
made the Quran binding on you will
bring you back to the destination}. And
so Abu Jafar (AS) said, [I think that Your
Prophet (PBUH) will appear to you.][11]
In this context I say: Has anyone ever
asked himself how will the Prophet
(PBUH) appear? Will he appear only to
disappear afterwards or what?!
No, it will not be the Prophet (PBUH)
himself but a person from his progeny
(Al-Qai’m)[12], who will appear to
renew the faith in the Shari’a (the Islamic
Law) of the Prophet (PBUH) which was
neglected and misconstrued. Al-Qa’im
will be entrusted with a divine mission
similar to that of the Prophet of Allah
(PBUH), and the misleading scholars will
come out