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STRAIGHTPATH July 26, 2011 10 PROOFS OF IMAM AHMED A.S AND THE END TIMES Continued... By m-ali Thus will Allah show them their own deeds as anguish for them, and they will not emerge from the Fire”. 2 Al-Baqara : 167. This is further elaborated by Imam Al-Saadiq (as) as he wisely said:"Becareful of Taqleed (copying scholars) for whoever copies someone in his religion has perished for Allah says in the Quran "They took their Rabbis and monks as Lords without Allah (swt) "By Allah (swt) they haven't prayed for them neither did they fast for them, but they made halal what is haram and made haram for what is halal, so they copied them in this manner, and so they worshipped them without even realizing. Sheikh Al-Kulayni Kafi v.1 p.53.  Due to these deceptive times, we were foretold by the Messenger of Allah (s), that the time of the Sacred Appearance will be surrounded by a flood of afflictions due to the widespread falsehood. Hence, he pointed the way to safety from losing oneself and said “O people, I am leaving among you two weighty things: the one being the Book of Allah in which there is right guidance and light, so hold fast to the Book of Allah and adhere to it. The second are the members of my household I remind you (of your duties) to the members of my family. Muslim : Book 31 : Hadith 5920” He always insisted on staying safe from delusion for these afflictions will be hard and intense. From the two pillars are found narrations that indicate that the previous Ummahs split into many factions, and all of them were in the Fire except for one, which is the faction that followed the guardian; and the Ummah of Prophet Muhammad (s) will be divided into seventy three factions, all of them in hell except for one that is in Heaven and it is the one that follows the guardian at all times.  The narrations indicated that the most guiding standard was that of Al-Yamani (a), which means the standard of the progeny of Muhammad (s) that they pointed at, and thus any standard other than theirs appears untrue. Imam Al-Baqir (as) said that "there is no banner better than that of the banner of Yamani, it is the banner of faith and dedication, because he calls to your possessor, so if the Yamani comes out, selling weapons to people or any Muslim becomes prohibited, and if the Yamani appears, stand up to him, because he's banner is the