The Mahdi Times July 2011 | Page 29

STRAIGHTPATH July 26, 2011 THE ROLE OF THE ANSARI IN THE MISSION OF YAMANI Continued... By Fayez Al-Hakeem and Labbayk Ahmed The Yamani has emerged. We call upon every man, and woman, whose heart burns with the holy fire of love for ALLAH(swt) to come forward and spread the good news of the love and compassion of the one whom ALLAH has blessed. These are the times that truly test the hearts of men. Have you been tested? Have you had a vision of “THE ONE”? Are you ready to put your love and your beliefs to practice? Join us brothers and sisters, for the hand of GOD is poised to strike fear into the hearts of the impure and unclean, and to lift up to HIM those who love him with all their heart. When we look at the attributes of the companions of Mahdi in the Quran we find the following references:   1-      {And We set between them and the cities that We have blessed, cities apparent}[1] The meant in this verse is nothing but the men whom neither merchandise nor sale beguiles from remembrance of Allah, the way meant in Al-Might’s saying: {And how many cities revolted against the ordinance of its Lord and His messengers, and We called it to a stern account and punished it with dire punishment} [2]; the meant here are the people in the city, not the walls. So Allah says “We set apparent cities between you believers and the blessed cities.” Thus, the blessed cities are Muhammad and his Progeny (a.s). Whereas  the  apparent cities are the elite saints of Allah who are proof (Hujja) on people. lamps of darkness ,  Allah will salvage them from every dire darkened sedition)   As Ali ransoms them with his father, the guardian, (Abi Talib) and his pure virtuous mother (Fatima the daughter of Asad) who raised the Prophet Muhammad in her lap. The Prophet (a.s) says that they are his brothers and favors them on his chosen gracious companions who watered this religion by their bloods. But those meant in this verse are the initial comrades, which are the 313 who obtain revelations from the Kingdom (Malakoot) of Allah in the true visions and know some of the unseen by the permission of Allah. Some of them have the rank of Prophecy, yet each of them by virtue to h