MANY MORE PEOPLE WILL AVOID SINS OUT OF FEAR OF HIM [HAZRAT MAHDI (AS)] RATHER THAN OF THE QUR'AN..." (Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi, Al-Futuhat al-Makkiyah, p. 6)
Asbag Ibn Nabata says: Ali, Commander of the faithful, said: "... No more you than kohl on the eye or salt in food will remain. And I shall give you an example: A man has a quantity of wheat. He cleans it and stores it in his house. When he returns to it a long time later, he sees it is full of weevils. He cleans it again and again puts it in his home. When he comes back to it after another long time, he sees it is again infested with weevils. He repeats the same processes. WHAT EVENTUALLY REMAINS IS A VERY LITTLE HEALTHY WHEAT THAT WEEVILS CANNOT HARM. You are like that. At the end, a small group of you will be left that corruption cannot harm.” (Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Said also transmits the same hadith.) (Sheikh Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Numani, al-Ghaybah al-Numani, p. 246)
Those who abandon or are opposed to him (Hazrat Mahdi (as) will be able to do him no harm. He will continue on the path of victory despite those who abandon him.(Ahmad Diya ad-Din al-Kamushkhanawi, Ramuz al-Ahadith, p. 487; from Al-Tabarani’s al-Mu'jam al-Kabir)
... From Abu Bashir: Imam Jaffar Sadik said this about the verse: “You would know them by their mark” (Surah Muhammad, 30): ALLAH KNOWS THEM, HOWEVER THIS VERSE HAS BEEN REVEALED CONCERNING THE QAIM [HAZRAT MAHDI (AS)]. HAZRAT MAHDI (AS) WILL KNOW THEM (THE HYPOCRITES) FROM THEIR FACES AND WITH HIS COMMUNITY, HE WILL (SPIRITUALLY) DESTROY THEM. (Sheikh Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Numani, al-Ghaybah al-Numani, p. 283)
O people, Almighty Allah has certainly FORBIDDEN YOU THE CRUEL, THE HYPOCRITES AND THEIR FOLLOWERS and has made Hazrat Mahdi (as), the most auspicious of the community of Muhammad … your commander, so join him. (Ibn Hajar al-Haythami, Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar fi `Alamat al-Mahdi al-Muntadhar, p. 31)
From Nahj al-Balagha: The Lord of believers (saas) said: "When he [Hazrat Mahdi (as)] hides away from people, NOT EVEN TRACKERS WILL BE ABLE TO SEE ANY TRACE OF HIM… (Kitab al-Ghayba, [Bihar al-Anwar, Vol. 51], Ansariyan Publications, Collected by: Muhammad Baqir Majlisi, Iran-Q’um, 2003, p. 186)
… at the end of time two currents of irreligion will gain strength:
One of them: Under the veil of duplicity, a fearsome individual named the Sufyan will deny the messengership of Muhammad (saas), and coming to lead the dissemblers, will try to destroy the Islamic Law [way of belief and practice]. To oppose him, a luminous individual called MUHAMMAD MAHDI from the family of the Prophet (saas) will come to lead the people of sainthood and perfection, who are bound to the luminous chain of the Family of the Prophet (saas), and HE WILL NEUTRALIZE THE CURRENT OF HYPOCRITES, which will be the collective personality of the Sufyan, and scatter it. (Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, Letters, The Sixth Sign, Fifteenth Letter - p. 79)
THIS WILL CONTINUE VICTORIOUSLY DESPITE THOSE WHO DEPART. HIS OPPONENTS AND THOSE WHO LEAVE HIM WILL DO HIM NO HARM... (Transmitted by Hazrat Jabir (ra); Great Portents of the Judgment Day, 487/6)
At Allah’s command, A COMMUNITY FROM MY UMMAH WILL CONSTANTLY AND HEROICALLY STRIVE AGAINST THE FOE, AND THEIR OPPONENTS WILL DO THEM NO HARM. This will continue until the Judgment Day.(Al-Barzanji, Al-Isha'ah li-ashrat al-sa'ah)
He [Hazrat Mahdi (as)] will depart from them for a time, and thus people of deviance will be separated. So that the ignorant will say: There is no need for the Family of Muhammad [one from the line of our Prophet (saas)] in order to reach Allah.” (Sheikh Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Nomani, al-Ghaybah al-Nomani, p. 161)
VERSES IN THE QUR’AN ABOUT HYPOCRITES
THEY ENCOURAGE REBELLION AGAINST THE PROPHET
Do you not see those who were forbidden to confer together secretly returning to the very thing they were forbidden to do, and conferring together secretly in wrongdoing and enmity and disobedience to the Messenger? And when they come to you they greet you with words Allah has never used in greeting you, and say to themselves ‘Why does Allah not punish us for what we say?’ Hell will be enough for them! They will roast in it. What an evil destination! (Surat al-Mujadala, 8)
Conferring in secret is from Satan, to cause grief to those who believe; but it cannot harm them at all, unless by Allah’s permission. So let the believers put their trust in Allah. (Surat al-Mujadala, 10)
They have already tried to cause conflict before, and turned things completely upside down for you, until the truth came and Allah’s command prevailed even though they detested it. (Surat at-Tawba, 48)
They try to conceal themselves from people, but they cannot conceal themselves from Allah. He is with them when they spend the night saying things which are not pleasing to Him. Allah encompasses everything they do. (Surat an-Nisa’, 108)
They have the word, ‘Obedience!’ on their tongues but when they leave your presence, a group of them spend the night plotting to do other than what you say. Allah is recording their nocturnal plotting. So let them be and put your trust in Allah. Allah suffices as a Guardian. (Surat an-Nisa’, 81)
HYPOCRITES BEARING NEWS AND THEIR BRINGING NOTHING BUT HARM AND EVIL
If they had gone out among you, they would have added nothing to you but confusion. They would have scurried about amongst you seeking to cause conflict between you, and among you there are some who would have listened to them. Allah knows the wrongdoers. (Surat at-Tawba, 47)
Among the people there are some who say, ‘We believe in Allah and the Last Day,’ when they are not believers. They think they deceive Allah and those who believe. They deceive no one but themselves but they are not aware of it. There is a sickness in their hearts and Allah has increased their sickness. They will have a painful punishment on account of their denial. (Surat al-Baqara, 8-10)
The men and women of the hypocrites are as bad as one another. They command what is wrong and forbid what is right and keep their fists tightly closed. They have forgotten Allah, so He has forgotten them. The hypocrites are deviators. (Surat at-Tawba, 67)
HYPOCRITES ARE UNABLE TO APPRECIATE ALLAH’S MESSENGER AND BELIEVERS
But all might belongs to Allah and to His Messenger and the believers. But the hypocrites do not know this. (Surat al-Munafiqun, 8)
THEY CHOOSE TO STAY BEHIND
Those who were left behind were glad to stay behind the Messenger of Allah. They did not want to struggle with their wealth and themselves in the Way of Allah. They said, ‘Do not go out to fight in the heat.’ Say: ‘The Fire of Hell is much hotter’, if they only understood. (Surat at-Tawba, 81)
THEY ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE SCARED
They swear by Allah that they are of your number, but they are not of your number. Rather, they are people who are scared. If they could find a bolt-hole, cave or burrow, they would turn and scurry away into it. (Surat at-Tawba, 56-57)
... Like panicked donkeys, fleeing from a lion. (Surat al-Muddathir, 50-51)
THEY ARE FULL OF HATRED TOWARDS THE BELIEVERS
There you are, loving them when they do not love you, even though you have iman in all the Books. When they meet you, they say, ‘We have iman.’ But when they leave they bite their fingers out of rage against you. Say, ‘Die in your rage.’ Allah knows what your hearts contain. (Surah Al ‘Imran, 119)
Or did those with sickness in their hearts imagine that Allah would not expose their malevolence? (Surah Muhammad, 29)
... They are indeed a disputatious people. (Surat az-Zukhruf, 58)
If something good happens to you, it galls them. If something bad strikes you, they rejoice at it. But if you are steadfast and guard against evil, their scheming will not harm you in any way. Allah encompasses what they do. (Surah Al ‘Imran, 120)
If they come upon you, they will be your enemies and stretch out their hands and tongues against you with evil intent, and they would dearly love you to become unbelievers. (Surat al-Mumtahana, 2)
THEY SEEK TO SET BELIEVERS AGAINST ONE ANOTHER
As for those who have set up a mosque, causing harm and out of disbelief, to create division between the believers, and in readiness for those who previously made war on Allah and His Messenger, they will swear, 'We only desired the best.' But Allah bears witness that they are truly liars. (Surat at-Tawba, 107)
If it had been a case of easy gains and a short journey, they would have followed you, but the distance was too great for them. They will swear by Allah: 'Had we been able to, we would have gone out with you.' They are destroying their own selves. Allah knows that they are lying. (Surat at-Tawba, 42)
Among them are those who listen to you and then, when they leave your presence, say to those who have been given knowledge,‘What was that he just said?’ They are those whose hearts Allah has sealed up and who follow their own desires. (Surah Muhammad, 16)
THEY BELIEVE THAT ALLAH’S PROMISE IS NOT CLOSE
At that point the believers were tested and severely shaken. When the hypocrites and people with sickness in their hearts said, ‘What Allah and His Messenger promised us was mere delusion.’ And a group of them said, 'People of Yathrib (Madina), Your position is untenable so return!' some of them asked the Prophet to excuse them, saying, 'Our houses are exposed,' when they were not exposed; it was merely that they wanted to run away. (Surat al-Ahzab, 11-13)
HYPOCRITES WILL SUFFER THE WORST PUNISHMENT
The hypocrites are in the lowest level of the Fire. You will not find any one to help them. (Surat an-Nisa’, 145)
Give news to the hypocrites that they will have a painful punishment (Surat an-Nisa’, 138)
THEY BREAK THEIR WORD AFTER GIVING IT
Those who break Allah’s contract after it has been agreed, and sever what Allah has commanded to be joined, and cause corruption on the earth, it is they who are the lost. (Surat al-Baqara, 27)
You see many of them taking those who are unbelievers as their friends. What their lower selves have advanced for them is evil indeed, bringing Allah’s anger down upon them. They will suffer punishment timelessly, for ever. (Surat al-Ma’ida, 80)
If they had been overrun from every side, and had then been asked to revert to kufr, they would have done so and hesitated very little about it. Yet they had previously made a contract with Allah that they would never turn their backs. Contracts made with Allah will be asked about. (Surat al-Ahzab, 14-15)
VERSES OF THE QUR’AN CONCERNING HOW PAGANS, HYPOCRITES AND DENIERS WILL BE HOSTILE TO HAZRAT MAHDI (AS) AND HIS COMMUNITY
Anyone who is the enemy of Allah and of His angels, and of His Messengers and of Gabriel and Michael should know that Allah is the enemy of the unbelievers.’ (Surat al-Baqara, 98)
Among the people there is someone whose words about the life of the world excite your admiration, and he calls Allah to witness what is in his heart, while he is in fact the most hostile of adversaries. (Surat al-Baqara, 204)
You who believe! Do not take any outside yourselves as intimates. They will do anything to harm you. They love what causes you distress. Hatred has appeared out of their mouths, but what their breasts hide is far worse. We have made the Signs clear to you if you use your intellect. (Surah Al ‘Imran, 118)
Allah knows best who your enemies are. Allah suffices as a Protector; Allah suffices as a Helper. (Surat an-Nisa’, 45)
When they come to you, they say, ‘We believe.’ But they entered with disbelief and left with it. Allah knows best what they were hiding. You see many of them rushing to wrongdoing and enmity and acquiring ill-gotten gains. What an evil thing they do! (Surat al-Ma’ida, 61-62)
In this way We have appointed as enemies to every Prophet satans from both mankind and from the jinn... (Surat al-An‘am, 112)
Arm yourselves against them with all the firepower and cavalry you can muster, to terrify the enemies of Allah and your enemies, and others besides them whom you do not know. Allah knows them. Anything you spend in the Way of Allah will be repaid to you in full. You will not be wronged. (Surat al-Anfal, 60)
We brought the tribe of Israel across the sea and Pharaoh and his troops pursued them out of tyranny and enmity... (Surah Yunus, 90)
Then on the Day of Rising He will disgrace them, and say, ‘Where are My partner gods for whose sake you became so hostile?’ Those given knowledge will say, ‘Today there is disgrace and evil for the unbelievers.’ (Surat an-Nahl, 27)
In this way We have assigned to every Prophet an enemy from among the evildoers. But your Lord is a sufficient guide and helper. (Surat al-Furqan, 31)
They retort, ‘Who is better then, our gods or him?’ They only say this to you for argument’s sake. They are indeed a disputatious people. (Surat az-Zukhruf, 58)
Do you not see those who were forbidden to confer together secretly returning to the very thing they were forbidden to do, and conferring together secretly in wrongdoing and enmity and disobedience to the Messenger? And when they come to you they greet you with words Allah has never used in greeting you, and say to themselves ‘Why does Allah not punish us for what we say?’ Hell will be enough for them! They will roast in it. What an evil destination! (Surat al-Mujadala, 8)
You who believe! Do not take My enemy and your enemy as friends, showing love for them when they have rejected the truth that has come to you, driving out the Messenger and yourselves simply because you believe in Allah your Lord... (Surat al-Mumtahana, 1)
When you see them, their outward form appeals to you, and if they speak you listen to what they say. But they are like propped-up planks of wood. They imagine every cry to be against them. They are the enemy, so beware of them. The curse of Allah be on them! How they are perverted! (Surat al-Munafiqun, 4)
You who have iman! Some of your wives and children are an enemy to you, so be wary of them. But if you pardon and exonerate and forgive, Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (Surat at-Taghabun, 14)
Among the people there is someone whose words about the life of the dunya excite your admiration, and he calls Allah to witness what is in his heart, while he is in fact the most hostile of adversaries. (Surat al-Baqara, 204)
O Prophet, struggle against the unbelievers and hypocrites and be harsh with them. Their shelter will be Hell. What an evil destination! (Surat at-Tawba, 73)
Do not obey the unbelievers and hypocrites and disregard their abuse of you. Put your trust in Allah. Allah suffices as a Protector. (Surat al-Ahzab, 48)
If the hypocrites and those with sickness in their hearts and the rumour-mongers in the City do not desist, We will set you onto them. Then they will only be your neighbours there a very short time. (Surat al-Ahzab, 60)
There was a group of nine men in the city causing corruption in the land and not putting things right. They said, “Let us make an oath to one another by Allah that we will fall on him and his family in the night and then say to his protector, ‘We did not witness the destruction of his family and we are telling the truth.’” They hatched a plot and We hatched a plot while they were not aware. (Surat an-Naml, 48-50)
He knows the eyes’ deceit and what people’s breasts conceal. (Surah Ghafir, 19)
Allah will defend those who believe. Allah does not love any thankless traitor. (Surat al-Hajj, 38)
When those who are unbelievers were plotting against you to imprison you or kill you or expel you: they were plotting and Allah was plotting, but Allah is the Best of Plotters. (Surat al-Anfal, 30)
They desired to trap him but We made them the losers. (Surat al-Anfal, 70)
