I always tell people to beware of "prophecies" they find on the internet but this one is just too interesting not to share. We need to know the beliefs of our enemies. From
PJ Lifestyle:
In a fascinating article for FrontPage Magazine titled “Now the Twelfth Imam Can Come,”
scholar of Islam Robert Spencer provides a crash course on the nature
of Twelver Shi’ite theology, with particular reference to a nuclearizing
Iran. Shi’ites believe in the return of the so-called Twelfth Imam who
is descended from Mohammed’s son-in-law Ali ibn Abni Talib, the fourth
caliph assassinated in 661 in a succession war, after which the split
between Sunnis and Shi’ites eventually became permanent. As Spencer
explains, the Shi’ites continued a line of imams, “members of Muhammad’s
household and his prophetic heirs. Each one in turn, over two
centuries, was poisoned.…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.” Though
communicating with the world through various agents, he entered the
state of “occultation” in 941, promising to return when the time would
be propitious.
The reigning authority on Twelver Shi’ism is the historian Emmanuel Sivan, who in his magisterial volume on the subject,
Radical Islam: Medieval Theology and Modern Politics,
warned that an integral part of Shi’a Islam’s belief and thought
involves the initiating of a planetary conflagration. This belief system
posits that Allah’s kingdom will be established on earth by the Twelfth
or Hidden Imam, also known as the Mahdi, whose advent can be hastened
by creating the right set of circumstances: friction and
misunderstanding among the nations and violent upheavals in a welter of
blood and fire.
Incredulous westerners who would pass this off as merely a quaint
belief to be taken with a grain of salt, or indeed with a whole salt
shaker, should reconsider. Sivan spends many pages describing and
analyzing the Shi’ite vision of an “ideal, legitimate state to be
instituted by its leader, the Hidden Imam.” Over the course of history,
he writes, a “minority of Shi’ites, quite substantial and dangerous at
times, would move from pessimistic idealism to an optimistic brand of
the same approach—the imam’s arrival is imminent, God’s kingdom is bound
to be brought upon earth by this messiah (mahdi), and one should help precipitate its descent by armed revolt.”
The Mahdi’s arrival has been eagerly anticipated and rumor has it that
Iran’s former president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad—like Supreme Leader Ali
Khamenei, a fervent believer in the Mahdi’s parousia—widened a
boulevard in Tehran to welcome the savior with public celebrations. This
may be a canard, but even were it the case, Ahmadinejad need not have
bothered. That was yesterday; today is a new beginning.
What the world does not yet know is precisely that of which the
Iranian mullahs are now gleefully aware, namely, that the Twelfth Imam
has already returned and is hard at work arranging the coming
apocalypse. According to an occult scripture, unearthed in a clay jar at
an excavation works near the Arak nuclear site, that only the
ayatollahs and a few select individuals (like the present writer) have
been privileged to study, the Mahdi has fulfilled all the signs and
portents that announce his presence.* (Read more.)
Via
The Free Republic.
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