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UPDATE - THIS STORY IS FALSE
Will writes --- I found the following here:
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/profecias/esp_profecia01e2.htm
But more important:
Two weeks ago Iran watcher Amir Taheri published an article in which he alleged that there exists a Shi`i hadith stating that "a tall black man will assume the reins of government in the West...commanding the strongest army on Earth" and carrying a "clear sign" from the Third Imam, Husayn and that "Shi`is should have no doubt that he is with us" (http://bahrameradblg.blogspot.com/2008/10/obama-and-ahmadinejad-by-amir-taheri.html). This hadith was said to be contained in the collection Bahar al-Anvar by Mollah Majlisi and date to the 17th c. CE. Taheri spun an entire web of geopolitical analysis around this point, claiming that "the Khomeinist establishment sees Obama's rise as another sign of the West's decline and the triumph of Islam."
Problem is: it's not true. According to my contacts in Iran, including Professor Abolfazl Nurmuhammadpour at the Bright Future Institute--dedicated to teaching the world about the coming of the Mahdi, and the organization which sponsored the Mahdism Conference which I attended this past August in Tehran and Qom--and other ranking clerics at the Dar al-Hadith in Qom, this hadith is NOT authentic.
Another myth about President-Elect Barack Obama bites the dust.
http://www.mahdiwatch.org/2008.11.01_arch.html
Here's something I missed, from Amir Taheri in Forbes Magazine, October, 2008:
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Ein Umma, Ein staat. Muhammad said: "If you see the black flags coming from Khurasan, join that army, even if you have to crawl over ice, for that is the army of the Imam al-Mahdi and no one can stop that army until it reaches Jerusalem." Pay attention...
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Is Obama The Precursor to The Mahdi, According to Shia Tradition?
UPDATE - THIS STORY IS FALSE
Will writes --- I found the following here:
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/profecias/esp_profecia01e2.htm
But more important:
Two weeks ago Iran watcher Amir Taheri published an article in which he alleged that there exists a Shi`i hadith stating that "a tall black man will assume the reins of government in the West...commanding the strongest army on Earth" and carrying a "clear sign" from the Third Imam, Husayn and that "Shi`is should have no doubt that he is with us" (http://bahrameradblg.blogspot.com/2008/10/obama-and-ahmadinejad-by-amir-taheri.html). This hadith was said to be contained in the collection Bahar al-Anvar by Mollah Majlisi and date to the 17th c. CE. Taheri spun an entire web of geopolitical analysis around this point, claiming that "the Khomeinist establishment sees Obama's rise as another sign of the West's decline and the triumph of Islam."
Problem is: it's not true. According to my contacts in Iran, including Professor Abolfazl Nurmuhammadpour at the Bright Future Institute--dedicated to teaching the world about the coming of the Mahdi, and the organization which sponsored the Mahdism Conference which I attended this past August in Tehran and Qom--and other ranking clerics at the Dar al-Hadith in Qom, this hadith is NOT authentic.
Another myth about President-Elect Barack Obama bites the dust.
http://www.mahdiwatch.org/2008.11.01_arch.html
Here's something I missed, from Amir Taheri in Forbes Magazine, October, 2008:
Is Barack Obama the “promised warrior” coming to help the Hidden Imam of Shiite Muslims conquer the world?
The question has made the rounds in Iran since last month, when a pro-government Web site published a Hadith (or tradition) from a Shiite text of the 17th century. The tradition comes from Bahar al-Anvar (meaning Oceans of Light) by Mullah Majlisi, a magnum opus in 132 volumes and the basis of modern Shiite Islam.
According to the tradition, Imam Ali Ibn Abi-Talib (the prophet’s cousin and son-in-law) prophesied that at the End of Times and just before the return of the Mahdi, the Ultimate Saviour, a “tall black man will assume the reins of government in the West.” Commanding “the strongest army on earth,” the new ruler in the West will carry “a clear sign” from the third imam, whose name was Hussein Ibn Ali. The tradition concludes: “Shiites should have no doubt that he is with us.”
In a curious coincidence Obama’s first and second names–Barack Hussein–mean “the blessing of Hussein” in Arabic and Persian. His family name, Obama, written in the Persian alphabet, reads O Ba Ma, which means “he is with us,” the magic formula in Majlisi’s tradition.
-
Radio Free Europe: Zionists Waiting To Kill Hidden Imam, Says Iranian Cleric September 01, 2010 Mojtaba Zolnour, deputy representative of Iran's supreme leader in the Revolutionary Guard, has said that "Zionists" are waiting for the Hidden Imam to...
- Ein Reich, Ein Volk, Ein Fuhrer.
Ein Umma, Ein staat. Muhammad said: "If you see the black flags coming from Khurasan, join that army, even if you have to crawl over ice, for that is the army of the Imam al-Mahdi and no one can stop that army until it reaches Jerusalem." Pay attention...
- Ahmadinjad To Imams: "i Believe Everything That People Like You Taught Me."
Jihad Watch yesterday posted this summary of a recent speech by Iran president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to a group of clerics in Mashad, Iran. As Robert notes, even this brief summary is more than what we will hear from the MSM. It would make little difference...
- Ahmadinejad Got Flowers Dissed In Iraq
A'JAD'S ENDLESS IRAQ DEBACLE Amir Taheri - New York Post March 8, 2008 -- IT had been billed as a "triumph" for the Islamic Republic and "a slap in the face of the American Great Satan." However, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's two-day state...
- The Frightening Truth Of Why Iran Wants A Bomb
(Graphic is from the Polemiken weblog). Amir Taheri has an opinion piece The Daily Telegraph (UK) -- a rather frightening article about a dangerous psychotic . . . one who happens to be in power in Iran. (Amir Taheri is a former Executive Editor of...