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Every
army fighting in ME is relying on religious narrative -
Christian/Jewish Zionists waiting for Messiah, Shias & Sunnis for
Mehdi..
You cannot define this latest Crusade in simple narrative
- It has deep religious roots but oil, gas, pipelines & land also
tag along!
The tragedy is that a bloody Shia-Sunni sectarian war is
raging on expected "Mehdi" but no one knows his whereabouts or time of
arrival. And when the Mehdi will come eventually, still Shias &
Sunnis will fight yet again, as both expect him to be from their sect.
He wont be :-)
In this frenzied, fanatic mindset of extreme
positions, both Shias & Sunni hardliners fail to see that the status
of Mehdi is above sect!
What is the sect of the Prophet of Islam
Sayyadi Rasul Allah (sm)???? What is the sect of first 4 righteous
Caliphs?? Shia or Sunni??
Shias will fight against Iman Mehdi.
Yes, they will. Because he will NOT be a typical Shia of today. Same
crisis will be faced by Sunnis too.
As far as Khawarij are
concerned, they are neither Shias NOT Sunnis. ISIS, TTP are NOT Sunnis.
But these Khawarij benefit in this sect war. Khawarij & Jews are
both enemies of Shias & Sunnis. But both sects are exhausting their
energies in fighting each other.This is real tragedy.
Iqbal is
the only Muslim thinker, visionary who have properly understood the
complex soul of the phenomenon of Mehdi. Everyone else is confused.
Iqbal's understanding of "Mehdi" is stunning, dynamic, full of action,
struggle & clarity of vision. It is NOT confused, vague or foggy.
You can imagine the confusion within Shia doctrine of Mehdi that once
Shias kept horses ready outside a cave for 300 years, waiting for him.
Even now, the war frenzy in Syria & Yemen has again ignited the
euphoria in Shias that the promised Mehdi is about to emerge, creating
chaos.
"The one who is inspired first by God to lead the revival of
the Ummah in darkest of times against heaviest of odds,will be the
Mehdi" Iqbal
According to Iqbal, instead of waiting for the
promised Mehdi, one should rise and become the "Mehdi" of the time to
revive the dead Ummah. Like the promised day of judgement, it will come
indeed, but for a man, his day of judgement is his death for which he
must act NOW.
Iqbal has drawn his concept of "Mehdi" from the
Hadees of the Prophet, where the first rightly guided caliphs have also
been called "Mehdis"
