The Mahdi is the Ma Adi (Primordial Mother) and Ma Treya (Mother Threefold)

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The Mahdi, (the name of the last of the twelve imams, the first being

Ali, son-in-law of Mohammed) according to Islam, and in particular

its Shiite branch, is the Savior to come at the time of the Last

Judgment to save the world. It is interesting to recall that Mahdi,

in Sanskrit, is the contraction of Ma Adi (Primordial Mother) in the

same way that the returning Savior according to Buddha, Maitreya, is

a contraction of Ma Treya (Mother threefold, trimorphic protonnoia or

trigunatmika).

 

The function of the Mahdi is similar to those attributed to the Kalki

of the Hindus, the Maitreya of the Buddhists or the Christ King of

the Christians. The return of the Mahdi constitutes the most frequent

prediction of the imams. Al-Kultani and Al-Nu'mani consecrated an

entire chapter and Ibn Babunye passed down in thirteen chapters the

predictions of the Prophet, Fatima and of the eleven imams on the

subject of the Twelfth imam.

 

The obscure presence of the Mahdi dominates totally the religious

conscience of imamism during the period of the disappearance of Ali

until the return of the awaited Savior. But here and there,

throughout the prophetic texts, there are hints of an esoteric

knowledge. " At the moment of birth a light pierced the top of the

child's head (a possible reference to the opening of the seventh

chakra) and reached into the depth of the sky. This child is the

Mahdi, He who will fill the earth with equality and justice just as

it is now filled with oppression and injustice. " 2

 

The universal precursory Sign of the return of the Mahdi, " He who

Guides, " consists of the general invasion of the earth by Evil

and the victory of the forces of Evil over those of Good. Without

such a manifestation, the entirety of humanity would be engulfed by

darkness.

 

Here we find extracts from the eulogies of Ali Talib describing

various components of the sign announcing the return of the Mahdi.

The Sign consists of the following traits: the people will neglect

prayer, squander the divinity which is conferred on them, legalize

untruths, practice usury, accept bribes, construct huge edifices,

sell religion to win this lower world, employ idiots, consult with

women, break family ties, obey passion and consider insignificant the

letting of blood. Magnanimity will be considered as weakness and

injustice as glory, princesses will be debauched and ministers will

be oppressors, intellectuals will be traitors and the reader of the

Koran vicious. False witness will be brought openly and immorality

proclaimed in loud voices. A word of promise will be slander, sin and

exaggeration.

 

" The sacred Books will be ornate, the mosques disguised, the

minarets extended. Criminals will be praised, the lines of combat

narrowed, hearts in disaccord and pacts broken. Women, greedy for the

riches of this lower world, will involve themselves in the business

of their husbands, the vicious voices of the man will be loud and

will be listened to. The most ignoble of the people will become

leaders, the debauched will be believed for fear of the Evil they

will cause, the liar will be considered as truthful and the traitor as

trustworthy… They will resort to singers and musical instruments

…

and women will horse ride, they will resemble men and the men will

resemble women. The people will prefer the activities of this lower-

world to those of the Higher-World and will cover with lambskin the

hearts of wolves. " 3

 

The Qaim (Mahdi) comes to re-establish the lost sense of sanctity.

Firstly He will re-establish Islam to its original purity and

integrity. 4 The imam is described also as energy-giving. The imam

says: " As to the way of benefiting from my presence (literally

– " to benefit of me " ) during my disappearance, it is

similar to the profit we gain from the sun while it is hidden from

sight by the clouds. " 5

 

According to Majid Golpur, a scholar who reviewed the relationship

between ancient Muslim writings and new revelations, some language

seem to refer to new cognitive powers that may be associated with the

rise of the Kundalini. All the faithful joining the ranks of the

Mahdi will be gifted with special miraculous powers, in particular

those of super sensitive communication with the imam. " At the

time of Advent of our Qur'an, " says Ja'far, " God, may

He be exalted and glorified, will develop the hearing and sight of

our faithful in such a manner that, without there being a messenger

between the Qa'im and themselves, He will speak with them and

they hear Him and see Him without Him having left the place where He

is. " 6

 

This text probably refers to the dawn of collective consciousness,

whose property is the connectivity described in the previous

chapters. More specifically, we can recognize a mention of the

vibratory consciousness of the chakras, which correspond to specific

locations in the hands. " For decisions which they have difficulty

in taking, they will receive instructions and direction from the imam

who will write on the palm of their hands, they need only look and

then execute the orders. " 7

 

The following language could possibly indicate a succession of imams

or the collectivity of realized souls, through the reference of the

wind. But, without subtler the subtler spiritual experience, it can

easily feed the delusion of self-appointed elect fanatics. God

speaks: " O Mohammad. These are My friends, My pure elect, and My

proof after you for mankind. They are your legatees and your priests

and the best of My creatures after you. By My Glory and My Majesty I

will manifest through them My Religion and I will raise through them

My Word; by the last of them (Mahdi) I will make the earth pure of My

enemies. I will establish him from the sunrise to the sunset

throughout the entire earth; I will confer to his power the wind and

will lower for him the stubborn clouds. I will help him with My Army

and aid him with My Angels until he raises My Name and the creatures

acknowledge My uniqueness, and then I will prolong his reign and I

will ensure the succession of My Friends over the time until the Day

of Resurrection. " 8

 

In this way the awaited Imam (al-Muntazar) Mad-dhi, Qaim, will

prepare the earth for the Last Judgment and the Resurrection. The

battle of Qa'im will mark the ultimate victory of the

`believers' against their `enemies' and the universal

and final establishment of the `religion' of the imams. The

community of the faithful is a familiar theme of all eschatology.

 

It is interesting to know that these texts imply a profound criticism

of Islam as some parts of the Arab world seem to know it. The

returned Mahdi will do as did the Prophet, destroying that which was

before, just as the Prophet destroyed the rituals of the period of

ignorance, and He will establish once again Islam. Our Qa'im will

repair the Mosque and will reconstruct His Mecca. The Qa'im will

bring a new Order, a new Book, a new Legislation and a New Tradition.

9

 

Of course the primary ambiguity of these prophecies is that they may

refer to more spiritual and ethical realities or be understood as a

militant call for a violent upheaval. But there are texts indicating

that these prophecies do not invite the fight of Islam against other

religions but rather, the fight of all religions for their inner

renewal. Mahdi will equally re-establish the other religions, also

abandoned and disfigured, in their original Truth and Purity.

 

Indeed: " The Mahdi will extract the Torah and the other Divine

Books from their caverns and will judge amongst the faithful of the

Evangiles according to the Evangiles, amongst the faithful of al-

Zabur (The Book of David) according to the al-Zabur and amongst the

faithful of the Koran according to the Koran. " 10

 

It is the universal initiation by the imam of all men into the

secrets of existence and of their own religions, and this is without

doubt the meaning which must be understood by the term Mahdi given by

the fifth imam al-Bagir: Mahdi (the Guide) is named as such because

it is he who will guide (Yahdi) us in the secret teachings. " 11

 

If so, the prediction of the Mahdi does not announce the victory of

zealot warriors who will wipe out non-believers, understood to be

other races or religions. Rather, the prophecies talk of the power of

love, not the might of hate. They would then refer to the fight

against ignorance, no doubt the most formidable of all battles. But

if Allah is indeed the Merciful and Compassionate, such is the most

likely meaning of the predictions of the imams. The real jihad is an

internal fight for our own purification, so that out full spiritual

potential might finally manifest. Consequently, even in the stern

Muslim prophecies we can read the hopeful and promising light of

mankind's renewal. This may or may not combine with events of

massive destruction that can still manifest. But let us focus on the

hopeful dimension of this momentous period.

 

Gregoire de Kalbermatten, The Third Advent,

King Printing 2003, pg. 205-8

 

 

2. Amir Moizzi, Guide Divine, Paris, 1/E.P.H.E., Paris en Sorbonne

3. al-Kulayi, Us G1 K.K al-Hujjan, Bab MS JS a fi l-ithna'

ashar, 11/468-485; al-Nu'Mani, K al-Ghayba,bab., p. 201, 281.

Ibn-Babuye, Kamal al-Din, Bab-5 24-38, p. 256, 385, see also Id, Hal,

Bab 12; Nahj-al-Balagha, p. 295, 424, 425, 458, 1158. 1180, 1222.

Kamal, bab 47, l,11/525-28

4. al-Nu'mani, op cit pages 333-59 " The Qa'im "

5. bab 45, n'Ibn-Babunye

6. al-Kulyni, al-Rawda, 11149

7. Al-Nu'mdni, op. cit, bab 214

8. Ibn Babunye, `Ilal, bab 7, pages 6-7, Kamal, bab 23, n 4,

1/256, `Uyan 1/bab 26, n 22, page 263

9. al-Numani – bab 13 page 336, bab 14, pages 36 and 378

10. Ibn Babunye, bab 129, 1/161; Ibn-Ayyash, Mugrad-Ab, 18159

11. al-Nu'mani, op, cit, p. 342

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shriadishakti , " jagbir singh "

<adishakti_org> wrote:

>

> The Mahdi, (the name of the last of the twelve imams, the first

> being Ali, son-in-law of Mohammed) according to Islam, and in

> particular its Shiite branch, is the Savior to come at the time of

> the Last Judgment to save the world. It is interesting to recall

> that Mahdi, in Sanskrit, is the contraction of Ma Adi (Primordial

> Mother) in the same way that the returning Savior according to

> Buddha, Maitreya, is a contraction of Ma Treya (Mother threefold,

> trimorphic protonnoia or trigunatmika).

>

> The function of the Mahdi is similar to those attributed to the

> Kalki of the Hindus, the Maitreya of the Buddhists or the Christ

> King of the Christians. The return of the Mahdi constitutes the

> most frequent prediction of the imams. Al-Kultani and Al-Nu'mani

> consecrated an entire chapter and Ibn Babunye passed down in

> thirteen chapters the predictions of the Prophet, Fatima and of the

> eleven imams on the subject of the Twelfth imam.

>

>

shriadishakti/message/1642

 

 

Sufi Islam

 

The origin of the name Sufi probably goes back to the term suf, which

refers to imple woolen cloaks. The original Sufi were basically

mystics - people who followed a pious form of Islam and who believed

that a direct, personal experience of God could be achieved through

meditation and self-discipline.

 

Sufism is important to the development of Islam because it is in this

tradition that the more spiritual and mystical aspects were

preserved. This stands in contrast to the mainstream of Islam which,

through its first centuries, was more concerned with the expansion

and organization of the general community.

 

Over time, of course, Sufism became institutionalized, and individual

mystics attracted groups of students and followers who learned to

follow the mystic's path, or tariqa. The tariqa is a set of mental

and even physical exercises designed to aid in the development of

communion with God.

 

Eventually, the term tariqa came to refer to any group of people

following a Sufi mystic, or shaikh (which means " old man "

or " teacher " ). Very often such groups took on something of a monastic

organization, not unlike Buddhist groups following a teacher.

 

Sufi orders or brotherhoods came to be called turuq, although it was

not until the 12th and 13th centuries that they became stable enough

to survive the death of their founder. This was achieved by the

founder personally nominating a successor, and thus there are some

today which can trace their lineage back to that time.

 

Some Sufi mystics did not even retain theism in their conception of

Islam: they substituted the Realm of Truth for Allah. When Buddhist

influences reached Iraq, some Sufis there moved close to outright

atheism (as did some zindiq or free-thinking sufis), and emphasized

self-annhilation as the entire goal.

 

This, however, was uncommon. Whereas mainstream Islam tended to be

rather scholastic in nature, Sufism focused on personal peity, which

was easier for many Muslims to accept and live by. Although the Sufis

tended to integrate beliefs and practices which came from outside

Islam, those beliefs and practices were integral in the cultures to

which Islam had been transplanted.

 

This made Sufism more appealing to indigenous people converting to

Islam. Thus, Sufis were effectively Muslim missionaries, presenting

to new peoples a more interesting face and belief system. They also

tended to act as defenders of the lower classes against corrupt

rulers.

 

Shi'ite beliefs had a lot of influence on Sufism, but mostly in the

early days when Shi'a was more a school of thought than a distinct

sect with its own ideology. One important idea which was transmitted

from from the Shi'a to Sufism is that of the Mahdi, a messianic

figure which will come to save Muslims from corrupt worldly rulers.

 

For the Shi'a, the Mahdi is the Twelfth Imam, who is currently

hidden. For the Sufi, however, the Mahdi won't necessarily be a

descendant of Ali, but will instead be a divinely guided leader who

will appear at the End of Time to restore justice and truth over the

forces of the indfidels. Although this has never been a formal

doctrine in Sunni Islam, it has gained a foothold in the imaginations

of most Muslims thanks to the Sufis.

 

Sufi Islam

http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/islam/blfaq_islam_sufi.htm