Is Imam Mehdi Married

[rahat]

Are there any indications, reports, anything that Imam Mehdi is or was married? Has he had children?

Are there 'Mehdi' syeds out there???

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rahat

[Renaissance_Man]

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QUESTION:

Does Imam Mahdi have any children? He is sometimes reffered as Abu

Salah,correct?

ANSWER:

There are certain riwayat (narrations) which indicate that our 12th Imam

(A.S.) has a family and children. He is known as Abu Swalah on the grounds

that his eldest son bears that name.

Asgherali M M Jaffer

[Guest Slave of Zahra]

assalamu alaikum

this may sound dumb but if he has children .. where r they? r they in occulation too?? will they reappear when he does ? does his children have children if so how ? who was the father/motherif they r in occulation?

UmAli

[Socrates]

assalamu alaikum

this may sound dumb but if he has children .. where r they? r they in occulation too?? will they reappear when he does ? does his children have children if so how ? who was the father/motherif they r in occulation?

UmAli

Imam Mahdi (as) lives in Jazeeratul Khidhra with his family and some Shi'a.

[Renaissance_Man]

(bismillah)

(salam)

Imam Mahdi  lives in Jazeeratul Khidhra

Where is this place located?

Edited July 21, 2003 by Ali786

[Abbas]

Salam Alaikum

Imam Mahdi  lives in Jazeeratul Khidhra with his family and some Shi'a

I heard that the reports of the jazeera tul khidhra (the green island) are weak.

I personally dont reject either view, just a point i wished to make

Allahu A'lam

[Socrates]

I heard that the reports of the jazeera tul khidhra (the green island) are weak.

Could be. Allahu Alam. But he does live on this earth somewhere.

[Zain]

(salam)

There are many theories and speculations, but we don't know, and will not know.

I heard that the reports of the jazeera tul khidhra (the green island) are weak.

Could be. Allahu Alam. But he does live on this earth somewhere.

I don't know what you mean by 'live', he does not have an address. He could be anywhere at anytime.

Edited July 21, 2003 by zain1

[Socrates]

I don't know what you mean by 'live', he does not have an address. He could be anywhere at anytime.

I mean he is on this earth. sorry if i was unclear.

[intrepid]

(salam) well as far as my knowings i believe Imam Mehdi (as) lives in the jazeeratul khizra also known as Bermuda Triangle,pfcourse he is married n has a lot of children,true that he can live anywhr at anytime but His Family and those momineens who r going to accompany him soon,abode that place

[Socrates]

Wow, the Bermuda Triangle? That's a new one to me!

I also read that bit in Aytullah Amini's book about Jazeeratul-Khudhra but I'm surprised you didn;t know about Bermuda Triangle! Thats been discussed many times and some 'ulama (mujtahids) are convinced that Imam Mahdi (as) does live there.

Allah knows best.

[roya]

don't think I'm crazy ... I "heard" this ... Imam Mahdi (as) would marry Lady Mariam (sa) after the dajjal is killed :huh:

[Socrates]

don't think I'm crazy ... I "heard" this ... Imam Mahdi (as) would marry Lady Mariam (sa) after the dajjal is killed :huh:

Lol that is way toooooooooooooooo funny :angel:

[rahat]

I think we all need to remember that Imam Mehdi IS human, hes not a metaphysical being. I imagine he eats and sleeps, wears clothes, etc etc - does normal human things.

So we will never know where he is, but I'm pretty sure he's somewhere...

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rahat

[abba]

The hadith about Jazeeratul Khizra and Bermuda Triangle are very weak. Reference: Moulana Sadiq Hasan Majalis, etc.

He does live somewhere on earth and periodically meets Momins (these momins do not know that they are meeting Imam AS at the time when he meets them.

"Please note that Imam (as) is always in contact with his supporters and followers all over the world, including North America. It is not necessary that the contacts can only be possible in Iran or Iraq."

The above reference was taken from the book THE BLESSED EYES

(Translation of Mulaqat ba Imam Zaman (as)

By

Aqai Syed Hasan Abtahi

I will post the link to the book when I find it.

ONE NEEDS TO BE CAREFUL ABOUT WHAT HE / SHE STATES ABOUT IMAM-E-ZAMANA (as) as the utmost respect for Imam (as) is essential.

Edited July 21, 2003 by abba

[salmany]

Sallam

According to Sunns he will come from Mecca...

[Socrates]

Sallam

According to Sunns he will come from Mecca...

According to Shias, he will come from Makka too but that doesn't mean he resides there.

[salmany]

Sallam

According to Sunns he will come from Mecca...

According to Shias, he will come from Makka too but that doesn't mean he resides there.

hmmm ok :P

Bermuda triangle...what are you trying to sya that imam mahdi is making all those ppl vanish ... :squeez: :unsure:

[Socrates]

what are you trying to sya that imam mahdi is making all those ppl vanish ...

The theory is that because Imam Mahdi cannot be seen until he reappears, Allah disappers them. Don't know how much truth there is in that.

Allah knows best.

[salmany]

what are you trying to sya that imam mahdi is making all those ppl vanish ...

The theory is that because Imam Mahdi cannot be seen until he reappears, Allah disappers them. Don't know how much truth there is in that.

Allah knows best.

so liek Alalh kills them or something.. :blink:

[Ya Aba 3abdillah]

(bismillah)

(salam)

Bro salmany, i'd like you to please provide some hadtih concerning Imam Mahdi (as) from sunni sources. Not about the time of his coming or the signs, but descriptions and attributes about him personaly.

You can start off by quoting sahih dawood.

jazakallah

ws

[BuZari]

Roya, was wondering, if Imam Mahdi(as) marries Lady Mariam, would he be called Jesus' step father or Holy Father? :blink:

BuZari

[salmany]

Sallam u Alaikum

1) Ali said, whilst looking at his son al-Hasan, This son of mine is a Sayyid (master), as the Prophet named him. Among his descendants there will be man named after your Prophet. He will resemble him in behaviour but not in looks. Then he told them the report which mentions that the earth will be filled with justice. (Abu Dawud and Mishkat)

Da`if Munqati' (chain of narration is broken)

2) The Prophet said, "The Mahdi will be one of my descendants; he will have a high forehead and a hooked nose. He will fill the earth with justice and fairness just as it was filled with injustice and oppression, and he will rule for seven years. (Abu Dawud)

Hasan, Abu Dawud: 3604. Translation states, "... a hooked nose." Correct translation is "... an aquiline nose."

3) Rasulullah said:

"He will be from my progeny and will be forty years of age. His face will shine like a bright star and he will have a black spot on his left cheek. He will don two "Qutwaani" cloaks and will appear exactly as a person from the Bani Israeel..." (Tabrani)

[Socrates]

He will be from my progeny and will be forty years of age.

In the Shia sources, it says he will appear to be thrity/forty , but in reality is much older.

[Ya Aba 3abdillah]

(bismillah)

(salam)

Bro salmany, from those hadiths you've given, what's "descendant" mean in your opinion???

ws

[HR]

don't think I'm crazy ... I "heard" this ... Imam Mahdi (as) would marry Lady Mariam (sa) after the dajjal is killed :huh:

Salam alaikum,

Roya :blink: If u have added "sa" after the name Mariam (as), then I believe its the name of Isa (as) 's Mother. Would u provide the reference to where u heard it from?

Kh

[baqar]

Sallam

According to Sunns he will come from Mecca...

(salam)

According to Shias also, his occultation will end with his re-appearance in Mecca.

The Bermuda triangle is only a hypothesis. We must not talk too much on the subject, rather wait patiently for his return, keeping our spirits alive with actions that will please him.

Also, by unnecessary blabber, we could be setting his enemies on his trail.

[Glorfindel]

(bismillah)

I Have been reading this topic with much interest, as I am in the process of doing some research on the issue of Imam Mahdi (as) from the Shia and Sunni sources. Without meaning to be offensive I would just like to point out that the chances of the Imam (as) residing there is small if not nil. Consider the following:

"Triangular area, Atlantic Ocean, whose apexes are usually said to be Bermuda, Miami, Fla., and San Juan, Puerto Rico. It has been the site of numerous disappearances of planes and ships, and various abandoned ships have been discovered there. Reports of unexplained occurrences in the region date to the mid-19th cent. Non-supernatural explanations cite the area's violent freak storms, the local turbulence of the Gulf Stream, and the quickly shifting topology of the area's seabed. It is also one of the rare regions where magnetic north coincides with true north, which could disorient inexperienced pilots." - Britannica Encyclopedia.

Please that it is an area of ocean and hence contains no fixed land! The size of the triangle varies from 500,000 square miles to three times that size, depending on the imagination of the author. (Some include the Azores, the Gulf of Mexico, and the West Indies in the "triangle.") Some trace the mystery back to the time of Columbus. Even so, estimates range from about 200 to no more than 1,000 incidents in the past 500 years. Howard Rosenberg claims that in 1973 the U.S. Coast Guard answered more than 8,000 distress calls in the area and that more than 50 ships and 20 planes have gone down in the Bermuda Triangle within the last century.

Many theories have been given to explain the extraordinary mystery of these missing ships and planes. Evil extraterrestrials, residue crystals from Atlantis, evil humans with anti-gravity devices or other weird technologies, and vile vortices from the fourth dimension are favorites among fantasy writers. Strange magnetic fields and oceanic flatulence (methane gas from the bottom of the ocean) are favorites among the technically-minded. Weather (thunderstorms, hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, high waves, currents, etc.) bad luck, pirates, explosive cargoes, incompetent navigators, and other natural and human causes are favorites among skeptical investigators.

There are some skeptics who argue that the facts do not support the legend, that there is no mystery to be solved, and nothing that needs explaining.The number of wrecks in this area is not extraordinary, given its size, location and the amount of traffic it receives. Many of the ships and planes that have been identified as having disappeared mysteriously in the Bermuda Triangle were not in the Bermuda Triangle at all. Investigations to date have not produced scientific evidence of any unusual phenomena involved in the disappearances. Thus, any explanation, including so-called scientific ones in terms of methane gas being released from the ocean floor, magnetic disturbances, etc., are not needed. The real mystery is how the Bermuda Triangle became a mystery at all.

The modern legend of the Bermuda Triangle began soon after five Navy planes [Flight 19] vanished on a training mission during a severe storm in 1945. The most logical theory as to why they vanished is that lead pilot Lt. Charles Taylor’s compass failed. The trainees' planes were not equipped with working navigational instruments. The group was disoriented and simply, though tragically, ran out of fuel. No mysterious forces were likely to have been involved other than the mysterious force of gravity on planes with no fuel. It is true that one of the rescue planes blew up shortly after take-off, but this was likely due to a faulty gas tank rather than to any mysterious forces.

Over the years there have been dozens of articles, books, and television programs promoting the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle. In his study of this material, Larry Kushe found that few did any investigation into the mystery. Rather, they passed on the speculations of their predecessors as if they were passing on the mantle of truth. Of the many uncritical accounts of the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle, perhaps no one has done more to create this myth than Charles Berlitz, who had a bestseller on the subject in 1974. After examining the 400+ page official report of the Navy Board of Investigation of the disappearance of the Navy planes in 1945, Kushe found that the Board wasn't baffled at all by the incident and did not mention alleged radio transmissions cited by Berlitz in his book. According to Kushe, what isn't misinterpreted by Berlitz is fabricated. Kushe writes: "If Berlitz were to report that a boat were red, the chance of it being some other color is almost a certainty." (Berlitz, by the way, did not invent the name; that was done by Vincent Gaddis in "The Deadly Bermuda Triangle," which appeared in the February, 1964, issue of Argosy, a magazine devoted to fiction.)

In short, the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle became a mystery by a kind of communal reinforcement among uncritical authors and a willing mass media to uncritically pass on the speculation that something mysterious is going on in the Atlantic.

Allah (swt) has given us aqal, lets use it!

(salam)

[TaHa]

as Salaamu alaykum

You all make me laff. You all can write some funny posts. Like Zain says "Stop making Islam into Greek mythology". I laffed out loud. Couldn't breathe for a minute.. :!!!: I think I'm OK now...

The Imam is a powerful spiritual force that comes from Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala. The Imam is a sacred being by the grace of Allah. You cannot bring this down to the mundane. If you do, you will miss the boat... remember: the Ahl al Bayt is like an ark... if you don't get onboard, you'll go down in the flood...

Wasalaam

[FatimaZahra]

Salaam,

Those who say maryam (sa) is going to marry him, maryam (sa) has passed away you know, of course its possible to be brought back to life, but theres never been ANYTHING regarding maryam (sa) ever being married, or in this case going to be married

[Irum]

wow i jus realised tht this topic is like 6 years old!!

whats with the bermuda triangle thing tho?

any updates on that over the past 6 years?

jazakAllah

[FatimaZahra]

Salaam,

you guys really shouldn't be saying, or assuming, where Imam Mahdi (as) lives, how would we know, just because scholars say so, doesnt mean its true, you should see the chain of sources, by the way, ive said this before i think, but someone has gone through the bermuda triangle before, and they didnt die or dissapear, and his destination is originally 6 hrs, but he went through the bermuda triangle and its like some "time portal" you could say, because he got there in only 2 hrs.

Wa salam

[Nima]

I wonder one thing about Mehdis Imam (as) arrival. How will he communicate with the entire ummah, only in Arabic?

[*~Fatima~*]

^ Imam Mahdi (a) speaks with the voice of the heart. As for worldly languages, obviously he knows more than we know exist.

[Fatimai81]

From what I heard in various Islamic study, history and Qur'an and Sunnah classes while I was in Islamic school for about 13 years, is that Imam Mehdi and Maryam (ra) are already ordained by Allah (SWT) to be together, thought in this temporary world but int he next, since she (ra) has already passed away. The reason being is that Maryam (ra) embodied immaculate piety, chastity, and righteousness and died unmarried. Resultingly, Allah (SWT) promised her the best of all humans, apart from and/or after the Prophet (S) of course, which technically would be Imam Mehdi as he is going to be the "Rightly Guided" which his name implies. I could be wrong, and pray that Allah (SWT) forgives me for my shortcomings and/or mistakes especially since I haven't located any Hadith or Ayat supporting my claim. But I'd greatly appreciate it if someone else could possibly expand on this and perhaps even provide some proof whether it be in compliance with what I've stated above or not. Thanks in advance :).

And about the Bermuda Triangle thing, I feel as if I've heard of that before, like something triggered in my brain recalling a past memory, when reading all of the posts regarding it. But I do get the notion that it's kind of a hazy, ungrounded, effort to try to understand phenomenons, especially when talking about someone so grand, (apart from the Prophets of Islam and the final Prophet (PBUT)) like Imam Mehdi, which can't be understood or contemplated within the very limited my mind, body, heart and soul of the human being. As a result, it's an aspect of life that is to come, which leaves us with the only option of putting our trust with Allah, who has promised to see it through.