It should be noted at the outset that my book (The Awaited Messages) does not refer to or praise any person who has appeared in the past or present as a messenger from God Almighty. The proofs, evidences and miracles that I have mentioned in this book and with which God Almighty will support the next messenger have not appeared with anyone who has claimed to be the Mahdi or a messenger, whether in the past or present, and I also do not refer in this book to myself or to anyone I know near or far. I do not have the proofs that come with the messengers, nor am I a memoriser of the Holy Qur'an, nor have I been endowed by Allah to interpret the similar verses or the broken letters in the Holy Qur'an, nor have I found it in anyone who claims to be the expected Mahdi, whether in the present or who claimed to be the Mahdi in the past, as the coming messenger is described as a “clear messenger” [al-Dukhan: 13] i.e. he will be clearly visible to those who have knowledge and insight, and he will have tangible evidence that will prove that he is a messenger from Allah and not just visions, dreams and fantasies, and the evidence he has will be clear to the whole world and not specific to a certain group of people.
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This book is a message to you and to future generations so that the day does not come when you will be shocked by the appearance of a messenger from Allah (swt) warning you of His torment and you do not believe him, disbelieve him and curse him, so that you become regretful for what you have done, I also emphasise that I am a Muslim on the doctrine of Ahl al-Sunnah al-Jama'ah. I have not changed my faith, nor have I converted to Bahaism, Qadianism, Shiism, Sufism or any other sect, as I do not believe in return or that the Mahdi is alive and hidden in a crypt for hundreds of years, or that the Mahdi or our Lord Jesus, peace be upon him, have appeared before and died, or such beliefs.
I have changed my centuries-old belief that the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) is the Seal of the Messengers. I now believe, as stated in the Holy Qur'an and the Sunnah, that Muhammad (peace be upon him) is the Seal of the Prophets only, and based on this new belief, my view of many verses in the Holy Qur'an that indicate that Allah will send another Messenger following and applying the law of our Prophet in the future has changed according to this new belief.
My belief that God Almighty will send a new messenger before the coming signs of torment was not a belief from a long time ago, but it was before the dawn prayer on 27 Sha'ban 1440 AH corresponding to 2 May 2019 AD in Ibrahim Al-Khalil Mosque near my house in the 6th of October neighbourhood in Greater Cairo, where I was reading the Quran as usual before the dawn prayer, and I stopped at the verses of Surah Al-Dukhan which talks about the sign of the torment of smoke, the Almighty said: (9) Watch for the day when the sky will be covered with visible smoke (10) People will be overwhelmed by this painful punishment (11) Our Lord, reveal the punishment from us, for we believe (12) How can they have remembrance when a clear messenger has come to them (13) Then they turned away from him and said, "You are a teacher. (14) We reveal the punishment for a little while, but you will return (15) On the day we will strike the great blow, we will take revenge (16) [al-Dukhan] I suddenly stopped reading as if I was reading these verses for the first time in my life because of the mention of a messenger described as a 'clear messenger' I repeated reading these verses throughout the day until I understood them well, and I read all the explanations about these verses and found that there is a difference in the interpretation of these verses, as well as a difference in the chronological linkage of the interpretation of these verses, as one verse is interpreted as that the sign of smoke had appeared and ended during the time of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), then followed by a verse interpreted that the sign of smoke would occur in the future, then the next verse was interpreted that it was during the time of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), and from that day I started a journey in searching for the existence of a messenger that Allah would send before the sign of smoke in accordance with the words of Almighty Allah: 'And we were not tormented until we sent a messenger (15)' [Al-Israa: 15], until I became fully convinced that the Prophet (peace be upon him) is only the Seal of the Prophets, not the Seal of the Messengers, as Allah Almighty said in Surat Al-Ahzab: 'Muhammad was not the father of one of your men, but the Messenger of God and the Seal of the Prophets, and God is all-knowing (40)' [Al-Ahzab]. Allah, who is all-knowing, did not say in this verse that He is the Seal of the Messengers, nor does the verse indicate that every messenger is a prophet, so there is no correlation between the two.
The famous rule (that every messenger is a prophet, but not every prophet is a messenger) is the opinion of the majority of scholars; this rule is not one of the verses of the Holy Qur'an nor is it one of the sayings of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), nor is it reported by any of the companions of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) or any of their followers, as far as we know, and this rule seals all kinds of messages sent to creation by Allah Almighty, whether from angels, wind, clouds, etc. The angel of death is a messenger assigned to collect people's souls, and there are messengers of angels called the Karam al-Kateebun, whose job is to memorise and write down the deeds of the servants, whether good or bad, and many other messengers, such as Munkar and Nakir, who are in charge of the temptation of the grave, so if we assume that our master Muhammad, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, is the seal of the prophets and messengers at the same time, then there is no messenger from Allah Almighty to collect the souls of people, and so on.
The Islamic law, including prayer, fasting, pilgrimage, zakat, inheritance and all the rules and laws of the Holy Qur'an, are laws that will remain until the end of time, in accordance with the saying: 'Today I have completed your religion for you, and I have perfected my grace for you, and have chosen for you Islam as your religion (3)' [Al-Ma'idah: 3], but the messengers who will come in the future, including Jesus, peace be upon him, will not change anything in this religion. They will be Muslims like us, praying, fasting and giving zakat, they will rule between people according to the law of Islam, they will teach Muslims the Qur'an and the Sunnah, and they will strive to spread this religion, they are on the religion of Islam and will not bring a new religion.
There are great signs of torment that are expected and proven from the Qur'an and the Sunnah that have not yet come, including (the smoke, the rising of the sun from its sunset, Agog and Magog, and three eclipses: One eclipse in the East, one in the Maghreb, one in the Arabian Peninsula, and the last of these is a fire that will come out of Yemen that will drive people to their grave) These are very large signs of torment that will affect millions of people, not signs of torment that include a village, tribe or people like what happened with the people of Salih or Ad, so it is better that Allah Almighty sends messengers to warn millions before the very large signs of torment fall: "And we were not punishing until we sent a messenger" [Al-Israa': 15]. If the messengers were sealed by our Lord Muhammad, peace be upon him, those millions of people would not be punished and the signs of torment mentioned in the Qur'an and Sunnah would not fall on them, because the failure of Allah (SWT) to send warners to the oppressors makes them an argument against Allah (SWT) that they did not know of His punishment..! The Almighty says: 'We did not destroy any village except that it had warners (208), and we were not unjust (209)' [Al-Shu'araa]. It cannot be said that the Prophet (peace be upon him) warned humanity fourteen centuries ago of the signs of the Hour, as there are millions of people today who do not understand anything about Islam or the message of our Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), and it is the unchanging Sunnah of Allah to send messengers before the signs of torment fall upon the people and for these messengers to witness the occurrence of these signs in accordance with the words of the Almighty Almighty: We will support our messengers and those who believe in the life of this world and on the day of the witnesses (51)( [Ghafir], it is the unchanging Sunnah of Allah Almighty, as Allah Almighty says: 'The Sunnah of those whom we have sent before you from our messengers, and you will not find a change in our Sunnah (77)( [Al-Israa].
After I turned 45 years old, the belief that our master Muhammad (peace be upon him) was the Seal of the Prophets and Messengers changed to the belief that our master Muhammad (peace be upon him) was only the Seal of the Prophets and not the Seal of the Messengers, and because of this change, I was able to decipher the symbols of many verses in the Holy Qur'an that speak of a coming messenger. many verses in the Holy Qur'an that talk about a coming messenger, and I was able to decipher verses that talk about the conditions of the Hour. Through this, I was able to link and arrange the conditions of the Hour with what came from the Holy Qur'an and the Sunnah, which I would not have been able to link, arrange, and understand if I had not changed my belief.
It was not easy for me to change my belief. I went through many difficult stages between doubt and certainty. One day I would be in a stage of doubt and say to myself that there will be no messenger coming, and another day I would reach a stage of certainty after turning on the radio in my car and hearing a Quranic verse from the Holy Quran radio station that brings me back to certainty, or reading new verses from the Quran that prove to me that there will be a messenger coming.
I had a large amount of evidence from the Qur'an and Sunnah that made me certain that a messenger was coming, so I had two options: I met with an Azhari sheikh and talked to him about my belief and read him the verses of smoke and told him that the messenger mentioned in these verses is a coming messenger and not the Prophet: He indirectly disbelieved me and said, "With this belief, you have entered a stage of disbelief in the religion of Islam..." I told him that I pray, fast and testify that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, and that our master Muhammad is the Seal of the Prophets as mentioned in the Qur'an, and that my belief that the Prophet is not the Seal of the Messengers does not make me an infidel, and I mentioned some other evidences that support my point of view, but he was not convinced and left me, saying to himself that I have entered the stage of disbelief, and another who read part of my book told me that I would ignite a sedition, then I remembered the vision of marriage to the Prophet Mary, peace be upon her. which was on 22 Dhu al-Qa'dah 1440 AH corresponding to 25 July 2019, where I saw that I was married to Lady Maryam (peace be upon her) and I was walking with her on the road and she was to my right, and I said to her, "I wish Allah Almighty would give me a child from you." She said, "Not until you finish what you have to do." She left me and continued on her way forward, and I went to the right and stopped and thought about her answer and said that she had truth in what she said, and the vision came to an end.
After I published this vision, a friend's interpretation of this vision was ("The interpretation concerns a major reform in religious belief, which may concern you or one of your descendants, and although this reform is the truth, it will meet with strong and intolerable opposition."). I did not understand the interpretation of the vision at the time.
I decided to write this book and every time I finished part of it, I hesitated to complete the book and throw what I wrote in the trash bin, because the book discusses a dangerous belief and deals with the interpretation of many verses of the Holy Quran contrary to the interpretations that have existed for fourteen centuries, and my tongue says that I did not understand anything so as not to fall into that fitna and confusion, as I became in fitna and had two options before me as I mentioned earlier and both options have reasons that make me very confused.
The first option: To keep the evidence of Allah's sending of a future messenger to myself, for the following reasons:
1- Announcing this belief will open a very large door of controversy, debate and attack that will not end until I die, and I will be accused of infidelity, Sufism, Baha'i, Qadianism, Shi'ism and other accusations that I do not need, and I am basically still a Muslim on the doctrine of Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jama'a, but the only fundamental difference now is the belief in the appearance of a messenger coming before the signs of torment in accordance with the words: 'And we were not punishing until we sent a messenger (15)' [al-Israa: 15].
2- This is not my battle but the battle of the next messenger who will come with practical evidence, proofs, proofs and miracles that will support his argument, whereas I only have what I wrote in this book and this will not be enough to convince people, and the next messenger, although he will come with proofs and miracles that prove his message, will be met with disbelief and distortion, so what should I think about what will happen to me compared to the next messenger and his proofs?
3- The belief that the Prophet (peace be upon him) is the Seal of the Messengers has become a belief like the sixth pillar of Islam that no one can debate, and changing this belief (rooted in the hearts of Muslims for fourteen centuries) in a short period or through a single book is not easy, but requires a very long time commensurate with the length of time of this belief, or requires the appearance of the expected Prophet with proofs and miracles through which he can change this belief in a short period of time.
The second option: To publish all the evidence I have found through a book that discusses this belief, for the following reasons:
1- I fear that if I keep these evidences to myself, I will be one of those of whom the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: "Whoever withholds knowledge, Allah will give him a bridle of fire on the Day of Judgement" [Narrated by Abdullah bin Amr]. What I have reached in this book is considered a trust that I must communicate to people even if it costs me a lot of trouble, because my goal is the satisfaction of Allah Almighty and not the satisfaction of the servants of Allah Almighty about me, I am not the type that goes with the caravan in both right and wrong.
2- I am afraid that I will die and then a messenger will appear sent by Allah (SWT) to call people to return to obedience to Allah (SWT) or they will be tormented, and Muslims will disbelieve him, disbelieve him and curse him, and all their actions will be in the balance of my misdeeds on the Day of Judgement because I did not tell them anything of the knowledge that Allah (SWT) blessed me with, and they will stand before me on the Day of Judgement and blame me for not telling them what I have attained and known.
I felt confused and exhausted from too much thinking during this period and could not sleep easily, so I prayed to Allah (swt) to give me a vision in which my question would be answered: Should I continue writing and publishing the book or should I stop writing this book? On 18 Muharram 1441, 17 September 2019, I saw this vision.
(I saw that I had finished writing my new book on the signs of the hour, printed it and delivered part of the copies to the publishing house, and the rest of the copies of my new book remained in my car to distribute them to other publishing houses, so I took one of the copies of the book to see how well it was printed, and I found that the cover was excellent, but when I opened the book, I was surprised that its dimensions were smaller than what I had designed. The result was that the size of the writing became small and required the reader to bring his eyes closer to the pages or use glasses to read my book, but there were a few pages in the first third of my book with the normal dimensions of any book, and the writing in it is normal and everyone can read it. After that, the owner of the printing press who had printed a previous book for me (The Character of the Shepherd and the Shepherdess) appeared with a book he had printed for another author, and this book deals with smoke, one of the great signs of the Hour, so I told him that my book includes all the signs of the Hour. The owner of this printing press examined his book and found that it was printed in an excellent manner, but it had an error in pagination, as the first page and the last page behind the cover were not sequential with the book, but I noticed on the last page of his book the last verse of Surah al-Dukhan, which is 'Watch and wait, for they are watching'.)
The interpretation of this vision was as told to me by a friend: "The first third, which has some clear pages but is not well fixed, relates to things that will happen in your life that have not yet happened to prove it, and the other book, which is printed perfectly and clearly, and relates to the verse of smoke, is an indication - God knows best - of the approaching occurrence of this verse, for this is its time and God knows best, and for this verse to happen it will have a beginning different from what we expect and an end we did not imagine. Another friend interpreted this vision and said: (Your vision means the approaching appearance of a person on whom people will gather and who will be the shepherd of the shepherd, and the first sign will be the appearance of smoke in the sky, and as for your book, only those with great insight from Allah (swt) will be able to understand it, and I believe that the corroded leaves that are about to be cut are interpretations of well-established verses and hadiths. The two interpreters of the vision did not know what my book was about, so I decided to continue writing the book despite the psychological troubles I faced due to my fear of the controversy, disbelief, and troubles that I do not know the consequences of.
Through this book, I have tried to combine the correct text from the Qur'an and Sunnah with scientific truth based on the latest findings of modern science; I have placed many verses in this book and interpreted them in accordance with the Qur'an and Sunnah and in accordance with modern scientific theories, and I have arranged the conditions of the Hour by my diligence, as it is possible that the day may come when this order will not apply or some of it may differ, and it is possible that my projection of some verses indicating a messenger other than the expected Mahdi or Jesus, peace be upon him, may err in the order of the coming messenger, but in the end this is my diligence. However, I tried as much as possible to connect all the threads and projections from the Book, Sunnah and scientific evidence in order to arrange these events, but in the end, this is my diligence, I may be right in some places and wrong in others, as I am not an infallible prophet or messenger. But the only thing that I am sure of from the Book and the Sunnah is that there is a coming messenger who will warn people of the torment of smoke, and that most people will not believe this messenger, so the torment of smoke will fall on them, and then the great Shari'at of the Hour will follow after that, and God knows best.
Although I believe in this book that a messenger will appear, I will not have to bear the weight of anyone who will follow a false messenger, because in this book I have laid down conditions and proofs by which Allah Almighty will support the next messenger so that no one who reads this book will be deceived by him, yet a small number will follow the next messenger. My book, even if it spreads, will not add or subtract from this small number unless Allah wills otherwise; but the burden of those who lie, argue and insult the coming messenger will fall on the shoulders of the scholars who have read and considered the evidences and proofs mentioned in the Book and the Sunnah that prove the coming of a messenger. Nevertheless, they insisted and fatwaed that our master Muhammad, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, is the Seal of Messengers and not only the Seal of Prophets as mentioned in the Book and the Sunnah, and for this fatwa, many Muslims will be led astray who will deny the coming messenger, so they will bear the burden of their fatwa and the burden of those they led astray, and their saying, "This is what we found our fathers and their scholars upon" will not help them at that time. This is what we found our fathers and our former scholars on) because they were presented with evidence and proofs, but they argued and rejected it. Please think about the fate of your children and grandchildren when the next messenger will warn them of the torment of smoke, as all messengers have been disbelieved by most people and this is what will happen in the future with the next messenger -God knows best, so the messengers continue to be successive in the succession of nations, and successive in the passage of time, and they are disbelieved in every age by the majority of people, as the Almighty said: "Whenever a nation comes with its messenger, they disbelieve him, so We followed some of them and made them stories, so far be it from the people who do not believe" [Al-Mu'minoon: 44].
The person who goes to God does not hang his faith on the opinion of others, but thinks with his mind, looks with his eyes and hears with his ears and not with the ears of others, and does not allow traditions to stand as a stumbling block on his way to God Almighty, for how many old traditions and customs have been abandoned, and how many old theories have given way to new ones: 'We found our fathers on an ummah, and we are guided by their footsteps (22)' [Al-Zukhraf].
I will conclude this book with what the Almighty says in Surah al-Kahf: (54) What prevented people from believing when guidance came to them and asking for forgiveness from their Lord, except that the Sunnah of the first generation would come upon them, or that the punishment would come before them. (55) We do not send messengers except as heralds and warners, and those who disbelieve argue with falsehood to refute the truth, and they take My Signs and what they have been warned of as a mockery (56) Who is more wicked than he who is reminded of the Signs of his Lord and turns away from them and forgets what his hands have done? We have put a veil over their hearts to prevent them from understanding it, and in their ears a dullness, and if You call them to guidance, they will never be guided. (57) And Your Lord is the Forgiving One, the Merciful One, if He were to punish them for what they have done, He would hasten the punishment for them. (58) And those villages We destroyed when they were unjust, and We made a promise for those who destroyed them (59) [Al-Kahf]. I will leave it to you to interpret these verses in the same way that I have interpreted the verses in this book, for these verses I believe - God knows best - will be repeated in the reappearance of this book.God knows best, these verses will be repeated at the appearance of the next messenger who will bring guidance but will be met with controversy and disbelief, for this is the Sunnah of God Almighty that does not change, for God Almighty has said: 'The Sunnah of those we have sent before you of our messengers, and you will not find our Sunnah to be altered (77)' [Al-Isra'].
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