The Three Khusf
By F.M.Moses
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“If there will be only one day remaining in the span of the worldly life, Allah would elongate that day until He sends one of my offspring, whose name matches my name (Mohamed), and his father’s name matches my father’s name (Abdullah) — he will fill the world with justice and fairness just as it will have been filled with injustice and unfairness,[1]” said the Prophet referring to a forthcoming Caliph, which known as the Intended Mahdi.
According to the Prophet, the Mahdi is a broad-forehead, aquiline-nosed man, and he will rule for seven years, during which the nation of Islam will be basked in comfort and luxury life that they have never experienced before. “Allah will irrigate the lands with galore rains; the lands will get forth plentiful plants; he will be given enormous money, and cattle will grow healthy and sturdy.[2]” Muslims’ treasuries during that coming age will be heaped up with money that when anyone goes to ask this Caliph an offering of money it will be paid to him without counting, as much as the seeker can carry.
It is before the emergence of the Mahdi, I think, that there will occur three earth-swallows to which the prophet referred to occur among another ten presages of the world’s end. These three earth-swallow — pronounced khusf in Arabic — are represented in many ahaddieth to be one presage: “… and three earth-swallow: one will occur in east, one in the west, and one in Arabia [3]…”
Here I think that this unusual happening will hit three courts who, though belonging to Muslim rulers, will stand firmly against the idea of establishing a new Muslim Caliphate. Accordingly, the sites of these courts will be located as follows: one located in the east part of the Islamic world(UAE); the second located in the west part of the Islamic world(Egypt), while the third located in the Arabian Peninsula(KSA). As a result, the most majority of Muslims will be under no ruler, and thereupon Muslims will acclaim the Mahdi as their Caliph.
The Mahdi, most probably, is the refugee of the Sacred House of Mecca to which Prophet Mohammed refers in his haddieth: “Someone will take refuge with the House. An army will be sent against him; this army will be swallowed up by the earth in a desert land near Medina[4].” It not improbable here that the world powers, in an attempt to prevent the emergence of a new Caliphate, and in a trail to protect their interests in Middle East, will urge one of their agents to send the mentioned army to get rid of the Mahdi.
This “new” earth-swallow will first befall the middle of the army, and when the vanguard will call out to the rearguard, they will all be swallowed, “except for a few who will tell about them.[5]” From the ascending of the Mahdi onward, the nation of Islam will turn to be a world power.
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