As of March 30 the death toll from the Iran war had risen to more than 1,900 people in Iran (about one tenth of the number of demonstrators killed by the Iranian Government), over 1,200 people in Lebanon, 19 in Israel and 13 U.S. military members.

“They ask you (O Muhammad) about the Hour (Qiyahmah) when will be its appointed time? You have no knowledge to say anything about it. To your Lord belongs (knowledge of) the term. You (O Muhammad) are only a warner for those who fear.” (Qur’an 79:42-45) 

According to Islamic tradition, the Day of Judgment (Qiyahmah) is a very just event where every human soul accounts for all of their actions. While some Muslim scholars have suggested a 1500-year period, scholarly consensus emphasizes that only Allah knows the exact time. As the Qur’an (33:63) states:”People ask you concerning the Hour, say: “The knowledge of it is only with Allah. What do you know? It may be that the Hour is (very) near!”

Al-Suyooti said that the Mahdi will appear after twelve hundred years, yet fourteen hundred years have passed and the Mahdi has not yet appeared. Al-Suyooti also says that people will remain for one hundred and twenty years after the sun rises from the west, then the Hour will begin. 

The sun rising from the West refers to the truth that things change. For thousands of years wisdom came from the East; but now most non religious wisdom comes from the West; and both sources need to be harmonized. For example, Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Defense said Iran has launched at least 44 ballistic and seven cruise missiles and more than 600 drones toward the Kingdom since February 28. Here is a Mahdi job to bring the Gulf Arabs closer to Israel. 

Tehran’s Gulf neighbors face 83 percent of Iran barrage of missiles and drones compared with 17 percent launched at Israel. At the same time Israel admitted and confirmed that only about a third of Iran’s missile arsenal has been destroyed so far. The Muslim Mahdi also is active doing this.

Over three-quarters of Jewish Israelis support continuing the war against Iran after four weeks, though a majority of both Jews and Arabs think planners of the US-Israeli operation underestimated Tehran’s staying power. Passover reminds Jews to “Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and YHWH your God brought you out from there with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm…”( Deuteronomy 5:15).

Israel’s military said it had launched over 140 air strikes on central and western Iran, including Tehran, over 24 hours, hitting ballistic missile launch sites and storage facilities, among other targets. Four ‌weeks of intense US-Israeli bombardment has failed to silence Iran’s missile and drone batteries, with Kuwait reporting it had intercepted five drones. And Tehran struck a key water and electrical plant in hard-hit Kuwait, as part of its campaign targeting the Gulf Arab states.

Now in its second month since the Middle East war erupted on the 28 of February, Bahrain’s Defense Force reported it has engaged a total of 385 drones and 174 missiles since February 28. And Hezbollah fired an average of 150 rockets per day since March, according to the Israeli military, as cited by The Times of Israel. Defense forces by the UAE and Kuwait said they were actively responding to new waves of hostile missile and drone attacks launched from Iran. 

The destruction of a US Air Force E-3 Sentry aircraft in an Iranian strike on a Saudi Arabia air base could damage US abilities to spot incoming Iranian threats and just ahead of Passover and Holy Week, clergy invoke Biblical stories of liberation and resistance to people who believe in deeds of Mahdi. 

The Qur’an (46:12-14) states “And before it (the Qur’an) was the Book of Moses (in Hebrew), a model and a mercy. And this (Qur’an) is a confirming Book, in........

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