Signs of Imam Mahdi's Arrival (Part 3)

lementation of the Sharia.

Because even Moses was not able to use that as a scale to judge the truthfulness of the righteous servant. So therefore we are only left with the will and the law of knowing the proof of God or the messenger of God as a way to be saved, and to remain upon the Ark of Salvation, and to not be led astray.

Once we find the proof, the person who fulfills this criteria, we have a divine obligation to stick with them no matter what. And we can never doubt in that individual after that. And the proof of this comes in the stories of the Prophets and the Messengers.

God is consistently warning us in their stories to never judge the Prophet or the Messenger by any other means other than the law. So in the story of Noah, Noah had fulfilled the criteria. Noah was a prophet that was prophesied by Adam.

Adam and the prophets leading up to Noah had spoken about the coming of a savior who would come at the time where God would destroy earth through a flood. And the believers were well aware of this character to be born whose name was Noah. When Noah arrived, he claimed to be that promised savior.

And he demonstrated knowledge and he called towards the supremacy of God. And that people should accept the divinely appointed messenger, who was Noah, and reject the sons of Cain. Who were controlling all of the earth at the time.

Noah gathered believers, he started his Dawa and people began to believe in him. And one day Noah, after suffering many years of oppression and violence, him and his followers, they were attacked consistently by the sons of Cain.

Narrations mention that at times they would be attacked with stones. Noah was several times knocked upside the head, unconscious for several days, laying on the ground with blood flowing from his ears. The believers needed a relief.

And they prayed to Noah to ask God for the hastening of the punishment. Well finally, after Noah called on God, God sent Gabriel down to tell Noah, to tell his followers, that when he plants this palm tree seed, and it grows to be a tree, the relief would happen.

And so he informs his believers and the believers are ecstatic. They're filled with the spirit of faith and they're excited. They are working night and day extra hard and they have full certitude in the promise of God that once this little plant becomes a palm tree, the relief is going to happen.

On the day that the palm tree was a full-grown one, they waited and waited and waited and nothing happened. And they looked towards each other. And then they finally mustered up enough courage to go and ask Noah, whose response to them was actually : 'I don't know. I'm going to call upon God and find out.' Noah calls upon God.

Gabriel comes down and tells Noah, 'Noah, take this new seed and plant it in the ground.' 'And when it becomes a full-grown tree, that is when the relief will happen.' So Noah goes back ; he tells his companions what Gabriel just told them.