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The rise of a comet
A star with a luminous tail will rise from the East before Hazrat
Mahdi (as) emerges. (Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Rasul Barzanji,
Al-Isha‘ah li-ashrat al-sa‘ah, p. 200)
Before he arrives, a comet will appear in the east, giving out an
illumination. (Ibn Hajar al-Haythami, Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar fi
Alamat al-Mahdi al-Muntadhar, p. 53)
The rise of that star will occur after the eclipse of the Sun and the
Moon. (Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi Alamat al-Mahdi
Akhir al-zaman, p. 32)
As referred to in the hadiths;
In 1986 (Hijri 1406), Halley's
comet passed by Earth. The comet is a
bright, shining star that travels from
East to West. This happened after the
lunar and solar eclipses of 1981 and
1982 (Hijri 1401-1402).
The concurrence of this star's rise
with other signs of Hazrat Mahdi's
(as) emergence indicates that Halley's
comet is the star pointed to in the ha-
dith.
On March 6, the Soviet Vega-1 spacecraft
flew within 5,500 miles of Halley's comet,
sending back the first pictures of the
comet's icy core.
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