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Storming the Ka`ba and the subsequent bloodshed

The year in which he [Hazrat Mahdi (as)] will emerge, people
will perform hajj together and gather without an imam. The
Hajjis will be looted, and there will be a battle at Mina in which
many will be slain and blood will flow until it runs over the
Jamra al-'Aqaba. [Jamra: a stone pillar representing satan that
is stoned during the pilgrimage.] (Narrated by `Amr ibn
Shu`ayb, al-Hakim and Nu`aym ibn Hammad, Al-Barzanji, Al-
Isha'ah li-ashrat al-sa'ah, p. 169)
People make pilgrimage without an imam leading them. Big
wars break out when they come down to Mina, and they are en-
twined just the way dogs entwine, and tribes attack on each
other. This strife is so widespread that legs are buried in lakes of
blood. (Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi Alamat al-Mahdi
Akhir al-zaman, p. 35)

The phrase 'the year in which he will emerge' draws at-
tention to a massacre that will occur on the date of Hazrat
Mahdi's (as) emergence. In 1979, a massacre very like this
one occured during the Ka'ba raid, which took place dur-
ing the pilgrimage month. It is very interesting that this
raid occurred at the very beginning of the period during
which the signs of Hazrat Mahdi's (as) advent appeared,
that is, the first day of the Islamic year 1400 (21 November
1979).
The hadiths also mention bloodshed and massacres.
The killing of 30 people during the clashes between Saudi
soldiers and attacking militants during the raid confirms
the rest of this hadith.
Seven years later, an even bloodier incident happened
during the pilgrimage. In this incident, 402 demonstrating
pilgrims were killed, and vast amounts of blood was shed.

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)
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