ADNAN OKTAR’S LIVE INTERVIEW ON HILAL TV (24 January 2009) 

ADNAN OKTAR:With regard to the characteristics of Hazrat Mahdi’s (as) community Amira Bint-i Nufayl says: I heard Imam Husayin say that one should seek the followers of Hazrat Mahdi (as) on the edges of the world, that they will lead simple lives and carry their homes on their backs (in other words, they will have no fixed abodes and will travel about from here to there). Even if ready, they are not recognized (the public will not recognize them). If they are lost, none will seek them (or, nobody around them will attach any worth to them). If they are ill, none will visit them, and if they wish to marry, none will come to them (meaning nobody will wish to marry them as they are regarded as odd and dangerous). If they die, none will attend their funerals. They will divide their possessions equally among themselves and visit one another’s graves. Even if they live in different towns, their desires are all the same. (al-Ghaybah al-Nomani, p. 238) And that is an 800-year-old book. 

Purity, loyalty and solidarity. Purity, in other words, sincerity; solidarity, meaning alliance. In other words they are loyal and allied to one another. He says his followers will fully possess all these qualities. Said Nursi says that even if they are few in number, they will be, in spiritual terms, very powerful and valuable. See what Imam Muhammad Baqir and Imam Jafar al-Sadiq have said about the followers of Hazrat Mahdi (as): they will conquer the east and west of the world. Each one of them will be as powerful as 40 normal people. That means they will be very industrious and hard-working. (Bihar al-Anwar, in vol. 52) 

Hazrat Ali says; Allah will protect the helpmates of Hazrat Mahdi (as) and will assist them with signs and portents and will make them victorious over all, and people will thus enter the true religion, willingly or unwillingly. Hazrat Mahdi (as) will fill the world with justice, light and manifest proofs, all countries will obey him completely and bow their heads to him, so much so that all unbelievers will have faith and the wicked will become pure and wicked people will attain salvations and become genuine Muslims.  (Isbat al-Hudat, Vol/ 7, p. 49)

There are 313 people who will disappear from their beds and homes; the helpers of Hazrat Mahdi (as) will not remain at home, he says. They are constantly in a state of activity, he says, and they disappear from their homes. Look, this is highly significant. Fazil Ibn Shazan Abdullah Ibn Sinan  narrates from Imam Jafar Sadiq that 313 people will leave their homes, and that is the number of Muslims who took part in the battle of Badr, they are 313 followers of the Qaim (Hazrat Mahdi (as)).  They will number 313, the number of the people of Badr, and in the same way that those who went before could not surpass them, neither can those who come after. Their number is that of the people who crossed the river with Talut (a story in the Qur’an). (Al Burhan fi Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir Zaman.) There are lengthy accounts such as this regarding Hazrat Mahdi (as). We are told that Hazrat Mahdi’s (as) friends are heroic, select, pure and devout individuals. They are Muslims who fear no condemnation on the path of Allah. That appears in the  Sunan  Ibn Majah,10/259.

Their hearts are like iron and they are lions in the daytime and slaves to Allah at night. (Al Burhan fi Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir Zaman.) 

ADNAN OKTAR’S LIVE INTERVIEW ON TEMPO TV (13 January 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR:This shows that Hazrat Mahdi’s (as) community will be depicted as rather odd, that the press, television and radio will be opposed to him, and that many institutions and organizations will work against him. My apologies to that part of the press, that is an exception. But it seems that these people will be portrayed in that way, as being on the wrong path, sinister, dangerous and flawed, otherwise everyone would want to join the community. But we can see from the accounts that Hazrat Mahdi’s (as) community will be in the middle of a very difficult environment and will constantly attract troubles and tribulations. Because they will wage war against the system of the dajjal. They will wage war against Darwinism and materialism. They will wage war against atheism, for which reason they will be opposed by masons, atheist-zionists and some irreligious people. But they will make all atheist-zionists oppose themselves. This being the case, forces affiliated to the dajjal, which control a large part of the media and the press, will of course use all their means to try to crush Hazrat Mahdi (as) and his community. And they will blacken their name. They will spread gossip about them as has happened before in the times of the prophets. They will spread defamation and slander about them as they did with other scholars who followed the prophets. They will face sanctions in economic and all other respects. The atmosphere around Hazrat Mahdi (as) will not be one that is welcome to most people’s earthly desires. 

ADNAN OKTAR’S LIVE INTERVIEW ON KANAL 35 TV (IZMIR) (25 January 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR:Abu Basr says that Imam Abu Abdullah said: “There will be very few people with the Qaim (Hazrat Mahdi (as)) from the Arabs. They will be cleansed from the people. They will be cleansed and sieved. Many people will be excluded during the sieving process. He says that people will be purged in Hazrat Mahdi’s (as) community, and that the pure and immaculate will remain. So much so that there will be no more people in Hazrat Mahdi’s (as) community than there is kohl on the eye or salt in food. In other words, Hazrat Mahdi’s (as) community will have very few members.  Eventually, a group among you that corruption cannot touch will be left. In other words, he says that Hazrat Mahdi’s community will be so purged that only a very small number of people that corruption cannot pollute will be left.  

ADNAN OKTAR’S LIVE INTERVIEW ON VATAN TV(15 March 2009)

ADNAN OKTAR:Surat al-Kahf in any case refers to the followers of Hazrat Mahdi (as). The Companions of the Cave (People of Kahf) consist of young people who have left their families and come together. As you know, al-Kahf is the 18th Sura and is made up of 110 verses. 18x110 gives the date 1980. That is also the date of the coming of Hazrat Mahdi (as). The year 1400 according to the Islamic calendar. At that time, at that very ancient time, the Companions of the Cave fled the pressure from their friends and families and came together and sheltered in a cave in order to live by Islam, the true religion. It appears that this will happen again in the End Times. Once more in the time of Hazrat Mahdi (as) young people will quit their families, by which I refer to some immoral families, and come together. One great scholar was saying in 1979, even before the coming of Hazrat Mahdi (as) that some would be a famous person’s child and some others would be the children of others, but  eventually they would come together and suffer terrible intimidation, and I listened to that on the tape in question. There will be such an organization, one like the Companions of the Cave. But it is clear that they will not represent all the 313 people in question. Our prophet (saas) says that not all of these will be Arabs. He says there will be very few Arabs among them, very few people of Arab origin. And he says he will come from Turkey. Said Nursi also gives Istanbul as the place where Hazrat Mahdi (as) will appear, and he describes that very clearly. He says that various places have been cited as the locations of the Coming of the End Times, such as Basra, Kufa and Damascus, or Mecca and Medina. They have all found their ways into the accounts because they were all important places in Islam, he says, and the people narrating the accounts imagined they would stay that way. But Said Nursi says that the last center of the Islamic world was Istanbul. For that reason, he says, all the individuals and phenomena of the End Times will take place in Istanbul. In other words, he also says that Hazrat Mahdi (as) will appear in Istanbul. 

ADNAN OKTAR’S LIVE INTERVIEW ON ON EKINTURK TV (27 April 2009) 

Our Prophet (saas) says that the students of Hazrat Mahdi (as) are lions during the day and heroes at night. There will also be hypocrites among them. Our Prophet (saas) also says that they will be in various countries. Even he adds that they will go to different countries by various vehicles and communicate with one another by looking at their palms. This means, they will use computers, blueberries, cellular phones. Our attention is drawn to these. From the hadith we know that Hazrat Mahdi (as) remains in his home and addresses from his home. Or according to the hadith they watch him from the streets. This is an 800-year old book.