Rahyafte (The Guided Ones)

At one point, he said that Saudi Arabia was prepared to sit at the negotiating table with any country in the world. At the time, Saudi Arabia was experiencing tensions with Qatar; he even mentioned Qatar and the Houthis in Yemen.

But he said:

“We will not do this with the Iranians.”

Of course, they eventually did.

But let me explain the reason he gave.

In an interview, he argued that according to what he claimed was stated in Imam Khomeini’s will, as well as in Iran’s Constitution, the Mahdi of the Shiites would emerge and rise from Mecca and overthrow their government.

His argument was essentially:

“How can we quickly sit at the negotiating table with a government whose beliefs include such an objective?”

🔻 Look at this carefully: the opposing side is more familiar with our apocalyptic beliefs than we are.

They openly discuss these subjects in interviews.

📖 In previous posts on our channel, we also mentioned a book published in the United States which, during its time, reportedly sold around 50 million copies.

Now compare that with the state of books about Mahdism and religious thought in Iran.

This is why our youth are uninformed, and why questions such as “Why do you keep talking about apocalyptic analogies?” arise.

You see a novel in Iran that has been reprinted 50 times.

You study a romance novel and discover that it offers the young person little or no knowledge or intellectual awareness.

Yet that same young person may never have read a single book about the Imam of the Age (Imam al-Mahdi).

It is therefore understandable that they would dismiss discussions about the End Times.

🔻 From a political perspective as well, we must pay attention to Mahdism and the study of the future.

The Supreme Leader has made a very important point:

We must know the enemy, understand the enemy’s plans, and equip ourselves to confront them.

So, who is our civilizational adversary today?

Which axis are we in civilizational confrontation with?

The Shiite axis versus the international Zionist-Jewish axis, centered around occupied Palestine.

This confrontation has been going on for more than seven or eight decades.

The Supreme Leader has also described the issue of Palestine in another significant way:

“The issue of Palestine will open the doors of deliverance for the Muslim Ummah.”

It is a mysterious key—a key to Faraj, the promised deliverance.

This is clear within Shiite eschatological belief.

When the Imam al-Mahdi appears, after establishing control over Mecca and Medina and following a series of events, he will set out toward the liberation of Palestine.

And the symbolism of the unity of religions is also associated with this: according to Islamic tradition, Jesus Christ will descend and pray behind Imam al-Mahdi—in Palestine.

The point is very clear.

⚠️ Therefore, if our understanding of the enemy is weak, we risk repeating history.

The Supreme Leader has used expressions referring to the possibility of a repetition of the Treaty of Imam Hasan, the tragedy of Ashura, and even the Saqifa—in other words, internal coups and divisions within the Muslim community.

Today, our confrontation is with the Zionist axis.

Therefore, we must know our enemy.

🇺🇸 In fact, much of our conflict with America revolves around Israel.

Donald Trump himself has repeatedly called for recognition of Israel. Early on, he even wrote a letter to the Supreme Leader, the main substance of which concerned this issue.

On the program Be Vaqt-e Iran, an expert had explicitly listed what he described as the causes of the conflict and hostility, arguing that Israel was at the heart of the matter—and that even Iran’s nuclear and missile programs and other issues were secondary to the issue of Israel.

Why?

Because, as the former French prime minister once put it, Israel is the “sacred cause” of Western civilization.

Do you understand?

From a political perspective, and from an ideological and religious perspective, when we look at the whole picture, we see that this is fundamentally a civilizational confrontation.

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