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JUST look at this little truth nugget.. i told you it was all combined. As I told you that the theory is not a game.. i have come to show you what is revealed to me through god..
/allah.. this is our way to salvation.. no man can change your decisions the mahdi is a guide. and you need to have some one help you in these trouble times. i am here until you find him.. to help. i will fight in the khalifah against the kaffer. evil zalimun disbelievers. that want the world enslaved and oppressed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syzygy
just as i said about gnosis. i told you i have some guidance.. and know i did not know any of this revelation correlated.. this is a new syncronicity for me
In broadest terms, syzygy (pronounced /ˈsɪzɨdʒi/) is a kind of unity, especially through coordination or alignment, most commonly used in the astronomical and/or astrological sense.[1] Syzygy is derived from the Late Latin syzygia, "conjunction," from the Greek σύζυγος (syzygos).
Syzygial, adjective of syzygy, describes the alignment of three or more celestial bodies in the same gravitational system along a line.
Gnosticism
In Gnosticism, a syzygy is a divine active-passive, male-female pair of aeons, complementary to one another rather than oppositional; in their totality they comprise the divine ... See Morerealm of the Pleroma, and in themselves characterise aspects of the Gnostic (known) God. The term is most common in Valentinianism. In some gnostic schools, the counterpart to Christ was Sophia.
Astronomy
In astronomy, a syzygy is the alignment of three or more celestial bodies in the same gravitational system along a straight line. The word is usually used in context with the Sun, Earth, and the Moon or a planet, where the latter is in conjunction or opposition. Solar and lunar eclipses occur at times of syzygy, as do transits and occultations. The term is also applied to each instance of
The word 'syzygy' is often loosely used to describe interesting configurations of planets in general. For example, one such case occurred on March 21, 1894 at around 23:00 GMT, when Mercury transited the Sun as seen from Venus, and Mercury and Venus both simultaneously transited the Sun as seen from Saturn. It is also used to describe situations when all the planets are on the same side of the Sun although they are not necessarily found along a straight line, such as on March 10, 1982.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleroma
Pleroma (Greek πλήρωμα) generally refers to the totality of divine powers. The word means fullness from πληρόω ("I fill") comparable to πλήρης which means "full",[1] and is used in Christian theological contexts: both in Gnosticism generally, and by Paul of Tarsus in Colossians 2.9.
Gnosticism holds that the world is controlled by archons, among whom some versions of Gnosticism claim is the deity of the Old Testament, who held aspects of the human captive, either knowingly or accidentally. The heavenly pleroma is the totality of all that is regarded in our understanding of "divine". The pleroma is often referred to as the light existing "above" our world, occupied by spiritual beings who self-emanated from the pleroma. These beings are described as aeons (eternal beings) and sometimes as archons. Jesus is interpreted as an intermediary aeon who was sent, along with his counterpart Sophia, from the pleroma, with whose aid humanity can recover the lost knowledge of the divine origins of humanity and in so doing be brought back into unity with the Pleroma. The term is thus a central element of Gnostic religious cosmology.
Gnostic texts envision the pleroma as aspects of God, the eternal Divine Principle, who can only be partially understood through the pleroma. Each "aeon" (i.e. aspect of God) is given a name (sometimes several) and a female counterpart (Gnostic viewed divinity and completeness in terms of male/female unification). The Gnostic myth goes on to tell how the aeon wisdom's female counterpart Sophia separated from the Pleroma to form the demiurge, thus giving birth to the material world.
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Ok now for the real stuff here is where i will show you how unauthentic hadiths or misinentrepted can throw off a hole religion.. islam. you will not mean very many good muslims until we address this issue. i am here to show you the connections. should you accept that life is just random.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imamah_%28Shi%27a_doctrine%29
After the claimed occultation of the twelfth Imam, for the twelvers there was a long period of waiting for new authority until the Mahdi arrives, and in his absence was left a vacuum of leadership, dealt with by traditional twelvers with Quietism.
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Quietism in philosophy is an approach to the subject that sees the role of philosophy as broadly therapeutic or remedial. Quietist philosophers believe that philosophy has no positive theses to contribute, but rather that its value is in defusing confusions in the linguistic and conceptual frameworks of other subjects, including non-quietist philosophy.
By re-formulating supposed problems in way that makes the misguided reasoning from which they arise apparent, the quietist hopes to put an end to our confusion, and help us return to a state of intellectual quietude.
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The coming of the Mahdi is a disputed notion within Sunnis. The concept is not mentioned directly in the Quran or Sahih al-Bukhari; however, the Mahdi is mentioned in the Sahih Muslim collection of ahadith[12]. According to scholar Cyril Glasse, "Belief in the Mahdi has been rejected by noted Sunni authorities as being a Messianism … various Hadith about the Mahdi appear to be inventions to support political causes",[2] It is also reported to be denied by the Ahle Quran.
On the other hand it is found in Sunan Abi Dawud, Ibn Majah, and Tirmidhi[citation needed] and "some non-Shiite Muslims believe that the Mahdi will come in addition to the Second Coming of Jesus."[2]
Al-Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ja’far al-Katani said: "The conclusion is that the hadiths narrated concerning the Mahdi are mutawatir, as are the hadith concerning the Dajjal and the descent of Jesus the son of Mary, upon whom be peace."[citation needed] Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Hajar al-Haytami in his
fatwa titled The Brief Discourse on the Portents of the Awaited Mahdi, said that denial of the Mahdi is disbelief.[citation needed] Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti in his book The Rose Fragrance Concerning the Reports on al-Mahdi, wrote, "This is the belief of Ahl al-Sunnah, this is the belief of the Sufis, this is the belief of our Shaykhs, and this is the belief of the true Shadhili Shaykhs, whose path both al-Suyuti and al-Haytami followed. Whoever differs with them is a liar and an innovator."[citation needed]
Of those Sunnis that hold to the existence of the Mahdi, some believe the Mahdi will be an ordinary man, born to an ordinary woman. Umm Salamah said:
I heard the Messenger of Allah (Peace be upon Him) say: 'The Mahdi is of my lineage and family…'.
— Sunan Abu Dawud, 11/373; Sunan Ibn Maajah, 2/1368.
Abu Sa’eed al-Khudri said:
The Messenger of Allah (Peace be upon Him) said: "He is one of us…"
— Reported by Abi Na’eem in Akhbaar al-Mahdi, see al-Jaami’ al-Sagheer, 5/219, hadith 5796.
The Naqshbandi Haqqani Sufi Order, under the leadership of Shaykh Nazim and his khalifah Shaykh Hisham Kabbani of Islamic Supreme Council of America (ISCA), is among the Sunnis/Sufis who strongly believe the coming of Imam Mahdi in this 21st Century is imminent. Shaikh Hisham has written a book "The Approach of Armageddon" that touches much on this subject according to Sunni doctrine and beliefs.
In the light of traditions and interpretations, the personality of the Promised Mahdi would be as such:
It is said "predictions and lore concerning the Mahdi abound".[2] Among them are that the promised Mahdi would be a Caliph of God and that to make a covenant with him is obligatory. He would belong to the House of Muhammad and would be in the line of Imam Hussein.
His name would be Muhammad and his family name would be Abul Qasim, his father's name would be ‘Abdu’llah, and he would appear in Mecca. He would protect the Muslims from destruction and would restore the religion to its original position.[citation needed]he resemble like prophet his father would be abdullah and mother amina
[edit] Possible Biblical Interpretations
In their book, Al Mahdi and the End of Time, Muhammad Ibn ‘Izzat and Muhammad ‘Arif, two well-known Egyptian authors, identify the Mahdi from the Book of Revelation, quoting Hadith transmitter Ka'ab al-Ahbar.
In one place, they write,
“I find the Mahdi recorded in the books of the Prophets… For instance, the Book of Revelation says: “And I saw and behold a white horse. He that sat on him…went forth conquering and to conquer.”
‘Izzat and ‘Arif then go on to say:
“It is clear that this man is the Mahdi who will ride the white horse and judge by the Qur’an (with justice) and with whom will be men with marks of prostration (zabiba) on their foreheads.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Apocalypse
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Eschatology
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The "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" is a term used to describe four horsemen that appear in the Christian Bible in chapter six of the Book of Revelation. The verses traditionally describe the four horsemen as Conquest, War, Famine, and Death.
[edit] Horses and their riders
Name Horse Rider Power
Original Greek Description
Conquest White Carries a bow (old Latin translation is standard) Is given a Crown, goes forth conquering[1] ίππος λευκός (híppos leukós), [The] White Horse
War
Red Carries a sword To take peace from the earth, and let men kill one another ίππος πυρρός (híppos purrós), [The] Red Horse
Famine
Black Carries a balance (weighing scale) To bring famine. ίππος μέλας (híppos mélas),
[The] Black Horse
Death
Pale Death, followed by Hades
Over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth. ίππος χλωμός, θάνατος (híppos khlōrós, thánatos), [The] Pale Horse
[edit] The White Horse
See also: White horse (mythology)
Revelation 6:1 - 6:2 - "...When the Lamb had opened the first of the seven seals, I heard the first of the four beasts say with a thundering voice, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a white horse; and he that sat on him had a bow: and there was given unto him a crown, and he departed as conqueror and to conquest."
The white horse of the apocalyptic four may represent polar qualities of evil or righteousness, depending on interpretation.[citation needed] The German-language Lutheran Stuttgarter Erklärungsbibel sees him as civil war and internal strife.
[edit] As evil
Some interpret the rider of the white horse to be the anti-christ, or a representation of false prophets, citing differences between the white horse in Revelation 6 and Jesus on the white Horse in Revelation 19. Revelation 19 Jesus has many crowns, but in Revelation 6 the rider has one.[2] In Revelation 19, the rider on the horse is depicted as "The Word of God". The rider of the white horse may represent the second coming of Christ during which the end of the world/judgment day would occur. He may also just represent judgment of the living and the damned.
[edit] As righteous
Besides Christ, the horseman could represent the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit was understood to have come upon the Apostles at Pentecost after Jesus' departure from earth. The appearance of the Lamb in Revelation 5 shows the triumphant arrival of Jesus in heaven, and the white horseman could represent the sending of the Holy Spirit by Jesus and the advance of the gospel of Jesus Christ[3]
[edit] Red Horse
The Second Horseman.
The rider of the second horse is generally held to represent War. The red color of his horse represents blood spilled on the battlefield. He carries a greatsword, which represents battle and fighting.
Revelation 6:4 - "And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword."
[edit] Black Horse
The Third rider.
The third horseman, riding the black horse, is called Famine. The black color of the third horse could be a symbol of the dead.
Revelation 6:5 - 6:6 - “And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and a quart of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.’”
[edit] Pale Green Horse
The fourth horseman, usually said to ride on a pale horse, is explicitly named Death. Of all the riders, he is the only one whose name is easily distinguishable. Generally, he is usually followed by Hades (Gravedom).
However, the Greek word interpreted as "pale" is translated elsewhere in the New Testament as "green," leading to some confusion in appearance. The horse is sometimes translated as "pale," "pale green," or "green." The greenish color of the fourth horse could possibly represent plague, fear, sickness, and/or decay.
Revelation 6:7 - 6:8 - “And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the fourth beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a pale green horse; and he that sat on him was called Death, and Hades followed with him. And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, and that they (the four horsemen) should kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.”
[edit] Alternative interpretations
One interpretation is that the Four Horsemen are the Four Beasts mentioned in the visions of The Book of Daniel, representing four kings (or kingdoms), the last of which devours the world. The more conventional integration of this portion of Daniel with Revelation, however, is that the eleventh king (arising in the fourth kingdom) is the Antichrist.
Some equate the four horsemen with the angels of the four winds.[4] (See Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel, angels often associated with four cardinal directions)
Some Christian scholars do not interpret Revelation as prophecy of future events so much as a revealing of God's presence in the current events of the first century.[citation needed]
In this sense the white horseman is a symbol for a conquering force from without. This is symbolized using the image of the feared Parthian mounted archer on his white horse and given the crown of a conqueror. The red rider who takes peace from the earth is the civil strife that ended the pax romana. The black rider is the famine that follows anytime there is foreign invasion or civil war. The final rider is the death that accompanies conflict and famine and the pestilence that springs up in the aftermath of these other tragedies.
While these images, and especially the Parthians, are specific to the Roman Empire of the early Christian era, there is a universality about them. Each new century, Christian interpreters see ways in which the horsemen, and Revelation in general,
speaks to contemporary events. Some who believe Revelation applies to modern times can interpret the horses based on various ways their colours are used. Red, for example, often represents Communism, Black has been used as a symbol of Capitalism, while Green represents the rise of Islam. Pastor Irvin Baxter Jr. of Endtime Ministries espouses such a belief.[5]
Not all interpretations agree that the horsemen are associated with contemporary events. One interpretation suggests that the horsemen are each associated with one of the first, four opened seals.[6] The white horse represents the first seal in which the city of Enoch[7]
is established in righteous conquest. The red horse represents the second seal in which bloodshed and wickedness reigns. The black horse represents the third seal in which famine, plague, and pestilence take hold of the world. The pale horse represents a time of escalated death and destruction. Further interpretation by scholars suggests that each horse represents a given time: the time of Enoch, the time of Noah, the time of Abraham, and the time of Christ.
Another challenged interpretation is that the white horse represents foreign warfare or conquest ("went forth conquering, and to conquer"), the red represents civil war or domestic strife ("that they should kill one another"), the black represents famine ("A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine"), and the pale represents pestilence or disease in its various forms (" to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth").
Another interpretation is that the rider on the white horse is the Holy Spirit being sent forth into the world after the death of Jesus. That the Fiery Red horse represents the blood shed and the slaying of the Christian martyrs (starting with the stoning of Stephen in Acts 7:54-8:1).
The Black horse represents the scattering of the Jewish nation during the time of the Roman Empire, in 70 AD. the Pale, or pale green, horse represents the Islamic nation (with direct corralation between the rider's name being Death and Hell followed with him [Revelation 6:8]).[8]
[edit] Pestilence, War, Famine, and Death
This interpretation rearranges the order in which the horsemen arrive to end the world, and a slight change to their personae. Pestilence is portrayed as a distinct entity, separate from Famine, and takes Conquest's normal place in the lineup.[citation needed]
The first horseman to appear is Pestilence, who rides upon a white horse. Pestilence conquers the nations of the world, subjugating them to demonic powers of the world. In the wake of Pestilence comes War, riding a large, wild red horse and wielding a tremendous sword symbolizing continuing war over the domination of the world, killing millions in his path with his sword. In the wake of War, due to immense destruction because of War and Pestilence, is Famine. Famine is portly - riding upon a black, sickly horse - representing gluttony and hunger. And in the wake of Famine, comes the pale rider, Death. His horse is stark pale. He is followed by Hades and carries the remaining souls to their final destinations.[9]
It is this interpretation which is most commonly used as the basis for pop culture's uses of the Four Horsemen concept.
[edit] Riders identified as nations
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, by Viktor Vasnetsov (1887).
This interpretation is based on few basic rules and Living Bible Paraphrased was used as a source:
1. The Book of Revelation is about the earth and the happenings on it, unless otherwise specified.
2. Each seal must have a global impact unless otherwise specified.
3. The described events must occur after the revelation was written. Otherwise the prophecy would not actually be a prophecy and then the symbolism would have been meaningless.
4. Symbols must have meanings, ie. horses are symbols of one kind of things and their riders symbolise things of another kind.
5. Since the seals are in order, they must be fulfilled in order.
6. The key is the fourth seal since it is the only seal that gives any indication as to the meaning of a seal.
And now I saw a pale horse, and its rider's name was Death. And there followed after him another horse whose rider's name was Hell. They were given control of one-fourth of the earth, to kill with war and famine and disease and wild animals.
—Book of Revelation, 6:8, Living Bible version.
According to the source[10] this particular interpretation was expressed in a table represented below:
COLOR
HORSE Government
RIDER Nation
IMPLEMENTS Abilities
TASK OR CONDITIONS
WHITE Republic United States Leadership, Technology Win World War II
RED Autocracy USSR World Wide military might Wars of Liberation, World wide spread of communism
BLACK Monarchy Saudi Arabia World Trade in Oil World Trade War / mega-inflation, Religious unrest/wars
PALE Red
Oligarchy Oligarchy??
China Russia
(DEATH) (HELL)
World War III Eugenic/dysgenic war
[edit] Other Biblical references
Zechariah also sees the Horsemen (Zech 6:1-5). During this, first come the Red, then Black, then White, and finally the "Grisled and Bay" (the Pale Horses by implication). They are referred to as "the four spirits of the heavens, which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth."
[edit] In popular culture
The Four Horsemen were prominently featured in the 2009 film Better the Devil You Know (directed by Greg Augustine). They symbolize the personal demons that must be defeated by the main characters in order to overcome themselves and resolve their past. The horsemen are sent by a deceased high school friend as she taps into the mind of the main character, to which she causes his dream to become a reality.
According to Terry Pratchett in the Discworld novel Thief of Time there is a fifth horseman: Ronnie Soak (Kaos spelled backwards). He is the fifth member who quit before the group became famous.
In Highlander: The Series, the Four Horsemen are the Immortals Kronos, Methos, Silas, and Caspian.
The final level in the single player roguelike computer game Nethack features the three riders Death, Famine, and Pestilence. The fourth rider, War, is assumed to be the player.
"The Four Horsemen" are the third and final boss encounter in the Military Quarter in Naxxramas, a raid zone in
In the video game City of Heroes, players must defeat the four Riders in the second mission of The Lady Grey Task Force. These Riders are said to be among the alien Rikti race's most fearsome warriors and have the names Rider: War, Rider: Famine, Rider: Pestilence, and Rider: Death. In this high level (45-50) task force, a team of both heroes and villains can work together to defeat these enemies as they appear repeatedly throughout the mission. The mission culminates in a battle against all four Riders at once and allows players to continue onward in their drive to save the world from total war and invasion by the alien forces of the Rikti.
There is a song called The Four Horsemen on the Metallica album Kill 'Em All (originally called The Mechanix) that directly references the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Coldplay's 2008 album Viva La Vida (subtitled "Death and all his friends") is a reference to The Four Horsemen; quoting the last line of the last song, "I don't want to follow Death and all of his friends." The song "The Four Horsemen" on the 2008 Judas Priest album Nostradamus directly references the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
The lyrics to "Cattle and the Creeping Things" by The Hold Steady refer to the Four Horsemen (among several other Biblical references) - "They got to the part with the cattle and the creeping things. They said I'm pretty sure we've heard this one before. Don't it all end up in some revelation? With four guys on horses, and violent red visions? Famine, and death, and pestilence and war? I'm pretty sure I heard this one before."
The lyrics to "Revelations" by DragonForce feature a veiled reference to the Four Horsemen; quoting the latter part of the chorus, "And the Horsemen shall come, they will judge all your lives, Revelations will now be unveiled."
The Four Horsemen of Notre Dame was a group of football players at the University of Notre Dame under coach Knute Rockne in 1924. They were Harry Stuhldreher, Don Miller, Jim Crowley, and Elmer Layden. A US Stamp was issued in their honor in 1998 bearing a black and white image of the four players all on dark horses.
In the X-Men animated series, Apocalypse captured and changed four beings into his Horsemen, giving them the names War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death, each of them containing abilities that their given name implies.
The Horsemen are also referenced in Charmed (season 2) in the episode "Apocalypse Not." These horseman are actually well dressed demons who have to try and bring about the apocalypse by a certain time or they are killed by the Source of all Evil.
Three of the Four Horsemen appear near the end of the 1991 film The Rapture.
In an episode of "Robot Chicken" the Four Horsemen were referenced in a sketch called Apocalypse Ponies, parodying both My Little Ponies and the Four Horsemen.
In the protests at the Bank of England on the opening day of the G-20 summit, 2009, the four different protest groups represented themselves with the Four Horsemen. The Red Horse represented War, the Silver Financial Crime, the Green represented The Environment and Climate Change, and the Black horse represented Homeless, amongst other issues related to land and homes.
In the
The upcoming video game "Darksiders: Wrath of War" (8/25/2009), features the horseman "War" as the player, as well as his horse, exclusively named "Ruin", as War embarks on a journey to exact vengeance upon conspiring forces of heaven and hell, whose betrayal of the Four Horsemen by implicating the premature destruction of Earth, has caused War to be confined to the mortal world and stripped of his power.
citation needed]
The popular online role playing game Runescape also refers to the four horsemen in the "Stronghold of Security", except the names War, Famine, Disease and Death are applied to Dungeon Levels as opposed to actual characters. At the end of every level, a finishing reward of an opposing nature to the dungeon is awarded. The rewards are "The Gift Of Peace", "The Grain of Plenty", "The Box Of Health" and "The Cradle Of Life" respectively.
In
In Digimon Adventure 01, the final enemies the Digidestined face are the four Dark Masters (MetalSeadramon, Machinedramon, Puppetmon, and Piedmon), followed by Apocalymon.
[edit] See also
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