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176 hidden facts and wonderful new events in the Day of His Holiness? These new events will cause the people to disagree to such an extent that the divines and religious doctors will sentence His Holiness and His companions to death, and all the people of the earth will arise in contradiction. Thus it is said in "Kafi," in the tradition by Jabir in the "Tablet of Fatima," concerning the Gha'im: "The perfection of Moses, the splendor of Jesus, and the patience of Job (shall be) in Him, and His friends shall be abased during His time, and their heads shall be just as the heads of the Turks and Deylamites were exchanged as presents; they shall be slain and burnt, terrified with fear, and appalled; the earth shall be dyed with their blood, and lamentation, and wailing shall prevail amongst their women; these are indeed my friends."

Now consider, there is not a single letter of this tradition which is not fulfilled, for their blessed blood was shed in most localities, they were made captives in every city, paraded through countries and towns, and some were burned. Nevertheless no one reflected that if the promised Gha'im should arise and appear according to the former laws and ordinances, why then have such traditions been recorded, and why should all these disagreements occur, so that the death of these companions should be considered obligatory and the persecution of these holy souls deemed conducive to the attainment of summits of Nearness?

Moreover, consider how these fulfilled events and