Middle East georeligious overview and a cryptic reference to the archontic captivity in the media

 Right now we are entering the apogee of Putin's rise. He needs to grow before he can eat (lands). Rest assured he will continue to grow for a few more years..... Until he falls like humpty dumpty and the TSAR comes from inside the broken shells. For the time being though, the world needs to be sprayed with turbo-Goebels propaganda (of course Goebels is born on the 29 October, like Jimmy Savile and Putin very close to the nightmarish 31 October)




http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/defense/256164-putin-and-the-shiite-axis-of-resistance


October 07, 2015, 10:00 am

 

Putin and the Shiite 'Axis of Resistance'

 

In the summer of 2006, the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah went toe to toe with Israel for 34 days. When the smoke cleared, Hezbollah declared "divine victory," and soon after, Middle Eastern capitals were plastered with posters featuring militia leader Hassan Nasrallah alongside his benefactors Syrian President Bashar Assad and Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. This Shiite so-called "Axis of Resistance" achieved widespread regional popularity, including unprecedented support among Sunni Muslims, which lasted until 2011, when Assad, backed by Hezbollah and Iran, began his campaign to eradicate Sunni regime opponents. [ to drag them in and leave them without options - convert and fight the "Mossad anti-Assad" rebels or die ]


In the aftermath of Russia's deployment of an expeditionary force in Syria, a new slew of posters have appeared. The current iteration features images of Nasrallah, Assad, Khamenei, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, with an Arabic caption that roughly translates "Men who bow to no one but God." The poster, reportedly displayed in central Damascus, suggests another emerging regional "Axis of Resistance." Unlike 2006, however, this new axis — which targets Syrian Sunnis instead of Israel — is deeply polarizing. Worse, the Obama administration, through acts of omission and commission, risks implicating the U.S. in the new alliance.According to Putin, Russia has deployed to Syria to fight the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). But the public diplomacy belies a more limited Russian objective focused on protecting an increasingly vulnerable Assad regime. Indeed, Moscow holds that all of Assad's opponents are "terrorists" and has no compunction targeting Islamic and secular militias alike. Confirming Russia's unofficial agenda, the first week of airstrikes were directly almost exclusively at Idlib, Homs and Dera', regions of Syria absent significant ISIS presence. The administration says that Moscow is "intentionally" hitting CIA-backed rebels.
Meanwhile, as Russia has moved into Syria, Washington's position on the Assad regime has evolved. Four years ago, the administration's position was that "Assad must go." This month, Secretary of State Kerry suggested that the timing of Assad's departure was negotiable. While the administration won't admit it, the subtle shift highlights a growing ambivalence about the survival of the Assad regime in the shadow of ISIS territorial gains. In the region and particularly among Washington's erstwhile Sunni allies, the progression is being seen as the antecedent to U.S. acquiescence of continued Assad rule.
The Middle East has long harbored a predilection for conspiracy theories. Objectively, though, the regional perception of the U.S. policy shift is accurate. President Obama hinted at this new "equilibrium" between Sunni Gulf states and Iran in January 2014, more than a year before the nuclear agreement was signed. Now, Foggy Bottom is talking with Iran about Syria, and the Pentagon is de-conflicting air operations with Russia.
This nascent U.S. regional realignment has been operationalized in a de facto division of labor between Russia and the U.S. on Syria. The awkward arrangement has Moscow whacking the most proximate threat to Assad's regime, the relatively more moderate opposition — including militias purportedly receiving U.S. support — and Washington bombing ISIS. Working in tandem, the U.S. and Russian campaigns are targeting the broad range of Assad's foes, effectively insulating the regime from the threat of imminent collapse.
To be sure, the chief benefactor of this dynamic is Assad. But the campaign also offers Moscow a useful diversion from Ukraine and a chance to reestablish a foothold in the Middle East, something U.S. policy for the past four decades has worked to deny. At the same time, the U.S.-Russian understanding preserves Iranian equities in Syria and protects Tehran's proxy in Lebanon, Hezbollah. It could also potentially limit Israel's ability to target Hezbollah operations in South Syria. Not surprisingly, many of the region's Sunnis view the developing U.S.-Russian condominium in Syria with great concern, a sign that Washington now views Russia and Iran as forces for stability.
[ note-  they will be pushed to form a desperate caliphate or some kind of alliance, so much for CIA help]

While this arrangement may achieve perhaps the primary administration objective of preventing a U.S. quagmire, it has little chance of stabilizing Syria or stemming the flow of refugees. Surveys suggest that most of the 4 million refugees have fled the savagery of the regime, not ISIS [ courtesy of Vladimir (the impaler of sunnis) Putin]. The ferocity of Russia's air campaign will all but certainly exacerbate the crisis, fuel additional support for ISIS and further cleanse Syria of Sunni Muslims, improving the demographic balance for the nominally Shiite Assad regime.
Whether the administration was, as The Washington Post reported, "blindsided" by Russian military operations, or whether it quietly welcomed the bombing as some kind of macabre burden-sharing, Moscow's Syrian initiative makes matters worse. As Nancy Youssef of the Daily Beast recently tweeted that she "overheard" at the Pentagon, "Right now, we are Putin's prison bitch." (?????????????)
Russia's military deployment in Syria is a strategic boon for the Shiite "Axis of Resistance" and its new partner, Russia. This resurgent axis was in part made possible by the absence of a credible U.S. Syria policy, but it will only be bolstered should Washington embrace Russia and Iran as its regional security partners. Already in the Middle East, there is a widely held perception that the U.S. has made this decision. No doubt, the administration will continue to insist that the Iran nuclear deal doesn't signal a broader regional realignment. Should the U.S. tilt toward Russia and Iran persist, President Obama might find himself alongside Assad, Khamenei, Nasrallah and Putin on the next run of posters.
Schenker is director of the Program on Arab Politics at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

 

Russia-Israel-Iran alliance: the PURPOSE.

http://control-avles-blogs.blogspot.bg/2015/09/russia-israeli-iran-alliance-purpose.html

"Israel to provide Russia with intelligence about Syrian opposition" [article]

http://control-avles-blogs.blogspot.bg/2015/10/israel-to-provide-russia-with.html

 ....... ISIS is a tool FOR Iran

" “ISIS got started through funding from our friends and allies. People will tell you in the region that if you want somebody who will fight to the death against Hezbollah, you don’t put out a recruiting poster saying ‘sign up for us we’re gonna make a better world.’ You go after zealots and you go after these religious fundamentalists. That’s who fights Hezbollah. It’s like a Frankenstein.”"

Gen Clarke

"Born Jewish, raised Baptist and converted to Catholicism" [...and serving the Iran-Isreali Pact]

http://control-avles-blogs.blogspot.bg/2015/09/born-jewish-raised-baptist-and.html

"How is it possible to be more pro-Putin than this??! Frankly, it is impossible! If you make out of the Hellish mess of Syria an "happy talk", it means only one thing: you want DISENGAGEMENT.  And if you want disengagement, it is only to make a favor to Putin & Iran, to leave to them the total control of Syria (and Middle East) - period. 
Therefore this is the best evidence that ISIS is not "under the control" - figure it out "created", by US intelligence. At the opposite, this is an evidence that ISIS and Al Nusra are firmly in the hands of the "regime", truly speaking of the Kremlin and Tehran, which can play whatever kind of dirty game with them, being the US intelligence only the spectator of events whose masterminds and goals are quite as much true out of the control of CIA & Pentagon. "

A Shia genocide of Sunni in sight in Iraq? part 2: with Obama's and Pope Francis' approval, also in Syria.

http://control-avles-blogs.blogspot.bg/2015/09/a-shia-genocide-of-sunni-in-sight-in.html

https://twitter.com/nancyayoussef/status/649243859025854464

Nancy Youssef, نانسى ‏@nancyayoussef


 "Overheard at the Pentagon: "Right now, we are Putin's prison bitch."




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" The present "captivity" of Sophia is materialized in the Putinist dictatorship.  Therein is the theme of sophia captured and enslaved as a prostitute or kept drugged in a psychiatric ward."

Pope Lamech and 49 revised and expanded

http://jesus-partisans-balkans.blogspot.bg/2015/08/pope-lamech-and-49-revised-and-expanded.html

And Putin's trophy female prisoner:

 At the time, the Kremlin urgent needed a salient figure to be use for propaganda purposes. As a woman, a senior lieutenant, and a pilot, Savchenko was a very eye-catching image for kindling hatred among the subjugated electorate.

Putin’s hostage Savchenko is awaiting her fate

http://www.4freerussia.org/putins-hostage-savchenko-is-awaiting-her-fate/

Shiism is the papism of islam #2

Shaykh Mohammed Al-Hilli - Imam Mahdi Conference 2013

"Book of REVELATION
( islamic scholar using the book of St John?????):
She is crying in agony and pain, about to deliver a baby.  .  .other faiths indeed are awaiting the Saviour who will take them from the current oppression and injustice . . . ."
 http://jesus-partisans-balkans.blogspot.com/2014/06/twelve-pt1.html

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 When Vatican and Iranian officials sit down, they speak a common language shaped by shared spiritual and theological concepts.

"A COMMON LANGUAGE" (Crux article)

http://jesus-partisans-balkans.blogspot.com/2015/04/a-common-language-crux-article.html

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"Lammens interacted with his milieu and came to endorse the doctrines of al-Bustani, becoming even more passionate about the existence of a distinct Syrian nation that is bound to emerge from the bosom of the Ottoman Empire.....encompassing all the cultural elements within the Fertile Crescent since ancient times.
"

Precursors of the SSNP Syrian Nationalism: an Arabic Protestant and a Belgian JESUIT

http://control-avles-blogs.blogspot.com/2015/04/precursors-of-ssnp-syrian-nationalism.html

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 Five
http://jesus-partisans-balkans.blogspot.com/2014/06/five.html

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" Imam Hussein died for your sins, whoever believes in him and his descendants will stand with him in paradise "

 http://jesus-partisans-balkans.blogspot.com/2015/04/shiism-is-papism-of-islam.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Lammens






Henri Lammens (1862–1937) was a prominent Belgian-born Jesuit and Orientalist.
Born in Ghent, Belgium of Catholic Flemish stock, Henri Lammens joined the Society of Jesus in Beirut at the age of fifteen, and settled permanently in Lebanon. During his first eight years there Lammens mastered the Arabic language, as well as Latin, and Greek. His first work of scholarship was a dictionary of Arabic usage (1889). He edited al-Bashir, the Jesuit newspaper of Beirut, and after much travelling, he began his career as an Orientalist at the School of Oriental Studies at the Jesuit College in 1907.
He published a series of studies on the Umayyads, and several on pre-Islamic Arabia: Etudes sur le regne du calife Omaiyade Mo'awia ler (1908), Le berceau de l'Islam; L'Arabie occidentale à la veille de l'Hegire (1914). He contributed many articles to the first edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam, as well as to various learned journals.



Louis Massignon criticized Lammens for 'misinforming' his readers with his 'far too cynical and disparaging study' of Hazrat Fatima.^[4]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Massignon

Louis Massignon (25 July 1883 – 31 October 1962) was a Catholic scholar of Islam and a pioneer of Catholic- Muslim mutual understanding.^[1] He was an influential figure in the twentieth century with regard to the Catholic church's relationship with Islam. He focused increasingly on the work of Mahatma Gandhi, whom he considered a saint. He was also influential, among Catholics, for Islam being accepted as an Abrahamic Faith. Some scholars maintain that his research, esteem for Islam and Muslims, and cultivation of key students in Islamic studies largely prepared the way for the positive vision of Islam articulated in the Lumen gentium and the Nostra aetate at the Second Vatican Council.^[2] Although a Catholic himself, he tried to understand Islam from within and thus had a great influence on the way Islam was seen in the West; among other things, he paved the way for a greater openness inside the Catholic Church towards Islam as it was documented in the pastoral Vatican II declaration Nostra aetate.


Dialogue was very important for him; he also talked to the Iranian religious sociologist Ali Shariati who would later become extremely influential as a modernist Muslim thinker in Iran. Shariati had immense respect for Massignon and adored him as a teacher and a master.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Shariati

Ali Shariati (Persian: علی شریعتی ‎,  23 November 1933 – 19 June 1977) was an Iranian revolutionary^[1] and sociologist,^[2] who focused on the sociology of religion. He is held as one of the most influential Iranian intellectuals of the 20th century^[3] and has been called the 'ideologue of the Iranian Revolution'.^[4]

Shariati developed a fully novel approach to Shiism and interpreted the religion in a revolutionary manner.^[11] His interpretation of Shiism encouraged revolution in the world and promised salvation after death.^[12] Shariati referred to his brand of Shiism as "red Shiism" which he contrasted with clerical-dominated, unrevolutionary "black Shiism" or Safavid Shiism.^[13] His ideas have been compared to the Catholic Liberation Theology movement founded in South America by Peruvian Gustavo Gutierrez and Brazilian Leonardo Boff


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatemeh_Is_Fatemeh

Fatemeh is Fatemeh (Persian: فاطمه، فاطمه است‎) is a book written by Ali Shariati. In the book, Fatima Zahra the daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad is described as a role model for Muslim women around the world. It was written in the pre-revolutionary era of Iran's history where there were no specific sources by which one might interpret who she was, and he assures the readers that he is giving them more than an analytical description of her personality and that it needs the criticism of the enlightened thinker. By writing this book he was to complete the work of French scholar Professor Louis Massignon.
He describes Fatima as a manifestation and a symbol of the way and an essential direction of 'Islamic thought'. He states that even in the ever changing world in which people's views towards life constantly change, as a role model Fatima can still be looked up to by women around the world.



I do not know what to say about her. How to say it? I wanted to imitate the French writer
who was speaking one day in a conference about the Virgin Mary. He said, 'For 1700 years
all of the speakers have spoken of Mary. For 1700 years, ail philosophers and thinkers of
various nations of the East and West have spoken of the values of Mary. For 1700 years,
the poets of the world have expressed all of their creative efforts and power in their praise
of Mary. For 1700 years, all of the painters and artists have created wonderful works of art showing the visage and states of Mary. But the totality of all that has been said, thoughtand the efforts of all the artist throughout all of these many centuries were not able to
sufficiently describe the greatness of Mary as these words, 'Mary was the mother of Jesus
Christ'.' And I wanted to begin in this manner with Fatima.





http://online.sfsu.edu/mroozbeh/CLASS/h-607-pdfs/Abrahamian--Shariati.pdf


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http://gnosticfatima.blogspot.com/

The Gnostic Cultus of Fatima in Shi'ite Islam

Louis Massignon

(1938)

« Der gnostische Kult der Fatima in shiitischen Islam » (1938); Opera Minora (Beirut: Dar Al-Maaref Liban, 1963), I, 514-22. (Trans.) Mitra Hazini and Aaron Cheak. (Ed.) Wahid Azal (2007).

Despite the fact that international law has accepted two or three specifically Islamic nations as its members, it is still increasingly difficult for the modern civilized world to accept Islam as an equal among the other major monotheistic religions. Yet their God is the God of Abraham, just as it is for the Christians and Jews, and contrary to the demands of the extreme Zionists, Islam too has just as much right to exist in Palestine. This becomes even more evident when one considers the results of the latest genealogical research, for Moslem blood has mixed with Christian blood over the past thirteen centuries and has penetrated into many European lands. In a manner of speaking, the Moslem family, in which the wife is able to remain Christian or Jewish, has been “kept open from one side.” We may also mention a frequently dangerous inclination towards exoticism among French student circles, whereby young Christian girls are enticed into marrying foreign Moslem students due to a sense of sentimental compensation for the abuse of power that occurred on Islamic soil during French colonization.

Now, it might seem unusual for an Islamic scholar to participate in a series of lectures dealing with religio-historical problems pertaining to the cultus of the Holy Mother, for, in general, the position of women in Islam is theoretically rather subordinate. Her legal testimony, for instance, is worth only half that of a man’s. Even so, a softening of the position is also known; although she can be divorced without her permission, and while the reciprocal right does not apply, the last few years have actually succeeded in improving her essential legal status. As to the Arabic literary tradition, it does not regard a woman simply as a slave to the desires of a man; it also celebrates women of courage, knowledge and nobility. Furthermore, it was in Islamic lands that that high form of Minne emerged which extols a Platonic veneration of the beloved Beatrice (Leila, Bothenia).

Finally—and this is also the justification for my lecture—there are some Islamic sects who raise the cultus of Fatima, the beloved daughter of the Prophet who is revered by almost all Moslem people, to a form of divine adoration. She was first venerated under the name al-batūl, “the virgin,” for it was as a virgin when she married her cousin ‘Ali and bore him sons, two of whom would become the legitimate leaders of the Shī’ites and claimants to the highest power as ‘Ali’s successors.

To this day one can still recognize, here and there, a distinctive feature among the Shī’ite sects of the Isma’ilis who await the coming of the Mahdi: a virgin who comes to be called al-rawda, “paradise,” to whom they seek to offer the leadership of their sect because they hope she will bring the Mahdi into the world. In the ninth century a young widow was held under supervision for seven years because it was supposed that she might be carrying the long-awaited Mahdi under her bosom.

Historically we know very little about the short life of Fatima, as Lammens’ far too cynical and disparaging study

[ because he is working among the catholics in the middle east, how can he praise islam in a hostile environment and not be counted a traitor to the superior religion? He coudlnt spill the beans on the theological proximity of shiism and romanism especially in the context of earnest cultural war efforts. Also, the jesuits have generally a bad reputations among muslims and seem to at times play the role of provocators (recall the recent incident when father Koerner scared the turkish fundamentalists that he seeks to reform islam) ]

misinforms us. The Islamic traditions do not enable the relationship between Fatima and her father to be clearly ascertained. Besides, she had a particularly ill-disposed rival: Ayisha, her Father’s favorite wife.

We know that her father gave her away in marriage to her cousin ‘Ali, and that she was the only daughter of the prophet who gave him grandsons that survived. There is, moreover, no indication that she was denied any sign of heartfelt affection from her father, particularly during the last year of the prophet’s life.

Indeed, after the childhood death of Ibrahim, the son of his Coptic concubine Maria, the prophet had no other hope for the continuation of his lineage other than through the children of Fatima.

Now when, during a festive celebration, the prophet was negotiating a treaty with the Christian authorities of Najrān (from the tribe of ‘Abdel Madān)—a treaty which represents the first “capitulation” between Christians and Moslems—a divergence of opinion arose between the prophet and the Christian envoy, and their negotiations ground to a dead halt on the issue of the incarnation. The prophet wanted to have the question resolved through ordeals and referred his opponent to the verdict of divine judgement. The Koran makes an allusion to these ordeals or mobahala, to which the angst-ridden Christians ultimately capitulated. According to such ritual of divine justice [or execration], each party is supposed to summon hostages from their own ranks to offer in pledge of their convictions. According to general Islamic tradition, the prophet’s hostages were composed of his daughter Fatima, his son in law, and his two grandsons, Hassan and Hossein. With the prophet himself, five people are thusly designated by this singular investiture, which, as the Muslim Hindus expressly emphasize, was represented through the five fingers of a single talismanic hand—the “Hand of Fatima.” Here the explanation familiar in North Africa, according to which the talisman is simply dismissed as a vestige of Carthaginian magic, is invalidated.

When the prophet died, his son-in-law ‘Ali hardly dared wrest power for himself, but he also refused for months thereafter to pledge an oath of allegiance to Abubakr, Ayisha’s father, whom Fatima too never recognized as caliph. This robbed her of her paternal inheritance, and Abubakr withdrew her ownership rights over the oasis of Fadah. He even had a house-search performed during which she was so badly mistreated that she prematurely delivered a stillborn son, Mohsin.

A few months after her father’s death, Fatima also died, and ‘Ali had to decide whether or not to pledge his oath of allegiance to Abubakr.

In all genuine, that is to say Shī’ite, Islamic circles, Fatima stands at the centre of a collective Islamic legitimization problem. This is due not only to the fact that through her husband she is the mother of the ‘Alids— hence all the descendants of the prophet who are entitled to wear the green turban, who in Africa are called the “Shofra” (plural of Sharif)— but also because she forms the point of contact between the two male lineages: that of her father Mohammed and that of her husband ‘Ali.

The fact remains—for those who believe that the divine covenant which elevates the prophet over his own kind was not withdrawn from the community upon his death but rather became transferred first to his son-in-law ‘Ali and then to his descendants (according to rules which not even the Shī’ites themselves are in complete accord regarding), a major difficulty arises: the power will be passed on through the male lineage, and yet ‘Ali is not the son by blood, but only the son-in-law of the prophet. Explanations have been sought to suggest that he could have been the adoptive brother of the prophet, following the ancient biblical precedent of Aaron, who became the successor of Moses. Some have also claimed that ‘Ali’s father Abu Taleb was similarly elected by divine grace, like his brother Abdallah, the father of the prophet. But all these arguments are clearly makeshift, and Shī’ite reverence—forced to bridge the lacuna—ultimately made a virtue out of necessity and thereby introduced the cultus of Fatima.

And so she becomes the binding link between the two masculine branches: that of her father and that of her husband. Like fruit sprung from a tree in paradise, she is in truth neither girl, woman nor mother in flesh. Rather, she is the phenomenal form of a divine idea. Through her, the “five” of the mobahala now form a [syzygic] unity. In essence she is the initiation, the “shimmering color of predestination,” not the initiatrix or the embodiment of inspiration, as one finds in other cults (the nymph of Numa; Ennoia).   

[ An advisor/counselor Goddess - Meridiana and like Egeria, Nymph of Numa, she has a secret book ]

In a very remarkable manifestation that arises in the meditation of these sects, she appears as a veiled light-form sitting with a crown on her head, wearing two ear ornaments and holding a sword in her hand: the crown is her father, the two earrings her sons, the sword her husband.

The greeting by which she is addressed in prayer is peculiar enough: “Welcome art thou, O Mother of your Father.”

"[Sophia]...I am the mother of my father...."

-Thunder, the perfect mind, NHL

The Arabic form (umm abiha) is an old tribal greeting which was used when the son bore the name of the father of his mother. Here the use of the formula signifies that it is from her that the second divine principle emanates, the mīm, which manifested in her father in order to be manifest anew in her sons. In a similar vein of thought, she appears as the “source of the sun”

[ Mother of the Sun - as is the Egyptian sky goddess NUT http://control-avles-blogs.blogspot.com/2015/02/satan-loves-nutella.html ]

(the red point on the western sky), from whence the sickle of the moon is born at the beginning of each month, the lunar crescent which, for the Shī’ites, symbolizes the “Imāmat.”

In a Sunni text of ‘Abul Fadl Ahmadi († 942 of Hedjra), it is written that ‘Ali must be regarded as the true Tuba-tree of Paradise, for he serves as the veil through which the light of Fatima manifests itself. The proof that this Shī’ite gnostic cultus of Fatima is not based on her human fertility but rather on her beneficent grace is demonstrated by the secret name that she carries after the initiation: instead of her female name, Fatima, she is known only by the name Fatir. But Fatir is a masculine divine epithet. It already features in the Koran, where it signifies “Creator,” or more precisely, “he who lets appear.” What she will let appear, however, is the human form in which, at certain temporal intervals, the Godhead manifests itself in order to test humankind, to demand from it time and again the highest oath of allegiance. In point of fact, history already exists for the Shī’ites as a repeated rebellion of the misled majority in outrage against the highest personified divinity…in the form of the ‘Alids.

What follows is one of the essential texts. Surfacing in the fourteenth century, it probably stems from the Shī’ite sect of Nusayris (although it originally derives from an entire spectrum of far older compositions). Effectively, it functions as a long litany enumerating all the symbols in the Koran that represent Fatima.

A QASIDA OF IBRAHIM TUSI († c. 750/1350)

[Note: A qasida is an Arabic or Persian elegiac poem with a tripartite verse structure—(AC)].

Seemingly a free takhmīs based on a qasida of his master, ‘Ali-b-Mansūr Suwayri (fl. c. 714/1314):

I. How well do you know this mysterious Fitra? And where doth her magnificent clarity come from? Does she belong to the highest pre-eternal essence, does she manifest the attributes of the name, or is she the phenomenal form of the veil?

II. Is she the sacred flame of the torch ? 

[ Simon Magus' Helena with the torch Now this post makes more sense - Fatima will burn Saudi Arabia/the gulf states http://jesus-partisans-balkans.blogspot.com/2015/02/torch.html]

Or the glass lantern of the glowing light? Or the revealing clarity of the radiating star whose glittering scintillas ignite the olive tree?

III. Doth the oil ignite itself in her splendor? Or does her splendor come from a pre-existent fire? Yea! It was her will which rose before the well-guided (Wohlgeleiteten) to direct them by the clarity of her Mohammedean light—those who had come to power in her houses.

IV. Her houses are true temples which speak of the Name which is recognized beneath the essential veils. From her arises the confounding of the Name with the Bab, a secret and sacred phenomena.

V. From her arose shadows, the spiritual forms of future mankind, and the day of Mithaq where spirits nestled together to hear the divine lector proclaim to the elect the revelation of our luminous masters.

VI. Through her we have experienced the phenomenon of life, through her Adam was venerated (by the Angels): and through her there was the pact—the divine bond—along with the sublime and magnanimous witnesses who proclaimed the uniqueness of the Godhead when they saw him (‘Ali), those big-bellied and the bald.

VII. She is the image before which one prostrates oneself; she is the highest proof and touchstone for the unbeliever who revolts, who denies God by saying I (“I am more worthy!”)— before being cast down by his cowardice into the ranks of the damned.

VIII. This sublime appearance would not be recognized by the ignorant, who remain shut off. But those who obey her shall be redeemed and honored in the paradise of delights among the lords of all creation.

IX. She is the strong grip, the word that cuts; from her comes the brightness which separates light from darkness—for she has divided and split the world—here the redeemed, there the vanquished—and never the twain shall meet.

X. She is the tree with twelve branches whose fruits have been cultivated in secret since the beginning of time, preserved for the elect in measured share, those leaders of seekers and lovers.

XI. She is the sanctuary of paradise with the Tuba tree, she is the source of Salsal, that exquisite drink of which never satiates, which heals hearts and grants every wish to the

learned and the wise.

XII. She is their residence built since eternity, their majestically towering shelter. She is the raging sea    [stella maris - Our Lady Star of the Sea]

, the light of the Name, the book which conceals within itself all wisdom, of which the text of the Koran is but an outer cover, a distant echo.

XIII. She is the Aqsa Mosque of Jerusalem where the elect and the sacred have ascended to honor the Unique and the Merciful, the situs irradiated by the streaming clarity which pours forth from the luminous stars.

XIV. She is the one who nurtures all creatures at her breast without ever weaning her children or diminishing the abundance of her bosom.

[ like Hathor and Sophia, nursing grown men ]

She bestows her gifts upon all who seek the truth and the genuinely essential, and upon those who are radiant masters.

XV. It was through her that Cain abandoned the right path; she was Abel’s fire sacrifice, a divine symbol enshrouded in flame to testify against the wicked.

XVI. She is the rock from which the twelve springs have their source, the impeccable pearls—Imāms of pure knowledge—preserved for those inflamed with love for her, and who drink out of her chalice.

XVII. She is the (reddish) cow of the white bāqir, thanks to which the innocent were redeemed from death. Upon being reproached they said: “This is what killed me, I recognize it.” Truth appeared to Moses, who openly proclaimed it.

XVIII. She is the night of power which enjoys glorious renown, her endurance is longer than a thousand moons; here the angels and spirits climb down to earth, and, forsooth, divide the fate of men according to their angelic directive.

XIX. Her light darkens the sun’s gifts when her full moon comes to term, occulted by three veils, three silent veils; [ the veils of ISIS ] and Mohammed leads them with words and directions.

XX. She is the substance of her name—“the holy”—the “creatrix of incarnation” [  ]—her veil indicates divine ambiguity, and its borrowed light shines for the elect by night.

XXI. And on the day that the prophet vanished (i.e. as he died), he appeared afresh within her; suffused with eloquence, she became the veil which enraptures those of wisdom and reason, and by the source of the master of revelation (‘Ali), she became the singular and highest ontological essence.

XXII. She is the one whose mysteries became visible to us on the day of fadak; castles and fortresses trembled as she opposed the wicked, and all surrendered their heaving scourges to make peace with ‘Ali.

XXIII. But ‘Ali pacified them when he saw them tearing their souls. And he said: “Steady! Be calm! Your fate is as near as the breaking dawn, and like the day, the judge will appoint them to appear before him.

XXIV. And she returned, smiling, back to her house, both Hassans following her. Her enemies, unsuspecting, will soon be plummeting into the burning fires of hell.

[The corresponding Koranic verses are: I = 30.29; II-III = 24.35; V-VII = 7.10; XII =52.4-6; XIII = 17.1; XVI = 7.160; Numbers 33. 29; XVII = 2.63-69; … compare the cow of Ayisha. XVIII = 97; XIX: the three veils are ‘Ali, Hasan and Hosein.]

(XXV-CXIX refer to the succession of the imams and the Bab.)

In reference to this qasida, it should be noted that Fatir [creatrix], the mysterious name of Fatima, was probably chosen because the numerical value of the letters which form the name produce the same total as the numerical value of the name of Mary (Maryam). For these gnostic circles there is a form of reappearance (the reincarnation of one identical, unchanging archetype from one cycle to the next). Thus, Fatima is simply the reoccurrence of Maryam. The numerical value of both names is 290. From this identification it follows that certain reciprocal reactions in Islamic intellectual circles—in which a traditional Fatima-type is opposed to a traditional Maria-type—should be determined with more precision. So too the proclamation scene (which is described by Jalal-addin Rumi in his Mathnawi in such an idiosyncratic manner) and the theories surrounding the conception and birth of the Imāms.

The women around Mohammed played a role in his family life as well as in his political life. While the Shī’ites remember the Prophet’s first wife Khadija very fondly—the “Umm Salama”—this is in no way the case with Ayisha and Hafsa, daughters of the two initial successors of Mohammed. For Shī’ites they are the “wicked women” of the prophet, who are, moreover, pointed out in one of the verses of the Koran as the disobedient ones. On the other hand, there is a special adoration towards Ayisah and Hafsa amongst Sunnis who are hostile towards Shī’ites.

In the north western part of Kashmir, in the area of Baltistan, where there are mainly Isma’ilis (hence Shī’ites) living, there is an anti-Shī’ite enclave of Kelun-shah who practice a cult devoted blatantly to Ayisha and Hafsa. As Francke observes (Moslem World, 1929, 139), this must be a surviving minority of the Buddhist cult of the two Taras.

Therefore, if we want to compare the role of this female intercessory power in Islam with that of Christianity and Judaism, we will notice that in Islam we are in no way dealing with the personification of the Torah as in Israel (which deals with a marriage of the community to the power of God); nor are we dealing with the Christian Panagia to distinguish a chosen one through the intercession of the Holy Spirit. The Shī’ite traditions are very clear on this: Fatima, who is holding a sword in her hand and is also named El Zahrā, “the brilliant/effulgent,” has an essential eschatological role to play—she will restore justice through irreconcilable vengeance. 

[ Mary will avenge the catholics and the Shia against the remnant of islamic and christian "protestants"  (who refuse to worship her). It will not come surprising if that is the catholic rendition of the "every man's sword shall be against his brother." i.e. the shia will betray the sunni in the future ottoman empire. Catholic apologists claim this is the Gog and Magog war. ]

She will appear at the final judgment with flowing hair to demand justice for the murder of her children; she will appear against those responsible for the premature delivery of her last son, Mohsin, whose blood drenched body she carries in her arms; she will appear against those who poisoned her eldest son Hassan and slew her second son Hossein in Karbala. In this image, then, she is essentially the embodiment of divine retribution, just as she was the embodiment of selectivity at the beginning of time; for those who love her and her successors, who are already thereby assured of paradise. She is the sād, the letter which symbolizes the pre-eternal purity of the elect.

[ as in the calvinistic understanding of predestination that borders on preexistence of the souls of the redeemed ]

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Shiism is the papism of islam

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ignatei 7 months ago

God sends Imams to guide you. Today Agha Khan is the current Imam. His Holiness is from the same linage as Imam Ali and Imam Hussein. Imam Hussein died for your sins, whoever believes in him and his descendants will stand with him in paradise (?!?!?!?!?). Wahabi will spend the rest of eternity in hell, with angels roasting them to take revenge for Allah azza wa jaal.

Hasan BFD 7 months ago

+ignatei how true is islam. your saying hussain(ra) died for our sins? sounds like the story of the christians, jesus died for our sins. 

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ignatei 7 months ago (edited)

+Umar Ibn Khattab Denying only 1 Imam is like denying all 124000 prophets. The hell-bound Sunnis deny all infallible imams, from Imam Ali to Agha Khan. Imam Hussein died for your sins BECAUSE if you only cry for him all your sins will be forgiven. Aga Khan teaches you the kind of tolerance and charity that is vital to the survival of our species. Wahabis can't cry, they repress their natural human impulses/needs, that's why they develop psychotic complexes like Daesh scum. Humble your heart before Master Hussein. He and his 72 literally fought to the last man to preserve Islam, against Yazid (lanatullah) and his genocidal policies.

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What does this sound like? Perhaps the all-inclusiveness of Catholicism and the bigotry against people who want their religion to remain pure and spiritual. Also notice the accusation towards the sunni of repressing their natural human impulses (idolatry and man worship?). Hussein dying for their sins....

Anyways, I dont endorse islam neither am I interested in it beyond what can be seen from statements of the respective sect's believers and very general theological outlines.

You can really see where Islam's conversion will start.