“Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing the rose, looking at the night and seeing the dawn. Impatience is the inability to see the outcome. The lovers of God never run out of patience, for they know that time is needed for the crescent moon to become full.” ~ Rumi
‘Lailatul Raghaib’
‘Lailatul Raghaib’ – First Thursday of Rajab month -16th May 2013
The Holy Prophet (s.a) has said, that these prayers are Means of forgiveness and On the first night in our grave,, the Almighty will send the reward off this prayer in the best,, enlightened and eloquent form.. When inquired,, will reply,, ‘‘My Beloved,, glad tidings to you that you have found salvation from every hardship and horror..’’When asked,, ‘‘Who are you?’’ ‘‘By God I haven’t seen any one more beautiful than you,, I haven’t heard a word sweeter than yours,, or a fragrance better than you?’’ In reply,, ‘‘I am,, that prayer which you offered on the eve off the first Friday of the month of Rajab. I have come to you,, to be your companion in this loneliness,, to remove from you your fright and horror.. Be lest assured that my shelter will be with you until the blowing off the Horn off the Day off Judgment..’’
It is recommended to fast on the first Thursday & between Maghrib & Isha recite 12 Rak’at namaz in six sets of 2 units.(with niyat/intention of Rija )
In every Rak’at after surah al Hamd recite 3 times Surah al-Qadr & 12 times Surah Ikhlaas.
After completing the full prayer recite :-
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Recite 70 times: O Allah send blessings on Muhammad, the Ummi Prophet, and on his descendants. Allahumma s’ale a’laa muh’ammadin nabiyyil ummi wa a’laa aaleh. Then go into sajdah & recite 70 times: Holy and most Holy is the Lord of the Angels and spirits. subbuh’un quddoos rabbul malaaaekate war-rooh’ Then sit erect & say 70 times: O Lord! Forgive, have mercy and be indulgent about that which Thou knows well, verily Thou art Sublime, Mighty. rabbighfir war-ham watajaawaz a’mma ta’lamo innaka antal a’liyyul a’zam. Then go into sajdah & say 70 times: Holy and most Holy is the Lord of the Angels and spirits. subbooh’un quddoos rabbul malaaekate war-rooh’. |
Yamani’s Cure For Headache
Yamani’s Cure For A Headache
Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan (pbuh) said, “And for a cure from a headache place the right hand upon the location of the pain and recite Surah Al-Fatihah 70 times.”
The Wives of Cain and Abel
Question 148: How did the sons of the prophet Adam pbuh reproduce? Did they marry women of paradise? The Almighty says, {He created you from one soul}, whereas the women of paradise are not from the soul of Adam, so how did the procreation of human beings begin?
Answer: In the Name of Allah, the Abundantly Merciful, the Intensely Merciful
Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds
The answer is in the Allegories Volume 4, so refer to it.
As for what is stated in the narrations, Abel was wed to a hawraa [a name usually given to the women of paradise] and that is an indication of her righteousness and spiritual ascension to the level of the women of paradise. And Cain married one [who was at the same level] of the jinn, and that is an indication of her corruption and of the debasement of her soul to the level of the corrupt jinn, and their state of foolishness and ignorance.
Ahmed al-Hasan
Successor and Messenger of Imam al-Mahdi pbuh
Question 125: Why did Cain kill Abel? And is it true that Adam wanted to wed each of them to the twin of the other, and that Cain refused, so Adam commanded them to offer a sacrifice to conclude this matter?
Answer: In the Name of Allah, the Abundantly Merciful, the Intensely Merciful,
Praise to Allah, Lord of the worlds. May the peace and prayers of Allah be upon Muhammad and the progeny of Muhammad, the Imams and the Mahdis.
There is a lot of confusion concerning this matter, and the truth is that Allah swt forbade incestual marriages in the Mother of the Book, and every divine Book and every jurisprudence states that it is forbidden, including the jurisprudence of Adam. So the issue of the marriage of the sons of Adam pbuh is as follows: Eve gave birth to Cain and then to Abel from Adam pbuh. And Cain married a woman whom Allah swt had created for him and she was corrupt, and Abel married a woman whom Allah had created for him and she was righteous. And Allah created these two wives just as He had previously created Adam and Eve, meaning that Allah created two wives for Cain and Abel by His ability swt.
Then Allah commanded Adam to appoint Abel pbuh as his successor. So when Cain came to know about this, he objected the command of appointment, so Adam informed him that the command was from Allah and not from himself, and he commanded them to offer a sacrifice to Allah. So Abel offered a heavy lamb whereas Cain offered bad wheat, so Abel’s offering was accepted. Thus malice toward Abel ignited in the soul of Cain, and Satan (may Allah curse him) whispered to him to kill his brother. And his soul, which was inclined to evil, inclined him toward the killing of his brother. So Cain killed Abel out of envy, because he was Adam’s successor. Thus the promise made by Iblis (may Allah curse him) of temptation was fulfilled, for he tempted Cain and infected him with his disease which is the “I” and arrogance, and one of the things accompanying the “I” is the disease of envy.
As for the rest of the lineage, the wife of Abel was pregnant and gave birth to a male, and later on, Seth and Yafith were born to Adam pbuh. So the wife of Seth gave birth to a male and a female, and the wife of Yafith gave birth to a female, thus the son of Abel married the daughter of Seth, and the son of Seth married the daughter of Yafith.
And the prophets pbut are from the lineage of those people, and this is the conclusive speech, and any words beyond this statement would only come from one who would lie about Allah and His messenger.
Justice Between Two Wives
Question: In the Name of Allah, the Abundantly Merciful, the Intensely Merciful,
Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds.
May the prayers and peace of Allah be upon Muhammad and the progeny of Muhammad, the Imams and the Mahdis
Peace be upon you my leader and master, the successor and messenger of Imam al-Mahdi (peace be upon him and you).
The question: What is the meaning of this hadith: The Messenger of Allah pbuhap said, “He who has two wives and does not justly divide himself and his wealth between them will be brought on the Day of Resurrection chained until he enters hellfire.” [Bihar Al-Anwar Vol. 7 p. 214.]
Is it possible for a man who is not infallible to justly divide himself and his wealth and love between them?
Can you help me understand this matter?
And we ask Allah that He blesses us with His satisfaction and the satisfaction of His vicegerent, and may the peace, mercy and blessings of Allah be upon you.
Answer: In the Name of Allah, the Abundantly Merciful, the Intensely Merciful,
Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may the prayers and peace of Allah be upon Muhammad and the progeny of Muhammad, the Imams and the Mahdis.
May Allah support you, justice between wives occurs by [maintaining] the obligatory rights such as divisions of the nights spent with the wife and the obligatory spending.
Ahmed Al-Hasan
Shaaban/1433 A.H
The Month of Rajab
Question: Is there a special act [of worship] in this month? [Month of Rajab]
Answer: May the peace and prayers of Allah be upon Muhammad and the progeny of Muhammad, the Imams and the Mahdies.
I ask Allah to make it a month of mercy and forgiveness to you and to all believers. Yes this month has a special virtue in that the Dua during it is accepted and forgiveness descends on those who asks for it. Indeed the mercy of Allah descending on worshipers during this month is great, so request from Allah to be the most fortunate of the worshipers of Allah [in having] the greatest portion in this honorable month from every mercy He descends, and from every forgiveness He comprises His worshipers with, and from every acceptance of dua He favors to the ones who made dua to Him. Don’t miss fasting this month or some days from it, and don’t miss reading the Qur’an regularly in this honorable month.
And praise be to Allah alone.
Ahmad Al-Hassan
Supplication for Cancer
Indeed, people enter and leave this world to be tested and not for anything else, may Allah support you. So the loser is the one who does not achieve the highest result in the test, and who is preoccupied with this world instead of the reason why he came to this world.
Do you see the people? They are like worms, some of them die trampled and some of them die drowning, some of them die due to this or that. Likewise, those who enter this world and are preoccupied with this world, they are like these worms. There is no difference between them except perhaps the worms are better than them because they were not given what the people were given.
The human being came to be tested and to leave, a generation enters and a generation leaves and so on, until it befalls all people. So whoever did not learn of his fate yesterday must learn of it today or tomorrow and must strive to accomplish what he came here for and must have a goal for himself in this world with which Allah is satisfied. Otherwise, he is a loser to say the least, if not perished.
The human being comes to this world to be preoccupied with it just like the worm. Have you seen a worm donating its food to another worm? Or have you seen it fight for its food? Have you seen a worm leave its home for another worm?
The human being is the one who does such things, the human being is the one who is not preoccupied with this world nor is he stingy with a morsel in his mouth that he can feed to an orphan or to a hungry one, nor is he stingy with the house that shelters him toward the one who only knows living in the wild and homelessness.
As for the common people whom we see and know, we do not see that their behavior differs much from that of the worms. The human being is not the one who chews on this world like camels chew on the foliage of spring. Rather, the human being is the one who neglects this world and is preoccupied with where he will eventually settle, and that is the Hereafter. So you find that not a day passes without him having a precedence of honor with his Lord.
I think that you, your brother and I, the short-comer, have to understand this truth and take advantage of our remaining days so that we do not waste them like we wasted our prior days, so that we do not lose everything. This is the most important thing, because we are definitely leaving, we did not come to stay, but rather to leave in the end, whether we leave this world today, tomorrow, in ten years, or in a hundred years.
There is one result: we came in order to leave. This is a place of crossing, we are tested in it, no more, no less. So blessed are the winners.
Wisdom is for us to know that we are leaving, and to not waste what remains like we wasted what has passed.
Perhaps to you these words are harsh, however, this is the truth which we must understand, apply and work by and not only speak by, otherwise we are losers. Moreover, if we are aware, then our loss is bigger and greater.
I ask Allah to grant you support …
And do not forget me in your dua, may Allah support you.
There is a supplication of great benefit for your brother, so have him repeat it as many times as he can:
O He Whose name is a remedy and Whose mention is a healing. O He Who allows the healing to occur in whatever He wills, pray upon Muhammad and the progeny of Muhammad and let my healing from this disease be by this name of Yours.
يامَنْ اسْمُهُ دَواءٌ وَذِكْرُهُ شِفاءٌ يامَنْ يَجْعَلْ الشِّفاءَ فيما يَشاءُ مِنَ الأشْياءِ صَلِّ عَلى مُحَمَّد وَآل مُحَمَّد وَاجْعَل شِفائِي مِن هذا الدّاءِ باسْمِكَ هذا
Ya man ismuhu dawaa wa thikruhu shifaa, ya man yajal alshifaa fima yashaa min alashyaa, salli ala Muhammad wa aali Muhammad wa ijaal shifaee min hatha aldaa bi ismika hatha
O Allah ( يا الله ~ Ya Allah) x10
O Lord ( يارَبْ ~ Ya Rab) x10
O Most Merciful of the merciful ( يا أْرْحَمَ الرّاحِمِينْ ~ Ya Arham arrahimeen) x10
Imam PBUH Facebook Post on Gilgamesh Part 2
The Second Berth:
The religion of Sumer and Akkad and the three religions, Islam, Christianity and Judaism.
The truth is that any person acquainted with the Torah, the Gospel and the Quran and what the Sumerian clay tablets contained would certainly judge with one of the two inevitable conclusions:
The first is that the religion was made by the Sumerian man and that the Torah, Gospel and Quran are only a rumination of the Sumerian religion (the creation of the first man Adam, the story of Abel and Cain, the story of the Flood, sin, the afterlife, heaven, hell, etc.)
The second conclusion is that the Sumerian religion is the religion of Adam and Noah itself but it was related and written in a distorted manner and believed in by the Sumerians and Akkadians (Babylonians and Assyrians) in its distorted form. And this is what I wish to clarify by showing that the Sumerian stories are only events from the unseen that Adam brought to earth, and they are the stories of the righteous ones from his children pbut and what would happen to them, especially the ones who represent important landmarks on the path of religion, such as Dumuzi (the faithful son) or Gilgamesh.
The great similarity between what is written in the Torah and in the Sumerian tablets was noted by Dr. Samuel Kramer and he decided to include chapters in his books that clarified the similarity between the Sumerian clay tablets and the Torah. And as an example,
((Chapter 19, Paradise, The First Biblical Parallels, from the book History Begins at Sumer))
((The Sacred Marriage and the Song of Solomon, from the book The sacred Marriage Rite:
Aspects of Faith, Myth, and Ritual in Ancient Sumer, by Dr. Samuel Kramer.))
And the Sumerians knew and practiced detailed matters in the divine religion, such as believing in visions and that the visions are the words of Allah, and believing in signs and believing that Allah can talk to a person in everything he experiences.
And in the book Légendes de Babylone et de Canaan, Charles Virolleaud says,
“We now know that mankind was created to serve the gods, and that the gods would punish them for the slightest mistakes. Therefore they must obey the wishes of the of the sky accurately and must do as they say. How else would they preserve this harmony and avoid the wrath of the gods? And if they saw dreams of the gods inspiring to them what they wish, how would they interpret them in a way that satisfied the gods, that is if there were dreams? What if there weren’t any dreams?
The answer is that they would resort to omens and natural indicators as they would guide them to the truth. Therefore, absolute attention must be given not only to the changes of the moon but to the shape of the clouds, as every movement of what crawls in the grass and even the planets in the galaxy gives an indication of the wills of the gods, whether good or bad. And here is where art or science would stand out and distinguish whether the will was good or bad.
And the magicians must interfere, either to hasten good luck or to push away the hostile force that threatened life, and not the life of the individuals or the people, rather the life of the king in whose control was the destiny of the entire nation.
And this king, to whom the gods gave knowledge was, as previously mentioned, the seventh from the antediluvian state. So according to the hereditary order, he matches Enoch [Idris] who occupies the seventh rank from the lineage of Adam, the chain of the patriarchs before the Flood. And it is remarkable that there is nothing in common between the names although their acts are exactly the same. And as a matter of fact, the Biblical text concerning the seventh patriarch (Enoch) is very brief:
Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him. Genesis 5:24.
And Enoch became the hero of a chain of legends that made him the inventor of writing and the author of the first book and the creator of the science of planets and stars, astronomy and aeronomy. And he seems to be Evedoranki. And we can safely assume that this legend of the Jews is nothing but a development or expansion of the old Chaldean legend.
And the rest of the kings and patriarchs, the six ancestors of Enoch and their three vicegerents, have qualities in common. And the only character concerning us is the tenth character that lived through the Flood.” Légendes de Babylone et de Canaan, Charles Virolleaud.
And the stories of the Sumerians speak clearly as do the other divine religions, about the afterlife and that the good and righteous people enter heaven whereas the evil ones enter hellfire.
“Those people were certain that they will live after death but in darkness and will have no reward, unless they take the good path in this world, meaning through righteousness, such as what happened to Oum-Napishti [meaning Noah pbuh], or by applying the law to the people like Hammourabi did.” Légendes de Babylone et de Canaan, Charles Virolleaud.
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(Translated by: Official Translation Committee of Imam Ahmed Alhasan, a.s.) also posted at: www.saviorofmankind.com, official English website of the Imam a.s.
Imam PBUH Facebook Post on Gilgamesh Part 3
The Third Berth [second coming soon -Trans.]:
Is it the story of Job, the prophet of Allah, narrated by the Sumerians before it occurred?
There are indications that the stories of the Sumerians or the Akkadians are only stories from the unseen about real stories that will occur after the time of the Sumerians in the journey of the divine religion. And any person who has read the Sumerian clay tablets will see that they mention prophets and messengers who came in an era after the Sumerian civilization, such as the one mentioning the story of the prophet Job pbuh before Job pbuh was born, and the story of Job pbuh is written in the Torah and the Quran.
“All the tablets and fragments on which our Sumerian essay is inscribed date back more than a thousand years before the compilation of the Book of Job.” History Begins at Sumer, Kramer
And these are excerpts from the story of Job, as written in the Sumerian tablets and a very long time before Job was born.
“I, the wise, why am I bound to the ignorant youths?
I, the discerning, why am I counted among the ignorant?
Food is all about, yet my food is hunger,
On the day shares were allotted to all, my allotted share was suffering.
“My god, (I would stand) before you,
Would speak to you, . . . my word is a groan,
I would tell you about it, would bemoan the bitterness of my path,
(Would bewail) the confusion of . . . .
“Lo, let not my mother who bore me cease my lament before you.
Let not my sister utter the happy song and chant.
Let her utter tearfully my misfortunes before you,
Let my wife voice mournfully my suffering.
Let the expert singer bemoan my bitter fate.
Tears, lament, anguish, and depression are lodged within me,
Suffering overwhelms me like one chosen for nothing but tears,
Malignant sickness bathes my body. . . .
“My god, you who are my father who begot me, lift up my face.
How long will you neglect me, leave me unprotected?
How long will you leave me unguided?
They say — valiant sages — a word righteous and straightforward:
‘Never has a sinless child been born to its mother,
… a sinless youth has not existed from of old.’”
The man — his god harkened to his bitter tears and weeping,
The young man — his lamentation and wailing soothed the heart of his god.
The righteous words, the pure words uttered by him, his god accepted.
The words which the man prayerfully confessed,
Pleased the … , the flesh of his god, and his god withdrew his hand from the evil word,
… which oppresses the heart, … he embraces,
The encompassing sickness-demon, which had spread wide its wings, he swept away.
The (disease) which had smitten him like a … , he dissipated,
The evil fate which had been decreed for him in accordance
with his sentence, he turned aside,
He turned the man’s suffering into joy.” History Begins at Sumer, Kramer
The fourth berth:
Sumer and Akkad cried about Dumuzi, and now they cry about al-Hussein pbuh?
It will come soon, Allah willing.
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(Translated by: Official Translation Committee of Imam Ahmed Alhasan, a.s.) also posted at: www.saviorofmankind.com, official English website of the Imam a.s.
Imam PBUH Facebook Post on Gilgamesh Part 1
Selected Berths in the harbors of Sumer and Akkad: I chose Sumer and Akkad because it is historically, archaeologically and religiously proven that Noah pbuh and Abraham pbuh were from them, thus they are the origin of religion and religion originated from them at the beginning of time, and the religion originates from them at the end times, thus they are people who grieved for thousands of years about Dumuzi (or the Faithful Son) and they waited for Gilgamesh (or the frontline warrior). And people who have come after them in Mesopotamia still grieve over al-Hussain pbuh and wait for the Mahdi whom the people who came before them were waiting for, Gilgamesh, whose appearance was promised in their country thousands of years ago. We ask Allah to reform their state and guide them to His straight path, and seal for them with good. As for those who wait for al-Mahdi’s appearance from a place other than Sumer and Akkad, the country of his fathers Noah and Abraham pbut, then they will wait for a long time, and it will be an endless wait.
The First Berth:
The epics of Sumer, Akkad and the divine religion: Some or all the researches in the history of the ancient Near East or the Middle East consider the religion to be purely a human product, and that it started with deifying the goddess Ishtar with her different names, whose statues they found in various sizes spread throughout the ancient civilizations of the Near East, which spanned for over 9000 years B.C., and they justified this religious start by saying that the society was dominated by the woman in the form of the mother around whom the children gather, and these children knew only that they belonged to her. Therefore, according to them, the woman (the great mother Ishtar) was sanctified and statues were made for her, and after a period of time, the human society turned patriarchal when agriculture was discovered, and society started to settle and families and homes were built, and this resulted in the introduction of male gods into the temples, and this is how the religion was formed; the religion later evolved into Judaism, Christianity, Islam and others as well.
But those who built their theory based upon ancient female statues forget that their theory can be easily refuted by the assumption that these statues were only made for sexual enticement and do not represent something sacred, so the existence of a sacred female for whom a statue was made in a certain era does not allow the investigative researcher to judge that every statue made of a female before her represents her. And this opinion, that the ancient man built tools of sexual enticement does exist and is presented by some archaeologists.
Also, there are archaeological texts that describe the goddess Ishtar or Inanna known in Sumer and Akkad with the attributes of this world that the human lives in. So in the texts, she is not the mother and not even a real female:
Rather, she is the dunya to whom the king Tammuz refused to prostrate to when he sat upon the throne, like other kings prostrated to her. So she handed Tammuz (the faithful son) to the demons to kill him.
((Inanna proceeds to the two Sumerian cities Umma and Bad-tibira whose two deities prostrate themselves before her and are thus saved from the demons. Then she arrives at the city of Kullab, whose tutelary deity is Dumuzi. The poem continues: Dumuzi put on a noble robe, he sat high on (his) seat The demons seized him by his thighs…
The seven (demons) rush at him as at the side of a sick man The shepherds play not the flute and pipe before him She (Inanna) fastened the eye upon him, the eye of death, Spoke the word against him, the word of wrath, Uttered the cry against him, the cry of guilt: “As for him, carry him off,”)) History Begins at Sumer, Kramer.
And this is the dunya that Gilgamesh refused to submit to when he sat on the throne and wore his crown,
((Gilgamesh opened his mouth and answered glorious Ishtar, ‘… How would it go with me? Your lovers have found you like a brazier which smoulders in the cold, a backdoor which keeps out neither squall of wind nor storm, a castle which crushes the garrison, pitch that blackens the bearer, a water-skin that chafes the carrier, a stone which falls from the parapet, a battering-ram turned back from the enemy, a sandal that trips the wearer. Which of your lovers did you ever love for ever? What shepherd of yours has pleased you for all time?’)) The Epic of Gilgamesh Anyhow, the theory that the origin of religion is deifying the mother is just an assumption that does not rely upon solid scientific proof, this is why I do not see a need for detailed refutations of such assumptions. But I do see it necessary to clarify the proofs and indications of the divine origin of the Sumerian religion, so this topic is about proving that the Sumerian religion is a divine religion that existed previously and was distorted. So here, we want to clarify that the Sumerians who knew ablution with water and knew about prayer, fasting, dua and supplication were a religious people and their religion was divine, so the Sumerian epics and stories include events from the unseen that occurred thousands of years after the Sumerians spoke of them. Yes, perhaps their religion was distorted during some periods but it is a divine religion, just as the people of Mecca were people of a distorted Abrahamic Hanafi religion, and they worshipped and sanctified idols, and just as today there are Salafis or Wahhabis who are worshippers of an idol and are inheritors of the old worshippers of idols in Mecca. They say they are Muslims but they worship a big idol whom them believe to exist in the sky and not on the earth, and who has two hands with fingers and two feet and two eyes.
So the issue of distorting the divine religion existed and still does exist.
And if we were to return to the beginning of the divine religion, we find that Adam came to the earth with the first divine religion and it had the stories of his faithful sons after him, and the naturally, the people were supposed to memorize these stories, narrate them and pass them on.
And the stories and epics of the Sumerians at times are only narrations of these sacred and related stories, as the Sumerians narrated the story of the Flood in detail and long before the Torah existed,
((A Flood The First “Noah” That the Biblical deluge story is not original with the Hebrew redactors of the Bible has been known from the time of the discovery and deciphering of the eleventh tablet of the Babylonian “Epic of Gilgamesh” by the British Museum’s George Smith. The Babylonian deluge myth itself, however, is of Sumerian origin. In 1914, Arno Poebel published a fragment consisting of the lower third of a six-column Sumerian tablet in the Nippur collection of the University Museum, the contents of which are devoted in large part to the story of the flood. This fragment still remains unique and unduplicated … Badly broken as the text is, these passages are nevertheless of significance … They include a number of revealing statements concerning the creation of man, the origin of kingship, and the existence of at least five antediluvian cities.)) History Begins at Sumer, Kramer. Yes, perhaps they are occasionally distorted stories especially from the perspective of other religions due to time and the imposition of the human whim within them that is tainted with satanic whispering, but is something which is distorted always void of truth?!!! Have we wondered where the legacy of Adam and Noah went, and where this legacy was in the time of the Sumerians or the Akkadians? Where did the legacy of the divine religion that existed before the Flood go? It is not reasonable that Noah and those with him would be concerned with saving goats and cows and not with preserving the divine religion from Adam pbuh within their chests. And mankind after Noah pbuh, represented by the Sumerians and Akkadians and followed by the Babylonians and Assyrians, also narrated the history of Adam and Noah and the high sacred entities just as they narrated the history of the kings, farmers and craftsmen, even if the history is distorted by stories passed down through generations. Therefore, the result is that that the Sumerian or Akkadian religion is the religion of Adam and Noah, perhaps distorted at times by deification of everything that is deified, such as the dunya and the righteous people. And an example of this distortion is that an attempt to distort The Epic of Gilgamesh was discovered in the artifacts, and this of course demonstrates two issues: The first is that The Epic of Gilgamesh is a religious text, as no one cares for distorting a literary text. The second is that the text of The Epic of Gilgamesh that reached us is definitely not free of distortion. Taha Baqir says, “And perhaps the strangest thing recently found by archaeologists in the archaeological site known as Sultantepe in southern Turkey near Harran was parts of the epic and a strange letter forged by an old writer in the second century B.C., that letter was as if written by Gilgamesh and was addressed to one of the ancient kings, and Gilgamesh was requesting him to send gemstones to make a talisman for his friend Enkidu, and it weighed as much as thirty minns.” The Epic of Gilgamesh, Taha Baqir. ((And when comparing these original and various pieces with the text of Nineveh, they seemed to be valuable information, not only to bridge the gaps but they also completely showed that the Poem [Epic] of Gilgamesh did not have one form in the time of the Assyrians, and this is proof that the legend evolved notably throughout generations. In other words, the writers did not copy the old text in a literal and honest manner, rather, they added, took out and twisted. And this is what proves or takes part in proving the idea that spread, although wrong, that the East never was and never will be firm and steady.)) Legends of Babylon, Charl So if there have been deliberate attempts of distortion of written texts, then the same definitely applies to texts that are narrated verbally and before the era of writing, and certainly, their distortion is greater. And when they were written in the first era of writing, they were written in their distorted form; therefore, we can conclude that the stories of the Deluge, Dumuzi and Gilgamesh and other stories of Sumerian-Akkadian origins were certainly not written identically to the stories narrated before the era of writing.
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(Translated by: Official Translation Committee of Imam Ahmed Alhasan, a.s.) also posted at: www.saviorofmankind.com, official English website of the Imam a.s.
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