Where are the Amalekites (1) and the sons of Amalekites? Where are the Pharaohs? (2)
Where are the people of the cities of ar-Rass (3) who killed the prophets, destroyed the
traditions of the divine messengers and revived the traditions of the despots? Where are those
who advanced with armies, defeated thousands, mobilised forces and populated cities?
A part of the same sermon about the Imam al-Mahdi
He will be wearing the armour of wisdom, which he will have secured with all its conditions,
such as full attention towards it, its (complete) knowledge and exclusive devotion to it. For
him it is like a thing which he had lost and which he was then seeking, or a need which he
was trying to fulfil. If Islam is in trouble he will feel forlorn like a traveller and like a (tired)
camel beating the end of its tail and with its neck flattened on the ground
