The Essence of Islam – Volume IV — Page 180
180. Essence of Islam-IV. This verse shows that he will be instructed through the spiritual power of the Holy Prophets, and will, in this sense, be one of the Companions. This verse is further explained by the Hadith: لو كان الايمان معلّقاً بالثريا لناله رجل من فارس. Here the quality which was particularized in the. Promised Messiah and Mahdī has been attributed to this man from Persia. This quality is to replenish the earth with justice after it has been filled with wrongdoing and has become empty of faith and the belief in the Unity of God. Thus this man is the Promised Messiah and Mahdī; and I am he. . Just as the prophesied eclipse of the sun and the moon in the month of Ramadan has not occurred during the time of any other person claiming to be Mahdī, likewise, during the thirteen hundred years that have elapsed since the time of the Holy Prophets, no one has claimed, on the basis of Divine revelation, to be 'the Man of Persia' about whom the Ḥadīth says that he will bring faith down from heaven. [Tohfah Golarhviah, Rūḥānī Khaza'in, vol. 17, pp. 114-115]. One of the authorities that show that the Promised. Messiah will appear from among the Muslims, is this verse of the Holy Qur'ān: كُنْتُمْ خَيْرَ أُمَّةٍ أُخْرِجَتْ لِلنَّاسِ " them. Al-Jumu'ah, 62:4 [Publisher] 96 Had faith ascended to the Pleiades, it would be brought down by a man from among the Persians. [Publisher]