The True Nature of the Mahdi — Page 41
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ نَحْمَدُهُ وَنُصَلِّي عَلَى رَسُولِهِ الْكَرِيمِ O my brothers! May the peace, mercy, and blessings of Allah be upon you! Now, hear me O righteous servants of Allah, and our brothers from the lands of Turkey³ and Greater Syria, and the holy land of Mecca, and Medina-the place of the migration of our master and Prophet, the Seal of the Prophets—and Persia, Egypt, Kabul, and other lands. May Allah have mercy upon you and sup- port you, and be with you in this world and on the Day 1 2 In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful. [Publisher] We praise Him and invoke blessings upon His Noble Messenger saw. [Publisher] 3 The Arabic expression Biladur-Rum in this context refers to the Anatolian core of the Ottoman Empire, the capital of which was the former Byzantine city of Constantinople (present-day Istanbul). As this historical region encompasses all of modern- day Turkey, it has been translated as such. [Publisher] 4 The Arabic term Bilad ash-Sham, rendered here as Greater Syria, refers to the historical region that encompasses several modern-day Middle Eastern states such as Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, and parts of Iraq and Turkey. [Publisher] 41