There are oppressed men in various countries who have answered the invitation of His Eminence Allamah Mansoor Hashemi Khorasani toward Allah’s Caliph on the earth and the only Imam of the sincere servants of Allah, the Mahdi
who will fill the earth with justice and equity as it has been filled with oppression and cruelty, according to the promise of the truthful Prophet
. Therefore, they have joined the “Return to Islam” movement and undertaken inviting people toward the pure religion, fighting against innovations, enjoining right, and forbidding wrong. For this reason, they have become targets for the attacks of tyrants and their supporters, as well as all ignorant people, deviants, and imitators who fanatically follow sects and scholars, to the extent that they may be captured and killed, especially in countries like Iran that are ruled by the most misguided and oppressive rulers. My question is, if they are killed in this path, are they martyrs in the sight of Allah?
Those who strive with their wealth and lives to establish Allah’s government on the earth through the establishment of the government of His Caliph, the Mahdi are living martyrs. If they are killed on this path, they are considered the best martyrs in the end time. Rather, there are no martyrs other than them at present; because no one other than them strives to establish Allah’s government on the earth. Rather, everyone from every faction strives to establish the government of others, knowingly or unknowingly, while there is no martyrdom except on the path of establishing Allah’s government on the earth; as He has said: ﴿الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا يُقَاتِلُونَ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ ۖ وَالَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا يُقَاتِلُونَ فِي سَبِيلِ الطَّاغُوتِ﴾[1]; “Those who believe fight in the way of Allah, and those who disbelieve fight in the way of taghut,” and said: ﴿وَلَا تَقُولُوا لِمَنْ يُقْتَلُ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ أَمْوَاتٌ ۚ بَلْ أَحْيَاءٌ وَلَكِنْ لَا تَشْعُرُونَ﴾[2]; “And do not say that those who are killed in the way of Allah are dead, but rather they are alive, but you do not perceive.” Therefore, those who are killed on the path of establishing or maintaining the government of the leader of ISIS, the leader of the Taliban, the leader of Syria, the leader of Iran, or any other leader of governments or parties are the dead, and calling them martyrs is nothing but deception; because a martyr in Islam is one who is killed on the path of establishing or maintaining the government Allah’s Caliph on the earth, not establishing and maintaining the government of others, and no one at present possesses this attribute except for Mansoor Hashemi Khorasani and his sincere companions, who are striving to establish and maintain the government of the Mahdi
; as one of our companions informed us, he said:
«سَمِعْتُ الْمَنْصُورَ يَقُولُ لِأَصْحَابِهِ: أَلَا تَتَعَجَّبُونَ مِنْهُمْ؟! يُسَمُّونَ قَتِيلَ هَذَا شَهِيدًا وَقَتِيلَ هَذَا شَهِيدًا، وَمَا هُمَا إِلَّا جِيفَتَانِ تَهُبُّ عَلَيْهِمَا الرِّيَاحُ! أَلَا وَاللَّهِ مَا الشَّهِيدُ إِلَّا أَنَا وَأَصْحَابِي، وَإِنْ مِتْنَا عَلَى فُرُشِنَا»[3]; “I heard Mansoor say to his companions: ‘Are you not amazed by them?! They call the killed one of this a martyr and the killed one of that a martyr while they are nothing but corpses that winds blow on them! Know that, I swear to Allah, there is no martyr except for me and my companions, even if we die on our beds.’”
We ask Allah for success in achieving true martyrdom on His path, along with the preparer of the ground for the advent of His Caliph, the Mahdi .