Translation of the saying:
Some of our companions informed us, they said: The righteous servant, Mansoor Hashemi Khorasani (may Allah Almighty support him), delivered a sermon for a group of people three years before the turmoils of Damascus and Iraq[1], and said:
Beware! Know that the horizon of the west is dark with black clouds. Soon a red storm will sweep over you and devastate your land. It will leave neither a roof that you can take shelter under nor a wall that you can hide behind! At that time, the nation of Muhammad 
will wish to sacrifice half of its offspring to find the Mahdi in a valley from the valleys of the Hijaz!
Beware, O ignorant nation! What are you looking for?! And whom are you following?! Your leader is the Mahdi. The calm of your nights and the delight of your days is the Mahdi. Your everlasting happiness and the sweetness of your life is the Mahdi. Your prosperity in the world and your salvation in the Hereafter is the Mahdi. So what has stopped you from turning to him?! Or who has sufficed you instead of him?!...
Do you think you will see justice and prosper in his absence? Or do you think you will have security and happiness in his absence? No, by Allah; then no, by Allah. Rather, you will take this wish to your graves, just as those before you took it to their graves; because Allah has not placed any good in the absence of His caliph, and He has not created any blessing in the rule of those other than him!
I am telling you the truth: in his absence, your bellies will stick to your backs, and you will sleep on thorns! You will be filled with rage and wish for death morning and evening! Your homes will be abandoned, and your markets will be closed! Farms will grow thorns, and fruit trees will wither! Livestock herds will scatter, and there will be no one to gather them! Your heads will have lice, and your hands will be dusty! Your cities will be destroyed, and your villages will be forsaken! No one will walk through your alleys, and no one will knock on your doors! Your water channels will run dry, and snakes will nest in your wells! Wolves will roam in your squares, and owls will hoot atop your towers! Spiders will weave webs on your windows, and frogs will croak in your ponds! You will dwell in dark valleys and take shelter on the peaks of the mountains! You will hide in the crevices of the rocks and keep company with the lizards of the desert! Smoke will rise from your lands, and its fire will not go out! Your enemies will dominate you, and the devils of the east and west will devour you! They will not listen to the cries of your children, and they will not have mercy on your crippled elders! They will divide your possessions and cast lots for your women! They will not bury your dead but will leave them for their dogs!
Beware, O people! Do not rush for what is bound by moments! The world has come close to its end, and the time for the promises has arrived. Soon the age of the absence, which you think is peaceful, will erupt—like a raging camel in spring[2]—and sink its sharp teeth into your eyes. By the One in Whose hand is my soul, what I say is not a poem or an exaggeration in speech. Soon the cauldron of the world will boil, and the river of time will overflow; then it will turn the mill of turmoil and grind the millstone of chaos. Danger! Danger! Know that they will show no mercy to any of you! They will bring even the most secluded of you and take his butter and buttermilk. When the scythe of turmoil falls, the standing one will be reaped, and the sitting one will be crushed. Danger! Danger! Take your religion and run while you have the opportunity! If you find the truth with me, then come to me, even if by crawling on snow; because I will guide you to the Mahdi. And if you dislike me and refuse to come to me, then leave and go as far as you can; although you cannot go far; because, by Allah, even if you hide behind the stars in the sky, they will find you and bring you and disgrace you; because this matter is not as easy as you have thought, but rather it is a great disaster that makes the old restless and the young sleepless.
Explanation of the saying:
This is the call of a great and compassionate scholar who loudly invites people to the Mahdi and warns of the dire consequences resulting from the continuation of his absence with remarkable eloquence; the dire consequences whose beginnings we see today in various parts of the Islamic world. Yet most of us do not wake up from neglectful sleep and do not return to our savior, the Mahdi!
Good for those who know the value of these pure statements, conclusive words of wisdom, healing pieces of advice, and sufficient warnings, by which they wake up from their neglectful sleep and return to their savior, whom the Prophet announced in mutawatir reports and promised would fill the Earth with equity and justice as it has been filled with oppression and cruelty!
To know how to prepare the ground for the Mahdi’s advent, refer to the book Geometry of Justice: A Narration of a Dialogue with Mansoor Hashemi Khorasani (may Allah protect him).
