Translation of the saying:
When a group of young people who love the Mahdi wrote a letter to Mansoor Hashemi Khorasani and declared their support for him and asked him for instructions, he said:
“Send my Salam to them and tell them: When people deviate to the right or the left, you shall hold to the middle path, and when people incline toward Zayd and Amr, you shall turn to the Mahdi. Remember God Almighty a lot, set Heaven as your desire, perform prayer at the beginning of its time, give Zakat to its people, do good to your parents, for you will not stay with them for long, enjoin right, forbid wrong, lighten your works, leave what is ought to be left, carry what is ought to be carried, and prepare for the migration toward the Mahdi; because I will migrate toward him when I find enough companions, even if there are seven seas between me and him. Who is he that guarantees me ten thousand men so that I guarantee him the Mahdi’s advent?! The earth is rotten, and time is like a pus-filled boil that has opened up, but the (good) end belongs to the pious.”
