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Black Flags from Khorasan are Mahdi's

The Messenger of Allah (sal Allahu alaihi wa sallam) said: “When you see that black flags have appeared from Khorasan then join them. Because Allah’s Khalifa Mahdi will be among them.” [Musnad Ahmed] The area that was known as Khorasan in the time of the Prophet (sal Allahu alaihi wa sallam) corresponds primarily to the area known as Afghanistan today. Allah’s Messenger (sal Allahu alaihi wa sallam) ordered his Ummah to join the troops with black flags from this area. When Imam Mahdi is among this group then there is no better group on earth to join. Allah’s Messenger is telling us to trade the small good of the world for the much greater good of the Hereafter. Imam Zuhri (rahmahulla) said that a narration reached him that “black flags will emerge from Khorasan: So when they descend from the mountain passes of Khorasan they will do so for the sake of Islam. Nothing will hinder them except for the flags of the non-Arabs which will come from the west.” [Kanzul Ammal] Imam Zuhri’s narrat