How Aba Al-Sadiq Frees Us

The Prophet Mohammed (PBUH & His Family) said: “The world is a prison for the believer and a paradise for the disbeliever.” — Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 2956

The teachings of the Prophets and Messengers reveal this world as a kind of prison: a place in which humanity has become trapped, separated from the reality we were created to know. To be freed is not simply to escape from our circumstances, but to break the chains that keep us spiritually bound.

This is the time of liberation. It is the time of the rise—the time of the Riser, Aba Al-Sadiq, who comes to break those chains and lead humanity towards freedom. It is the time that generations have been waiting for: the moment when those who seek liberation can begin to leave behind the prisons that have held humanity captive.

How Did Humanity End Up So Trapped? 

God has always extended a rope to humanity. He appoints a human being to guide us, giving us a means by which we can free ourselves.

When God appointed Adam as the first caliph, Iblis could not accept his appointment. Driven by envy and arrogance, he refused to accept Adam as an intermediary between himself and God. He rebelled against God's command and declared that he would lie in wait on the straight path in order to misguide humanity. God granted him respite to do so until an appointed time.

Iblis sought to lead humanity into the same error that caused his own fall: rejecting the caliph appointed by God. In our time, that means rejecting the caliph whom God has appointed for us. When we turn away from God's appointed representative, we repeat the path of Iblis and move further away from the guidance that can free us.

The further we allow ourselves to be misguided, the deeper we become trapped within the prison of this world.

The Chains of Jurisprudence

Religion itself became hijacked when Iblis misguided humanity. The religions that exist today enslave us rather than free us. Many have placed too much importance on jurisprudence and rituals, when these were only ever meant to be the eggshell of religion. The core of religion is to follow the vicegerent of God, and this is what actually helps us to become free.

Jurisprudence was there to help us crack through the shell and reach what is inside. But when Iblis guided humanity away from the man appointed by God, he also guided us away from that core.

Religious scholars who were not appointed by God began making their own rulings, issuing fatwas and claiming authority that belongs to God. In doing so, they moved people further away from the truth and replaced living divine guidance with rules and rituals.

The narrations state that the Qaim comes with a new jurisprudence and a new religion. Aba Al-Sadiq has revealed that true worship is not simply about outward physical movements. It is the prostration of the heart and our spiritual allegiance to the living vicegerent of God in our time.

Through this prostration of the heart, the believer can reach the degree of the free. As they progress in their spiritual ascension, the chains of lower jurisprudence begin to fall away. This is not freedom from submission, but freedom through complete submission and certitude in the living Vicegerent of God.

The more the believer submits their will to God and follows the one He has appointed, the more they are freed from the things that have kept them spiritually trapped.

Freedom From Tyranny 

In the Bible, Jesus refers to Satan as the “Prince of this World.” Satan offers Jesus rulership over the world if he will bow down and worships him. The reality is that if we do not follow the leader that God has appointed for us, we are following one appointed by Satan.

Humanity is now living under oppressive and tyrannical systems. These systems of power are man-made, with leaders appointed by the people. We have modern-day Pharaohs and tyrants who enslave us, and we have chosen and enabled them.

The Mahdis bring back the forgotten core of religion: the Supremacy of God—the belief that only God has the right to choose and appoint leaders for humanity. Throughout history, man-made political systems, including democracies, monarchies and autocracies, have placed humanity under the rule of leaders and systems that can become tyrannical and corrupt.

Democracy, where human beings appoint their own leaders, can give us the impression that we are free. On the surface, it appears fair, but human beings are easily manipulated and make choices that lead to oppression. History has given us examples of people electing leaders such as Hitler and Mussolini, and even of a crowd choosing Barabbas over Jesus Christ.

We can be physically harmed by the people we choose to put into power, but we can also be harmed spiritually. According to this understanding, the system itself was designed by Satan to bury humanity in negative karma. When we endorse leaders and give them power through our votes, the consequences of what they go on to do become part of our own karma.

Like Moses came to bring the Israelites out of Egypt and into the Promised Land, the Qaim comes to gather the believers who are scattered around the world and remind us of what we have forgotten: that our allegiance is to God. We do not have to continue living within a system that takes us away from God.

The Qaim frees us from this system by raising the prophesied black banner of the Mahdi, bearing the words, “Allegiance is to Allah.” This marks the end of a cycle of injustice and karmic consequences. It brings an end to leaders appointed by the people or placed in power by force, and brings God's justice and peace to the world.

In this way, the Qaim offers freedom from the systems that have kept humanity trapped and brings us under the leadership of God's appointed representative, who knows what is best for us and seeks to build a world free from oppression, poverty and suffering.

Freedom From the Rat Race

The Qaim is a builder of communities. The Divine Just State, which is currently a prototype, is growing and expanding rapidly. It will eventually become its own country before spreading throughout the world and spreading the light of the Supremacy of God to all of humanity.

This way of life not only frees us from tyranny, but also from the survival mode that human beings are stuck in. Being forced to spend so much of our time worrying about how we will sustain ourselves and living paycheck to paycheck prevents us from seeing clearly and spiritually elevating ourselves.

God has provided enough for every human being to live a safe and comfortable life, and with God's justice implemented in our lives, we have no problem getting by. In the Divine Just State, Aba Al-Sadiq stated that every member of the Divine Just State is entitled to a house, a car and their sustenance.

When we do not have to worry about our basic needs, our minds are freed from that constant pressure. We can spend our lives doing what we were made to do: draw closer to God.

He Frees Us From the Illusion

This physical reality is not a creation of God. The Prophets and Messengers described it as a dream, a matrix, an illusion and a trap—a poor imitation of a much greater reality. Souls reincarnate here to be tested, and by following the Qaim, we can pass the test, end the cycle of reincarnation and reach a much better place.

This idea is demonstrated by Plato in his Allegory of the Cave. In the allegory, prisoners have lived their entire lives chained inside a cave. Unable to turn around, they can only see shadows projected onto a wall by objects passing in front of a fire. Because they have never experienced anything else, they believe these shadows are reality.

One prisoner eventually escapes the cave. When he reaches the outside world, the brightness of the light hurts his eyes. But as his eyes adjust, he begins to see the real objects that he previously knew only as shadows. He discovers a reality far greater and more complete than the two-dimensional images he had accepted as real.

When he returns to the cave to bring the other prisoners out, they refuse to believe him and even fight against him. They cannot comprehend that there could be another reality beyond the one they have always known.

The cave represents our current reality. Philosophers, Prophets and Messengers taught that there is a true reality beyond this one—a world of forms unlike the dense and temporary physical world in which our souls are currently trapped. This physical world is constantly changing and is ultimately impermanent. It is a place where we are tested, but it is not our true home. The realm of the hereafter, by contrast, is permanent and unchanging, where death and decay do not exist.

Our senses can easily deceive us, causing many to mistake fleeting material shadows for true existence. The Messenger comes from the light world to bring that light into our reality. He has the key that can bring us out of this prison if we choose to follow him.

To be freed, the believer must learn to trust the Messenger's eyes over their own eyes, his ears over their own ears and his mind over their own mind. By following the guidance of the Qaim Aba Al-Sadiq, learning from him and submitting to him, believers can begin to wake up from this dream before their physical death.

He Frees Us From Our Mental Prison and Lifts the Veils of Ignorance.

The greatest prison we face is not an external one but an internal one—a prison of the mind. The ultimate idol is the ego, whose insatiable demands keep us trapped. The ego is a false sense of self. It is made up of emotions and impulses which, if we allow them to, can take the driver’s seat and push us in whatever direction they want. If we let the ego take control for too long, it can trap our true essence, which is the soul, and make us subject to its every desire.

The more we give in to what the ego wants, the stronger it becomes and the more control it has over us. The Prophets and Messengers all taught us to deny ourselves for this reason: to weaken the ego. The way to overcome this inner tyrant is to submit ourselves to God through His appointed Messenger.

The more we deny the ego, the more we can free ourselves from the qualities that entrap our hearts, such as jealousy, anger, greed, and hatred. These veils of ignorance like thick black smoke that cover the heart can be removed by submitting our will to the will of God. This frees the heart from these obstacles and allows the light of God to shine through.

The ideology of Iblis is “me first,” to follow the impulses of the self, put ourselves first, and forget other people. This keeps humanity self-centred, divided, and unaware of our spiritual captivity. When we break through the prison of the self we can begin to see that we have been one all along, that the separation of human beings is an illusion.

The Time of the Qaim Is the Appointed Time

The time for humanity to be freed is now. This is the appointed time that Satan was given to misguide humanity—the time of the Qaim, the Riser, Aba Al-Sadiq. He has come to break humanity’s chains and lead those who wish to be free towards paradise, both in this life and in the hereafter.

The freedom that the Qaim brings is not simply freedom from an external system. It is freedom of the soul: freedom from ignorance, from the ego, from false authority, and from the illusions that keep us asleep and separated from God. By submitting to the one whom God has appointed, the believer begins to break free from these prisons and return to the forgotten foundation of religion: the Supremacy of God and allegiance to His appointed representative.

The time of the Qaim is therefore a time of liberation. The chains are being broken, the veils are being lifted, and the light is beginning to shine through the darkness. What humanity has been waiting for through generations is no longer something distant. The Qaim has come to lead those who wish to be free out of the prison and towards the reality, justice, peace, and closeness to God for which we were created.

What we have been promised has arrived.