The Myth of Er: When the Mahdi Proved His Successorship to Socrates & Plato

For millennia the world has called it a “pagan myth.” Today the Qaim Aba Al-Sadiq Abdullah Hashem has turned it into one of the strongest living proofs that the religion of God is one, from Adam to the Seal of the Vicegerents.

In the newest episode of the series, titled “The Myth of Er – Plato’s Vision of the Afterlife,” Aba al-Sadiq sits with sister Tiffany and reads the famous closing story of Plato’s Republic line-by-line, revealing a description of the afterlife that is more detailed and accurate than many narrations found in popular Islamic books today.

The soldier Er dies in battle, travels with the souls, witnesses the judgment, sees righteous souls ascending through the heavens and sinful souls descending into the earth. Er spends time in a meadow where souls from heaven and hell meet and exchange stories, discovers that heaven and hell last a fixed cycle (1,000 years), watches souls choose their next incarnation under the throne of the goddess Necessity, spin the spindle of destiny, drinks (or refuses to drink) from the river of forgetfulness, and returns to his body after ten days – everything matches the suppressed divine knowledge kept only by the Family of Muhammad (peace upon them all) and explained today by Imam Ahmed Al-Hasan and the Qaim Aba Al-Sadiq.

Most astonishing of all: Plato narrates this vision through his teacher Socrates, exactly as we narrate through the chain of the Imams. The parallels are too many and too precise to be coincidence.

This single episode does what no PhD, no sheikh, no priest has ever dared to do: it restores Socrates and Plato to their true station as prophets and messengers on the same divine message and mission, and it proves that the truth was never confined to one geography or one language – God always spoke to every nation in the language they understood best. As the Imam (a.s.) said: “God speaks to people in all things, and truth can be found in all things.”

Today, only the banner of Imam al-Mahdi and his Qaim Aba Al-Sadiq dares to raise the names of Socrates and Plato to the rank that Allah gave them. And there is no religious or academic scholar from the east of the earth or its west, that is paying homage and respect to the likes of Socrates and Plato, like Aba Al-Sadiq.

Watch the full episode, arm yourselves with its arguments, and let the world know: the religion of God is one, yesterday, today, and forever.