[sageb1]

Agree. And perception is everything. I asked Doctor Z1N tonight if he thinks Ahmadinejad is using this a political ploy or if he thinks the president of Iran truly believes this. He thinks he relly believes. The reason I asked was if Ahmadinejad was using the 12th Imam as a political ploy, then he will do ANYTHING. If he truly believes, then he will not doing anything so rash as to nuke Israel as it would defeat his purpose. But he will use the nuclear threat to keep supporters of Israel at bay, so his army can march into Jerusalem to pave the way for the Mahdi. He would also use weapons other than nuclear against Israel. If he is a believer, Jerusalem has to be inhabitable.

[sageb1]

relly = really

[Dajjal]

Here's a caveat: The imams are preaching that in the final battles, nuclear weapons will be exchanged, but that Allah will just arrange the winds or whatever so that only non-Muslims will die. They preach that nukes will go off in Jerusalem, but the Muslims will survive and the Dome of the Rock and all the real estate will be untouched.

I hope Ahmadinejad and his scientists do not believe this preaching of the imams.

BTW, I think this is also why Saddam is still so cocky. Yes, he's that kind of personality -- but also, for the last couple of decades the clerics have been saying that he is the al-Sufyani, the new Nebuchadnezzar, who paves the way for the Mahdi, and that he will triumph over this petty setback and play a role in the battle for Jerusalem. I think he either believes this or wants to believe that the hadith foretell his triumph.

[Dajjal]

Forgot to say that Jerusalem will not be uninhabitable. The nukes will go off, but after all the infidels die, the Mahdi and his gang will just waltz right in and set up shop. No radiation whatsoever. Allah can do anything.

I mean, one of the Signs is that "the Sun will rise in the West." A lot of preachers interpret that allegorically that the light of Islam will take over the Western nations, and millions will convert. But many also keep to the literal interpretation that sunrise will soon miraculously occur on the western horizon. Allah can do anything, after all, so why not?