 Hello, glad you could join me once again on the show. I definitely know everybody's doing very fine. Welcome to the Open Mind of Thinker show. I saw the title of the video just like you read and I was also curious to see what happened in this video. There's about 14 minutes video and Don gets scared because I'm not going to look at all of them. I'm going to look at the most important things that are said in this video and then share it with you. Well, you're welcome to the channel once again. Let's hit it and see what really happened to the Qabah. The first time Salah was stopped in the Qabah. I really want to know what happened because it's very, very strategic. That's the Qabah being the center of Islamic worship. Not that Muslims worship this tone in the Qabah rather it's just a symbol of the Islamic tradition. Abraham invented the Qabah and Prophet Muhammad revolutionized it and removed the paganism that plagued it in time and made it solely for monotheism and today we have the Qabah and it is both significant for the Jews, for Christians and for Muslims around the world. The 20th of November 1979 appeared to be a normal day in the city of Makkah. The Fajr Adhan was called and hundreds of thousands of people began to line outside of the gates to go inside of the Haram to pray the typical Fajr prayer. However, this day was going to become an infamous day in the history of the Ummah. This day by all appearances started out normal but by the end of the day an incident the likes of which the Ummah has never seen occurred. After the Fajr prayer finished, this day the 29th of November 1979 which corresponded to the first of Muharram 1400 Hijrah. After the Fajr prayer finished led by Sheikh Muhammad Ibn Subayl who is still one of the Imams of the Haram. Immediately after this a few gunshots were heard inside of the Haram and then there was some commotion in the front lines and a person stood up and grabbed the microphone that Imam Subayl was leading the Fajr prayer with. A number of other people stood up and overpowered the guards surrounding Sheikh Subayl and then this announcer started speaking. This announcer started announcing. He started talking about the corruption of the present state and regime and the evils that were rampant in society and the fact that so many of the signs of the Day of Judgment were being fulfilled in front of their eyes and he then began to mention that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam predicted that a Mujaddid, a renewer of the religion would come every 100 years and he then mentioned the Hadith about the Mahdi. This figure that will come towards the end of times when all of the earth is filled with injustice and evil and he said this is that time and he then said we have the Mahdi in our midst and he told a certain person to stand up and called him to the microphone and he said oh Muslims this is your Mahdi, give bayat to him, give the oath of allegiance to him and this person whose name was Muhammad ibn Abdullah from the tribe of Qahdan the pure tribe of Quraish of the descendants of Quraish this person Muhammad ibn Abdullah al-Qahdani stood there and the announcer whose name was Juhayman ibn Saif al-Utaibi the announcer then demanded from all of the Muslims in the Haram that this is the Mahdi he is standing between the Rukun and the Maqam between the Hajr al-Aswad and the Maqam of Ibrahim he is standing there and he says this is exactly what the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said that the Mahdi will stand between the Hajr al-Aswad and the station of Ibrahim and he said this person his name is Muhammad just like the Mahdi's name will be and his father's name is Abdullah just like the Mahdi's father's name will be and he shall be from the tribe of Quraish just like this person is from the tribe of Quraish and he mentioned all of these conditions and he said you must now give I think this part, this story is pointing to the end of time this happened some long time ago and the fact that the world has not come to an end I really don't know where the narrator is driving to whether the guy is right or wrong but we've got to be very careful so that we don't run into a serious problem with this I just want to know where he's driving at The bayat of this man, the Muslims of the Haram the average Muslims most of you have been there many of them could not even understand what is happening they didn't understand Arabic others were totally bewildered and confused what is happening, gunfire, gunshots when they tried to leave in the chaos and pandemonium they found that the doors of the Haram had been barricaded shut and each of these doors was armed armed guards stood there, not of the Haram of the army of Juhayman al-Utaibi and lo and behold for the next week and a half for the next so many days the Haram itself the Ka'ba was held hostage the Ka'ba was held hostage and nobody was allowed to enter or leave for some days until finally Juhayman's group allowed the other Muslims to leave who did not want to remain there they could not feed them and take care of them so they allowed the other Muslims to go after three, four days but they themselves, the army of Juhayman the quantities have differed some historians said 200 others said up to a thousand we don't know the exact quantity of the army that he had assembled but they had taken the Haram hostage and they did not allow any Muslim to come in and for all of these days Tawaf around the house was stopped the call for prayer was stopped the Jama'at was stopped this has hardly ever occurred in the history of the Ummah the last time this occurred was in this incident, 1979 and as the sun rose up and dawn broke into the early day the Saudi police and the Saudi authorities were totally confused as to what to do they didn't even understand firstly what is going on what is happening a total surprise and when they sent armed when they sent policemen when they sent some of the army to try to find out Juhayman had stationed snipers on the minarats of the Haram these tall, towering minarats of the Haram he had stationed marksmen expert rifle people who could shoot down anybody who is coming so any policeman, any guard came and he was killed immediately blood was shed in the Haram and so the authorities began to have meetings, negotiations they didn't understand even what is happening it took them a whole day to figure out this was a group who claimed to have the Mahdi in their midst Sheikh Subayel himself when all of this is happening and the announcements were taking place immediately he understood this is a group of fanatic extremists and while all of this is taking place he lost himself in the crowd he did not want to be held hostage for no reason and he managed to escape wearing the clothes and the garment of a woman wearing the hijab and the abaya of a woman he managed to escape in the crowd and he was one of the main sources of information to the authorities describing to them what exactly was happening inside of the Haram the Saudi authorities tried certain tactics but the people inside the Haram were adamant they would not leave until the royal family abdicated until they gave up the power until all of these conditions were met and of course these conditions would never be met no matter what anybody does so the authorities decided that they're going to storm the Kaaba itself they're going to send the military, the army in to fight these people therefore after around eight or nine days they sent in the elite military they sent in paratroopers they sent in army tanks the tanks went up the same stairs of the Haram that we all have used they went up these steps and they broke down the barricaded doors of the Haram and hundreds of military men stormed inside the very structure that we know it is the same structure it wasn't rebuilt again and a war ensued inside the Kaaba inside the Haram itself in the shade of the Kaaba a war ensued and what happened was that the the followers of Juhayman and Utaybi this is the very first time I'm hearing this I never knew the Kaaba was ever attacked by anybody by any human being, by any force I'm very surprised hearing this for the very first time I never knew any group of people who had them I thought Saudi Arabia have never experienced any terrorism attacks and I'm surprised, you know being at the middle of being at the middle east and being at the centre of all this so I'm quite fascinated that there's no terrorism operations in Saudi Arabia today when ISIS came nobody talked about Saudi Arabia where some of the terrorist organisations operate they really don't go to Saudi Arabia and I think it's a plus it's a side of respect to the Holy Land they barricaded themselves in the basement of the Haram those of you who have gone recently you know that there is a basement inside the ground floor from the Kaaba you walk up up the steps immediately as you walk up the steps you'll find other steps going down for many years those basement doors were shut those of you who went throughout the 80s those doors were shut you saw them but they were never opened early 90s shut only recently when the memory died down when all of that fear and what not was finally quelled only recently the doors have been open what happened was the army of Juhayman or the followers of Juhayman they took shelter in these basements and the advantage of this was that these basements they only had one way in which was those stairs so any person tries to come they can immediately shoot and kill him so hundreds of people were barricaded inside this basement and the authorities figured out that there was no lack of water firstly well the water was available where was the water coming from zam zam and then there was no lack of food because these people had carried in bags of dates and they questioned where did they get the guns from they figured out that the guns had come in the Fajr prayer the Fajr of the same day they had brought in bodies janazas but there were no bodies inside those green sheets they were full of semi-automatic weapons rifles and guns instead of people and corpses there were weapons meant to create corpses this is what those people brought in and in those days there wasn't much checking those of you who have lived in Arabia in the last 20 years you all know how strict it is you cannot leave your house without iqama you cannot enter a city without permission in the 70s there was no such thing it was this incident that changed the entire system of Arabia it was this incident that caused so much panic for good reason that they changed the entire system of people residing in Arabia and coming in and coming out it was this one incident so at that time they could just walk in carrying these buyers these janazas once upon a time nobody checked now if you try walking in you need to show a piece of paper from the government this is really a dead body there must be a doctor certified this is a legal procedure back then people did not think that any human being could do this to any Muslim could do this in front of the Kaaba so they walked in carrying all of these hundreds of guns and the people obviously came in unarmed but they had the guns there so immediately after the fajr they took these arms they stationed themselves all of this was pre-planned every person would have assigned the place and what to do so as we said for 8 days the authorities were confused what to do finally the ulema gave the fatwa that these people are renegades they are bughat there are people who are working against Islam and the Muslims it is not possible that the real mahdi would do these tactics and so they gave the fatwa it is permissible to bring the army in because generally speaking fighting is not allowed inside the haram it is prohibited the only time it is allowed is in self-defense as in this case so they gave the fatwa it is permissible therefore hundreds of armies came in paratroopers, tanks, military personnel all of them and we said a small battle a small war ensued between pillar to pillar guerrilla warfare literally between the pillars of the haram there is people there on this side and this side hundreds hundreds of Muslims died hundreds of Muslims died many of them the followers of johaiman many of them of the Saudi police force and in this battle in this battle this supposed mahdi himself muhammad ibn abdillah also was killed he was killed as well johaiman was caught alive johaiman ibn saif al-utabi was caught alive along with around 70 of his followers the rest were all killed in the battle and of the tactics they used it is said and of course all of this is very secret information in the sense we don't know a lot of these details because the government does not wish to release it does not wish to publicize the statement but of the tactics they used they flooded the basement with water they first tried burning tires that didn't work they threw in burning tires that didn't work then they flooded the basements with water and they threw in live electric wires into the water to electric with the people there and so eventually whoever was remaining there they had to come out smoked and smogged and their faces soot and black and all of the dust on it and eventually these 70 people were captured and within the space of 2-3 days they were executed all around the kingdom starting with johaiman himself he was executed in front of the haram itself in the following few days and there is some video footage as well of johaiman after his capture they had a camera there and you can see his face is totally black because of the effects of the burning fire and the tires that they threw in there and you can see his face and it is recorded in video and his confession and everything is recorded it is available even on the internet this incident that occurred brought to limelight a concept that many Muslims had forgotten about for a long time and it was the concept of the Mahdi what is this thing called the Mahdi do we as Sunnis believe in a Mahdi or is this a Shia concoction do we Sunnis also believe in the Mahdi if we do what is the difference between our beliefs and the beliefs of the Shia and so much research was done afresh during this time and many ulama wrote books including many scholars of Medina of them are sheikh Abdomos and Abbad and other ulama they wrote tracks and publicized books and gave fatawa to discuss the concept of the Shia this is really interesting I watched this video even without talking even without saying anything this is really interesting guys I really appreciate this I really want to know what the Mahdi is if you know what the Mahdi is what the Mahdi is please tell me what it is comprehensively on the comment section I'll be very very happy to hear I would love to read about it more but I want to know from a Muslim perspective what it is you a born Muslim a scholar someone who had read about Islam for a very long time you know had contact with Islam you know something about the Mahdi just like Aksimi who is a saviour or the book of revolution as in Catholic I'll be able to explain to you comprehensively what all this so if you know anything about it while I go to study I want to see personal perspective of muslim on what the Mahdi is do well to live a like subscribe to the channel until next time