Question:
Assalamo Alaykom,
In Hadith we read :“If you see the black banners coming from the direction of Khurasân, then go to them, even if you have to crawl, because among them will be Allah’s Caliph the Mahdî.” [Related by al-Hâkim (8572) and Ahmad (22387)] .
The Afghan Taliban carries black flags at present day in Afghanistan (Khurasan). Are they the ” black banners” mentioned in Hadith or is there any other “black banner” army we have to wait for? And are Afghan Taliban Sufis because from the following Suhbet we can understand that they belong to Naqshbandi way of Ahle Sunnah ?:
http://www.sunnah.org/audio/khutba/sohbat.html
Answer:
wa `alaykum salam,
The suhba itself does not say what you state, and as for identifying the carriers of the black flags in today’s terms Allah knows best.
Hajj Gibril Haddad
