Al-Mahdi is one of the signs of the nearness of the Hour, and the conquest of the Roman city, which is the great Constantinople, and the great epic, which is the banquet in the meadow of Akka, and the emergence of the Antichrist, will take place in six months. Between the conquest of Constantinople and the emergence of the Antichrist, there will be eighteen days, and his emergence will be from Khorasan, from the land of the East. The place of turmoil pursued by the Turks and the Jews, from Isfahan alone, seventy thousand long-suffering followers, all of them Jews, come to him. He is an old man, one-eyed in his right eye. He had a floating grape in his eye with Kaf Fa-Ra’ written between his eyes. I do not know whether what is meant by this spelling is blasphemy of the verbs or what is meant by it is blasphemy of the nouns. He deleted the alif just as the Arabs deleted it in the script of the Qur’an in places such as the Alif of the Most Merciful between the meem and the nun