Abu Huraira (ra) reports that Rasulullah (saw) said:
"Armies carrying black flags will come from Khurasan, no power will be able to stop them and they will finally reach Eela (Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem) where they will erect their flags”
Di mana Khurasan itu?
Mengikut satu article Oleh Bilal Khan yang ditulis dalam kertas penyelidikannya pada 30 Mac 2008 lalu dalam "Where is Khurasan?". Article itu ada diterbitkan dalam http://hamzajennings.com/2009/02/10/where-is-khurasan-researching-end-times/. Juga ada article menarik di http://blackflags1.blogspot.com/.
Beliau menjelaskan letak sempadannya tempat yang bernama Khurasan itu adalah seperti berikut:
The ancient Khurasan was the last eastern province of the Persian Empire. Khurasan, in Persian, means the “land of the sunrise”, a natural synonym for East. The term was loosely applied to territories of Persia east and north east of Dasht-e-Kavir.
Emperor Babur wrote in his memoirs (1) that Indians used to call all non-Indians as Khurasanis. Regarding the boundary of Hindustan (India) and Khurasan, it is written: “On the road between Hindustan and Khurasan, there are two great marts: the one Kabul, the other Kandahar.”
In modern day world the ancient Khurasan is divided into five central Asian countries i.e.
1. Iran
2. Afghanistan
3. Tajikistan
4. Turkmenistan
5. Uzbekistan
The largest part of the ancient Khurasan is in Afghanistan today. The present day cities of these modern countries would give a better idea of the geographical map of the ancient Khurasan. These cities include:
1. Nishapur and Tus in Iran.
2. Herat, Balkh, Ghazni and Kabul in Afghanistan
3. Khujand and Panjakent in Tajikistan
4. Merv and Sanjan in Turkmenistan
5. Samarqand and Bukhara in Uzbekistan
Ghulam Mohammad Ghubar, an ethnic Tajik scholar and historian from Afghanistan, talks of Proper Khurasan and Improper Khurasan in his book titled “Khurasan”. According to him, Proper Khurasan contained regions lying between Balkh (in the East), Merv (in the North), Sijistan (in the South), Nishapur (in the West) and Herat, known as The Pearl of Khurasan, in the center. While Improper Khurasan’s boundaries extended to Kabul and Ghazni in the East, Balochistan and Zabulistan in the South, Transoxiana and Khwarezm in the North and Damaghan and Gurgan in the West.
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