A notice. What happened in China and Japan of the appearance of several suns in the sky. The abundance of earthquakes and the occurrence of a great earthquake. The tsunami earthquake. And a great earthquake occurs before the appearance of the Mahdi, may God bless him and his family. He said: "Good tidings to you of the Mahdi, he will be sent among my Ummah, despite the differences among people, and earthquakes, and he will fill the earth with equity and justice, as it was filled with injustice and oppression." The sea earthquake called tsunami, which struck the Southern Hemisphere and affected eleven countries in the East, and it is the fifth largest earthquake in human history, and its rank is third. Earthquakes are frequent before the emergence of the Mahdi. May God bless him and his family. He said: "Good tidings to you of the Mahdi, for he will come in the end of time amidst hardship and earthquakes, and God will make the earth vast with justice and equity." And the abundance of locusts. The Commander of the Faithful, Ali, may God be pleased with him, said: "Before the Mahdi, there will be a red death, and a white death, and locusts in their season, and locusts out of season, like the colors of blood. As for the red death, it is the sword, and as for the white death, it is the plague." And indeed, in recent past years, we have become accustomed to locusts invading agricultural crops in very large numbers, causing severe economic losses to countries, especially the red locust. And calamities and sinkings increase, such as the sinking of the army of the desert. The spatial characteristics of the Mahdi. The birth of the Mahdi is in the Hijaz, in Mecca or Medina, and his origin is there. He will travel to Yemen and emerge from the village of Kara'a or Qar'a in Yemen, which is in Tihama, in the isolation of Al-Hawadil, and he will emerge from - 65 -