In its course, February, the Red Sea, Darfur, and Al-Jazeera, the call echoed and the call to Jihad lingered. After the liberation of Al-Abyad, Imam Al-Mahdi singled out the battle that broke the back of the Turco-Egyptian rule in Sudan, the Battle of Shikhan, after which the Ansar embarked on their long journey towards Khartoum, which they besieged and liberated, and repelled the English relief for Gordon in the incident of Abu Talh. The call triumphed in Sudan with astonishing speed, brilliant success, and successive victories without a single defeat. The hands that built this glorious edifice were preparing for the other stages of the call to spread it throughout the Islamic world. Imam Al-Mahdi wrote to various parts of the Islamic world, addressing their rulers and inhabitants to respond to his call to revive and implement the teachings of the Book of God and the Sunnah of the Messenger, saying in his address to the people of Egypt: "And let it be known to you that the affair of Sudan is over, and we are coming towards you with the party of God soon, God willing... etc." And from the outskirts of this story of prophecy in God and glory with me from God God willed that Imam Al-Mahdi be taken to His neighborhood And they shall not encompass anything of His knowledge except what He wills His throne encompasses the heavens and the earth and He is not tired by their preservation and He is the Most High, the Most Great. Imam Al-Mahdi passed away on the 8th of Ramadan, 1302 AH, leaving ten sons, namely Al-Fadil, Al-Bashir, Muhammad, Al-Siddiq, Abdullah, Al-Tayyib, Al-Taher Nasr al-Din, Abd al-Rahman, and Ali, and ten daughters, namely Zainab, Umm Kulthum, Nour al-Sham, Umm Salama, Aisha, Maryam, Nafisa, Zahra, Qamar, and Amina. My Birth and the Environment in which I Grew Up My mother, Mrs. Maqbula, daughter of Prince Nourin, son of Sultan Muhammad Al-Fadl, gave birth to me on the first of Shawwal, 1302 AH, corresponding to June 15, 1885 AD. This was twenty-two days after the passing of Imam Al-Mahdi in Omdurman. At the age of six, I joined the Kuttab of the sons of Al-Mahdi and memorized the Quran by the age of eleven. While in the Kuttab, I lived in a unique social environment, unparalleled in modern history. I was in the midst of a community where everyone believed that the other was better than him, and everyone preferred the path of God's religion. A community that preferred everyone...

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