Imam al-Sadiq (PBUH) said: He who is not able to do any good unto us (Ahlul Bayt) then he may do good to our pious adherents; and he who is not able to visit us, he may visit our righteous followers by which the reward of visiting us (pilgrimage) will be recorded for him.

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Besides the silver-backed chevrotain, wire snare poaching has pushed other endemic deer-like species to the brink of extinction, including the saola and the large-antlered muntjac.

This illegal hunting, or poaching, is driven by demand for bushmeat in East Asia—and has led to the disappearance of animals in intact habitats in Vietnam. This conundrum is known as "empty forest syndrome" because wire snare traps can indiscriminately catch and kill nearly everything that…
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Malik-ibn-Anas said about the virtue of Imam al-Sadiq (PBUH): No eye has ever seen, no ear has ever heard, and no heart (soul) has ever been stricken that there can (contemporaneously) be anybody higher than (Imam) Jafar Sadiq (PBUH) from the point of virtue, knowledge, worship, and piety.

Jabir said: I asked him: O Messenger of Allah will his followers avail of him during his occultation? He answered: Yes. By the One Who appointed me to prophethood, they will seek brightness from his light and will avail by devotion in his absence the same as the availing of people from the (glow of) sun when clouds cover it...

Locals took Nguyen and other expedition members to places in the forest where they had
recently seen what looked like the "lost" chevrotain. Camera traps were set up between November 2017 and July 2018. They snagged photos from 280 separate encounters with individual silver-backed chevrotains, although some of these could have been repeat sightings, making it unclear how many live in the area.

Illegal hunting with wire snares is widespread throughout Vietnam. The scientists had to spend time getting to know them to gain their trust, says An Nguyen, also with Global Wildlife Conservation, who led the expedition.

"However, people have become very concerned about how much wildlife has vanished in the past five to 10 years," Nguyen says. "They know it is because of overhunting and the use of snares."

The exact locations of the 1910 sightings were not explicitly recorded, so the researchers visited communities in the region to talk to local hunters and forest experts to find out if they had seen chevrotains with a silver-colored rump. (There is another species of chevrotain called the lesser mouse-deer that is fairly common but lacks the silver rear end.)

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Tilker and colleagues went to the dry coastal forested areas in the vicinity of the southern beach city of Nha Trang where, in 1910, the only other scientific specimens were collected. Camera traps in Vietnam wet tropical forests have never recorded a sighting, so it may be that these animals prefer a dry, thorn scrub forest habitat.

(Although such forests are not common, there are parts of Vietnam that remind me of my home state of Texas,) Tilker says.

The Holy Prophet (Peace be Upon him and his Progeny) said: The likeness of my Ahlul Bayt (progeny) amongst my Ummah (followers) is similar the Ark of Noah. Those who embarked on it were rescued and those who rejected it perished....