THE AUTHOR’S PREFACE

Al- Mahdi is not only an embodiment for an Islamic belief that has a religious particularity, but He is a symbol of an expectation to whom the humanity tended with it’s variety in religions and doctrines, and informing for a natural inspiration[1] through that people have understood {in spite of their variety of their beliefs, and their ways to the divine secret} that there is a promised day for the humanity on the earth, through which the missions of the heaven will achieve their great attention, and final goal, and the exhausted journey of the human on the pass of the history will find it’s stability and safety, after long suffering, rather this feeling with this supernatural day and the expected future is not restricted to the believers, who believe with the supernatural religiously, but it also extended to the others and that even reflected on the most insisted ideologies and the religious doctrines to refuse the supernatural as the dialectical materialism does, which interpreted the history according to the oppositions, and believed with a promised day[2], through which all the oppositions will be eliminated and the peace with the rapport will be predominated through it.

By this manner we find that the spiritual experience of this feeling which the humanity had exercised on the pass of the time is the most vast of the whole spiritual experiences and most common among the human individuals. And while the religion supports this universal spiritual feelings, and emphasizing that the earth finally will be filled with justice and a quite after it has been filled with injustice and tyranny[3]. He will give back that feeling its objective value, and He will change it into categorical belief with the future of humanity path, and this belief is not only as a source for the comfort but a source for the common welfare and power. It is a source of gift and charity; since the belief in Al-Mahdi is a belief of rejecting the injustice and the tyranny until He will predominate the whole world, and He is a source of the power and motivation that did not exhaust[4], since He is a glitter light that struggles the desperation in the soul of the human, and keeps on the flaming hope in his chest whatever the misfortunes became gloomy, and the injustice became giant; since the promised day improves that it is possible for the justice to face a world which is filled with injustice and tyranny, so it upsets what is contained from the injustice props, and to renew its foundation[5] again, and the injustice however it became greater and spreaded into the regions of the world and ruled over it’s fates, It is unnaturally state, and it is unavoidable to be defeated[6], and that inevitable great defeats of the injustice, while it was in the utmost authority, that puts the hope as an Immense in front of every oppressed person, and every wronged nation, to have the ability in order to change the situations and to renew the structure.

And if the opinion of Al- Mahdi was more ancient and vastest than Islam, it’s elaborated characteristics whom Islam had demonstrated, it came More gratification for the whole longings which are concerned to this opinion since the beginning of the religious history. And more donative, more excitative for the senses of the wronged and tormented people on the passing of the history.

And that because Islam changed this opinion from the invisible into a reality, and from a future into a presence and from the researching for a savior from whom the world will be brought forth to the belief with existence of the savior actually in the far passive future. And his expectation with the other longing people for the promised day. And the completion of the whole circumstances which enable him to practice his great role, So Al- Mahdi can no longer be an opinion that we are waiting for it’s birth or a prediction that we look for it’s credibility, but an exiting reality that we are waiting for it’s activity, and a concerted individual who lives among us with his full life, we see him and He sees us while He lives our hopes and pains, sharing us our sadness and gladness, and He (A.S.) watches the whole torture of the tormented people and the misery of the miserable people and the unfair injustice on the earth, so He is suffering from all that, near or far, while He (A.S.) was waiting long time for the minute through which it becomes possible for him to give his hand to every wronged and deprived person[7], and He (A.S.) will cut the origins of the wrongful people.

And it is already predetermined for this expected leader not to declarate himself, nor to reveal his life to the others although He is living and waiting with them for the expected time.

And to make it clear that the thinking about this deal with the Islamic feature approaches metaphysical distance between the wronged people, all the wronged people and the expected savior, which makes the bridge between them and him (A.S.) in their spiritual sense short however the waiting lasted.

And while its requested from us to believe in the opinion of Al-Mahdi (A.S.) as a human being living for a moment, He lives as we do, and He worships as we worship, it is to make us understand that the thinking of a simple refusal all corruption and tyranny, by the way Mahdi will act it. It is truly embodiment in this refusal leader, who will emerge while there is no homage for any injustice in his neck, as it is mentioned in the tradition[8].

A belief in him is a belief in this actual existed active refusal and accompanying for him.

The continues in a citation for the viaticum expectation already come through the traditions, and the claiming of the believers to wait for Imam Al- Mahdi (A.S.), and by that the spiritual connection and the conscious link between them and the leader, and the whole principalities that symbolized him, and it is a relationship and a link, that is impossible to be found unless that Al- Mahdi is already embodied in a survival temporary human[9].

By this manner we observe that this embodiment provided this opinion a new momentum, and made it a source of providence, and authority with a greater level, in addition to what any refusal human finds of the consolation and comfort and lightening from what He suffers from the deprivation injustice, and pains, when He feels with his Imam and the leader is sharing the pains with him, and He (A.S.) actually feels with them, since He (A.S.) is a temporary human, He lives with him and He is not a single futuristic opinion.

But that a mentioned embodiment leds to the negative positions against Al- Mahdi’s opinion it self in same time[10] at some of the people, for whom it became difficult to imagine and suppose that.

Then they asked each other!

If Al- Mahdi should be a survival human, who lived all these sequenced generations, since more than ten centuries, and also He will live the extensions of them, until He (A.S.) appears on the theatre, So how it became possible to this human to live this long age, and to be saved from the laws of the nature which obligated on every human to pass through the senility period, since very early anteceded time, which leads him naturally to the death? Isn’t that impossible from the realistic aspect[11]?

And they also ask!

Why is the whole desires are from God (S.W.) for this human personally?

Then the natural laws[12] will be idled for him, and the inconceivable will be done in order to prolong his age and to save him until the promised day comes, is the humanity became barren to produce the capable leaders? And why is the promised day couldn’t be left for other leader, who will be born[13] at the drawn of that promised day, and He will grow as the people grow, and He will practice his role gradually until He spreads the equity and justice on the earth after it has been filled with tyranny and injustice?

And also they ask!

If Al- Mahdi was a noun of a concrete person who is
the son of the eleventh Imam[14] from Ahlul- Bait’s Imams (A.S.)

Who was born on 256 A.H[15]. And his father died in 260 A.H. so that means He (A.S.) was a little boy while his father died. And his age was not more than five years, so his age wasn’t enough to pass a period through which He (A.S.) must be prepared religiously and intellectually for the completion stage by the hand of his father, then how, and by which way this development of this individual[16] could be completed in order to practice his great role, religiously, intellectually and scientifically?

And they also query! If the leader was ready, so why this whole long wait which lasted for hundreds years? Were those whole or deals and social disasters that the worlds have seen before to justify his emergency[17] on the theater and to establish the justice on the earth?

Then they also query!

How can we believe in the existence of Al- Mahdi, even if we supposed that, it is possible, and is it possible for a human to believe with assumption justness from this type and does not demonstrate a convincing scientifical or logical evidence?[18]

Or is it enough that some narratives which are related about the prophet (S.), while we couldn’t know the extent of its reality[19] to accept the mentioned supposition?

And they query for what is prepared from a role for this individual through the promised day?

How can it be possible for the Individual to have this great and definitive authority in the world life! However that individual should be great, He can’t make the history by himself, so by that He enters a new stage with it, but the seeds of the historical movement with its members will be developed through the objective circumstances, and it’s contradictions, And the greatness of the person[20] itself will nominate him to inform the face of those objective circumstances, and the practically interpretation for what they ask from the solutions?

And they also query! What is the manner through which we can imagine, what will be achieved by the hand of that person, from a great change and absolute victory for the justice and the mission of the justice on the whole entities of the injustice and tyranny, although what they have from the power and influence, and what they have found from the distraction and ravage tools, and what they reached to the astronomical level through the scientifical

capabilities and the social, political and military powers[21]?

These questions are already circulated in this area and be said in a manner or other manner, and the actual reasons for these questions are not only intellectual but also there is a spiritual source for them, which is the feeling with the dread of the universally reigning matter and the exiguity of any opportunity to change it from the roots, and as much as what that position will rouses from this feeling which will be separated through the world by the pass of the time, the doubts will be deepen, and inquiries will be sequenced, by this manner the defeat and the littleness with the feeling by the weakness at the human will lead him to feel with great exhaustion spiritually, only by imagine the great change activity of the world which empties it from it’s whole oppositions and it’s historical grievances, and it provides the world with a new content, that established on the base of the right and justice, and this exhaustion leads him to a doubt in this manner, and to try to refuse it for a reason or other than this.

And now we bring the previous questions sequencely; to stop at everyone of them, a short stop by the limitation that these papers contain.

1] It is a sign for what is truly an inveteration in the humanity concienceness, and a common opinion among the majority people of the earth, so there is a strong feeling that engages the humans mind by the emergency of the savior, while the affairs will be serious and complicated, and the tribulation is heighten, and the troubles humiliated them, and the injustice fall up on them, which the religions had told about, and the history of the humanity civilizations narrated. Please review the twelve Imam’s biography book by / Hashim Maēroof Al- Hassani vol. 2: p516 and from that: the leadership {Imameh} at shiits’ view / by Dr. Ahmad subhi.

[2] It is a sign for the belief of the marxians and their wishes for the expected day, through which the communism finally will dominate-as they believe- and the bitter struggle will be ended according to their historical metrical famous. view.

Please review our philosophy by the martyr sadre p-26 historical.

[3] It is a sign to the successive of the holy tradition: {if it is not remained from the world except one day, allah (S.W.) will have send a man from my progeny, who will fill it with justice as it before had been fulled in tyranny}, please review sunanul - Mustafa by abi dawood vol. 2 p 207 , and review Al- Taj Aj- jamē lilusool by shaikh mansur Ali Nasif vol. 5 p 343.

[4] This is a replay on who claims that the belief in Imam Al- Mahdi (A.S.) is the reason of sluggishness and the passivity, and that is the most fluent reply, which is derived from the same holy tradition.

[5] It is an indication to Imam Al- Mahdi’s government that which the holy prophet (s.) mentioned. Please review: At- Taaj Aj- Jamiē Lil usool vol. 5 p. 343.

[6] It is a sign to the divine promise in his (S.W.) saying: {If we want to give all goods up on those who were deemed weak on the earth and we make them the Imams, and we make them the heirs} Al- qasas: 5 and a mention to his (S.W.) saying: {that he might cause it to prevail over all religions, though the polytheists may be averse. At- Taubeh: 33. Please review with interpretation of these two verses, which the hint to Al- Imam Al- Mahdi (A.S.) Yenaabie il- mawaddeh / By Al- Qundoozi Al- Hanafi p. 450.

[7] It is a sign to the glad tidings of our holy prophet Mohammad’s (S.) that came in the Holy tradition of: {Al- Mahdi is truly in my nation, He will emerge and live five or seven or nine {the suspicion is from the narrator} he said: we asked: what is that? He (S.) answered: years, and added: the man comes on him and says O, Mahdi give me give me. He Said: put in his garment what he will be able to carry.} At- Turmuthi narrated that. Please review: At- Taajul- Jamiē lilusool / by Ali - Sheikh Mansoor Ali Nasif vol. 5: p. 343 and in which there is more than one illusion for that Al- Mahdi is survival existing, and he is living within the nation, and his emergency and living for seven years and that means, his emergency and his blessing state establishment through which the rescue and justice will found.

[8] It is told about him (A.S.) that he (A.S.) will emerge while there is no homage for any injustice in his neck. please review: Al- Ihtijaj book / by At- Tibrisi vol. 2 p. 545.

[9] A mention to that Al- Mahdi is not only an illusion on an idea that jests the minds of the wronged people, and courts their feelings, surely he is as alive fact and that is embodied in a person himself, from here the opinion becomes a joining to their conscience, they live with it, and for it they live, and they participate in the preparation and the readiness for the clash in the definitive battle which the expected leader will lead. And if it was only a single dream or opinion, so it is unexpected to be as emotional and conscious relationship, from this the importance of the expectation will be found, and it’s justification purposes will be appeared, so in a whole, it will harmonize with the expectation, which always processed the manifestoes of the savior from the prophets and the reformers.

[10] The opinions about the expected Al- Mahdi’s affair are different and the positions are various according to the positions variety from the religious absence affair and the celebrated and frequent religious texts, but there is an agreement between the educated Muslims and the investigators of the traditions from the shiīts and sunnits for the ideology rightness with Al- Mahdi (A.S.), and the impossibility for the doubt with it, even if it came in the tradition: {he who denied Al- Mahdi had already became infidel ...} please review Qhayet Al- Maēmool shareh At- Taaj Ajjamiē lilusool / by Ash- Shaikh Mansoor Ali Nasif vol. 5 p. 343.

[11] This is an inquiry from a group of the people, and really it is truly possible to record the following brief notice, although it’s replay will comes in detail:

A- It isn’t impossible according to the logical intention, but it is within the limitation of the possibility.

B- It is usually not impossible; because of the occurrence of the parallels of that actually, as the Holy Qurān mentioned in Nuh’s (A.S.) mater in his (S.W.) saying: {So he remained among them a thousand year save fifty years.} Al- Ankaboot: 14.

[12] the breaking down of the natural laws is already happened many times relating to the prophet’s (A.S.) marvels, and this is a necessary affair of the religion, there is no way to deny it, so if a person told by that who was obligated on us to believe him, so it is permitted without any reverse.

[13] This is a sign to the belief of groups from Ahlul- Sunnah our brothers. please review At- Taajul- jamiē lilusool vol. 5: p. 360 the foot note.

[14] This inquiry was raised before, and today also is raised, by different ways, and all these inquiries depend on suppositions, and Allusions are not stated on a base of the science, but they are not unless suspicions and poor tries to escape from the principal of the issue and it’s necessary requirements, so they are not unless be more similar to the suspicions of the materialist when they are faced by the evidences of the science, logic and intellect that related to God (S.W.), so they resorted to naive inquiries that declarate their unbelieving with what the multiple evidences are stated on. as their saying: if he was existing, why don’t we see him? and why doesn’t He (A.S.) do so and so? And so the concern of these, while they were faced with the logical evidences and the recurrent narration’s that concerned with the expected Imam Al- Mahdi of what that was accepted from the private and the general people, and by which is impossible for the human to deny, so they turned to the suspicion that truly there is no son is known for Imam Al- Hassan Al-Askari (A.S.) as they invented in order that falsely attributed to the shiīts, that they truly stand on the vault every day and call up on their Imam to come out for them, but they dispute about the vault, some of them said: He is in samaraē, and others said: He is in Najaf and the third group said: He is in other place. Please review our communication in the beginning.

[15] Ash- Sheikh Al- Mufeed has already proved that in his book Al-Irshaad: p 346, and Ash- Sheikh Al- Shaērani in his book Al- yawaakeet Waljawaahir vol. 2 the search N0. 65, the birth of Imam Muhammad the son of Al- Hassan Al- Askari in 255 A.H., and they were from the most exalted of the investigators at the two groups and this rebut the suspicions which some of the science pretenders, have raised in addition to the famous tradition: (The leaders-Imams. Are twelve, all of them are from Quraish), so, it’s meaning is just corresponding with what the Imamia (Shiits) accepted and with what they caught with that the leadership of the twelve Imams, all of them are from the honest progeny, the first of them is Imam Ali (A.S.), and the last is Al-Mahdi, And they are themselves whom they are laid down, and Ath-Thaqalain celebrated tradition, supports, and certify that, and also the tradition of (who died while he was unfamiliar with his Imam of his age …), both of them are corresponding with Imamai faith. Please review the entire argumentation of Al-Usool Al-Aameh lil fiqhil-Muqaran book / By the Knower Mohammad Taqi Al-Haqeem / The research of hujyat Ahlul-Suneh: p.145.

[16] Who he (s.w) truly undertook and was responsible for developing prophet Isa (A.S.), and who supplied prophet Yahya the role, and the wise while he was a youth, as it is mentioned in the Holy Qoran, It is possible for him (S.W.) to undertake and grant the man whom he (S.W.) has developed to purificate the earth from the injustice and the tyranny at the end of the World. As the famous tradition told about Al- Mahdi who is from Fatima’s progeny, and Al-Hussein’s (A.S.) issue. Please review: At-Taajul-Jamiul usool book vol. 5: p. 341- 343

[17] This matter is truly subject to it’s special conditions, and as the prophet Mohammad (S.) deferred to his blessing emergency period, for matters and foresight that the wisdom of the sender {Allah} (S.W.) seecked through the need for him, so the matter here is the same.

[18] The martyr sadre will discuss this affair in detail.

[19] Realy the Islamic nation scholars truly agree with the truth of Al- Mahdi’s (A.S.) traditions, and there is no one, who contradicted unless that who is not from the people, who are not familiar with the tradition.

Please review: At- Taj Aj- Jamiē Lil usool vol. 5: p. 361.

[20] We already have seen how could the heroes made their nations’ history, that the martyr sadre truly presents here an original and very important meaning of the history movement, and the role of the hero person, the importance of the objective circumstances in the effect. Tomas carlil already mentioned the role of the hero in his book {the heroes}. Please review his mentioned book, which is translated by Dr. Al- Subaiē - Egypt- The thousand books series.

[21] It is a sign to the sweeping ravage warfare, in addition to the technological development, which contained the mass media television. And radio and the vast effects. But we saw how could the counter weapons be found in the opposite, which often stop those effects, and we also noticed the effect of the morals in thwart the activity of the different weapons of the enemy or lessening the effects of them to the utmost of the limitations, as it happened in the political revolutions and raisings.