Now we discuss the second question that is:

Why is this whole desire from God(S.W.) for this human selfsame. All the natural laws must be idled in order to prolong his life? Then why is the leadership of the promised day couldn’t be late for a person, whom will be resulted by the future. And the indications of that promised day will prepare him, so He will be prominent on the area, and He will carry his expected role out.

In other word: what is the benefit from this long absence and what is the justification for it?

The numerous of people are asking this a question while they are hopeless to hear a metaphysical answer, rather we believe that the twelve Imams are a singular series[1] it is impossible to change any of  them, but those inquirers are truly demanding with a social interpretation for the position, according to the perceivable truths of the great change activity, itself and the understandable requisites of the promised day.

by passing on this basis, we put out the characteristics aside temporarily, that we believe in the availability of in it these infallible Imams[2] and put the following question forth:

Regarding to the expected change activity through the promised day, as it is understandable in the light of the life norms and it is experiences, can we consider his long age of their preserved leader as a factor from the factors of making a success for it, which enables him to practice it and lead it by the utmost border?

thus we answer that by the positive for several reasons as the  following:

The great change activity truly requires a unique psychological setting in the leader who practices it and which is full with the feelings of superiority and the feeling with the dwindling of the supercilious entities, for which the eliminating is prepared and change it’s civilization into a new world.

so as much as the leader’s heart can survive, and who is the changer of the feeling with the insipidity if the civilization by whom He struggles, and obvious sense, that is just appoint on the long line of the human civilization, it becomes powerful from the psychological aspect[3] in order to face it, and to stand against it, and to continue with his efforts opposite it up to the victory.

It is clear that the desired volume from this psychological sense agree with the volume of the change itself, and what is intended to omit from the civilization and entity, whenever the meeting was to a greater entity more established, and heighest, it seeked a greater propel from this replete spiritual sense.

since the mission of the promised day is to change a world, which is filled up with the injustice and oppression, a general change with the whole of it’s cultural morals and various entities, of course this mission is searching for individual who is greatest with his sense of that whole world, for a person who is not from the generations of that world who grew up under the effect of this civilization, for which it is wanted to be damaged.

to substitute the civilization of justice, and right instead of that, since the person who grows up under the shadow of the established civilization which established the world with its authority, morals and its thoughts, who lives with the feeling of the dignity against it, because He was born while it was established and grew up since He was a little, and it was tremendous. He opened his eyes in the world, through which He didn’t find unless the various appearances of it.

and in a contrary of that, a person who goes deeply in the history that He lived before, and that civilization truly found the blossoms, and He saw the great civilizations which governed the world one after the other, and then they are damaged and collapsed[4].

He saw that by his true eyes and didn’t read it in the history books ......, then He saw the civilization for which predetermined to be the last section of the  human story and that will be before the promised day, He saw it while it was a little seed that couldn’t be seen unless by difficulty, and then He saw it while it was already taking place in the human social entrails, and while it was looking for the opportunity to grow and emerge, and then He coeval with it, while it already began to grow and advance, and attacked by the deterioration one time and got success in other time, and then He attended it while it was flourishing and became a giant, and gradually dominated on the whole authorities of the world completely.

A person of these situations, who lived the whole these periods with complete insight and attention, while He was watching at this giant, which He wanted to struggle with from the corner of the long historical extension whom He lived it with it in his full sense, not through the books of the history, but He looks at it not as inevitable predestination, nor as {Jean Jacques Rousseau}[5] who considered the kingdom in French, so it was already

narrated about him that He was afraid, when He imagined France without a king, although He was one from the great philosophical, and intellectual propagandists for advancing the existing political situation through that time, since {Rousseau} grew up under the royalty, and breathed it’s air during all his life. However this person who is penetrated deeply within the history, so He has the gravity of the history, and the power of the history, and the replete sense that what is surrounding him from the beings and civilization, which are resulted in one day from the history, the means are fulfilled for it and the means also will be fulfilled so it will be vanished, nothing will be reminded, from it as nothing was found from it in the nearest or Fareast recently. The historical ages of the civilizations and beings truly however they are prolonged, they aren’t unless short days from the long age of the history. Have you read Al- Kahf chapter? and have you read  about those youths who believed in their lord and He (S.W.) increased them in guidance?[6]

and they faced ruling pagan regime, which hadn’t mercy up on anyone and didn’t stop to strangulate any seed of the monotheism and the raising from the polytheism unit, so their souls became powerless, and the desperation enters into themselves, and the vents of the hope were closed in front of their eyes, so they resorted to the cave while they were seeking a solution for their difficulty, from God (S.W.) after the solutions fatigued them, and it became greater, that the oppression is continuing to umpire to wrong and to subdue the right and to kill every one whose heart palpitates for the right.

Do you know what Allah (S.W.) acted up on them?

He (S.W.) had put them into a sleep for three hundred and nine years[7]  in the cave, then He (S.W.) had waken them from the sleep, and held them for the life theatre, while that being which was surprising them with his power and injustice is already collapsed and declined, and became a history that could not scare any one, and couldn’t move a tranquil thing, the whole of that was for these young men to see the demise of that injustice and which his circulation power and, continuity, and to see the end of his order with their eyes, and the injustice became little in their minds.

Indeed  if this clear view is found for the fellows of the cave with the whole of what it was included from psychical height and impetus through that unparalleled phenomenon which prolonged their life for three hundred years, so the same thing will be occurred to the expected leader through his long life, that gives opportunity to him in order to see the giant while He is a pygmy, and the lofty tree, while it is a seed and the hurricane while it is just as a breeze[8]

In addition to that, the experience which the escorting of these sequential cultures that provide him (A.S.) with, and the direct facing for it’s movement and progressions has a great effect in the intellectual preparation, and to deepen the experience of the leadership of the promised day; since it puts the saved individual in front of several practices of the others including the whole points of the weakness and the power, and the kinds of the errors with true, which supplies the individual a greater ability to evaluate the social phenomenon with the perfect attention on its origins, and all the historical circumstances.

Thus the stored change activity of the expected leader is passing on the basic of a specific mission, that is the mission of Islam, and it is of course this activity in this case requires a leader who is close to the principal sources of Islam, while his personality is already constructed a perfect structure in autonomous shape, and separated from the effect of the civilization that assumed for the promised day to fight them.

Then on the contrary of that, the person who is born and grown up under the protection of this civilization, his feelings and thoughts will be effloresced within the limitation of it. Then He often can’t liberate from the reminding of that civilization and its principals, even though He led a transformational charge.

So in order to be sure that the saved leader will not be affected by the civilization for which He is perfected to change, it is inevitable that his personality is already structured a perfected structure within a previous cultural stage, which is the nearest in the general spirit and from the aspect of the origin for the cultural state, which the promised day moves to achieve it by the leadership of his own[9].