Now we come on the third inquiry as the following:

How will the preparation of the expected leader be achieved while He (A.S.) didn’t live with his father Al- Imam Al- Askari (A.S.) unless five years approximately? Which is the childhood period, and that is not enough to the leader’s personality maturation, so what are the situations through which He was perfected?.

The response:

Al- Mahdi (A.S.) followed his father in the muslims leadership. And that means He truly as an Imam had the whole spiritual and intellectual content of the Imamat {leadership} since the very early time of his Holy life.

A group of his previous fathers (A.S.) preceded him to the leadership {Imamat} so Imam Mohammad the son of Al- Jawaad (A.S.) got the leadership on while He was eight years old[1]

AL-Imam Ali the son of Muhammad Al- Haadi who got on the leadership while He was nine years old[2], and al- Imam Abu muhammad Al Hassan Al- Askari (A.S.)[3] the father of the expected leader who got on the leadership while He was twenty-two years old.

It is observed that the early leadership phenomenon it is up-to it’s utmost through Imam Al- Mahdi and Al- Imam Al- Jawaad’s (A.S.) personality.

We called it as a phenomenon since it originates a scientifical palpable denotation regarding to Imam Al- Mahdi’s fathers (A.S.) which Muslims had lived before and that they were aware of it inspite their experiences related to the Imam (A.S.) in a way or other, and it is impossible for us to demand with the establishment of one phenomenon from the occurrences which is more intelligible[4] and forceful than the nations experience, for that we explain this meaning through the following points:

A- The Imamat in Ahlul-Bait (A.S.), wasn’t a way center that the king inherits the power from his father, And He will be supported by the role of his government, like the ruling regime supported it as the fatimian’s caliph leadership {Imamat}, and the succession of Abbasian caliphs, but it was assuming the loyalty of it’s vast popular principals by the means of the spiritual disturbing, and the intellectual satisfaction of this principals by worthiness of this Imamat {leadership} to guide Islam, and to lead it according to intellectual and spiritual principalities.

B - These popularity groups are truly stated since the beginning of Islam, and they grew up, and extended through the two Imams al- Baqir and As- Sadiq’s (A.S.) epoch, and the school that was been taken care by these two Imams have innermost of these groups that became in forming a vast intellectual tendency within the Islamic world, and that included hundreds of jurist scholars and commentators and the knowers from a different kind of Islamic and humanitarian knowledge, which were known at that time, even Al- Hassan the son of Ali Al- Wash- Shaē said: when I have entered Al- Kufeh mosque I saw nine hundred sheikhs[5], all of them were saying. Jaēfar the son of mohammad told us.

C - The conditions that this school, and like it the popular groups in the Islamic group that you believed in it, that you practice it lows, to appoint the Imam and to know his fitting for the leadership {Imamat}, according to them, they are difficult conditions; since they believe that the Imam couldn’t be appointed as an Imam unless He could be the must knowledgeable of his era[6].

D- The school and it popular groups were presenting the great sacrifices in the way of the resistance on it’s belief with the leadership, since it was informing a hostile error in the view of the temporary caliphate, and at least from the intellectual aspect even the matter which resulted that regime taking up on torturing and Killing campaign continually approximately, several people were killed and imprisoned, and the hundreds loosed their lives in the darkness of prisons, which means that the belief in the leadership {Imameh} of Ahlul-Bait (A.S.) cost them expensively[7], and there is nothing of the temptation for the person unless what believer feels with the believing or that He supposed the rapprochement to Allah (S.W.) and the rank at God (S.W.).

E- The Imams whom the groups submitted to them by the allegiance and leadership weren’t isolated from them, nor they confined in elevated towers as the roles have usually done with their nations, and they were not vanished from them unless that the sultan carry them away by the prison or punishment, and we know through the great number of the narrators and the inspired relators about every one of the eleven Imams, and through what is narrated from the writings, which were occurred between the Imam and his coetaneous people, and through what Imam was doing as journeys from aside, and through the agents of his own in the different fields of the Islamic world from other side, and through what the followers {shiīts} have gotten habit of the inspection and visits of their Imams in Madinah Munawwarah, when they go to the Holy house from every where to do the pilgrimage in junction[8].

All that obliged a continual communication between the Imam and his extended groups through the Islamic regions in a distinct measure with the various classes from the scholars, and others than them.

F- The contemporary caliphat for the Imams (A.S.) was looking at them and their spiritual leadership and Imamat as a great danger source for their being, and worthies, then according to this principality, it made all the efforts, and tries in the way of destroying this leadership, and been patience in the several negativism’s in case of it.

And sometimes it seemed with autocracy and strictness aspects, when the ensuring of it’s situations compelled it for that, so the detention and pursuit campaigns for the Imams themselves were continued, although that truly results from the sense of the felling or the disgust at muslims, and all the people who are the supporters from different classes.

If we took these six points into the consideration, while they are historical facts indubitably, we could get with a result that is:

The early leadership {Imameh} phenomenon truly was a practical phenomenon, and wasn’t a fiction of the illusions; since the Imam who appeared on the theatre while He was a little boy, He declared himself as a spiritual and intellectual leader {Imam} for muslims, and all that tendency admitted with the friendship and leadership to him. It is definitely that He must be on a perfect clear once and noticeable but great quality from the knowledge of science, and the vast thought, capacity and the mastery from the interpretation, doctrines, and jurisprudence, because if He (A.S.) wasn’t so, the groups couldn’t declare their belief with his leadership {Imameh}.

In addition to what is mentioned in the previous time, that Imams in positions which allowed to their groups to interact with them and because of the different limelight to be thrown up on their life and their personalities and characteristics.

Do you ever see the boy who will nominate himself for the leadership of his own, and will make himself as a chief for Islam while He is at the sight and hearing of, the people from his public groups.

Then they will believe in him, and they will try to give value from their safety, and life, in the way of that aim, and do not bother themselves to discover his actual situation, and that phenomenon of this early leadership {Imameh} dos not shake them in order to research the fact of this position and to evaluate this young Imam[9]?

Then suppose that people didn’t move to scout the position, so is it possible for the days and months but years to pass on this matter without the exposure of the fact inspite of the continually natural reaction between the young boy Imam and the whole people?

Is it honestly and from the wise that He has been actually a juvenile in his mind and his science, and that will not be exposed through this long communication?

And if we assumed that it was impossible for the popular groups of Ahlul- Bait’s leadership to discover the reality of the matter, so why the present caliphate kept silent and didn’t try to declare the fact if it was agreed with its benefit?

And however it was easy for the existed authority, if that young Imam was a child in his thought, and culture as it is usually, in the children, and it results for not meriting the Imamat, and spiritual leadership, and thought. If it’s difficult to satisfy that someone at the age of forty of fifty can not merit the leadership, that doesn’t mean there is a difficult satisfaction for the child to not merit it, however intelligent and meriting the Imamat, with it’s meaning which was known by Imamia[10] shiīts.

And this was easier and simplest than the compound ways, and the curbing with the temerity techniques that the regime followed at that time.

The single interpretation of that temporary caliphat ubstaining from the play by this paper[11] was the perceiving of it, that the early leadership {Imameh} was an actually phenomenon and not artificial thing.

 And truly it really perceived that, after it tried to play with that paper, but it couldn’t, and the history told us about attempts from this type, and the flop of them[12], while the history didn’t tell us yet about a position in which the early leadership phenomenon tottered or the young Imam faced an embarrassment which overcome on his ability or shake the belief of the people by him.

And this is the meaning that we have mentioned about the early leadership phenomenon, which is actual phenomenon through the life of Ahlul-Bait (A.S.), and it wasn’t save a supposition, also this actual phenomenon truly has it’s roots and it’s similar cases in the tradition of the heaven, which extended through the missions and leaderships.

There is an example for the early leadership phenomenon in the tradition of the heaven about, Ahlul- Bait (A.S.) that is Yahya, that Allah (S.W.) said {O, Yahya: take hold of the Book with strength, and granted him wisdom while yet a child mariam vers: 12.

And when it is proved that the early leadership is a really phenomenon, and it is actually existed in the Ahlul- Bait’s (A.S.) life, So there is no objection regarding to the leadership of Al- Mahdi (A.S.) and appointing him (A.S.) after his father, while He was a child[13].

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