MASHREQ-E MOUOOD
Year:2010 | Volume:4 | Issue:15|Papers Count:8

Mahdism, which has always been a key to faith doctrine and identity of Shiism during centuries and eras, is considered to be the sole way before modern human to achieve salvation in the tumultuous society of today. The community and government of Islamic Iran which has identified knowing the Imam of the time as a key responsibility and waiting as a superior act, attempts to set the scene for the appearance of the only righteous reformer and leader to realise true equality on Earth. In this way, the awaiting society and government should set a good example for perplexed people on Earth to vitalise the hope of waiting people for appearance of the saviour (today known as Mahdism Doctrine). Mahdism Doctrine teachings are based on a global belief system with Mahdi as a pivot. It contains fundamental strategies for human life to achieve an ideal society with reformist people and leader. Considering the cultural nature of Islamic revolution that put the positive waiting and setting the scene for appearance on the government agenda from its early days, this paper also attempts to address the underlying cultural strategies for ground-setting community and government based on SWOT model (strength, weakness, opportunities, threats). Therefore, firstly cultural coordinates of Mahdavi society from the perspective of verses and hadith (post- emergence community) will be expressed. Then the strength, weakness, opportunities, threats are considered in an Iranian context where analysis of ins and outs explain the current culture of Mahdism in the nation. Then, strategies will be proposed at macro-cultural level in four areas (strategies of SO, ST, WO, WT) to achieve the desired awaiting society. the strategies will be rated based on attraction and amongst 25 strategies, 15 highly rated (above average) starategies will be chosen. Finally, the article concludes with suggestions for future research to be completed.

The present paper is an attempt to examine A perspective to principled political strategies for underlying scene setting government using the Holy Quran. The most significant underlying issue that is important in this context is the 'how' of principled political strategies for and how to move from the status quo to a desirable state. the 'how' of principled political strategies is based on faith beliefs in the evolutionary direction of God's messengers and sin-free Imams. The strategies in this regard are (attempted to be) based on Quranic models which has been explained in this paper.

Why the revaluations happen, have been the subject of interest in several researches, among these; economic, political and cultural approaches have been most popular. Nevertheless, it is not possible to analyze and understand the Islamic Revolution of Iran only by attributing to these common approaches. The reason of this is related to values and identity elements in theory and practice of Islamic revolution which has been continued his life and impacts since beginning of Imam Khomeini movement until now.This article is going to answer the important question that "what is the main ultimate of Islamic revolution and establishment of Islamic republic of Iran?" according to the Imam Khomeini's thought and practice. to achieve this purpose, after categorizing, reviewing and criticizing different approaches and theories in this field; a new theory is proposed that seems more inclusive in interpretate and understand the ultimate and vision of Islamic revaluation, based on Imam Khomeini’s ideal. This theory by inspiring from Imam Khomeini's words and literature is named Trusteeship Theory, which is in the transcendental thought Mahdism framework. This article finally after gathering strategic propositions and practical requirements of this theory, proposes criteria for vision of IRI.

One of the questions that have preoccupied the human mind is human future or in other words, the end of time. Thinkers with any vision and tendency have tried to answer this question. They have drawn the future of humanity with peace, tranquility, calmness, security and justice. Some have argued this to be historically inevitable and out of human will and believe in cultural wars to determine the destiny. Divine religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam know the future of human life to be bright and know its realization in the existence of a Saviour. This evolution in the world from Muslim perspective will be done by one of the children of Mohammad called Imam Mahdi. The fundamental question still remains that in religious thought, why the emergence of such resurrection is necessary at all?The present paper is bound to answer this question by studying religious texts. Studies find that Quranic verses and Islamic traditions reveal the promises of God to believers, like Saqaleyn continued until the end of history, the religion of God's sovereignty, sovereignty of the oppressed and the righteous believers, the triumph of right on wrong ... and promises of God’s messenger to the Islamic nation such as comprehensive justice in all the world and the coming to power of his successor, the twelfth Imam Mahdi and his uprising is still not achieved. So should we consider seriously the necessity of resurrection of the divine and infallible human.

In recent years, after serious discussions regarding ground setting for Imam Mahdi the saviour, questions about necessity and doubts about its range forced the range of the believers to react to such claim about preparing the ground for him. What is more surprising is that most doubts have been put through by believers in that each adhered to one and rejected the others to prove accuracy of their own perspective in preparing the ground for the emergence of Imam. This has made things more difficult for new believers or seekers of truth. The important effects that adherence to each perspective may bring to reforming personal perspective and social programmes and policies alike has compelled the author of this paper to find a solution to this problem. The author of this paper finds this challenge due to the inattention to the kalam principles of the issue of preparing for emergence and adherence to it. So, these principles should take precedence over considering traditional reasons and thorough explaining correctly analyse and interpret the related ayahs and citations.

This paper seeks to examine and compare the important emerging new philosophy of religion and theology, that is "Religious experience" in the Western World of Islam and the popular topic of tasharofat in Islam and Shiism. after adjustment for different perspectives on the religious experience of tasharofat concludes that tasharof to the presence of the holy Imam is a type of religious experience.

In this article, the Nietzsche’s superhuman and the "ideal man" by Seyed Ahmad Fardid are compared to the find and share their differences and similarities. Both philosophers have an innovative new approach to the "ideal man". Nietzsche is one of the most well known philosophers in the West and Fardid is the first contemporary philosopher in Iran. "superhuman " and "ideal man", are the most significant product of their thought. Fardid, introduces the ideal man as "Baqyatallah" and "Imam of the time". Likewise, Nietzsche superhuman is an ideal man, and a saviour who will emerge in the future. Ideas of appearance in both of the philosophers are outstanding. Fardid and Nietzsche have both spoken chaotically and about their troubled thoughts we cannot speak of order. Given this, the present article tries to outline and compare the main idea and ideals of the philosopher about the promised man upon which there is more consensus.