MAHDAVI SOCIETY
Year:2021 | Volume:2 | Issue:1 (3)|Papers Count:6

Ever since the divine prophets let people know about the existence of a bright future and the arrival of the savior and promised that day, people have been waiting for the divine savior on such a day, and in a sense, we can say that waiting for the reappearance of that Imam is an innate and intellectual job. However, Ayatollah Khamenei emphasizes the anthropological foundations in explaining the theory of the waiting, which indicates the generality and durability of this valuable theory. In his works, the most important anthropological foundations of this theory, which include the inherent dignity of man, the divine caliph of the perfect man, the mediator of the Imam’ s grace, happiness, ultimate perfection, and human dignity have been dealt with, and finally, the underlying factors of reappearance (of Imam Mahdi) from his point of view have been studied in a descriptive and analytical method in this paper.

Waiting (for Imam Mahdi’ s reappearance) is justified as a comprehensive and wide-ranging teaching with two trans-denominational and trans-religious approaches and plays a fundamental and important role in organizing the individual and social life of the Savior believers. In this study, among the various functions of the waiting in individual and social affairs, the two issues of resistance and haste with a negative and positive attitude are discussed. In a positive approach, this paper proves the role of the waiting in strengthening the spirit of resistance and tolerance, and in a negative approach, it denies the spirit of haste with a library method along with explaining data through descriptive and analytical methods. Undoubtedly, an important issue and challenge that sometimes can be seen among the waiters and disrupts their personal and social lives, is the spirit of impatience and haste for the issue of reappearance (of Imam Mahdi). This study focuses on answering and resolving this problem and strengthening the spirit of patience and resistance among the waiters by using the arguments of the Qur’ an and narration along with thematic analyses.

The current study seeks to examine the effectiveness of the savior’ s waiting in resolving the conflicting political interests in the Islamic world through a descriptive and analytical method. The paper aims to try to use and apply the doctrine of waiting in political diplomacy in the Islamic world. The studies conducted in this paper are an introduction to answering the question of what are the capacities and capabilities of waiting in the management of political conflicts in the Islamic world. What is noteworthy is that this paper considers "religious convergence in understanding the doctrine of Mahdism", "conversion of waiting software into hardware", "protection of Islamic civilizational identity" and "management of political disruptions in the Islamic world" as the most important necessities of the issue of waiting in political diplomacy in the Islamic world. The findings of analyzing and combining the collected data indicate that the outputs of the application of this doctrine are "institutionalization of ideological growth-oriented and development-oriented extroverted policy", "creation of transnational responsibilities in the Islamic world" and "qualitative expansion of political convergence" which are all the keys in reconciling conflicting political interests in the Islamic world.

One of the features of divine hujjas is having special knowledge about Imamate, and Shiite theologians and narrators have defined areas for Imam’ s knowledge. What all Shiites agree on is the Imam’ s knowledge of what is haram and halal by Allah and the teachings of the Qur’ an, among which is the knowledge of the correct recitation of the Qur’ an and the grammar of Arabic literature. Meanwhile, false claimants such as Ahmad Ismail Basri, after the scandal in the incorrect recitation of the Qur’ an, have tried to deny the necessity of correct recitation of the Qur’ an and reject the knowledge of grammar of Arabic literature and have examined some verses and hadiths in this regard. This current study with the combined method of descriptive-analytical data processing, by mentioning the background of such claims, while explaining the claim of this current, has reached the conclusion that first, the knowledge of Quran recitation and knowledge of Arabic literature are the requirements of Imamate claim. Second, the verses claimed by the false claimants about the lack of eloquence of Prophet Moses do not indicate the mistakes of this prophet in the incorrect recitation, but rather is the lack of eloquence in communication. Thirdly, the claimed narrations-which are weak in terms of the document and the sources of narrations-refer to the excesses in Arabic literature and the change in the Qur’ an with ijtihads without reason.

Waiting (for Imam Mahdi’ s reappearance), as one of the most important teachings of Mahdism, can be divided into strategic and non-strategic parts. The belief in either of these two will have different and sometimes contradictory consequences in practice. Therefore, considering the importance of the social impact of accepting each of these parts, the researcher in this paper aims to answer the question "What are the sociological characteristics of strategic waiting? " Of course, considering the prominence of Shahid Soleimani’ s personality on the one hand and his lifestyle as being a school on the other hand, an attempt has been made to examine the processing of the issue by focusing on the school of Shahid Soleimani. For data collection, library and document method has been used in the paper, and descriptive and analytical method has been used for processing. The findings suggest that the most important sociological characteristics of strategic waiting in the school of Shahid Soleimani can be reported in nine headings, which are: Benefiting from the approach of Islamic civilization, value-oriented rationality, accepting Wilayat, strategic view, waiting in practice, endurance, creating social solidarity, managing emotions and feelings, and comprehensive jihad.

The belief in the Promised Mehdi can be considered as one of the most common features of most Muslim groups. In the meantime, and in various areas of beliefs related to Imam Mahdi, the issue of his lineage has always been considered. One of the most important teachings is his prophetic and Fatimid lineage, namely the connection of the Mahdi descent with the Prophet of Islam and Lady Fatima. Dealing with this issue will be necessary and useful because it will help to develop the history of thought and analytical studies in Mahdavi’ s views. Considering the interest of different groups in this issue in the first centuries, it will be useful for examining the Mahdavi efforts of social currents. According to what has been said, this study seeks to identify the efforts of Muslims, especially Imamis about Prophetic and Fatimid lineage of Imam Mahdi and to observe the course of this belief considering the social contexts before the minor occultation, by analyzing the information obtained from the first historical and hadith sources, and by using the methods and principles accepted in historical studies and sciences involved such as theology and hadith. It seems that the concern for the prophetic lineage of the Mahdi is an accepted idea for most of the promised groups, and each of them tried to somehow connect itself to the Prophet. Therefore, the Mahdi Fatimid lineage and the Ahl al-Bayt emphasis on this issue, which was probably in opposition to the activities of the Keysanians, gradually became a fundamental belief for all Muslim groups.