Introduction

Foreword

1. The Prophet, A paragon of perfection and high above an ordinary man, The Prophet is above an ordinary man

2. One Universal Government Islamic Justice, and the Imamate of Mahdi

3. Shia’sm and the meaning of Imam, the Redeemer

4. The Shia and the meaning of Mahdism

5. Mahdi, a term and a sense, and the false claimers

6. Belief of the Mahdism of Imams

7. The Sons of Imam Husayn; the Reason for their coming to front

8. The title of Mahdi is applied on all the Imams

9. The Shia Doctrine and Ideology

10. Support to the Imams

11. Knowledge of the Imams about the unseen

12. Various phases of the Deeds of the Imams

13. Division of the Dominion of Leadership

14. The Practical Ideology of Shia’sm

15. The salubrity and Islamic tendency in the behavior of Shia towards Sunni

16. Extraordinary Qualities of Imams and the Knowledge of Secret

17. Division of religious principle - Shia and the religion of Etezaal

18. Doctrine of Imamate and super exaggeration

19. Discrepancy in the date of birth of Mahdi

20. The Issue of absence or occultation is a reality and not a theory or a fancy

21. Belief in a redeemer

22. Imamate of Imam Musa bin Ja’far

23. The appearance of the Imam and his administration of Justice worldwide

24. The House of Ali and Motawakkil

25. ‘Taqia’ a strong command from the Divine in the Holy Quran:

26. The first writer who wrote the book about the occultation

27. Division of Groups

28. Books about the Sects

29. Saleem relates a news

30. Titles of the Twelfth Imam

31. The title “Al Qayem”

32. Mahdi the twelfth Imam

33. Miraculous birth and the date

34. The creation of the Prophets and the Imams

35. Mahdism after the martyrdom of Imam Husayn

36. Absence of Imam al-Mahdi

37. The absence from the view of narrators

38. The view of Narrators about the issue of the Imam’s disappearance

39. The Ghaybat of the 12th Imam- Two kinds

40. The writer regarding the 2nd Ambassador says that it was a period of chaos and tumult in the history of the Shia

41. The Way the 3rd Ambassador selected

42. The 4th ambassador and the end of the period of his embassy

43. The total Ghaybat (Occultation):

44. Rise of a Question

45. In spite of the congruity conditions what is the philosophy in Imam Mahdi still remaining absent?

46. Immunity from sins is it a new thing?

47. Proofs of total absence

48. Primary sources and the extend of the Ghaybat (Absence)

49. Evidence of reason

50. Reality of reason or audience

51. Standard of mercy “Lutf”

52. ‘Ismat (infallibility) of 12th Imam

53. A collective rejection to the Caliphate of Abu Bakr

54. About “Ijma” again Mistakes

55. The Return of Al-Mahdi

56. The Rise (Qiyam) of Al-Mahdi

57. Near future, the Rise (Qiyam) of Al-Mahdi

The author debates, discusses and corrects the book “Islamic Messianism”
written by the respected scholar, Abdul Azeez Sachedina, which gives
erroneous impression to readers of the Real and Right Islam which
Shia’sm is, and enabling readers to analyse faith to mastership (Imamat)
and Mahdaiyyat (Mahdi).


Explanation to the Belief of Mahdism in Shi'a Imamia

9. The Shia Doctrine and Ideology
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The writer says that the conflicts, which confronted Bani Ummayah,
provided the opportunity for the Imams to prescribe a doctrine and
arrange an ideology framing, its rules and regulations. He says that
under the supervision of Imam Baqir and Imam Ja’far Al-Sadiq an ideology
for a sect of Imamiah was arranged.

If the writer means to say that the ideology of Imamate or Shi’ism was
invented by the sixth Imam, he was mistaken or he is deliberately
telling what is not true. Shi’ism is in the womb of Islam; and, hence,
delivered only by the Prophet (S). The sayings and the Lectures of Imam
Ali in Nahjul Balaghah point to this fact.

Imam Baqir and Imam Sadiq only explained its aspects and dilated its
corners and expounded its angles to the people. In other words they
brought to attention what had been neglected and re-established what had
been ignored. Indeed, the sense of Shi’ism became complete in their
times. Deviations were steered to the fight direction and the extreme
ideas were nullified by their teachings. This ideology proved to be a
right one and made it clear that it was the same in which Islam proposes
or points to. They also made it known to the people that only an Imam
was competent enough to give interpretations, fix the limits or expound
the boundaries.

People too acknowledged that their knowledge was a Divine deposit with
them; and the vast hidden meanings of the Quranic literature was made
known only to them. People also experienced that no scholar among them
equaled or stood parallel to them. But, the writer has acknowledged the
unique and the elevated position of Imam Zainul Abideen.

This means that the similar position of the other Imams could easily be
proved. In support of this we can refer to the book “Al-Ba’eth
Al-Hadith” written by Ahmad Shaker in which he says that the most
authentic and creditable narration are those narrated by Imam Zainul
Abideen, Imam Mohammad Baqir, and Imam Ja’far Al-Sadiq.

With regards to the fact that the Imams were the speaking Quran the
writer says that this belief was invented during the time of Imam Baqir.
He should know that it was not an invention. It was told by Imam Zainul
Abideen, Imam Hasan, Imam Husayn, Imam Ali and finally the Prophet
himself. The Imams were introduced as equal to the Quran, parallel with
the Quran. If the Quran is a book, they are its utterance. What they say
and what they practice is within the frame of the Quran. Their deeds
correspond to the Quran and do not contradict it. In other words they
are as sacred as the Quran. Why should we doubt it?


