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

23. The appearance of the Imam and his administration of Justice worldwide
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That the Imams through their own agents or elements acquired information
and knowledge current with the affairs of their time is not to be
debated. However, the writer claims that they became aware of the fact
that an Alawi Imam by the name of Mahdi would come, and that he would
not be able to stop the flow of events due to the severe corruptness in
general. Therefore the writer says, they decided to postpone the
reappearance of the “Awaited One” indefinitely.

Yes, the events had become such, however the writer fails to understand
that the reappearance of the twelfth Imam was not postponed by Imam Hadi
nor Imam Askari, for they had no such power. It was a Divine secret in
which only Allah himself knew and planned. According to various
narrations, those of Shia and those of Sunni, nobody knew nor does know
the person who is to appear and when he will appear. Even the Imams,
except Mahdi himself, knew not the specified man. It is a Divine
responsibility. And, it is in Divine hand. Its knowledge is with God.

Its delay or its urgency is the concern of God. The writer fails to dig
any deeper. For it is the insight that probes and opens the horizons of
a vast sight to see. What we know is that which the Prophet (S) and the
Holy Quran has taught us.

That is a redeemer will come to rescue the world from tyranny and to
spread therein justice is a promise committed by God to mankind; and it
has been foretold by the Prophet. But no one is competent to set its
timing. It is not a human program. Hence, it is not for human to decide.
When one cannot decide he can deny. Here denial is not important,
because to deny facts does not uproot them.


