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

1. The Prophet, A paragon of perfection and high above an ordinary man, The Prophet is above an ordinary man
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He possesses qualities, which are not common among the ordinary people.
This thought and belief which reason attests to. The belief in his being
a chosen one in itself evidences his mission as his mission is the
evidence of his being a chosen one. As we know one who is vested with
the office of prophet hood should have distinct distinction from among
others through either those of moral, knowledge, conduct and behavior -
each at its zenith.

If he too stands at the same level in the same class with the same grade
quite equal with others, then what superiority goes to him or what
prominence and preference does he have over others? In such a case why
should others obey him and why should he give orders? God does not
impose not one upon others if he is not better than them. Of course, the
Prophet is not a super human nor is he a being other than human. But,
indeed, he is a man superior to other men, a distinguished one, a
perfect one and a man in its complete sense.

This factor remained open to all throughout his life - private and
public. His generous behavior, exalted moral, a charitable character and
the human virtue had already set him at a station higher than that in
which lurked everyone else. He was not yet a prophet. We are not going
here to compare his moral with that of others.

The writer too Mr. Abdul Aziz, whom we shall refer to hereafter as the
writer, holds the same opinion. The terms used by him such as ‘paragon
of the desired perfection’, ‘chosen one by Divine’, ‘a real leader’;
reflect the same sense. This statement: ‘The consummate perfection which
the Prophet left behind gives reason to this thought that he should be
above a common man’, brought forward this conjecture after his becoming
a prophet and before his death. Appointment to the office of prophet
hood is subject to better decency and wider ability. All it shows was
that the Prophet was not a common man.


