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

29. Saleem relates a news
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What is attributed to Saleem does not exist in his (Saleem’s) book.
Saleem is reported to have narrated that the Prophet (S) had told Ali
Bin Abi Talib that he and twelve ones from his progeny are the rightful
and legitimate Imams. The very authentic copies of the book of Saleem
Bin Qais mostly possessed by scholars do not have what it is alleged to
him. What the book of Saleem Bin Qais carries is the various narration
of several sayings of the Prophet (S) all to the effect that the Imams
are twelve and their names starting from Ali Bin Abi Talib down to Mahdi
are indicated.

This book came into being in the first century of Hijrah and remains
till now well credited and well trusted. The names of the twelve Imams
were mentioned at a time when they were not yet born. So what is a false
accusation or an unfounded allegation merely attributed to Saleem Bin
Qais is only a matter of prejudice, to obfuscate the very subject and
infuscate the understanding.

It is common practice to fabricate a fiction and then set out in
conquest of a writer who may transact this counter note on his credit
because of the customers who bank in him their trust. Better than Saleem
Bin Qais they could not have found. As his notes are plenty, one counter
can easily be mixed therein. If at all it is deducted, a general clamor
would stout that it is Saleem’s; since Saleem’s would obtain currency
and circulate from hand to hand. Such a fraud is also played with Abi
Sahal Noubakhti. This silly trick has persisted deliberately. Writer
should have checked them. Translators also proved negligent in this
respect.

Anyway, we should pronounce here that such a stratum will not be of
benefit to any nor will it serve as a religious cause nor will it
advance any religion forward. It would only create a mist on the
understanding of readers. The root of belief in a ‘Mahdi’ is also to be
found in the Tora and that of the Bible prior to Islam. Any literature
that could be traced in the distant past will say something of this
kind. This is the pedestal of the Divine Religion.


