چکیده:
"Even if there remains only a day in the life of this earth, God will prolong it for His emissary to appear so that the earth shall be filled with justice and equity as it is filled with injustice and tyranny."This is the prophecy that the Prophet Muhammad left for his followers so that they would prepare themselves for the launching of that transformation of the world to the ideal that God has promised humanity. This paper is an endeavor to capture the spirit of this prophecy as humanity ponders about the situation in which it finds itself. It is an endeavor to strike a note of optimism rather than pessimism because I believe that it is human destiny to continue to strive until the ideal state is achieved through God’s special providence for His creatures.
خلاصه ماشینی:
"Humanity has come a long way to the present situation which breeds uncertainties at all levels of the existence: whether it is in the area of social-political-economic development or in the area of spiritual and moral growth, modern man and woman feel dissatisfied with the way this world is moving away from the purpose for which it was created.
Second, one can observe a new phenomenon of cultural and religious fractionalization caused by the prescriptive directives offered by some religious leaders to rebel against materialist homogenization that is coming through the globalization of consumerist psychology which is impacting adversely on the spiritual and moral well being of the peoples.
While all Muslims believe that one day the divinely guided (al-mahdi) leader will come to deliver humanity from corruption and tyranny to establish justice and equity, it was the followers of the Ahl al-Bayt who made it part of their active faith response to prepare themselves for that Day of Deliverance.
The tradition also implicitly acknowledges God’s justice in the matter of compensating for this inaccessibility to the authoritative source of guidance by conferring on these believers enormous intellectual capacities and deep insights into the divine purposes by actually approximating the invisible state of the Imam to the visible one.
The divine mystery that explains the probable reason for even choosing the state of invisible existence for the future deliverer of humanity is that during the period of severe trial of one’s faith in the realm of the unseen (al-ghayb) all followers of the Imam should remain alert to their responsibility to do all that is within their power to usher the bright future."