To estimatethe approximate time of the Appearance

In religious sources, it is highly prohibited to estimate the time of the Appearance; whether to determine it exactly, or approximately and imprecisely. Even we are ordained to refute those who proceed to do so. In this research paper, we are going to analyze the issue of “estimating the approximate time of the Appearance”. Those who forbid it refer to the content of some narrations. But those who permit it claim that to guess the approximate time of the Appearance is out of the realm of these narrations. However, those who are against them assert that the meaning of these narrations are general. They refer to the real meaning of “time” in dictionaries and with the help of a sort of principles of jurisprudence and that there is no evidence to say those narrations are limited to just exactly determining the time, claim that based on the “principle of generality”, which is an undisputed intellectual principle, one has to cling to the general meaning of these narrations which state that all sort of setting a time for the Appearance, be it even approximately, is forbidden.Furthermore, to act in accordance to the general meaning of these narrations will gain more meaning if we consider that not only is not there any evidence to make the general meaning of these narration limited, there are some proofs stating that it should not be limited either. Some of those proofs are as follows: 1. Narrations declaring that the time of the Appearance is subject to change2. That the time of the Appearance would arrive abruptly3. That to determine the time accompanies corruptionIn accordance to the narrations, one has to think that the time of the Appearance is not far from him and one has to be prepared for this great event physically and spiritually. Those who want to spread the culture of Madiism and awaiting should focalize their effort on the subject of awaiting, try to enliven the attractive feeling of awaiting, remind people about the traits that one who waits should possess, and avoid discussing about baseless or sometimes aberrant issues.