A Concept-Based Exploration on the Awaiting-Messiah Lifestyle

The most efficient and offerable idea in Islamic lifestyle which is practical, is a way of Islamic life that is formed around the axis of waiting for the promised Mahdi which is referred to as “awaiting-Messiah lifestyle”, but to prove it, before anything, we need to clarify its concept. The present paper with a descriptive-analytic method to investigate the nature of awaiting-messiah lifestyle is based on the aim to recognize the position of this type of lifestyle in paving the way for the appearance (of messiah) and believes the most important factor in the awaiting lifestyle is its “Jihadi nature”. Thus, in order to achieve this purpose, we investigate the concepts related to it such as style, life, lifestyle, awaiting and finally Jihad with a library method.