Analysis of the Efficiency of Waiting in Goodly Life

The goodly life is a life special to the believers which is a higher rank of general life of humans and is adorned with a certain degrees of the attributes such as science, power, and conscious will; a life which is created by the spirit of faith, the will to obey the God and doing good deeds. The most important indicator of enjoying the goodly life is having hope for the future, assisting in the way of high divine goals, and holy struggle with oneself. The waiting era is the Imam Mahdi (A.S)’s occultation period that the Shi’ias hopping for the Mahdavi rule of justice try to prepare the conditions of establishing a goodly life and Mahdavi utopia. The important feature of this period, is testing people’s faith which is manifested in the projection and the creation of suspicion, and disappointment with the divine relief and solution, and all forms of hardship and disaster. This article with a descriptive-analytic approach tries to explain that the culture of waiting can play a role in realizing the goodly life by encouraging and giving hope to the believers, creating a spirit of obedience to the Divine commandments, creating the spirit of perseverance and patience, and inviting to the jihad with oneself and attaining the moral values.