Evaluation of Zaidi's sectarian doubts about promised Mehdi according to Sheikh Sadukh

It is believed that the recent era has revived the flourishing of Mahdi's belief among the Zaidis, especially the Zaidan of Yemen. This reveals the need to address the teachings of Mahdiism and to answer the doubts of the followers of Zaidi in the early centuries of Islam. Although a small number of Zaidians resemble to Imamieh about Mahdi's thoughts, the essential element of their beliefs, is faulty: a superficial form of the precept of ‘inviting to the good’ and ‘discouraging from the bad acts’ which only means a jihad with the sword. Hence, this sect does not have much faith in personal Mahdism, and in particular the "absence of Imam", and they consider the essence of Mahdism in the welfare and social justice supported by religion, and because of the tendency towards the thought of ‘Etezalieh’. There are also narratives against this superficial conceptualization which they do not pay much attention to it. The Mahdism in this group has suffered many deficiencies throughout history, which has caused the complexity and ambiguity of this doctrine.
The main question that this study tries to address is that: What are the main doubts that Zaidieh has had on the teachings of Mahdism and how can belief in this Shiite principle be defended against the misunderstandings? There are doubts such as the possibility of inaccuracy and fictitiousness of narratives about the twelve Imams, the impossibility of recognizing the Imam Mahdi and as a result, in his absence, the lack of justifiable reason in the absence of the Imams in the presence of the blessed features in the twelfth Imam, and the absence of an explicit evidence in holy texts about the imamate of Mahdi. In spite of its rational necessity for Imam, we try to address these doubts – that promote the abandonment of belief in savior and hidden Imam - according to Sheikh Sadoogh's intellectual and transcendental views.