Demonstrating peacefulness of Imam Mahdi(as) uprising by Conquests narrations (A Study of Three Theories by the Method of integrating evidences and jurisprudential Holism)

There are three theories in the analysis of Imam Mahdi's uprising: Some scholars regard the Imam's movement with great bloodshed and war. Some also consider his uprising without any bloodshed. And finally some believe that the Imam uprising is basically peaceful with minimum bloodshed . This article seeks to prove the third theory that considers the Imam's uprising to be universal, peaceful and with the least bloodshed. This problem can be scrutinized in a variety of ways. In this research the problem will be proved by analyzing and examining the narrations of the Imam Mahdi conquests. In this method, after establishing the principle, the evidences of Mahdavi's peaceful uprising in the narratives of the Imam conquests has been examined and two opposing theories criticized. From the study of the narrations of the conquests, numerous evidences were found on the peacefulness of Imam Mahdi's uprising. These evidences are composed of: Frankly speaking of peacefulness, public acceptance of the Imam, conquering some cities without killing, surrendering some other cities without any war, restricting war or killing to small areas and a few individuals, conflicting with enemies in short time.