Study and Analysis of the Mahdavi Worldwide Government in the Era of Return

According to rational and narrative arguments, the earth will never be empty of the infallible Divine authority. The infallible authorities of God after the Holy Prophet of Islam (Peace be upon him and his Household) are the twelve Imams of the Household the first of whom is Imam Ali (A.S) and their last one is Imam Mahdi (A.S). this article, with a descriptive-analytic method, answers the following question: who are the rulers of the earth from the era of Return until the Day of Judgment. After his appearance, Imam Mahdi (A.S) will establish the worldwide government of justice and after him, the other Imams will return to this world and lead the human society and the Mahdavi worldwide government until the Day of judgment one after the other. On the other hand, a number of traditions have talked about the Mahdavi rulers who will be in charge of the affairs of the Mahdavi government in the Return Era. Different views have been expressed about these two categories of traditions. The preferred view is that imamate and leadership of the mentioned rulers is of deputyship kind and the imamate of the infallible Imams at the Return Era is “original”.