Analytical – Critical Review of Sheikh Ahmad al-Ehsá'í regarding the Realm of Zar (Mending World)

The Realm of Zar (Mending World) and the pre-creation of human is among the important theological topics that has gained the focus of the Islamic scholars with various views. Sheikh Ahmad al-Ehsá'í, the founder of Shaykhism, claimed enlightenment and an answer to resolve this topic. Analytical – critical review of his view has been done in this article using documentary and rational analysis. This research finds some of epistemological basis of the Sheikh as none-trustable according to the views of majority of Shi’a contemporary scholars. Sheikh’s claims have more of a personal taste to it, and has little or nothing of scientific or rational references, and they are un-authentic according to the narrations. Such claims entails invalid effects that the Sheikh, himself, does not correspond: 1. Pre-creation of souls entail invalid matters like: “union by species”, “lack of personification”, and “ineffectiveness of the faculties”. 2- Semi-material description of the Mending world entails invalid prerequisites such as: “guidance being conditioned to the Mending world”, “human’s action becoming predestined”, “promise of punishment & reward becomes pointless”, “preaching of the Prophets becomes pointless”, and “potentials turn to actualities”. Last point, Sheikh’s claims such as “era being hundred years”, “existence of Tarā’ib”, and “Messiah’s lack of return to the lion of Adam in the Mending world” lack any sort of base or narrative documentation