Historical pathology of waiting from the point of view of Ayatollah Khamenei

Although the culture of awaiting has a great impact on the human society, specially Muslim people, its Involved with some difficulties which need to be studied like any cultural phenomenon. On the other hand, in order to comprehend Ayatollah Khameneis theory concerning the awaiting, we need to achieve a comprehensive explanation of it from his point of view including side effects and difficulties. On this way the importance of historical background of awaiting and Mahdawiah according to Ayatollah Khameneis aspect gives more importance to historical researches of this phenomenon and its historical challenges. A glimpse of his speeches on this issues performs that he pays a great attention to these studies and insists on avoiding any side effect of awaiting culture. Superstitious and non-scientific issues, false claims about seeing or being Mahdi (peace be upon him) or being his deputy are some of the issues which are considered to be the most troublesome historical challenges on this regard. They have many examples in Islamic history. Ayatollah Khamenei has insisted on noticing them and preventing appearance or getting stuck in these challenges. In this article we want to probe historical side effects of awaiting and explain clearly what is Ayatollah Khameneis viewpoint concerning this issue through a research into his speeches.