Ayatollah Safi Golpayegani's Perspective on the Doctrine of Intizar Faraj

The waiting for (reappearance of Imam Mahdi) is a revelatory doctrine with a narrative origin. The issue of the waiting is an inseparable part of the issue of Mahdiism and one of the main keywords for understanding the religion and the fundamental, general, and social movement towards the lofty goals of Shia. Intizar Faraj (The waiting for reappearance of Imam Mahdi), like a polygonal prism with many angles, is considered the most important factor of mobility and dynamism and hope for a bright future of the world. It can also be the healer of individual and social pains of humans today. However, the important issue is the perspectives about the waiting. What is the purpose of the waiting in the epistemological system of the Imamiyah, is the main topic of the present article, which is tried to be analyzed with the analytical method. The waiting as the basis of stagnation, backwardness and escaping from responsibility and submission to extravagance and oppression or the scholarly waiting, associated with hope, belief in God and monotheism, seeking justice, fighting against corruption and oppression, sacrifice, effort and struggle. From Ayatollah Safi's point of view, the concept of waiting for the dynamic intizar faraj is manifested in two views, which in its special meaning is completely related to the theme of reappearance.