Intellectual Criteria:Philosophical, Dialectical, Rational And Traditions of Mahdism

The following article is supposed to be an introduction to the method of some research on the basis of intellectual approaches that our Imams followed to explain the subject of Imamate and the fact of Mahdism. We hope that this discussion will continue in our other articles of the future.In our books of narrations, there have been presented many important intellectual (dialectical and philosophical) reasons, criteria or methods in order to clarify and prove the fact of Imamate and Mahdism. Including such sources is the book Usul-e-Kafi (Kafi’s Principles) that can be introduced as one of the most important books on Narrations or Hadiths. Our immaculate Imams would always use such criteria and apply those appropriate logical methods to confirm the facts about Imamate and Mahdism in the most acceptable way possible. In the next editions of our articles, we shall, God willing, deal with those proofs and reasons as far as possible to provide the readers with our best explanations.