پژوهشنامه موعود
پیاپی 1 (بهار و تابستان 1398)

The following article explores and analyzes the spread of Islam in the global society at the time of Imam of the Time (A.S) and the rejection of other religions, such as Christianity, Judaism, and Zoroastrianism. To prove this claim, various reasons mentioned in the verses and traditions have been resorted to; for example, the Qur’an emphasizes the revelation of Jesus Christ and the conversion of all people of the book, as well as the apparent and logical predominance of Islam over other religions, and the submission of other religions to the true religion of Islam. The infallible Imams (A.S) have also proven this issue in various traditions and have promised the unity of religion and belief in Imam Mahdi (A.S)’s global government by rejecting division in the religions. In addition to several verses and traditions, which justify the spread of Islam at the end of history, there are other reasons such as the intellectual and epistemic growth of people at the Appearance era, the special mission of Imam of the Time (A.S) in dealing with the opposition and the expiration of the rules of tribute and prevarication at the time of Appearance; all of them suggest the unity of religions and beliefs during the period of Imam Mahdi’s Appearance.

At the end of verse 158 of Surah al-An’aam, it has announced the coming of a day in the last Ummah (nation) in the future in which some of the Divine revelations will be revealed on that day, and those who did not have faith or righteous deeds before that day, their acceptance of a creed will be of no use in that they. There are three premises about this section of the verse: the famous words of the two sects mention it is about the “Ashrat al-Saa’at” (signs of the hour (for resurrection)); some relate it to the “worldly torment” and some of the Shiite interpreters relate it to the appearance of Imam Mahdi (A.S). The main question of this research is that how this part of the verse is relation to the “rise of Imam Mahdi (A.S) and is justified and analyzed. Mokhtar’s theory is a combination of all three sayings; in the Apocalypse, at the time of rise of Imam Mahdi (A.S), some of the Divine verses which are interpreted as “Ashrat Al-Saa’at” become apparent and according to Divine’s Sunnah, a worldly judgment occurs amongst the Ummah (nation) which will be accompanied with the downfall of the Divine retribution for the destruction of the oppressors and succession of the righteous with the centrality of the God’s Caliph. The present paper is organized on the descriptive-analytic method.

The occurrence of the Islamic Revolution of Iran is of paramount importance, but the question is what “the grand ideal” of this revolution is, and what the requirements for the maintenance and continuation of Islamic Revolution are to pursue its noble goals. This research, by focusing on the ideas of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, with a descriptive-analytic method, has come to the conclusion that firstly, Mahdism and the appearance of Imam of the Time (A.S) is the final goal of the Islamic revolution; secondly, in order to pave the ground for this sacred goal and attain it, we must adhere to some cultural necessities, such as constant attention to the ideal of Mahdism, cultural jihad to pave the ground for appearance, centrality of awaiting in life-style, justice spread at all levels, upbringing of righteous awaiting human beings.

The “doctrine of Mahdism” is one of the fundamental and basic discussions in Islam from which deep humane and Islamic acts can be derived. With the realization of the Islamic Revolution which is based on the Shiite school, there is this question that what the role and position of the fundamental doctrine of Mahdism is in the Islamic Republic’s foreign policy. The foreign policy in Islamic Republic of Iran has rules that have benefitted from the pure Islamic principles specially the Mahdism Doctrine considering the international laws. In this descriptive-analytic article, the roles of Mahdism doctrine will be explained in foreign and international policy such as the rejection of hegemony and domination and the defense of the weak and the like with regard to its intellectual principles, i.e. the Qur'anic verses, the thought of its leader and the constitution.

Being more acquainted with the efforts and goals of Western scholars active in the field of Mahdism is one of the major necessities of the modern era after the victory of the Islamic Revolution. One of the necessities of realizing this goal is to study the changes of Shiite studies, specifically the study of the Mahdism in the four periods of Shi'ism, focusing on the evolution of these studies in the historical turning point of 1979. In this research, by an extensive search on the works of the Orientalists in order to find Mahdavi studies, analyze the views and adapt the viewpoints to the events, it has been attempted to improve the quality of the information obtained. The product of this research is to familiarize with some of the extensive amount of Mahdavi studies of Western Orientalists and to examine some of their most important views. Considering the strengthening of Mahdavi's studies in the post-Islamic Revolution period, especially after the events of 9/11, given the special status and flagship of some anti-Islamic groups, such as Zionism in these studies, the widespread and well-organized entry of religious and academic institutions into the realm of Western Mahdi-researchers is necessary.

The “health prayer” for Imam of the Time (A.S) is a brief and useful prayer that strengthens the spiritual connection with the Imam of the Time. Some of the so-called intellectuals have attempted to call it invalid by defecting the documentation of the prayer. According to the credible sources that have quoted this prayer, one can move towards accepting part of the prayer. This article examines the process the prayer content has gone through in the sources by examining the sources of the “health prayer” and their transmission quality. Below each source of the prayer document is reviewed and the characteristics of that source are mentioned. Reasoning how to suspend the prayer document and review all sources is an advantage this paper has and distinguishes it from other similar works.