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پیاپی 35 (زمستان 1399)

Mahdaviat has an important place in the pure culture of Islam. One of the main issues among Islamic thinkers is the relationship between Mahdism and Islamic civilization. In the meantime, analyzing the views of Imam Khomeini as the founder of the Islamic Revolution is very important. The problem of the present study is that what were Imam Khomeini’s opinions about the relationship between Mahdaviat and anticipation with Islamic civilization? Using a descriptive method and analyzing the statements of Imam Khomeini, this paper seeks to examine his views and thoughts in this regard. The research findings show that Imam Khomeini believed in a strong and firm connection between anticipation and Mahdaviat with Islamic civilization. Based on this approach, Imam Khomeini has taken measures in this field, which include: institutionalizing the concept of Mahdaviat in various dimensions of society; Elimination of misconceptions about this concept, especially in the socio-political dimension; The plan to form a government and establish a civilization in the shadow of this religious teaching; And explanation of the difference between Islamic civilization and Mahdaviat with Western civilization.

Among the apocalyptic news and narratives, there are numerous sayings about future events. Of course, all of them, due to their predictive nature, need in-depth studies to represent its correctness from inaccuracy. In the meantime, one of the phenomena mentioned in some narrations is the white death: "Al-Mutawalabiz", as one of the two many deaths along with great massacres, is in the end times and on the eve of the Day of Judgment. This white death has been applied to some of the many deaths in the past. And, of course, even today, with the outbreak of the global disease of coronation 19 / Corona, some have adapted the narrations of white death to this phenomenon. This research raises the question: to what extent are these narrations reliable and what do they imply? And is it basically possible to apply the coronary heart disease to these narratives? Based on the narrative analysis and also referring to some adaptations in the past, while proving the necessary invalidity of the narrations from the point of view of the document, he considered this adaptation unfounded and considered such works as a serious damage in the scope of the true teachings of Mahdism. Clear evidence that coronary heart disease belongs to the family of viruses, while some narrators have interpreted white death to be the plague, which is a family of bacteria.

In any revolution, the government and the socio-political system are a series of signs and symbols that express the goals, objectives, functions of that system. These signs, which are called symbols, play the role of identity-building and a beacon in any socio-political system, the lack of knowledge and awareness of which will lead to the deviation of various masses around that system. In the process of emergence, establishment, continuation and stabilization of the Mahdavi socio-political system, there are various signs and symbols, whose understanding and exploration of Islamic sources will lead the Islamic society towards an ideal society and not deviate. Using first-class studies, this article examines the symbols of Mahdavi political and social system in a descriptive-exploratory manner. Accurate understanding of the dimensions and types of Mahdavi symbols from the emergence to the establishment of the Mahdavi government, such as conceptual symbols, beginnings, places, tests, objects, numbers, flags, slogans and directions, will dispel the surprise of those waiting in the age of absence.

Nudbeh prayer is of special importance as one of the Mahdavi prayers. Citing this prayer to the Infallible Imam and examining its document is one of the issues that has been considered by researchers in the field of Mahdaviat. This research tries to prove the authenticity of this prayer through the library method in collecting documents and the descriptive-analytical method in processing materials.Two reliable documents were found for Nudbeh prayer and in citing  the prayer to Imam Sadegh(as) or Imam of the age , two probabilities were examined and according to other evidences and accepting validity of evidences proving the accuracy of the narrations , the citation of this prayer to the infallible Imam  was proved.

According to the narrations, before the appearance of Imam Mahdi (as), a man of the Abu Sufyan generation come and deceived a large group of Muslims and gathered them around him. There are different views among thinkers as to whether Sufyani is a certain human being or a symbol of a false current and movement. In the symbolic view, Sufyani does not have a human personality, while there are many evidences to indicate his personality. The possibilities of accepting the emergence of narrations in the real and non-symbolic meaning, the existence of various characteristics of personality in Sufyani and the conflict with the appearance of various narrations are among the reasons that prove the true and real meaning and personality of Sufyani. Symbolic Sufyani's view cannot be rejected due to the existence of a valid narration; but the definite value of Sufyani's narrations is that the meaning of Sufyani in the many narrations is the same Sufyani who will come in the end times with certain characteristics and is not more than one person.

The issue of identifying and distinguishing Imam Mahdi real referent from false pretenders has existed since the presence of the infallible Imams. Having the rules and criteria that have been narrated from the infallible Imams for the recognition of Imam Mahdi (aj)real referent, among the pretenders of Mahdaviat can bring us to Imam Mahdi(aj) faster. Before the advent, criteria such as "Imam Mahdi physical characteristics, his genealogy, Imam's special knowledge and, most importantly, miracles" were mentioned to distinguish Imam Mahdi (aj) and to identify his real  referent after the advent, criteria such as "the  advent of Jesus Christ with him,  being  the legacies of earlier  prophets and executors with him, the appearing  actual signs of the advent and ultimately the internationality of Islam" have been presented.  Analyzing and documenting these criteria is what has been done in this paper.