Imām Zamān (mGehr)’s duties while he is unknown are of two types, based on Sayyid Muḥammad Ṣadr:
1- Protecting his Shiites and friends and observing their social relations with other people. Also he observes them, since they are supposed to teach Islamic taught as good as possible, and implement Islamic laws.
Regarding the issue, Ahl al Bayt1 (pbu th) presented some reasons for The Occultation:
1- Protecting the Imām (mGehr)’s life from the enemies’ dangers/ detriments.
[In this relation,] Zurārah2 narrated from Imām Ṣādiq (pbuh):
إِنً لِلْقَائِمَ غَیْبَۀِ قَبْلُ ظُهُورِهَ قُلْتَ وَ لِمُ قَالَ یَخَافوِ أَوْمَىبِیَدِهِ إِلَىَ بَطْنِهُ قَالزُرَارَۀَ یَعْنِیاَلْقَتْل
Indeed, the Qā’im will be absent before his appearance.
وَ لَئِنْ أَخَّرْنا عَنْهُمُ الْعَذابَ إِلى أُمَّةٍ مَعْدُودَةٍ لَیَقُولُنَّ ما یَحْبِسُهُ أَلا یَوْمَ یَأْتِیهِمْ لَیْسَ مَصْرُوفاً عَنْهُمْ وَ حاقَ بِهِمْ ما كانُوا بِهِ یَسْتَهْزِؤُنَ
And if We defer their punishment until a certain time, they will surely say, ‘What holds it back?’ Look! On the day it overtakes them it shall not be turned away from them, and they will be besieged by what they used to deride.
[Once] a servant of God [people] who lived in Yazd, had a hard problem. Meanwhile, he had the honor of visiting His Excellency Sāhib al Zamān (mGehr), but he couldn’t recognize the Imām!! Anyhow, the Excellency stated:
Recite Sūrah Yāsīn. Then, as you see the word “Mubin مبین” which is repeated 6 times in [the Surah], ask God for your needs. Do the same at the end of the Surah. May God answer your prayers [and fulfil them].
According to the divine principles in the True religions, God helps to whoever He wants [deserves].1 However, as His will is of His wisdom, there are some disciplines and conditions to receive the specific helps. The most important of them, are as:
1- Faith
being faithful to the religion [God], is more difficult than holding a fire in the palm of your hand, unless you leave the religion and get rid of the fire! Just this! But if you keep on holding it, you will have to get fired.
Those who fear Allah, are the ones who believe in the Unseen, are the steadfast in prayer, and spend out of what We have provided for them.
When our Qā’im (mgehr) rise, God will gather a crowd of our Shiites from their graves, who hold their sword hilts.
[And] when our living Shiites learn the news,they will give tidings that, ‘Such, such and such people have been gathered from their graves.’
They will say: “Our Lord! Twice hast Thou made us without life, and twice hast Thou given us Life! [Al-Ghafir/ 11]
In the interpretation of the verse, ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm narrated from Imam Ṣādiq (pbuh) “This verse is about Rajʿa1.”
Prophet Muḥammad (pbuh&h) stated:
“I am leaving you two trusts: Qur`an and Ahl al Bayt 1(pbu th). They never separate from each other.”
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