Eyelashes (The Lifespan of Imam Mahdī (mgehr))

Ḥujjat al-Islām Ghera’ati:

Usually, when the length of the eyebrows and eyelashes reach a certain level, they stay constant and do not grow, even after decades.

While the hair and facial hair [hair and facial hair are 4 fingers apart], grow and change.

Although both feed on skin, meat, blood, food and oxygen,

Well, God has set a limitation for one type and the other type compliant.

The same is with Imam Mahdī (mgehr)’s life span.

(For example, you read) that prophet Noah (pbuh) was aged more than 1000 years!

[Or] Aṣḥāb al Kahf1slept for 300 years!

Prophet ʿUzayr (pbuh)2’s food remained safe after 100 years!

[Also] prophets Al-khidr3 and Jesus (pbu th) are older than Imam Mahdī (mgehr)…

However some scientists have said, “Death needs a cause, but life does not”.

So, every individual can have a significant life span, with respect to principles.

So, Imam Mahdī (mgehr)’s long life span is not anything strange or unbelievable.

 

1- The expression means,” People of the Cave”. They were few young believers from Ephesus [a Greek city] lived in a time when they were tortured for their beliefs. Upon the guidance of God, they fled the city, where believers were persecuted, together with their dog (Arabic: كَـلـب‎, dog), and took refuge in a cave where they fell asleep. When they woke they found themselves that the people of the city had become believers.

2- According to Ibn Kathir, ʿUzayr (pbuh) lived between the times of Prophet Solomon (pbuh) and the time of Prophet Zachariah (pbuh), father of John the Baptist. Qur’anic commentators viewed ʿUzayr as a learned scholar who sought to teach the people the forgotten laws of God. He is identified as the protagonist in the Qur’anic story of the man who slept for a hundred years.

3- It is a name ascribed to a figure in the Qur’an, as a righteous servant of God possessing great wisdom or mystic knowledge. In various Islamic and non-Islamic traditions, Khidr is described as a messenger, prophet, Wali, slave and angel, who guards the sea, teaches secret knowledge and aids those in distress.

 

Mahdīsm allegories, P. 98

Collection date

26.06.2016