Prophet Lut (pbuh)’s beautiful wish
Imam Sadiq (pbuh) stated:
“When Prophet Lut (pbuh) stated to his nation,
…’Would that I had power to suppress you or that I could betake myself to some powerful support.’
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Imamate Must Be Understood…
Since, the “comprehension of the majority” lies with the wisdom and “comprehension of the minority” is in the field of five senses, naturally wisdom is not used to prove minor affairs.
For example, wisdom can only rule that the sum of the angles in a triangle is 180 degrees. Or that each effect requires a cause.
The strange view of some Sunnis about the names of the twelve caliphs [Shiites’ twelve Imams (pbu th)]
They say [the twelve caliphs] are as follows: Abubakr, Umar, Uthmān, Imam Ali (pbuh), Yazid, Mu’āwiyah bin Yazid, Marwān ibn Hakam, Abd-ol-Malik ibn Marwān, Walid ibn Abd-ol-Malik, Solaymān ibn Abd-ol-Malik and Umar ibn Abd-ol-Aziz. (‘Awn al-Ma’bud, V.11, P.361)
But there is a question as:
Did Yazīd who martyred the Prophet’s very dear grandson [Imam Ḥusayn (pbuh)],
Where should we start?
For researching and reasoning in the principle of Imāmate, we must first know God and His Prophet [Muhammad (Pbuh&h)]
As they are the prerequisites for the discussion of Imamate.
Therefore, the texts which are loaded with the subject of “rational proofs of Imamate and [Shiite] Messianic”,
Are following: Monotheism, resurrection, prophecy, and divine justice). It means, one is expected to have researched, understood and accepted these truths, in advance
Time of the Emergence [of Imam Mahdi (hgr)] in Qur’an
[Regarding the Emergence] Mufazzal1 said:
[Once] I asked my lord; Imam Sadiq (pbuh),
‘Does the Awaited Imam; Mahdi (hgr)’s mission have certain time, and should people know that?”
The Imam (pbuh) stated, “Never does God determine his emergence time such that our Shiites know that!
Blocking the path of repentance
️… يَوْمَ يَأْتِي بَعْضُ آيَاتِ رَبِّكَ لَا يَنْفَعُ نَفْسًا إِيمَانُهَا لَمْ تَكُنْ آمَنَتْ مِنْ قَبْلُ أَوْ كَسَبَتْ فِي إِيمَانِهَا خَيْرًا قُلِ انْتَظِرُوا إِنَّا مُنْتَظِرُونَ [انعام/۱۵۸]
..the day that certain of the signs of thy Lord do come, no good will it do to a soul to believe in them then if it believed not before nor earned righteousness through its faith. Say: “Wait ye: we too are waiting.” (The holy Quran, Surah AL-ANAAM, Verse 158)
Hope
When you have not reached to an automatic door, you will find it closed.
But just as you get close to it, it will open.
It makes no different who you are, or where you are from!
Characteristics of Imam Mahdi (hgr) `s companions in Qur’an
O ye who believe! if any from among you turn back from his Faith, soon will Allah produce a people whom He will love as they will love Him,- lowly with the believers, mighty against the rejecters, fighting in the way of Allah, and never afraid of the reproaches of such as find fault…(The holy Qur’an, Surah AL-MAEDA, Verse 54)[almost is the same in surah AL-ANAAM, verse 89]
“Deviation in Mahdism”
They knew you will come but they were lost your address!
Keysaniye believed in Imam being of “Muhammad Ibn Hanafiyah”.
After his dead some denied it and said: “He is alive but absent, he is hidden in Rizwa mount until the day when he will be commanded and emerge.”
Actually they respect him the Imam who was waiting for him!
If you ever visit Imam Askari (pbuh)’s successor
Hemyari said: Uthman Ibn Sa’eed (the first deputy of Imam al-Mahdi (hgr)) and I were near Ahmad Ibn Isḥāq.
Ahmad Ibn Isḥāq insinuate to me to ask Uthman Ibn Sa’eed about the successor of Imam Askari (pbuh).