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The translator has had the privilege to encounter the writer on a number of occasions and hence relates what he has seen and experienced with his own eyes, not what he has heard or read. Ayatullah Sayyid Mahdi Shams al-Din (famous as Sayyid Shams) was born on 1958 in the holy city of Qom. At the age of 12 he started his theological studies in ...
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Muhammad ibn Hasan al-Mahdi (Arabic: محمد بن الحسن المهدي, romanized: Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Mahdī) is believed by the Twelver Shia to be the last of the Twelve Imams and the eschatological Mahdi, who will emerge in the end of time to establish peace and justice and redeem Islam. Hasan al-Askari, the eleventh Imam, died ...
people and uphold Religion (al-Din), and he will breathe the spirit back into Islam. He will reinvigorate Islam after its degradation and bring it back to life after its death. He 4III, pp. 327.10-340.12; the contents of the untranslated passages are summarized in the body of the translation (between square brackets) or indicated in footnotes.
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The twelfth Imam’s name is that of Prophet Muhammad. He is referred to by many titles, such as al-Hujjah (the proof), al-Qa’im (the one who rises), and Sahib al-Zaman (guardian of the age). However, the most famous of his titles is al-Mahdi (the guided one). [ii] Imam al-Mahdi is the savior whom Prophet Muhammad spoke of on numerous occasions.
Among the first Shi’ite compilers of traditions concerning the number of Imams, the twelfth Imam, his two occultations, his final Return and Rise, let us cite: Shaykh al-Kulayni, who died in 329 AH/940 AD, the same year as the beginning of the major Occultation, and who compiled his Usul min al-Kafi during the period of the minor Occultation; al-Nu’mani Ibn Abi Zaynab (d.circa 345 or 360 ...
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1- Ibn Athir, Nihayah, Vol. 1, P. 136 (similar to this) 2- And intend We to bestow (Our) favour upon those who were considered week in the land … and to make them Imams (guids in faith) and to make them the heirs. 3- The oppressed. 4- And indeed We did write in the Psalms after the Reminder (Tauraith given to Moses), that the earth, shall ...
