Why haven’t other infallible Imams been occulted?
The reason why [Other infallible Imāms haven’t been occulted] was that, the religion programs hadn’t been fully implemented yet. While Qurʾān just presents the principles and laws of religion, its total realization needs to be specified. To specify the religion, we have 65 thousand narrations available; from the time of Imam ʿAlī (pbuh) to Imām Askarī (pbuh).
Types of Looking Forward to the Emergence
There are two types of the emergence:
1- Precipitous 2- Developing
- The followers believe, in order for Imam Mahdi to emerge, the world needs to be full of cruelty.
- The followers believe that, the emergence develops gradually (like a fruit which gets ripe gradually).
Martyr Motahhari believed that, nature of the emergence is developing.
The narrations which express that Imām Zamān (mgehr) will emerge, when the world is full of cruelty and tyranny, mean that we ought to know the worth of our Imām (mgehr). Otherwise, the Major Occultation Era will be long and cruelty will fill the world too.
The worth of the faith in God, in the Major Occultation Era
Jābir Juˈfi narrated from Imām Muḥammad Baqīr (pbuh), that he stated:
Lucky the ones who in the Major Occultation Era, will be firm believers in us!
God calls them like this, ‘You are my true servants…! I send rain for all of my servants, and save them from calamity because of you. If not, I would make them to be doomed (Kamāl al- Dīn wa Tamām al- Niˈmah, volume 1, page 309)
Our most important task
Our most important task is considering the Imam in all dimensions of our lives. Whoever agrees with the present atmosphere [the degeneration of the societies in the world], suffers the greatest calamity! Also, a society which doesn’t aim at perfection and prosperity, has already died!!
Maˈref classes, by Prof. Baqīry
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