Imam Mahdi – Islamic Research and Information Center (IRIC) https://iric.org Mon, 11 Sep 2023 12:01:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.14 https://iric.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/iric-favicon.png Imam Mahdi – Islamic Research and Information Center (IRIC) https://iric.org 32 32 Golden Words about Awaiting https://iric.org/product/golden-words-about-awaiting/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=golden-words-about-awaiting https://iric.org/product/golden-words-about-awaiting/#respond Mon, 11 Sep 2023 11:12:15 +0000 https://iric.org/?post_type=product&p=29019 Imam Mahdi (a.t.f.s), will reappear by God's will one day. Waiting and preparing for his arrival is one of our main duties in this time. This collection of narrations explores the importance of patiently awaiting the promised savior, emphasizing the need to hold firm to one's faith and not despair, as salvation lies in believing in the Imam's advent and supplicating for his speedy return.]]> ⚜️ Awaiting the Advent ⚜️

The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family) has said:

“Awaiting the relief with patience is (a form of) worship.”

📚 Bihar al-Anwar, Vol. 52, p. 145

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللٌّهِ (صلی الله علیه و آله): اِنْتِظَارُ الْفَرَجِ بِالصَّبْرِ عِبَادَةٌ.

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This humble sentence reflects a magnificent idea, which was established by the Prophet of Islam as an essential part of the Muslim belief and diligently promoted afterwards by the 12 infallible Imams of the Shia school of thought. This is why the idea of the coming of a savoir and a better world has lived through history in various Muslim societies, particularly in the Shia traditions. But how does this revered figure accomplish his holy mission? Does he rely on fighting and bloodshed, or does he employ logic and reasoning?

Drawing from authentic Islamic narrations and prophecies across different faiths, this work reveals that the Promised Savior is a compassionate guide who leads humanity towards peace, justice, and tranquility.

This book is based on Dr. Mahdiye Pakravan’s extensive study, originally published  under the title “The Way of the Promised Savior: World War or Global Peace?”

This enlightening book will challenge your preconceptions and inspire you to contemplate humanity’s ultimate destiny – a world filled with justice, harmony, and everlasting tranquility.

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How does Imam Mahdi, the Promised Savior according to the authentic Islamic narrations, achieve this holy mission? Through fighting and bloodshed, or logic and reasoning?

The advent of “Imam Mahdi” (the guided one) is an Islamic concept affiliated with the optimistic vision for the promised society of peace and justice as the certain future for mankind.

This research work is an attempt to meticulously examine this mission and provide answers to the above-mentioned questions.

Dr. Mahdiye Pakravan’s book, presents a few principles with which one can methodologically distinguish the right narration and interpretation from the distorted one, to find a clearer image of “the Just Savior” that Islam introduces for uniting the whole humanity.

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Through tears and prayers, Berak Hussain expresses her longing for the reappearance of Imam Mahdi in ‘Awaiting the Awaited One.’ Her words capture the heartache and hope of those who wait for the arrival of our beloved savior.

 

 

Awaiting the Awaited One

Words begin to fail me this time

As I begin to write from this heart of mine

 

They did not come so easily

And my hands shook readily

From the shame and fear

That I do not know my Imam and my eyes tear

 

My eyes tear that I do not know him

As serving him does not mean I beat my chest for Hussain in vain

While I wait for his reappearance

from his lengthy disappearance

 

What does it mean to

Await the Awaited One..?

 

The Promised one

The Savior of Humanity old and young

The one who Prophet Jesus will pray behind him with a true tongue

 

The one whose mother was a Roman Princess

Held captive becoming a free slave in an instant

Born in secrecy even his birth was awaited

In suspense, fear, and desire despite the hated

 

Imam at 5, a child prodigy

From Muhammad’s Progeny

Is his name Muhammad Al Mahdi

The Guiding One

 

The One who Guides the hearts lost

In this world’s temptations, we get so lost

 

Forgetting our past, history, and cause

Do we not stop and pause?

 

To think, to meditate, and contemplate

What it means to be a virtuous human of weight

 

To love our brothers and sisters in humanity

As our Amir Ali  and Amira Fatima taught us in his service to humanity

 
Ya Mahdi

 

He is the living Imam Ali of our time

He is the living Imam Hassan of our time

He is the living Imam Hussain of our time

Labbayk Ya Hussain We Cry

And say we wish we were with you that day and time

 

Yet why do we not give him of our time

To get rid of our soul’s grime

As he is THE Imam of our time

 

72 years gone the first time

and comes and goes he does from time to time

 

Appearing and offering prayers In Jamkaran and Karbala

In our visions, dreams, and between worlds

In the direction of the blessed and holy Ka3ba

Will we ever see him other than in these words

 

In the Name of our Beloveds

How are we preparing for him and his lovers

A promised legion of three thirteen

Of old and young wearing the green

Of Ale Bayt Yaseen

From the eleven

We have been promised the heavens

Do we deserve this salvation…

From the day of redemption…?

 

What does it mean to celebrate this day

The 15th of Sha’ban night and day

Lighting the candles and

Writing the A’reetha

Of promises and desires

Wanting peace and Sakina

the luminous full moon

Filling the night’s skies

And filling our open hearts

Dropping notes in the rivers and oceans

Hoping and wishing for our motions

To be conjured from our Master’s hands

 

I ask you…are you ready…?

He is waiting for us… we are not waiting for him…

This world has lost its path

As day by day, we are full of wrath

Not loving not caring for our brother’s lives

Disunity and hatred turning on each other’s backs

Your lovers attacked for loving you

Makes the heart sick with this lack of empath

 

To the Beloved we turn as the guides on the right path

As hell burns all around us we turn to the light

The Salvation so Bright

To understand that this life is truly seconds in sight

So how do you choose to live it…?

Ignorance of its plight?

 

Or turn to the lighted guiding one

With a pure heart of one

To understand what it means to celebrate this one

And understand that we are indeed all one

 

All on the same humane path to be won

Hand in hand we stand

With a hand on our head in honour of the living awaited one we pray and say:

 

O Allah, bless Muhammad and the family of Muhammad.

O Allah, be, for Your representative, the Hujjat (proof),

Son of Al-Hasan, Your blessings be on him and his forefathers,

in this hour and in every hour, a guardian, a protector, a leader,

a helper, a proof, and an eye. until You make him live on the earth,

in obedience (to You), and cause him to live in it for a long time.

Mowlid May 9, 2016/7

]]> https://iric.org/product/awaiting-the-awaited-one/feed/ 0 Who is the Hidden Imam? https://iric.org/product/who-is-the-hidden-imam/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=who-is-the-hidden-imam https://iric.org/product/who-is-the-hidden-imam/#respond Mon, 29 May 2023 09:09:08 +0000 https://demo.iric.org/?post_type=product&p=20102 The belief in the advent of a Savior is a common belief amongst the Abrahamic religions. According to all Muslims, including Shia and Sunni, this savior who is known as Al-Mahdi meaning the guided one, will re-appear with Prophet Jesus Christ Peace be upon Him to fulfill his duties of spreading justice and peace and abolishing oppression around the world.

Imam Mahdi, known as the Hidden Imam, is from the progeny of Prophet Muhammad Peace be upon Him. He is the twelfth Divine Leader chosen by Allah and has been blessed with knowledge, power, and immaculateness to guide mankind.

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قال الامام علی بن موسی الرضا علیه السلام⠀ «الاِمامُ … و الأُمُّ البَرَّﺓُ بِالوَلَدِ الصَّغیر……»

Al-Kafi, Volume 1, Page 198

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قال الامام علی بن موسی الرضا علیه السلام «الاِمامُ … الوالد الشفیق…» ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

Al-Kafi, Volume 1, Page 198

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قال الامام علی بن موسی الرضا علیه السلام: «الاِمامُ الأَنیسُ الرَّفیقُ …»

Al-Kafi, Volume 1, Page 198

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