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Imam Mahdi an Imam for all Times (1) - Al-Shia The Scientific and Cultural Website of Shia belief Imam Mahdi an Imam for all Times (1) 2023-03-10 453 Views Imam Al-Mahdi , The Twelfth Imam Imam Mahdi (May Allah hasten his reappearance) based on the Shia belief is the twelfth Imam of the Muslim nations (as prophesized by the Messenger of Allah). This present article, which was a discussion between two scholars aims to establish the existence and necessity of the Imam. Dr.

Fahimi: I don’t know why you Shi’a insist that you should prove the existence of the Imam. You are so unrelenting in your belief that if the Imam does not exist physically, you say he is in concealment. Since the Prophets have already delivered the injunctions from God, why would there be a need for the existence of an Imam? Mr.

Hoshyar: All those proofs that are advanced to prove the necessity of the general prophethood and require God to communicate His injunctions to humankind, also necessitate that an Imam should exist as proof for the existence of those injunctions and their protection. In order to elaborate on what we have said, it is necessary, however briefly, to present first the proofs that require the existence of the general prophethood and then proceed to prove the existence of the Imam.

If you keep in mind the preliminaries that have been already established and which we will briefly touch upon here, the matter concerning the necessity of the general prophethood will become clear to you. (1) A human being has been created in such a way that he cannot run his affairs on his own. He needs the assistance and cooperation of others. In other words, he is created civil and social by nature. Hence, he must act within a society.

It is obvious that self-interest and survival are the cause of conflict in social life. Each person in society is engaged in exerting all his endeavours to benefit from limited material resources. In reaching this goal he has to overcome numerous obstacles and compete with other individuals who are equally engaged in attaining the same goal. Under those circumstances, individuals become obstacles to each other’s goals and, hence, end up stepping upon each other’s rights.

It is at this point that law is needed to regulate social relations so that people’s rights should be protected from being infringed upon, and conflicts should be resolved without creating chaos and lawlessness.