Tabatabai then reports from the Ma’ani a1-Akhbar a tradition...

Tabatabai then reports from the Ma’ani a1-Akhbar a tradition from Imam al-Sadiq (sixth Imam), who said that: “Who believe in the Unseen” means those who believe in the rising of al- Qa’im (the Mahdi) and consider it as the Truth.” The author comments that this explanation is given in other traditions also.

But Tabataba’i adds that in order to interpret the verse as concerning the Mahdi in this case implies transforming the general meaning of the verse to a specific one, the verse having a general meaning. C- Tafsir Makhzan al-‘Irfan by Banu Nusrat Amin Banu Amin (5) describes the word Ghayb in this verse as something that is not perceptible through our senses like the sense of hearing or the sense of sight.

She gives as examples, the existence of God, the Hereafter that we cannot perceive through our usual senses, or the Imam of the Time who is not visible and hidden from our sight; however, at the same time, she says that he is attentive to the situation of his Shi’ites.

She then explains the superiority of those who have faith and are living in the time of the great Occultation of the Mahdi, which is the most difficult period in which to preserve one’s faith: the Prophet in his greatness declared, concerning believers of this time, that he was impatient to meet them and considered them as his brothers. There are also traditions, Banu Amin argues, concerning the importance of those who believe during the period of the Occultation.

She adds that if we can find believers in this time (of the greater Occultation) who believe intelligently, i.e. after having carried out some research and not only by imitating their parents, we can say that they are even superior to believers at the very beginning of Islam who had an opportunity to be with the Prophet and to learn directly from him, and also there were fewer temptations for them of being lead astray from the truth compared to the temptations of our time.

NOTES: ______________________________________________________ 1. The Quran 2:3 2. Majma’ al-Bayan,Vol.1 p.60 3. Al-Mizan: Vol.1, p.68 4. The Quran 2:4 5. Tafsir Makhzan al-‘Irfan : Vol. 1, P.

91 ]]> https://en.al-shia.org/imam-mahdi-in-the-verse-3-of-quran-2/feed/ 0 Imam Mahdi in the Verse (24:55) 1 https://en.al-shia.org/imam-mahdi-verse-2455-1/ https://en.al-shia.org/imam-mahdi-verse-2455-1/#respond Tue, 11 Apr 2023 07:30:36 +0000 https://neweng.al-shia.org/?p=1719 Imam Mahdi (a.s) is the Shia twelfth Imam, which is prophesized to come at the end time.