Add to this that the experience that is granted by the...

Add to this that the experience that is granted by the concomitants of those consecutive civilizations and the direct confrontation with all their movements and changes, has a great influence on the intellectual preparation and the deepening of experience of the Expected Leader, since it puts him face to face with the many various practices of others, with all they contain of weakness and strength, and the different aspects of their errors and accuracy.

And this enables him to classify the social symptoms with a complete awareness of their causes and their historical circumstances. Moreover the preserved operation of change, which is the task of the Expected Leader, is founded on a particular message, namely the message of Islam.

Therefore, it is natural that in this case, the required leadership should be more proximate with the original sources of Islam, that his personality be fully shaped in an independent way, free from the influence of that civilization which is subject to his struggle on the appointed day, unlike that individual who would have been…