from the Prophet who said...

from the Prophet who said: ‘Even if there remains only one day on the earth, God will prolong it until He will bring forth a pious man from my progeny.’ And in some of these traditions it is reported that the Prophet also said: ‘His name is the same as my name and he will fill the earth with justice and equity as it was filled with oppression and tyranny.’ Also he reports a tradition from the Prophet who said: ‘The Mahdi is from my progeny, and from the descendants of Fatimah’.” B- Tafsir al-Mizan by Allama Tabataba’i As for the Zabur, several meanings are reported by Allama Tabataba’i[^7] from different commentators: Apparently, the Zabur is the Book which was revealed to the Prophet Dawud as mentioned in another part of the Qur’an: “ wa aatayna Dawud Zabura” .

Some commentators believe that this refers to the Qur’an. Some are convinced that it concerns all the Books in general that were revealed to the Prophets, or that were revealed to the Prophets after Moses. However, there is no apparent support for this view. For the word Dhikr, Tabataba’i reports that: Some believe it means the Tawrah because God used the word Dhikr in two other places of this same chapter, clearly referring to the Tawrah . Some say that it refers to the…