This is because men usually can endure problems and inequities more than women...

This is because men usually can endure problems and inequities more than women, and the fact that men would not be able to tolerate and endure the problems and adversities of that period only shows that these predicaments would be very immense and backbreaking. Abu Hamzah ath-Thumali narrated: Imam al-Baqir ( ‘a ) said: “O Abu Hamzah!

Hadrat Qa’im ( ‘atfs ) will not rise up unless at the time when fear and dread would intensify, calamities and seditions would prevail (over society) and affliction and misfortune would befall the people. In addition to this, diseases would reach epidemic proportions; an intense and fatal dispute would occur among the Arabs; intense discord among the people would become rampant; religious…