When our Qa’im rises up...

When our Qa’im rises up, he will bring out the other twenty five letters, spreading and extending them among the people. He will also attach the two letters and a total of twenty seven letters will be distributed among the people.”[^1] As reported by Rawandi in Khara’ij , the word “ juz’an ” is the substitute of “ sirfan ” (merely).

It can be deduced from this hadith that although mankind progresses in terms of knowledge and learning, in the period of Hadrat al-Mahdi ( ‘atfs ) it will suddenly attain growth and expansion thirteen times more. When we think about it we will realize how stupendous and stunning this progress of knowledge during the period of the Imam ( ‘atfs ) will be.

Imam al-Baqir ( ‘a ) said: “There is much awareness of the Book of God, the Honorable and Glorious, and the Sunnah of the Noble Prophet (S) in the heart of our Mahdi such that a plant will grow with the best quality.

Anyone of you who remains alive during his advent and visits him, at the moment of meeting him should say: ‘May peace be upon you, O progeny of mercy and prophethood and the repository of knowledge and the station of messengership!’”[^2] The same Imam ( ‘a ) also said: “This affair (the global governance of Islam) will be at the hand of him whose age (at the age of Imamate) is the youngest among us and his memory is the most pleasing among us.

God will bestow knowledge and learning on him and will never leave him to himself.”[^3] The same Imam ( ‘a ) also said elsewhere: “The Imam who possesses the Qur’an, knowledge and weapon is from us.”[^4] This hadith gives the secret behind the progress and perfection of humanity; the leader who can lead society toward felicity and perfection is he who possesses three things: (1) the divine law that guides mankind toward perfection, (2) knowledge that will be utilized for the comfort of human life, and (3) power and a weapon that will remove the corrupt and hindrances in the way of human perfection.

Hadrat Wali al-‘Asr ( ‘atfs ) is equipped with these things; therefore, he will rule over the world and apart from leading mankind toward progress in science and technology, he will also draw them toward moral and human perfection.