Abraham again became disappointed and said that he could not...

Abraham again became disappointed and said that he could not love what does not stay. Then in the day when the sun shone brightly, Abraham said; “This is god.” (6:78) But in the evening the sun too disappeared. Here Abraham shouted; “The sun is not god. I worship the God who never disappears.” Yes, incidents can lead to facts. But the truth of a belief is never the effect of a cause and nor is it a second grade fact.

If we persist in our denial under some pretext or the other, the philosophy of true religions and their schools shall confront us. As time lapsed people became more ardent towards Ali and his offspring, and the Shia ideology penetrated deeper and deeper into the hearts; this we can say as a fact. But that the very ideology, the very religion, the Shi’ism, the occultation of Mahdi, all was a consequence of events or a product of age or a built up structure, is wrong to say and not correct.

It purports to say that evidence matters not. The Prophet (S) had more than once told about the twelve Imams. He had foretold their names individually. He had also prognosticated (predicted) the conditions that would prevail in that time of each one of the twelve Imams. He foretold all these details when at the time only three of the future Imams existed. All heard this and recorded it. Along the passage of time the Imams too ended at twelve as the Prophet had foretold.

As such there remains no margin of doubt nor room to surmise. No one can say that it was made-up. Anyone with some information of history and a scant knowledge of traditions and a fundamental knowledge of Islam will not believe what the writer has argued. For example, the Prophet (S) had predicted that Ammar would be martyred. In fact, Ammar was killed by Mawiyah. There are several such examples. Then, what is correct to do?

To lay aside such method of analysis and to search the tributes and particulars of Mahdi in traditions and the narration that have descended to us so as to find out whom these qualities correspond and specifications apply to. Destinations are pawned in the right roads. A journey is in the mortgage of a path. If the path is wrong the journey shall ever wander. [^1]: For the whole story, refer to Quran, 6:74- 83. Previous…