AFTER THE RISE OF IMAM MAHDI (AJ), WHEN WILL HIS UNIVERSAL GOVERNMENT BE ESTABLISHED AND WILL POVERTY AND OPPRESSION CEASE TO EXIST AFTERWARDS?

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Belief in the return of Imam Mahdi (aj) and the incidents that will take place afterwards is considered one of the instances of belief in the unseen that can only be obtained and learned of through authentic hadiths. (See: Lotfollah Safi Golpaygani, Navide Amn va Aman (Emamat va Mahdaviyyat), vol. 3, pp. 28-42.) At the same time, since many hadiths have been subject to dissimulation by the Shia themselves, who feared for their or others’ lives, or have been altered and forged by their enemies, or have just simply been forgotten and wrongly narrated, or have been lost as a result of their not being recorded and takenRead More →

HOW LONG WILL THE IMAM OF TIME, IMAM MAHDI (AS), WILL THIS WORLD RULE AFTER HE REAPPEARS?

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There are two categories of narrations in this regard which are apparently varied giving differing reports:1. The first category of narrations has, for the major part, been extracted from Sunni sources. (What is available in Shia sources are cited from Sunni sources.) According to it, the period during which the Imam of Time, Imam Mahdi (AS), will rule the world has been reported differently. For instance, according to some reports, he will rule the world for twenty years while based on some other reports he will rule for thirty or forty years..A) Huzaifa narrates from the Holy Prophet (S) that he said: “Al Mahdi is a manRead More →