IMAM ZAMAN (A.S.) AND SHAIKH-E-MUFEED (R.A.) If we turn the pages of history we will find numerous examples of personalities who have enlivened Islam through their sacrifices of life and wealth. One such personality is Abu Abdullah Muhammad Haaris Akbari famous as...
It is the most well known title of the Imam among all Muslim sects.2 Shaykh Toosi has narrated in his Ghaibat3 that Abu Saeed Khorasani asked Imam Ja’far Sadiq (a.s.) why the Imam is named as Mahdi. He replied: Because he will guide to every...
A few traditions clearly talk about Imam (a.s.) being ‘bounded’ while in occultation. In some other instances, based on the discourses of the Infallibles (a.s.), it is indicated that Imam (a.s.) is ‘bounded’ as Imam Muhammad Baqir (a.s.) says: The Master of Affairs will have...
Given Imam’s (a.s.) heartache, which is expressed in the letter to Shaikh Mufeed (r.a.), it is evident that the ways to reach Imam Mahdi (a.t.f.s.) in the major occultation were not been put into practice and continues to be the same till date. As a...
On Friday, at sunrise, on the fifteenth day of the month of Sha’ban of the year 255 A.H, which coincided with the Christian calendar as July 29th of the year 869, the Last Promise of God Almighty, came in this world. Janabe Hakimah Khatoon [aunt of Imam...
