Imam Mahdi’s Reappearance is the Start of Humankind’s Growth
Everyone - including the elites, those who can understand events, and the masses of people throughout the world in various countries who may be preoccupied with their daily life and unaware of developments – feel this need, either consciously or unconsciously. Of course, all religions have promised this. In all religions, there is a promise of relief and a great divine movement at the end of history, which is of course not the end of history. The real world and humanity's real life will start from when the Imam of the Time comes. So for the end of the situation that now exists in life, all religions have promised such a future.
Ayatollah Khamenei
April 9, 2020
When they reach the main road, they will not stop moving ahead. No, they will start their movement toward lofty, divine goals because human beings enjoy an inexhaustible capacity. Throughout these long centuries, humanity has moved along deviated paths, the wrong paths, and difficult paths, and it has faced various obstacles. With a pained, wounded, injured body it has moved along these paths in order to reach this main road. This main road is the road of the time of the Reappearance. It is the world that will be built after the Reappearance. In a sense, humanity’s movement will start from that point.
Ayatollah Khamenei
July 9, 2011
Imam Mahdi’s (aj) presence during the Occultation
Believing in the Imam of the Time [Imam Mahdi (aj)] helps people to not succumb [to evil] provided that they fully comprehend this belief. When this belief is truly placed in hearts, its presence is felt among the people. The sacred, beloved, Infallible Imam - the hub of the universe, the refuge of all creation - is present even though he is in occultation and has not reappeared. How is it possible to think he is not present? The devout believers feel his presence in their hearts and with all their emotions and senses. Those individuals who pray and supplicate God, read the Nodbeh Supplication with due attention and recite Ziyara Aal Yasin while understanding what they are reciting, they feel the presence of this great person, even if he has not yet reappeared. His absence does not affect this feeling that he is present. He has not reappeared, but he is present in the hearts and is among the people. How is it possible to believe he is not present? A true Shi’a is someone who feels the Imam’s presence and feels that he is before him. This gives vitality and enthusiasm to a person. This great nation needs this hope more than anything else. The nation, which fights on the path of God and for the sake of the greatness of Islam, has become an honor for all of human history and for all of the history of Islam. In our time, it has raised the flag of Islam. Such a nation needs this bright hope more than anything else. This belief brings this hope for them.
Ayatollah Khamenei
Jan. 07, 1996
One of the Most Important Goals of Imam Mahdi’s (aj) Government
One of the things that is required in the area of internal politics is social justice. A society will not be Islamic if social justice does not exist or if justice isn’t ensured in that society. If someone imagines that it is possible for us to practice divine religion – any real religion, not just Islam – in a place where social justice, in the correct and broad sense of the word, has not been established, he should know that he is mistaken. The goal of the prophets was to uphold justice, “So that mankind may maintain justice” (Qur’an 57:25). The prophets came to uphold justice. Of course, upholding justice is part of the process. It’s not the ultimate goal. Therefore, the first task of the [prophets] who came was to uphold justice and save people from the evil and oppression of tyrants. The goal of Imam Mahdi’s (pbuh) government at the end of time is this same kind of justice.
Ayatollah Khamenei
Jan. 29, 1990
Belief in Imam Mahdi (aj): One of the Most Important Tools in Fighting Colonialism
I saw a document that was from decades ago. That is, it was related to the time when colonialism had just entered Northern Africa. The countries in Northern Africa are strongly interested in the Household of the Prophet (pbut). Regardless of the Islamic denomination, they believe in, they like the Household of the Prophet (pbut). In countries like Sudan, in Maghreb, and in other countries of that region, the belief in the school of thought of Imam Mahdi (aj) is pronounced. When colonialism entered the aforementioned regions over the past century, one of the matters that troubled colonialism was the belief in Imam Mahdi (aj)! In the document I saw, the heads and commanders of colonialism suggested they needed to do something so that the belief in Imam Mahdi (aj) would gradually be removed from the people. At that time, the French and English colonizers were present in some of the African countries. No matter where the colonizers had come from, they came to this conclusion that until the belief in Imam Mahdi (aj) existed among these people, they would not be able to completely control these countries!
There are a number of features in the belief in the school of thought of Imam Mahdi (aj) which work like blood in the body and soul of the material body. One of these features is hope. Sometimes, powerful, strong hands bring weak nations to the point where they completely lose hope. When they lose hope, they won’t make a move. They think that it is useless and that it is too late. They think they cannot confront the powers because they won’t succeed. This is the spirit of despair. This is what colonialism seeks. Today, the global Arrogant Powers want Muslim nations, including the dear Iranian nation, to be afflicted with the spirit of despair. Then they will say, “We cannot do anything, it is useless!” The Arrogant Powers want to inject this into the people by force.
Ayatollah Khamenei
Dec. 16, 1997
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