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The Philosophy of the Great Occultation … A. Hamade and K. Albunasir / (127
knowledge People are such as captivity, imprisonment,
tested in faith, submission killing, displacement and
and ratification. exile, and the nation’s
• One of the important failure to perform their
matters is that God duty towards them, and
Almighty rewards and the Imam Mahdi, knew
disciplines a nation by about these matters,
absenting its imam if it That it will be more
does not fulfill its duty severe and more severe
towards the Messenger for him; Because he
and the imam by will come out with the
carrying out divine sword, so he has withdrawn
commands and prohibitions; and disappeared from
but rather turns to this nation; from Imam
disobedience, transgression Baqir, that he said:
of limits and harming “If God hates us
the prophets by all means. to be neighbors
To righteousness and of a people, we
righteousness and realize will be removed
the importance of the from their backs”.
presence of the Prophet • People have different
and the Imam among its degrees and willingness
manifestations, and in to be assigned to one
Islamic history what another, and it was
testifies to us that the mentioned in the companions
Ahl al-Bayt, have been of Imam Mahdi, that
subjected to the most they are scholars, nobles,
severe harm and torment
