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judges, rulers, and worshipers appearance of Imam Mahdi,
by night, and lions by day. mankind is agitated until God
Some of his appearances brings his guardian to fill the
in the revival and earth with equity and justice
renewal of religion, spreading after it has been filled with
knowledge and confronting injustice and oppression.
sinners require higher
minds, greater preparations, The Costs of the Era of the
pure souls, and hearts Great Occultation
more fearful of God. The honorable hadiths were
concerned with the costs of the
Many schools emerged in era of occultation by virtue of
the era of the great occultation the practical dimensions that it
that claimed to present life, includes in relation to the
social and economic systems movement of man in this
to secure human happiness, period distinguished by many
temptations and difficulties in
and the length of the absence confronting them resulting
of Imam Mahdi, helps prove from the apparent lack of
the inability of the schools that presence of the Imam and the
claimed and claim human inability to return to him easily.
perfection, as we see in our In this context, we briefly
time and our present age, mention the most prominent
costs in accordance with what
which is full of corruption, was specified by the honorable
injustice and murder as a result hadiths while talking about the
of corruption. most important of them, which
Governments and ruling involves the embodiment of other
regimes that claim human costs; namely the duty to wait for
perfection, and before the the appearance of the Imam.
