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The Philosophy of the Great Occultation … A. Hamade and K. Albunasir / (129
- Consolidating knowledge The imam of his time
of the Imam of the age who is pleased with
his absence and the what he sees from the
inevitability of his believers of progress
appearance and that he and hurt him, i.e. retreat
is alive watching things from reform work.
and familiar with human There are honorable
actions and their conditions hadiths that reported the
and awaits the necessary absence of the Mahdi
conditions for his appearance, before it occurred with
and establishing this explicit references to
knowledge on the basis this duty. For example,
of authentic textual Kulayni in “Al-Kafi” on
evidence and sound the authority of Zurara
mental proofs. that Imam Sadiq, said:
The importance of this “The Qa’im will
duty is clear in light of be occult. He is
the apparent absence of the awaited one
the Imam in the era of and he is the one
occultation and the whose birth people
resulting doubts, and doubt”.
this knowledge has a Zurara said: May I be
remarkable effect in sacrificed for you if you
pushing the Muslim person realize that time, what
towards constructive reform should I do?
work on the individual He said:
and social levels. “O Zurara, when
did you realize
