The Analysis of the Cognitive Approach and the Cognitive Function of Awaiting from the View of Sunnis

The current research explains one of the important Messianic teachings named as “Awaiting from the view of Sunnis”. Awaiting as the basic belief among the Sunnis has features and several subjects that by reviewing every one of them, the aspects of Awaiting becomes clearer and more recognized. For example, once the “the Awaiting cognitive approach” which can be divided to the “Hadith-centered” and “belief-centered” approaches is presented and through this, the existential scope of Awaiting in the Sunnis’ Hadith collections and the books are realized; the other time, we are after presenting other discussions such as “the cognitive nature and the cognitive function of Awaiting” and by analyzing the Awaiting from these two perspectives, we are led to a division into a General and Specific Awaiting, and also the positive and negative Awaiting. In the discussion of knowing the functions of Awaiting which includes the variations such as positive and negative Awaiting, Sunni scholars have comprehensively dealt with this issue in their statements and writings and attempted to express their differences with the exact criteria. Moreover, they have paved the ground for the promotion of positive Awaiting among the Sunnis by describing the non-productive role of negative Awaiting and by explaining the influential role of positive Awaiting.