A study on the ideas of Tonekaboni and Borghei against tha dostrine of arrival

Arrival of the savior has been a fundamental doctorine in Shia Islam. Its truthfulness is beyond any reasonable doubt or uncertainty corroborated by indisputable proofs. Coutless books and articles have tried to argue in favor or agianst this vitally important doctorine, grounding their arguments on narratives and hadiths and logical reasonings. Sunnis and fundamentalists in Iran rejected this doctorine regarding arrival as a mere exaggration. They base their ideas on some Quranic verses. They also hold that most narrative accounts and hadiths in this regard are weak, insubstantial or vague. On the other hand, Shia scholars base their ideas on Quranic verses arguing that arrival is a certainty in Islam. They hold that hadiths and narratives are undeniable and frequency of citatation of them clearly establishes their truthfulness. Among the fundamentalists of Iran, Tonekaboni and Borghei singled out problems within the doctorine of arrival. The current study seeks to adopt a critical stance towards the doubts expressed by Tonekaboni in his book “Islam and arrival” and two other books by another scholar Borghei namely “scientific study of Hadiths about Mahdi” and “a beam of light from Quran”.