An Examination of Social Lifestyle of Imam Mahdi in the Face of the People of the Book

Based on Quranic, intellectual and narrative data with descriptive and analytical style, Imam Zaman (AS)'s treatment of the People of the Book can be justified with three views. 1- Absolute tolerance attitude; In this view, Imam al-Zaman (as) treats the People of the Book equally in the two stages of "emergence" and "world government", and the People of the Book, as citizens of the Mahdavi world system, live a peaceful life alongside Muslims. have. 2- Absolute coercive attitude; In this view, Imam al-Zaman (as) after giving knowledge and comprehensive guidance that provides the basis for further guidance of the People of the Book, with a few people who have a spirit of stubbornness and prejudice and did not accept the guidance of the Imam and still insist on stubbornness They do, it has a coercive approach, and this coercive approach is absolute and does not belong to a specific time, and includes both the time of emergence and world rule. 3- Integrated attitude (tolerance and coercion); In this view, Imam al-Zaman (as) does not follow the same procedure in dealing with the People of the Book for the two periods of "emergence" and "world government"