فصلنامه مشرق موعود
پیاپی 24 (زمستان 1391)

Among the traditions of Mahdaviiat, narrative traditions about the signs of apperance are the most frequent. The issuance of large volumes of such traditions makes us think that why the infallible Imams discuss them and what goals they had from explaining so much about these signs? One of the answers to these types of questions refers to the difficulties of the era of occultation which has not been taken lightly by the infallible Imams. In the era of occultation, the Shiite community faces many challenges such as the length of the absence (of Imam), negligence, false claimaints, false uprisings and difficulty of identifying (the true) Imam Mahdi in the time of his emergence. Accordingly, these difficulties can be solved by the infallible Imams who have these purposes of discussing the signs. The symptoms of Appearance can have positive or negative functions. The positive functions can result in promising hopes, removing ignorance, and better understanding of Imam Mahdi and the negative functions aid us in identifying the false uprisings and false claimaints of the era

Looking ahead to the furture and providing a promising and great vision of Apperance of the Saviour is something that can be seen clearly in the words of the holy prophet. However, a closer examination of his training needs to reflect on the influence that the audience is feeling. Corresponding and accessing to the speeches is difficult to the lay person, especially given the difficulties experienced in compiling hadith of Ahl-ol-sunnah and understanding the complex sources is beyond people, except to the the very seasoned researchers. Such a study should be focused closely on the reliability of the sources and serious scrutiny of the documents.The prophet has attended to a complete set of discussions on all aspects of the messianic message for finality of the Islamic religious and full explication of the Quranic teachings. However, some iterations and emphasis found in the words of prophet shows his attention to ne more pronounced on some topics amongs Mahdavi issues that suggests the need for further explanation of this sort of teachings to the audience. The main axes of these teachings are the introduction of Mahdi and explaoning that he will be from the Ahlulbayt and that he is the mirror of the Prophet Muhammad in his behavior and manners. This explanations could have been necesary due to the problems faced by his Absence for the people of faith. The patient believers in the age of Absence have a higher rank than his faithful companions in the age of Apperance. The Apperance happen after despair and corruption will take over the world.

In this paper, the definitions of art, beauty, imagination, and the imagination are presented.Discussions about celestial art and the artist's role in refining the art and the impact of the artist's soul and its relationship to fantasy worlds and the use of a divine authority agency are explained. Also discussed are the roles of ethics in art and its cleansing power for imagination, and the external and internal controls and functional aspects of the underlying art for preparing the Appearnce of Mahdi are discussed. Among the topics that will be addressed are art in its manifestation of underlying dimensions that are discussed in this paper, which is proposed to have five dimensions: 1. Every human is only an agent in light of the his Imam's agency 2. The impact of ones beliefs and values on his art; 3. The role of morality in purification of the soul of and the fantasy of the artist; 4. Existance of an element of elegance and beauty in Art 5. The use of Art to describe a romantic and the awe inspiring fantasy in service of the Mahdavi culture.

The follwing writing presents two issues of prophecy and messianic message and explores the relationship between the two. The beginning of discussion is started with an introduction to set the scene and after introduction the concepts around prophecy are explained. The issue of prophecy has multiple components such as integrity, immortality and perfection and ususally the explanation of a whole depends on an account of its components and accessories. Therefore, before addressing the relationship between seal of prophecy and millenarianism, and the quality of their relationship are explained as well as the analysis of their components. In the process of discussion necessity and dependence of prophecy with messianic beliefs will be discussed and four statements will be explained in detail: the "seal of prophecy, the subject of messianic beliefs", "Messianism, the ultimate seal of prophecy", "seal of prophecy, objective reason for messianic beliefs" and "messianism as the scientific reason of prophecy". Then, with a detailed analysis, we will examine each of them.

The idea of global governance is one of the options that have been attempted to be explained by all religions. The principles and structure of such claims is still the focus of earnest work and an accelerating growth and increasing communication has made this a serious issue and should be attended. Islam is what we believe the purest form of monotheism and its true form while today's Judaism has seen the change of the Moses teachings a bit and Christianity has taken distance form the original monotheism and some have approximated the pagans, and thus their faiths are incapable of managing individual and social life of man. Islam, as the final religion, while acknowledging the original scriptures of Judaism and Christianity doctrines and commandments excludes them and has removed as well as completed some of their tenets. In fact, we claim that the all religions outlived their usefulness excepts Islam which can still govern the world and the life of humans in all their aspects.

This study analyzes the attention paid to the issue of messianism in the textbooks for the elementary period of national state education. The research is of descriptive approach and the type of content analysis, the mode of research is applied research. The population, which includes elementary level textbooks published in 1389 (2010) and three titles such as "The gifts from heaven", "Reading" and "Social education" in 12 volumes, which were purposefully sampled. The measurement tool was a researcher-made checklist content analysis and the results were analyzed using descriptive statistics. The main results of this study indicate that the messianic concept is given a mention a total of 607 times during topics and associated components. The number of mentions in each title, "Reading", "The gifts from heaven" and "Social education" were respectively 263, 252 and 92 stages. The most emphasis and mention to these issues were given to the speechs, behaviors, manners and in the textbooks of the Fifth grade, in "The gifts from heaven" and the lowest mention to the mian issues of appearance and its aftermath, was given in the First grade and the "Social education" title of the Fourth grade.

The lawyers representing the Absent Imam, especially four networks have not been well considered in the Shiite sources of the Minor Occultation period, and in many cases the sources have not even named the lawyers. Maybe this disregard is influenced from the political pressures of the time, when the boiling atmosphere was stimulated strongly against Shia during the Abbasid rule. Among the factors that could have triggered a chain uprising, Qarameteh, Alawite Shias in the government and the Fatimids in Egypt as well as Tabarestan are noted. These factors led the Imami scholars of that age to be forced to use taghieh reservation, so that the effect of even the sources and interactions between lawyers and scholars Imam were affected. It is good practice to provide an early history of the organization, after which the political atmosphere of the Minor Occultation era can be traced then from the Imam resources in that period, which can be examined separately. In the end, it ispproposed that the political pressures of the period had a direct relationship with the silnce of the documnets about the era called Minor Ocuultation and the lawyers of the Absent Imam.