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In what way will Muslims' promised Savior, Mahdi (a), realize global justice?
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Note: The quotation stated below is selected from one of Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr' works, A Discussion Concerning the Mahdi ('a), pp 24-25. He is one of the most profound thinkers in Islamic world in the fields Islamic Philosophy, Logic, Kalam, and Fiqh and yet is extendedly unknown. This book and some other books of him are now available in the Digital Library of Islamic Perspective Website and every one can use them freely. The answer to this question depends upon the knowledge of the time and stage at which Imam Mahdi ('a) will be ordained to appear on the scene and the possibility of defiling the distinctive features and conditions of that phase so that i1i its light we can determine the form and course the process of change would take. And as long as we are ignorant of that stage and know nothing about its environment and conditions, it is not possible to predict what will happen on the promised day, though it is be possible to form a subjective, if not an objective, conception of that which might take place. There is one basic probability which can possibly be accepted in the light of relevant traditions and experience of great changes in history. This assumption is that the advent of Imam Mahdi (`a) will be subsequent to a great void resulting from a setback and a choking civilizational crisis. This void would open the way for the spread of the new message and the setback would prepare the psychological atmosphere for its acceptance. This setback will not be an accident in the history of human civilization, but a natural consequence of the contradictions of a history that has severed its links with God Almighty, and for which there are no definitive solutions. This will eventually set ablaze a fire which will not leave anything unconsumed, and at this time the light will appear to extinguish the flames and establish heavenly justice on earth. /End.
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