 Chapter
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The
Method of Change on the Promised Day
We come finally to one point raised in the
questions posed above. It relates to the conceivable method by
which decisive victory for justice will be achieved at the hands
of the Mahdi and tyrannical regimes opposing him will be
abolished.
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 civilisational 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.
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