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Brief Summary
I will confine myself to this brief summary,
leaving an extensive study of this subject and its related details
to the valuable book which is before me, the August encyclopaedia
of Imam Mahdi (`a) compiled by one of my sons and students, the
learned researcher Sayyid Muhammad Sadr, may God Almighty preserve
him. This encyclopaedia is unparalleled in the history of Shi'i
writings on Imam Mahdi ('a) from the viewpoint of the
comprehensiveness with which it deals with the issue of the
Awaited Imam. Its scope is vast and underlying it is an unflagging
scholarly spirit and a masterful grasp of a variety of striking
points which show the diligent efforts made by the compiler in
preparing this unique work. I feel elated by the scholarship,
perceptiveness and brilliance that it reflects and the significant
gap that it has filled. I beseech the Lord, the Glorious and the
Exalted, to delight me through him and make him an outstanding
scholar of religion. All praise is for God, and may Peace and
benediction be upon Muhammad and his immaculate Ahl al-Bayt.
The writing of these pages was begun on 13
Jumadi al Thani 1397 H. and finished on the afternoon of 17th day
of the same month. And it is God who grants assistance and
success.
Muhammad Baqir
al-Sadr,
al-Najaf al-Ashraf,
Iraq
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