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Is
That Role Possible for an Individual?
We now come to the last in the series of
aforementioned questions. Can an individual, however great,
possess the capacity to play such a great role? Is the great man
anyone except someone chosen by circumstances to spearhead their
momentum?
The idea expressed in this question is based
upon a certain notion of history which interprets history on the
hypothesis that human beings are a secondary factor, while the
real forces surrounding him are the principal factor. On this
basis, the individual, in the best of conditions, is nothing
except an intelligent expression of the course determined by the
principal factor.
We have explained elsewhere in our published
works that history consists of two axes: one of them is man, and
the other the material forces surrounding him. In the same way
that the material forces and conditions relating to production and
nature influence man, likewise man, too, influences the forces and
conditions around him. There is no more ground for supposing that
movement begins in matter and culminates in man than for supposing
the converse. Therefore man and matter interact continually all
along, and it is possible for an individual within this framework
to perform a greater role than a spectator watching the march of
history, especially when we take into account the factor of his
links with the heavens. In that case this link becomes a force
that spearheads the movement of history. This is exactly what
happened in the history of prophetic missions, especially during
the final prophetic mission wherein the Prophet Muhammad (s), by
virtue of his prophetic links with the Divine, took the reins of
historical movement in his own hands and generated a
civilisational wave which could never have been produced by the
surrounding conditions, as explained by us in the second
introduction of al-Fatawa al-wadilah.
That which took place at the hands of the Prophet ('s) can again occur at the hands of the Awaited Leader belonging to his Ahl ul-Bayt, the good news of whose coming and the great role he would play has been proclaimed by him.
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