Is it right to give hope about the Reappearance? | Ali Reza Panahian
Is it right to give hope about the Reappearance?
If people become hopeful but the Imam doesn’t reappear, won’t they become irreligious?
We should make each other hopeful about the Reappearance (of the saviour) that is close. God willing all these events are preparing the preliminaries for the quick Reappearance of Mahdi, the son of Fatimah (‘a.j.). The doubt is that what if we make people hopeful, but the Reappearance is delayed? Then what will happen? This is truly a wrong statement. If we are worried about making people hopeful using logic, reasons and in accordance with the divine traditions about people’s lives, because if the Reappearance is postponed, we will have hurt people’s religion, this idea is wrong. I’ll give some examples.
The Holy Qur’an says, “Call on Me and I will answer you.” [40:60] It’s wrong to say, “No, we shouldn’t promise that He will answer. A person may pray but not be granted his request. Then, he’ll become irreligious!” Or, the Qur’an says, “If you help God, He will help you.” [47:7] But, in some cases in the frontlines, some people were martyred and God didn’t help them, in appearances. Should we say, “This verse isn’t good to propagate”?!
The Jewish people of Medina created this doubt for the first time. After the “Battle of Uhud,” Ammar Yasir and his friend were passing by. The Jewish people said, “Your prophet gave you good news of victory and divine help. So why did you lose? Even ‘Hamza’ was martyred.”
Ammar Yasir’s friend said, “I won’t discuss it with you. You make people irreligious.” But, Ammar Yasir said, “I will discuss it with you. Our Prophet promised us, but he had set a condition. The condition was for us to listen to what he said. The Prophet told us, ‘If you listen to me, God will move mountains with your power.’ But, we didn’t listen to him completely. We went to war, but we left our posts and pursued the bounty. We didn’t follow the rules and were defeated.” After answering them, he went to the Prophet. He said, “O Prophet of God, I had this conversation.” The Prophet told Ammar, “Since you answered them, you have struggled on the path of God.”
Due to a fear of not getting an immediate, certain result, we shouldn’t refrain from increasing good thoughts about God and decrease good thoughts about Him. This is like visiting patients who have difficult diseases – may God heal all patients, especially those with Corona - and saying, “According to logic, you will either pass away or live!” You must give hope. This is what religion recommends. We should pray for them and not stop praying. We should wish them health. No one should say, “Why are you giving false hope to them?!” We shouldn’t be hopeless about praying since some prayers have not been accepted.
If the believers’ hope increases but the Reappearance is delayed, they’ll be broken-hearted. These broken hearts will turn to God. It is at this time that praying and supplicating truly starts. This is a very beautiful scene! “Imam, we hoped you would come. We really hoped you would come on the 40th anniversary of the Revolution. We really hoped that when one of these oppressed believers who were beheaded moans, you would come.” More than 200 thousand martyrs in this region, all the oppressed and even the scholars throughout history have brought us to this point. Maybe, just maybe, we are only moments away from the Reappearance. When a person has much hope, he will struggle and work hard.
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