AN INQUIRY CONCERNING AL-MAHDI

By: MUHAMMAD BAQIR AS-SADR

And

THE LAST LUMINARY

Translated from the Persian

By

WORLD ORGANIZATION FOR ISLAMIC SERVICES,
(Board of Writing, Translation & Publication).

Published by: Ansariyan Publication

In the Name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Merciful

And we want to bestow our favours on those who were oppressed on earth,
and make them leaders of mankind and make them the inheritors.
(The Story, 28:5)

INTRODUCTION

(1) HOW WAS THIS LONG LIFE GRANTED TO AL-MAHDI

(2) THE MIRACLE AND THE LONG LIFE

(3) WHY ALL THIS DESIRE TO PROLONG HIS LIFE

(4) HOW WAS THE PREPARATION OF THE EXPECTED LEADER ACHIEVED

(5) HOW CAN WE BELIEVE IN THE EXISTENCE OF AL-MAHDI?

(6) WHY HAS THE LEADER NOT APPEARED YET?

(7) CAN AN INDIVIDUAL ASSUME THIS ROLE?

(8) HOW WILL THE CHANGE ON THE APPOINTED DAY OCCUR?

(9) PREFACE THE LAST LUMINARY

(10) THE GOOD NEWS

(11) THE BIRTH

(12) THE MINOR OCCULTATION

(13) THE MAJOR OCCULTATION

(14) THE SHI'ITES DURING THE IMAM'S OCCULTATION