THE FIRST RESEARCH
How could be possible this long
age for Al-Mahdi (A.S)?
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How could be possible This long age
for Al-Mahdi (A.S)?
Is it possible for a human being to live several centuries as it is assumed in this leader from whom it is expected to change the world situations, whose actually his holy age is about one thousand one hundred, and fourty years, what means his age is equal fourteen times as the usual of human age, who might pass through the all regular stages of the human life, from infancy to senility?
The word possibility means one of three meanings:
1 - The practical possibility.
2 - The scientific Possibility.
3 - The philosophical possibility.
By the practical possibility I mean.
The thing is actually possible for me or you or for other by a manner to achieve it. Then the traveling across the ocean, and reaching to the bottom of the sea, or raising to the surface of the moon.Things
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actually became actually practical possibility. So there is somebody else that can practice this things by a way or other than it(1).
And I mean by the scientific possibility.
There are things which perhaps impossible for me or you to practice them by the contemporary civilized means, but the science hasn't nor it's moving intentions have the justifications to refuse the possibility of these things, and to occurrence them according to a particular circumstances and means.
There is nothing in the science that refuses the occurrence of raising the human to the Venus. But the actually intentions of existing truly shows the possibility of that, and even if the raising is not actually easy for me or you, since the difference between the raising to the Venus and the raising to the moon is not except on different degrees, and the raising to the Venus isn't present unless surmounting stage that additional difficulties which are resulted from the distance is farest.
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(1) Like these things were unimagined previously and if one person is conversed with, before actually occurred, this conversation could be considered only as an illusion or conception.
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So the raising to the Venus scientifically is possible even if actually impossible practically(1) , and on the contrary of that, the raising to the solar disk in the middle of the sky is impossible scientifically, and that means, the science is hopeless to achieve that. So it is impossible to be imagined scientifically, and experimentally the possibility of making that protective armor from the burning by the solar heat which seems as a blazing massive kiln with the highest degree that strike on a human mind.
And by the logical or philosophical possibility I mean:
The brain truly hasn't the argument to refuse the thing, and to judge by the impossibility of it. According to what it had been perceived before, from the previous laws.
Dividing three oranges into two equal parts, without cutting one of them into two equal parts hasn't logical possibility, since the intellect realizes, that the three is an odd number and not even-so, it is impossible to divide them into two equal parts, since dividing them in equivalence means that they must be
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(1) This speech is preside scientifically in due time, so he said : It is truly possible scientifically, but actually it was not occurred, and in fact the numerous of achievements in the worlds space, and sending the space ships to the planets and the satellites of the earth, is already became truths at the extremities of the twentieth century.
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in two or in a couple, so they must be even and odd in the same time, and this is a contradiction, and the contradiction is logically impossible. But the entrance of a human being into a fire while it isn't burning him, and the raising of him to the solar without burning him by it's heat is not logically impossible, while there is no contrary in the assumption, that the heat couldn't be spread from the hight warmth body in to the body which is less warmth, however it opposites to the experience which proves the warmth spreading from the hot body to the cool body until they become equal wormthly.
Thus we know that the field of the logical possibility is more extended than the scientifical possibility, and this more extended than the practical possibility.
It is unadoubtable that the extended of the human age for thousands years is possible logically; since it is not impossible from abstractive intellectual view, there is no any opposition in the assumption of this type, since the life as a notion is not penetrating to the quick and there is no argument in that.
And also there is no a doubt and no argument, that this long age is truly impossible as a practical possibility, according to the way of the practical possibilities for the descending to the bottom of the sea or raising to the moon. Since the science with it's
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actual present tools, and which are available through the contemporary human experience can not prolong the human's age for hundreds of years, therefore we find that the most concerned people to the life and most powerful to employ the capabilities of the science, haven't the opportunity of age unless the usual age.
And as for the scientifical possibility, today scientifically there is no thing that justifies the refusal of this matter from the theoretical aspect(1). And this research is actually corresponding to the physiological interpretation of the senility and the decrepitude phenomenon of the human. Does this phenomenon express a natural law which imposes the hierarchical on the cells and the tissues of the human body, and becomes less qualification to continue in it's work, until it becomes idle in a determinative minute, even if we separate it from the impact of any external factor? Or this sclerosis and this decrease in the qualification of the tissues and the cells of the body to raise by it's physiological roles, as a result from the struggle against the external factors as the microbes or
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(1)- O.k, there is no a scientifical justification that refuses this notion, rather the medicine scientists are actually occupied with swift attempts to prolong the human age, and there are several trials which are applied in this field, and that is alone which raise as an intense evidence on the theoretical or scientifical possibillity.
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the poisoned which ooze to the body by a food which he had eaten? Or by the work that he had done or any other factor?
So this question which science puts forth on it's self today, while it is in earnest to answer it. Up to now the question is more than the answer according to the scientifical aspect.
If we consider the scientifical view which interprets the senescence and the weakness of the senility, as a result of the struggle and friction with specific external influences, therefor it means that it is possible theoretically, if the tissues which the human body is separated from those specific influences to live more and pass the senility phenomenology and get over it completely.
And if we take care with the other view, which tend to suppose that the senility is a natural law for alive cells and tissues, in other word it means that it includes the inevitable vanishing seed into it, passes through the senility period and ends by the expiration.
I decelerate: I am saying:
If we take this view upon, it doesn't mean that there is no any flexibility in the natural law. Rather it is flexible law-on supposition of the availability of it, since we notice that in our ordinary life; and since
The scientists observe in their scientifical laboratories,
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that the senility as a physiological phenomenon not temporal, it may be appear early or it may delay, and it will not appear unless in late time, even the man perhaps becomes aged while He has tender organs and the signs of the senility will not appear on his features as the physicians had mentioned that.(1)
Yet the scientists truly could benefit practically from the flexibility of the stated natural law, so they prolonged the age of some animals for hundreds as their natural age estimated. And that was by creating situations and factors which postponed the activity of the senility law. And scientifically by this it could be proved that the deferment of this law by informing situations, and specific factors is scientifically possible order, and indeed if it is impossible for the science to practice this deferment actually relating to a perfect creature as the human. And that is not unless there is a different degree between the difficulty of this practice related to the human, and its difficulty related to other creatures, and this means that the
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(1) The physicians and the medical studies are focusing about this observation, they have many views in this field, and it is perhaps this matter has promoted them to perform attempts and trials to prolong the natural age of the human, and as usually the fields of the tests since the beginning was the animal because of the feasibility of this matter, and there is no other perils which disappoint to execute as these tests on the human.
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science from the theoretical phase, and as much as the moving attitudes refer to it, There is nothing that refuses the possibility of the human age elongation in it, even if we interpret the senescence as a result from the struggle, and the forcing with eternal affections, or a produce from a natural law of the survival cell it self, which leads it forward to the expiry.
In other word the length of the human age and his staying alive for several centuries is possible order logically and scientifically, but it is impossible practically, so the science direction is truly going forward in the path of actualization of this possibility through long way.
And according to that, we discuss the age of Al Mahdi (A.S), and what is surrounding it of the inquiry or amazement, then we observe. After it became sure that this long age is possible logically, and scientifically, and it became sure that the science is going on to change the theoretical possibility into practical possibilities gradually, so the astonishment is becoming meaningless, unless the removal of that, Al-Mahdi (A.S) precedes the science itself, so the theoretical possibility will be changed into practical possibility in his (A.S) personality before the science reaches with it's development to the level of the actual ability for this change, and He (A.S)
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is resemble to who antecede the science in discovering a drug the meaning or the drug of the cancer.
And if that, was the case, how did He anteceded Islam which decided the age of this expected leader-in the movement of the science in this change aspect?
The response: That is not the single field in which Islam anteceded the movement of the science.
Wasn't the Islamic law as a whole already anteceded the natural progression of the human thought for several centuries?(1)
Wasn't it sponsoring with slogans which suggested plans to be pervade that the human was not mature to understand them through his distinct movement unless after hundreds of years?
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(1) The inquiries that the Martyr Sayeed As-Sadr has raised and which intended to settle an important fact, and that was : The Holy Prophet (s) while he has given a promise of Imam Al-Mahdi (A.S), and this matter was not ordinary case in the human's situation, it notifies in its setting a precedence in the practical possibility, after the emphasizing on the scientifical possibility, that is to say for saying the human for a long time more than the usual, like this antecedence is showing the right and the fact of existence, and this was mentioned in the holy Quran and holy traditions in several objects, in the cases of the nature, and the cosmos of life.
Please revise the holy Quran and the knowledge of the tradition / By Dr.Abdul-Razaaq Nawfal.
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Wasn't it advanced with laws which were in the utmost of the wisdom, that the human can not get it's securest, and the face of the wisdom in it unless before a short time?
Didn't the mission of the heaven show secrets from the cosmos which did not strike in a human mind, and then the science come to improve, and support them?
If we believe in this as a whole, why do we ask God to give us more (S.W) the sender of this mission to outdo the science to determine the age of Al-Mahdi (A.S)(1) , and I never talk here unless about the priority aspects which we able to feel with it directly, and it is possible for us to add the priority aspects to that which, the mission of the heaven is telling us it self a bout.
And the example for that, it tells us, that the prophet (S) truly made go on by night from the sacred mosque to the remote Mosque, and this night-
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(1) Referring to this, is as miracle and it is a special divine overfill, and this is an order, that muslim can't deny it after the Holy books have told with the parallels of it, and in special the Quran, as the formation, which came about the age of prophet Nuh (A.S), and also what the Holy Quran had told about the other secrets, therefor the numerous people of the sunnits, the sufis and the people of the gnosis class believe with the happenings of the grace and dignity, and which similar to the miracles of the saints, pious men and the favorites of God (S.W.).
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Journey(1) if we wanted to understand it within the borders of the natural laws, it utters about the benefit from the natural laws by a manner which is impossible for the science to achieve it(2) unless after passing the hundreds of the years, so the same Divine authority which enabled the prophet (s) to move fast before it becomes possible for the science to achieve that.
It made the possibility for the last stipulated caliphs of the prophet the long age, before it becomes possible for the science to achieve that.
Ok, the long age that Allah(S.W) had provided for Al-Muntazar, "The expected", the savior seems a strange through the habitual limitation, even among the people in present life, and through the achieved experiments of the scientists actually.
But!
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(1) According to the blessed verse, ( Glory to Him Who made His servant to go on a night from the sacred Mosque to the remote Mosque...)
(2) A sign for the space crafts and mounting the space, and going deeply through the space to the far distance from our earth and crossing it through little hours or days, while these became facts in our temporary life within the latest of the 20th century.
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Wasn't the decisive alliterative role for which this savior is prepared as a strange through the habitual limitation in the people life, and what were passed on them from the events through the history.
Wasn't the change of the world, and the civilization renew according to the right, and the justice is entrusted to Him (A.S)?
So why we odd if the preparation for this great role is characterized by some of the strange events, and which are out of the habitual as the long age of the expected savior?
Then the strangeness of these events, and the departure of it out of the habitual, however it was hard, It will not exceed in any case the strangement of the same great role which must be achieved by the promised day.
So if we accepted that a single role(1) historically although there is no other resembling role for it in the history of the human, so why we disagree with that
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(1) A mention to what is prepared for the expected Imam Al-Mahdi (A.S) from a role and function of change on the level of the whole human being, as in the true tradition was mentioned : { He will fill the Earth with justice and equity as it has been before was filled with the tyranny and injustice }, and this role with this function are accepted from the whole scholars of Islam, and the difference is achieved in tributary branches, therefore the inquiry which the Martyr sayeed Mohammad Baqir As-Sadr raised has a strong logical justification.
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long age which we couldn't find other resembling age for it in our habitual life?
I don't know!
Is it a fortuity that only two individuals that vacate the human civilization from its corrupted import and instructing it newly, and there will be long age for every one of them, which exceeded our ordinary ages many times?
One of them who practiced his role in the past of the humanity, that was prophet Nuh, whom the Holy Quran mentioned(1) that He lived a thousand save fifty years among his people, and it is predetermined for him through the flood to construct the new world.
And the other one who exercises his role in the future of the humanity, that is Al-Mahdi who lived among his people more than one thousand years till now, and it will predetermined for him to build the new world through the promised day
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(1) In the blessed versed : { so he remained among them a thousand years save fifty } Al-Ankabut:14.
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So why we agree Nuh (a.s) who approached the thousand years at less estimation while we disagree Al-Mahdi?(1)
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(1) The inquiry is addressed to the muslims who believe with the Holy Quran and the Holy prophetic tradition, and it is already narrated by the scholars of sunnis for others than Nuh which was more than that is mentioned.
It is impossible for any one to distrust that the Quran told about, so the version is clear and dogmatical which is relating with the prophet Nuh (a.s.), where as here we haven't a dogmatical version, Nor the matter is concerned with a prophet.
The answer : first that the mission is the same, that is changes of injustice and depravity, and the employment as it is authorized to the prophet, it is already authorized to whom Allah (s.w.) has also chosen him as the true narratives have mentioned. The Holy prophet (s.) declared :
{ if there is no day remained from the world unless one day so Allah (s.w) would prolong that day until He (s.w) sends a man from my family who will fill the Earth with justice and equity...}
At-Taj Ajjamie lil usool vol. 5, p.343 as for the dogmatism of the tradition, which is related to Al-Mahdi (A.S) reached the recurrence limit, which is obliged for the familiarity and certainly, so there is no disparity between the two authorities. Please review At- Taj jamiul usool vol.5 p.341 and 360, so the successive transmission is narrated from Ash-Shawkani, and the investigators from the two group reached to the saying that who atheist by Al-Mahdi (A.S) he already atheist by the messenger Muhammad (s.) and that not unless it is truly proved by the successive transmission, and it is truly of the necessities of the religion, and who ever denied that he is atheist from all the religious doctrines. Please review Al-Ishaeh ilashrat Al-Saeh / by Al-Barzanji in his research about Al-Mahdi.
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THE SECOND RESEARCH
The Marvel and the long age
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The Marvel and the long age
We have already known until now that the long age truly is scientifically possible but for example we suppose it is scientifically impossible, and the law of the senility is strict, and it is impossible for the humanity to overcome on it today, and on it's long line, and to change its situations and conditions, so what does that mean? It truly means that the prolonging of the human age - as Nuh or al Mahdi (A.S) for several centuries, is opposite to the natural laws which the science proved by the modern tools of the experience, and the induction, therefore this case becomes a Marvel which maimed a natural law in a specific case to keep on the life of the person whom entrusted with keeping on the heaven's mission, and the Marvel is not the single from it's kind, or a strange on the Muslim's belief which is obtained from the text of the Quran, and the sunnah (Holy tradition),so the law of senility is more acuity than the law of the heat transmission from the hot body to the body which is less warmth until they will be equal. And this law is already idled to keep on the Ibrahim's
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(A.S) life, while the single way was to keep on the prophet Ibrahim's life, so it said to the fire when Ibrahim (A.S) was been thrown in it (We say: O, fire! be cold and peace to Ibrahim) Al-Anbia verse No 69, So He (A.S) went out of it intact as He entered before, without any harm.
The examples of this are many in the natural laws that are vacated just to save the personality of the prophets, and the witnesses of God(S.W) on the Earth. The sea was been tear asunder to Musa (A.S)(1) , And is been imitated to the Greek that they captured Isa(2) {Jesus}, while they didn't Captured him, and the messenger Muhammad (s.w) went out of his home while it was surrounded with the crowds of Quraish who remained for long hours waiting for him in order to attack him, then Allah(S.W) hidden him from their sights while He was walking among them(3) All these cases are like natural laws which were idled to protect
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(1) A mention to his (s.W) saying: ( Then we revealed to Musa : Stick the sea with your staff, so it had cloven asunder, and each part was like a huge mound). Ash-Shura 63.
(2) A mention to his (s.w) saying: (And they did not kill him nor did they crucify him, but is appeared to them so ( like Isa ) An-Nissae : 157.
(3) Please review the book seerat-Ibn Hisham vol. 2 p. 127, he already related this event while it is accepted by the whole narrators.
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a person, since the authority of God seeked to keep on his life, so the law of the senility as one of these laws.
Perhaps it is possible for us to deduce from that with a general meaning that is when keeping on the life of Allah's Authority "Hujjatul-lah" on the ground is contingent on the natural law idleness, and the continuity of that person life is necessary to carry out his mission for which He is prepared for. The divine providence interfered in the idleness of that law to realize that, and on the opposite is some one finished for which He was prepared by the divine, so He would die or would be Martyred according to what the natural laws would suggest.
According to this general Conception we usually face the following question.
How is it possible to idle the natural law ?(1)
And how could the necessary relationship which takes place among the natural occurrences be broken?
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(1) It is perhaps said : that the laws as a law it is certainly to be steady, so the idleness and tear is unimagined, and already some of them noticed that the tear truly must be in other law, as the matter as for the magnetism law, which necessitate the tugging of the things towards the center, although that the water ascend by the absorption operation in the plants from the root to the top by the capillaries, and this according to other law that is {peculiarity}please review the book: Al-Quran asry for a contemporary understanding by Dr.Mustafa Mahmood
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And wasn't this unless opposition for the science which invented that natural law, and it abstracted this necessary relationship according to empiricism and inductive basics?!
The response: the science itself already answered this question by the surrender from the necessity opinion in the natural law, and the explanation of that is: The natural laws truly that the science discovers them according to the trial and the regular notice, so when a natural occurrence happening could be even after another occurrence, by this evenness it would be deduced that the natural law, and that is truly when the first occurrence is found, the second occurrence is found after it, but the science did not suppose a necessary relationship in this natural law between these two occurrences which resulted from the essence of this occurrence, and it's subject, and the essence of that occurrence and it's subject; since the necessity is a metaphysical case, It is impossible for the test and the agencies of the scientifical and the inductive researches to improve it, for that the response of the modern science insisted that the natural law - as the science illustrated it isn't resulted from a necessary relationship, even from a continuous
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junction between two occurrences(1) , so if the miracle happened and separated the two occurrences from the other in the natural law, and that wasn't a separation for a necessary relationship between two occurrences.
In fact the miracle with it's religious connotation, is already became batter understandable as it was under the classical point of view for the causal relationships.
So the previous point of view was already supposed that every two occurrences which the linking between them is evened, so the relationship among them is necessary, and the necessity means that it is impossible to separate one of the two occurrences from the other.
But this relationship is changed in the style of the modern science into the coupling law or the sequenced continuance(2) between the two occurrences without supposing that invisible necessity.
And for that, the marvel becomes extra ordinary case for this evenness in the coupling and the
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(1) The Martyr Sadr is already simplified the saying in this matter in his book our philosophy, so, please review the p. 295 and 299.
(2) Please review Our philosophy : p. 282 and the other following pages.
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sequence without the opposing with a necessity or leads forwards the impossibility.
As for the logical fundamentals of induction(1) , We agreed with the modern scientifical point of view, that the induction truly didn't improve the relationship of the necessity between the two phenomenons, but we see that it shows the shared interpretation availability for the evenness of the assembly or the sequences between the two phenomenons continually, and this common interpretation as it is possible to be informed according to the supposition that a wisdom is prompted the arranger of the cosmos to combine specific phenomenons with other phenomenons continually, and this wisdom itself some time invite to the exception so that the miracle could be happened
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(1) Please review the explanation and the illustration of the theory in the " logical fundamentals of induction " so the Martyr Imam Sadr" may God be pleased with him" came to an important and momentous inventions in the field of the knowledge with a general manner.