1. Ask A Question About Islam And Muslims
  2. Ask A Question About Islam And Muslims

Ask A Question About Islam And Muslims

14 Questions

The Quran is used to guide people through real-life events. Why did that process stop, especially when today’s world needs guidance just as much? Especially since Imam Mahdi is in occultation, how are we meant to receive guidance today?
Amina Inloes

This is a big question and one that many people may have different answers on.

In my view, we have to have faith that we received what is necessary for us via the Qur'an and hadith, and ethical principles stated in them, and that we are meant to put forward effort to try to deduce the right answers for our time. This is part of our test and struggle as individuals and as a human race.

We still receive spiritual guidance from Imam Mahdi (A) and of course from Allah, even if it is not in the form of texts.  
I have heard that some Shia scholars known as Mehdavi are considered descendants of Imam Mehdi, but isn't it true that the Imam has no children since he is in Ghaybat?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

We can not confirm any children or family belonging directly to Imam Al-Mahdi (AS).

Mehdavi is a surname used by some person in Iran but they are related to Imam Al-Mahdi (AS).

Wassalam.
What is your view on the hypothesis that places like Mecca, Jerusalem and Karbala were originally located in Antarctica and the current places were created only 800 years ago after the major occultation of the Mahdi?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

This hypothesis can't be true as the history of the Prophet Muhammad (SAWA) goes back to more than 1447 years. Even the history of the Arabia peninsula and Karbala and Jerusalem goes back to thousands of years.

Wassalam.
What narrations of the Prophet (s) and the Ahlulbayt (a) can be used to prove the concept of Taqleed during the occultation of the Imam (a)?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

In Quran we read ( So, ask those who know if you don't know ( Sura 21, verse 7).

'Many Hadeeths from the Prophet (SAWA) and Ahlul Bayt (AS) order Muslims to learn the religious rules from those who know and never act with out knowledge. The Prophet (SAWA) said: Ask those who know. ( Amaali al-Tousi). Imam Jafar Al-Sadiq (AS) said: People who don't ask the knowledgeable persons will perish. (Munyatul al Merced).

Muslim needs to know the right Islamic knowledge to follow it and be on the right path. Right knowledge can't come from lay people or from the parents or friends etc, but it must come from knowledgeable persons Ulamaa' who have spent their life in studying and researching the Islamic knowledge from Ahlul Bayt (AS). This following the evidence taken by Mujtahids is called Taqleed, without which your religious acts will be with out authentic evidence.

Wassalam.