Questions About the Return that the Qaim has Answered:

Questions About the Return that the Qaim has Answered:

What is the Return? Is it a world with another test that human beings must go through? What is the evidence to prove that it is another world?

What is the meaning of “The Great [Days]” that God Almighty, the Truthful, has pointed out in His book: {Indeed, it is one of the Great [Days]} Quran Chapter “The Cloaked One” 74:35.

Also, God has promised victory to His messengers in His book (the Quran). Where would their victory be, considering that most of them were either murdered or poisoned?

What is the meaning of “The First” that God Almighty has mentioned in His book that precedes mention of the hereafter? {And He is God; there is no deity except Him. To Him is [due all] praise in the First and the Hereafter. And the judgement is His, and to Him you will be returned} Quran Chapter “The Stories” 28:70.

Is there a link between the World of the Return and the three darknesses mentioned in the Quran? In other words: what is the link between the World of al-Tharr, this world, and the World of the Return? ^[6]

Furthermore, it is clear that knowing [God] is the goal of creation-so does the World of the Return have a role in achieving this?

Where will the Return take place? The earth and temporal world have both been mentioned in the religious accounts of the Return. Does it mean the earth that we live in now, or does it mean something else?

Will all humans come back, or just some of them, and who are they? Will they come back as nations, individuals, or both? Will only humans come back, or will Jinn come back as well?

In some arguments of the Imams that prove the Return, we see mention of the resurrection of the dead from past generations (as was narrated by Imam Al-Ridha pbuh regarding Al-Mamun, as we shall see). How is this in agreement with the knowledge that the Return is another world that is other than this physical world?

Also, we find the progeny of Muhammad pbut explaining certain Quranic verses that pertain to both the rise of the Qaim and the Return. What does this mean?

Is there an Appointed Day during the Return in which Iblis (may God curse him) is killed, just as there is an Appointed Day in this world when he will be killed at the hands of the Qaim pbuh in the Kufa Mosque?

How is it possible for a believer to believe in both the Return and the successors-the Mahdis-given that both of them come after the time of Imam Al-Mahdi pbuh?

Also, it has been mentioned by the progeny of Muhammad pbut that Ali pbuh is the Beast of the Earth in the return. Yet the beast has also been mentioned as existing at the time of the Qaim. What does this mean?

It has been mentioned in religious accounts that the Prophet pbuh and the Prince of Believers pbuh will meet in the State of Divine Justice in Kufa. Salman, Malik Al-Ashtar, the companions of the cave, and others are also mentioned as being the companions of the Qaim pbuh. Is there another return in another world that these religious accounts are referring to, or are they referring to a return to this earth?

Another question: Does time exist in the Return, as is the case with our world?

How will the return of the Prophets and Imams take place? Does it occur in the same order as in this world?

If God, by His grace, has written for a believer to come back in the Return, will he return to support the same vicegerent of God that he supported in this world?

Do genealogical and causal relationships such as fatherhood, sonship, marriage, or anything similar have a role and impact in the return? For example, say a man happens to be the son of a particular person-will there be situations similar to this in the Return?

It is narrated that the first one to return is Imam Al-Hussain pbuh, for example. Does he return as the son of the Prince of Believers and the grandson of the Prophet of God pbut?

These questions and more have been answered by Sayed Ahmad Al-Hasan in this blessed synopsis-questions that the great scholars have failed to answer and explain. I leave the honorable reader with the abundant explanations given in his answers to these questions about the return and its characteristics.