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Question No. 3265 31 August 2022 Official answer by Master Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) verified Content level: Intermediate

How can we bear the wait for the Reappearance?

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Dear questioner, Master Ali Saei
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Dear teacher, could you please advise me on how to endure the wait for the Reappearance and come through it safely? When I focus on the Reappearance, I find that I cannot bear the wait. A dream gives me some comfort, and to forget about it for a while and calm down, I turn to worldly activities. But I have no real interest in them, so I soon give them up. Somehow, I feel stuck. I turn to God for refuge, but I can’t come to terms with this for more than a day or two. For now, we are living with this wait. Sometimes I tell myself that, in the end, this waiting will take me from this world without my ever having been able to help the Imam. It saddens and grieves me to think that I may not be able to help him. Please guide me.

I’m sorry if this isn’t the right place to ask these questions, but it seemed like the best place to get an answer.

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We can bear the wait for the Reappearance by striving to know God’s Proof, purifying our inner selves, and seeking God’s help. Self-watchfulness and self-examination, fostering the practice of enjoining good and forbidding wrong, and offering spiritual gifts to the Imam can also help us along the way.

Answer by Master Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat)

Teacher and researcher in the intellectual tradition of wisdom and the Ahl al-Bayt | Soroush Bamdadān Cultural Center

Preparation for visiting the Imam: inner purification, refinement, testing, spiritual fragrance, adornment and beautification.

Striving to know God’s Proof and seeking help from the Lord of Truth to attain this goal and apprehend the reality of the Imam’s knowledge in all its dimensions: his earthly person, his heavenly rank, his station in the realm of the unseen, and his standing with God.

Diligence in self-vigilance and self-reckoning.

Giving new life to the duty of enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong.

Sending spiritual gifts to the Imam.

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