Bāzshināsī-ye Taʿrīf-e ʿAlāʾim wa Sharāyiṭ-e Zuhūr bā Rūykard-e Taḥlīl-e Riwāyāt (Persian: بازشناسی تعریف علائم و شرایط ظهور با رویکرد تحلیل روایات, lit. restudying the definition of signs of the reappearance of Imam Mahdi (a) with focus on the analysis of narrations) is the title of an article in Persian that, with a narrative approach, aims to review signs and prerequisites of Imam Mahdi's (a) reappearance. This twenty-three page article is authored by Mujtaba Khani, Sayyid Muhammad Jawad Sayyid Nazari and Sayyid Muhammad Radi Asif Agah. It has appeared on the quarterly of Mashriq-e Maw'ud No. 41, spring of 2017.[1]
Abstract
The authors acknowledge that their purpose in this paper was to re-examine the definition of signs and prerequisites of Imam Mahdi's (a) reappearance. In that capacity, they sought to not only draw a line between the limits and boundaries of these two definitions, but also propose new ways to identify both signs and prerequisites of his reappearance through reported narrations. Per its authors, in the process of separating signs from prerequisites, the key is to fully understand their unique roles. In other words, what is important is to understand the fundamental qualities lying in between any given sign or prerequisite with the reappearance of Imam Mahdi (a). The quality in between signs and the reappearance is of revelatory and the quality in between prerequisites and the reappearance is of causality type. Therefore, the point is to differentiate between the aforementioned relationships whose understanding can preferably fall within the purview of mind. If this relationship is recognized as causal, it is classified as a sign if otherwise, a prerequisite.