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Waiting, Worship, and Inner Transformation: Individual Duties of Human Beings in the Time of the Ghayba
By: Dr. Kazuyo Murata (Japan)
The concept of waiting (intizar) is one of the most central doctrines of Imāmī Shi`ism. The act of waiting can also be considered an act of worship, if we take into account the following prophetic hadith: “To wait for relief is to worship” (Intizar al-faraj `ibada). What exactly does it mean for a human being to be in a state of intizar in this context? Does it mean “waiting” in any form, or does it call for a specific set of acti
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