Religion and Civilization in the Course of History: A Civilized and Efficient Attitude to Mahdaviat

In contemporary world and after renewal of life of the Islamic thought, which is one of the accomplishments of blessed Islamic revolution in Iran, considering Mahdaviat as the essence of Quran, great prophet’s relatives(etrat) and top of honorable prophets’ vocation is increasing remarkably. This process has heightened the regards to the evidences of appearance (zohur) in contemporary society.
Research in verses and narratives related to the evidences of appearance and the end-time period, and effort to extract shiite’s basic strategies in the periods of absence and nigh to the appearance, establish a new attitude in Mahdaviat and the end-time studies that can be called “Efficient Attitude to Mahdaviat”.
Requirements of the appearance and the end-time period can be imaged by investigating these narratives and evidences; it shows that the evidences won’t be emerged in a low level and in the form of sectional rebellion, or regional revolution or changing a political government. The range of this emergence is universal and it is deep enough to influence all angles of human life. And this means nothing just a downfall and transfer of civilization, and then, constitution of a godlike universal civilization. This attitude, alongside of efficient one, can be called “Civilized Attitude to Mahdaviat”.
In developing this concept and investigating historic literatures of civilization, the point is that each one has selected an idea as a pivotal concept of analyzing history and tried to analyze human civilizations history accordingly. On this course and in a Mahdavi attitude, it is a feasible effort to explain the idea of “right and lapsed contrast” as a pivotal concept in a well different observation to history and civilization.