The Promised and Awaited Imam Mahdi (may God Almighty hasten his reappearance) from the point of view of modern Persian poets

Abstract

Waiting for the promised deliverer is one of the doctrinal beliefs of the Imami Shiites, and this belief sows hope and happiness in the hearts of Muslims as it revives hope in their souls to reach happiness in the near future, and since literature, especially poetry, is one of the arenas that can pave the way for humanity to know the promised one, and waiting for the deliverer who fills the earth with justice as it was filled with injustice and oppression, was the praise of the Prophet (7). ) and his family (F) are among the common content in the collections of Persian poets most of the time, but we rarely find a poet who directly and in a separate poem praised the Promised Imam Mahdi; Rather, those praises came through other contents, so the Mahdist poetry and the talk about the Awaited Imam is a topic that poets rarely touched in their poems independently, and as for the ancient poets, we find