Even if natural partiality is weak and unworthy, or unjustifiable even, it cannot be given up. So, would it be possible for a person to give up his support for a truth to which all his forefathers -who were most strong, most constant and true, and most illustrious- had been bound, and through which they had won glory, and for which they had sacrificed their lives, a truth he felt clearly to be so fundamental and natural? Thus, due to this intense partiality and natural submission, the Family of the Prophet accepted the least hint in favour of the religion of Islam as though it was a powerful proof. For they were partial by nature. Others become partial after some powerful proof. (The Flashes, 37,38)

There are, for example, varying narrations concerning the Mahdi, each with different details and descriptions. However, as was explained in a section of the Twenty-Fourth Word, Allah’s Messenger (SAW) gave the tidings, relying on revelation, of a Mahdi who would come in every century to preserve the faith of the Muslims, help them not to fall into despair in the face of disasters, and link the hearts of the believers with the people of the Prophet’s Family (RA) that constitute a luminous chain in the world of Islam.

Similar to the Great Mahdi (AS) who is promised to come at the end of time, one or more Mahdis from the Prophet’s Family (RA), have been found in every century. Indeed, one of them, was among the Abbasid