Interpretation and reception
Universal Government of the Mahdi
Naser Makarem Shirazi
Proposes Dajjal imagery as technologically powerful materialism and Sufyani as recurring counter-revolutionary characteristics, allowing a principal individual. Identifies rising sun metaphor with the Imam while rejecting indiscriminate allegorization, demonstrating variation within Twelver eschatology.
Bibliography entry · Source text is available through the cited link below.
View cited source · al-islam.org ↗
Edition and location
Al-Islam.org English HTML/export PDF, print edition and translator unestablished
PDF pages 98–106, Dajjal and Appearance of Sufyani; page79 publisher note