The Light Shineth in Darkness by -Udo Schaefer- 1 Para

In the thirteenth century A.H. (the nineteenth century of the Christian Era) an adventist reform sect, the Shaykhi movement, was formed in Persia under the leadership first of the Arab Shaykh Ahmad-i-Ahsa'i (1743-1826) and then, after his death, of Siyyid Kazim. Their main teaching, apart from the call for the general spiritualization of one's religious life, was the imminent coming of the "end" prophesied by Muhammad and the advent of the Qaim. Just as some Jewish theologians and mystics calculated the exact time of the Messiah's appearance, in the same way Sufi and Shiah thinkers had been devoting all their efforts to reckoning the time of the hidden Imam's appearance, on the basis of the cabalistic use of Qur'anic verses and letter-number relationships. From obscure indication in the 'Qur'an', especially from the surah of Worship and the oral traditions concerning this subject, the Shaykhis had calculated the tear to be 1260 A.H. Acting on the belief that the legal leadership of the believers had come to an end with the expiration of the Imamate in 260 A.H., they established the date of the end of the thousand years absence of legal guidance foretold by Muhammad as the year 1260 A.H., i.e. the year 1844 of the Christian era. This same year was calculated on the basis of Biblical prophecy by the Christian Adventist sect in the U.S.A. as the date of Christ's return. (128:1)

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