Abna’oReza’sRole in Preparing ShiitesForOccultation Era

Occultation has caused Particular circumstances mainly for inaccessibility to the imam of time, created a situation that led imams close to this era (imam Javad, Imam Hadi and imam Askari (peace be upon them) known as Abna’oReza do some activities in order to prepare people for this era. Activities such as:Introducing deputies as an intermediary on behalf of Imams to people;explaining the philosophyof occultation and presenting descriptions of promised Mahdi by examples;having minimum relationship with Shiites; referring Shiites to students, etc. This is important because before occultation people were solving their religious and worldly problems commonly by having direct relationships with Imams or deputies appointed by them. Because of inaccessibility to the imam of time in occultation era, different doubts such as absence of alive imam of time was casted which was a damage to the body of Shiite, also people were not able to solve their problems. Thus abna’oRezasought get people acquainted to this situation, so that they won’t get amazed and confused in these days.