Professor Ali Akbar Raefipour's speech.

I watched this video where some Psychologists put a few children inside a room. They placed two cream cakes on a table in front of them & told them, "If you don't touch these two cakes while you are in this room for a while, we will give you four cakes when you come out."

These children had no idea they were being watched by these Psychologists.

The children's reactions were really interesting, the first child was hitting his head, the second one was pulling her hair, the third one poked the cake with his finger, the fourth one extended her tongue towards the cake to get a glimpse of the taste, and the last child couldn't control himself and ate the cake.

This world is the same. You come to this world and are expected to control yourself and not commit sins & not to go after worldly pleasures. Then in Hereafter, they'll give you better things, so much better of what you had in this world. However, people say, "No, this world is more important, some people have a little bit, some extend their tongue and some eat half of it. It depends on people's personalities. And we have people who can control themselves and are pious.

There are also people who can know something but control themselves & these people are great!

I asked a question, "Does Imam Mahdi (a.j) know the date and time of his reappearance?

The answer that I got is very interesting. But before that let me tell you of common answers that we would normally hear, for example:

1. No, only Allah (swt) knows.

2. Yes, he knows.

However, a Scholar gave me this answer and this is the answer that I'm talking about, "He can know!"

Did you get the meaning?

It means Allah (swt) has given him the right to figure out his time of reappearance. But he (a.j) wants Allah (swt) to give him the news of his time whenever he wants.

Imam Mahdi (a.j) can know the time, the key is in his hands but he doesn't want to open it.

I once asked a friend of mine to write a special letter for me. When he finished writing, I asked him, "what do you think about the job that you wrote about just now?"

He asked me, "What job?" I said to him, "The one that was included in the letter." He replied, "I didn't read the letter."

Did you get what happened?

He wrote the letter, word by word but still didn't read the letter in order to respect my privacy as it was my letter. What did he have?? The power to control himself!