"Eschatology or Mahdism is a dangerous problem as a political and philosophical point of view. It is against the spiritual attitude and belief in God's freedom and God's will.
Eschatology is one of the most negative forces politically in the world today, and it needs to be answered from the point of view of the perennial wisdom of all religions.
Evangelical Christian says that we have to do this and that to force Christ to come down on earth is really a blasphemy of the worst kind against Christ and against God. You cannot force the hand of God.
And also the idea of Mahdism which is correlative in the Islamic world, which now has some followers including in Iran, is also very dangerous for the same reason."
- Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Lecture: The Recovery of the Sacred, from the 30th minute.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAzsKDSkuTI
Eschatology is one of the most negative forces politically in the world today, and it needs to be answered from the point of view of the perennial wisdom of all religions.
Evangelical Christian says that we have to do this and that to force Christ to come down on earth is really a blasphemy of the worst kind against Christ and against God. You cannot force the hand of God.
And also the idea of Mahdism which is correlative in the Islamic world, which now has some followers including in Iran, is also very dangerous for the same reason."
- Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Lecture: The Recovery of the Sacred, from the 30th minute.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAzsKDSkuTI