2006-06-25 23:29:00 · 5 answers · asked by faaajsh 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
dear.He is the last imam of shias.He'll come & make peace the king of the world.he is not a prophet,he follows Muhammed(p.b.u.h) and will lead the the whole world when he comes.nobody knows where he is,but he is like sun,behind a cloud,when he comes,everywhere,every home,and every heart will be full of light,the light of God.
2006-06-26 00:05:20 · answer #1 · answered by Goli 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Khalifa Mahdi is one of the Signs of the End of this World, when he appears, surely you would look at Jesus too in the nearby.
He will appear at a time of Bloodshed, a time when Muslims are suffering so much, a time of hardship, a time of wars, a time of increasing tension every day, a time when people who are alive at his time will be wishing to be those in the grave.
He will bring peace, harmony, and wealth, and every one will be happy with his reign, it is said that even the animals will show their happiness in his time.
Together with Jesus, He will fight many wars, and will all be successful. He will fight the Gog and Magog, the Dajjal, and then die a natural death.
It is said that He will be born from a Family descendants of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) His name shall also be the same as the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)'s name i.e. Muhammad bn Abdullah.
Allah knows best.
May Allah guide us to the right way, may We also be one of His community when He appear on this Planet...Amin
Peace...
2006-06-26 00:02:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
isn't the imam mahdi is the same as the second coming of prophet muhammad like the second coming of jesus.
2006-06-25 23:34:00 · answer #3 · answered by santosh s 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I've heard, but I also heard that he is not a prophet. Like A chosen one of some sort. Dunno...
but here's a little bit of info...
The idea of the Mahdi does not appear in the Qur'an, but is mentioned in the earliest and-according to many-most reliable collections of Muhammad's sayings-the 'hadith' collection of Muslim. Later recorded references to the Mahdi occurred in al-Mukhtar's rebellion against the Umayyid Caliphate in 686 CE. Al-Mukhtar claimed that Ibn al-Hanifiya, a son of the fourth Caliph Ali, was the Mahdi who would save the Muslim people from the unjust rule of the Umayyids. Ibn al-Hanifiya was not actively involved in the rebellion, and when the Umayyids successfully quashed it, they left him undisturbed.
The idea of a man who would arise to right the injustices in the world of Islam was now widely held, however, and later collections of hadiths included ample references to the Mahdi.
For example, in a hadith now widely regarded as authentic, the Islamic prophet Muhammad stated:
"Even if the entire duration of the world's existence has already been exhausted and only one day is left before the Day of Judgment, Allah will expand that day to such a length of time, as to accommodate the kingdom of a person out of my Ahl al-Bayt who will be called by my name. He will then fill the Earth with peace and justice as it will have been filled with injustice and tyranny before then."
Sahih Tirmidhi, V2, P86, V9, P74-75.
The Mahdi, according to majority Sunni and Shi'ite tradition, will arise at some point before the day of judgement, institute a kingdom of justice, and will in the last days fight alongside the returned Jesus against the Dajjal (Antichrist or false Messiah).
However, since the most reliable sources do not refer to him, various Muslim traditions have ascribed different characteristics to the Mahdi, and many leaders of politico-religious revival movements in Islam have claimed to be the Mahdi.
The following sections list a few of the characteristics of the Mahdi, according to various traditions of Islam:
Birth of the Mahdi
Sunni, Shi'a, and Mahdavi sources
* He is a descendant of Muhammad, from the offspring of Muhammad's daughter, Fatimah
Sunni sources
* He will be born in Medina, Saudi Arabia. Some generalize the word 'medina' to be any city as the word literally means "city", and cite the discrepancies in various reports regarding the subject.
* His father's name will be Abdullah (same name as Muhammad's father). Abdullah means "Servant of God" and can also be widely interpreted to mean that his father will be a virtuous and holy person.
Ithna Ashari Shia sources
* He was born in ?? and is still alive.
* He has been in 'occultation'-that is, absent from the physical world-since the age of five years
* His father is the 11th Shi'a Imam, Hasan al-Askari
* His mother is Narjis, a Byzantine princess
* Twelver Shia Muslims believe that the Mahdi is the 12th and last of the Shi'a Imams
Mahdavi sources
* Necessarily sunni thought in matters of prophetic reports.
* Maintain that the promised Mahdi couldn't appear along with Jesus, quoting some reports
* Since they believe in one who earlier claimed to be Mahdi, they wait now only for Jesus's second coming.
Characteristics of the Mahdi
Sunni and Shi'a sources
* He is a man
* His first name is "Mehedi" and last name is "Kamal"
* Some Muslims claim that his name can be an accepted variant of Muhammad such as Ahmed or Mahmoud; similarly, accepted variants of his father Abdullah's name include Abdul Rahman, Abdul Magid, and Abdul Hamid. Supporters of this idea quote a passage from the prophet Muhammad in the Hadith which reads: "His name is like my name, and his father's name is like my father's name."
* He is tall
* His facial features are similar to those of Muhammad
* His character is like that of Muhammad
Sunni sources
* He has a fair complexion
* He has a broad forehead and a prominent nose
Signs indicating the emergence of the Mahdi
Shi'a sources
* The 6th Shi'a Imam, Jafar al-Sadiq, is reported to have said:
"Before the appearance of the one who will rise, peace be upon him, the people will be reprimanded for their acts of disobedience by a fire that will appear in the sky and a redness that will cover the sky. It will swallow up Baghdad, and will swallow up Kufa. Their blood will be shed and houses destroyed. Death will occur amid their people and a fear will come over the people of Iraq from which they shall have no rest."
* There will be an insurgence by the Sufyani, a descendant of Abu Sufyan. Abu Sufyan is considered by Shias to have been one of Muhammad's greatest enemies, along with his son, Muawiya I and Muawiya's son, Yazid. According to Shia narrations, the Sufyani's revolution will start from Palestine/Jordan, and his reign of tyranny will span the Middle East from Iraq to Egypt.
* A loud call from the sky signals the Mahdi's appearance.
Emergence of the Mahdi
Sunni and Shi'a sources
* He emerges during the last days of the world from Makkah
* He and Isa (ie. Jesus) are two different individuals
* He precedes the second appearance of Jesus, the Islamic and Christian Messiah
* He establishes justice, peace and truth throughout the world
Sunni sources
* Jesus defeats the false Messiah or Antichrist, known as the ad-Dajjal
* Once the Dajjal is defeated, Jesus and the Mahdi live on Earth to live out their natural life
* According to some traditions, Jesus gets married, has a family, and dies. There is a grave reserved for him next to Muhammad's grave in Masjid al-Nabawi in Medina.
* The Mahdi will correct the false or corrupted practices in Islam, and Jesus will likewise correct false practices done in his name
Shi'a sources
* Upon his emergence, the young among his followers, without any prior appointment, reach Mecca that very night
* Each of his soldiers has the power of forty strong men
* Sinful opposers call their own followers to fight
* A large number of non-believers will convert to Islam once they see that the signs in the reports have occurred
2006-06-25 23:54:40 · answer #4 · answered by the_silent_philosopher 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, they say it to all the Prophets
2006-06-26 00:03:33 · answer #5 · answered by Xena_07 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋