{The Expected Mahdi}[13th April 1991]

[Redbook9:95][19910413:1056o]{The Expected Mahdi}[13th April 1991]

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‘The “Expected Mahdi”... is a figure who appears in the Hadith, or recorded sayings of Muhammad, rather than in the Koran. He is not strictly a messiah, but he was prophesied as a divinely inspired human who would cleanse Islam.

‘The appearance of a claimant is a regular feature at the beginning of each Muslim century. The Mad* Mahdi, whose men killed General Gordon in the Sudan, appeared at the beginning of the last century.

‘The belief is common to all Islam. There is a tradition that the Mahdi will appear in the fifteenth century and be proclaimed after dawn prayers in the Kaaba. The people of Mecca will try to kill him, but he will triumph and go on to liberate Jerusalem.

‘There he will be united with the prophet Issa, or Jesus, and defeat the false Mahdi from Persia.’

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This is interesting given that the year 2048CE must fall well within the 15^th century of the Muslim calendar, suggesting a convergence of two cycles.

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*‘mad’? [sic]

** – The Times, 19791123:96 (4^th day of the year 1400 in the Islamic calendar)***

(extracted at II [[Redbook2:158-160][19791123:1850]{Religious Prophecy}[23rd November 1979],] 158C,B) [In the ts this entry comes after the entries for p159; The Times report is not reproduced in the ts but is referred to in fn=* there]

***according to The Times (ref II [(See above)] 158B)

****{cf [[Redbook9:78][19910411:1858]{The Mahdi}[11th April 1991],] 78,

[[Redbook9:88][19910413:1056d]{Mahdis}[13th April 1991],] 88}

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