Talk:Mahdi

Does this rewording of the Ahmadi claims help the NPOV any?

"According to the Ahmaddiya movement, one of the signs which will indicate the emergence of al-Mahdi will be that in the month of Ramadan prior to his emergence two eclipses will occur, one of the sun and one of the moon, both being visible from the Middle East and Arabia. These signs are said to have been visible right after the claim of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad to be the Promised Messiah and Mahdi, and are supposed to happen again during Ramadan AH 1426 (roughly October 2005 CE). These claims are disputed by many non-Ahmadi Muslims." (My recent attempt toward an NPOV here.)

It seems to me (a non-Muslim) that we should try to include "variant" positions on the Mahdi in Wikipedia, as different doctrines concerning the Messiah are addressed in that article. I think too that maybe the layout of this article should be changed, adding a "non-Sunni and non-Shia" section that the Ahmadi claims would be fit into. (Am I correct that the Ahmadiyya are generally thought of as being neither Sunni nor Shi'ite?)

To further the general appearance of coherence as well, I would also remove the next sentence ("The title has been claimed by various individuals in history[...]") to the "People who saw themselves as Mahdi" section and rework that.

Or maybe it'd be better to note that "The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has other doctrines and predictions concerning the Mahdi" and for that off into another article entirely (something like "The Mahdi in the Ahmadi tradition")? Maybe the hypertextish nature of Wikipedia can be employed to good advantage here too?

I put the Ahmaddiyah view of the Mahdi in it's own section. The Ahmadiyya movement is a very small one among worldwide Muslims, but if you want to include their view of the mahdi, I do not think there is a problem with it. However, it should be seperate from the Sunni view as most Sunnis do not view the Ahmadiyya movement as a Muslim one. Thus, I have created a new section for it within the article, and removed the NPOV notice. DigiBullet 20:41, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

″≈≈ἋᾋΖ== This happened in the past! ==

"There will be an insurgence by the Sufyani, a descendent 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."

Muslims believes that Israel will take over the land from Egypt to Iraq and then Jesus (Essa or Isa) will appear to fight them along with Mahdi.

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03/28/06

Just a suggestion... I think the article should also be linked to the wiki article on the Bab (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bab) From a Baha'i perspective he is the Mahdi.

Bibliography

I've added a bibliographical section dealing with English language literature on Mahdism (s), also reproduced with the Messiah entry. Can anyone think of any other English language references that should be there?

User Calibanu 17:02, 31 May 2006

Kalki and Mahdi in Sikhism

In reference to the section "Mahdi in Sikhism" which probably needs to be removed: The Dasam Granth seems to claim that Mir Mehdi (Mahdi) will kill Kalki. Then Mir Mehdi will also be killed by God who sends an insect to creep into his ear and give him a very agonising pain. Both are called egoistic by the work. Otherwise both are said to ride a white horse.

References

Imam Mahdi "12 Tribe Kilafah" "12 Tribe Bani israel"

As we can see today imam mahdi is the chief from 12 khilafah and 12 tribes of israel ( 10 lost tribes and 2 tribes ) in hadist and holy bible, as far we know they remain hidden and unknown but in many way there is the perspective of false prophet or false imam like ahmad gulam riza ( ahmadiyyah ) and other kind as far till today Prophet Muhammad PBUH descendant is under protection from kilafah in holy land or promised land as in "genesis" holy bible, since later era and later on they will protect maccah and baitul al maqdis "3 holy site" madinah, Jerusalem, and Mecca and for Imam mahdi will be elected by Isa / Jesus for the battle of end time agains gog magog "yajuj & Majuj". 72 73 75 only 1 is keep the law until the end of time. Shalom aleichem

FYI Isaiah daniel 7: 25, Yehezkiel Matthew 24 and ali imran and al kahf. may LORD "الله" Adonai will guide us from False Mouth and they think they descendant of Prophet. Shalom Aleichem. Mahdi is will guide the ishmaelites to fought false messiah with jesus / isa and the trumphet will be blown after that. QuaMbear (talk) 07:56, 7 September 2026 (UTC)