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Mahdi

noun

(Islam) a messianic leader who (according to popular Muslim belief) will appear before the end of the world and restore justice and religion.

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"Mahdi" Quotes from Famous Books

... through the inspiration of lesser teachers, history shows us the phenomena of primitive Christianity repeated again and again; both within and without the Christian circle of ideas. Every religion looks for, and most have possessed, some revealer of the Spirit; some Prophet, Buddha, Mahdi, or Messiah. In all, the characteristic demonstrations of the human power of transcendence—a supernatural life which can be lived by us—have begun in one person, who has become a creative centre mediating new life ...

— The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day • Evelyn Underhill

... see." So the Caliph took ink-case and reed-pen and wrote as follows,—"In the name of Allah, the Compassionating, the Compassionate! But after.[FN62] This letter is written by Harun al-Rashid, son of Al-Mahdi, to his highness Mohammed bin Sulayman al-Zayni, whom I have encompassed about with my favour and made my viceroy in certain of my dominions. The bearer of these presents is Nur al-Din Ali, son of Fazl bin Khakan the Wazir. As soon as they come to thy hand divest ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton

... divert myself." Accordingly he brought me meat and drink, but I had no heart to eat, without some one to keep me company, and I ceased not to look out of window and watch the ways till nightfall, when I bethought myself of a damsel belonging to one of the sons of Al-Mahdi,[FN169] whom I loved and who was skilled in singing and playing upon instruments of music, and said to myself, "Were she here with us to night, my joy would be complete and my night would be abridged of the melancholy and restlessness which ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 7 • Richard F. Burton

Words linked to "Mahdi" : Muhammadanism, Mohammedanism, religious leader, Islam, Islamism, Muslimism, Mahdist