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Mahdi Precedes Islam
As the concept of the Mahdi precedes Islam and is of a wider occurrence, the detailed teachings furnished by Islam, being more fertile and more powerful in arousing the sentiments of the oppressed and the tormented throughout the course of history, give a greater vitality to all the aspirations which led to the emergence of this concept at the dawn of religious history. That is so because Islam has shifted this concept from the plane of transcendence to that of concrete reality, from the future to the present, and from the expectations of a saviour to be born in a distant and unknown future into a faith in an actual saviour who awaits along with others the promised day when all the conditions allowing him to carry out his great role are fulfilled.
Mahdi is not a Saviour
Hence the Mahdi is not a saviour whose birth
is awaited or a prophecy whose fulfilment is sought; rather he is
a present reality whose active involvement is awaited and a
particular individual living with his flesh and blood in our
midst, whom we see and who sees us. With us he lives through our
hopes and sufferings and participates in our joys and sorrows. He
witnesses everything going on in the world stage, the sufferings
of the tormented, the misery of the miserable, and the tyranny of
the tyrants, and, from far and near; feels them all intensely,
and, with his grief, await for the moment when he may extend his
hand towards every victim of oppression, deprivation and distress,
and crush the tyrants.
It has been decreed that this awaited leader
shall not make himself known publicly nor disclose his life to
others although he lives in their midst awaiting the promised
moment.
It is also obvious that these Islamic teachings close the gulf of transcendence between the oppressed and their awaited saviour, building a bridge, in their inner consciousness, between them and him, regardless of the length of the period of waiting.
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