MUSLIMS:  Who is the IMAM MAHDI? Is he the anti-christ or messiah?
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Mahdi is a pure Muslim a descendant of prophet Muhammad PBUH who is coming in the future to spread justice among people, after him in few years the dajjal (anti-Christ) well come, who will defeat Mahdi and will occupy the whole world apart from Mecca and Medina. Then Jesus will come and kill dajjal and spread Islam all over the world. The Lamb in the revelation book of the Gospel and the true and faithful are related to Mahdi.
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I would heavily recommend you leave Islam. The Antichrist will come from her and will claim to be and accepted as Islam's awaited Mahdi.\n\nRead your Bible, consult the Church Elders about your problems. Once the Mahdi comes and you do as he says, you will be one of his, and there will be no forgiveness for anyone who bows to the Antichrist.\n\nI pray God direct your home.
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no Muhammad was not a false prophet. anything god has Satan wont's. god has the bible so Satan used Muhammad to get the Koran."there is no Satan but Satan, and Muhammad is the Messenger of Satan"\nmuhammad was a prophet but not gods
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He probably considers himself a descendant of Ali since he is the head of a theocratic Islamic state.  As such, what he says goes.  I believe it's a major difference between Shi'i and Sunni Islam, with the Sunni being less apt to allow their political leaders to determine their mode of expressing their faith.  Islam is a religion of orthopraxy and not orthodoxy.  In such religions, one places more weight on what they do everyday than they do in other religions.  Leaders are expected to perscribe what rules of behavior are to be followed by the people of their countries.
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Isa was not the son of God\nIsa was the son of Mariam, the sister of Moses\nIsa did not die on the cross, and was not resurrected.\nIsa is predicted to return in the end times but to break the cross, deny that he is the son of god and point worship to the Islamic Messiah The Mahdi \n\nSounds like a totally different person to me. It certainly is not Yeshua HaNazarite
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The major split in Islam is that between the majority Sunnis and the minority Shiites.  The split goes back to events in the 7th century:\n\nAfter Mohammed’s death,  leadership of the Islamic community passed to Abu Bakr, one of Mohammed’s closest companions.  Some in the community felt that this succession was not legitimate, and that the title of caliph really belonged to Ali.  Ali’s claim was supported by the fact that he was Mohammed’s cousin, his adopted son, his first convert (at the age of nine), and husband of his daughter Fatima.  Both sides believe that Mohammed specifically designated their man:  Supporters of Abu became the Sunnis, those of Ali the Shiites.\n\nThe  Caliphate passed from Abu Bakr to Umar, and from Umar to Ulthman.  Ulthman at last passed the torch to Ali.  When Ali was murdered in 661, the Caliphate passed to Muawiya, who would found the famous Umayyid Caliphate.  Ali was buried in Najaf in what is now Iraq, and the site remains a major Shiite holy site. \n\nSunni refers to the sunnas, or oral traditions and interpretations of the Koran -- a body of work similar to the Jewish Talmud.  Sunnis believe that the position of Caliph should be a position to which one is elected by the religious leaders of the Islamic community, and not dependent on direct lineage from Mohammed.\n\nShiite comes from the word shia, which means “the party (of Ali).  They are mostly found in Iran and Iraq, and among the Palestinians.  They consider certain direct descendants of Ali -- the Imams -- infallible and the true inheritors of Mohammed.  Ali was the first Imam, his son Hassan the second, his second son Hussein the third.   Ali’s sons were killed in the conflict with Caliph Muawiya.  However, their succession ended with the 12th Imam, who went into hiding in 940.  Most Shiites believe that the 12th Imam will reemerge someday as the Mahdi or Messiah, and reassert his leadership of the Islamic world.  In the meantime, ayatollahs are elected to serve as caretakers of the faith.
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This is a question that is very hard to answer and the answer that i am about to give is only speculation or a calculated guess and can be wrong. Firstly, i would presume that you are a Christian. \n\nIn order to make a guess who the anti- Christ or the nationality of him, we need to understand, how far would his rule goes? Would he rule the world or only the major parts. Lets presume he is going to rule the world for the 7 years. Then the people of this world has to choose him and believe that he is capable. Some might even go on to say he is the messiah. In order for that to happen, the anti-christ must appease 4 major groups of people.\nThey are the jews, the muslims, the christians and the rest of the world. This is an almost impossible task but is it possible?\n\n1) He must appease the jews, if he is going to be accepted by the jews. In the later part of the anti-christ ministry , we find that jews discover that thy were duped and fled to the mountains but at its earlier stage, the jews or israelites have to accept him and therefore he can have full access into the temple(which later part would play a significant role). However the jews will only accept him if he is also born a jew because the messiah has to be an isrealite. So He has to be an Isrealite.\n\n2) But the majority of the middle east are muslims. And if the muslims are going to accept him and listen to him, he has to be muslim. If he is going to bring peace in the middle east and also somewhat be a messiah. To the muslims, he has to be a muslim\n\n3) To the rest of he world, If he can bring peace and probably win the nobel peace prize, he would probably be worthy to sit in that position.\n\n4)Now the christians reads a lot and probably are prepared for all sorts of scenerios. However the bible did say that if possible, he will decieve even the elect. So how to decieve the christians? when does a Christian be lieve  that the person is the messiah. He has to do miracles, signs and wonders. Prominent ministries has to promote him. That is what is happening today around the world. doesnt matter if they speak wrong doctrine aslong as prophets afirm and they can perform signs and wonders. Justifying themselves by saying modern day prophets dun need to get all their prophecies a 100 percent correct.\n\nSo i put forth to you\n\nTo be a jew, the mother has to be a jew. So maybe the mother of the antichrist is jew married to a father who is muslim promoted  by prominent Christian ministries and modern day prohets(a trusted prophet that went astray in his later ministries and became a false prophet) as the messiah and able to do false sins and wonders.He would be smart able to come up with a peace proposal and give peace and thereby acknowlege by the rest of the world as their leader.
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The followers of islam say that Jesus is not the Son of God.  The Bible says that anyone who denies that Jesus is the Son of God in anti-Christ.  According to the bible, the anti-christ is satanic.
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YES MOSES, JESUS AND MOHAMMED PREACHED ONE AND SAME GOD.\nAS PER HOLY QURAN THEY ARE ALL PROPHETS AND TAUGHT PEOPLE TO WORSHIP ONLY ONE CREATOR WHO IS THE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE.NO BODY CREATED HIM, HE DON'T HAVE ANY SON OR DAUGHTER OR PARENTS.HE IS INVISIBLE AND DO NOT HAVE ANY IMAGE.\nIF ANY MUSLIM DON NOT BELIEVE JESUS AND MOSES AS PROPHETS THEN HE IS NOT A MUSLIM. THE HISTORY OF BOTH JESUS & MOSES ARE MENTIONED IN THE HOLY QURAN\nQISHC
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The asker is right when referring Muslims recognizing Jesus (PBUH) as the messiah because each religion has their own view of the meaning of messiah @ al-masih. Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messiah . Islam recognizes Jesus (PBUH) as a prophet, not as the son of Lord God. Hence, Islam still recognizes Jesus (PBUH) and is not considered as Christians. Yes, the Tanakh (Old Testament) is being added by Christians (New Testament) and Muslims believe in the Torah (in Islam, it is called the Taurat) but after Quran was being given to Muhammad (PBUH) all of the rules in the earlier scriptures are abolished and human beings are to adhere to the Holy Quran because it is the most complete scripture among all four scriptures (Zabur, Taurat, Injil and Quran). Yes, I think it's kinda interesting to see the three Abrahamaic religions has the same roots but are fighting among themselves (You don't see Buddhists and Hindus fighting among themselves even though they came from the same root, right?) Because of the "Holy Wars", people are starting to "convert" to Atheistism.
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I believe Imam is correct.\n\nImam = In law and theology, the caliph who is successor to Muhammad as the lawful temporal leader of the Islamic community. \nThe male prayer leader in a mosque. \nThe Muslim worshiper who leads the recitation of prayer when two or more worshipers are present.
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I will give this a shot, so to speak.\nI am going to give this, but if you want all the scripture references, then it will be very lengthy.  But I can put them here.  \nAbraham had two children Ishmael, through a slave woman, and Isaac through his wife.  The Christian linage follows the seed of Isaac.  Ishmael (father of all arabs) was thrown out of the family.  Anyway the linage of God and his people Israel follow Isaac, Jacob, 12 tribes of Israel (Jacob, God changed his name)  Anyway that is where it all started.  \nIslam came about with the prophet Muhammad around 1400 when he wrote the Koran.  And it has developed from there.\nThe people of God, the Jews are the source of the Bible and Jesus was born the Messiah and as you know died for our sins.  Jesus said a lot of very definite things about himself that left no room for any other way to get to God.  Muhammad recognises Jesus as a prophet, but says that the Bible is totally wrong, but does not have any writings of Jesus.  This leaves Jesus as a sort of silent Prophet for them.  They concentrate on Muhammad and sort of ignore Jesus and any writings of his.  The teaching of Muhammad and Jesus are directly opposite even as their lives were.  Jesus never married and was finally killed for our sins.  Muhammad had a number of wives and one was a 6 year old girl that he consummated at the age of 9.  Anyway Christianity and Islam are at opposite ends completely.\nThere are copies of the Koran on the net and you can read them, they say some pretty gruesome things.  The Muslim community is trying to white wash the Koran, but unless they decide to re-write it they can not deny what it says.  The peaceful ones ignore the violent passages and quote the non violent passages.  The violent ones quote the violent passages to justify killing everyone.  And the passages are in there.  The Christian is bound by love your enemy and do good to them that hate you.  Directly opposite.  I can give the scriptures but it will be much longer.
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check out\n\nhttp://www.prophetofmercy.org/\n\nhttp://www.islamway.com/mohammad/\n\nhttp://www.beconvinced.com/en/article.php?articleid=0008&catid=05&subcatname=Who%20Is%20Muhammad?\n\nOR\n\nMy site\n\nhttp://askmuslims.com\n\nIf you have any questions let me know.
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i agree with you, dear asker.\n\nif you study the life of Christ, you can only make one of three conclusions about Him:\n\nEither He:\n1.)  claimed to be God, yet knew He wasn't, that would make Him a liar\n2.)  thought He was God, but didn't know He wasn't, and that would make Him a lunatic.\n3.)  Proclaimed Himself to be God, and actually was/is God, and that would make Him Lord ;-)\n\ni mean, if Jesus were faking His messiahship, He sure went out the hard way, b/c His teachings contradicted the messianic expectations of the time.  if He was trying to be the messiah they expected, He sure did a lousy job. the Messiah He was and the messiah they expected  were so different that they missed the point completely.  they actually crucified Him b/c He claimed to be God!\n\nThe deity of Jesus is the ''great divide'' between christianity and gnosticism, cults, etc.  all cults will try and deny the Deity of Jesus.  it's also the divider between christianity and islam.  Muhammed did not die for you, and he was not sinless.
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The Mahdi will appear at the end of time, he will guide the muslims to a victory against the FALSE MESSIAH. Afterwards Jesus the Christ will come to the world again and will rule the world from jerusalem in justice until the judgement day. GOD KNOWS BETTER
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Allah is a false god that has no power at all. He was the old sun god in the OT. Muhammad has no power either, He was a false prophet. When he died he stayed dead. The Lord Jesus Christ came to earth as a man so He could die for our sins. He was buried and took our sins away and He rose again the third day for our justification. He is alive today put your trust in what He did for all tha would believe. 1 Corinthians 15: 3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 1 Corinthians 15: 4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: Romans 4: 25 Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.
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I would not be too concerned about this demon possessed, Maitreya.  I read about him around 1978 or so, and the belief that he is the Antichrist.\n\nI have no doubt he's sheer evil in the disguise of good - but unless the man can convince the Muslims he is their awaited Mahdi.., that's not going to happen.\n\nThe Antichrist comes from Islam. See Daniel chapter 9:27 and read the foot note for the alternate translation in the NIV.  The Dome of the Rock Mosque sits squarely on a wing of the Temple mount and has a pinnacle. Islam was seen as an evil force in a vision by Daniel.\n\nIronically, the Muslims claim that the angel Gabriel gave Muhammad the Quran and explained Islam to him.  Not one prophecy from Islam as ever taken place..., \n\nNow consider Gabriel did speak with Daniel. How could Gabriel give conflicting testimonies to both men? Its not likely.\n\nDaniel's prophecy turns out true and far in advance of the birth of Islam, Islam being born around 600 AD.\n\nPaul warned about Satan appearing as an angel of light and it is through Islam that Satan has set up his own destined son, the Antichrist, who will appear most likely as the Muslims Mahdi.., to make their prophecy look valid.