The signs of the Last of Time or the Last Days can be divided into two categories:
1- portents of the coming of Doomsday.
2- signs predicting the coming of the Mahdi, who will come before Doomsday.
I think, Mahan meant the signs predicting the coming of the Mahdi.
Mahan, why is the Mahdi called the Qa'im or the 'raised up one'?
The signs predicting the coming of many prophets had been spread in communities in the past, as they have been now about the Mahdi.
Before Moses came, there had been such signs of the coming of the savior of the Children of Israel who would liberate them from the enslaving by Pharaoh.
Before the coming of Jesus, there had been predicting signs for the coming of three persons who had not come yet:
The Christ,
The Prophet (Mohammed)
And Elia who will be raised in the Last Days.
So when John Baptist started to preach the word of God and ask the sinners to repent, and to give the good news of the coming of Jesus Christ;
people came and asked him about those 3 persons: the Christ, the Prophet, and Elia (who is in fact the Mahdi that will be raised in the Last Days.) and he said: No, I am not anyone of them: I only am a voice in the wilderness crying: Repent from your sins.
Then when Jesus was captured by the Jews, who demanded the ruler to execute him, then the disciples saw him alive 3 days later, some of them said: It must be he is the one in the prophecy who will be raised in the Last Days.
So they deduced that he was the one that will be raised from the dead.
Hence, there had been such prediction in the community at that time: that there is one who will be raised from the dead, and they applied such prediction to Jesus, because they saw him 3 days after the event of the crucifixion of the man in the prison who was similar to him.
I mean there are signs of prediction of the coming of the next savior, the Mahdi, now and each party try to interpret and exploit such predictive signs to their ideology.
The outstanding predicting sign of the coming of the Mahdi (which is written in books since hundreds of years ago) is the excavation of the temple, or in Arabic كشف الهيكل
1- portents of the coming of Doomsday.
2- signs predicting the coming of the Mahdi, who will come before Doomsday.
I think, Mahan meant the signs predicting the coming of the Mahdi.
thanks Motar , I think there are some similarities between biblical signs about Resurrection and Islamic signs about Apocalypse
Mahan, why is the Mahdi called the Qa'im or the 'raised up one'?
The signs predicting the coming of many prophets had been spread in communities in the past, as they have been now about the Mahdi.
Before Moses came, there had been such signs of the coming of the savior of the Children of Israel who would liberate them from the enslaving by Pharaoh.
Before the coming of Jesus, there had been predicting signs for the coming of three persons who had not come yet:
The Christ,
The Prophet (Mohammed)
And Elia who will be raised in the Last Days.
So when John Baptist started to preach the word of God and ask the sinners to repent, and to give the good news of the coming of Jesus Christ;
people came and asked him about those 3 persons: the Christ, the Prophet, and Elia (who is in fact the Mahdi that will be raised in the Last Days.) and he said: No, I am not anyone of them: I only am a voice in the wilderness crying: Repent from your sins.
Then when Jesus was captured by the Jews, who demanded the ruler to execute him, then the disciples saw him alive 3 days later, some of them said: It must be he is the one in the prophecy who will be raised in the Last Days.
So they deduced that he was the one that will be raised from the dead.
Hence, there had been such prediction in the community at that time: that there is one who will be raised from the dead, and they applied such prediction to Jesus, because they saw him 3 days after the event of the crucifixion of the man in the prison who was similar to him.
I mean there are signs of prediction of the coming of the next savior, the Mahdi, now and each party try to interpret and exploit such predictive signs to their ideology.
The outstanding predicting sign of the coming of the Mahdi (which is written in books since hundreds of years ago) is the excavation of the temple, or in Arabic كشف الهيكل
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