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Date of source: Saturday, March 8, 2003
Azhar scholars say that the Awaited Mahdi is just a myth. Sheikh Youssef El-Badri says the opposite. He backs his opinion with Qur´anic verses and hadiths. He forecasts that a dark man will appear one day as the Awaited Mahdi.
Date of source: Saturday, March 8, 2003
Interview with Sheikh Mahmoud El-Hanafi, who is said to have interpreted a woman´s dream on the TV program "Ro´a" as to mean the imminence coming of the awaited Mahdi
Date of source: Thursday, February 27, 2003
A TV program “Ro’a” [visions] hosts men of religion who interpret dreams for the members of the audience over the phone. It was said that one of the dreams was interpreted as an indication of the imminence of the awaited Mahdi and the Day of Judgment.
Date of source: Saturday, August 27, 2005 to Friday, September 2, 2005
Ahmad Deedat, a South African-born Muslim preacher is the author of the famous and controversial book Crucifixion or Crucifiction? His very controversial debates with Revd. James Swaggart in the 1980s are also very well known.
Date of source: Saturday, August 13, 2005 to Friday, August 19, 2005
A recent rumor about a girl in the Rast ān state of the Sultanate of Oman, who has turned into a monster the moment she took a copy of the Qur’ ān, which her mother was reciting it and threw it on the floor, has proven to be untrue. The girl has been admitted to the Sult ān ī hospital in Muscat.
Date of source: Monday, May 6, 2002
A Punjabi called Ghulam Ahmed claimed that there is a tomb of Jesus Christ in Kashmir. Ahmed founded a religious group that offends both Islam and Christianity. He once claimed that he was the Messiah and then claimed that he was a manifestation of the Prophet. The author believes that the story of...
Date of source: Sunday, February 26, 2006
The author reports on Egypt’s muftī’s statements about the concept of the Mahdī in Islamic belief.
Date of source: Thursday, January 26, 2006
There is no obligation on Muslims to watch the advent of the mahdī according to the muftī of Egypt.
Date of source: Saturday, October 1, 2005
According to the beliefs of the Sufi group Charity and Justice, Prophet Muhammad sometimes attends their meetings either to give dates to the female members or give them good omens that the time of triumph is imminent and tell them that they have to be prepared, for the political future of Morocco...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 31, 2004
A Saudi man called Al-Hussain Bin Abdullah Al-Lehadi claims on his own website that he is the awaited Mahdi sent by God to the whole world. Al-Lehadi propagates his false claim through the Internet and there are people who believe that he is the real, long-awaited Mahdi.
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Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.