A Muslim Shrine presently occupies the site called, The Dome of the Rock. Often erroneously called the Mosque of Omar, it is not a mosque and it was not built by Omar. It was built in 691 by ...

All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger. We ask Allaah to exalt his mention ...

Is there decisive evidence that Al-Mahdi’s name is Muhammad Ibn ‘Abdullah or Muhammad? Could his name be Abu Al-Qaasim, Mustafa or any other name of the Prophet, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam? What is ...

Because Islam borrowed a great deal from Judaism and Christianity, it is not surprising that they too have a figure with a messianic complex—the Mahdi, or the Guided One. Muslims see the Mahdi as a ...

TEHRAN - Shaban 15, 1427 (Sep. 9, 2006) is the birth anniversary of the promised one and the only real savior of all mankind, the 12th infallible Imam of the Shia, Hazrat Mahdi (AS), whose followers ...

Click to open image viewer. In 1881 Mohammed Ahmed Ibn el-Sayyid Abdullah (1844-1885) declared himself "al-Mahdi," the Proclaimed One, successor to the prophet Mohammed. A scholar and an ascetic, he ...