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"The final judgment Islam and Christianity hold that all peoples at the end of their lives shall answer before God. The Qur’an calls it the Day of Sorting Out (Q.
The Shiite View According to Crow (1987:478): The Mahdi was understood as a prophetic eschatological figure who had disappeared from mortal sight and subsisted miraculously in a semiparadisial state until the time of his awaited reappearance; according to prophetic tradition, at that time he would lead the army of the righteous and initiate the terrible drama of the eschaton… He functions both as the avenger for the wrongs suffered by the Shi’ah and the herald of the ultimate theocracy on earth, when punishment for wickedness and tyranny will be administered, followed by the inauguration of a blissful reign of social and religious perfection preceding Resurrection Day. The same author writes: Beliefs touching on the sinlessness of the imam/Mahdi, his supernatural knowledge, the mode of his ascensional being, his power of intercession and remission of sin, and his future glory and vindication were developed and in time admitted as integral to the Mahdi figure among the largest body of the Shairah, the Twelvers (Crow 1987:479).
(:214) In short, according to Shiite theology, Imam Mahdi will come with Jesus Christ: The Mahdi will arrive at the end of a long period of disintegration culminating in the appearance of al-Dajjal, whom he will kill, just as he will kill all the enemies of the family of the Prophet."