English-Polish translations for mahdi

• mahdi
  Mordowani są pracownicy organizacji pomocowych, wśród nich Mohamed Mahdi. Workers from aid organisations have also been murdered, among them Mohamed Mahdi.
  Młodzi ludzie odwracają się od sekciarstwa i przemocy, milicja traci poparcie, a Armia Mahdiego zaczyna współpracować. Young people are turning their backs on sectarianism and violence, the militia are losing support and the Mahdi Army is cooperating.

Definition of mahdi

• A leader who, according to Sunni eschatology, will appear and restore peace and justice before the end of the world.
• , the last of the Twelve Imams, born in 868 AD but believed alive and present in this world in a state of occultation; officially the head of state of the ; similarly to Sunni belief he will reappear before the end of time

Examples

• Ahmadis consider Mirza Ghulam Ahmed to be the Mahdi.

Related words

• Mahdist
• timahdite
• mahdollisesti loukkaava'') negro