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[Alexandr Korol]

The next messiah is Mahdi in Islam, who, once again, appears before the end of the world. Wikipedia states: “The figure of Imam Mahdi is conceived as an independent image of the ‘renewer of faith.’” This also appears frequently – ”Renewer of faith,” as if the old has been lost and something new must emerge.
Further: “In the early centuries of the Hijra, Mahdi was perceived as the expected ruler who was to restore the original purity of Islam. This role was claimed by the ‘anti-caliph’ Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr. Messianic ideas gained widespread acceptance in Shiism, where belief in the coming of Mahdi merged with the belief in the return of the ‘hidden’ Imam – Muhammad al-Mahdi.” “Mahdi, according to Islamic eschatology, will not descend from the heavens like Isa but will establish the Kingdom of God on earth together with him. He will be a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad and will begin his mission at the same time as the arrival of Dajjal.” Dajjal is the Antichrist or, more precisely, the Beast – that is, evil. “Together with Isa, he will fight against Dajjal and defeat him. Mahdi and Isa will abolish violence and injustice and establish fair and true order.” So, you see, everywhere there is a battle against this evil, which is now visible to the naked eye, and it all must be destroyed, and new orders will be established. Further, it says: “Mahdi is considered an ordinary man, corresponding to his time. Unlike in Shiism, the Sunni Mahdi, according to I. Goldziher, is ‘an undefined figure, a mythological embellishment of the ideal future.’ Some theologians identify Mahdi with ‘renewers of faith.’” There it is again.
Further: “The Messiah in Judaism, ‘the anointed one,’ is the ideal ruler of the messianic era. The term is often used in the Babylonian Talmud and Midrashim without an article, as a proper name. However, the first time ‘Messiah’ appears in apocalyptic literature, it is used with a definite article and without connection to another word. In the Bible, this expression occurs only once, in the Book of the Prophet Daniel; but in apocalyptic and rabbinic literature, the word (Mashiach) consistently refers to the messianic king. However, the very idea of God’s chosen one runs throughout the Old Testament as a natural consequence of the prophets’ hope for a better future.”

What else: “Apocrypha. Just as in the aforementioned books of the prophets, in ancient apocryphal works, the figure of the Messiah remains undefined.