What good does it do to write prayers on little slips of paper and put them in the crack of the Wailing Wall? What good is lighting candles to Mary, or burning incense to ancestors?
I am not aware that the purpose of performing these traditions has anything to do with the calling to arms of fellow believers. Which based upon what this letter says appears to have the purpose of doing.
And does the rest of the Muslim world have the same Imam?
No. The sunnis think the shiite are full of, well, shiite on this.
OK so they have religious issues within their religion, not unlike any of the other numerous religions around the globe. But apparently a Hidden Imam is common to the religion, else there would be no point in using the 'threat' of him coming out of hiding.
Ah. I see what you mean.
hmmmm. You've stumped me.
I'd venture that since islam is soaked in blood and evil, anything that forwards death and destruction is kosher?
Sunnis believe the Mahdi will be born to parents named Abdullah and Amina, which were Muhammad’s parents’ names.
Twelver Shi’ites think the Mahdi is the 12th imam, that is the twelfth sucessor to Imam Ali (Muhammad’s cousin). His name is Muhammad al-Muntazar. There are other sects of Shi’ites who differ on which imam is the Mahdi (some say the fifth, some say the seventh)....