. Cassell's history of the war in the Soudan. he inquiry was pending,Mahmoud was permitted to despatcha second force towards Tokar, but itwas almost annihilated soon after leav-ing Suakim; and the troops of theMahdi were now stated to be 300 000strong, doubtless a great Oriental exasffjeration. According to the Koran, one of theseventeen signs of the end of theworld is the coming of the Mahdi, or, WHAT IS A MAHDI? 85 ^Director, as prophesied by Mo-liammed. This person the Shiitesbelieve to be now alive, concealed insome secret place, and assert that hewas born at Sermanrai in the year 255of th
. Cassell's history of the war in the Soudan. he inquiry was pending,Mahmoud was permitted to despatcha second force towards Tokar, but itwas almost annihilated soon after leav-ing Suakim; and the troops of theMahdi were now stated to be 300 000strong, doubtless a great Oriental exasffjeration. According to the Koran, one of theseventeen signs of the end of theworld is the coming of the Mahdi, or, WHAT IS A MAHDI? 85 ^Director, as prophesied by Mo-liammed. This person the Shiitesbelieve to be now alive, concealed insome secret place, and assert that hewas born at Sermanrai in the year 255of the Hegira; but the Eastern worldhas seen more than one avowed Mahdi,Among others, singular to say, awoman, the wife of Abu Cahdala, a Soudan is thus a Mahdi, he wrote; but our religion teaches us thatbefore the advent of the last Mahdiseven men shall successively rise invarious parts of the Moslem world, andby religious propaganda shall preparethe way for him. Each of these sevenmen shall be called either Achmet orMohammed. In my opinion this. PORTIFIED BRIDGE CONNECTING THE ISLAND OF 8UAKIM WITH THE MAINLAND. magician of the Tribe of Tamum, whoobtained a great following in Yamama,and whose end is unknown. Another,whose name is familiar to the Englishreader, was Hakim Ebn Hashem, orthe Veiled Prophet of Khorassan. A learned Moslem, in a London paperfor December, 1883, expressed somedoubts whether the Mahdi of theSoudan believed in the holiness of hisown mission. Any man who raises a religiousenthusiasm and leads a host is a !Mahdior leader, and the present rebel in the Soudan Mahdi is the third. Senoussiwas the first, Arabi the second, and hethe third agitator, bearing one orother of the prescribed names. Thereal Mahdi shall appear on MountArafat at the time of the Towaf, orsacred procession of the Haj. Hiscoming will be foretold by the dumb-ness of the seven Imaums, who shallin turn attempt to recite the Khutbet(or Moslem creed), and fail. Then theMahdi will ride out from the c
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