Al-Masih ad-Dajjal, otherwise referred to simply as the Dajjal, is an antagonistic figure in Islamic eschatology who will pretend to be the promised Messiah and later claim to be God, appearing before
An image from a Falname made in India around 1610–1630 depicts Jesus fighting the Dajjal (right). Behind, the Mahdi with a veiled face.
Minaret of Isa on the Umayyad Mosque, in Damascus, Syria, which is thought to be one of the possible places to which ʿĪsā will descend.
Jamkaran Mosque in Qom, Iran, is a popular pilgrimage site for Shīʿa Muslims. Local belief holds that the twelfth Shīʿīte Imam, the promised Mahdi according to Twelvers, once appeared and offered prayers at Jamkaran.
The Mahdi is the Islamic messianic and eschatological figure, who is believed to appear before the End Times to restore justice and defeat tyranny alongside Isa. He forms an important part of Islamic
Al-Masih ad-Dajjal
…of the Antichrist (Dajjal) and the reappearance of the prophet Jesus to join in battle with him at Dabbiq in Syria, as well as the arrival of the Mahdī, the "guided one". As another hadith attributed to Alī ibn Abī Talib puts it, "Most of the Dajjal's followers are Jews and children of fornication; God…
Muhammad al-Mahdi calligraphy at the Prophet's Mosque in Medina.
The Al-Askari Shrine in Samarra, Iraq, stands where the house of the 11th Imam Hasan al-Askari and his son the Mahdi once used to be. It contains the mausoleums of al-Askari, and the 10th Imam Ali al-Hadi