Ayatollah vs. Shah
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The Mahdi in the Islamic Constitution
In early islam, the new religion adopted from christianity its eschotological story of a rider on a white horse who would vanquish the antichrist and inaugurate an era of eternal peace. Amon: Some moslems believed that at the end of time, jesus would, in fact, hand power over to this moslem and would pray behind him. So there you have in the iranian constitution where it explicitly invokes the mahdi, his absence, his imminent return,. And until that point, the supreme leader has over every aspect of the shia, or the moslem life.
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