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To every people (was sent) a messenger:150 when their messenger comes (before them), the matter will be judged between them with justice, and they will not be wronged.

In this verse is a prefiguring, to Moses, of the Arabian Messenger, the last and greatest of the Messengers of Allah. Prophecies about him will be found in the Torah and the Injīl. In the reflex of the Torah as now accepted by the Jews, Moses says, “The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee, of thy brethren, like unto me” (Deut.xviii.15): the only P

Khomeini argued that in the absence of the Mahdi, divine guidance could come only from the Hidden Imam’s representatives on…

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Mais ils reconnaissent une valeur quasi égale à leur propre corpus de hadiths attribués, non pas au seul Prophète, mais aux quatorze Impeccables, c’est-à-dire les douze imams (dans le cas des chiites duodécimains), le prophète Mohamed et sa fille Fatima, épouse

what made Muhammad unique was his claim to be “the Messenger of God.” He even went so far as to identify himself repeatedly with the Jewish and Christian prophets and messengers who had come before him, particularly with Abraham, whom all Meccans—pagan or otherwise—regarded as a divinely inspired prophet. Put simply, the difference between Muhammad

Of course, Khomeini never likened himself to the Divine, nor did he ever explicitly claim the title of Mahdi—to have done so would have been political suicide. Rather, Khomeini consciously embraced the messianic charisma of the Mahdi, and allowed his followers to draw their own conclusions. Like all the Mahdis before him, Khomeini claimed descent f