Then a time will come when he would appear like a shooting...

Then a time will come when he would appear like a shooting star and he would fill up the earth with equity and justice just as it would be brimming with injustice and oppression.”[^3] Also in the same book through the chains of narrators going upto the Messenger of Allah (S) it is narrated in a tradition of Ibne Abbas that: “From the offspring of Husain (as), He has designated Imams who will stand by my affair and will protect my will. The ninth of them will be the Qaim (aj) of my Ahle Bait (as).

He will be the Mahdi (aj) of this nation and the most similar to me in traits, words and deeds.”[^4] Now since you are aware that His Eminence is most closely resembling the Messenger of Allah (S), you must know that indeed, it has been proved from textual proofs of the traditions that the Messenger of Allah (S) was the most elegant and handsome person of all humanity.

📌Note the following traditional report from Thiqatul Islam Kulaini in Kafi quoting from His Eminence, Abu Ja’far Imam Baqir (as) that he said: “The complexion of the Holy Prophet (S) was fair with a reddish hue. His eyes were big and black. His brows were joined. His fingers were heavy, as if gilded with molten gold. The bones of his shoulders were broad and strong. When he used to turn towards anyone at the right or the left, he used to turn his whole body (due to his firm physique).

Hairs covered his chest from the top until the navel. He had a body like clean silver and above his shoulders his neck used to appear like an oriental silver flask. He had a long nose, such that when he drank water, it touched the surface. And when he walked he walked with the head bowed down as if descending a slope.

None was seen like him in appearance before or after him.”[^5] In Biharul Anwar it is quoted from Shaykh Tusi’s Ghaibah that Amirul Momineen (as) said from the pulpit: “A man shall come from my progeny in the latter days; he will be fair complexioned with a touch of red, of a broad abdomen, with legs of ample width, and high shoulders.

On his back are two signs, one of the color of his skin and another like the sign of the Messenger (as).”[^6] Through Ahle Sunnat sources it is narrated that the Holy Prophet (S) said: “Mahdi is the Peacock of the folks of Paradise.”[^7] And it is also quoted from His Eminence, the Messenger of Allah (S) that he said: “The Mahdi is a man from my progeny, his complexion is Arabic and his physique is Israeli.

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