Birthday of Imam Mahdi

Iranians celebrated the birthday anniversary of Imam Mahdi, the 12th Shiite saint on Saturday evening.
Every year in Iran, the majority Shiite Muslims hold celebrations to mark the anniversary by decorating streets and major buildings with colourful lights, handing out candy and fruit juice and delivering eulogy to praise this saint.
Shiites also pray for the safety of their saviour Imam and his sooner appearance on this day.  Imam Mahdi is the Shiite 12th holy Imam who is believed to be alive but invisible.
Shiites believe Imam Mahdi disappeared centuries ago in the northern Iraqi town of Samarra but is due to return some day as a saviour, enforce justice in the world, clean up the earth's face from tyranny and injustice and change the world into a perfect and just Islamic society along with Jesus Christ.
According to Holy Quran, Jesus Christ is also alive and will reappear with Mahdi to assist him in spreading justice and fighting the unbelievers and oppressors.
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Ultimate savior

There is almost to believe a savior in all religions. The saviors are even in our movies, stories and our dreams. They are famous and popular. In Muslims idea, specially Shia Muslims ultimate savior is Mahdi. Imam Mahdi is believed by Shia Mulims to be an ultimate savior of humankind and the final Imam of the Twelve Imams. Shia believe that he was born in 869 and did not die but rather was hidden by God and will later emerge with Isa (Jesus Christ) in order to fulfill their mission of bringing peace and justice to the world.
His mother, Narjis (Melika), was a Byzantine princess and his father, Hasan al-Askari, is believed to have been the eleventh and penultimate Shia Imam.
15th Sha'ban in Hijri calendar is birthday of Imam Mahdi. Shia Muslims celebrate this day and pray for his health.
I wish he come sooner; for justice, peace and sodality.
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