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28 March 2024

Video: Pilgrim held for claiming he is 'world's savior'

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Saudi security men arrested an Arab pilgrim who claimed to be the world’s savior before smashing glass inside the Grand Mosque.

Pilgrims called the police after the man preached them about doomsday and claimed he is  Al-Mehdi Al-Montathar (the Chosen Imam Al-Mehdi) before using a metal object to smash the glass inside the Grand Mosque in the Western Makkah town.

'Sabq' Arabic language daily published a YouTube film showing the man, in his 30s, hitting the glass with the object before stepping into the place. It said he was later arrested by the Grand Mosque guards.

Muslims believe Imam Al-Mehdi, dubbed “the ultimate savior of mankind’ will eventually reappear as a great reformer who will destroy the beliefs of injustice and ignorance and fill this earth with fairness after it has been filled with injustice and oppression.