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Tehran (IP) - A ceremony was held in Tehran's Grand Mosalla on Wednesday the 15th day of the Month of Shaaban, or Mid-Sha'ban, which marks the birthday of the twelfth Shia Imam, Imam Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Mahdi (AS).

Iran PressIran news: All Abrahamic religions believe in an end-times savior.

In Islam, the name of this savior has been mentioned as Mahdi which literally means somebody who has been guided divinely.

According to Shia beliefs, Imam Mahdi or the Saviour of time is alive and expects the permission of God to reappear and make the world replete with justice and end oppression.

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