Truth About the Split — Page 55
55 in the latter days, the aspect of Messiah-ship was to be subordinate to the aspect of Mahdi-ship. The Hadith has it that the Mahdi would lead the prayers before the Messiah. When we read this Hadith along with the other reported Hadith— La Mahdi illa ‘Isa [there is to be no Mahdi (in the time of the Messiah) save the Messiah himself], we can easily realise the fact that by assigning the leadership to the Mahdi it was clearly signified that the function of Mahdi would be more important than the function of Messiah. Actual events also bear out the same interpretation, since we may see that the success which has attended the Promised Messiah as has far surpassed that which attended the labours of the, first Messiah.