Reviewing the Messianism Thought in the Zand Bahman Yasht and Bihar al-Anwar

The issue of the appearance of savior in the apocalypse is a religious doctrine that appears in almost all religions of different qualities. According to the common belief of all religions, at the end of the era, a person will come from God to free them out of the cruelty and the corruption which have been infected. This savior has different names and titles in different religions, which shows the kind of approach of the savior. In Islam, his name is same of the Prophet (peace be upon him) and epithet is Mahdi, and in the religion of the Zoroastrian it is Saoshyant. In Islam, the issue of guidance and the Zoroastrian religion the promised benefits has been emphasized. The promised has two absences in Islam: the minor occultation and the major occultation.

The appearance time is not specified in both religions, and in Islam, according to the hadiths, everyone seeking to determine the time must be denied, and in the Zoroastrian tribe, it is sometimes said that there is a thousand years distance between the two appearances, which is a kind of metaphor for a long time. Saoshyants ,according to the Avestan texts,are three people who will be born at the end of the twelfth millennium of Zoroastrian cosmology as the last Procurator of Succession. The two promised have similarities, including: being promised, profitability, abusive habitual birth, place of birth and appearance, assignment of both promised to prophets of their religion, uncertainty of appearance time, proportion of mothers of two secrets to prophet, emergence with helpers.

One of the important differences between the two promised is the way in which justice and its standards are dealt with in detail in Islam, but even in the Zoroastrian tradition, the case of the Saoshyants is not clear. However, by analyzing the historical sources after Islam, it is possible to find an example for the two Saoshyants, and even adapt the ultimate Saoshyant in Zoroastrian religion to the promised Mahdi in Islam.