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المَهْدِىُّ

Root: هدى

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المَهْدِىُّ , meaning The directed by God to the truth, is a proper name, and the name of him of whose coming at the end of time the happy tidings have been announced. [It is always so pronounced by the Arabs in the present day: not المُهْدِى.]
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