Falsehood is removed from its foundations. Its branches are demolished with its ruins. Truth is established from its origin. Its branches wither with its steadfastness. Knowledge appears from its sources. Its light shines in the world with its appearance. It filled the world before it, a shadow transformed, by the promise of its Lord, as He promised, and by His grace, as it preceded.

In this manner, Ibn Tumart, the Mahdi, emerges and announces his appearance as a concept detached from his person, though not detached from his time and circumstances. It is as if he is trying to avoid explicitly stating that he is the Mahdi. Even in that sermon after which he was pledged allegiance as the Mahdi, he did not explicitly attribute the matter to himself. Instead, he said: "Praise be to Allah, the Doer of what He wills, the Judge of what He desires. There is no repeller of His command, nor any reviser of His decree. And may Allah bless our master Muhammad, the bearer of glad tidings of the Mahdi who will fill the earth with justice and fairness, just as it was filled with injustice and tyranny. Allah will send him to replace falsehood with truth, and for justice to take the place of injustice. His origin is the distant Maghreb, and his time is the end of time. The name is the name, the lineage is the lineage, and the deed is the deed."

When his companions saw this allusion to himself, they approached him and said: "This description applies only to you. You are the Mahdi." So they stood and pledged allegiance to him.

It is noteworthy that we do not find in the writings and epistles of the Mahdi any explicit claim of Mahdiship on his part. In his correspondence, he used to address himself with various titles, but not the title of Mahdi. This includes what is stated in one of his letters: "From Muhammad bin Abdullah Al-Arabi Al-Qurashi Al-Mashmi Al-Hassani Al-Fatimi Al-Muhammadi."

And what Ibn Al-Qattan mentioned, that he came across a document written by Ibn Tumart, and what was stated in it: "I say, and I am Muhammad bin Abdullah Tumart, and I am the Mahdi of the latter days."

We have already seen that the book of Ibn Tumart, "Kitab Al-Imamah," is not entirely trustworthy, as it bears the date of the year [illegible].

Also see: "Sharh A'azz Ma Yutlab" by an unknown author, p. 115 of this research. See: Ibn Al-Qattan, "Nathm Al-Juman," pp. 75-76. See the same source and page. See: Al-Baydaq, "Akhbar Al-Mahdi," Paris edition, 1928, p. 244.