Misusing the Thought of Mahdism In the Movement of Rowshaniyya

The movement of Rowshaniyya (the enlightened) led by a person called Bayazid Ansari started in a Pashtu-dwelling area between Afghanistan and Pakistan in the period of Akbar Shah, a king of Timurid Dynasty. Bayazid was an uneducated, almost illiterate individual but, on the other hand, a clever and intelligent person to stand against the Timurids, dominance to save Pashtu people from the authority of the government of the time. He was Successful to incite the folks to rise and resist the oppressions. However, he proceeded to claim that he was Mahdi or the Messiah and declared that he possessed the occult and was endowed with the secret knowledge of the supernatural.This article is going to deal with the grounds and conditions under which the above-mentioned movement came to being to introduce its distinguished followers, to tell about their beliefs, their writings and other religious matters.The sources we have searched and the references we have found are hardly enough to let us go deep into the Rowshaniyya ideas. Yet, this article has tried and done the best of its activity to give the readers the utmost knowledge about the thought.