ADNAN OKTAR: I said Abu Ja'far Bakir (ra) this. "Tell us of Qaim Muhammad Mahdi (as)." The messenger of God decreed: "His coming won't be noticed." I said: "which path will he follow?" He said: "He will follow the path of the Prophet (saas). He will render the superstitions invalid and will bring new things." al-Gaybah al-Numani, page 196. Torah describes his appearance as "Moshiach [Mahdi] will not be recognized at first. While describing the appearance of Moshiach, Isaiah said that even his father, mother, family or relatives will not realize who he is."  Neither his parents nor his relatives will know that he is Mahdi (as). Because God said in the Torah, Isaiah 53/2, "And he came up like a sapling before it, and like a root from dry ground" Ramban's Epistle to Yemen 4. His father, his mother, his family, even his relatives won't know who he is. "He came up like a sapling" God says in the Tor