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Since Mahdism has a very important and key rank in religious teachings and also has very important effects in cultural, social and political issues, various deviant movements and sects have attracted groups of people through this belief with different methods and based on various political and socio-cultural platforms. In this article- by a library-based method and field encounters with these currents and a "descriptive-analytical" method- the most important factors of attraction in these contemporary sects and also the bases of people's tendency towards them have been discussed. The results of this research are as follows: spiritualistic and pseudo-spiritual tricks based on Mahdism, using sensual and carnal desires, eclectic teachings and beliefs, which make a sense of false spirituality, all-round support of authoritarian governments and foreign colonial and espionage services in order to protect their interests by these false sects, taking advantage of the ignorance people as well as falsifying and distorting and manipulating narrative texts and Hadiths of Mahdism.

Ghadīr-e Khumm as an important historical Islamic fact has been a turning point in the explanation of the Imamate and the continuation of the Islamic movement. The holy prophet Muhammad (pbuh), according to divine order, traced the inseparable correlation between Imamate and the governance and administration of worldly affairs, stating that the criterion of truth is the divine path of God in the form of infallible Imams, and this will continue until the end of Time and the appearance of Imam Mahdi (pbuh) Therefore, according to Ghadīr’s texts including Ghadir’s sermon and Ghadīriyah Ziyārat, deviant ideas such as secularism, pluralism, different interpretations from religion, tolerance in making relation to enemies and opponents, and misconceptions of Khātamiyyat (termination of Prophethood) and Mahdism will be invalidated.