We do not believe that the Imam Mahdi is the Twelfth Imam or that the Twelfth Imam remained alive and in physical occultation for 1000 years waiting for the time to suddenly appear and make Himself known. We do not believe that the Imam Mahdi will do some of the fantastical and improbable things like leading an army to conquer the world in the name of Islam.
We believe that the promised Imam Mahdi was a spiritual reality and ideal which the Bab manifested. Shaykh Ahmad and Siyyid Kazim both rejected the Orthodox position in Shi'ih Islam by teaching a spiritual occultation and that the Qa'im/Mahdi would be born and then declare Himself. The Bab was born into this world and is the Imam Mahdi and Qa'im according to the Baha'i Faith. That is one reason the Bab was opppsed by many fanatics in Shi'ih Islam.
Baha'u'llah taught that the 12th Imam died before his father and that the Shi'ih beliefs are in error regarding the occultation of the 12th Imam. See https://bahai-library.com/bahaullah_masumian_existence_qaim/
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