Saturday, June 22, 2013

The dajjal's plotting has come to an end - 1

The life of this world is a transient thing in which good and bad,
beauty and ugliness appear, by their actions in which human beings are
tested, and in which believers and non-believers are distinguished
from one another.Almighty Allah, Who has created all beings and this
testing, has also created an enemy in the form of a denier and
wrong-doer to confront believers as part of the test. This denier,
whoconfronted prophets, messengers and believers throughout the
history, at a time when the hadiths of the Prophet (saas) tell us the
Prophet 'Isa (as) is expected to return to Earth, in the End Timesin
other words, will be the "Dajjal," or the Antichrist.
Dajjal is an Arabic word, derived from the root "dajl." Dictionaries
define Dajjal as "liar, fraud, a seditious and damned person who
confuse the minds, hearts, good and bad, the right and the wrong,
who hides the real face of something by gilding it, who wanders
everywhere."
The hadiths refer to the Dajjal as the greatest negative force to
appear in the end of times. The Dajjal, who will attempt to rule the
system of satan by means on enmity towards the messenger of Allah in
the End Times when extraordinary events take place, is perhaps one of
the worst deniers of all time. Our Prophet (saas) describes the
dimension of the corruption of the Dajjal as follows:
"There would be no creation (creating more trouble) than the Dajjal
right from the creation of Adam to the Last Hour." [i]
It is narrated in traditions that the Dajjal is a deceiver who
portrays truth as falsity and falsity as truth, and good as bad and
bad as good. Aswe are told in the hadith" He will also have Paradise
and Hell with him. Though his Paradise will appear as Paradise, in
reality it will be Hell, and likewise, though his Hell will appear
like Hell, in reality it will be Paradise." [ii],everything he calls
beautiful is actually an evil that will inflict disaster on humanity.
And the values he depicts as evil are actually beneficial and in the
interests of humanity. Yet since some peopledo not look at events in
the lightof the moral values of the Qur'anand the Sunnah of the
Prophet (saas), they will be misled by thethings to which the Dajjal
invitesthem and will follow him, while heedlessly turning their backs
on the path of Allah, which they should actually follow. They will see
what a grave error that is thanks to the climate of oppression the
Dajjal will establish. It is for these reasons that our Prophet (saas)
has warned mankind and told people to act in the knowledge that what
the Dajjal portrays as evil is in fact good:
"T he Dajjal will appear .A nd there will be along with him water an
d fire .W hat the people will see as water will be burning fire .A nd
what will appear as fire will be water .A ny one of you who will see
that should plunge in that which he sees as fire for it will be
sweet, pure water ." [iii]
[i] Muslim, Fitan: 126
[ii] Sahih Muslim
[iii] Sahih Muslim

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