Other Hadith Concerning The Dajjal, Chapter-4

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AS I HAVE stated earlier in this book, many 'Sahih' or 'correct' Hadith have been omitted from the exclusive category due to their lack of unbroken 'esnad' or 'reporting'. The same holds true in the case of the Dajjal, where many true Hadith s have been similarly lost, yet one can tell by reading them- that they are genuine ones for they not only are collaborative with the documented and agreed ones, they complement and supplement them as well. One such is, -the Dajjal's mount will have one foot in the east and the other in the west. A few others are presented in the following.

One such important Hadith has been derived from Muhammad Assad's, "The Road To Mecca," the book where he first put forward the idea of the western civilization as being the Dajjal. All the Hadith s included therein can be traced back to the Messenger of Allah, except this one- “the Dajjal will have the power to hear and see what is happening on the other side of the earth.”

There does not seem any further need to clarify what this Hadith refers to since it is only too obvious that it is indicated towards the mass electronic media, namely radio and television; and also the fact that these are both inventions of the western civilization. Muhammad Assad reports discussing this with Sheikh Ibn Bulaydid, who was one of the foremost Islamic authorities in Makkah and advisor to King Ibn Saud on religious affairs. Judging from the fact that rather than commenting on the authenticity of this Hadith, the Sheikh seemed to be of the same opinion, we can assume this to be a Sahih Hadith on this topic.

Apart from that, this Hadith also serves another important purpose. For all those people who hold the notion of an animal Dajjal, only it, namely the Dajjal should be able to see and hear what happens on the other side of the world. Whereas, in today's world no single person or entity alone has access to means of mass communication, in the developed, developing and underdeveloped regions, television and radio are essential means of communication and entertainment. Therefore, the Dajjal is not a single unit, it is the sum total of all the ungodly systems prevailing in the world and those who adhere unflinchingly to it.

There is another highly significant Hadith to this effect; however, the 'sanad' of this one too, could not be collected. I heard it a long time back, but since I was not much interested in the topic of the Dajjal at that time, I neglected to collect the source of this particular Hadith . The Messenger of Allah is said to have said, the Dajjal's movement will be so fast, that it will be able to travel around the earth within the time it takes to complete the Jumma prayers. It is interesting to note that, the satellites sent into orbit around the earth travel at the speed of 18,000 miles per hour, taking between 90 and 95 minutes to once rotate  around the world. The speed of these satellites are limited within 18,000 and 24,000 miles since if they have a velocity of less than 18,000 miles, they will not be able to resist the earth's gravitational pull and come crashing back to the surface, while on the other hand a velocity of more than 24,000 miles will enable them to break free of the pull of the gravity of the earth and fly  off into space. For this reason, the speed of 24,000 miles is known as the Escape Velocity, since if that speed is reached satellites and space shuttles can resist the Earth's gravity and be space-bound. Therefore, the speed of about 18,000 miles is fixed for satellites to remain in orbit around the earth.

During the Messenger of Allah's time, when the clock had not been invented, any reference to time had to be done so in comparison to the time it took to accomplish any particular action. Similarly, to denote the deftness of the Dajjal, the Messenger of Allah used the excellent example of the Jumma congregation, which in his presence took roughly the same amount of time since it entailed getting ready for the mosque, putting on one's best clothes, arriving at the Mosque, listening to the 'khutba' or weekly sermon, then the prayers, finally a few words with friends and relatives before heading home. Some might disagree with this description, since it no longer takes that much time for the Jumma congregation today. That also is true. It takes probably a quarter of that time now for the socalled, opposite directed Muslims to say their prayers, since they can scarcely take the time to listen to the Imam's 'khutba' or spend any more time than necessary at the mosque. However, during the Messenger of Allah's period, the mosque was the centre of all activities and his 'Ummah' spent far more time there anyone does so today.

Critical analysis of the Hadith of the Last Messenger leaves no doubt that the giant, named Dajjal is no visible or physical animal, it was described allegorically in great detail as a huge giant to help people of so many centuries ago understand the concept of this entity. However, for the sake of argument, let us say that the Dajjal will indeed appear as a huge one-eyed physical giant astride a gigantic horse, the distance between its horse's eyes would be seventy, e.g. thousands of feet; if indeed such an animal were to appear would not one and every person on this planet accept this very creature as the one prophesized by the last Messenger of Allah? The first thought at the sight of an animal almost the size of this world, would be - where did this thing come from! And on seeing it, Muslims, and non-Muslims alike would recognize it as the Dajjal described by the Messenger of Islam. All then would become believers in Islam and our Messenger of Allah.

Secondly, the Messenger of Allah has said, "The Dajjal will appear from within the Jewish nation and seventy thousand of his people, his Ummah will be its  followers. If the Dajjal were indeed a gigantic animal, how is it to appear from a within a human nation? And how come Muslims are to leave the following of Allah and obey the Dajjal instead of Him?

Thirdly, the Messenger of Allah has said, the word 'Kafer' will be written between the eyes of the Dajjal. Only Mo'mens, believers (literate and illiterate both) will see and read it; those who are not Mo'mens (both literate and illiterate), will not be able to read it. That is to say, some people, namely Mo'mens, believers will be able to realize that the Dajjal is 'Kafer' and some people who are not Mo'mens, will not realize it and accept the Dajjal as their Rub. If the Dajjal were a  physical tangible animal, it is logical that people would recognize it for what it is at first sight. Would there be any confusion or difference of opinion regarding it being a Kafer (unbeliever) or not? Let us suppose a tiger is let loose in a crowded area - imagine the chaos it would create. Everyone, man, woman, child, all would be running for their lives. If an animal of that gigantic proportions, with one foot of its mount in the east and the other in the west appears among people of this earth, some will recognize it, some won't, some will become its followers, others won't, some people will read the etching on its forehead, others won't : how feasible if that?

For the sake of argument, let us suppose that a gigantic animal should indeed appear in the horizon and claim that the entire mankind accepts it as their Rub (sustainer and master). Is it acceptable that let alone the whole world, the one superpower that is dominant throughout the world today, the self proclaimed protector of liberty and freedom, the United States of America will meekly submit to its claim? The United States would surely try to blow the world using its nuclear bombs. However, there is no document of the Messenger of Allah prophesying any such conflict between the Dajjal and the inhabitant of this world, on the contrary it is recorded that the Dajjal will occupy the world in such a manner that even a piece of land or water will not remain outside its control.

This proves that all these description of a giant are not those of a physical, tangible animal: they are allegorical references to a mighty force; at the same time, it is also proved beyond any doubt that this mighty giant we speak of it is the present day Judeo-Christian materialistic technological civilization- manifest in all its strength and power before our very eyes. Dajjal should be called the 'Masihul- Kazzab ,,.    Dajjal book=Chapter-3

Identity of the Dajjal Chapter-3

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Identity of the Dajjal Along with the prophecy of the appearance of the  Dajjal , the Messenger of Allah has left us some definite signs and symbols by which his Ummah or people can correctly identify and consequently be resistant to it and fight the impostor. In this chapter, the Hadith of the Messenger of Allah regarding the identity of the  Dajjal  will be put forward to get a clearer picture of the situation. Seen in this light, it is very pertinent and important part mainly because if the actual character of the  Dajjal  is not manifest before us, then the magnitude of the dangers represented by it cannot be accurately comprehended either. It is quite similar to an enemy disguised amongst us as a friend; therefore the harm it can cause us is enormous. It may be that this is why the Messenger of Allah has left us so many details wherewith the  Dajjal  can be identified. However, he has also added that it is only true Mo'mens who will be able to correctly identify the Imposter, even if they are illiterate, while on the other hand, even highly educated persons will miss the 'Kafer' written on the forehead of the  Dajjal  51

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The Messenger has said, “The  Dajjal  will emerge from within the Jews, and the Monafeqs (hypocrites) will be its followers” -Ebne Hanbal (ra)- Muslim.

There is not much, to think, to explain in this Hadith because I have proved explicitly in the first chapter of  this book how the  Dajjal  came into being within the Jewish nation. Besides, this civilization is known as the Judeo-Christian technological civilization as it is; if the name bears testimony to the family one belongs to, then there is no room for dispute here. That Jews and Christians should adhere to it is understandable, but who are the Monafeqs mentioned here? Are they not the socalled Muslims of this world, who call themselves the Ummat-e-Mohammadi on one hand and on the other, have accepted the  Dajjal 's doctrine and dominance in every aspect of their collective lives? The definition of a Monafeq is someone who professes to one thing with his tongue and adheres to another in his action. In that case, the Muslims of the world today, who declare sovereignty of Allah pray and give Zakah, fast and perform the hajj, at the same time implement human sovereignty over that of Allah in their collective national lives: if these people are not Monafeqs, hypocrites, what then are they?

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The Messenger has said, “The  Dajjal  will declare itself to be the lord and make mankind accept it as such”-Bokhari.

How exactly can the  Dajjal 's claim to lordship of mankind be interpreted? Is it not its insistence to be accepted as the supreme law-maker, the one who’s every dictate on socio-economic, political, educative issues, penalty and punishment, are to be obeyed and implemented by humanity as a whole? In the Hadith the Messenger of Allah has used the Arabic word 'rub' to describe the demand of the  Dajjal . The Arabic word 'rub' is generally translated into the word 'lord' in English and also as 'Sustainer' when it implies and indicates Allah. In this sense if we look at the 'developed' i.e. western countries which actually represent the Judeo-Christian Materialistic Civilization, we can see the justification of the use of the word ‘Rub' as sustainer. That these 'developed countries' are in fact occupies the place of sustainers of the 'underdeveloped' or 'developing' countries is no secret. This Hadith, read with Hadith No. VIII of this chapter will explain it more clearly, where the  Dajjal  appears as the sustainer besides being the 'lord'. The  Dajjal  will prevail upon mankind to revoke the rules and regulations, the collective way of life as prescribed in the centuries old Vedas, Law of Moses, Monu Songhita, the Qur'an, claiming them to be old, obsolete, and barbaric. It will persuade people to implement the new age, modern man-made laws, and limits in order to be progressive and live in wealth, prosperity and civility. In short, people will be asked to enjoy the bliss of heaven as it knows and enjoys.

The  Dajjal  will claim to be lord, not the Creator. The claim of the Judeo-Christian civilization is identical to that of the  Dajjal, since it holds no objection to the personal observance of faith, people are allowed to remain Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Jain, Buddhist, adhere to any other religion they wish to in their personal lives, but they must all abide by and follow the collective life as dictated by it. In this category, i.e., the collective life, people are given a wide range of choice, a whole range of man-made ways of life, such as democracy, socialism, fascism, dictatorship, monarchy etc. to choose from: all that is except the one system which would rid the world of every injustice, every misrule… the way of the Creator, Din-ul-Huq (the true way of life).

In the course of time, the whole of mankind has indeed accepted the  Dajjal 's offer and entered its promised heaven, yet there is no peace or tranquility anywhere. Despite the fact that the entire human race has originated from one single couple, there is no peace on earth. Regardless of being members of one nation,52 men continue to kill and maim one another, burn down their dwellings and rape women. With the acceptance of the Dajjal's system of economy, some people get to amass wealth in obscene quantities and indulge in vulgar display of it while some people die of hunger, sell their own offspring not being able to feed and clothe them. Mothers commit suicide at their children's plight. As the result of implementation of Dajjal's legal and penal code, crime levels of every society continue to rise alarmingly; murder, theft, rape, arson, there is no end to the list. By far the worst of it all is the result of acceptance of the God-forsaken, soulless education policy of the Dajjal. With the banishment of the education prescribed by Allah, human beings seem to have lost all moral goodness, character and reached the levels of the lowest animals.

In this Hadith the word Sajda (prostration) has been used by the Messenger to describe the acceptance of the Dajjal as the lord by most of the mankind.

The literal meaning of 'Sajda' is submission, to prostrate before someone is to submit to his will, which is why Allah has forbidden man to prostrate before anyone but Him. Yet the whole of mankind including almost all the so-called Muslims today have accepted the Dajjal's way of life, have accepted its dominance over them and lay prostrate at its feet….and in so doing have been instrumental in Eblis' triumph over Allah. Eblis' promise to divert mankind from the Straight and Simple Path of Allah, the Seratul- Mustaqeem has been fulfilled and the result is only too apparent… anarchy, violence, injustice, unrest and endless bloodshed in every corner of the wide world.

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The Messenger has said, “The distancebetween the two ears of the Dajjal's mount will be 70 cubits” -Baihaqi, Meshkat.

In the Arabic language, seven-zero-seventy is used not only as a number but also to describe things that are many in number or enormous in size. It is only done with this number, not with any other number such as 50 or even 100. The Messenger of Allah has used this allegory to further describe the sheer size of the giant known as the Dajjal. It goes without saying that if only the distance between the two ears of a mount is so great, the mount itself should be huge and the rider, bigger still. In this context, there is another Hadith worth mentioning, but I cannot recall the source of this one since I did not read it myself. The Messenger of Allah has said, "The Dajjals mount will have one foot in the east and the other in the west of the world." It relates positively to the earlier Hadith reported by Hazrat Abu Horayra (r.a,) and hence is in all probability a Sahih or truthful one. They both convey essentially the same message, i.e., the enormity in size of both the Dajjal and its mount and its presence all over the world.

It is an undisputed fact that in this world today, there is no power mightier or more powerful than the Judeo-Christian civilization. There is nobody or nothing in this entire world that can stand up to it or resist it in any way… and this it has been able to maintain through unparalleled advancement in thefields of science and technology and its military might. Therefore, since the basis and source of the Judeo- Christian civilization rests on the harnessing and usage of scientific technology, the latter can be correctly likened to its vehicle or mount.

I hope these explanations will be an eye-opener for those who are waiting for the literal one-eyed giant the legs of whose mount will be on either sides of the earth. I ask you, is such an animal or a mount physically possible? Where is the space for such a creature to move on this small planet? Dajjal is the Judeo-Christian Civilization and the technological might is its mount.

People who would rather still cling to the Aqidah of a one eyed giant on a huge mount appear on earth can wait till doomsday for the Dajjal has already appeared and has the earth under its subjugation.

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The Messenger has said, “The Dajjal's movement will be very fast. It will roam the sky like a cloud driven by wind.” -Nawas (ra) bin So'man, -Muslim, Tirmizi.

There does not seem much to explain about this Hadith, for when an airplane, devised by the Judeo- Christian technological civilization takes to the skies, and flies high in the air does it not resemble a piece of cloud driven by strong wind?

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The Messenger has said, “The Dajjal will cause rain to fall from the sky.”-Nawas (ra) bin So'man, -Muslim, Tirmizi.

In this Hadith, The Messenger of Allah foretold the procedure of causing rain over areas which receive insufficient rainfall. In this procedure, necessary chemicals are sprayed into the thin clouds to form cloud bring down rain. The procedure is in use in different countries around the world to cause rain. A meteorologist or an agriculturist can verify this fact.

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The Messenger has said, “The Dajjal's cows, goats and sheep will be big with udders full of milk.” -Nawas (ra) bin So'man, -Muslim, Tirmizi.

The cattle in the 'developed 'world, i.e., Europe and America are twice the size of our cattle and their milk production is around four to five times of the under developed countries of the world. Needless to say this has been brought about by the help of applying scientific methods in rearing cattle.

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The Messenger has said, “The Dajjal will order subterranean wealth to come up and serve it”- Nawas (ra) bin So'man, -Muslim, Tirmizi.

Before the industrial revolution, very little was known about the exploitation of subterranean wealth, however, within a short time, different procedures of procurement of these were made possible through advancement in scientific technology and with its consequent application in different fields. Today man is able to dig deep into the earth as well the ocean floor in search of petroleum, gas and other minerals. This is what the Messenger of Allah strove to convey through this Hadith. These natural elements are subservient to
the Dajjal in the sense that they are remitted to places at the Dajjal's will and used as it wants them to be used. They fuel Dajjal's mills and factories, its trade and battleships, cars and all other necessary equipment. The Messenger prophecy has come true to the last letter.

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The Messenger has said, “The Dajjal will be in possession of huge quantities of 'rezk', meaning sustenance from which it will distribute among those it wants. Those who oppose it will not be provided for from it, whereas those who submit to it will dwell in prosperity. In this manner the Dajjal will enforce misery on Muslims.” -Bokhari & Muslim.

The word 'Rezk' means food, clothing, housing, money, cars, jewelry and all otherworldly possessions and wealth. Who can deny or refute the fact that today the lion's share of this world's Rezk wealth lies in the hands of the Judeo-Christian civilization, namely, the Dajjal. The question now is who is the beneficiary of this wealth? Undoubtedly, it is among those who have wholeheartedly accepted its dominion over them and abide by it, disregarding the ways prescribed by the Creator. Those who dare to so much as even hold views different than the Dajjal's, (although in view of the present scenario it is next to impossible), are deprived of its bounties.

Let us suppose any group, nation or people were to reject the Dajjal's prescribed form of life (democracy, socialism etc.) and attempt to establish Allah's sovereignty, His doctrines, at their collective life? What would their fate be? Certainly that group would not be welcomed with open arms! It can be safely assumed that they will not only be met with grave opposition from the entire western world, all efforts will be made to punish them by means of embargoes of various kinds. However, it is not the Dajjal alone that will act in this hostile manner with people defiant of its authority. This same attitude can be seen in the people and governments loyal to the Dajja's doctrine, also inclusive of which of are different so-called 'Muslim' countries. They too, spare no means to punish those who attempt to resist the imposition of the Dajjal's will on them.Almost all developing countries in the world today are dependent on the so-called developed nations for aid and loans of all kinds. Among them, those who full-fledgedly accept the Dajjal's economic, political, i.e., collective issues are gratified with financial and other kinds of assistance in the forms of charity and loans. The extent of the dependence on foreign aid is such that all their development programs and projects are brought to a standstill and their governments collapse if the loans not are remitted at due time. In the unlikely event of any country, community daring to disobey the Dajjal's directive on any matter, economic, trade sanctions is imposed immediately on them and they are deprived of all help from the United Nations, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, in one word from all the entities controlled by the Dajjal. How amazing it is that fourteen hundred years earlier the Messenger of Allah foretold the present sanction and embargo imposed by the Dajjal on disobeying people just short of using these two words.

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The Messenger has said, "The Dajjal will be blind in one eye." -from Abdullah bin Omar (ra), Bokhari and Muslim.

As the Dajjal's right eye will be blind, everything it will see will be with its left eye only. Every Creation in this vast universe has two opposite sides to it. This entire universe is the cohesive mixture of the visible and invisible, solid and gas, water and fire, light and darkness, day and night, etc. Similarly in the life of His Khalifa, vice-gerent as well Allah ordained a set of opposite factors like body and soul, piety and sin, good and bad, material and spiritual, life of this world and the next and so forth. A balance between these opposite factions is natural and normal. In keeping with which, He has named the way of life revealed through His Messengers as the Din-ul-fetrah or the Natural way of Life and referred to those who adhere to it as the Millate- wasata or the Balanced People,53 If any aspect or angle of this balanced state is spoiled, an unnatural, abnormal situation is bound to arise which would defeat His purpose of trying and testing His human creation. A similar situation arose in Europe with the effort to implement the incomplete teachings of Isa (a.s.) (Jesus) in their collective life as has been explained in the Importance of the Dajjal's appearance.

It is common knowledge that a way or system of life minus the socio- economic and political aspects of a nation's life cannot be impeccably effective at a national level. However, that was exactly what the Christian pundits wanted to implement. This impasse resulted in the banishment of the Lord Creator's indictment in the collective life of the people of Europe and the subsequent establishment of man-made laws and regulations, penalty and punishment at the state level. Therefore, the hitherto balanced affairs of mankind were effectively destroyed. As a result, in the lives of the people who were brought under this system, one aspect of human existence was completely abolished and they now perceived things from only one side, the other was forever blinded.

The right side has traditionally been associated with the better aspect of all things. On Judgment Day, those who do good will be awarded their 'Amal Nama' or record book to the right hand, whereas those who are destined for hell will be given it to their left hand.54 This polarization continues with almost everything: the body is referred to as the left and the soul as the right, truth being right and falsehood left, in matters of the material and the spiritual, where the material is considered the left and the spirit the right, the life of this world is the left and the hereafter the right and so on. The Judeo- Christian materialistic civilization is blind in the right eye because it is oblivious to the correct balanced form of human life, is oblivious to the spiritual aspect of mankind, to the hereafter, to the mystery of the unknown, to the truth. It remains engrossed with only one side of life, that of the body; material and tangible, machine and technology, with life on this earth only…because these are all it can perceive with its oneeyed vision. Powerful telescopes enable this civilization to see far into the space, but due to the blindness in its right eye, it fails to see the Creator's hand in it, this civilization correctly conceives that this enormous creation is controlled by unseen forces and laws, but misses who might be responsible for such an enormous feat. Medical science informs this civilization that sustenance in prepared in the mother's breasts in readiness for the unborn child, but the blindness in the right eye prevents this society from acknowledging the identity of Him who ordains all this.

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The Messenger has stated, "The Dajjal will be in possession of two things similar to heaven and hell. What it will claim to be its heaven will actually be hell and what it will call to be its hell, will turn out to be heaven. If you are present at that time, try to enter into its hell; that will be heaven for you." -From Abu Huraira (ra), and Huzaifa (ra) …Bokhari, Muslim.

When the seal had been set on the usurp of sovereignty from Allah's hand, a new theology, named secular democracy came into being, where effectively all powers lay in the hands of the majority of the population, meaning the opinion of 51% or more from amongst the people would decide how the entire population conducted their collective life. However, since man is endowed with very little knowledge in every respect, he is unable devise a comprehensive faultless Way of life that would enable him to live in a society or world where there is no injustice, legal or moral, economic, social political, or any kind of oppression, unrest, turmoil and conflicts and bloodshed. Consequently, the effort to implement the similarly faulty, man-made laws and rules on the whole of Europe resulted in great disparities and injustices in every level of life. It was especially apparent in the economic sector, where the implementation of usury based monetary system resulted in marked inequalities in the distribution of wealth. One section in society amassed huge amount of wealth whereas another could barely survive; the natural consequence of which was that the wronged section revolted against the unfair practices and replaced the hitherto feudal economy with another man-invented system, the socialism in some regions, while others opted for communism, dictatorship etc. In other words, it has been one long struggle from one 'ism' to another, from democracy to socialism, to dictatorship to communism, amounting to precious nothing than to grope in the dark. Once the sovereignty has been removed from the Creator's hand, the one thing that has remained constant was that the basis for any way of life has been man's own sovereignty. The doctrines have only varied with time and place, therefore, monarchy, democracy, socialism, communism, dictatorship, are all but different phases or types of the sovereignty of Man, and the sum total of all these different ways of life or 'isms' is the Judeo- Christian civilization or the Dajjal.

The question that now arises is what exactly is it that the Dajjal requires us to do? Is it not the assertion that the secular isms and cracies it promotes are the best possible option to live man's collective social life by? Dajjal demands mankind to accept that Man-made laws and constitution, rules and limits, economy and education guided by it, as the most advanced and modern. If such constitution and theology is accepted by the world at large, they too will enjoy the benefits of living in paradise, their economic state, medicine, education, standard of living would become comparable to living in heaven. While on the other hand, those who do not accept and adapt Dajjal's way of life, will remain in the dungeons of hell, plagued by poverty, hunger and ignorance. Those who accept the Dajjal's theory of life to be true, in fact accept a way of life devoid of Allah's sovereignty, His Guidance, are those acceptable to the Impostor, and thus be the ones to be permitted to its heaven, be assisted militarily, monetarily and politically. The fate of those who would not accept the Dajjal's dominion is to be the exact opposite, deprived of all assistance, both monetary and military, be opposed politically, and effectively sent to hell.

That these are the same demands made by the Judeo- Christian civilization need not be explained in detail or with specific examples. It is only too apparent in the western world's attitude, literature and media, that their secular system, (inclusive of monarchy, democracy, dictatorship, socialism, communism) their education system, (which is completely materialistic, bereft of all moral and religious teaching), their social system (where forbidden sexual relationships are considered acceptable, where homosexuality is legal), their penal code (where murderers are let free on small technicalities or punished with much lighter punishment than they deserve and where rapists are let loose on parole to commit more rape and murder) are all superior, modern and progressive. No other system on earth is comparable, let alone better than theirs. All other political, social, economic and education systems are backward, dogmatic, reactionary, obsolete and ridiculous.

By the above Hadith the Messenger of Allah has meant that, "those who accept the Dajjal's way of life and enter its heaven will realize that it is in fact hell. Whereas those who remain in the Dajjal's hell, will find themselves in heaven". However, before we get into further discussion regarding this Hadith, we have to be clear in one point, which is, whether it is democracy, capitalism or communism etc, they are but all different phases or portions of the one same thing, namely the sovereignty of Man, hence the Dajjal, i.e. the Judeo-Christian civilization… the difference lay in only the degree and stages of implementation from the mildest to the severest form.

Any group, nation or state which has been misled into accepting the Dajjal's way of life as the only progressive system, implemented it in their collective lives have soon realized they were deceived into thinking so, what they perceived to be heaven turned out to be quite the opposite. For better understanding, let us study the case of the Dajjal's severest form, communism.

From the time Soviet Union and China turned communist, their every available means of communication has been lauding the merits of their system and calling upon others to follow their example. Anyone who has regularly tuned in to their radio must be familiar with that. It is interesting to note that the term they employ to describe their society is exactly the one used by the Messenger of Allah so many hundreds of years ago, 'paradise'. It would be correct to assume that once people experienced such blissful existence, they would be loath to get out of it, at the same time would also call on others to follow their example. However, quite the opposite of that occurred in both the cases of Russia and China. Within a short time of turning communist, these countries gradually isolated themselves from the world community to a point where no news or information regarding them was available to the outside world. What little was learnt, was released by the rulers themselves. This isolation soon earned them the names of the Iron Curtain for Russia and the Bamboo Curtain for China.

One has reasons to think that just the opposite should have been their stance, because if the implementation of a certain system resulted in turning the lives of any group, nation or state into a situation comparable to living in paradise, then instead of hiding from the world's view, they would flaunt their wellbeing to the rest of the world and call upon everyone to verify it. Instead of putting up Iron and Bamboo curtains they should have abolished even the need for visas to enter into their countries and should have left it on their own inhabitants to decide if they wanted to trade the heavenly bliss for anything else, and invite outsiders to visit them without any hindrances.

On the contrary, it is a historical fact, from the time they turned communist to the end of the cold war, Soviet Union and all the other eastern European countries remained cut off from the rest of the world. The only people to have contact and access to the outside world were the ruling high-ups.

The truth is there was no other way for the rulers of those countries. For the people of those countries who were fooled, deceived into accepting the God-less system soon realized that what they thought of as heaven before committing to was in fact far from it. By that time, however, it was too late. Yet that did not stop the general people from trying to get out. The choice of leaving one's homeland is never an easy decision to make, especially for those who know they can never go back, for leaving their country meant being forever displaced from one's homeland, heading for an unknown destination, the people and language so different from one's own. Yet all these deterrents were not able to dissuade the "dwellers of paradise" from trying to flee, in course of which they have often endangered the lives of their near and dear ones along with their own. When the building of the infamous Berlin Wall could not stop the people from crossing over, the authorities had watch towers equipped with machine guns built at every fifty feet of the Wall with instructions to shoot down anyone who tried to cross over to what they thought was free world, which in fact was not free, only a lesser "hell". When even that proved futile, a moat was dug along side the Wall to further dissuade defectors. Barbed wire fencing and electronic devices were added to the list that would keep people away from trying to flee. The more difficult it was made to defect, the harder people tried to: in course of which numerous persons lost their lives to the guards' bullets while others drowned trying to swim across moats and rivers. In desperation, people invented unprecedented means of escape: hot air balloons, which helped many to flee Soviet Union. During this time, a remarkable means of escape was devised by two families of the erstwhile East Germany. After Communist takeover of eastern Germany, walls were built along the border to prevent people from fleeing. Previous railway lines were blocked at the borders with walls, the railway tracks remaining as before. These two families somehow managed a railway engine in which the women and children were put while the men-folk drove it against the wall at high speed, crushing through to West Germany and freedom. This desperate attempt reflected the mentality of the general mass living under communist rule. Similarly, numerous more men, women and children have undertaken tremendous amount of risk, forsaking the love of the motherland, family and friends in trying to escape from what was thought to be paradise.

This did not apply only in the case of Soviet Russia or East Germany, wherever the severest form of the Judeo-Christian civilization i.e. communism has been accepted as the way of life, the plight of the masses has been the same.

Let us take the example of China. As soon as they realized what they had got into, thousands of Chinese tried to flee from their country, some losing their lives in the process while others were taken prisoners, others still drowned in attempts to swim across to the British held Hong Kong. The history of unprecedented influx of people from communist Vietnam has remained an unparalleled example. Men, women and children often numbering five to seven hundred have boarded boats meant to carry only about a hundred or so, and set sail for unknown destinations, little knowing where they would end up or if they would be granted asylum at all or not. Their boats have often sunk in storms, fallen prey to pirates who killed the men, raped the women and sold them in foreign lands. News of their plight has been published all over the world. These incidents have been repeated so many times that a new phrase, 'the boat people' has been coined to describe them. Accident after accident took place, yet the influx did not stop. People continued to crowd into little boats with their families and set sail on journeys to the unknown. There has not been any country in the South Pacific, which had not had to set up shelters and camps for these boat people. Not very long ago, clashes erupted between asylum seekers and the police in Hong Kong which left hundreds of persons dead.55 The same has been the state of every communist and socialist country. A significant number of Cubans have taken shelter in Florida, in the United States where they reside as illegal immigrants or aliens.

An incident following the Korean War of the 1950s is an example enough to demonstrate the fact that the Dajjal's paradise is actually hell for its inhabitants. The Korean peninsula was divided into two parts after the WWII, the south half as Republic of Korea with a democratic capitalist system while the northern half turned into a dictatorial socialist state as DPRK. When war broke out between these two in 1952, the Soviet Union and China rushed to the aid of their communist ally, whereas the United States, Britain and France joined forces with the south under the United Nations. After the war ended in 1955, one of the conditions for the exchange of the prisoners was that no POW would be forced to go back to their country if he opted otherwise. Of the 12760 (twelve thousand seven hundred and sixty) U.N. and South Korean soldiers taken captive by the communists, only 347 (three hundred forty seven) opted to remain in the communist north, while the rest wished to and returned to their homelands.

On the other hand, of the 75,797 (seventy five thousand seven hundred and ninety seven) North Korean communist soldiers held captive by the South and allies, 48,814 (forty eight thousand eight hundred and fourteen) declined to return to their own country. The declination of such a large number of soldiers to go back to their country posed a major problem for the U.N. which then arranged for their rehabilitation in different places such as the Philippines, Formosa, etc. Those who hold any doubt regarding this information may check the Encyclopedia Britannica, chapter on the Korean War and other proper sources including The United Nations.

After learning about these incidents, is there any room for doubt that the Dajjal's declared paradise is indeed hell for its inhabitants? If it was not actually so, if the situation prevalent there was not so deplorable would so many of its soldiers have braved an uncertain future, instead of going back to their motherland? On one hand was the beloved country of birth, families and relatives, friends and memories of a lifetime, on the other, unknown land and unseen future, foreign culture and language. If such a large number of people do indeed opt for the latter, does it not lead us to believe that they were actually suffering in the throes of hell and were ready to undertake any risk to try and get out? Those among the POWs who actually returned did so for the love of their families, wives and children, parents, relatives and friends and for the love of the motherland which proved too strong to sever and not for the system they were living in. I believe that if a clause was added to the treaty that would enable the families of those who opted not to go back were allowed to join the POWs, one wonders if even seven hundred would return instead of the twenty seven thousand who did.

The question that now arises is, what kind of paradise is it whence people strive with utmost desperation to escape from, board tiny vessels to cross big seas, try to swim across vast oceans, get electrocuted to death, die at the hands of the 'paradises' guards, and when held captive by the enemy, refuse to go back to the paradise forsaking the love of wife and children? Here another pertinent question comes up and that is- are only communism and socialism manifestations of the Dajjal and not others, such as democracy, capitalism? No, it is not either. All 'isms' or 'cracies' or ways of life that disregard the Creator as the ultimate law provider and Guide are different facets of the Dajjal… and this institution was brought into being by the Christian rulers of medieval Europe who tried to implement Christianity at the national level, despite it being devoid of all national, economic, military or social guidance or teaching. Consequently, the birth of the Dajjal took place with their adoption of secularism, which replaced the Creator's sovereignty with Man's own.

Next came the different phases or stages in the Dajjal's life. First came the feudal system, the inadequacies and injustices of which brought about the next step, capitalist monarchies. As the ill-effects of that system became too much for the common man to bear, socialism and its crude form communism surfaced. Time and time again, the adherents of different views have fought amongst themselves, like when
democratic and communist forces joined to oust dictatorial leaderships during the WWII. Soon after that, the democratic and communist systems engaged in cold war for more than four decades. The only reason full-scale wars did not erupt between these forces was the nuclear deterrent. By the end of the WWII, both the democratic and communist forces were in possession of nuclear arsenal and that worked as the only deterrent for WWIII. However, although the Dajjal has undergone different phases, such as infancy, childhood and reached adulthood in its span, and has seen clashes among its followers, it remains a single entity, a massive, one-eyed soulless giant -the Judeo-Christian materialistic civilization.

As for the North Korean soldiers who opted not to return, they chose the softer or milder version of the Dajjal over the severest. One of the Hadith of the Messenger of Allah best suits this occasion, 'the Dajjal will be in possession of two things similar to heaven and hell. It will call on mankind to accept it as their Lord (Rub), i.e. accept its word over that of Allah's and those who do so will be awarded places in its heaven, which will be hell for them. Those who reject it will be flung into its hell and that will be heaven for them'. Today this wide world, excepting the holy cities of Makka and Madina has accepted the Dajjal's dominion, its so-called heaven, which is in reality, hell. The prophesy of the last Messenger has come true to the letter. Then has been further development in the life of the Dajjal. It has grown to its maturity. After the collapse of its extreme form the Communist Soviet Unions, the milder form of the Dajjal, Secular Democracy is now the one eyed giant that has the world at its feet; including the populace which claims to be Mo’men, Muslim and Ummat-e-Mohammadi i.e. the nation of Mohammad (s.a.s) that runs to the mosques five times a day, fasts the month of Ramadan and makes pilgrimage to Makkah. Even where the Dajjal was divided between its milder and extreme forms it was dominant over the world, each trying to impose its own form on it. Now that the extreme form has become comparatively powerless. The middle form become arrogant and brazenly demanding to be accepted as the lord of the mankind. It has already declared that it would establish Secular Democracy i.e. Sovereignty of Man, in place of sovereignty of Allah on every inch of the earth. (Recall Hadith no. XIIIwhere the Messenger of Allah  prophesied that there will be not a piece of land or water where the Dajjal's power and influence will not be present.)

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The Messenger has said, "The word 'Kafer' (disbeliever) will be written between the Dajjal's eyes. Only believers (even those who are illiterate) shall be able to read it; disbelievers even those who are literate will neither see nor read it." -from Abu Horayra (ra), Hozayfa (ra), and Anas (ra)…Bokhari, Muslim.


This is one of the most important and significant Hadith regarding the gravity of the Dajjal's situation. It is apparent from the narration that the word 'Kafer' meaning disbeliever, will not be written literally with alphabets on the Dajjal's forehead, since Mo'mens, believers even if they happen to be illiterate will perceive the Dajjal as an disbeliever while on the other hand, no matter how highly educated or intellectual a person might be, if he/she is not a believer will not be able to gauge the writing on Dajjal's forehead. Therefore, it is apparent that it will not be written with the letters 'qaf ( ك)', 'fay ( ف)' and 'ray ( ر)'. Now, then who are these Mo'mens or believers who will see what others won't? By the Creator's own definition, 'the (true) believers are only those who believe in Allah  and His Messenger and afterward do not doubt, and strive and struggle with their wealth and their lives for the cause of Allah . Such are the sincere.56

We should bear in mind that this description befits only those who accept and believe in Allah 's allencompassing Tawheed, in His Sovereignty, those who accept no one else's word in any sphere of their lives, except the All-Mighty's since it has already been declared by Him that partial or eclectic acceptance of His word or doctrine is not acceptable to Him. By limiting acceptance and implementation of Allah 's directions in only the personal side of their lives, the so-called Muslim populace of this world too has accepted the Dajjal as their 'rub' meaning lord and in so doing are unable to realize its true form, that it is indeed the greatest usurper of all times, that of the very sovereignty of Allah .

As a natural consequence, this entire population is unable to read the depiction of 'Kafer' on Dajjal's forehead. On the other hand are those who believe only on what Allah  has directed, accept those as the only ones to be followed in every aspect of their lives, they will be the lucky ones to see and read the 'Kafer' written on the Dajjal 's forehead, since this description is another allegorical one, similar to the Hadith of the Messenger of Allah  in which he informs of the arrival of a colossal giant astride a mighty, huge mount. In another Hadith, he states, 'the entire world will accept the Dajjal's subjugation.57 Since the whole world is to accept the Dajjal's mastery, the Muslim population, which accounts for one-fifth of the entire number, will be no exception. One the one hand we see this Muslim population accepting the Dajjal's doctrine of life, while on the other, they strive with their utmost to become paragons of piety, of good deeds. Some of the highest ranking leaders of this population turn their foreheads black by striking repeatedly in prayer, yet these same leaders along with their people accept the sovereignty of Man, by rejecting Allah 's and seek the Dajjal's protection, accept all kinds of monetary and military assistance from the Dajjal. These people think nothing of turning their wrath on those among them who try to establish Allah 's Tawheed, His Sovereignty, detain and torture them, hang and execute them. These leaders believe in what the Dajjal has taught them that religion is a matter of personal adherence, not a collective or national issue. Is it any wonder then if these people fail to see or understand that the Dajjal is indeed the disbelieving one and are unable to read the writing on the forehead of the Dajjal ?

12.The Messenger has said, "Seventy thousand among my Ummah will follow the Dajjal."-from Abu Sayeed Khudri (ra), Sahre Sunnah.

THIS Hadith of the Messenger of Allah  goes to further prove that the 'Muslim' populace of the world will likewise follow the Jews and the Christians in accepting the Dajjal's way of life. As it has been stated earlier, the number 70 in Arabic stands for many or numerous, i.e., beyond count. This same figure, (70), is used to denote the number of Jews and Christians to follow the Dajjal doctrine as the Messenger of Allah  states, 58 thousand Jews and Christians will follow the Dajjal.57 That the Jews and Christians would accept the Dajjal and its ways is the logical consequence, since it is their inception. However, from this Hadith, it is clear that they will not be the only ones to do so, the so-called 'Muslim' populace of this world will follow suit. The Messenger of Allah  has used seventy thousand for both Jews and Christians and for his Ummah, meaning that the Jews, Christians and this so-called 'Muslims' of the present day will all follow the Dajjal i.e. accept it to be their 'lord', which is exactly the case now. The actual scenario is hardly any different, since excepting a small piece of land in the Arabian peninsula, every inch of land ruled by 'Muslims' is governed according to Judeo-Christian norms in politics, economic and social fields. The Shariah and the Islamic penal code have been replaced by the Dajjal's constitution and decrees and penalty handed down based on that. The 'Muslim' population has long since forsaken Allah 's criterion of good and bad, moral and immoral and accepted the Dajjal's standards of morality and values as its own in their collective lives. In other places, the Messenger of Allah  has informed of his Ummah's following of the Judeo-Christian civilization short of naming the Dajjal. In one such Hadith, he states, "In the future, you will follow your antecedents to such an extent that if they enter a snake's pit, you will follow them." At this point, he was asked, "O Messenger of Allah , are they the Jews and Christians (who will be thus followed)?" He replied, "Who else (but them)?" In another Hadith, he states, "A time will come when my Ummah will follow them to the extent that if anyone of openly committed incest with his mother, someone from within my Ummah will do the same.59

Although the Messenger of Allah  has not mentioned the Dajjal by name in these two Hadith, however, by studying similar Hadith s and in the affirmation of about 70 thousand of among his Ummah following the Dajjal, leaves no room for doubt that the subject matter of these is the same, namely the Judeo-Christian civilization in fact, the Dajjal: and that the so-called 'Muslims' of this world have indeed accepted it as their Lord or Rub in all but their personal lives. At the collective level, where it really matters, every word of the Great Impostor is whole-heartedly believed and adhered to: at the same time, owing to the perverted concept of their faith, they remain engrossed in fruitless prayer, fast and piety. People who believe the Dajjal's way of life, in secular democracy and other 'cracies' and 'isms' also have trouble accepting the fact that Islam's primary function and scope is in the national life of a people, its secondary reflection and version is the personal life; although numerous examples from the Qur'an and the Hadith can be put forward to support this. Before them, I would like present just this one thing. Among the five 'fard' or compulsory responsibilities of a Muslim, four are of collective nature, only one remaining strictly personal. Iman, meaning Tawheed, Salah, Zakah, Hajj are all for collective observance, while only 'saom' or fasting is private. In accepting the five pillars of Islam as issues of personal adherence, these people have accepted the Dajjal in their private and personal lives as well.

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The Messenger has said, “The Dajjal's power and influence will encompass the world's water and earth. The surface of the world will be covered by it as skin on an animal's back.” -from Masnad-e-Ahmed, Haqeem and Dar-ul-Nushr.

What has the Messenger of Allah tried to relay through this allegory if not the Judeo-Christian civilization? For is not all the world's water and land under the control and influence of this one superpower? Even a short time back, there was dissension between two forces of the Dajjal, but today, there is none, today only the Judeo-Christian technological civilization stands as the supreme power on the face of the world, with none to challenge or stand up to its domination. There is not an inch of land or water on this planet where this power does not have access to, or cannot get its own will imposed upon. The allegory used by the Messenger of Allah best describes this scenario… as complete and uninterrupted as the skin on an animal… what better word to describe the scenario where the entire world is under the grip of the Judeo-Christian civilization.

Throughout the world's history, large land areas have been conquered by might military powers, huge empires have been established and ruled by them for generations and numerous dynasties established, like the Roman and Byzantine empires, the Ming dynasty of China and so forth. However, never in time had it so happened that a single super power has controlled the entire earth or that a single theory, secularism has been accepted the world over as a whole as it has been in the case of the Dajjal.

If the Muslim population were not to accept the Dajjal, the Messenger of Allah might have rephrased his statement, perhaps saying that one-fifth of the people would not accept it, or that all except his Ummah would accept the Dajjal. However, he said neither of these, which further proves that the 'Muslim' populace too is the follower of the Dajjal. As I have stated earlier, there is no parallel to the present situation of a single ideological domination of the entire world. Before the technological advancement brought about by the Judeo-Christian civilization, the idea of world domination remained a distant dream due to the time and effort entailed in communication and getting from one place to another. However, with rapid scientific  growth, communications has become easy and that in turn facilitated the prospect of complete domination of the world by the Dajjal.

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The Messenger has said, “Arabia too will come under the grip of the Dajjal and its influence and control will be effective here as well.” -Bokhari, Muslim.

In many other Hadith s the Messenger of Allah has narrated about the Dajjal's grip on the world. In this one, however, specifically mentioned Arabia, the cradle of the last reformed version of the Din-ul-Islam, too will not remain immune to the influence of the Dajjal. Although the Qur'anic injunctions regarding law and order, trade, penalty and punishment remain in force partially in same part of the Arabian peninsula today, in all other aspect including the system of government, the economy, the rulers look towards the western powers for direction and guidance and act in accordance with their wishes. They make no mistake in realizing that should they act differently than their foreign masters wish them to, their thrones or their precious emirates would soon be snatched away from them and bestowed upon people more keen to follow them, people of their liking. Since the war in Iraq in 1991, the peninsula of Arabia has been under complete domination of the Christian & Jewish army and they have almost completely turned it into an occupied territory. The Arab rulers of the peninsula have neither the wish nor the ability to move a finger to cause the displeasure of their foreign masters.

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The Messenger has said, "The Dajjal will be able to reach any place in the world save Makkah and Madina. Two angels will guard every entry into Madina and prevent the Dajjal from entering the holy city."-from Abu Bakr (RA) and Fatima (ra) bint Qaes-Bokhari, Muslim.

We need only to take a good look around the world to understand the implication of this Hadith of the Messenger of Allah. Since the entire world along with the so-called Muslims have accepted the Dajjal's philosophy in life, manifest in democracy, socialism, monarchy and such, there is no dispute that it is universally applied and its tentacles reach into the far corners of the earth. The so-called 'Muslim' populace, their leaders and the general mass too have rejected Allah's sovereignty and traded it for that of Man, thereby adopting the Dajjali system as their own. Therefore, there is no territory it does not have access to. The only exceptions to this rule are the two holy cities of Makkah and Madina. As discussed in the previous topic, the Messenger of Allah predicted the arrival of the Dajjal in the Arabian Peninsula it self. In this one, he elaborated about the only places on earth to be immune to the Dajjal's influence. Judeo-Christian forces were invited into the Arabian Peninsula by Muslim leaders during the war in the Gulf and have remained there since, more powerful than the entire Arab world's military might put together. Yet the holy cities of Makkah and Madina have remained out of bounds for them and will continue to be so, Insha'llah. The reason for this is not that the Arab leadership or the people can resist any attempt by the Dajjal forces to enter the holy cities, but because the Messenger of Allah has confirmed the presence of angels guarding the entrances to them. Yet, there remains a scope of argument here. These two towns, Makkah and Madina, at present are under Monarchy, which is not sovereignty of Allah and the rulers of these two towns are not Mo’men, their Elah is the Dajjal. So what is meant by these being guarded by Malayeks (angels) preventing Dajjal's entry into these two towns? In one Hadith the Messenger predicted that entire Arabia would be under the grip of Dajjal and Dajjal's influence and control will be effective there (Hadith no- XIV) and in another he said that it would be prevented from entering Makkah and Madina by Malayeks. I think what the Messenger has meant by these two apparently contradictory Hadith is that through Dajjal's domain will be established over all Arabia through its subservient rulers of their dominion, but the physical presence of Dajjal in the two Holy cities will be prevented by the grace of Allah, through His angels standing guard at the doors.

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The Messenger of Allah has referred to the Dajjal as the Masih-ul-Kazzab in some places and the Masih-ud-Dajjal in others. from Abu Huraira (ra),- Bokhari, Muslim. Abu Bakr (ra), Obaydah (ra) bin Samawet, - Abu Daud. The Messenger of Allah has used the same word 'Masih' to denote the Messenger Isa (a.s.). -Bokhari, Muslim, Tirmizee.

I believe it needs no further explanation or justification that the Dajjal should be called the 'Masihul- Kazzab' or the 'Masih-ud-Dajjal' since it is the greatest impostor of all times, the usurper of Allah's sovereignty and the one to call upon mankind to accept it as their 'rub' or lord. However, the thought provoking part is that this word, 'Masih' has also been used both in the Qur'an and the Messenger's Hadith to refer to the Messenger Isa (a.s.) (Jesus). At first thought it does sound strange that a word used to describe a Messenger of Allah should also denote the greatest Impostor of all. However, it is soon cleared up once we understand the meaning of this word. In the Arabic language, the word 'Masih' means to envelope, cover, embrace or engulf. In that sense, both Isa (a.s.) the Messenger and the Dajjal the deceiver are 'Masih' since both their ideas are spread all over the globe. Despite the fact that Isa (a.s.) was sent strictly for the children of Israel, his teachings did not remain limited there, as I have explained earlier in the Chapter- Importance of the Dajjal's emergence. In his absence, Paul and his other disciples transcended that barrier and their preaching of a new faith resulted in the birth of Christianity and consequently, the Dajjal. Following the industrial and cultural revolutions, the Christian powers amassed great wealth and military might that enabled their colonization of almost the whole of the earth's surface. Between their influence and the untiring efforts of the Christian missionaries, they have been successful in turning Christianity into the numerically largest of the world religions and there is no place on the earth where Christianity has not spread and thus it envelopes the earth. Although the present day Christianity is far from the actual faith preached by the Messenger Isa (a.s.), it goes by his name and hence can be correctly said to 'mus' or engulf the entire world. This is the reason for Isa's (a.s.) title as the 'Masih'. On the other hand, the Dajjal sprung from the human distorted religion of the Messenger Isa (a.s.) and has enveloped the entire world with its might; in that respect, the Dajjal too is a 'Masih'. It has been referred to as the 'Masih-ul-kazzab' as well, since it is to engulf the world with its dazzling facade, hence the lying, deceiving 'Masih'.

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The Messenger has said, “Isa (a.s.) will destroy the Dajjal.”-from Abdullah bin Omar (ra) –Muslim; Nawa (ra) bin Sa'man -Muslim and Tirmizi.

The question that arises at this point is, what reason can justify the need for a Messenger from more than two thousand years back in time, to bring an end to the malaise of the Dajjal's reign? Isa (a.s.) is the only person to have been bodily taken away from the earth and to be send back thousands of years later, (of which two thousand have already elapsed and only Allah is able to tell how much longer it will be before he actually is sent down). Could He not have caused the Dajjal to be destroyed by Imam Mahdi (a.s.) or any other contemporary character? Or would it be a burden on Him Who has created too many to count from the time of Adam to the last man to create another human being who would destroy the Dajjal? Incidentally the only other human to have been bodily transported to the heavens was Idris (a.s.) but who would not return to the earth. Only the Messenger Isa (a.s.) is destined to return to the earth in the same state as he was taken up. What might be the reason behind this exceptional and interesting feat?

The only reason is that the entities of Isa (a.s.) of more than two thousand years ago and the Dajjal of today are intricately interwoven. If these two had nothing whatsoever in common, why would one person in particular have been chosen as the one to bring an end to the other? Especially since they are so apart in time.

If we take the accepted concept of the Dajjal, that of a huge one-eyed giant astride a mighty horse or a mount, this question becomes even harder to answer while on the other hand, if we accept the Judeo- Christian materialistic civilization as the Dajjal, the question of Isa's (a.s.) coming to destroy it not only seems the perfect answer, it seems as the only logical as well.

Isa (a.s.) like all other Messengers before him was a 'Mo’men' 'believer' i.e. exponent of sovereignty of Allah by faith and a Bani Israeli by kinship. It was his Ummah, his following, who distorted his teaching, brought about a completely new and different religion resulting in the birth of the materialistic giant in the form of the Dajjal, one that is responsible for imposing its own sovereignty over that of Allah's. If Isa (a.s.) would not take up responsibility for destroying this satanic reign, who would? For the responsibility ultimately lies with him. Allah had caused His Messenger, Isa (a.s.) to be bodily removed to his heavenly abode just as the olema of his times, the Rabbis, Sadducees and Pharisees in collaboration with their Roman rulers were about to nail him to the cross. In his stead, the traitor among his disciples who had betrayed his master for a mere 30 coins, Judas Iscariot was made to look exactly like him in appearance and body by Allah so that the Romans and the Rabbis thought they had crucified Isa (a.s.) when in reality it was Judas, the traitor who died in the cross. Perhaps, it was after his accession to heaven that Allah had enabled Isa (a.s.) to see into the future the handiwork of his so called followers when he beseeched the Lord to grant him another chance to right the wrong committed by his Ummah. Or it might have been Allah's ordinance that Isa (a.s.) should return to the earth to bring en end to the mighty Dajjal, whose declaration of being god had been accepted by all mankind including the followers of His last Messenger, the one who caused the establishment if its own sovereignty thereby inducing mankind to shun Allah's. There seems no other logical explanation for relegating the job of the Dajjal's destruction to one particular Messenger who lived thousands of years prior to its existence. I would be too happy to correct myself if any better reasoning can be awarded for this.
All the Hadith s put forward so far have been those where the Dajjal has been specifically mentioned. However, there are many others where the Messenger of Allah has tried to relay the message without naming it. I would like to reiterate that, although the so called 'Muslim' populace of this world declare themselves to be Mo'mens, true believers, they too have joined the rest of the world in accepting the Judeo- Christian materialistic civilization's ideology in all major aspects of their lives, thus have accepted the Dajjal's dominion over them. Only in their personal lives do they accept the Lord's words; however, in that respect also, with the blind aping of the Judeo-Christian civilization, whatever little is adhered to, is overshadowed. In the next few Hadith, we find prophecies of this same thing.

I. The Messenger of Allah said, "You will follow your predecessors to the extent that if they enter a reptile/snake's hole, you will follow"- He was asked "O Messenger of Allah! Are they the Jews and Christians (who are to be thus followed)?- He replied, "Who else?"

II. The Messenger of Allah said, "A time is coming when my followers will mimic and ape the Bani Israelis step by step, if one of them openly engages in incest with his mother one from my Ummah will soon follow."

In this particular Hadith, the Messenger has only mentioned the Jews, but needless to say, Jews and Christians are in reality one nation as I have discussed earlier; the term 'Bani Israel' can be used to denote both Jews and Christians; and that is what the Messenger has implied. In these two Hadith s, he has undoubtedly meant the Dajjal short of naming it.

51 11th Hadith of this chapter.
52 The Qur'an- Sura Baqara-213, Sura Yunus-19, Sura Nissa-1.
53 The Qur'an- Sura Baqara-143.
54 The Qur'an, Sura Haqqa-19, 25, Sura Inshiqak- 7.
55 This was sometime in the mid '90s when the Bengali version of this book was first printed.
56 The Qur'an- Sura Hujrat-15.
57 Hadith, from Fatema bint Qaes (ra), Bokhari, Muslim, Musnad-e-Ahmad, Haqeem, Dar-un-Nushr.
58 Hadith, from Abu Sayeed (ra), Bokhari, Muslim.
59 Hadith, from Abdullah (ra) bin Amr, Tirmizi and Muawiyah (ra), Ahmed and Abu Daud.
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Importance Of The Dajjal's Emergence, Chapter-2

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1. The Messenger of Allah has said, 'There will be no greater event from the creation of Adam to the Last day, than the appearance of the  Dajjal'. -Emran bin Hussain (r.a), Muslim.

This is perhaps one of the most important Hadith regarding the  Dajjal  since it encompasses the entire history of mankind, from the creation to its end; which includes the Great Deluge, the World Wars and every thing in between. Yet, the Messenger has stressed the event of the  Dajjal  as being greater in significance than any other. Therefore, it leaves little doubt as regards to its gravity. The Messenger of Allah had been made aware of all things great and small in the world's history: there was not a single important issue in the history of this world that he had no knowledge of; he has nevertheless stressed on the gravity of the  Dajjal  as being the gravest of all. Therefore, the very fact that he has placed the  Dajjal  as being more significant than either the great World Wars or the deluge of Noah's era when the whole world was submerged gives ample indications towards its significance and gravity. Given this fact, it seems highly ironic that we are so little concerned about it!

Now let us gauge as to why this  Dajjal , the materialistic, technological Judeo-Christian civilization poses such an enormous threat to mankind? To do so we need to go back in time to the creation of Man, to get a better understanding of the subject.

All it took Allah to create this entire universe, the limits of which remain unknown to man, was the command, 'Kun', 'Be', and there it was. Within this infinite creation, there is not one atom that can do what it pleases, not one tiny particle that can break out of the sphere fixed for it and disobey its Creator. He has not given any one of them that capability to do so, not bestowed the gift of free-will power on any other among His creation. This power to do what they please is something even His angels do not possess either. They all remain in their own places, each doing what they are ascribed by their Lord. It was after everything He Wished for had been created that He wished for a creature on whom He would bestow His attributes along with own free-will and see what it would do with it.4 And so He made Adam. As He wished to breathe His spirit into this new creature, it was not made with the mere command of 'Be', rather with the Lord's own hands.5With the breathing from Allah's Spirit into Adam, 6 he rose in rank above all other creations, becoming the Ashraf-ul- Makhlukat, (the most honored in the creation) because along with the spirit, blown into him by Allah he came into possession of each and every one of Allah's qualities, attributes or 'sifats', including that of Allah's free will.

This was the attribute, which Allah had retained to Himself all this while, now, it came to dwell in Adam as well. This is His 'Amanat', Trust unto us, something no other creature in this vast universe is in possession of.7

In order to test Man to see how he would use his freewill, there was a need for an opposing force, and Eblis (Lucifer) came up to do the job. It would have otherwise been similar to scoring a goal in an empty field and therefore worthless. Eblis was given the permission to enter Adam's body and soul and provoke him to disobey his Creator, to do wrong.8 Eblis was among the angels when Allah asked their opinion about the creation of His Khalifa, representative or vice-gerent on earth. He and all other angels had asked the same thing, 'Will Thou place therein (earth) one who will do injustices, create turmoil and shed blood, while we, hymn Thy praise and sanctify Thee?'9 It is interesting to note that at this point, Allah had only asked their opinion about creating Adam, he had not been created yet. So how did the angels know in advance what these creatures, Adam's children would do on earth?10 The answer lies in the word Allah chose to describe Adam. Had He said that He wished to create a creature called Adam, the angels would have probably said 'As Thou Wish, Lord'-but in Allah's proclamation of sending His representative, His vice-gerent on earth, they understood clearly this new creation would not be just another new being; as Allah's representative, it would acquire all of Allah's attributes and qualities, including His free-will, albeit in a very small quantity; like a drop of water taken from the ocean- which has all the properties of the ocean present in it, only in an infinitesimally smaller quantity than the great ocean itself. With this free-will Adam would be able to decide for himself whether to abide by Allah's orders, be on Hedayah the Guidance or make new ways for himself to conduct their life on earth. In case he rejects Allah's directives, the inevitable outcome would be 'fasad', 'anarchy', injustice inequality and oppression in society and 'safakuddima'- violence, war, bloodshedthis the angels were able to predict even before Adam was created.

The consequent incidents in short would be that after Adam's creation and blowing from His Soul into him Allah ordered all His angels to prostrate before him,11 to which all the Malayeks obeyed save Eblis, claiming he would not do so since Adam was inferior to him. For this disobedience, Allah cursed and ousted Eblis from His presence. Eblis then challenged claiming he would show that this new creature of Allah's would not obey their Lord and thus cause chaos and anarchy, injustice, violence and blood-shed on earth. Allah accepted this challenge for the very reason of Adam's existence was to test what he did with his free-will. Next was the step to lay down some conditions for this new test, such as:

I. Eblis was given the permission and power to enter Adam's heart and mind, body and soul and provoke him to disobey the Creator,

II. Allah would send His Messengers to every people and nation reveal His right Guidance through them so that people may be directed on the right path or Hedayah, Serat-ul- Mustaqeem, 'the straight and simple path. 12

With these principles laid down, there now remained only two avenues open to Bani Adam (Children of Adam). One was to accept and implement what Allah revealed through His Messengers and lead their collective and individual lives accordingly; and the other was to disregard Allah's directions, His sovereignty and establish man-made rules and laws and implementation of these at social and collective levels. Tawheed (Guidance) and Serat-ul-Mustaqeem are thus symbiotic, each of separate entities themselves but riveted together to form Allah's sovereignty.

To make things even clearer to Bani Adam, to ensure that under no circumstances should they attempt to replace His sovereignty with their own, He declared only those who accept and implement His laws and directives in their individual and collective lives, were acceptable to Him, all their personal sins and transgressions will be forgiven and heaven will be awarded to them. Both the Qur'an and the Hadith are replete with such confirmations. There is one Hadith in which the Messenger of Allah stated to Abu Zarr, 'he who remains steadfast in Allah's sovereignty (Tawheed) will enter paradise even if he commits theft and adultery.13 Besides this, he has clearly stated a number of times that not even sins, which reach up to the sky can refrain a man who remains unmoved in Allah's sovereignty, in Tawheed from heaven. Numerous Hadith from among the 'Sahih' or correct ones namely Bokhari, Muslim etc. can be put forward to support this. In another tradition, the Messenger of Allah states that 'it is a contract between Allah and His servants that those who obey none except Him will not be punished'.14 In another Hadith he states, 'Hell has been made 'haram' (forbidden) for him who believes in his heart there is no 'Elah', (He who is to be obeyed) other than Allah and that Muhammad (s.a.s) is His Rasul (Messenger)'.15 In yet another Hadith, the Messenger of Allah confirms, 'Tawheed is the key to paradise'.16 It is important to note here that the Tawheed stressed upon in these Hadith is not the partial or eclectic one confined and applied to the personal life only as it is now; but an all encompassing Tawheed, reflected on every aspect of the believer's life- from personal, family, national, economic, judicial, educative to political aspects. That is the true form of Tawheed, of Allah's sovereignty.

The opposite of this Tawheed is 'Sherk' meaning partnership, and 'kufr' meaning denial-regarding which Allah has informed us 'If We wish, We may forgive all of man's sins, transgressions, but Sherk and kufr will not be forgiven.' The outright denial of Allah's sovereignty and the subsequent establishment of man-made laws is 'kufr' while 'Sherk' is when Allah's directives are only partially adhered to, so that some of the rules and regulations are those of Allah's and some are made by man and tailored to their whims and desires. In this context the Almighty affirms- 'Do they think they can obey some of My commands and reject some?'17Therefore, even the denial of a single directive of Allah's from proper implementation in the collective or personal life is tantamount to committing 'Sherk'- and 'Sherk' and 'kufr' are the only two sins He has vowed never to forgive.18

Thus these Qur'anic injunctions and theirconfirmations in the Hadith leave no room for further speculation or doubt that those who accept Tawheed in its true form, i.e. in their personal, collective and social lives are the ones to embark on Serat-ul-Mustaqeem, establish Din-ul-Qaiyema. They will be caused to enter paradise even if their personal sins are too many to count.19 Whereas people who deviate ever so little from the complete implementation of Tawheed in their collective lives will not be acceptable in the eyes of Allah despite the fact of their staying up all night in prayer on fasting the whole month through. Complete and collective Tawheed is the precondition for 'Taqwa' and without it piety and good deeds of all kinds are fruitless.20

The two reasons the angels put forward against the creation of Man, Allah's Khalifa (vicegerent) was that he would create anarchy and shed blood on earth.21They did not say that man would not say his prayers, he would not fast, decline to pay Zakah, refrain from performing Hajj, indulge in adultery or gamble hisn wealth away or commit other crimes. The only two things they did mention are both collective issues and it does not take a genius to figure out that these very issues have been plaguing mankind from the beginning of time. Not even the League of Nations, formed after World War I or the United Nations after World War II have been  able to stop mankind from slithering into these black holes. The reason for this is quite simple…no matter how intelligent or smart Man thinks himself to be, he actually possesses very little knowledge about his own self and the world around him. He is yet to find out exactly how his mind and body coordinate to create his personality, let alone discover the mystery of this universe… therefore for him to devise a constitution that would enable him to live in peace and harmony and eradicate 'fasad' and 'safakuddima' from society is not only improbable, it is impossible. The only other alternative is to accept Allah's Tawheed, His sovereignty and implement the laws, rules, limitations and regulations, His Din, as revealed from Him through the series of Nabis and Rasuls, the Messengers.

Let us now consider the challenge Eblis (Lucifer) issued before his banishment from Allah's Presence. It was that he (Eblis) would wait to ambush Bani Adam from the Serat-ul-Mustaqeem; he would attack them from the left and right, centre and forward, so that they deviate from it.22 Not once did he say-he would refrain them from saying their prayers, from fasting or from paying Zakah nor from any other pious work, nor did he say that he would here them commit sins or crimes for that matter. Therefore it becomes clear that Eblis' real intention is not to keep Bani Adam from performing their religious duties, it is to stray them from the Serat-ul-Mustaqeem itself. This being the case, it becomes clear that the Serat-ul-Mustaqeem holds more importance than the personal observances of faith, as in saying prayers, fasting, hajj, Zakah and personal taqwa or piety. So what then is the Serat-ul-Mustaqeem? Why is it named as the straight and simple path? Because it is so. It is Tawheed, reflected on all facets of life, acceptance of the simple truth that we will accept no one else's word except His in any sphere of our lives. To further clarify this, the Messenger has stated, 'him whom Eblis is not able to deviate from the Serat-ul-Mustaqeem will enter paradise even if he commits theft and adultery'. It is noteworthy that he mentioned the two transgressions the punishment for which is the most severe in Islam. Having said this, the Messenger drew a straight line in the sand and said, 'This is Allah's way, Serat-ul-Mustaqeem'-he went on to draw several lines forking away from it and stated about Eblis' effort to persuade man into taking any of these. With this he recited from the Qur'an, 'Verily this is My Path, straight and simple. Embark on this and not on others, because these roads will take you away from Allah'.23

The two reasons or logic the Angels put forward against the creation of Adam and the gist of Eblis' challenge are the same, the end result of both circumstances are 'fasad' and 'safakuddima' injustice, turmoil, unrest, conflict etc. and blood-shed, wars, battles, murders. Eblis' challenge of deviating man did not entail refraining them from piety or good deeds because, as soon as man deviates from Allah's Tawheed, Serat-ul-Mustaqeem or His sovereignty, the inevitable result of it would be wrong doings and bloodshed. Therefore, there is no reason for Eblis to refrain man from personal piety because he is well aware that without Tawheed, His sovereignty, no amount of good deeds and Taqwa is acceptable to the great Lord. Allah had clearly stated that He would not hold any number of transgressions against him who has accepted His Tawheed, His Sovereignty.24 While on the other hand, He affirms- "Those who commit Sherk, (accept someone else's doctrine, order or directives in any sphere of life), shall not be forgiven and thrown into the fire'.25

Judging by these statements, the Lord Creator seems to be quite extremist, doesn't He? That does seem to be the case apparently.

However, it goes without saying that the laws, rules and regulations governing any people greatly influence and direct the behavior of the mass of people living under it. If the public and personal lifestyles do not complement each other, the inevitable result will be the eradication of the personal system due to the greater pressure of the public or collective one. Likewise, if there is a major clash of interests between these two, the personal way of life is bound to lose out. Therefore, there is need for a code of ethics, which is similarly reflected on both public and personal levels. Personal piety and goodness can be greatly effective on that person's life, but it has little influence on the behavior of the public or the mass. A firefly can illuminate itself with its own light but can not remove the darkness of the night.

Secondly, in order for mankind to live in harmony and in peace amongst themselves, a faultless and immaculate code of life is imperative. Since man is possessed of limited knowledge, it is not possible for him to devise one. It is for this that Allah states, "Accept my sovereignty, I am your Creator, therefore accept My doctrines so that you may live in peace, (Islam).26 If you decide to exercise your free will and come up with laws and rules to govern yourselves with, you will bring about fasad and safakuddima in your lives and Eblis will have won his challenge thrown to Me.27 I am the Mightiest and if I will I can make the whole of mankind accept Me in one Moment.28 But I will not do so, I want to see, how you use your free will. 29 Indeed, if man is to disregard the sovereignty of the All-mighty in the collective social level of society, all the personal piety and good deeds, all Ebadat, Taqwa are fruitless, as the Qur'an says, "And we shall turn unto the work they did and make it scattered motes.30

Between Adam and the Last Messenger, thousands, maybe hundreds of thousand of Messengers have brought the Guidance from Allah to their peoples.31 Though the details of these messages have differed in accordance to the time and location of their revelations, the basic message, that of Tawheed, Allah's Sovereignty has remained unchanged. No Messenger has claimed to beckon their people to anything else than that. All have called upon to their people to accept His Tawheed, the Eternal Faith, His Sovereignty so that they may establish His law on the land and refrain from implementing their own, the inevitable result of which would be fasad and safakuddima. With the acceptance of Tawheed the constitution would be based on His message and thus His Din, His Way of Life would be implemented on society as a whole.

This Truth (Tawheed) has remained the cornerstone of each and every Nabi or Rasul's (Messenger) preaching. However, in absence of the Messengers their people have given in to Eblis' provocation, lures and have tampered with the Message. A clergy class has emerged from within them who devoted all their time and effort in hair splitting details of the faith and the teaching of it to the general people. They rendered the straight and simple Serat-ul-Mustaqeem so complicated as to be out of the reach of the common man's intelligence. The more detailed they have become, the further they have strayed from the Truth. By adding new issues to the original message and subtracting those that were contrary to their own interests, they brought about a system that finally bore little resemblance to the original one. The tough directives, the undertaking of which would entail personal loss and sacrifice were reduced to issues of low priority whereas rules easy to follow were taken high up on the list of priority. When things reached a point where the adherence to that Din brought more harm than good, Allah in His Mercy would send another Messenger to rectify and restore balance in that situation. At this point, it is imperative to make note of one issue that is related to the emergence of the Dajjal. One thing has remained unchanged in this whole chain of events regarding the sending of Messengers and the guidance, the distortions of these messages after the departure of the Messengers and the subsequent arrival of new ones. Never in time has man officially and formally attempted to disavow Allah's Sovereignty as the source of their Din, their Way of Life. They have distorted this Din to suit their interests, concocted issues into it so that they are able to oppress other people- yet this distorted version was still proclaimed to be God's Word. Tyrant rulers, oppressors and dictators who made their subjects' lives miserable, too, ruled in the name of God. Looking back in time, although we find a few instances where man declared himself as the sovereign, interestingly, these too had to be passed off in the name of God, e.g. pharaoh of Egypt, who claimed his lineage from the son of the god, Raa, therefore a divine power himself; or Namrud (Nimrod) who also took a claim sovereignty for himself. Indeed, the people who resisted and rejected these tyrants are to receive very high rewards and positions for themselves from their Lord; but not similar to those who resist the mighty Dajjal itself. The sphere of domination and location of these claimants of sovereignty were limited to the particular region they controlled as was the duration of their tyranny, but the Dajjal's area of dominance is the whole world like the Messenger of Allah prophesied- 'there will not be an inch of land or water that would be free of the Dajjal's control.32 Never in time did man strive to formally replace Allah's Sovereignty with that of his own, except a few instances where the denial of Allah's Sovereignty was limited in a country or an empire like Pharaoh in Egypt and never engulfed the entire world like the present day Judeo-Christian materialist civilization i.e. the Dajjal. For example, we can take that of Isa's (a.s.) (Jesus) era.It was when the Rabbis, Sadducees and Pharisees had distorted the Law of Moses (a.s.), that Allah sent Isa (a.s.) (Jesus) to breathe new life into that religion. The Jewish clergy, devoted to the study of the Torah and its doctrines, had lost sight of the inner self of the faith, the spiritual aspect. They made modifications to the basic message with their intense clinical analysis, but maintained it to be their Divine Guidance. They did not promulgate new theories on law and punishment, economy or education nor deem the Toraic laws to be obsolete.

The history of this subcontinent also bears similar testimony of this fact. The book of Nooh (a.s.) (Noah) or Monu had been distorted by the clergy to suit their ends, but was still known to be 'Monu Shanghita' or the 'Book of Monu'. The Khatriya kings ruled based on those laws and their interpretations provided by the learned Brahmins. The law of the land remained God Almighty's, only distorted in some places. If any king attempted to change any rule of the Book or did not rule in accordance with it, he would be upstaged and killed. Even the people, whom the Last Messenger called to Allah, believed Him to be the Creator and Maintainer of this Universe. Allah Himself bears witness to this. He asks our Messenger, "If you ask them (Arabs) who is the Creator of this earth and this sky? They will undoubtedly answer the Almighty, Hakeem.33 He asks again, "If you ask them- who created the earth and the sky and fixed the sun and the moon to their respective positions, they will answer, of course Allah. Ask them after the earth has died who brings it back to life by causing rain? Of course, they will reply, Allah.34 He goes on to say, "Ask them, O Muhammad, who is the Creator of this universe and earth? Allah, they will reply.35The Moshreqs and Kafers of Arabia tried to foil the Messenger's bid to impress Tawheed on them by claiming they were believers in Allah; if they worshipped Laat, Hobal or Ozza, it was to gain their interception on the worshippers' behalf,36they accepted Kaaba as the House of God and named their sons Abdallah, slave of Allah. So what new Tawheed was he, Muhammad (s.a.s), trying to make them understand?- They asked him.

Therefore, it would be correct to say that Allah's sovereignty was never at stake during this long period of time, whatever discrepancies man brought to the Faith were limited to the Message and its books, the idea of replacing it with anything else did not occur to man. Yet, this was the declared objective of Eblis, that he would cause man to disregard Allah's all encompassing Tawheed, sovereignty. Now let us study how he made Man go about achieving this unholy aim.

Moses (a.s.) was among the few known Messengers of Allah who brought with him a complete code of life. It included all aspects of both public and private lives of his people. However, with his departure the degeneration that plagued peoples before him, found root among his people as well. A clergy class soon rose from within them, which busied themselves with bringing out new and newer still 'fatwas' or ordinances, and burdened the common man with these. It reached a point where the observance of minute details of the Shariah (Moses' law) gained dominance over the spirit of the faith itself. As punishment for straying from the truth, the Chosen people were cursed and turned into slaves of the pagan Romans, quite similar to how the so-called Muslim population of this world were overridden and ruled for centuries by Christian forces. In this scenario, Allah sent the Messenger Isa (a.s.) (Jesus) into the Bani Israel and gave them a chance to redeem themselves in His Eyes. This new Messenger brought no new law or 'Shariah' with him since Moses' Torah was still applicable to them. He had been sent solely for the purpose of guiding the Bani Israelis back to the essence of their true faith. The issues Isa (a.s.) stressed heavily on were:

I. That he had not been sent to disavow the Law of Moses, but to confirm it.37 He made it clear with this statement that he would not interfere with the Book or its laws, he would only restore balance between the spiritual and practical application of the Din, since that had become lost with excessive importance been placed on meticulous details of the law irrelevant to the spirit of the faith itself.

II. That he had been sent only for the wayward sheep of the Bani Israel.38

With this, the new Messenger set the boundary of his responsibility, about the people to be reached through his teaching. He put further emphasis on this issue while dispatching his twelve chief disciples for preaching purposes. He stressed upon them not to preach to people of other faiths, not to enter their cities, not to go to the Samarians. They were instructed specifically to restrict their preaching to the errant people of Bani Israel.39

The severest opponents of any new Messenger without exception have been the stalwarts of the previously existing but perverted faith, the clergy, who consider themselves as the torchbearers of that way of life (Din) and its guardians. Because-

Firstly, they have clung to the distorted version of the old faith pretty similarly to a sinking man's grasping at straw. Whenever a new Messenger has raised his voice against the distortions brought to the faith, they in turn, have branded him an infidel and taken it upon themselves as a sacred duty to rid the world of his presence.

Secondly, their pride in their knowledge of the scripture has been a major contributing factor to their opposition. Lifetimes devoted to the study, and hair splitting research of their holy Scriptures, combined with the high position they enjoyed in society, generated enormous egos that took many a great bashing when an apparently illiterate man, as has been the case of most Messengers, rose up to them and declared them at fault!

Thirdly, it were the same class of people who had made 'Halal' for themselves what Allah has deemed 'Haram'- e.g. the selling of His Ayats, His words for a meager pay- as they have been wont to do; A new Messenger would surely and strongly speak against this. To accept that they were in the wrong would also be out of the question for these clergy class; because to accept fault would herald the end of their illegal trade. The Qur'an says: Lo! Those who hide aught of the Scripture which Allah hath revealed, and purchase a small fain therewith, they eat into their bellies nothing else than fire.40 Again the Qur'an says, "Follow those who ask of you no fee, and who are properly guided.41

Fourthly, they were also quick to realize that a new Messenger spelt doom for their parasitic existence and the great influence they exerted over the general population. All these worldly concerns have remained great deterrents for the apparent 'men of God' from accepting His Messengers for what they were. The case of Isa (a.s.) was no exception to this rule for soon after he started preaching, the Jewish clergy, the Rabbis, Sadducees and Pharisees put up massive resistance against him and also inducted the aid of the Roman governor who ruled over them. The Romans were reluctant at first to be drawn into a matter they considered to be the internal conflict of the Jews, but the clergy's insistence that Isa (a.s.) posed a serious threat to the stability of the Roman rule on Palestine, as Isa (a.s.) Jesus claimed to be the king of Jews, they informed the Romans, finally swayed the authority to become involved. However, as they prepared to nail Isa (a.s.) into the cross, Allah caused him to be bodily transported into heaven and Isa's (a.s.) betrayer, who sold out his master for thirty coins, was made to look identical to him so that the Rabbis and Romans thought they had crucified Isa (a.s.), when it was actually Judas Iscariot who died on the cross.

During the three years Isa (a.s.) preached among the Bani Israel, between 72 and 120 brought faith in his teaching and became his disciples. However, in his absence they were severely persecuted both by Jews and Romans alike and the handful of them who remained in Palestine had little choice but to surrender to and abide by the Rabbis, Sadducees and the Pharisees, though in their hearts they adhered to their master's teaching. Most of Isa's (a.s.) disciples were forced to hiding or exile to distant places. It was sometime after this that a Jew named Paul who was one of the fiercest persecutors of Jesus and his followers brought faith in Isa's (a.s.) teaching; however on closer examination of his consequent actions, it seems his chief aim was to deviate Isa's (a.s.) followers from the right path than to embark on it himself.

The Messenger Isa (a.s.) had not been sent to establish any new faith neither did he ever attempt to do so. His primary objective was to renew faith in Musa's (a.s.) (Moses) prophet-hood while restoring order and balance that was lost to Judaism and rescue it from the clutches of the clergy. Similar was the Buddha's (a.s.) mission, who was sent to rescue the prevalent Vedic religion (Sanatan Dharma) from the clutches of the clergy, the priests.

One of the first things Paul tried to impress on Isa's (a.s.) followers was to convince them not to limit their preaching to the Bani Israel (Children of Israel), but to call other people, namely non Jews to this new faith as well. None of the devout followers of Isa (a.s.) were present at Jerusalem during this time all having fled from Palestine in fear to their lives and Paul traveled to Antioch where some of them were hiding to propose this change. At first they were greatly alarmed over this idea which was in direct contrast to what their Master had taught. Among those who strongly opposed this was Barnabas who tried in vain to refrain the other disciples from consenting to it. Here it must be remembered that Barnabas learned directly from Isa (a.s.) from long, close association with him, while Paul was fierce opponent who never met Isa (a.s) (Jesus). However, Paul's persuasion prevailed and at length they all agreed to call others to their faith as well. Perhaps they realized that they too were doomed to failure where even their Master, a Messenger of God had been unsuccessful and that with their demise, their Master's teaching would be wiped off the face of the earth. The only means to stop that from happening they argued was to preach among non-Jews and convert them to this new religion.

It is important to note here that the Judaic faith is one limited to the twelve tribes of Israel; it has no application on people outside it, therefore, its deviations or reformations have no practical implication to people not belonging to the Bani Israelis. Accordingly, the Messenger Isa (a.s.) had been sent with the limited responsibility of bringing the Bani Israelis back to the folds of Judaism as revealed to the Messenger Musa (a.s.) (Moses). Isa (a.s.) (Jesus) was a devout confirmer of the former Messenger, namely Musa (a.s.) (Moses), as were all of his disciples. Their dissension was only with the Rabbis, Sadducees, the clergy over the concept of the faith. That Paul was among the severest of Isa's (a.s.) opponents during and after his lifetime is not of consequence since there are ample examples of bitter enemies turning into staunch, genuine supporters: Omar (ra) bin Khattab, Khalid (ra) bin Waleed and Ikrama (ra) bin Abu Jahl are excellent examples of this. What is thought provoking is the fact that Paul never received any direct guidance from the Master, he was not a disciple, yet emerged as a greater champion of the faith surpassing those who had been in constant company of the Master and received first hand knowledge and guidance from him. Also, the changes Paul brought about to the faith were not only diverted from the basic teachings they were in some principal points, completely opposite to what Isa (a.s.) had preached. Still, Paul and his group traveled preaching the revised faith and were successful in converting a considerable number of people. By modifying Isa's (a.s.) teaching, adding to it and subtracting from it at his will, Paul brought about a
new faith that bore no resemblance neither to the religion of Musa (a.s.) (Moses), or the teachings of Isa (a.s.) that were intended to restore balance in Musa's (a.s.) faith. In Paul's hands a new religion called Christianity was born. Many reputed Christian scholars opine that the faith we now refer to as Christianity should rather be known as Paulinity since it is based more on Paul's ideas and reforms than the Messenger Isa's (a.s.). The foundation for this faith was laid not in Isa's (a.s.) homeland, not in Palestine, since none of his followers were present there, but away in Antioch.42The irony of all this is that never in his life had Isa (a.s.) heard of a religion called Christianity!

Before and during this time, i.e., when Paul and his supporters busied themselves with the preaching of Christianity, the majority of Europeans were worshippers of numerous gods and goddesses: the monotheist religion of Musa (a.s.) was practiced on the other side of the Mediterranean but they were never called to accept it on the account of it being a tribal religion, the same principles that were followed by Isa (a.s.) while he preached the reforms of the Judaic faith.

The new faith which Paul and his followers called the pagan Europeans to though far from Judaism or Isa's (a.s.) teachings, was however superior to their existing religions, as a result of which there was en masse conversion of Europeans to this new faith. With almost the whole of Europe accepting Christianity, another major fundamental issue loomed large over their lives. In what order would this huge group of people, who called themselves Christians, lead their collective national lives?

Musa (a.s.) had brought a complete code of life for his people, with the Shariah (Law of Moses) governing the social, political, economic aspects and counter balanced by the spiritual side of the faith involving soul enhancement thereby striking a harmonious balance between the external and internal facets of human existence. It was when the clergy, priests, Rubbis etc. tilted the scales of this harmony with their engrossment and obsession with the meticulous application of the Shariah only that Isa (a.s.) was sent. He reconfirmed the law of Musa (a.s.), but stressed that he had been sent to reestablish the soul of thefaith in its rightful position. Therefore, the teachings of Isa (a.s.) did not contain any new national Shariah, it promulgated the personal spirituality of man only. As a result of which, what the religion Paul and his supporters converted Europeans to, was an incomplete, imbalanced version of the original faithand this they tried to establish at a national level. As I have mentioned earlier, man had never tried to replace Allah's sovereignty with his own, never thought of implementing his own laws and regulations rejecting the Creator's and he did not try to do that at this point either. With the conversion to Christianity, the whole of Europe tried to lead their life the Christian way with the directives coming from the Papal office in Rome.

However, they soon ran into trouble with their misguided efforts in living as Christians. It is apparent that a unified code of ethics including the socioeconomic, laws, penal code and regulations are an imperative prerequisite for governing any collective body of people. Yet this was completely absent in this new faith as a result of which the European kings' and Pope's efforts were in vain. The idea of creating a whole new constitution to live their lives by, setting aside all of God's directives, His rules and regulations, laws and limits, were still unthinkable while at the same time they were in dire need of a system that would enable them to remain Christians and also address their national and collective lives. A long struggle ensued between the lives of this world and the next and gradually it turned into a major conflict, culminating into a point where only two options remained open to the kings and elders of society. One was to outright reject Christianity and its way of life and the second to relegate the application of the faith to the personal lives of its people from where it would have no say or influence on the national, political and economic activities of the general mass. As it was not possible to make the entire population of Europe denounce Christianity and thus turn atheists, the second option was taken up for implementation resulting in the complete separation of the church and state in England in 1537, during the reign of Henry VIII. With this decree religion which had hitherto been the final criterion of judging between right and wrong, between lawful and unlawful, was banished to the relatively narrow scope of a person's private life and the Lord Creator ceased to have any say in how the collective national lives of the entire Europe was led.

Thus was born the Dajjal prophesied thirteen centuries back by the last Messenger of Allah and the Anti-Christ prophesied in the Bible two thousand years back.

Following the official separation of the church and state, Christian Europe started turning increasingly materialistic with rapid growth in all sectors of technology, industry and commerce. It is ironic that a tough-core materialistic civilization sprung up from within a group whose basic ideology is one of spiritual enhancement, of rising above worldly attractions and of turning the other cheek!

However this is what exactly happened with the reason being the same as discussed earlier. Any system or doctrine, which is accepted and implemented on a collective level naturally, emerges as a dominant factor with its guidelines defining a group, and in that case, the person or individual automatically becomes the secondary or weaker entity. While it is nice to think that people would retain their personal goodness of character and religious beliefs even if they are not religiously bound to, and if Christianity was rejected from their national life; but that did not happen either, for the simple reason that the collective behavior exerts more pressure and influence thus modulating a group than the behavior of an individual. It is not possible for the individual to retain his personal characteristics in face of greater group pressure and operate as a separate entity. It is especially so if the rules and regulations, laws and orders that are used to govern them are man-made, thus necessarily faulty.

With this revised outlook of life, the materialistic Christian Europe gradually became more and more engrossed in the research of technological and scientific advancements and grew more powerful with each new development- to reach the point where they are now in control of all major activities all over the world. Born 472 years ago the Dajjal now is adult and in control of the entire world.

The Dajjal or the Judeo-Christian Materialistic Civilization has been given precedence, importance over all other things that have happened in this world, from the beginning to the end of time. It is so because it involves the very reason of man's creation - which was to determine if he accepted Allah's sovereignty and accordingly implement it or took matters into his own hands, rejecting the Covenant with Himself and His Ordinance. From time immemorial man has strayed from the Straight Path, deviated from the truth, whence a new Messenger has been sent to rectify the situation and guide them back to the Serat-ul-Mustaqeem. Never has the Lord's Ordinance been rejected outright and replaced with man-made ones in such scale. However, with the rejection of the reformist Messenger Isa's (a.s) message by the Jews and the subsequent trial to implement the deviated and incomplete religion called Christianity into the general population's lives, man committed the ultimate sin. The God-ordained way of life was expelled for eclectic application only to man's personal life and Dajjal was brought into being.

For the first time in history, Allah's sovereignty was formally and officially rejected in totality; for the first time Eblis was successful in deviating Man, Bani Adam collectively, from Tawheed, Serat-ul- Mustaqeem, the same Serat-ul-Mustaqeem he had vowed to lay ambush to.43 This was the ultimate test for Allah's Khalifa, Man, and he failed. This was Eblis' first victory and because of that, it is the most important event from the beginning to the end of time.

2. The Messenger of Allah stated, "There has been no Messenger from the time of Nooh, (a.s.) (Noah) who has not warned his followers about Dajjal. I, too am warning you of it". -Abu Obaydah (ra) bin Zarrah-Tirmizi, Abu Daud.
The Messenger of Allah has singled out the appearance of Dajjal on the earth as being the single most important occurrence in the history of the world. In this Hadith, however, in informing about other Messengers' warnings to their followers about it, he has stated the time starting from the prophet-hood of Nooh (a.s.), implying Messengers prior to Nooh (a.s.) did not warn about it. From this statement we can gather that there was no need for them to have done so, because if there was any reason, then they certainly would have done so. The logical explanation to this must be that the Dajjal was destined to appear after Nooh's (a.s.) prophet-hood, not before.

The history of mankind can be divided into two broad parts. Phase one started with Adam (a.s.) to right before Nooh (a.s.) and the second phase from Nooh (a.s.) to the end of the world. Nooh (a.s.) is referred to as the Adam-e-Sani or the second Adam since mankind started afresh from his time; after the deluge and complete destruction of mankind except Nooh (a.s.) and his companions therefore a second part or phase in the history of mankind started with him. We find no reference to any Messenger sent before Nooh (a.s.) in the Qur'an, except Adam (a.s.) but that is not to imply that none were sent before him since Allah has informed us of sending Messengers to every people, every locality44 and He also said, "Indeed We have sent Messengers before you (O Mohammad); of some of them We have related to you their story and of some We have not related.45 Hadith informs us about one thousand and twenty four thousand, from one source and two hundred and twenty four from another, all before Nooh (a.s.).

It is interesting to note that 30 or so Messengers Allah himself has mentioned in the Qur'an, all belong to the time span after the Messenger Nooh (a.s.). All the other one hundred and twenty four thousand, or according to some two hundred and twenty four thousand Messengers lived and worked before Nooh (a.s.) (Noah).

In the Hindu scripture,46 the history of mankind has been divided into four parts; each part known as an Age. The first part is known as the Age of Truth (Sattya), the second as the Age of Treta, the third and fourth as the Ages of Dapar and Koli respectively. At the end of Koli Yug or Age, Doomsday is to strike bringing an end to mankind and this world. According to that scripture, if there were ever a conflict between truth and falsehood in the Age of Sattya (Truth), truth would triumph every time. In the Age of Treta, the  same conflict would result in truth emerging as the victor fifty times out of hundred and in Dapar Age itcame down to twenty five times out of hundred; i.e., falsehood would prevail seventy five times out of hundred z the limits, since in our era, the Age of Koli, 120 years is among the highest number of years any person is expected to live.

Based on these divisions, let us try to gauge to which Age group the Messenger Nooh (a.s.) (Noah) belonged. We find from the Qur'an that Nooh (a.s.) remained among his nation for 950 years.47 Allah has used the word 'nakesh' to describe his stay among his people, however, it is not clear from this statement if Nooh (a.s.) preached futilely among his nation for 950 years, or if he lived a total of the 950 years. However, the former might have been the case, since he could not have attained prophet-hood till he was mature of age, supposing that took somewhere between four to five hundred years, after which he preached to his people for another 950 years. Therefore, it would be correct to assume that he was 1400 or 1500 years old at the time of the Great Deluge and he remained among his people for sometime after the Flood as well, so Nooh (a.s.) lived for roughly two thousand years. On the other hand, if we take that he was 950 years old when the Flood struck, and the time he spent among his handful disciples following it to be 300, 400 or even 500 years, we reach about 1500 years. The highest life expectancy among the people of the Dapar Age was two thousand years, so I conclude Nooh (a.s.) to have lived during that era.
Now let us try to understand why the warning of Dajjal's coming commenced from the time of Nooh (a.s.) and not earlier. I can think of no better reason than the fact that a falsehood of Dajjal's magnitude could neither emerge nor sustain during the periods of absolute truth as were prevalent in the Ages of Sattya (Truth) and Treta., when truth would prevail 100 and 75 times respectively over falsehood, therefore there was no potentiality of it taking place during those times. Dajjal is known to us as the attractive impostor, a liar, a deceiver-described as such in the Hadith and the Bible as Anti-Christ. The possibility of Dajjal's birth rose in the era of Dapar, Nooh's time, when truth succumbed to falsehood 75 times out of hundred. Although Dajjal was destined to emerge a lot later in time, in the Koli Yug, the Later Age, the potentiality rose substantially in its favor and hence the commencement of the warnings.
In all probability, and this is what the Messenger of Allah sought to explain using different allegories, that of Dajjal being kept prisoner in a faraway island might refer to the low potentiality of it emerging during the first two phases of mankind's existence. Despite the fact of Dajjal being the most important event in the history of the world, warnings about it started only from the time of Nooh (a.s.). This goes to stress that a liar or deceiver of Dajjal's enormity could not express itself or bring the whole world within its grasp during the eras of Truth and Treta.
At this point, there's one thing worth mentioning. There is a section of people who stress great importance on the issue of Abu Sayyad (ra); so much so that an entire chapter in the Meshkat has been devoted to the depiction of his life and different opinions about him.
It so happened that a baby quite unusual or different, was born into a Jewish family in Madina. There are reports of the Messenger of Allah having gone to see him, but there is no basis for speculating that baby as being the Dajjal, for the Messenger of Allah neither said anything to that effect nor let it be known that he thought this baby to be the personification of the Dajjal. The Messenger of Allah was the one to inform the world of the coming of the Dajjal during the time of Isa's (a.s.) (Jesus) return to earth and the Mahdi's Emamate and that it would be destroyed by Isa (a.s.) himself. How then could this Kafer appear within the holy presence of the Messenger of Allah himself, that too, in the city of Madina itself? Besides that, the Messenger of Allah had already predicted the inability of the Dajjal to enter either Makkah or Madina,48 whereas Ebne Sayyed was born in Madina itself and performed Hajj in Makkah. The misnomer of Dajjal, Ebne Sayyed had converted to Islam, whereas theon Dajjal is to die a Kafer.49 He himself refuted people's talk of him being the Dajjal pointing to the fact that he had children; in accordance to the Hadith of the Messenger of Allah, the Dajjal will have no children. Ebne Sayyed died a natural death and the Dajjal is destined to be destroyed by Isa (a.s.).
Apostates and cruel rulers have also, in cases been termed as Dajjal's or deceivers and liars by the Messenger of Allah, but they are far removed from the actual and the particular Dajjal whom he and other Messengers have warned about.
Abu Sayyad (ra) has been mistakenly suspected out as the Dajjal of the later times and a whole chapter in the Meshkat has been devoted in trying to prove him as the one. However, since I have been correctly able to ascertain Dajjal's identity through the blessings of Allah and His Messenger, I do not attach anyimportance to the details regarding Abu Sayyad (ra).
That most people have been unable to grasp the allegorical references to the Dajjal is further proved by their insistence in trying to establish Abu Sayyad as the self-same Masih al Kazzab.

3. The Messenger himself sought refuge with Allah from the 'fitna' (turmoil, unrest, malaise of Dajjal). -Aisha (ra) -Bokhari.
I hold this Hadith as extremely important document regarding the terror of the Dajjal's appearance for no other reason than the person who seeks refuge from its malaise. It is no other than the bravest, among whole of the mankind, who feared none except his Creator, the greatest among the Messengers of all times, the leader of all other nabis of Allah, the only person to be promised the Makaam-e-Mahmuda, the glory of all
mankind, Muhammad (s.a.s), the last Messenger of Allah to mankind. When such a man seeks protection from something, I do not feel there is room for any justification or any further emphasis put on its gravity. It is ironic but true that our, ulema our clergy have not paid even one percent of the importance shown to Dajjal as by the Messenger. They remain totally engrossed with the length of their beards, trousers, cuts of their moustaches and so on- to the extent of almost completely ironing the turmoil, Fetna of the Dajjal, which has made man renounce Allah's sovereignty, His Tawheed and beguiled the whole of mankind into accepting it as their lord, their 'rub'. The only reason for this is the distortion in the Muslims' perception of their faith, their "Aqidah" of Din-ul- Islam, is so far, so different from the true thing that they have lost complete sight of the reasons of Islam's existence, its objectives its goal. The natural consequence of which has been the topsy-turvy of priorities so evident in Muslims today. The true form of Tawheed, the struggle, the fight to implement it have lost out to matters of negligible significance as beards, caps, pajamas, trousers etc. their case of jumbled up and reversed priority can be likened to that of gentleman who breathed a sigh of relief to see that the robber's bullet that killed his neighbor hit him in the forehead rather than the eye! That he lost his life nevertheless seemed to be of lesser importance than the saving of his eye. However, the instances of mixedup, reversed priorities are not the main topic here;50 it is the gravity of the situation created by the Dajjal.1 That the Messenger of Allah himself sought refuge against it leaves no doubt in its being a matter of the gravest import.
4 The Qur'an- Sura Dahar-2, 3.
5 The Qur'an- Sura Saad-75.
6 The Qur'an- Sura Hijr-29, Sura Sajda- 9, Sura Saad-72.
7 The Qur'an- Sura Ahzab-72.
8 The Qur'an- Sura Nesa-119.
9 The Qur'an- Sura Baqara-30.
10 The Qur'an- Sura Baqarah-30.
11 The Qur'an- Sura Baqara-34, Sura Araf-11.
12 The Qur'an- Sura Yunus -48, Sura Nahl 36, Sura R'aad-7.
13 Hadith, form Abu Dar (Ra)- Bokhari, Muslim, Meshkat.
14 Hadith, from Mu'az (ra), Bokhari, Muslim.
15 Hadith, from Obaydah bin Sawamet (ra) and Anas (ra), Bokhari, Muslim.
16 Hadith, from Muaz (ra) bin Jabl, Ahmed.
17 The Qur'an- Sura Baqara-85.
18 The Qur'an- Sura Nissa-48, 116, Sura Muhammad-34.
19 Hadith, form Abu Dar (Ra)- Tirmizee, Tibrani, Bayhaqee.
20 The Qur'an- Sura An'am-89, Sura Zumar-65 and Hadith.
21 The Qur'an- Sura Baqarah-30.
22 The Qur'an- Sura Araf-16, 17.
23 The Qur'an- Sura An'am- 53, Hadith, Ahmed, Nesai, Meshkat from Abdullah bin Masud (ra).
24 Hadith, from Abu Zarr (Ra)- Bokhari, Muslim.
25 The Qur'an- Sura Zumar-64-66.
26 The Qur'an- Sura Nur-55.
27 The Qur'an- Sura Nesa-119, Saad-82, Mu'minun-71, Muhammad-22.
28 The Qur'an- Sura An'am-35, Sura Yunus 99.
29 The Qur'an- Sura Mulk-2, Dahar-2, 3.
30 The Qur'an- Sura Forkan-23.
31 The Qur'an- Sura Yunus-47, Sura Nahl 36, Sura Raa'd-7.
32 Hadith, from Masnad-e- Ahmed, Haqeem and Dar-un-Nushur.
33 The Qur'an- Sura Zukhruf-9.
34 The Qur'an- Sura Ankabut-60, 61.
35 The Qur'an- Sura Lokman-25.
36 The Qur'an- Sura Yunus-18.
37 The Qur'an- Sura Mayeda-46, Sura Emran-50, New Testament, Mathew 5: 17-19.
38 Bible, New Testament, Matthew, 15:24.
39 Bible, New Testament, 10:6.
40 The Qur'an- Sura Bakarah, Ayat-174.
41 The Qur'an- Sura Yaa-Sin, Ayat-21.
42 New Testament, Act-11:26.
43 The Qur'an- Sura Araf-16,17.
44 The Qur'an- Sura Yunus-47, Sura Nahl-36, Sura Ra'd-7.
45 The Qur'an- Sura Mo'men-78.

46 In reality, there exists no religion by the name of 'Hindu'; there is no mention of this term in the Baed of Veda, Uponishad, Geeta or Puran. In all probability, it is a derivation of the word 'Indus' or 'Sindhu' and can be traced back to the Asia Minor of Turkey in particular. The actual name of the religion practiced in this subcontinent is 'Sanatan' meaning 'Ever-lasting, Eternal' identical to the Qur'an's name of the Din-ul-Qaiyemah, ever-lasting, true-religion e.g. Tawheed. (Sura Room, Ayat 43, Sura Baiyenat, Ayat 5, Sura Yusuf, Ayat 40).
47. The Qur'an- Sura Ankabut-14.
48. Hadith, Bokhari and Muslim.
49. Hadith, Muslim from Abu Sayeed Khudri (Ra).
50. To know more about this, you can read my book "E Islam Islam-e Noy".
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