WHO
IS DAJJAL?
The greatest dream of the Jews for more than 2000 years has
been the dream of returning to the Holy Land as rulers over the land so that
they might restore the State of Israel established by the Prophet-Kings, David (‘alaihi al-Salaam) and Solomon (‘alaihi al-Salaam),
rebuild the Temple that was built by Solomon (‘alaihi al-Salaam) in
Jerusalem, and worship the God of Abraham in that Temple. That must be
considered to be a very noble dream indeed. A people who dream such a dream as
the greatest of all their dreams must be a people who would achieve spiritual
greatness. They should be a people who would prefer the ‘hereafter’ to the ‘dunya’
(world), and whose spiritual insight would penetrate ‘external’ appearances to
recognize the ‘reality’ of things. At a very minimum, therefore, they should be
able to realize that such a noble dream cannot possibly be fulfilled through
the creation of an essentially godless State of Israel, and through a reign of
terror and oppression in the Holy Land that has now lasted for more than 50
bloodstained years. It is unlikely that the oppression can continue for another
50 years before they face the horrible consequences.
Now the Israelite-Jews all believed that their greatest
dream could not and would not be fulfilled until that special Prophet called
the Messiah would appear. He would “bring
salvation at the end of the ages, when he would be enthroned as king of the world”.
This reign of the Messiah is repeated elsewhere in the scriptures. (I Enoch: 45:3; 105:2; 28:29; 13:32–35;
14:9). Of course European Jews who established the Zionist Movement hardly
share that sacred attachment to prophecies pertaining to the Messiah.
Allah Most High ordained that the False Messiah (al-Masih
al-Dajjal) would deliver to the Jews by deception that which they would
embrace as the fulfillment of their greatest dream, i.e., return to their Holy
Land, restoration of the State of Israel, the appointment of a king to rule
over them: (Appoint for us a king
that we may fight in the cause of Allah – Qur’an, al-Baqarah, 2:246)
and the reconstruction of the Temple. The fact that they have been so utterly
and completely deceived by the Impostor State of Israel is indicative of their
continuing spiritual blindness:
“But the deeds of those who disbelieve (in this Qur’an and this
last Prophet – among other things) are like a mirage in
sandy deserts which the man parched with thirst mistakes for water until when
he comes up to it, he finds it to be nothing: but he finds Allah (present
there) with him, and Allah will pay him his account: and Allah is swift in
taking account.”
(Qur’an, al-Nur, 24:39)
The State of Israel is today in precisely that situation of
the man who is parched for thirst and mistakes a mirage for water.
“Verily this Qur’an explains to the Israelites most of the
matters in which they disagree. And it certainly is a Guide and a Mercy to
those who believe.”
(Qur’an, al-Naml, 27:76-7)
The ‘appearance’ today is that the ‘greatest dream’ is
almost completely fulfilled. The Israelite Jews have returned to the Holy Land,
or are free to do so, from wherever in the world they may be. The State of
Israel was created in 1948 and is now a reality. All that remains for the dream
to be completed is the appointment of a king and the destruction of Masjid
al-Aqsa to permit the
reconstruction of the Temple:
“When you come unto the land which God your Lord
gives you, and shall possess it, and shall dwell therein, and shall say: ‘I
will set a king over me, like all the nations that are round about me,’ you
shall then appoint the king that God your Lord shall choose (implied is the
belief that he will be from the House of David).”
(Deuteronomy , 17:14-15)
In addition Israel must become the Ruling State in the world and the King of Israel must rule
the world from Jerusalem.
The compelling implication is that all of this could not
have been achieved without the Messiah. This is the ‘appearance’. What is the
‘reality’?
The ‘reality’ of all of this, when viewed from Islam,
is that Dajjal, the False Messiah, has deceived the Jews into believing
that divine grace has brought them this close to the complete fulfillment of
their greatest dream. The ‘reality’ is that their spiritual blindness has led
them into a divine trap from which there is now no escape. They denounce
oppression and injustice in the world but justify their own oppression and
injustice to others. They do so on the grounds that they have a special status
with the Divine Being that others do not have. Since they believe that the Holy
Land belongs to them, they also believe that they have the right to liberate it
from those who lived on it for hundreds of years. The ‘end’ justifies the
‘means’. The ‘reality’ is that they have been misled and misguided and thoroughly
deceived by Dajjal.
Dajjal, the False
Messiah, is a being created by Allah Most High, who would impersonate
the Messiah and deceive the Jews into believing that he is the true Messiah. Dajjal
was endowed by Allah, Most Wise, with awesome power, versatility and with great
capacity for deception and guile. The Christians know him as the AntiChrist.
Dajjal, the evil
being created by Allah Most High will one day appear in the world as a human
being. When he does so, he would be a Jew and, in addition, he would be a young
man who would be powerfully built with curly hair. Prophet Muhammad (‘alaihi
al-Salaam) suspected a Jewish youth, Ibn Sayyad, who was resident in
Madina, to have been the Dajjal. In doing so he confirmed that Dajjal
had already been released into the world and would one day appear as:
Ø a human being,
Ø a Jew,
Ø a young man.
The True Messiah, like Solomon (‘alaihi al-Salaam),
would rule the world from the throne of David (‘alaihi al-Salaam) i.e.,
Jerusalem. In order for him to do so it would be necessary for him to first
accomplish the following:
Ø liberate the Holy Land of the rule of those who do not
worship the God of Abraham,
Ø bring the ‘chosen people’ (who, at the time of the
announcement of the divine promise were Jews) back to the Holy Land,
Ø restore the State of Israel established by David (‘alaihi
al-Salaam) and Solomon (‘alaihi al-Salaam),
Ø cause Israel to become the ‘Ruling State’ in the
world.
Only then would it be possible for the True Messiah to rule the world
from the throne of David (‘alaihi al-Salaam), i.e., from Jerusalem.
If Dajjal, the False Messiah, were to successfully
impersonate the true Messiah it follows from the above that he, also, would
have to do all of the above.
The question may arise in consequence of the statement made
above: If Dajjal, the False Messiah, or Anti-Christ, is responsible for
this grand deception of the Jews, and so much more, and if he is already
released and already on earth, then where is he? The Prophet spoke (in what may
be recognized as the ‘mother of all puzzles’) and said the following about Dajjal,
the False Messiah:
“Narrated
al-Nawwas ibn Sam'an: ….We said: Allah’s Messenger (peace be upon him), how long
will he stay on Earth? He said: For forty days, one day like a year, one day like a month, one day like a week, and
the rest of the days will be like your days….”
(Sahih, Muslim; Sunan,
Tirmidhi)
It will only be at the very end of his life on earth,
therefore, that Dajjal’s day will be like our day. Secondly, Dajjal,
the False Messiah, will be in ‘our’ dimension of time when ‘his day’ would
be like ‘our day’. Hence he would be in ‘our’ world only at the very end of
his life when he enters into ‘our’ world in order to complete his mission of impersonating
the Messiah. The promise of Allah Most High was that the Messiah would rule the
world from the throne of David (‘alaihi al-Salaam), i.e. from a
Jerusalem that would be the heart of the State of Israel. And so it is clear
that Dajjal will be physically located in Jerusalem at the very end of
his life on earth, and at that time, since ‘his day would be like our day’,
it would be possible for us to see him. At that time we would see him as a Jew,
a young man, powerfully built, with curly hair etc. He would also have to be
the Ruler of the world who would rule the world from Jerusalem.
Here is the answer to the question concerning the strategic role that Jerusalem
is destined to play in the end of
history.
Prior to that he will be around us in much the same way that
angels and Jinn are always around us and yet they are not in ‘our’ world
(in a day like our day) and hence are not visible. He will constantly attack us
to test our faith. He will be weaving his web of deception, but we will not be
able to observe him with our normal faculties of observation since ‘his day’
will not be like ‘our day’.
Where on earth will Dajjal be when he is released by Allah on
earth in a day which would be like a
year, and then in a day which would be like a month, and then
finally in a day which would be like
a week? We know that he will be on earth, but where on earth?
Fortunately we have an answer to the first question, and
that answer, in turn, opens for us the possibility to find answers to the other
two questions. The answer to the first question is located in the Hadith
that is known as the Hadith of
Tamim al-Dari. Tamim al-Dari was a Christian who embraced Islam in
Madina. He came to the Prophet (‘alaihi al-Salaam) and narrated to him
something that he had experienced concerning Dajjal. It is not clear
whether he had a dream or a vision or an actual real-life experience. The Prophet
(‘alaihi al-Salaam) responded by asking the people to keep sitting after
the prayer in the Masjid so that he could narrate to them what Tamim had
experienced concerning Dajjal. He went on to declare that what Tamim
al-Dari had narrated to him confirmed what he, the Prophet (‘alaihi
al-Salaam), had himself been saying concerning Dajjal. Here is the Hadith:
“Narrated Fatimah bint Qays, sister of ad-Dahhak ibn Qays:
Amir ibn Sharahil ash-Sha'bi said: Fatimah bint Qays was among the
first emigrant women. I asked her to narrate to me a Hadith which she had heard
directly from Allah's Apostle (peace be upon him) and there was no extra link
between them. She said: Very well, if you like, I am prepared to do that. He
said to her: Well, do so and narrate it to me. She said: … So I set out towards
the mosque and observed prayer with the Allah's Apostle (peace be upon him) and
I was in the row of the women which was near the row of men.
When
Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) had finished his prayer, he
sat on the pulpit smiling and said:
Every worshipper should keep sitting at his place.
He
then said: Do you know why I had asked you to
assemble?
They
said: Allaah and His Messenger know best.
He
said: By Allaah. I have not made you assemble for
exhortation or for a warning, but I have detained
you here, for Tamim Dari,
a Christian, who came and accepted Islam, told me
something, which agrees with what I was-telling, you about the Dajjal.
He narrated to me that he had sailed
in a ship along with thirty men of Bani Lakhm and Bani Judham and had been
tossed by waves in the ocean for a month. Then these (waves) took them (near)
the land within the ocean (island) at the time of sunset. They sat in a small
side-boat and entered that Island. There was a beast with long thick hair (and
because of these) they could not distinguish his face from his back.
They
said: Woe to you, who can you be?
Thereupon
it said: I am al-Jassasa.
They
said: What is al-Jassasa?
And
it said: O people, go to this person in the monastery
as he is very much eager to know about you.
He
(the narrator) said: When it named a person for us we were afraid of it lest it
should be a Devil. Then we hurriedly went on till we came to that monastery and
found a well-built person there with his hands tied to his neck and having iron
shackles between his two legs up to the ankles.
We
said: Woe be upon thee, who are you?
And
he said: You would soon come to know about me. But tell
me who are you.
We
said: We are people from Arabia and we embarked upon a boat but the sea-waves
had been driving us for one month and they brought as near this island. We got
into the side-boats and entered this island and here a beast met us with
profusely thick hair and because of the thickness of his hair his face could
not be distinguished from his back.
We said: Woe be to thee, who
are you? It said: I am al- Jassasa.
We
said: What is al-Jassasa? And
it said: You go to this very person in the monastery for he is eagerly waiting
for you to know about you. So we came to you in hot haste fearing that that
might be the Devil.
He
(that chained person) said: Tell me about the date-palm
trees of Baisan.
We
said: About what aspect of theirs do you seek information?
He
said: I ask you whether these trees bear fruit or not.
We
said: Yes
Thereupon
he said: I think these would not bear fruits.
He
said: Inform me about the lake of Tabariyya?
We
said: Which aspect of it do you want to know?
He
said: Is there water in it?
They
said: There is abundance of water in it.
Thereupon
he said: I think it would soon become dry.
He
again said: Inform me about the spring of Zughar.
They
said: Which aspect of it you want to know?
He
(the chained person) said: Is there water in it and
does it irrigate (the land)?
We
said to him: Yes, there is abundance of water in it and the inhabitants (of
Medina) irrigate (land) with the help of it,
He
said: Inform me about the
unlettered Prophet; what has he done?
We
said: He has come out from Mecca and has settled In Yathrib (Medina).
He
said: Do the Arabs fight against him?
We
said: Yes.
He
said: How did he deal with him?
We
informed him that he had overcome those in his neighbourhood and they had
submitted themselves before him.
Thereupon
he said to us: Had it actually happened?
We
said: Yes.
Thereupon
he said: If it is so that is better for them that
they should show obedience to him. I am going to tell you
about myself and I am Dajjal and would
be soon permitted to get out and so I shall get out and travel in the land, and
will not spare any town where I would not stay for forty nights except
Mecca and Medina as these two (places) are prohibited (areas) for me and
I would not make an attempt to enter any one of these two. An angel with a
sword in his hand would confront me and would bar my way and there would be
angels to guard every passage leading to it;
then
Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) striking the pulpit with the
help of the end of his staff said: This implies
Taiba meaning Medina. Have I not, told you an account (of the Dajjal) like
this?
'The
people said: Yes,
and this account narrated by Tamim Dari was liked by me for it
corroborates the account which I gave to you in regard to him (Dajjal)
at Medina and Mecca. Behold he
(Dajjal) is in the Syrian sea (Mediterranian) or
the Yemen sea (Arabian sea). Nay, on the contrary, he As In the east, he is in
the east, he is in the east, and he pointed with his hand towards the east.
I
(Fatima bint Qais) said: I preserved It In my mind (this narration from
Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam).
(Sahih Muslim)
It is very clear from this Hadith that when Dajjal
was released into the world he would have to be geographically located on that
island, and it would be from that island that he would launch his effort to
impersonate the Messiah by liberating the Holy Land of non-Jewish rule etc.
Which island was it?
to be continued....
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