Mohammad Bayazeed Khan Panni Language: English | Format: PDF | Pages: 150 | Size: 1 MB
Over the last thousand and four hundred
years, the coming of the one-eyed giant, the Dajjal, has remained the
topic of numerous discussions and debates in Moslem households all over
the world. However, the actual understanding of this enigmatic
phenomenon remains as elusive to us as it was to the Companions of the
Messenger of Allah so many centuries ago. It all began when Mohammad
(s.a.s), the final and the greatest Messenger of Allah, told about the
arrival of a giant on earth during the later time (Akheri Zamana), an
event he has referred to as the greatest ever in the life of mankind.
To give his people, his ‘Ummah’, both of
his time and of the future, a better idea and understanding of this
fearsome entity, he has described in great detail what it, the Dajjal,
would look like, its activities in this world, what tremendous power it
would yield over the world and the destiny of Man and he talked of its
demand to be accepted as the lord or ‘rub’ of mankind. He has called
this character the ‘Dajjal’, an Arabic word used to describe something
or someone deceptive, something very attractive to look at, but is
actually despicable a dazzling impostor. The Messenger of Allah has also
said that this giant would have sight in one eye only, the other would
be blind. Common sense tells us, it can be no living being, for its
vehicle is to have one foot in the east and the other in the west, see
and hear what is said in a whisper on the other side of the world, and
so forth. Among the thousands of ‘Hadis’ or Hadis s attributed to the
Messenger of Allah, those concerning the Dajjal occupy a position of
great import and significance, deemed as it has been as the gravest
danger to ever face mankind. The Hadis regarding the Dajjal are as
thought provoking as they are frightening since they speak of a giant
that will see with only one eye yet have the power to bring the whole
world under its control and in so doing lead a great number of people
astray. In one such Hadis, the Messenger of Allah has stated ‘From the
Creation of Adam to the Judgment Day, there is no other event as grave
and alarming the as the Dajjal.’1 He goes on to state that- ‘There has
been no Messenger from the time of Noah (a.s.) who has not warned his
followers about the Dajjal.’ 2 And to further stress on its importance,
and as an after thought the Messenger of Allah himself sought refuge
with Allah from the malaise of the Dajjal.3
So how concerned are we about the
colossal import of a situation the Messenger has deemed as the gravest
occurrence from the beginning to the end of time, about something all
Messengers from the time of Noah (a.s.) have warned their followers
about, regarding a matter our Messenger himself sought refuge from? It
goes without saying that far from being concerned about it, we are yet
to realize that the Dajjal’s birth took place 472 years ago, and having
passed its infancy and childhood it is now an adult that has the entire
world including its ‘Moslem’ population laying prostrate at its feet!
The reason for this ignorance remains the
fact that during the last few centuries we were colonized by the
European Christian forces, the method of education they imposed on us
has been one that has taken us far away from the true faith of Eslam.
The result of which has been that this nation can accurately recall how
long it took Hannibal to cross the Alps with his army or recite without
mistake from Shakespeare, but is totally in the dark as regards to what
the Messenger of Allah has stressed to be the most important event in
the history of this world. The small portion of this populace which is
actively involved in the study of the Qur’an and the Hadis too have
neglected it to oblivion. With their shortsighted and narrow vision,
these people are waiting for the literal transformation of the
Messenger’s prophecy where he informs of the emergence of a huge
one-eyed giant astride a colossal mount and of its tyrannical rule. They
have accepted these Hadis in their literal aspect only, neither
spending their time nor their effort in trying to see beyond the mere
words, to try and gauge why this should be the single most grave,
influential and frightening event throughout the world’s history. These
people devote far more time on details regarding wadu (ablution), meswak
(cleaning teeth), kuluk (using sponge) and other trivial issues than
they think about the Dajjal or its significance!
Like others, I too was waiting for a huge one-eyed giant and to hear its proclamation to be the lord and ruler of mankind!
However, the first time I realized that
it would not be the case was when I read Muhammad Assad’s book “Road to
Mecca”. Muhammad Assad was born as Leopold Weiss into an Austrian Jewish
family and converted to Din-ul-Eslam in his youth. It is in this
beautiful writing that he first hinted at the idea of the Western
civilization being the Dajjal prophesied fourteen centuries ago by the
last Messenger of Allah. However he has not elaborated on this issue. It
was in the late 50’s or early 60’s that I read this book and from then
onwards, the more I thought about it, the clearer it has become to me
that his idea is indeed correct. For the Messenger of Allah to give the
mostly illiterate Arabs of fourteen hundred years ago a correct and
comprehensive picture of a civilization based on today’s technological
advancement was next to impossible. Therefore, he did so through a
series of allegorical references which exactly match the description of
the western civilization of our time.
Everything we know about the Dajjal is
derived from the Messenger’s ‘Hadis’ or tradition i.e. words or actions
of the Messenger himself, also action of others, he approved or
disapproved of. As we all know, Hadis are classified into several
groups, among which three are prominent, namely the ‘sahih’ or correct;
‘hassan’ which are also true but not as accurately related as the former
and thirdly ‘daif’ or weak, poor Hadis s, some of which are
nevertheless accepted when corroborated. Besides these, there are also
‘gharib’, ‘munkar’, ‘maruf’ etc. divisions. During the rigorous process
of collecting and verifying true Hadis, many false statements earlier
deemed as correct Hadis have been rejected, while some of the true ones
have also been omitted due to the fact that they could not be unbrokenly
traced back to the Messenger of Allah himself. In order to get a
complete and comprehensive idea about any subject broached in the Hadis,
it is necessary to study all Hadis regarding it, notwithstanding the
fact whether they are accepted without any doubt or rejected outright.
Similar has been my method in collecting all relevant data about the
Dajjal; however the ones quoted here are almost all Sahih or correct
Hadis and those remained the basic platform of this research.
I have categorized all Hadis regarding
the Dajjal into two groups. One part containing predictions related to
its importance and gravity, the other concerning its identification.
From the first group of the Hadis we are able to derive why the
emergence of Dajjal occupies a more important stance than the deluge of
Nooh’s (a.s.) (Noah) time and why it is graver than the world wars. In
the second group of Hadis the Messenger of Allah has related to us some
definite signs through which we should be able to correctly identify the
Dajjal as what it is and thus resist and reject the influence of the
Dajjal. The almost complete lack of education and the total absence of
technology could have prevented the people of the then Arabia in
understanding the concept of the Dajjal, however, today, when almost
every one of the allegories used to describe the Dajjal by the Messenger
have been reflected in the mirror of the western society, how close are
we in correctly interpreting and identifying it as the self-same
“Masih-al-kazzab,” the Dajjal? Unfortunately far from resisting or
rejecting it, we, the so- called Moslems of this world, have it in front
of our very eyes and yet are not only unable to recognize it for its
true self, but have accepted it as our lord, master and have submitted
to it.
Let us start with the name, with which
the Messenger has introduced us to it, the Dajjal- which is not actually
a name, in the sense that it is more of a description than a proper
name; like that of Emam Mahdi (a.s) who will have a separate personal
name but is known to us as Al-Mahdi or ‘the rightly guided one’ who will
appear in the later times to guide mankind to true Guidance, the right
path. Similarly, the Dajjal is not a name in the proper sense as an
adjective. The literal meaning of the word “Dajjal” is that of an
attractive impostor, beautiful outside but dark and ugly inside, a cheat
a deceiver and a liar. Is not this statement true of the
technologically advanced western civilization which dazzles the beholder
with fantastic achievements on the one hand yet due to its absolute
detachment from God in their collective lives, society is rife with
injustices, crimes and sins of every kind? This ‘civilization’ has been
responsible for the deaths of 14 million human lives in course of the
two world wars and another 20 million people in different wars and
skirmishes ever since. The number of people disabled from these would be
at least double of the dead; countless more have been displaced and
rendered homeless. It does not end there- injustices and cruelty on a
personal and collective level, murders, thefts, rapes, kidnappings go on
unabated and it is for these that the western civilization is the
dazzling, attractive impostor.
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1 Hadis, Moslem from Emran bin Hossain (ra).
2 Hadis, from Abu Obaydah (ra) bin Zarrah and Abdullah bin Umar (ra)- Abu Daud, Tirmizi and Moslem.
3 Hadis, from Aisha (ra)- Bokhari.
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Hadiths about The Dajjal:
* One *
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), Moslem.
* Two *
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.
* Three *
– The Messenger himself sought refuge
with Allah from the ‘fitna’ (turmoil, unrest,
malaise of Dajjal). -Aisha (ra) -Bokhari.
– The Messenger has said, “The distance
between the two ears of the Dajjal’s
mount will be 70 cubits” -Baihaqi, Meshkat.
* Four *
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, -Moslem,
Tirmizi.
* Five *
The Messenger has said, “The Dajjal will
cause rain to fall from the sky.”-Nawas (ra)
bin So’man, -Moslem, Tirmizi.
* Six *
The Messenger has said, “The Dajjal’s cows,
goats and sheep will be big with udders full of
milk.” -Nawas (ra) bin So’man, -Moslem, Tirmizi.
* Seven *
The Messenger has said, “The Dajjal will order
subterranean wealth to come up and serve it”-
Nawas (ra) bin So’man, -Moslem, Tirmizi.
* Eight *
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 Moslems.”
-Bokhari & Moslem.
* Nine *
The Messenger has said, “The Dajjal will
be blind in one eye.” -from Abdullah bin
Omar (ra), Bokhari and Moslem.
* Ten *
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, Moslem.
* Eleven *
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, Moslem.
* Twelve *
The Messenger has said, “Seventy
thousand among my Ummah will
follow the Dajjal.”-from Abu Sayeed
Khudri (ra), Sahre Sunnah.
* Thirteen *
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.
* Fourteen *
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, Moslem.
* Fifteen *
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, Moslem.
* Sixteen *
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, Moslem. 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, Moslem, Tirmizee.
* Seventeen *
The Messenger has said, “Isa (a.s.) will
destroy the Dajjal.”-from Abdullah bin
Omar (ra) –Moslem; Nawa (ra) bin Sa’man
-Moslem and Tirmizi.
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Contents:
1. Preface – 7
2. Importance of the Dajjal’s Emergence – 13
3. Identity of the Dajjal – 48
4. Other Hadis Concerning the Dajjal – 87
5. The Dajjal in the Bible – 92
6. Yet… – 96
7. The Present State of Mankind – 103
8. Actual Ebadat – 130
9. A Unique Opportunity – 139
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