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DAJJAL?
The
Judeo-Christian
'Civilization'!
Mohammad
Bayazeed Khan Panni
Translated
from Bengali
by
Ummat
Tizan Makhduma Panni
Contents
Translator’s Foreword
No Restriction of Patent
Preface
Importance
of the Dajjal's Emergence
Identity of the Dajjal
Other
Hadis Concerning the Dajjal
The Dajjal in the Bible
Yet...
The
Present State of Mankind
Actual Ebadat
A Unique Opportunity
TRANSLATOR ’ S
FOREWORD
At first glance from the
title of the book, 'Dajjal', it might seem like another long saga about the One
Eyed Giant on a huge, big horse that will come to terrorize the world's
inhabitants. But as one reads on, one will soon realize that the subject of
this book has been approached from a rather scientific angle than a purely
religious one. This book strives to prove that Moslems the world over should
stop waiting for a gigantic monster, that it supposed to have only one-eye,
whose mount is to said to have one foot in the east and the other in the west,
and wake up to the fact that not only has this 'giant' made its appearance long
since, but is already in control of this entire world, as prophesized by the
last messenger of Allah more than a fourteen hundred years ago. This 'giant',
is the Judeo-Christian materialistic, technologically advanced civilization
that has turned out as the dominant force in the world today. The western
society we see today is the product of centuries old research in the fields of
technology, scientific exploration and relentless pursuit in the betterment of
quality of temporal life. This exclusion of the Maker from all other areas of
the collective human life than the purely personal side is referred to as the
viewing of the Dajjal on left eye only; because all things good are regarded as
being inspired by the right.
The last three chapters of
the book deals with the state of affairs of the world today; the presence of
the Dajjal, it being the most dangerous situation to present itself before
mankind. These chapters give a valuable insight into what can be done by the
Moslems the world over to avail themselves of the highest honor and prestige to
be ever-granted on any human being.
To those looking for
positive thinking ideas and our situation in the world today, this book is
bound to open wonderful new avenues of thought and a white new world of very
different way of perception.
NO-RESTRICTION
OF PATENT
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and publish it complying with only two conditions:-
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print and publication must be the exact copy of this book, and devoid of any
kind of mistake, especially such a mistake that changes the very meaning or
objective of the speech.
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modifications and additions he wants to make. Furthermore, if anyone wants to
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PREFACE
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
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.
IMPORTANCE OF THE DAJJAL’S
EMERGENCE
I. 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).
This is perhaps one
of the most important Hadis 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
everything 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.[5]
With 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 free-will, 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? 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,[10]
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, bloodshed- this 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 Hadis are
replete with such confirmations. There is one Hadis 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 Hadis from among the ‘Sahih’ or
correct ones namely Bokhari, Moslem 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 Hadis 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 Hadis, 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 Hadis 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?’[17]
Therefore, 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 their confirmations in the Hadis 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.[21]
They 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 his
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
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 Eslam. 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, (Eslam).[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
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
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.”[35]
The 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,[36]
they 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
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
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
It is important to
note here that the Judaic faith is one
limited to the twelve tribes of
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
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, rabbis 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 the faith 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 faith- and 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
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 socio-economic, 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
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.
TIMING OF THE APPEARANCE OF THE DAJJAL
I. 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 Hadis, 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 locality[44]
and He also said, “Indeed We have sent Messengers before you (O Muhammad SAW); of some of them We have
related to you their story and of some We have not related.”[45] Hadis 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 it came down
to twenty five times out of hundred; i.e., falsehood would prevail seventy five
times out of hundred conflict over truth. In the Koli Age, however, not one
time in hundred would truth win over falsehood. Each and every time truth and
falsehood clashed, falsehood would emerge victorious.
In faraway
It seems that above
described age limits were not the average, rather 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 Hadis
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
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 any importance 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.
Three:—
The Messenger himself sought
refuge with Allah from the ‘fitna’ (turmoil, unrest, malaise of Dajjal…Aisha (ra) -Bokhari).
I hold this Hadis 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 Moslems’
perception of their faith, their “Aqidah” of Din-ul-Eslam, is so far, so
different from the true thing that they have lost complete sight of the reasons
of Eslam’s existence, its objectives its goal. The natural consequence of which
has been the topsy-turvy of priorities so evident in Moslems 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 mixed-up, reversed priorities are not the main
topic here; it is the gravity of the situation created by the Dajjal.[50]
That the Messenger of Allah himself sought refuge against it leaves no doubt in
its being a matter of the gravest import.
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 Hadis 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]
One
The Messenger has
said: - The Dajjal will emerge from
within the Jews, and the Monafeqs (hypocrites) will be its followers —Ebne
Hanbal (ra)- Moslem.
There is not much, to think, to explain in this Hadis 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 so-called Moslems 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
Moslems 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?
Two
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 whose every dictate on socio-economic, political, educative issues,
penalty and punishment, are to be obeyed and implemented by humanity as a
whole? In the Hadis 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 Rab’ as sustainer. That
these ‘developed countries’ are in fact occupies the place of sustainers of the
‘underdeveloped’ or ‘developing’ countries is no secret. This Hadis, read with
Hadis 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 Moslem, 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 Hadis 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 Moslems 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 Serat-ul-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.
Three
The Messenger has
said: - The distance between 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 Hadis 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
Dajjal’s mount will have one foot in the east and the other in the west of the
world.” It relates positively to the earlier Hadis 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
the fields 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.
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].
There does not seem
much to explain about this Hadis, 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?
Five
The Messenger has
said: - The Dajjal will cause rain to
fall from the sky [Nawas (ra) bin Sa’man,- Moslem, Tirmizi].
In this Hadis, 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.
Six
The Messenger has
said: - The Dajjal’s cows, goats and
sheep will be big with udders full of milk [Nawas (ra) bin Sa’man, -Moslem,
Tirmizi].
The cattle in the ‘developed ‘world, i.e.,
Seven
The Messenger has
said: - The Dajjal will order
subterranean wealth to come up and serve it [Nawas (ra) bin Sa’man, Moslem,
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 Hadis. 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.
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).
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 Dajjal’s doctrine, also
inclusive of which of are different so-called ‘Moslem’ 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.
Nine
The Messenger has
said: - “The Dajjal will be blind in one
eye.” [from Abdullah bin Omar (ra), Bokhari and Moslem]
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-fitrah or the Natural way of
Life and referred to those who adhere to it as the Millat-e-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
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 one-eyed 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.
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].
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
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 Hadis
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 Hadis, 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
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,
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
This did not apply
only in the case of Soviet Russia or
Let us take the example of
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
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
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 Hadis 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
(Rab), 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 Mu’min, Moslem 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 Hadis no. XIII- where
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.)
Eleven
The Messenger has
said: - “The word ‘Kafer’ (unbeliever)
will be written between the Dajjal’s eyes. Only believers (even those who are
illiterate) shall be able to read it; unbelievers even those who are literate
will neither see nor read it” [from Abu Horayra (ra), Hozayfa (ra), and
Anas (ra)…Bokhari, Moslem].
This is one of the
most important and significant Hadis regarding the gravity of the Dajjal’s
situation. It is apparent from the narration that the word ‘Kafer’ meaning
unbeliever, 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 unbeliever 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 all-encompassing 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 Moslem 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 Hadis of the Messenger of Allah in which he informs of the
arrival of a colossal giant astride a mighty, huge mount. In another Hadis, he
states, ‘the entire world will accept the Dajjal’s subjugation.’[57]
Since the whole world is to accept the Dajjal’s mastery, the Moslem population,
which accounts for one-fifth of the entire number, will be no exception. One
the one hand we see this Moslem 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
unbelieving one and are unable to read the writing on the forehead of the
Dajjal?
Twelve
The Messenger has
said: - “Seventy thousand among my Ummah
will follow the Dajjal”. [- from Abu Sayeed Khudri (ra), Sahre Sunnah].
This Hadis of the Messenger of Allah goes to further prove that the
‘Moslem’ 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, ‘70 thousand Jews and Christians will follow the Dajjal.[58]
That the Jews and Christians would accept the Dajjal and its ways is the
logical consequence, since it is their inception. However, from this Hadis, it
is clear that they will not be the only ones to do so, the so-called ‘Moslem’
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
‘Moslems’ 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 ‘Moslems’ is governed according to Judeo-Christian
norms in politics, economic and social fields. The Shariah and the Eslamic
penal code have been replaced by the Dajjal’s constitution and decrees and
penalty handed down based on that. The ‘Moslem’ 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 Hadis , 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)?”[59] In another Hadis, 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.”[60]
Although the
Messenger of Allah has not mentioned the Dajjal by name in these two Hadis,
however, by studying similar Hadis 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 ‘Moslems’ of this
world have indeed accepted it as their Lord or Rab 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 Eslam’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 Hadis 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 Moslem, 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 Eslam as issues
of personal adherence, these people have accepted the Dajjal in their private
and personal lives as well.
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].
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
If
the Moslem 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 ‘Moslem’ 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.
Fourteen
The Messenger
has said: - ‘
In
many other Hadis s the Messenger of Allah has narrated about the Dajjal’s grip
on the world. In this one, however, specifically mentioned
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
We need only to take a good look around the
world to understand the implication of this Hadis of the Messenger of Allah.
Since the entire world along with the so-called Moslems 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 ‘Moslem’ 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
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
(As). (Hadis – Bokhari, Moslem, Tirmizee)
I believe it needs no further explanation or
justification that the Dajjal should be called the ‘Masih-ul-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 Hadis 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
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].
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 Emam
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 ‘Mu’min’ ‘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 Hadis 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 ‘Moslem’ 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
Hadis, 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)?[61]
- 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.”[62]
In
this particular Hadis, the Messenger has only mentioned the Jews, but needless
to say, Jews and Christians are in reality one nation as I have discussed earlier;[63]
the term ‘Bani Israel’ can be used to denote both Jews and Christians; and that
is what the Messenger has implied. In these two Hadis s, he has undoubtedly
meant the Dajjal short of naming it.
OTHER HADIS CONCERNING THE DAJJAL
As
I have stated earlier in this book, many ‘Sahih’ or ‘correct’ Hadis 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 Hadis
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 Hadis 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 Hadis 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 Hadis 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 Eslamic 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 Hadis, the Sheikh seemed to be of the
same opinion, we can assume this to be a Sahih Hadis on this topic.
Apart
from that, this Hadis 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 Hadis 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 Hadis . 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 so-called, opposite directed Moslems to say
their prayers, since they can scarcely take the time to listen to the Emam’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.
THE DAJJAL IN THE BIBLE
The New Testament tells us that the Anti-Christ
is to appear in the Last Hour. The literal meaning of the Anti-Christ is
someone who defies or opposes Jesus; although the Biblical references do not as
faultlessly and completely define the Judeo-Christian materialistic
civilization as the Dajjal like the Hadis do, further explanations will prove
that the same has been referred to here.
The literal meaning of the word Dajjal, as
discussed earlier, denotes a dazzling impostor: a description to the letter of
the Judeo-Christian materialistic civilization: replete with inventions of mind-boggling
and dazzling proportions on one hand, while on the other, with complete
detachment from the soul and spirituality, turns its followers into subhuman
creatures.
The four instances of reference to the Anti-
Christ in the Bible bear such obvious similarity to the Dajjal described by the
Messenger of Allah, that they are hard to ignore. The following excerpts are from
the New Testament of the Holy Scriptures. Except a few words that are different
there is practically no difference between this and the Authorized or King
James Version.
I.
“Young children, it is the Last Hour,
and just as you have heard the Anti-Christ is coming, even now there have come
to be many Anti-Christ’s; from which we gain the knowledge that it is the Last Hour.”[64]
Two
important similarities emerge between this quote and the Hadis of the Messenger
of Allah. Both name the Last Hour or the Akheri Zamana as the Dajjal’s era of
appearance. Secondly the Messenger of Allah’s expression of the word ‘Dajjal’
to describe other smaller tyrants, liars or cheats has similarly been employed.
II.
“Who is the liar if is not the one
that denies Jesus is the Christ? This is the anti-Christ,
the one that denies the Father and the Son.”[65]
The Bible refers to the Dajjal in the same
word the Messenger of Allah has used for it, the liar.
It
should be borne in mind that in the Christian faith, God is thought to be the Father,
Jesus, His Son and they are deemed as a single entity. To deny either the
Father or the Son, in Biblical analogy, is an act of denial of both, since they
are mutually conclusive. This is exactly what the Dajjal bids us: to deny Allah
and His Ordinance. The Messenger of Allah has informed us of this very thing of
the Dajjal’s claim to be lord and make us deny Allah in the matter of
conducting our collective lives, in politics, economy, law, penal matters,
judicial, social etc. except only in personal spiritual matters.
III.
“Every inspired expression that confesses Jesus Christ as having come in the
flesh originates with God: but every inspired expression that does not confess
Jesus does not originate with God. Furthermore, that is the Anti-Christ’s (inspired expression)
which you have heard was coming, and now it is already in the world.’’[66]
These
lines echo the same thought as those expressed by the Messenger of Allah, that
the Anti-Christ, the Dajjal is coming soon in the future and its subsequent denial
of Jesus.
IV.
“For many deceivers have gone forth in the world, persons not confessing Jesus
Christ as coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver, and the Anti-Christ.”[67]
While we read these excerpts, we need to bear in mind
that this Bible we refer to has not remained the same as revealed to Jesus;
just as the Aramaic spoken by him is no longer in use. Just as the Aramaic
spoken by the Messenger Isa (as) is lost to mankind, similarly no Bible in that
language exists in the world today either.[68]
With the passage of time, the Bible was first translated into Greek, later on
into Latin and many other different languages. The monotheist religion of Jesus
has been transformed into the Trinity just as the monotheist ‘Ummah’ or people
of Ebrahim (a.s.) transfigured into the idol-worshippers of
Comparative descriptions of the Dajjal in the
Hadis and the Bible:
a.
The Dajjal will appear in the Akheri
Zamana or the Final Period (Hadis). According to the Bible, the Anti-Christ
is destined to appear in the Last Hour.[69]
b.
The Messenger of Allah has stated that the Dajjal will deny Allah and claim to be lord or ‘rub’, itself. In the Bible, the
Anti-Christ is referred to as the one that denies
the Father (God), and the Son (Jesus).[70]
c.
The Messenger of Allah has described the Dajjal as the ‘Deceiver’, identical to the Biblical reference. The Bible described the Anti-Christ as ‘Deceiver’.[71]
d.
The Messenger of Allah calls the Dajjal ‘Liar’:
it is called the liar in the Bible as well.[72]
The Bible declares Anti-Christ as liar.[73]
It
seems a atypical and cruel irony that the Christian faith that predicted the
arrival of the Anti-Christ, the Dajjal in the Bible and warned others of it
should be the herald of it itself, for it was the misguided efforts of its
followers that gave birth to the Anti-Christ system and today, their ascendants
are among the first grade followers of that very Anti-Christ.
YET…
While
it becomes clear from reading this book that the Judeo-Christian materialistic
civilization is indeed the Dajjal with technological superiority as its
vehicle, mount, it is not to say that science and technology are negative
factors to be abandoned or rejected. Needless to say, whether a thing is a
negative or positive factor depends on the use it is put to. The same weapon
that can be made to fight evil and injustice in the name of Allah can also be
used to strike fear into the hearts of innocent people and carry out mindless
violence; therefore it is not the weapon or the instrument but rather how it is
used that determines whether it is good or evil.
Although the Dajjal makes use of science and
technology in benevolent fields such as medicine, agriculture and environment,
the lion’s share of the same is employed to further its war machines. The
amount of money spent on philanthropic fields of medicine, agriculture and
environment is negligible in comparison to the same spent on military
advancement, the principal objective of which is to bring the world under its
dominion. Similarly, the inventions of radio and television while being great
sources of knowledge and information are in no small way responsible for
imparting guidance on hi-tech crimes, violence and the vulgar portrayal of
sexuality.
This
entire universe has been created by Allah on the basis of science. In the
Creator’s own Words, He ‘taught Adam the names of things’[74]
which is to say Adam was taught the uses and functions along with the names of
all things he saw about him. To put in a nutshell, Adam was taught the science
of things. In retrospect, to teach Adam was to teach mankind, since he was the
first father. It was left on his descendants to explore, investigate and
research to find out more about Allah’s creation and to put to use the
information they gathered, into technical advancement. The Qur’an is replete
with inferences for people to reflect, learn and seek information about all
things created by Allah. The fact that scientific observation and research has
been preferred over ‘nafl’ or optional prayers or worship proves the level of
importance and stress laid on these matters.
Those
among the Moslems, who adhered to the Almighty’s directives, reached
unprecedented heights in their chosen fields and laid down the foundation for
the advance technology we see today. Extraordinarily gifted and talented Moslem
scientists left their marks in every field of scientific research they engaged
in. From medicine to philosophy, chemistry to engineering, there was hardly any
field in scientific research and analysis left untouched by them. It was only
when they lost sight of their goal, forgot the concept of their faith that they
were derailed from the right track and took up the handing down of ‘fatwas’ or
religious decrees instead of continuing with their previous occupation of
scientific research and observation. As a result, Moslems the world over fell
backwards into the depths of illiteracy and ignorance while their unfinished
work was taken up by European Christians and Jews culminating in the colossal
empire of science and technology that the Dajjal has at its disposal today and
calls its own. The legacies of Ibn Haisham in Physics, Ibn Sina, Al-Nafis and
Al-Razi in medicine, Al-Khawarizmi in Mathematics, Al-Afghani, Al-Kindi in
general science, Omar Khaiyyam and Ibn Khaldoon in evolution have remained the
basis and foundation for all further research in these fields; all of the
Dajjal’s technological advancements have been made possible due to their
priceless contribution. We would be very wrong to assume that science and
scientific gadgets are to be rejected since the Dajjal misuses them. Like
everything else in life, it is not the object, rather its use, that determines
whether it is to be accepted or rejected; in this case, it is the wrongful use
of science and technology by the Dajjal that is to be shunned.
Since
science and knowledge were a gift to Adam, i.e., mankind from Allah, it is not
the sole property of any nation, people or culture. It is a collective asset or
wealth of the entire humankind, for all to benefit from its application.
Likewise, the progress and research in this aspect has been an on-going process
from the earliest times. The legacies left behind by scientists and researchers
of the past form the foundation for the same of the present to work on and in
the future, further research and observations will be enhanced and added to by
their inheritors. In this way, the whole of mankind stands to gain from the
collective wisdom and be benefited and enriched, without any person, nation or
culture having more claim than others. Algebra and Trigonometry did not become
the properties of Al-Khawarizmi and Al-Battani since they discovered these
branches of Mathematics. Similarly, the Jewish people do not have the ownership
of the Theory of Relativity, since one among them, Albert Einstein discovered
it. All scientific discoveries, inventions and advancements are the collective
asset of mankind and should be used accordingly, for the betterment of humanity
as a single entity.
Throughout
the history of this world, different peoples or cultures have pursued the goals
of further enhancement in the fields of science and research and enriched these
by their contributions. The levels of participation and contribution have
depended on the dynamic quality of these cultures or civilizations. The more
dynamic the nature of a culture, the more it has had to contribute to the
society and the world as a whole. A Hadis of the Messenger of Allah is in order
here, where he has bid his ‘Ummah’, his people to travel to far away
I
hope no one will argue that by ‘knowledge’, the Messenger of Allah meant ‘Dini’
knowledge, or learning about the faith, since who could provide better
knowledge regarding the faith than the Messenger of Allah himself, and to leave
his presence to travel to China in search of the same where Eslam was unheard
of, does not make too much sense to the thinking mind!
The ‘
Let us see what Allah Himself refers to as ‘knowledge’?
It is said that once Musa (AS) asked seven questions to Allah – among which was
– who among His slaves is a knowledgeable person; to this Allah replied – he
who is never satisfied with what he has learnt and adds the learning of other
people also to his own knowledge.[76]
It is interesting to note that here Allah has divided all knowledge all
knowledge into two parts. One is the knowledge bestowed by Himself in the form
of different books from the dawn time through the series of Nabis and Rasuls,
the final one of which is the Qur’an; and the other is the knowledge men
acquire through continuous learning, research, thinking and varied trial and
error methods. In replying to Musa (as) Allah specifically mentioned the
knowledge acquired by man, ‘un-naasu’; therefore, a true seeker of knowledge,
an ‘Alem’ is he who finds no end to knowledge he can aquire, both in terms of
learning gifted by Allah, about His Din and also about the knowledge acquired
by other people; he who does not think he knows enough, need not learn anything
new, and whose thirst of knowledge for learning never ends. By this simple
definition above, those who claim to be ‘Alem’, learned people today fall far
short of the real thing; for the knowledge of today’s so called ‘Alem’ is
restricted to what they know about this Din, this way of life, outside this
about the knowledge, the acquired learning of mankind, they have no inclination
to learn or be aware of.
The
Mu’mins and Moslems of his time, being his followers in the true sense of the
word, took up his instruction with a passion and zeal and soon emerged as the
forbearers of the torch of scientific enlightenment. Over time, when they
forgot the true meaning of ‘knowledge’ and replaced it with ‘fatwa’ and ‘Dini Elm’,
they lost their high position in the scientific world, flung themselves
backward into ignorance and illiteracy, thereby becoming effectively brain
dead: a condition this nation is yet to recover from.
I
would like to reiterate at this point the fact that this so-called Moslems of
today, busy as they are in performing ‘namaz’ prayers, ‘roza’ fasting, and
countless ‘nafl’ or optional prayers, still are the same people who lay
prostate at the feet of the Dajjal due to the misconception they possess
regarding the true nature of their faith, Din-ul-Eslam.
I
do not doubt that there will be many who are skeptical of my views and opinions
expressed here, some who will downright oppose these, yet, what is the actual
meaning of ‘Sajda’, if it is not submitting to the will of the power one
prostates before? The entire creation of the Almighty that performs ‘Sajda’
before Him, earth, water, wind, mountain and galaxies, do they all literally
bow their heads in reverence or is it that they all act according to the
Creator’s wishes?[77]
To ‘Sajda’ is to whole-heartedly accept, obey and perform in complete
accordance to the wishes of the power or entity prostrated before. Is not then
the entire mankind, the Moslem population included, laying prostrated at the
feet of the One Eyed Giant, the Dajjal?
The Dajjal
has long since declared itself to be the sole lord of mankind, rendered its
doctrines, its ‘isms’ and ‘cracies’ as the only ones worthy of following and
fit for the world of today, totally disregarding the Way of life, ‘Din’ given
by Allah, caused man to shun His Sovereignty and replaced it with different
variations of man-made ways of life.
THE PRESENT STATE OF MANKIND
The prophecies uttered by the Rasul Allah 1400 years
back regarding the era we live in today has come true to the last letter. For
quite sometime now, there is not one inch of land or water that is not subservient
to the will of the Dajjal, i.e. the mighty Judeo Christian Civilization.[78]
True to it’s being completely successful is dethroning the Maker from his
lawful position as the sovereign and usurped the status for itself. Among the
differing ‘isms’ or ways of life that are the Dajjal’s creations, namely
monarchy, fascism/dictatorship, socialism and communism - capitalist democracy has emerged as the dominant one and it is to this
that the Dajjal wants allegiance of the people of this world. And allegiance
it has obtained even from the people of the faith known as Eslam, whose
foundation lies on the sovereignty of the one Elah, one True God. The fact that
there is no Eslam without Tawheed, Allah’s Sovereignty, has been broadly
overlooked and in its place now stands the will of the people- capitalist
democracy in all ‘Moslem’ regions. Not only are the people educated in the
Dajjal’s system of education the only adherents of this doctrine, it is also
the numerous alems, olema, mashayekhs, students taught the Eslam of the
Dajjal’s choice in the hundreds of thousands madrassahs set up by the Dajjal[79]-
that have completely accepted the sovereignty of man and yet claim to remain
Moslems and Mo’mens.
There is only one tiny portion among this huge mass
known as Moslem that denies the sovereignty of the Dajjal. Yet sadly even their concept of Eslam is erroneous. The
comprehensive concept or Aqidah of what Eslam actually is about, why man was
created as the ‘Khalifa’ or vice-gerent of the Maker,[80]
to what end His Soul was breathed into man,[81]
then the Eblis (Satan, Lucifer) given the permission to enter Adam’s mind and
body,[82]
to send Adam to this earth[83]
and then to be guided back to Hedayah by the long line of ‘Nabi’ and ‘Rasul’
(Messengers)[84], in
short the objective of Eslam is completely misunderstood or at times
underestimated by all. Yet these are people who love Allah and His Messenger
with all their hearts for which they are loath to accept the Dajjal’s
dominance, sovereignty of man - their desire is to see the Word of Allah
established in this world, to see the True Faith of Allah implemented in the
lives of the people. Unfortunately the True meaning of Eslam is lost to them
and they are unaware of the methods to implement it. They strive in a misguided manner using wrongful means to establish the
distorted, incomplete picture of Eslam they studied in madrassahs set up by the
Christian colonists. They are helpless, powerless against the worldwide
network set up by the Dajjal. Against the Dajjal’s countless bombers, tanks,
warships, the Dajjal’s powerful technology, they are completely defenseless,
with their backs against the wall, they retaliate in desperation by attacking
tourist locations here and there, hurling bombs at cafés, buses etc. This small
group is so dedicated to the cause of Allah, Rasul and Eslam that they do not
hesitate to strap up with dynamite and blow themselves up if it can cause even
a little harm to the enemy. Unfortunately,
they fail to realize that this is not the correct way to repel the mighty
giant, the Dajjal or even to establish the True Eslam on the face of this
world. They are not understanding by doing these things they are hardly
hurting the giant Dajjal on whose feet the whole mankind including the populace
who claim to be Moslem lay prostrate and which with its technology and military
might control the whole earth. In fact this misguided small group of people who
are fighting against the Dajjal is helping it. Since the print and electronic
media is controlled by the Dajjal, a continued and incessant propaganda through
these it has been successful to convince the mankind that they are deplorable
terrorists, killing innocent human beings, even the proclaimer of believers in
sovereignty of Allah have succumbed to this propaganda by the Dajjal and
believe them to be so and hence despise them. There is another reason why the
mankind including this populace which claims to be believer in the sovereignty
of Allah with its learned, educated and Alems accepts the Dajjal’s definition
of that small group as terrorists, fundamentalists,[85]
extremists, militants etc. And that is might is right. What the mighty Dajjal
says is right, the otherwise…
This small group standing against the
Dajjal must understand that the process they have adopted to resist the mighty
Dajjal is not right. The first thing
they must understand is that they have to correct their Aqidah about the real
Eslam, its purpose and goal and its correct process of attaining the goal. They
must realize that the real Eslam [the Hedayah (the sovereignty of Allah), the
Din ul Huq (the true edifice of Eslam), and Jehad (the struggle to establish
it)] that doesn’t exist today. The Eslam known and practiced today all over the
world has been perverted through the centuries by various elements and now what
is known as Eslam is devoid of its very soul and life and is a dead body, as
against the original Eslam brought to this earth by the last Messenger of Allah
that was vigorously alive, vibrant with Tawheed (the sovereignty of Allah) as
its soul and Jehad as its blood circulation. There cannot be any Eslam without
Tawheed (the sovereignty of Allah). Eslam is based on this Tawheed. This
Tawheed itself is totally absent in the collective life of the populace which
claims to be Mo’men, Moslem and Ummat-e-Mohammadi. And yet among this people there is love for Allah, for the
Messenger and Din ul Eslam albeit the Eslam they love is not the real Eslam, in
fact it is something which is exactly the opposite of the real Eslam. The small
part of this populace who are resisting and fighting the Dajjal are trying to
establish which is no more the real Eslam. It is totally perverted and actually
opposite to the real Eslam. They are not
succeeding in spite of utmost endeavor and ultimate sacrifice as there is no
help from Allah; and there will be no help till this people go back to the
real Eslam and adapt the process of the Messenger given to him by Allah. The only process which will bring help from
Allah, hence success is the process He taught His Messenger and the Messenger
followed and executed strictly and left for his followers to adapt. No
other process or procedure will ever succeed in spite of fighting, bombing and
even suicide bombing as apparent around the world today. Nowhere are these
dedicated groups whom the Dajjal terms as terrorists making any headway against
this claimer of being the Rab (sustainer) of mankind.
This
people must realize the two main reasons for not getting Nasrum Menallah (help
from Allah) and hence success are, 1) The changing the meaning of the word Elah
in the Kalema, 2) Struggling to establish a perverted an opposite kind of Eslam
based on wrong meaning of the Kalema.[86]
It is very important that we realize the concept of
sovereignty to correctly understand the idea of the Dajjal. As man is a social
being, it is imperative that he must have a code of life, a way of life whereby
to lead a peaceful existence. This code of life of or way of life is called
‘Din’. This Din, way of life must contain all aspects of man’s life, the social
system, penal code, monetary system all and sundry that are needed to function
a society. This Din or way of life of necessity must have a sovereignty. In Din
ul Eslam, Din ul Huq the sovereignty is of Allah as against the sovereignty of
man in all the ‘cracies and isms’. There cannot be a Din or a way of life or a
code of system without a sovereignty. For example, when making laws and
punishment the question of legality or illegality of a murder comes into
question somebody has to decide whether murder is legal of illegal; if illegal
what should be the punishment for it. If there is no sovereignty, debate on
legality or illegality of act of murder can continue for eternity. Even if we
suppose that it is decided unanimously that act of murder is illegal then question
remains what should be the punishment for the act. Again this debate will
continue eternally if there is no sovereignty to finally decide what should be
the punishment to prevent it’s occurring in the society. Some people will be of
the opinion that capital punishment alone can eradicate the crime of murder;
another group will decide that capital punishment is cruel, inhumane therefore
cannot be the norm, the law, as it is happening today in many countries. Yet
another group will come up with the idea that capital punishment should be
meted out only in the case of multiple murders; Then again, what will define
multiple murders? Will it be two, four, ten or a hundred homicides? In this way
the debate will continue on any given subject eternally if there is not an
authority who will finally decide on it.
Similarly,
if national leaders want to find out which of the true monetary system, a
interest-based or a loss and profit-based one is best for proper and just
distribution of national wealth among people. Every will have his own opinion and the debate will continue, as with
any other issue, for eternity. So there must be an authority who will
finally take the decision. This authority is the sovereignty.
In
Eslam this sovereignty lies with Allah alone, He is the Sovereign. In manmade
Dins, systems and codes of life the sovereignty lies with other authorities. In
monarchy with the king, he decides if murder is legal or illegal and what
should be the punishment for act of murder. His decision becomes law and penal
code. In democracy this sovereignty lies with the majority of the people. Any
issue supported by more than fifty percent of the people or by their
representative becomes the law. If fifty one percent of the people or their
representatives decide that murder is not illegal, then murder will be legal.
Or fifty one percent of the people decide that murder is illegal but decide
that the penalty for it should be Tk. 10, then that will be the law. In fascism
this sovereignty lies with the dictator, in communism and socialism with a
particular class of people.
This
final authority or sovereignty can be only of two kinds. One is that of He who
has created, Allah, or that of the created, i.e. Man. Those who believe in the
sovereignty of Allah, the Creator (La Elaha Ella Allah i.e. There is none to be
obeyed other than Allah.) are Mo’mens (believers) and those who believe in any
other sovereignty are Kafers (disbelievers, rejecters) even if they believe in
Allah’s existence, say prayers, pay Zakah, perform Hajj and fast in the month
of Ramadan.
Now, the mankind
including the populace of 1500 million who calls themselves Moslems has
rejected the sovereignty of the Creator, and has become sovereign themselves as
ordered and coerced by the Dajjal. These
two forms of sovereignty, one of the Creator and the other of the created are
naturally contradictory to each other and confrontational. There cannot be
any compromise between these two. It should have been natural that the
claimants of believer in the sovereignty of Allah stand unitedly forgetting all
there differences and resist the obedience to the sovereignty of man as
demanded by the Dajjal. Sadly, far from doing so this populace has accepted the
demand of the Dajjal and gladly rushed forth to establish one or the other
faces of the sovereignty of man in the forms of monarchy, democracy,
dictatorship or fascism. The reason of such act of utter naivety is the want of
right Aqidah (conception about the existence and goal of Eslam), which has
resulted in changing the meaning of the word Elah (He who is to be obeyed) into
Ma’bud (He who is to be worshiped), from dynamic Elah into inert Ma’bud.
The Dajjal, the Judeo-Christian
or the Western Civilization has openly declared several times that its
objective is to establish democracy i.e. the sovereignty of man all over the
world. The process to do so has started a long time back and is multifaceted
and diverse; it uses all means at its disposal, the print and electronic media,
the education system and when needed its mighty military force.
The Dajjal correctly
assumes that the only force to be reckoned with is Eslam, the very foundation
of which lies in the sovereignty, ‘Uluhiyah’ of Allah. All other nations around
the world would offer no objection to the Dajjal’s ideas because they were
already in the practice of one or the other forms of the Dajjal’s various
systems. Through consistent and incessant propaganda through the media over
which the Dajjal as complete control all over the world and by coercing when
needed the Dajjal has been able to obtain the submission of almost the whole
populace called Moslem.
The only exception is
the small portion of Eslamic ideologists who although do not have the right
Aqidah of Eslam and believing in the wrong meaning of the Kalema confronting
the Dajjal without knowing it to be what it is. They are doing so because of
their love for Allah, His Messenger [without knowing his true mission and the
right process (Tariqah) of attaining it] and Eslam which is perverted and
having completely opposite orientation. They are not victorious against the
Dajjal because they are not getting any help from Allah as what they are trying
to establish is not the Din He has sent through His Messenger nor the process (Tariqah)
He taught His Messenger and the Messenger left for his Ummah, nation to adapt.
The Dajjal has at its command armies the size the
world has never seen before as well as he possesses most of the wealth of the
world. The small group which is confronting the Dajjal, on the other hand has
almost nothing, whatever wealth or natural resources their countries own are in
control of their governments which are subservient to the Dajjal, have long
since accepted the sovereignty of man as their Elah. In desperation born of
utter hopelessness and helplessness, they turn to random acts of defiance such
as setting off bombs here and there and attacking tourist spots. Since these
actions did hardly any damage to the Dajjal’s super might, they have started
strapping bombs to their bodies and explode them in places where they wrongly
think that it will hurt the Dajjal. The destruction of the
The truth in this proverb is evident from the fact
that the mankind agrees with the Dajjal’s appeal though there were only 2,750 persons
in the twin towers. All were able bodied working men and women. There were -
men, women, children and infants, old, infirm, patients in hospitals, disables
in
The reality is that the fulfillment of the prediction
of the last Messenger of Allah is the present day the mighty Judeo Christian
Civilization is the one eyed giant, Dajjal, whose vehicle is the scientific
technology. This vehicle is equipped with innumerable destructive weapons,
bombers, fighter bombers, gun-ship helicopters, battle tanks, long range
cannons, missiles, worships, submarines etc. Besides these the Dajjal has
thousands of nuclear weapons and various kinds of chemical weapons.
This civilization, the mighty Dajjal has told the
mankind and is telling that, “Accept me as your lord and conduct your
collective life the way I tell you, forsake the sovereignty of your Creator,
and accept me as your sovereign in your collective life,[87] in
matters of economy, society, education, politics, law, penal code, and
administration of your governments. Your systems of life based on the
sovereignty of your Creator are old fashioned, obsolete and cannot cope with
the present complexities of the modern world, nor can solve its problems. I do
not care whom do you take as sovereign in your private life. Moslems! You grow
your beard as long as you like, clip your moustaches, pull up your trousers
above your ankles, run to the mosque, keep on saying prayers and meditate as
much as you like. I do not have the slightest objection. Christians! You put on
long robes, have cross on the neck, go to church, here long sermons by your
priests and meditate, I have no objection. Buddhists! You shave your heads, put
on saffron robes, go to Pagodas, squat before statues of Buddha and chant
“Buddhang sharanang gossami; shanghang sharanang gossami” as long as you want. I
don’t have any objection. Hindus! You paint your forehead with sandal and vermillion,
rap yourself with Namabalis, go to temple of your choice out of hundreds of
kinds of it, sit down cross-legged before idol of your choice ring bells and
chant Mantras and Shlokas (verses) as long as you want; I do not have the
slightest objection. Jews! You put on ling robes, put on skull-caps, hang Star
of David on the chest, go to Synagogues, meditate there and recite Torah
rocking to and fro before the Wailing Wall as long as you want, I do not have
any objection. Far from having any objection, in fact I will rather prefer that
you keep yourself busy with these because the more you do so, the less you will
have time to see who is ruling over you and with what.
You be warned! You never question my sovereignty, that
matter has been settled. I have coerced the mankind into rejecting the Creator
as a sovereign and accepting me to be its lord (Rab) and sovereign (Elah) in
its collective life. If any individual or a group of people defies me as the
sovereign I simply inform the individual or the group’s government and advice
them to take action against him or them. As my advice is as good as my order,
the related government takes the necessary action, arrest, torture and if
necessary hang them to keep me pleased. And instead of an individual or a group
of people if a state disregards or shilly-shally to obey my order (advice) at
first I put some sanctions on it in its business and commerce with other
countries. If this does not deter the state from disobeying me, I put embargo
on it stopping all its trades, commerce, business and communication etc. with
other countries of the world. Since the United Nations is completely under my
control, other countries of the world cooperate with the United Nations and
make the sanctions or the embargoes effective.
If even this does not break down the state’s will to
disobey me and doesn’t accept my sovereignty I attack the country militarily,
conquer it and after eliminating my opposing elements I put a government
subservient to me to run the country. In this I take along the United Nations
with me. In the process hundreds of thousands of people, men, women, children,
infants, old and infirm people are killed and maimed, homes, hospitals,
schools, places of worship are destroyed by our bombs, bullets, rockets and
missiles. Yet I have to do it because to replace the sovereignty of the Creator
with my sovereignty is my declared mission, my crusade. Already I have won the
crusade as there is not a single nation state on the earth which has not
replaced the sovereignty of the Creator with my sovereignty in there collective
life. The sovereignty of the Creator is non existent now. Yet there are a few
nations and some groups of people in different places trying to resist my
lordship (Rabubiah) though they have accepted my sovereignty (Uluhiah). In case
of two of such states I first imposed sanctions in their trades, commerce and
communications with other countries. When these failed to break them I placed
embargo on them. When both these measures failed to submit to me I militarily
attacked them, defeated them, as none on the earth can stand before out
military might put governments of our choice. Any other country will meet the
same fate who will resist or confront us.”
Nothing can be said about what the Dajjal is demanding
and doing to achieve his goal of totally eliminating Allah’s sovereignty
(Uluhiah) and lordship (Rabubiah). The reality today is that in the conflict of
the sovereignty of Allah and Man, the sovereignty of Man has emerged as the
victor, thanks today military and economic might of the Dajjal, the Judeo-Christian
Technological Materialistic Civilization. The reason is quite simple; the
populace who acclaims the sovereignty of Allah and hence is supposed to be
confronting the Dajjal’s demand of lordship and Man’s sovereignty has already
submitted to the Dajjal and has replaced Allah’s sovereignty with that of Man. The reason is changing the meaning of the
word Elah, he who is to be obeyed into Ma’bud, he who is to be worshiped.
This has resulted in building numerous beautiful mosques, many of them gorgeous
with golden domes for worshiping and on the other hand side with the Dajjal in
its crusade to oust Allah’s sovereignty and enthrone Man’s sovereignty. Messenger
of Allah knew that in Akheri Jamana (the Last Hour) the populace which claims
to be his Ummah will do this and has prophesized it.[88] The
Messenger’s prophesies have come true so much so that the guardians of the very
centre of Allah’s sovereignty, Makkah and His Messenger’s tomb, Madina have
become subservient to the Dajjal and have accepted Dajjal’s lordship and
fighting crusade on the Dajjal’s side. Otherwise they know their throne will be
at stake.[89] The
same holds true for all the emirates and sheikhdoms along the western
Taken all these things and facts into consideration the
reality of the present world it seems that Allah has been defeated in the
challenge thrown to Him by the Eblis, Satan, that he will make most of the
mankind disobedient to Him i.e. defy His sovereignty. It also seems that
Allah’s sovereignty is lost forever and there is no hope. But no. There are
certain indications that this will not be the future.
Firstly: the Qur’an declares the Last Messenger of Allah as
Rahmat-ullel-Alameen, literally the blessing for all the people from Allah.[90]
He is the blessing for all those who accept the way of life brought by him,
implement it in their lives and benefit from it. By this declaration Allah is
informing us that people who will guide their lives by the way of life sent
through him will live in security, justice, prosperity, happiness and peace
literally Eslam. That is how the Messenger of Allah is Allah’s blessing for all
the people. Since Allah is saying that he is blessing for all the people, a
time must come when all the people of the world will accept the way of life
(Din) sent through him. Otherwise the title of blessing for all the mankind, Rahmat-ullel-Alameen,
becomes unfulfilled and meaningless, which is impossible. To happen that the
Dajjal must perish.
Secondly, the Messenger of Allah predicted- “For as long as
Allah wills, Nabuat (meaning himself) will be present among you; then it will
be lifted. Then will prevail ‘Khelafat’ in the footsteps of Nabuat that will
last so long as Allah wills. After it will come Mulkan (monarchy) which again
will last for as long as Allah wills. It will be followed by Jabariyat (rule of
force).[91]
After that Khelafat in the pattern of Nabuat will return.[92] The
chronology of this narration is truly amazing! It is beyond any doubt that the
first two phases narrated in this Hadis took place in exactly that manner. The
third phase of it too, is history. During the Umayyad period, the hitherto
Khelafat was turned into monarchy for all practical purposes, although the
title of Khelafat was retained for political as well as deceptory purposes.
Monarchy was the prevalent system of government the world over during that time
and the Eslamic Empire joined their ranks albeit under a different name. This
situation continued for the next several hundred years. With the birth of the
Dajjal 472 years ago the myriad monarchies gradually began to lose ground to
various isms and cracies all around the world and one by one the monarchies
were turned into isms and cracies. The era of Jabariyat, rule of ‘might is
right’ predicted by the Messenger started with the birth of the Dajjal in 1537
which is continuing now. The good news
is that this too will come to an end soon and then Enshallah the Khelafat in pattern
of Nabuyat i.e. the tru Eslam will take place. And this will soon come with
the destruction of the Dajjal at the hands of Isa (as).
Thirdly, in yet another Hadis, the Messenger of Allah states -
‘Glad tidings! Glad tidings! The compare of my Ummah is with the rain where it
is difficult to ascertain whether the beginning is better or the end of it. How
can the Ummah with me at the beginning, Mahdi in the middle and Isa at the end
be destroyed? But as for those in between, they are not mine, nor am I theirs.’[93]
It is apparent from this Hadis that during the Akheri
Jamanah or the Last Hour in the Bible, the people of the Ummah will become like
the Ummah at the time of the Messenger of Allah. Although belonging to two very
different phases in time, their similarities in character will be such that
even the founder of their Ummah, the Messenger of Allah himself will have
difficulty in deciding which one is better. Shukar Alhamdolellah. Another clear
truth that emerges from this Hadis, one that we, Hezbut Tawheed have been
reiterating over and over again trying relentlessly to persuade people to
realize and face very stiff resistance from all, especially the Olema class of
this distorted version of Eslam, suffer humiliation and persecution for
speaking aloud this one truth is that, from about 60-70 years after the Rasul
Allah’s departure to the coming of the Mahdi (as) is the hopefully not so
distant future this so called Moslem population are Moslems in name only, they
do not belong to the Rasul Allah and he does not belong to them. If they are
not his people and he does not consider himself to be theirs, then where does
that leave this population? One what grounds can one then possibly claim to
remain Mo’men, Moslem or Ummat-e-Mohammadi? None. It is not because they no
longer believe in the existence and unity of Allah but because they have
subjugated to the doctrine of the Dajjal, to the sovereignty of man and adhere
to it wholeheartedly.
Almost similar circumstances were prevalent in the
They invoked the blessings of Allah before starting
anything new as we do today, used to write the name of Allah before writing
deeds and other important documents like marriages etc. They used to write Besmeka
Allahumma (with your name Allah) almost similar to our writing Besmellaher
Rahmaner Rahim (With the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.” If so where
is the difference between the people among whom the Messenger came to establish
Tawheed and this so called Moslem population of today? If the question arises that
they worshipped idol and the present populace called Moslem doesn’t, the answer
is that the Moshreqs of Arab did not believe those idols to be Allah, the
Creator or even the Sustainer of the world. Allah himself testified to this
fact in the ayats quoted earlier. In these ayats Allah supplied answers to the
question He instructs the Rasul Allah to ask the Arabs. What then was the
significance of these idols to them? They believed those to be near and dear
ones of the Almighty and worshipped them for two definite reasons. Firstly as
they purported these idols to be close and near to Allah, they believed He
would grant their wishes if they would intercede on their behalf for example-relief
from illness, less in business; dalliance form danger, misfortune etc. and the
likes. Regarding this, Allah states, “They worship beside Allah which neither
hurteth them nor profiteth them, and they say: These are our intercessors with
Allah”.[95]
Secondly, as the Arabs took the ideals to be close and
near to Allah, they imagined worshipping these would bring them closer to Allah
himself, help them in gaining the ‘Qurbiyah’ -‘proximity’ of Allah. In this
regard also Allah states “And those who choose protecting friends besides him
say: we worship them only that they may be us near unto Allah.[96]
Therefore, it can be safely said that the Arabs
worshipped the idols for two purposes, one was temporal and the other was spiritual.
At no point did the Arabs hold their idols in the similar positions of esteem
or importance as Allah.
The question which now arises is that what differences
can be perceived between the so called ‘Muslim’ population of today that follow
the convenient rituals of their faith, consider themselves to be Mo’men, Moslem,
Ummat-e-Mohammadi, expect to be placed in paradise after death, and the then
Arabs to whom Allah sent his Messenger to bring back to Hedayah, the right
path? Let’s try to make this subject clearer. There is no doubt that the
religion of Eslam is rests on five pillars (1) Kalema (2) Salah (3) Zakah (4) Hajj
(5) Saom. Those who believe in these issues and observe them in their lives are
called Mo’men, Moslem and Ummat-e-Mohammadi.
Now let us gauge the differences of the Moslems now
and those Arabs of 1400 years back.
(1) Kalema- the so called Moslem population of today believe
that Allah is one, the Ma’bud, the Creator, the Sustainer, the Cherisher, All-knowing,
All-powerful, Compassionate, Merciful - to name some of his Attributes. The
Arabs of that time used to believe the same things.[97]
(2) Salah-The Moshreqs of Arabia used to say their
daily prayers facing the Kaaba only in a different way as taught by Ebrahim
(as), just as the Moslems of today do; history affirms this. After searching far
and wide for their lost son, the family of Zayd (RA), freed-man and later
adopted son of Rasul Allah, reached Makkah and learnt that he was in the care
of one named Muhammad who was claiming to be a Messenger of Allah. Upon enquiring
where they would find this man, they were told to go to the Kaaba and look for
the man, saying his prayer separately from all others. That would be Muhammad (s.a.s).
This proves that the Moshreqs of Makkah used to offer congressional prayers,
though it was different from the Salah of today. They practiced Salah taught by
Ebrahim (as). The process of Salah taught by the Messenger of Allah came later.
(3) Zakah - The spirit of charity, of alms-giving was
very much prevalent among the Arab Moshreqs from one’s own earning. The story
of the benevolent Hatem Tai is remembered even today. With the coming of Eslam,
Allah regulated the eclectic, irregular charity to a fixed 2.5% to be spent on
various needful areas.
(4) Hajj- There is no Doubt that Moshreq Arabia
practiced the yearly pilgrimage of Hajj with much devotion and fervor
throughout history. The sites, month, date and rituals were almost identical to
the present Hajj.
(5) Saom- The month of Ramadan was observed as the
month of fasting for Moshreq Arabia as well. What then are the differences
between the Moshreq Arabs and the so called Moslems of today? If a Messenger
from Allah was needed to bring them to the right path, what of now?
The answer would be that despite all their ‘Ebadat’, belief in the Oneness of Allah, in his Existence,
belief in Kaaba as the House of Allah, offering Salah, giving in charity to win
His pleasure, performing Hajj and Fasting throughout the month of Ramadan - the Arabs were Moshreqs for the single
reason that the sovereignty of Allah was absent in their Aqidah (concept) and society.
They accepted the sovereignty of the custodian/guardians of the Kaaba, the Qurush.
Their ‘Din’, their way of life was acceptance of the decision of the Qurayesh
as law. As today the sovereignty of the whole mankind belongs to the Dajjal and
its Din (the way of life) is manmade cracies and isms.
The Moslem population of our times also believe in the
Existence and Oneness of Allah, offer prayers and give in charity and Zakah to
please their Maker, perform Hajj and ‘Tawaf’ of the Kaaba with reverence, fast
during the month of Ramadan and circumcise their own in accordance with the
teachings of the Din, yet its an exact replica of the Arab scenario, they have
forsaken the sovereignty of Allah and accepted the Dajjal’s system of human
sovereignty at the nationals, collective level. One of the main reasons for this fatal error has been the substitution
of Ma’bud for ‘Elah’ in the Kalema ‘La Elaha Ella Allah’, for which,
despite all their good deeds, all their Ebadat, they remained Moshreq. This was
why a Messenger from Allah had to be sent in order to bring them back into the
folds of sovereignty of the Maker. The call of the last Messenger of Allah to
the Makkans gathered at the foot of the mount Safa was not any other than- say
(believe) ‘La Elaha Ella Allah’. If the actual meaning of the Kalema was ‘One
to be worshipped’, would not his call have been redundant? Because the Arab Moshreqs
were already evolved in His ‘Ebadat’ in way of saying regular prayers in the
Masjadul Haram facing Kaaba, paying charity in way of Allah, performing yearly
Hajj and observing fast in the month of Ramadan. Also it was not to please
their idols, gods or goddesses that they took much initiative either it was to
earn the pleasure of the Maker ‘Himself’ as ‘Ebadat’ for Him. The reasons for
their worshipping of idols have also been clarified by Allah Himself in the
Qur’an.[98]
Therefore it is clear that from the time of the first
Messenger Adam (as) to the final Messenger of Allah there has been only Kalema
they all have called their people to,
‘and not “La Ma’bud Ella Allah- there is none to be worshiped other than Allah”.
Adam (as) to the Last Messenger none have come with any other Kalema than
the “La Elaha Ella Allah -- there is none to be obeyed other than Allah”. No
other attribute of His has been mentioned in the Qur’an as the key word in the
Kalema either except Elah which means He who is to be obeyed.
Of course it
is very true that there is no Ma’bud (he who is to be worshiped), but it not
the Kalema, the foundation of the Din.
It is the Kalema of ‘La Elaha Ella Allah’ that a non-Moslem needs to utter and
to believe and to act accordingly to convert himself into a Moslem.
Interestingly, we are to offer Ebadat towards the entity that orders it. If
there was no direct order to engage in various forms of Ebadat there were no
need for us to carry these out. Therefore, the command comes first, the
execution of it later.[99]
Elah (who is to be obeyed) is commanding to worship which is being obeyed, so
the Elah comes first and the Ma’bud later. Elah and Ma’bud are entirely two
different words and carrying different meanings.
As a result of the wrongful interpretation of the
basic tenet, millions of beautiful mosques are being built to offer their
devotion, there is no dearth of people performing the Hajj, paying-alms or
fasting throughout the month of Ramadan. Beside these compulsory Ebadat, tons
of personal acts of piety and devotion are being performed and some directives
regarding the personal life are also being adhered from the Qur’an. But apart
from the personal lives of the people, at the national, collective level, no
law, no rule, no order-direct or indirect are being obeyed or paid any heed to,
in short Allah is accepted as the Ma’bud only, not as the Elah when it comes to
the national, collective aspect of life, this population adheres to the
doctrine of the Dajjal of the Judeo-Christian materialistic civilization and
this is exactly what the Dajjal demands of the masses. Therefore, they no
longer remain within the realm of the Din, far removed from the foundation. The
sovereignty of Allah established after a lifetime of struggle of the Messenger of
Allah has again been relegated to oblivion and in its place now reigns the
sovereignty of the Dajjal’s doctrine, the sovereignty of man. The entire
mankind today lay prostrate in ‘Sajda’ at the feet of the Dajjal.
That his Ummah would fall to such depths was known to
the Messenger of Allah in one Hadis, he states-You will follow your
predecessors to the extent that if you see them entering a snake or reptiles
cave, you will follow them into it - when asked- “Ya Rasul Allah! Will it be
the Jews and Christians who will be followed?” He answered, “Who else?”[100] Therefore,
it comes as no surprise that he disassociates himself from the Moslem people of
the present of the huge lot between the times of himself and the Mahdi (as).
But the good news is despite the fact that his Ummah has become de-facto follower
of the Dajjal, will not be destroyed and a time will come when things will
again become the way they are supposed to be. His Ummah will rise again and Enshallah
among them will come forth people similar to the companions of the Messenger of
Allah so much so that it will be difficult even for him to decide which is better
of the two! Shukur Alhamdolellah.
Fourth
reason- once Abu Obaydah (ra)
inquired of the Messenger- “O Messenger of Allah! Can there be people better
than us, who have accompanied you in such difficult Jehad?” The Messenger of
Allah replied-“During the Akheri jamana (the Last Hour) will come people whose honor
and prestige will be lot higher than yours”. Abu Obaydah stared in amazement
and enquired “Why will their honor be so high?” The Messenger of Allah replied,
“I am with you, but will not be with them”.[101]
There are same important things to be taken note of in this Hadis. First is the
person who enquired these. He was none other than the distinguished companion,
Abu Obaydah (ra), the person on whom the Messenger of Allah bestowed his own
title of ‘Al-Amin’, ‘Amin-ul-Millat’ as he came to be known as later was the
same noun; who lost several of his front teeth trying to extricate the metal
pieces of the helmet lodged in the Messenger’s head at the Battle of Ohud; as the
commander of the Eslamic army Abu Obaydah (Ra) conquered and brought under the
banner of Eslam the grater post of northern Iraq. The second point to ponder is
what this person is asking about. He asked if any person could be better than
those who took part in-difficult, strenuous Jehad alongside the Messenger of
Allah. The question was not if anyone could be better than those who prayed
along with the Messenger, fasted as he did, paid Zakah or even made the
pilgrimage with him. The very question reveals what the Messengers and his
followers considered as most important Amal (deed) next to the faith itself. Abu
Obaydah didn’t say, we have participated with you in the prayers, Hajj, in
fasting and many other pious deeds. He
didn’t mention any of them which this is populace busy with, instead he
mentioned Jehad which this populace has not only forsaken as unnecessary but
actually is against it.
However, from Abu Obaydah’s question it becomes quite
clear as regards to what the Messenger of Allah gave to Abu Obaydah, no doubt
remains that the Ummah of the last Messenger shall rise again, their ‘Aqidah’
concept of the Din will be restore to correct Aqidah so that they will be able
to claim their rightful role. But for this to happen, the prerequisite is that
they have to acquire the qualities of the Sahabas (Messenger’s companions) and
act like them. The only difference between these two groups, the early and the
later will be the presence and absence of the Messenger of Allah; this means he
was there with the first Mo’mens but will not be present with these of the
Akheri Jamana. But in every other quality, in ‘Aqidah’, Iman, readiness to
sacrifice wealth and life to establish Allah’s Din on the earth, iron like
unity, in discipline, obedience and Hejrat (forsaking everything in way of
Allah), in all of these traits, they need to be like the ‘sahabis’ or
companions of the Messenger. All being
same the presence and absence of the Messenger of Allah will place the later
Mo’mens higher than those of the companions.
From this various Hadis, we are able to
ascertain that the present scenario will change; not only distorted but in fact
opposite Din that is being practiced in the name of Eslam today will be brought
back to the original form the Din-ul-Eslam, Din-ul-Haq, as revealed to the Last
Messenger of Allah. This populace will once again emarge from the ‘fisk’
(disobedience), ‘Sherk’ (polytheism), ‘kufr’ (unbelief), ‘julm’ (wrong doing),
‘monafeki’ (hypocrisy) and the curse that it is submerged in, and will become
true Mo’men, Moslem and Ummat-e-Mohammadi [the nation of Mohammad (s.a.s)] and
restart working on the responsibility left on them by the Messenger of Allah to
fulfill his unfinished mission. Ensha-Allah, that day is not far off.
ACTUAL EBADAT
In the last chapter, I have tried to
detail the consequences arising from the changing of the meaning of the ‘Kalema’
‘La Elaha Ella Allah’ to ‘La Ma’bud Ella Allah’. In the collective national
lives of mankind, all the directives, orders and prohibition ascribed by Allah
himself have been rejected and set aside while the Dajjal has been accepted as the
Elah with its prescribed doctrine implemented in all major issues. On the other
hand, in their personal lives these people offer Salah (prayer), Saom,
(fasting, self restrain), perform Hajj give in charity and consider themselves
to be they are performing worshiping very well and living in complacency that
the doors of Jannah (paradise) are open for them. Now let us see what Allah
understands by Ebadat and what Ebadat does he actually expect from us?
The correct meaning of Ebadat is--the performance of the very job any
particular object has been created for. The sun has been created to
generate light and heat and that is what it is doing from the time of its creation,
this is how it is performing its Ebadat. Similarly Allah has created the earth
to facilitate the growth of plants, trees, crops, flowers etc and it is
diligently carrying out its Ebadat since its creation. Similarly water, fire, electricity,
light etc. all creations are carrying out their respective responsibilities
without a seconds break, hence they all conform to their own forms of Ebadat.
The same rule applies to all man
made objects; every object carries out the specific duty it is created to
accomplish. The motor car, for example is built as a means for transport people
from place to place, to do it is its Ebadat. Electricity has been produced to
run various electrical appliances like radio, television, computer etc. And the
various appliances are performing Ebadat by perfectly doing what it is
manufactured for. The only difference between the things created by Allah and those
manufactured by human being is that human being needs raw materials to
manufacture things and Allah doesn’t need anything. When He wants to create
something He just says, “Be, and there it is.”[102] Now
let us try to find out what Allah created man for. Once we know it we will
understand what our true Ebadat is.
This entire universe including the ‘Malayeks’
or Angels were created long before Adam was. When He announced before them His
will to place His ‘Khalifa’ on the earth,[103]
they objected in union; however paying no heed to them, Allah went ahead and
created Adam anyway[104]
which makes Adam and us, his descendants, all ‘Khalifas’ of the Maker,
therefore it is important to understand the meaning of ‘Khalifa’ and ‘Khelafat’
clearly. The literal meaning of the word Khalifa is ‘vicegerent’; holder of
delegated authority ambassadors, regional governor of a sovereign.[105] If
someone wants to have his works done by somebody else and appoints him as his
representative, agent with necessary authorities then that appointed person becomes his Khalifa. If a spiritual
guide and teacher (peer) for some reasons wants to delegate his powers to some
chosen disciples to guide and teach his disciples (Murids) on his behalf he
appoints them as his Khalifas, his representatives. The condition is that
person will disperse the ‘peer’ or ‘shayekhs’ teachings in exactly the same
manner as the ‘peer’ himself does, without adding or subtracting any from the
original teachings. Therefore, a Khalifa is someone appointed by the peer to
act on his behalf among his disciples. If however, this same Khalifa were to
deviate from the peer’s teaching according to his own liking, adding or
subtracting at his fancy, but verbally declares his peer’s authority - would
then the peer still tolerate him as his Khalifa?
Another example may be sited here.
Suppose an Emperor of a vast kingdom appoints a chosen person as governor of a
specific region, in which case, the governor as the Emperor’s viceroy would
carry out his executive order to rule that area. This governor is the Khalifa
i.e. representative of the sovereign emperor. He would be supplied with all
necessary guidelines in law and order, economy, penal code etc. to ensure that
things run exactly as they would under the Emperor himself. In short, the
governor would have no independent authority to alter any of the Emperor’s
directives. If however, the governor chooses to disregard the Emperor’s orders
in lieu of which he imposes his own ideas and regulations, yet avowing to the
Emperor’s authority and sovereignty as lip-service; would then the Emperor
still retain his appointment? Or acknowledge him as his viceroy? Logically
thinking he would be recalled to the capital, stripped of his post and
punished. While in power, the governor might still proclaim the authority of
the Emperor, bow five times daily in reverence before him but for the very
reason that he changed the entire system of the Emperor’s rule, he would be
removed from office and punished for violating and undermining the Emperor’s
sovereignty. Therefore, to relegate one’s own responsibility on someone else is
to bestow ‘Khelafat’ or vice-regency on him and that appointed person is the
Khalifa. The chosen Khalifa of Allah on this earth is Adam (as) and
consequently we, his descendants. In the Qur’an, Allah affirms that Adam (as) was
placed as the vicegerent on the earth only.[106]
Then as the Khalifa of Allah on this earth what are the duties of mankind? What
are the responsibilities?
Simply put, the responsibility of Bani
Adam is to do what the Creator would have done Himself had He not placed His
vicegerent on the earth. What Allah would have done on this earth had He not
put His representative or Khalifa here? The answer is that He would have ruled
and administrated this world as He rules and administrates His vast creation,
the universe. For the earth, however, he chose to delegate this responsibility
to man. So to rule and administrate the affairs of this world on His behalf is
the duty and responsibility of the Khalifa i.e. mankind.
Now, how man will do it? To this end, Allah
supplied a complete set of directions, inclusive of all aspects of regulation
that He Himself would have used if He were to govern this earth Himself. He
supplied these guidelines and instructed mankind to regulate their lives with
it; as this would be the Ebadat they were created to perform.[107]
This entire universe of the Maker is
regulated by a strict code of discipline; each creation carries out the
specific job it has been ordained without a moments interruption or hesitation.
Among all of Allah’s creations there is not one object that possesses even an
atomic weight of self-will or will-power. But with the creation of Adam for the
first time Allah created something that could break this discipline for this
new creation was in possession of something so extra ordinary that not one from
his entire universe full of creation were gifted with. Allah blew from His soul
into Man[108] and
this latest creation rose far higher in rank than any of the others, became the
“Ashraf-ul-Makhlukat-the most honored in the whole creation”; for along His
soul came one and all of his sifats or attributes including that of free will
which no other creation had any idea about. Allah’s sifats or attributes are
endless but what was transferred to man with the breath was everything in very
small amounts; a small drop from the ocean, incomparable or entirely
insignificant in comparison to the mighty ocean itself, but still a drop from
the same source of the same chemical composition. The reason why He blew into
Adam from His soul which contains every attribute of His, though in
infinitesimal quantity is that it is necessary that to function properly a
representative, agent, a Khalifa must have some power and authority of the employer.
He regards the breathing from His soul into Adam as His trust (Amanat) to Man.[109]
Now we see that Allah is first and
foremost the only Elah, the only one to be obeyed and the only Ma’bud, only one
to be worshipped that is to serve. First comes the acceptance of Him as the
Elah, only sovereignty, and then come to serve Him (Ebadat) by governing this
world on His behalf by His rules, regulations, laws, and orders. When this is
carried out properly, man is doing the job he was created for, performing the
actual Ebadat (service) expected from him. The result of changing the meaning
of the word ‘Elah’ (He, who is to be obeyed) in the Kalema into ‘Ma’bud’ (He,
who is to be worshiped, served), is that the huge population called Moslems but
de facto Kafer (unbeliever, rejecter), Moshreq (polytheist), fasek
(disobedient), jalem (wrong doer), Monafeq (hypocrite) and hence cursed by
Allah, Malayeks (angels) and people is not believer in Elah or Ma’bud as it has
accepted the Dajjal as its Elah and Ma’bud in his collective life. Let us
observe what is in its concept is Ebadat that they are so busy with.
As man was appointed the Khalifa for Allah, it is
taken that they were to govern this earth according to the rules, regulations
and directives provided by the Maker himself. This is the real Ebadat (service).
Now to this populace Ebadat is to recite Kalema with wrong meaning of the word
Elah, to say prayers, to pay Zakah, to perform Hajj and to fast in the month of
Ramadan and doing these they are thinking that they are performing proper
Ebadat and are very good Moslems. Since to serve Allah is to work as His
Khalifa by doing things on His behalf. However, as Allah’s Khalifa, His vice
gerent, if Khelafat is their Ebadat - then the question now arises is does
Allah say prayer (namaz), pay Zakah (poor-due), perform Hajj, observe Saom
(roza), or get up in middle of the night to say Tahajjud prayers? Is He in the
practice of these or any other good deed that this population thinks of as Ebadat?
Needless to say, He doesn’t. All these good deeds do not fall within the
category of real Ebadat, i.e. Khelafat. What then are these if not Ebadat? These
are the practices He has ordered as mandatory so that the entire Ummah reaches
a uniform level of discipline. Allah in His infinite wisdom has outfitted His
Din, His way of life with all possible solution and ramifications involving all
facets of life, otherwise this Din would not be complete and perfect. Allah
affirms, - ‘I have perfected your religion for you and completed My favors upon
you.’[110]
Therefore there are solutions for all facets of human life in His Din.[111]
Take for instance Salah (namaz), which is congregational by nature and solitary
circumstantially, designed to install a combination of unity, discipline,
obedience, alertness, and readiness to struggle and fight to uphold the truth
in case of aggression from outside. Similarly, the issue of wealth and
resources management is a very important factor in human existence, a sound,
reliable system is imperative to ensure that there is no gross monetary
inequality or injustice within the society. Income tax- Zakah, a system based
entirely of fast, distribution of combined wealth.
The primary goals of Hajj are the assessment of
situations around the world, to find out what specific problems are in any
given region and to ascertain the proper measures to be taken to take care of
those. The other major objective of Hajj is to serve as rehearsal for the Day
of Judgment when all souls will be called upon to answer for their time on
earth.
Last but not least is the practice of Saom-keeping in
mind that man is a collective unit of body and soul, a process for the
purification and enhancement of the soul is devised by means of the month of
fasting. The meaning of the word Saom is self-restraint. It should be noted
that four out of the five pillars of the Din, the system of life are concerned
with collective life; only one, the Saom (self-restraint) is purely personal.
What is being practiced today in the name of Ebadat by
the Gomrah- diverted populations is not the actual Ebadat of Khelafat; it is
the measures by which the Din is supposed to be established and remain
effective in society. The actual Ebadat is to govern this world in His place in
accordance with the Din, system of life as revealed by Allah. This population
is not only crores of miles away from this actual Ebadat; they are headed in
exactly the opposite direction. In accepting the Dajjal’s system of human
sovereignty, they are faseq-disobedient to Allah and in implementing the Dajjal’s
way of life rejecting that sent by Allah, they turned into worshippers of the Dajjal
instead of Allah. Little does this huge population of praying, alms-giving, hajji
and fasting people realize that firstly, they committed the greatest mistake by
interchanging Ma’bud for Elah in the Kalema-e-Tawheed, but with the
implementation of the Dajjal’s word in their collective life, they have strayed
far from the Ma’bud of their concept also, ‘as such the Almighty Allah (is) no
longer remains either the Elah or the Ma’bud for this people.[112]
I am not sure if I have been able to make understand
the Ebadat for which He has created the mankind. The meaning of the Ebadat He
has stated in the Qur’an by saying “I have not created the Jinn (invisible
beings) and men to any end other than that they may worship (Ebadat) Me”[113] is
to accept Him as the only being to be obeyed and then to act as His representative
on earth and administrate and govern by His laws, rules and regulations. The
precondition of performing real Ebadat is establishment of the Din-ul-Huq (the
true way of life) based on the sovereignty of Allah. This is non-existent in
the present world, so there is no real Ebadat anywhere in the world, even the
Hezbut Tawheed which believes in the sovereignty of Allah has not being able to
start the real Ebadat for which the mankind has been created.
A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY
Hadis- “Those who resist and confront the cursed Dajjal, their honor, prestige
and reward will be the same as the Shaheed (martyrs) of Badr and Ohud.” Abu
Horayra (RA), Bokhari, Moslem.
The entire episode of the Dajjal
is extremely important, especially so because no other event in the history of
mankind can compare to the magnitude of this one event, this has been certified
by the Messenger of Allah himself. This particular Hadis bears special message,
good tidings for us, the people of the present day, also it contains some
extraordinary points to be noted. The highest reward among the Mo’mens of this
Din has been retained for martyrs (Shaheeds), for no sooner does their souls
leave the body than paradise is granted to them. The highest position of
prestige is also reserved for them as it is not allowed to refer to them as
dead people, though they do not walk on this earth anymore. Besides these,
there are some other specialties bestowed on them that Allah has not even
granted His Messengers, not to speak of general Mo’mens, either, e.g. there is
no need to bathe or enshroud them in the traditional ‘kafon’ for burial, they
have been exempted from the janaja or pre-burial prayer and also from the
interrogation by the Malayeks in the grave. These rewards, recognition and
honor belong only to the league of Shaheeds, those who embrace death to
establish His Din, His way of life on this earth.
About the people who will
confront and resist the Dajjal it is to be noted that -
1) They will be awarded the rewards of the Shaheeds (martyrs)
besides the specialties mentioned above without being Shaheed.
2) They will be awarded the honor and reward of not one but
two Shaheeds. Nowhere else there is any provision of reward of two Shaheeds for
one person.[114]
3) Those who will resist and confront the Dajjal will
receive the rewards of not only two general Shaheeds, but one of the battle of
Badr and one of the battle of Ohud.
4) The Shaheeds of the battles of Badr and Ohud are
recognized as those of the highest honor among all others, because Tawheed, Din-ul-huq
could not have been established on this earth had the Messenger of Allah lost
either of these two battles. The Messenger of Allah said to those who returned
from the battleground of Badr- ‘Do what you please, for paradise is granted to
you.’[115] This
was to those who returned victorious alive; those who were martyred must surely
have received so much higher positions. And those to resist the Dajjal will
receive the rewards and honor of not the warrior alive, but the Shaheeds of the
first battle of Eslam! Not only of the Badr, but the reward and honor of Badr
and Ohud combined.
One might wonder why Allah would
choose to favor these people (who resist Dajjal) with such unimaginable reward.
The answer is quite simple, actually it is a matter of prestige for Allah, the
challenge the Eblis threw at Him, of winning or loosing in this challenge.
Around the world today, the Dajjal has overthrown Allah’s sovereignty, His
authority and replaced it with the Eblis’ doctrine, human sovereignty. The Dajjal
has effectively rejected the Maker as Rab- Lord, of His own creation and gotten
away with this too. Excepting a tiny portion among this huge mass of people
there is none today to speak up for Allah’s sovereignty - and the Dajjal is
sparring no end to label this group as terrorist and wipe them off the face of
this earth. For this reason, the reward they are to receive from their Lord is
so great.
5) In the Afterlife, Shaheeds from all times will be the
envy of all people, and those who resist the Dajjal will surely be the envy of
the Shaheeds themselves! Envy of even of the Shaheeds of the Badr and the Ohud.
For every Shaheed will enjoy the rewards of the particular Shahdat he/she
achieved. The Shaheed of the Badr will get the reward and honor of the Shahdat
at the Badr and the Shaheed of the Ohud will get the reward and honor of the Shahdat
at the Ohud. The Shaheed of Badr will not get the reward of the Shahdat at Ohud
or vice-versa. Only those who resist and repel the Dajjal will be awarded the
honor, prestige and reward for the Shahdats at the Badr and the Ohud combined.
In all of Eslam, there is no good
deed, no other action for which the rewards are so unimaginable, stupendous. It
also by far surpasses the reward and honor of the Shaheeds. This opportunity
par excellence, has eluded all the Messengers and their Ummahs because the Dajjal
did not appeared in their times. The Dajjal has made its appearance now, at
this present time and with its destruction at the hand of Isa (as) it will
never surface again, some 371 years have passed since its birth and now it had
reached the height of maturity; so it is safe to say that Isa (as) is not long
in coming either. Once the destruction of the Dajjal is complete, the
opportunity to achieve these rewards will forever be lost to mankind.
In the millions of years of human
existence it is us, the people of the present day, for whom this small window in
time is open. We are the people who witness the Dajjal, so they who rise
amongst us to the occasion, to resist and confront the Dajjal, only they will
be the fortunate ones to reap this golden harvest.
Like I have stated earlier, the
honor, prestige and reward for those who stand against the Dajjal is
unparalleled in the history of Eslam; it is much, much higher than those for
other Shaheeds and even the Messengers. What could be the reasons in the
elaborate scheme of things that warrant rewards of such magnitude?
The principal reason is that the Dajjal
wants to displace Allah from the position of sovereignty (ulluhiyah) and occupy
His place. Today the Creator holds no position of authority over the collective
lives of the peoples of the world; for this reason those who strive to the
limits of endurance and perseverance with their lives and their wealth, they
are to receive rewards higher than any other among the entire mankind.
The Dajjal’s call to mankind is
to reject the Din, way of life from Allah and opt for its doctrine in the
collective lives e.g. in economy, politics, penal code, education,
administration in shorts every aspect of collective life.
The one area the Dajjal does not
object to is the personal and private acts of worship, people can pray all they
want in mosques, pagodas, churches, temples, and synagogues, remember their
Allah, Eshwar, God, Eli, Buddha, and all their gods and goddess to their
hearts’ content as long as it does not interfere with any state or
administrative activities. The collective social lives of humans must be devoid
of all one and all of the Creators directives, no rules and regulations of the Maker
may have any bearing on the political, administrative sides of the society, it
can have no influence on the law, penal code, education, economy, or any other
facet. Instead, one and all directive of the Dajjal must reign supreme what the
Dajjal sees fit must be obeyed this is the claim of the giant.
As per the Dajjal’s demand, all
of mankind,[116]
inclusive of some 150 million plus Moslem population[117]
today has accepted its doctrine to govern their collective lives with; as a
result there is no place on earth that the sovereignty of Allah is effective. Monarchy,
socialism, democracy, communism, fascism, are all different forms of the Dajjal’s
system. After severe conflicts and clashes among these isms and cracies,
democracy has emerged as the forerunner. The Judeo-Christian Civilization i.e.
the Dajjal has adopted the democracy as their way of life and it is going to
all lengths to impose it on the rest of the world. Had Hitler’s fascism come
out as the victor in Second World War, fascism would have been the order of the
day in the world and democracy and communism would have been relegated to the
inferior position just as fascism and communism are today. Following the fall
of fascism with Hitler’s defeat, democracy and communism remained at
loggerheads for many, long years, from 1947 to 1991. When communism too, met
its demise in 1991, capitalist democracy came out as the sole contender with
the whole world at its feet. During the entire duration of the Cold War from
after Second World War till the fall of communism, the only deterrent that
prevented an all out war was the nuclear bombs; for both side knew only too well
that were they to use it first, their own destruction too was inevitable. With communism and fascism out of the way,
capitalist democracy is the sovereign in most countries of the world and His
power aims to replace the Maker’s sovereignty with that of itself in places
where they are still holding out against it.
As a result of the non-stop
barrage of propaganda in the print and electronic media, in discussions,
speeches, and system of education, this
kufr (disbelief) is now accepted as the truth in almost every corner of this
world.
Wherever a country or people
refuse to accept this falsehood, the Dajjal counters with the cessation of business
activities with them, imposes economic sanctions in an effort to inflict
financial tribulation on them. If this works, well and good, otherwise they are
treated with even tougher embargoes to compel them into accepting the Dajjal’s
way.[118]
In cases where even sanctions and embargoes do not bring the desired effect and
the people do not accept man’s sovereignty the Dajjal’s forces do not hesitate
to conduct military expeditions into their territory and force them into
subjugation. Such expeditions cause the deaths of hundreds of thousand of
civilian men, women and innocent children, the old and the infirm, cause city
after city to be destroyed, razed to the ground, hundreds of villages to be
burnt down and leave millions disabled from cluster bombs. Yet these are not
considered inhumane or unjust, all atrocities, killing, destruction and
demolition in the name of warfare are very neatly labeled as collateral damage,
as something quite casual that happens in wartime, not to be taken very
seriously.
After everything is said and
done, it is not surprising that Allah reserves the highest reward and honor for
those who will come forward and uphold the banner of the sovereignty of Allah ready
to sacrifice their lives and their wealth without hesitation against the giant,
the Dajjal which so mighty that it holds the earth on the palm of his hand. The
reward and the honor Allah reserves for these valiant men and virtuous women, He
has not kept for any body including His Messengers because none of His
Messengers had or will have opportunity to face the Dajjal.
We know from the Messenger of
Allah that this unprecedented giant with all its power and might will be
totally destroyed by Jesus (Isa as.), a Messenger of Allah on his second coming
to this earth and the sovereignty of the Creator will reign supreme all over
the world.[119] Those
who are born at this age of the Dajjal’s reign will not avail this opportunity
of getting the highest reward and honor from Allah by standing up and resisting
and confronting the giant are really unfortunate.
May Allah
accept this book of mine in which I have revealed the real identity of the
Dajjal foretold by the Messenger of Allah 1400 years back, as a feeble
resistance and confrontation against the Dajjal, the Judeo Christian
Civilization which has usurped His sovereignty.