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The Anti-Christ in the Modern Age
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Anthony Navarro
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بسم هللا الرحمن الرحيم
Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem
For thousands of years Muslims and Christians have had the same argument
over the most debated man in history… Jesus, (Isa to Muslims). We both
believe in his miraculous birth from a virgin mother. We both agree about
him performing many miracles and being sent from Allah (God) for the
salvation of mankind. The thing that we don‟t agree on is his divinity, but
I‟m not here to talk about that. I‟m here to talk about something else that
Muslims and Christians agree upon. Something that we both agree will
shake the foundation of all life as we know it. The greatest test that
mankind has ever or will ever experience in the history of this world … The
Anti-Christ (Ad-Dajjal).
Anas Ibn Malik said, "The Prophet said, 'there has never been a Prophet who
did not warn his people against that one-eyed liar (Dajjal)…. (Muslim, al-
Bukhari)
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Hadhrat Imraan bin Husain (R.A.) relates that, "I heard Rasulullah
(Salallahu Alayhi Wasallam) saying: "Since the birth of Adam (A.S.) till the
advent of Qiyamah there is no fitnah (evil, test) much greater than that of
Dajjal." (Ahmed)
In this essay I will show descriptions of Ad-Dajjal, the trials he will bring
and signs of his emergence from our Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) and will
apply these to modern times to prove that we are those who live in the age of
Ad-Dajjal (The Anti-Christ). Our Prophet Muhammad gave us signs to
know when the end of the world is near. They are in two groups, minor and
major. Ad-Dajjal (Anti-Christ) is one of the major signs, so the minor signs
must pass before his emergence.
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will be built beautifully and high mimbars (pulpits) will
be erected. Gangsters and evil people will prevail. When
women will be dressed yet their bodies will be exposed .
Various wines will be consumed excessively. When it
will be regarded as a shame to act on Quranic
injunctions. When untrustworthy people will be
regarded as trustworthy and the trustworthy will be
regarded as untrustworthy. When it will be hot in
winter (and vice versa). When the length of days is stretched, i.e. a journey
of a few days is covered in a matter of hours.
When orators and lecturers lie openly. When
people dispute over petty issues. When women
with children come displeased on account of them
bearing offspring, and barren women remain happy
on account of having no responsibility of offspring.
When oppression, jealousy, and greed become the
order of the day. When people blatantly follow their passions and whims.
When lies prevail over the truth. When violence, bloodshed and anarchy
become common. When immorality overtakes shamelessness and is
perpetrated publicly. When the offspring
become a cause of grief and anger (for their
parents). When legislation matters pertaining
to Deen is handed over to the worst elements
of the Ummat, and if people accept them and
are satisfied with their findings, then such
persons will not smell the fragrance of Jannah.
(Bukhari, Muslim)
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I am only 27 years old, but for as long as I can remember, there has always
been some conflict going on somewhere in the world. Wars and killing have
become an everyday thing that even seem normal to us nowadays. Drugs
and alcohol are in almost every household, along with music and television
and it‟s almost impossible to find someone who doesn‟t either drink, smoke,
do drugs, listens to music or watches
television. Images and ideas are being
brought right into our very homes
where we seek shelter and protection.
Satellites and thermo imagery have
completely stripped us of our privacy.
Homosexuality is not only accepted and
celebrated in society, but has even been
made legal by law for two of the same
sex to marry and to adopt children.
Schools teach our children a version of
history that has many lies and
exaggerations in order to make their country seem like the hero, God fearing
state. To live for wealth and materials is taught as the way to success and
happiness, where as a life lived seeking Allah‟s (God‟s) pleasure is looked
down upon, even by most Muslims and so called “believers” in God. The
things that we do everyday have been carefully planned out for us to do and
we are taught to accept this Godless way of life as our own.
Could this backwards way of living and thinking actually be the fulfillment
of all of the “End Times” prophecies? All of the immoral and inhumane acts
throughout the world, the starving people all
over that we totally neglect to think about as
we shop in our super markets and shopping
malls. The homeless people we pass by
without offering a meal or some spare change
to. Does it hurt us to see dead men, women
and children in places like Palestine, Iraq,
Pakistan, Afghanistan, etc? When did we
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become a society of cold, heartless robots that just follow the norm without
emotion? All throughout the history of mankind things were sometimes bad
and sometimes good. Wars have been fought and people have been killed,
but this era we live in is different. Different in every sense and aspect and
only seems to be getting worse.
Even a child can see that these signs have been happening for decades now.
If I am correct and these are the minor signs being fulfilled then all that‟s
left are the major signs, which are as follows in no particular order…
Masih ad-Dajjal (The AntiChrist)
The Mahdi (The guided one)
The appearance of Masih Isa (Jesus Christ), the son of Mary
Ya’juj and Ma’juj (Gog and Magog)
The destruction of the Ka’bah and the recovery of its treasure
Emergence of the Beast
The smoke
Three major landslides (one in the East, one in the West, and one on the
Arabian Peninsula)
The wind will take the souls of the believers
The rising of the sun from the west
The fire will drive the people to their final gathering place
The blast from the trumpet which will raise all the dead to the Day Of
Judgment
It is clear that all of the minor signs of the End Times are happening in front
of our faces, so one should not be surprised at the thought of Ad-Dajjal
(Anti-Christ) actually being here and influencing our daily lives. Now we
will examine the Ahadith about Ad-Dajjal (Anti-Christ) to prove once and
for all that he is the one calling the shots behind the scenes and is responsible
for causing all of the chaos in the world today in order to lead mankind
astray.
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This is the most descriptive Hadith about Ad-Dajjal and is very important to
understand the magnitude of the trials he will bring.
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Thereupon he said: No, but you must make an estimate of the time (and then
observe prayer).
We said: Allah's Apostle, how quickly will he walk upon the earth?
Thereupon he said: Like a cloud driven by the wind. He will come to the
people and invite them (to a wrong religion); they will affirm their faith in
him and respond to him. He will then give a command to the sky: there will
be rainfall upon the Earth and it will grow crops. Then in the evening, their
pasturing animals will come to them with their humps very high, their
udders full of milk and their flanks distended. He will then come to another
people and invite them. But they will reject him so he will go away from
them; they will have a drought and nothing will be left with them in the
form of wealth. He will then walk through the desert and say to it: Bring
forth your treasures. The treasures will come out and gather before him like a
swarm of bees. He will then call someone in the flush of youth, strike him
with the sword, cut him into two pieces and (make these pieces lie at the
distance which is generally between the archer and his target. He will then
call (that young man) and he will come forward laughing with his face
gleaming (with happiness).
It will be at this very time that Allah will send Christ, son of Mary. He will
descend at the white minaret on the eastern side of Damascus, wearing two
garments lightly dyed with saffron and placing his hands on the wings of
two Angels. When he lowers his head, there will fall beads of perspiration
from his head, and when he raises it up, beads like pearls will scatter from it.
Every non-believer who smells the odor of his body will die and his breath
will reach as far as he is able to see. He will then search for him (Ad-Dajjal)
until he catches hold of him at the gate of Ludd and kills him……
(Musliim)
Some might hear these things and then may simply look outside to see most
of these things already happening right in front of their very eyes. Well, this
is why I am writing this paper. To put 2 and 2 together for those who wish
not to do the math. Our Prophet Muhammad lived a little over 1400 years
ago and in his time he and his companions feared that the Anti-Christ (Ad-
Dajjal) was amongst them even then. With good reason to believe this
because a group of Christian men who came from the sea brought with them
a story that would send fear down the spine of even the strongest believers.
'Amir Ibn Sharahil Sha'bi Sha'b Hamdan reported that he asked Fatima bint
Qays, the sister of Dahhak Ibn Qays, who was one of the first Muhajirat,
"Tell me a Hadith which you heard directly from the Prophet with no
narrator in between." She said, "I can tell you if you like." He said, 'Yes,
please tell me," she said, "I married Ibn al-Mughirah, who was one of the
best of the youth of Quraysh in those days. But he fell in the first Jihad on
the side of the Prophet. "When I became a widow, 'Abd al-Rahman Ibn
'Awf, one of the companions of the Prophet sent me a proposal of marriage.
The Prophet also sent me a proposal of marriage on behalf of his freedman
Usamah Ibn Zayd. I had been told that the Prophet had said, 'He who loves
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me should also love Usamah.' When the Prophet spoke to me, I said, 'It is up
to you: marry me to whomever you wish.' "The Prophet said, 'Go and stay
with Umm Sharik.' Umm Sharik was a rich Ansari (Muslim originally from
Madina) woman, who spent much in the way of Allah and entertained many
guests. I said, 'I will do as you wish.' Then he said, 'Don't go. Umm Sharik
has many guests, and I would not like it if your face veil or leg were to
become uncovered accidentally and people saw something you would not
wish them to see. It is better if you go and stay with your cousin 'Abdullah
Ibn 'Amr Ibn Umm Maktum' ('Abdullah was of the Banu Fihr of Quraysh,
the same tribe as that to which Fatima belonged).
"So I went to stay with him, and when I had completed my 'Iddah (period of
waiting), I heard the Prophet's announcer calling for congregational prayer.
I went out to the mosque, and prayed behind the Prophet. I was in the
women's row, which was at the back of the congregation. When the Prophet
had finished his prayer, he sat on the pulpit, smiling, and said, 'Everyone
should stay in his place.' Then he said, 'Do you know why I had asked you to
assemble?' The people said, 'Allah and His Messenger know best.' "He said,
'By Allah, I have not gathered you here to give you an exhortation or a
warning. I have kept you here because Tamim al-Dari, a Christian man who
has come and embraced Islam, told me something which agrees with that
which I have told you about the Dajjal. He told me that he had sailed in a
ship with 30 men from Banu Lakhm and Banu Judham. The waves had
tossed them about for a month, then they were brought near to an island, at
the time of sunset. They landed on the island, and were met by a beast who
was so hairy that they could not tell its front from its back.
They said, "Woe to you! What are you?" It said, "I am al-Jassasah." They
said, "What is al-Jassasah?" It said, "O people, go to this man in the
monastery, for he is very eager to know about you." Tamim said that when it
named a person to us, we were afraid lest it be a devil." Tamim said, 'We
quickly went to the monastery. There we found a huge man with his hands
tied up to his neck and with iron shackles between his legs up to the ankles.
We said, "Woe to you, who are you?" He said, "You will soon know about
me. Tell me who you are. "We said, "We are people from Arabia. We sailed in
a ship, but the waves have been tossing us about for a month, and they
brought us to your island, where we met a beast who was so hairy that we
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could not tell its front from its back. We said to it, "Woe to you! What are
you? and it said , "I am al-Jassasah." We asked, "What is al-Jassasah?" and
it told us, "Go to this man in the monastery, for he is very eager to know
about you." So we came to you quickly, fearing that it might be a devil.'
"The man said, "Tell me about the date-palms of Baysan.' We said, 'What do
you want to know about them?" He said, 'I want to know whether these
trees bear fruit or not.' We said, 'Yes.' He said, 'Soon they will not bear
fruit.' Then he said, "Tell me about the lake of al-Tabariyyah [Sea of
Galilee].' We said, 'What do you want to know about it?" He asked, 'Is there
water in it?' We said, 'There is plenty of water in it.' He said, 'Soon it will
become dry.' Then he said, 'Tell me about the spring of Zughar.' We said,
'What do you want to know about it?' He said, 'Is there water in it, and
does it irrigate the land?" We said, 'Yes, there is plenty of water in it, and
the people use it to irrigate the land.' "Then he said, "Tell me about the
unlettered Prophet ' what has he done?' We said, 'He has left Makkah and
settled in Yathrib.' He asked, 'Do the Arabs fight against him?' We said,
'Yes.' He said, 'How does he deal with them?' So we told him that the
Prophet had overcome the Arabs around him and that they had followed
him. He asked, 'Has it really happened?' We said, 'Yes.' He said, 'It is better
for them if they follow him. Now I will tell you about myself. I am the
Dajjal. I will soon be permitted to leave this place: I will emerge and travel
about the earth. In 40 nights I will pass through every town, except
Makkah and Madina, for these have been forbidden to me. Every time I try
to enter either of them, I will be met by an angel bearing an unsheathed
sword, who will prevent me from entering. There will be angels guarding
them at every passage leading to them.'
Fatima said, "The Prophet striking the pulpit with his staff, said: 'This is
Tayyibah, this is Tayyibah, this is Tayyibah, [ie Madina]. Have I not told
you something like this?' The people said, 'Yes.' He said, 'I liked the account
given to me by Tamim because it agrees with that which I have told you
about the Dajjal, and about Makkah and Madina. Indeed he is in the Syrian
sea or the Yemen sea. No, on the contrary, he is in the East, he is in the East,
he is in the East' and he pointed towards the East. Fatima said: I
memorized this from the Prophet." (Muslim).
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We can clearly see that these men came in contact with a beast on an island
name Jassasah (which literally means “to spy”), who lead them to a man who
claimed to be Ad-Dajjal. The Prophet Muhammad affirmed this because it
confirmed what he had said about Ad-Dajjal. So we know he has been on
earth waiting for a specific time, which he said was soon. If we use our
intelligence to put all the pieces together we can easily see that he has been
released and has already started his fitnah to mankind. Where is my proof
you ask? My proof is in the above mentioned Ahadith as well as many
others combined with the stories we hear
on the news and read in the news paper.
Everything that has been going on in
this earth for the past thousand years is
proof enough. It‟s not difficult to see
Ad-Dajjal‟s influences all around us.
The problem is that we have grown
accustom to them and even have
accepted them. We have blind folded
ourselves into not seeing the truth of the
times we are living in.
"The Prophet said, 'I know more about the powers which the Dajjal will
have than he will know himself. He will have two flowing rivers: one will
appear to be pure water, and the other will appear to be flaming fire.
Whosoever lives to see that, let him choose the river which seems to be fire,
then let him close his eyes, lower his head and drink from it, for it will be
cold water. The Dajjal will be one-eyed; the place where one eye should be
will be covered by a piece of skin. On his forehead will be written the word
Kafir, and every believer, whether literate or illiterate, will be able to read
it.'" (Muslim)
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Will these be literal rivers of fire and water or a metaphor for the life choices
we make on a daily basis? Do we chase the life of this world with all of its
lusts and desires or do we strive to live a humble life of righteousness and
peace. Do we pray to our Lord and obey His
commandments or do we go out drinking and
party our lives away? Do we cover properly or
dress revealingly just to fit in? These are our
rivers of fire and water. For a woman not
covering her hair and body might seem like the
river of water because of fitting in with
society and wanting to look attractive like
everyone else, but really not covering is what
will get her punished in the afterlife so hence
the metaphor of the river of water being
burning fire.
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into our heads. We must stop wasting our time and start preparing for the
hereafter.
The Prophet said: Let him who hears of the Dajjal (Antichrist) go far from
him for I swear by Allah that a man will come to him thinking he is a
believer and follow him because of confused ideas roused in him by Dajjal.
(Abu Dawood)
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I will now explain how I think Ad-Dajjal has been ruling the world without
the slightest bit of detection and how he has been attacking us secretly.
First off, all of the minor signs of the Day of Judgment which the Prophet
Muhammad talked about have happened and have been happening. We are
in the Era of the major signs, which includes the fitnah (trials) of Ad-Dajjal
(Anti-Christ). One of the first clear signs that he has been released is the
emergence of the state of Israel. The Jews do not believe that Isa (Jesus)
was the real Messiah and have spent the past few thousand years waiting
for their Messiah. In order for their Messiah to return he must have a place
to rule from and that place is their Holy
Israel, which if you notice has been
reestablished already. The fact that Israel
stands today is an indicator that Ad-
Dajjal has been here for some time now.
The destruction of Al-Aqsa Mosque and
the rebuilding of the 3rd Temple, which is
already in progress will be the triumphant
event that brings Ad-Dajjal into the
public view as the new world leader.
Ad-Dajjal is only to be on earth for 40 days, the first of which will be a day
like a year. When he is released from his bondage on that island, he will
enter every city in the world except for Makkah and Medinah in a day
which is like a year. So we must look for an island that was the super power
of their time that expanded almost the entire world…..
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Britain is an island that was the super power for
hundreds of years. They explored every corner of the
earth bringing their influence to even the most
indigenous tribal people, introducing drugs, alcohol,
and banking of all things. They slaughtered whoever
stood in their way and colonized whatever piece of
land they wished. Britain was a nightmare to a good
majority of the world at that time. Next would be a day like a month in
which Ad-Dajjal would switch locations to establish and control the next
super power. Who has taken the reigns from the “old world” and has become
the “new world”?... America.
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money or whatever… America is the place to go, but you must obey THEIR
laws and ignore God‟s laws. It has become the land of desires and lusts,
completely Godless and totally corrupt. They have managed to fight wars
and cause bloodshed in almost every corner of the earth. They have locked
their own citizens up like animals and enslaved them in debt. Now with all
of these unsuccessful wars and an economic crisis looming in the horizon,
America is no longer the acting super power of the world. America used to
call the shots, but now there‟s a new country that does what they want and
nobody can tell them anything… Israel.
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This was a carefully orchestrated plan by Ad-Dajjal to trick the world into
following the ruling state of each era, which he himself was controlling
behind the scenes. The Jews have waited for thousands of years to have their
Holy Israel back because they know that when their ancient city has been
restored, THEIR messiah is right behind.
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to make a choice… to either believe in what you see or to believe in what
you know to be the truth?
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This paper was inspired by the research of Sheikh Imran Hosein, (may Allah
protect him) who has dedicated his life to doing the work that no one else
wishes to do. Our Ummah needs more minds like his…
And is dedicated to the billions of people throughout the world who Ad-
Dajjal and his workers have lead astray. I pray that we see using both eyes,
the internal and as well as the external, meaning that we should not only go
by what we see with our eyes, but also by what we see with our heart. May
Allah allow us all to wake up before it‟s too late to make a change in our
lives, ameen.
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