Book Description

Al-Maseeh ad-Dajjaal is the "major Dajjaal" whose appearance is from among the greater or major signs of the Last Hour. He is the great Dajjaal, the one-eyed Dajjaal of the end-time concerning whom the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) reserved his greatest warnings, and he is the last of the Dajjaals or impostors. Impostors and false prophets will not cease to appear till the last of them appear in the person of the one-eyed Dajjaal who will be killed by ''Eesaa ibn Maryam [Jesus, son of Mary] (عليه السلام). He is often referred to as the "Antichrist" in Islamic circles not like in Christianity where the "Antichrist" is considered an adversary of Christ or Christianity but because of his bearing the title, "al-Maseeh" similar to ''Eesaa ibn Maryam [Jesus, son of Mary] (عليه السلام) which has a broad meaning including "the Messiah" and because he will perform miracles like Jesus (عليه السلام) and endear many hearts to himself. Al-Maseeh ''Eesaa ibn Maryam [Jesus] (عليه السلام) is the honest, upright one while al-Maseeh ad-Dajjaal is the seductive liar and impostor. ''Eesaa ibn Maryam (عليه السلام) is the Maseeh of guidance while the Dajjaal is the Maseeh of misguidance. Eventually the Maseeh of misguidance will be killed by the Maseeh of guidance. It is from this perspective that the Dajjaal, in Islamic circles, is referred to as the "Antichrist" or the "Pseudo-Christ."The Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) had prophesied the coming of the Dajjaal, a man who will be gifted with great magical and supernatural feats and who will deceive the word with his false religion. He will claim divinity. He will satisfy the needs of all those who will follow him, and as a result, he will conquer vast lands-regions by regions, towns by towns, fortresses by fortresses, nations by nations. He will heal the sick and raise the dead using magic, demonic powers and trick. He will have the power to bring rain and halt it, and to cause his devils to take the forms of dead cattle and corpses. He will also bring something like paradise (water) and hell (fire) but his paradise will be hell and his hell will be paradise, cool and refreshing. The Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) warned that, "Between the creation of Aadam (عليه السلام) and the coming of the Last Hour, there is no fitnah (trial) greater than the fitnah (trial) of the Dajjaal."Allaah has emphasized in the Qur''aan that when some of the signs appear, faith will not benefit anyone who has not previously believed or acquired any good from his faith, Allaah says: "Are they waiting to see that the angels should come to them or your Lord (Himself), or certain signs of your Lord? The Day that certain signs of your Lord do come, no good will it do a soul to believe in them then, if it believed not before, nor earned good and righteousness through its faith." (Soorah al-An''aam [6]:158)Aboo Hurayrah (رضي الله عنه) narrated that Allaah''s Messenger (صلى الله عليه وسلم) said, "When three things appear, faith will not benefit anyone who has not previously believed or acquired any good from his faith: The rising of the sun in its place of setting, the Dajjaal, and the Beast of the Earth."This is the evidence that commentators have used to proof that the Dajjaal has been mentioned in the Qur''aan, though implicitly.The hadeeths of the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) are explicit stating that the Dajjaal is a human being with human descriptions especially since he [the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم)] compared him to ''Abdul ''Uzzaa ibn Qatan. These hadeeths provide evidences proving the falsehood of those who give wrong interpretations to the sign of the appearance of the Dajjaal, claiming he is not actually a man but a system of symbols representing Western culture, its evil influence, temptations and manifestations.This book explores the personality and real identity of the Dajjaal as established by demonstrative proof and unequivocal evidence. Here, the identity and decoy of the Dajjaal is completely uncloaked.