The Story of the Anti-Christ

Many Muslims end up confused with the folkloristic tale of a giant who travels at the speed of the clouds, the distance between his ears being 40 arm spans, the deep sea reaching only up to his ankle, in possession of mountain of bread and rivers and working the most amazing miracles. Yet this is not a myth, this is an attempt to explain in the words of one-and-a-half millennia ago the wonders of modern technology: the travel at speed, the far-reaching ability to discover the most remote secrets of the land and the sea, the unlimited control over the resources of the whole world. These descriptions of the Dajjal depict the system which he has at his disposal. But there is also the Dajjal, the person, the final leader of the Roman (i.e. Western) One World Empire, a man of Jewish descent (described in the likeness of a Jew by name of Ibn Sayyad), with curly and coarse hair, a beak of a nose and biting teeth. He commands armies and desires total control, but he will not be invincible.

The emergence of the Dajjal after fierce battles between the Muslims and the forces of the then ruler, as-Sufayani, a name with connotation of brutish force and destruction, indicates the transformation of the conflict from a political confrontation to a spiritual one. Therefore, whilst the greatly decimated Muslim forces will, under the leadership of the Mahdi, the guided one, eventually prevail against their enemies, it will take Jesus (Isa), the real Christ, peace be upon him, to kill the Dajjal, the false Messiah. After his second coming he will establish a just rule for fourty years.

Image: The Great 'Ummayyad Mosque of Damascus where Jesus (pbuh) will descend on his second coming. The Mosque also holds the tombs of Salahudeen and the Prophet Yahyaa (John the Baptist), peace be upon him.

[Next: A Matter of Faith]

[Introduction]

[Table of Contents]

[Links]

[Email]