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[[File:Dajjal.jpg|thumb|An image from a Falname made in India around 1610-1630, depicts Isa fighting the Dajjal. Behind, the Mahdi with a veiled face.]]
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'''Al-Masih ad-Dajjal''' ({{Lang-ar|ٱلْمَسِيحُ ٱلدَّجَّالُ|al-Masīḥ ad-Dajjāl|Deceitful Messiah}}),<ref name="Farhang 2017">{{cite encyclopedia |author-last=Farhang |author-first=Mehrvash |year=2017 |title=Dajjāl |translator-last=Negahban |translator-first=Farzin |editor1-last=Madelung |editor1-first=Wilferd |editor2-last=Daftary |editor2-first=Farhad |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Islamica |location=[[Leiden]] and [[Boston]] |publisher=[[Brill Publishers]] |doi=10.1163/1875-9831_isla_COM_035982 |issn=1875-9823}}</ref> otherwise referred to simply as the '''Dajjal''', is an evil figure in [[Islamic eschatology]] who will pretend to be the promised [[Messiah]] and later claim to be [[God in Islam|God]], appearing before the [[Judgement Day in Islam#Destruction and resurrection|Day of Judgment]] according to the Islamic eschatological narrative.<ref name="Farhang 2017"/><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Siddiqi|first=Shazia|title=The Antichrist of Islamic tradition|url=https://www.oleantimesherald.com/lifestyle/the-antichrist-of-islamic-tradition/article_762406ec-41b5-5fb4-aa6e-656fb0141803.html|access-date=2021-08-06|website=Olean Times Herald|date=17 January 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
The word Dajjal is not mentioned in the [[Quran]], but he is mentioned and described in the [[Hadith]].<ref name="Farhang 2017"/> Corresponding to the [[Antichrist]] in Christianity, the Dajjal is said to emerge out in the East, although the specific location varies among the various sources.<ref name="Cook 2021">{{cite book |last=Cook |first=David |author-link=David Cook (historian) |year=2021 |origyear=2002 |title=Studies in Muslim Apocalyptic |location=[[Berlin]] and [[London]] |publisher=Gerlach Press |pages=93–104 |isbn=9783959941211 |oclc=238821310}}</ref>
The Dajjal will imitate the miracles performed by [[Jesus in Islam|Jesus]], such as healing the sick and raising the dead, the latter done with the aid of demons. He will deceive many people such as weavers, magicians and children of fornication.<ref name="Cook 2021" />
==Etymology==
''{{lang|ar-Latn|Dajjāl}}'' ({{lang-ar|دجّال}}) is the [[wikt:superlative|superlative]] form of the root word ''{{Transliteration|ar|dajl}}'' meaning "lie" or "deception".<ref>{{Cite book|author1=Wahiduddin Khan|title=The Alarm of Doomsday|date=2011|publisher=Goodword Books|page=18}}</ref> It means "deceiver" and also appears in Syriac ({{transliteration|syc|daggāl}} {{Lang|syc|ܕܓܠ}}, "false, deceitful; spurious").<ref name="Cook 2021"/> The compound ''{{transliteration|ar|al-Masīḥ ad-Dajjāl}}'', with the definite article ''[[al-]]'' ("the"), refers to "the deceiving Messiah", a specific [[Eschatology|end time]] deceiver, linguistically equivalent to the Christian Syriac {{transliteration|syc|mšīḥā d-daggālūtā}} {{Lang|syc|ܡܫܝܚܐ ܕܕܓܠܘܬܐ}}, "pseudo-Christ, false Messiah".<ref>{{Cite book|author=J. Payne-Smith|title=A Compendious Syriac Dictionary|date=1903|publisher=Clarendon Press|place=Oxford|page=83}}</ref> This ''{{Transliteration|ar|Dajjāl}}'' is an evil being who will seek to impersonate the [[Messiah#Islam|true Messiah]] ([[Jesus in Islam|Jesus]]).<ref name="Farhang 2017"/>
==Overview==
{{Main|Islamic eschatology}}
A number of locations are associated with the emergence of the Dajjal, but usually, he emerges from the east.<ref name="Cook 2021"/> He is usually described as blind in one eye; which eye he is blind in being uncertain and disputed by some. Both of his eyes are, however, considered to be defective - at the least - with one being totally blind and the other protruding.<ref>{{cite web |title=Description of Dajjal's eyes |url=https://hadithanswers.com/description-of-dajjals-eyes/ |website=Hadith Answers |access-date=14 June 2021 |date=2018-05-22}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Sahih Muslim 169e|url=https://sunnah.com/muslim/54/123|website=sunnah.com|access-date=17 June 2021}}; In-book reference: Book 54 (Tribulations and Portents of the Last Hour), Hadith 123; Reference: Sahih Muslim 169e</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Sahih Muslim 2934a|url=https://sunnah.com/muslim/54/128|website=sunnah.com|access-date=17 June 2021}}; In-book reference: Book 54 (Tribulations and Portents of the Last Hour), Hadith 128; Reference: Sahih Muslim 2934a</ref> Possessing a defective eye is often regarded as giving more powers to achieve evil goals.<ref name="Cook 2021"/> He would travel the whole world entering every city, except [[Mecca]] and [[Medina]].<ref>Hamid, F.A. (2008). 'The Futuristic Thought of Ustaz Ashaari Muhammad of Malaysia', p. 209, in I. Abu-Rabi' (ed.) [https://books.google.com/books?id=Sf6HxVjOLPsC ''The Blackwell Companion to Contemporary Islamic Thought'']. Malden: Blackwell Publishing, pp.195-212</ref> As a false Messiah, it is believed that many will be deceived by him and join his ranks, among them [[Jews]], [[Bedouins]], [[Weaving|weavers]], [[Magic (supernatural)|magicians]], and [[Fornication in Islam|children of fornication]].<ref name="Farhang 2017"/> Furthermore, he will be assisted by an army of devils (''[[Shaitan|Shayāṭīn]]''). Nevertheless, the most reliable supporters will be the Jews, to whom he will be the incarnation of God.<ref name="Cook 2021"/> The Dajjal will be able to perform miracles, such as healing the sick, raising the dead, causing the earth to grow vegetation, causing livestock to prosper and to die, and stopping the sun's movement.<ref name="Cook 2021"/> His miracles will resemble those performed by [[Jesus in Islam|ʿĪsā]]. At the end, the Dajjal will be defeated and killed by ʿĪsā when the latter simply looks at him, and - according to some narrations - puts a sword through the Dajjal.<ref name="Cook 2021"/> The nature of the Dajjal is ambiguous.<ref name="Farhang 2017"/> Although the nature of his birth indicates that the first generations of Muslim apocalyptists regarded him as human, he is also identified rather as a devil (''[[Shaitan|shayṭān]]'') in human form in the Islamic tradition.<ref name="Cook 2021"/>
The characteristical one-eye is believed to symbolize spiritual blindness. Thus, the Dajjal, blind to the immanent aspect of God, could only comprehend the transcendend aspect of God's wrath. Hadiths describe the dajjal as twisting paradise and hell, as he would bring his own paradise and hell with him, but his hell would be paradise and his paradise would be hell.<ref>Lewisohn, L., Shackle, C. (2006). Attar and the Persian Sufi Tradition: The Art of Spiritual Flight. Vereinigtes Königreich: Bloomsbury Publishing.</ref>
==Muslim Eschatology==
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{{Main|Islamic eschatology}}
{{Further|Jesus in Islam|Mahdi}}
[[File:Umayyad Mosque Jesus Minaret.jpg|thumb|Minaret of Isa on the [[Umayyad Mosque]] in [[Damascus]], [[Syria]], which is thought to be one of the possible places where [[Jesus in Islam|ʿĪsā]] will descend.|351x351px]]
===Sunni eschatology===
{{Further|Signs of the appearance of the Mahdi|Umayyad Mosque}}
Some [[Sunni Islam|Sunni Muslims]] have affirmed that the Dajjal is an individual man, and that when the Dajjal appears, he will stay for 40 days, one like a year, one like a month, one like a week, and rest of his days like normal days.<ref name="abidawud4321">{{Cite web|title=Sunan Abi Dawud 4321|url=https://sunnah.com/abudawud/39/31|website=sunnah.com|access-date=17 July 2020}} In-book reference: Book 39 (Battles), Hadith 31; English translation: Book 38, Hadith 4307</ref>
Some time after the appearance of the Dajjal, [[Jesus in Islam|ʿĪsā]] will descend on a white minaret to the east of [[Damascus]],<ref name="abidawud4321" /> thought to be the Minaret of Isa located on the [[Umayyad Mosque]] in Damascus. He will descend from the heavens wearing two garments lightly dyed with [[saffron]] and his hands resting on the shoulders of two [[Angels in Islam|angels]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Sahih Muslim 2937a - The Book of Tribulations and Portents of the Last Hour - كتاب الفتن وأشراط الساعة - Sunnah.com - Sayings and Teachings of Prophet Muhammad (صلى الله عليه و سلم)|url=https://sunnah.com/muslim:2937a|access-date=2021-08-11|website=sunnah.com}}</ref> When he lowers his head it will seem as if water is flowing from his hair, when he raises his head, it will appear as though his hair is beaded with silvery pearls.<ref name=":1" /> Every [[Kafir|Non-Muslim]] who would smell the odor of his self would die.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sahih Muslim 2937a|url=https://sunnah.com/muslim/54/134|access-date=2021-06-17|website=sunnah.com}} In-book reference: Book 54 (Tribulations and Portents of the Last Hour), Hadith 134; Reference: Sahih Muslim 2937a</ref>
According to the Sunni ''ḥadīth'', the Dajjal will then be chased to the gate of [[Lod]] where he will be captured and killed by ʿĪsā.<ref name="Cook 2021"/><ref name="abidawud4321" /> ʿĪsā will then break the [[Christian cross]], [[Exorcism of the Gerasene demoniac|kill all the pigs]], abolish the ''[[jizya]]'' tax, and establish peace among all nations.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sunan Ibn Majah 4077|url=https://sunnah.com/ibnmajah/36/152|access-date=2020-08-16|website=sunnah.com}} In-book reference: Book 36 (Tribulations), Hadith 152; English translation: Vol. 5, Book 36, Hadith 4077</ref>
====''Ḥadīth'' literature====
The following account describes one of the signs of the arrival of the Dajjal in Sunni eschatology.
{{blockquote|Narrated [[Mu'adh ibn Jabal]]:
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The flourishing state of Jerusalem will be when Yathrib is in ruins, the ruined state of Yathrib will be when the great war comes, the outbreak of the great war will be at the conquest of Constantinople and the conquest of Constantinople when the Dajjal (Antichrist) comes forth. He (the Prophet) struck his thigh or his shoulder with his hand and said: This is as true as you are here or as you are sitting (meaning Mu'adh ibn Jabal).<ref name="ReferenceB">{{Cite web|title=Sunan Abi Dawud 4294|url=https://sunnah.com/abudawud/39/4|website=sunnah.com|access-date=17 July 2020}}; In-book reference: Book 39 (Battles), Hadith 4; English translation: Book 38, Hadith 4281, Hasan</ref>}}
Thawban ibn Kaidad narrated that Muhammad said:
{{Blockquote|"There will be 30 dajjals among my Ummah. Each one will claim that he is a prophet; but I am the last of the Prophets (Seal of the Prophets), and there will be no Prophet after me."|Related by [[Ahmad ibn Hanbal]] as a sound hâdith.}}
[[Abu Hurayra|Abu Hurairah]] narrated that Muhammad said:
{{Blockquote|"The Hour will not be established until two big groups fight each other whereupon there will be a great number of casualties on both sides and they will be following one and the same religious doctrine, until about 30 dajjals appear, and each of them will claim that he is Allah's Apostle..."|[[Sahih al-Bukhari]], Volume 9, Book 88: Afflictions and the End of the World, Hâdith Number 237.<ref>{{Hadith-usc|bukhari|usc=yes|9|88|237}}</ref>}}
Muhammad also stated that the last of these dajjals would be the Islamic Antichrist, al-Masih ad-Dajjal ({{lit|the Deceitful Messiah}}).<ref name="Farhang 2017"/> The Dajjal is never mentioned in the Quran but he's mentioned and described in the [[Hadith|''ḥadīth'' literature]].<ref name="Farhang 2017"/> Like in Christianity, the Dajjal is said to emerge out in the east, although the specific location varies among the various sources.<ref name="Cook 2021"/> The Dajjal will imitate the miracles performed by [[Jesus in Islam|ʿĪsā]] (Jesus), such as healing the sick and raising the dead, the latter done with the aid of demons (''[[Shaitan|Shayāṭīn]]''). He will deceive many people, such as weavers, magicians, half-castes, and children of prostitutes, but the majority of his followers will be [[Jews]].<ref name="Cook 2021"/> According to the [[Islamic eschatology|Islamic eschatological narrative]], the events related to the final battle before the [[Last Judgment|Day of Judgment]] will proceed in the following order:
{{Blockquote|11 ''Hadith'' also report on the “[[Islamic eschatology#Greater signs|Greater Signs]]” of the end, which include the appearance of the Antichrist (Dajjal) and the reappearance of the prophet [[Jesus in Islam|Jesus]] to join in battle with him at [[Dabiq, Syria|Dabbiq]] in [[Syria (region)|Syria]], as well as the arrival of the [[Mahdi|Mahdī]], the “guided one.” As another ''hadith'' attributed to [[Ali|Alī ibn Abī Talib]] puts it, “Most of the Dajjal’s followers are [[Jews]] and [[Fornication in Islam|children of fornication]]; God will kill him in Syria, at a pass called the Pass of Afiq, after three hours are gone from the day, at the hand of Jesus".<ref name="Gallagher 2020">{{cite encyclopedia |author-last=Gallagher |author-first=Eugene |author-link=Eugene V. Gallagher |date=28 February 2020 |title=Millennialism |url=https://oxfordre.com/religion/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.001.0001/acrefore-9780199340378-e-125 |url-access=subscription |encyclopedia=Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion |location=[[Oxford]] |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |doi=10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.013.125 |isbn=9780199340378 |access-date=17 January 2022}}</ref>}}
Jews are prophesied to be followers of the dajjal, as narrated by [[Anas ibn Malik|Anas bin Malik]]:
{{Blockquote
|text=Seventy thousand of the Jews of [[Isfahan|Isbahan]] will follow the Dajjal, wearing Tayalisahs.<ref>Persian shawls</ref>|author=[[Sahih Muslim]] 2944<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/SahihMuslim-Arabic-english7Vol.Set|title=Sahih Muslim - Arabic-English (7 Vol. Set)|via=Internet Archive}}</ref>}}
[[Samura ibn Jundab|Samra ibn Jundab]] reported that once Muhammad, while delivering a ceremonial speech at an occasion of a [[solar eclipse]], said:
{{Blockquote|"Verily by Allah, the Last Hour will not come until 30 dajjals will appear and the final one will be the One-eyed False Messiah.",|Related by [[Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal|Imam Ahmed]] and [[Al-Tabarani|Imam Tabarani]] as a sound hâdith.}}
[[Anas ibn Malik]] narrated that Muhammad said:
{{Blockquote|1="There is never a prophet who has not warned the Ummah of that one-eyed liar; behold he is one-eyed and your Lord is not one-eyed.<ref name="muslim1">{{Hadith-usc|muslim|usc=yes|41|7007}}</ref> Dajjal is blind of one eye<ref name="muslim2">{{Hadith-usc|muslim|usc=yes|41|7009}}</ref> On his forehead are the letters [[K-F-R|k. f. r.]] ([[Kafir]])<ref name="muslim1"/> between the eyes of the Dajjal<ref>{{Hadith-usc|muslim|usc=yes|41|7008}}</ref> which every Muslim would be able to read."<ref name="muslim2"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://qa.sunnipath.com/issue_view.asp?id=1704 |title=The Signs Before the Day of Judgment by Ibn Kathîr |publisher=Qa.sunnipath.com |date=2005-07-03 |access-date=2012-05-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315191536/http://qa.sunnipath.com/issue_view.asp?id=1704 |archive-date=2012-03-15 }}</ref>|2=[[Sahih Muslim]], Book 41: The Book Pertaining to the Turmoil and Portents of the Last Hour, Chapter 7: The Turmoil Would Go Like The Mounting Waves of the Ocean, Ahâdith 7007-7009.}}
The [[Mahdi]] ({{lit|the rightly guided one}}) is the redeemer according to Islam.<ref name="EI2">{{cite encyclopedia |author-last=Madelung |author-first=Wilferd |author-link=Wilferd Madelung |year=1986 |title=al-Mahdī |editor1-last=Bosworth |editor1-first=C. E. |editor1-link=Clifford Edmund Bosworth |editor2-last=van Donzel |editor2-first=E. J. |editor2-link=Emeri Johannes van Donzel |editor3-last=Heinrichs |editor3-first=W. P. |editor3-link=Wolfhart Heinrichs |editor4-last=Lewis |editor4-first=B. |editor5-last=Pellat |editor5-first=Ch. |editor5-link=Charles Pellat |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopaedia of Islam#2nd edition, EI2|Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition]] |location=[[Leiden]] |publisher=[[Brill Publishers]] |volume=5 |doi=10.1163/1573-3912_islam_COM_0618 |isbn=978-90-04-16121-4}}</ref> Just like the Dajjal,<ref name="Farhang 2017"/> the Mahdi is never mentioned in the Quran but his description can be found in the ''ḥadīth'' literature;<ref name="EI2"/> according to the Islamic eschatological narrative, he will appear on Earth before the [[Last Judgment|Day of Judgment]].<ref name="Farhang 2017"/><ref name="Gallagher 2020"/><ref name="Muslim World 2004 p.421">Martin 2004: 421</ref><ref name="Glasse">Glasse 2001: 280</ref> At the time of the [[Second Coming#Islam|Second Coming of Christ]],<ref>{{Quran-usc|3|55|q=}}</ref> the prophet ʿĪsā shall return to defeat and kill al-Masih ad-Dajjal.<ref name="Farhang 2017"/><ref name="Gallagher 2020"/><ref>{{Hadith-usc|muslim|usc=yes|41|7023}}</ref> Muslims believe that both ʿĪsā and the Mahdi will rid the world of wrongdoing, injustice, and tyranny, ensuring peace and tranquility.<ref name="Momen">Momen 1985: 166-8</ref> Eventually, the Dajjal will be killed by the Mahdi and ʿĪsā at the gate of [[Lod|Lud]], who upon seeing Dajjal will cause him to slowly dissolve (like salt in water).<ref name="Cook 2021"/>
Since the 1980s, popular Islamic writers, such as Said Ayyub of Egypt, have blamed the forces of Dajjal for the overtaking of the Islamic world by the Western states.<ref name="Akyol-nyt-3-10-16">{{cite news |last1=Akyol |first1=Mustafa |title=The Problem With the Islamic Apocalypse |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/04/opinion/the-problem-with-the-islamic-apocalypse.html |access-date=29 January 2022 |agency=New York Times |date=3 October 2016}}</ref>
===Twelver Shīʿa eschatology===
{{Further|Occultation (Islam)|Reappearance of Muhammad al-Mahdi|The Fourteen Infallibles}}
[[File:Jamkaran Mosque مسجد جمکران قم 21.jpg|thumb|right|[[Jamkaran Mosque]] in [[Qom]], [[Iran]] is a popular pilgrimage site for [[Shia Islam|Shīʿa Muslims]]. Local belief holds that the [[Muhammad al-Mahdi|12th Shīʿīte Imam]]—the promised [[Mahdi]] according to [[Twelver Shi'ism|Twelvers]]—once appeared and offered prayers at Jamkaran.|263x263px]]
In the [[Twelver Shi'ism|Twelver denomination]] of [[Shia Islam|Shīʿa Islam]], one of the signs of the reappearance of the Mahdi whom Twelvers consider to be [[Muhammad al-Mahdi|their 12th Imam]] from the ''[[Ahl al-Bayt]]'' ("People of the Household"), is the advent of the Dajjal.<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.al-islam.org/life-imam-al-mahdi-baqir-shareef-al-qurashi/signs-reappearance-imam-time-0|title=Signs of the Reappearance of the Imam of the Time (a.s.)|date=13 December 2016|website=Al-Islam.org}}</ref>
"Whoever denies al-Mahdi has denied God, and whoever accepts al-Dajjal has denied God (turned an infidel)." This Shīʿīte ''ḥadīth'' attributed to Muhammad strongly emphasizes the return of Dajjal and the event of the reappearance of the Mahdi.<ref name="auto2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.al-islam.org/lights-muhammadan-sunnah-or-defence-hadith-mahmud-abu-rayyah/al-dajjal-impostor|title=Al-Dajjal (Impostor)|date=28 February 2020|website=Al-Islam.org}}</ref>
====''Ḥadīth'' literature====
The following is a Twelver Shīʿīte ''ḥadīth'' on the topic of the Dajjal, an excerpt from a longer sermon by [[Ali|ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib]]:
{{blockquote|Narrated [[Shaykh Saduq|Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn 'Ali ibn Babawayh al-Qummi]] in ''Kamal al-din wa tamam al-ni'mah Vol 2, Ch 47, Hadith 1'':
Narrated to us Muhammad bin Ibrahim bin Ishaq that he said: Narrated to us Abdul Aziz bin Yahya Jaludi in Basra: Narrated to us Husain bin Maaz: Narrated to us Qais bin Hafs: Narrated to us Yunus bin Arqam from Abi Yasar Shaibani from Zahhak bin Muzahim from Nazaal bin Sabra that he said:
Asbagh bin Nubatah stood up and said: "O Maula! Who would be the Dajjal?" He (Imam Ali) replied: "The name of Dajjal is Saeed bin Saeed. Thus one who supports him is unfortunate. And fortunate are those who deny him. He shall emerge from Yahoodiya village of Isfahan. On his forehead would be inscribed: 'Kafir' (disbeliever) which would readable to the literate as well as the illiterate.{{pb}}He shall jump into the seas. The Sun will follow him. A mountain of smoke will precede him and a white mountain will follow him, which in times of famine will be mistaken to be a mountain of food (bread). He shall be mounted on a white ash. One step of that ash will be of one mile. Whichever spring or well he reaches, will dry up forever. He will call out aloud which shall be audible to all in the east and the west from the jinns, humans, and satans."<ref>{{cite book|author=[[Shaykh Saduq|Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn 'Ali ibn Babawayh al-Qummi]]|title=Kamal al-din wa tamam al-ni'mah|volume=2|chapter=Chapter 47: Narration regarding Dajjal (anti-Christ)|publisher=Dar al-Kutub al-Islamiyya|location=Tehran}}</ref><ref name="auto2"/>}}
He would tell his followers that he is their Lord, whereas he would be a one-eyed man with human needs and God does not have any needs nor he has an eye. Muhammad strongly warned his companions and believers about this deceiving claim. According to a tradition "Al-Dajjal will verily be given birth by his mother in Qous in Egypt, and there will be thirty years separating between his birth and appearance. Shia reports regarding Isa state that he will descend at the Damascus east gate then he will appear in the East where he will be granted caliphate." This is a narration by [[Naim ibn Hammad|Nu'aym bin Hammad]] and also according to the hadith of Jassasah, "it is reported that he is confined in an abbey or a palace at an island in the Shaam or the Sea of Yemen. Some hadith reports that he will emerge from Khorasan whereas some say that he will appear in a place between the [[Syria (region)|Shaam]] and [[Iraq]]."<ref name="auto2"/> People will be deceived by his magic and sorcery for which he will be falsely claimed as Messiah. On the first day of his appearance, seventy thousand Jews will follow him. They will be wearing green caps. They will consider him as their promised savior; the one who is described in their holy books. The actual cause of their faith would be their animosity with the Muslims. [[Ja'far al-Sadiq]] narrates from the Prophet Muhammad that, most of Dajjal's followers would be people from illegitimate relationships, habitual drinkers, singers, musicians, bedouins, and women. He will travel all around the world except Mecca and Medina.. The earth would be under his control to such an extent that even the ruins will turn into treasures and the earth will sprout vegetation on his command. As soon as he descends, he will order a river to flow and then return and then dry up. The river will follow his command. Even the mountains, clouds and wind will be controlled by him. Due to this, his followers will gradually increase which will eventually make him proclaim himself as God.<ref name="auto1"/> A hadith from the Prophet indicates the condition of the world. He said, "Five years prior to the advent of Dajjal there shall be drought and nothing shall be cultivated. Such that all the hoofed animals shall perish”. After his emergence, the world would be facing acute famine. He will have food and water with him. Many people will accept his claim just for some food and water. He will spread oppression and tyranny all over the world.<ref name="auto1"/> The main aim of the Dajjal will be mischief and test of the people. The one who follows him will be exited from Islam and the one who denies him will be the believer.<ref name="auto1"/>
When the Mahdi reappears, he will appoint Isa (Jesus) as his representative. Isa would attack him and catch him at the gate of Ludd(present days' 'Lod' near Tel Aviv)<ref>Sahih Muslim (Dhikr ad-Dajjal)</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.al-islam.org/jesus-though-shiite-narrations-mahdi-muntazir-qaim/his-second-coming|title=His Second Coming|date=18 November 2013|website=Al-Islam.org}}</ref><ref name="auto1"/> According to the narrations of Ali, when the Mahdi returns, he will lead the prayers and Isa will follow him. As soon as Dajjal sees Isa, Dajjal would melt like Lead. Ali mentions Dajjal's defeat in one of his sermons, saying that Dajjal will set out toward the Hijaz and Isa (Jesus) will intercept him at the passage of Harsha. ‘Isa will direct a horrible shout at him and strike him a decisive blow. [[Muhammad al-Baqir]] narrated that at the time when Dajjal will arise, the people would not know about God, hence making it easy for the Dajjal to claim himself as God.
=== Ahmadiyya eschatology ===
{{Ahmadiyya|Distinct views}}
Prophecies concerning the emergence of the Dajjal are interpreted in [[Ahmadiyya]] teachings as designating a specific group of nations centered upon a false theology (or Christology) instead of an individual, with reference to the Dajjal in the singular indicating its unity as a system rather than its personal individuality. In particular, Ahmadis identify the Dajjal collectively with the missionary expansion and colonial dominance of [[Christianity in Europe|European Christianity]] throughout the world, a development which had begun soon after the Muslim [[Fall of Constantinople|conquest of Constantinople]], with the [[Age of Discovery]] in the 15th century and accelerated by the [[Industrial Revolution]].<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Glassé|first1=Cyril|last2=Smith|first2=Huston|title=The New Encyclopedia of Islam|year=2003|publisher=Altamira Press|isbn=0-7591-0190-6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=focLrox-frUC|page=33}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Jonker|first=Gerdien|title=The Ahmadiyya Quest for Religious Progress: Missionizing Europe 1900-1965|year=2015|publisher=Brill Publishers|isbn=978-90-04-30529-8|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=GUUpCwAAQBAJ|page=77}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Valentine|first=Simon|title=Islam and the Ahmadiyya jamaʻat: history, belief, practice|year=2008|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-70094-8|page=148}}</ref><ref>Malik Ghulam Farid, et al. [http://www.alislam.org/quran/tafseer/?page=1479®ion=E1 Al-Kahf, ''The Holy Quran with English Translation and Commentary''] Vol. III, p.1479</ref><ref>Muhammad Ali. (1992) [http://aaiil.org/text/books/mali/gog/antichristgogmagog.pdf ''The Antichrist and Gog and Magog''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180701133728/http://aaiil.org/text/books/mali/gog/antichristgogmagog.pdf |date=1 July 2018 }}, Ohio: Ahmadiyya Anjuman-i Ishāʿat-i Islām</ref> As with other eschatological themes, [[Mirza Ghulam Ahmad]], the founder of the Ahmadiyya movement, wrote extensively on this topic.
The identification of the Dajjal, principally with [[Christianity and colonialism|colonial missionaries]] was drawn by Ghulam Ahmad through linking the ''hadith'' traditions about him with certain Quranic passages such as, ''inter alia'', the description in the ''hadith'' of the emergence of the Dajjal as the greatest tribulation since the creation of [[Adam]], taken in conjunction with the Quran's description of the deification of Jesus as the greatest abomination; the warning only against the putative lapses of the Jews and Christians in ''[[al-Fatiha]]''—the principal Islamic prayer—and the absence therein of any warning specifically against the Dajjal; a prophetic ''hadith'' which prescribed the recitation of the opening and closing ten verses of chapter eighteen of the Quran, (''[[al-Kahf]]'') as a safeguard against the mischief of the Dajjal, the former of which speak of a people “who assign a son to God” and the latter, of those whose lives are entirely given to the pursuit and manufacture of material goods; and descriptions of the period of the Dajjal's reign as coinciding with the dominance of Christianity.<ref>Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, (2005), [https://www.alislam.org/library/browse/book/The_Essence_of_Islam/?p=3#page/279/mode/1up ''The Essence of Islam'', Vol. III] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171111042054/https://www.alislam.org/library/browse/book/The_Essence_of_Islam/?p=3 |date=11 November 2017 }}, Tilford: Islam International, p.290</ref><ref>Muhammad Ali. (1992) [http://aaiil.org/text/books/mali/gog/antichristgogmagog.pdf ''The Antichrist and Gog and Magog''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180701133728/http://aaiil.org/text/books/mali/gog/antichristgogmagog.pdf |date=1 July 2018 }}, Ohio: Ahmadiyya Anjuman-i Ishāʿat-i Islām, pp.12-14</ref> The attributes of the Dajjal as described in the ''hadith'' literature are thus taken as symbolic representations and interpreted in a way which would make them compatible with Quranic readings and not compromise the [[Tawhid|inimitable]] attributes of God in Islam. The Dajjal being blind in his right eye while being sharp and oversized in his left, for example, is indicative of being devoid of religious insight and spiritual understanding, but excellent in material and scientific attainment.<ref>Muhammad Ali. (1992) [http://aaiil.org/text/books/mali/gog/antichristgogmagog.pdf ''The Antichrist and Gog and Magog''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180701133728/http://aaiil.org/text/books/mali/gog/antichristgogmagog.pdf |date=1 July 2018 }}, Ohio: Ahmadiyya Anjuman-i Ishāʿat-i Islām, pp.19-20</ref> Similarly, the Dajjal not entering [[Mecca]] and [[Medina]] is interpreted with reference to the failure of colonial missionaries in reaching these two places.<ref>Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, (2005), [https://www.alislam.org/library/browse/book/The_Essence_of_Islam/?p=3#page/290/mode/1up ''The Essence of Islam'', Vol. III] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171111042054/https://www.alislam.org/library/browse/book/The_Essence_of_Islam/?p=3 |date=11 November 2017 }}, Tilford: Islam International, p.290</ref>
==== Defeat of the Dajjal ====
The defeat of the Dajjal in Ahmadi eschatology is to occur by force of argument and by the warding off of its mischief through the very advent of the Messiah rather than through physical warfare,<ref>Muhammad Ali. (1992) [http://aaiil.org/text/books/mali/gog/antichristgogmagog.pdf ''The Antichrist and Gog and Magog''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180701133728/http://aaiil.org/text/books/mali/gog/antichristgogmagog.pdf |date=1 July 2018 }}, Ohio: Ahmadiyya Anjuman-i Ishāʿat-i Islām, pp.57-60</ref><ref>Mirza Masroor Ahmad, (2006). [http://www.alislam.org/introduction/conditions.pdf ''Conditions of Bai'at and Responsibilities of an Ahmadi''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101228043314/http://www.alislam.org/introduction/conditions.pdf |date=28 December 2010 }}, Surrey: Islam International, p.184</ref> with the Dajjal's power and influence gradually disintegrating and ultimately allowing for the recognition and worship of God along with Islamic ideals to prevail throughout the world in a period similar to the period of time it took for nascent Christianity to rise through the [[Roman Empire]] (see [[Seven Sleepers]]).<ref>{{Cite book|last=Valentine|first=Simon|title=Islam and the Ahmadiyya jamaʻat: history, belief, practice|year=2008|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-70094-8|pages=148–9}}</ref> In particular, the teaching that Jesus was a mortal man who survived crucifixion and [[Jesus in Ahmadiyya Islam|died a natural death]], as propounded by Ghulam Ahmad, has been seen by some scholars as a move to neutralise Christian soteriologies of Jesus and to project the superior rationality of Islam.<ref>Francis Robinson.[https://books.google.com/books?id=XLvL4zh8KK4C ‘The British Empire and the Muslim World' in Judith Brown, Wm Roger Louis (ed) ''The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume IV: The Twentieth Century''.] Oxford University Press, 1999, p. 411. "At their most extreme religious strategies for dealing with the Christian presence might involve attacking Christian revelation at its heart, as did the Punjabi Muslim, Ghulam Ahmad (d. 1908), who founded the Ahmadiyya missionary sect. He claimed that he was the messiah of the Jewish and Muslim tradition; the figure known as Jesus of Nazareth had not died on the cross but survived to die in Kashmir."</ref><ref>Yohanan Friedmann. [https://books.google.com/books?id=rv8EAAAACAAJ&q=Prophecy+Continuous ''Prophecy Continuous: Aspects of Ahmadi Religious Thought and its Medieval Background''] Oxford University Press, 2003, p. 114. "He [Ghulam Ahmad] realized the centrality of the crucifixion and of the doctrine of vicarious atonement in the Christian dogma, and understood that his attack on these two was an attack on the innermost core of Christianity "</ref><ref>[[Kambiz GhaneaBassiri]]. [https://books.google.com/books/about/A_History_of_Islam_in_America.html?id=xKsLCx2VmcwC ''A History of Islam in America: From the New World to the New World Order''] Cambridge University Press, 2010, p. 208. "Ghulam Ahmad denied the historicity of Jesus' crucifixion and claimed that Jesus had fled to India where he died a natural death in Kashmir. In this way, he sought to neutralize Christian soteriologies of Christ and to demonstrate the superior rationality of Islam."</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Valentine|first=Simon|title=Islam and the Ahmadiyya jamaʻat: history, belief, practice|year=2008|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-70094-8|page=21}} "Proclaiming himself as reformer of Islam, and wanting to undermine the validity of Christianity, Ahmad went for the theological jugular, the foundational teachings of the Christian faith. 'The death of Jesus Christ' explained one of Ahmad's biographers ‘was to be the death-knell of the Christian onslaught against Islam'. As Ahmad argued, the idea of Jesus dying in old age, rather than death on a cross, as taught by the gospel writers, 'invalidates the divinity of Jesus and the doctrine of Atonement'."</ref> The 'gate of Lud' (''Bāb al-Ludd'') spoken of in the ''hadith'' literature as the site where the Dajjal is to be slain (or captured)<ref>'Gate of Lud' Abul Husayn Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj Qushayri al-Nishapuri. ''Sahih Muslim''. Of the Turmoil & Portents of the Last Hour. No 7015</ref> is understood in this context as indicating the confutation of Christian proclaimants by way of disputative engagement in light of the Quran (<span class="plainlinks">{{Cite quran|19|97|b=n|s=ns}}</span>). The ''hadith'' has also been exteriorly linked with [[Ludgate Hill|Ludgate]] in London, the westernmost point where [[Paul the Apostle|Paul of Tarsus]]—widely believed by Muslims to be the principal corrupter of Jesus' original teachings—is thought to have preached according to the [[The Lost Chapter of the Acts of the Apostles|Sonnini Manuscript]] of the [[Acts of the Apostles]] and other ecclesiastical works predating its discovery. Upon his arrival in London in 1924, Ghulam Ahmad's son and second [[Ahmadiyya Caliphate|Successor]], [[Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad|Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud]] proceeded directly to this site and led a lengthy [[Dua|prayer]] outside the entrance of [[St Paul's Cathedral]] before laying the foundation for a [[Fazl Mosque, London|mosque in London]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Geaves|first=Ron|title=Islam and Britain: Muslim Mission in an Age of Empire|year=2017|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-1-4742-7173-8|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=mMA2DwAAQBAJ|page=138}}</ref><ref>Shahid, Dost Mohammad, [http://alislam.org/urdu/pdf/Tarikh-e-Ahmadiyyat-V04.pdf ''Tarikh e Ahmadiyyat'' vol IV.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110807003931/http://www.alislam.org/urdu/pdf/Tarikh-e-Ahmadiyyat-V04.pdf |date=7 August 2011 }} p446.</ref>
==See also==
*[[Saf ibn Sayyad]]
*[[Hadith of Najd]]
*[[Sufyani]]
*[[Armilus]]
*[[Djall]]
*[[Antichrist]]
==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.masud.co.uk/ISLAM/ahm/cardiff.htm ''Seeing with Both Eyes''], transcript of a lecture on the Dajjal by Cambridge Professor Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad (born [[Timothy Winter]])
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[[File:Dajjal.jpg|thumb|An image from a Falname made in India around 1610-1630, depicts Isa fighting the Dajjal. Behind, the Mahdi with a veiled face.]]
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'''Al-Masih ad-Dajjal''' ({{Lang-ar|ٱلْمَسِيحُ ٱلدَّجَّالُ|al-Masīḥ ad-Dajjāl|Deceitful Messiah}}),<ref name="Farhang 2017">{{cite encyclopedia |author-last=Farhang |author-first=Mehrvash |year=2017 |title=Dajjāl |translator-last=Negahban |translator-first=Farzin |editor1-last=Madelung |editor1-first=Wilferd |editor2-last=Daftary |editor2-first=Farhad |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Islamica |location=[[Leiden]] and [[Boston]] |publisher=[[Brill Publishers]] |doi=10.1163/1875-9831_isla_COM_035982 |issn=1875-9823}}</ref> otherwise referred to simply as the '''Dajjal''', is an evil figure in [[Islamic eschatology]] who will pretend to be the promised [[Messiah]] and later claim to be [[God in Islam|God]], appearing before the [[Judgement Day in Islam#Destruction and resurrection|Day of Judgment]] according to the Islamic eschatological narrative.<ref name="Farhang 2017"/><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Siddiqi|first=Shazia|title=The Antichrist of Islamic tradition|url=https://www.oleantimesherald.com/lifestyle/the-antichrist-of-islamic-tradition/article_762406ec-41b5-5fb4-aa6e-656fb0141803.html|access-date=2021-08-06|website=Olean Times Herald|date=17 January 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
The word Dajjal is not mentioned in the [[Quran]], but he is mentioned and described in the [[Hadith]].<ref name="Farhang 2017"/> Corresponding to the [[Antichrist]] in Christianity, the Dajjal is said to emerge out in the East, although the specific location varies among the various sources.<ref name="Cook 2021">{{cite book |last=Cook |first=David |author-link=David Cook (historian) |year=2021 |origyear=2002 |title=Studies in Muslim Apocalyptic |location=[[Berlin]] and [[London]] |publisher=Gerlach Press |pages=93–104 |isbn=9783959941211 |oclc=238821310}}</ref>
The Dajjal will imitate the miracles performed by [[Jesus in Islam|Jesus]], such as healing the sick and raising the dead, the latter done with the aid of demons. He will deceive many people such as weavers, magicians and children of fornication.<ref name="Cook 2021" />
==Etymology==
''{{lang|ar-Latn|Dajjāl}}'' ({{lang-ar|دجّال}}) is the [[wikt:superlative|superlative]] form of the root word ''{{Transliteration|ar|dajl}}'' meaning "lie" or "deception".<ref>{{Cite book|author1=Wahiduddin Khan|title=The Alarm of Doomsday|date=2011|publisher=Goodword Books|page=18}}</ref> It means "deceiver" and also appears in Syriac ({{transliteration|syc|daggāl}} {{Lang|syc|ܕܓܠ}}, "false, deceitful; spurious").<ref name="Cook 2021"/> The compound ''{{transliteration|ar|al-Masīḥ ad-Dajjāl}}'', with the definite article ''[[al-]]'' ("the"), refers to "the deceiving Messiah", a specific [[Eschatology|end time]] deceiver, linguistically equivalent to the Christian Syriac {{transliteration|syc|mšīḥā d-daggālūtā}} {{Lang|syc|ܡܫܝܚܐ ܕܕܓܠܘܬܐ}}, "pseudo-Christ, false Messiah".<ref>{{Cite book|author=J. Payne-Smith|title=A Compendious Syriac Dictionary|date=1903|publisher=Clarendon Press|place=Oxford|page=83}}</ref> This ''{{Transliteration|ar|Dajjāl}}'' is an evil being who will seek to impersonate the [[Messiah#Islam|true Messiah]] ([[Jesus in Islam|Jesus]]).<ref name="Farhang 2017"/> Dajjal is Stupid
==Overview==
{{Main|Islamic eschatology}}
A number of locations are associated with the emergence of the Dajjal, but usually, he emerges from the east.<ref name="Cook 2021"/> He is usually described as blind in one eye; which eye he is blind in being uncertain and disputed by some. Both of his eyes are, however, considered to be defective - at the least - with one being totally blind and the other protruding.<ref>{{cite web |title=Description of Dajjal's eyes |url=https://hadithanswers.com/description-of-dajjals-eyes/ |website=Hadith Answers |access-date=14 June 2021 |date=2018-05-22}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Sahih Muslim 169e|url=https://sunnah.com/muslim/54/123|website=sunnah.com|access-date=17 June 2021}}; In-book reference: Book 54 (Tribulations and Portents of the Last Hour), Hadith 123; Reference: Sahih Muslim 169e</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Sahih Muslim 2934a|url=https://sunnah.com/muslim/54/128|website=sunnah.com|access-date=17 June 2021}}; In-book reference: Book 54 (Tribulations and Portents of the Last Hour), Hadith 128; Reference: Sahih Muslim 2934a</ref> Possessing a defective eye is often regarded as giving more powers to achieve evil goals.<ref name="Cook 2021"/> He would travel the whole world entering every city, except [[Mecca]] and [[Medina]].<ref>Hamid, F.A. (2008). 'The Futuristic Thought of Ustaz Ashaari Muhammad of Malaysia', p. 209, in I. Abu-Rabi' (ed.) [https://books.google.com/books?id=Sf6HxVjOLPsC ''The Blackwell Companion to Contemporary Islamic Thought'']. Malden: Blackwell Publishing, pp.195-212</ref> As a false Messiah, it is believed that many will be deceived by him and join his ranks, among them [[Jews]], [[Bedouins]], [[Weaving|weavers]], [[Magic (supernatural)|magicians]], and [[Fornication in Islam|children of fornication]].<ref name="Farhang 2017"/> Furthermore, he will be assisted by an army of devils (''[[Shaitan|Shayāṭīn]]''). Nevertheless, the most reliable supporters will be the Jews, to whom he will be the incarnation of God.<ref name="Cook 2021"/> The Dajjal will be able to perform miracles, such as healing the sick, raising the dead, causing the earth to grow vegetation, causing livestock to prosper and to die, and stopping the sun's movement.<ref name="Cook 2021"/> His miracles will resemble those performed by [[Jesus in Islam|ʿĪsā]]. At the end, the Dajjal will be defeated and killed by ʿĪsā when the latter simply looks at him, and - according to some narrations - puts a sword through the Dajjal.<ref name="Cook 2021"/> The nature of the Dajjal is ambiguous.<ref name="Farhang 2017"/> Although the nature of his birth indicates that the first generations of Muslim apocalyptists regarded him as human, he is also identified rather as a devil (''[[Shaitan|shayṭān]]'') in human form in the Islamic tradition.<ref name="Cook 2021"/>
The characteristical one-eye is believed to symbolize spiritual blindness. Thus, the Dajjal, blind to the immanent aspect of God, could only comprehend the transcendend aspect of God's wrath. Hadiths describe the dajjal as twisting paradise and hell, as he would bring his own paradise and hell with him, but his hell would be paradise and his paradise would be hell.<ref>Lewisohn, L., Shackle, C. (2006). Attar and the Persian Sufi Tradition: The Art of Spiritual Flight. Vereinigtes Königreich: Bloomsbury Publishing.</ref>
==Muslim Eschatology==
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[[File:Umayyad Mosque Jesus Minaret.jpg|thumb|Minaret of Isa on the [[Umayyad Mosque]] in [[Damascus]], [[Syria]], which is thought to be one of the possible places where [[Jesus in Islam|ʿĪsā]] will descend.|351x351px]]
===Sunni eschatology===
{{Further|Signs of the appearance of the Mahdi|Umayyad Mosque}}
Some [[Sunni Islam|Sunni Muslims]] have affirmed that the Dajjal is an individual man, and that when the Dajjal appears, he will stay for 40 days, one like a year, one like a month, one like a week, and rest of his days like normal days.<ref name="abidawud4321">{{Cite web|title=Sunan Abi Dawud 4321|url=https://sunnah.com/abudawud/39/31|website=sunnah.com|access-date=17 July 2020}} In-book reference: Book 39 (Battles), Hadith 31; English translation: Book 38, Hadith 4307</ref>
Some time after the appearance of the Dajjal, [[Jesus in Islam|ʿĪsā]] will descend on a white minaret to the east of [[Damascus]],<ref name="abidawud4321" /> thought to be the Minaret of Isa located on the [[Umayyad Mosque]] in Damascus. He will descend from the heavens wearing two garments lightly dyed with [[saffron]] and his hands resting on the shoulders of two [[Angels in Islam|angels]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Sahih Muslim 2937a - The Book of Tribulations and Portents of the Last Hour - كتاب الفتن وأشراط الساعة - Sunnah.com - Sayings and Teachings of Prophet Muhammad (صلى الله عليه و سلم)|url=https://sunnah.com/muslim:2937a|access-date=2021-08-11|website=sunnah.com}}</ref> When he lowers his head it will seem as if water is flowing from his hair, when he raises his head, it will appear as though his hair is beaded with silvery pearls.<ref name=":1" /> Every [[Kafir|Non-Muslim]] who would smell the odor of his self would die.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sahih Muslim 2937a|url=https://sunnah.com/muslim/54/134|access-date=2021-06-17|website=sunnah.com}} In-book reference: Book 54 (Tribulations and Portents of the Last Hour), Hadith 134; Reference: Sahih Muslim 2937a</ref>
According to the Sunni ''ḥadīth'', the Dajjal will then be chased to the gate of [[Lod]] where he will be captured and killed by ʿĪsā.<ref name="Cook 2021"/><ref name="abidawud4321" /> ʿĪsā will then break the [[Christian cross]], [[Exorcism of the Gerasene demoniac|kill all the pigs]], abolish the ''[[jizya]]'' tax, and establish peace among all nations.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sunan Ibn Majah 4077|url=https://sunnah.com/ibnmajah/36/152|access-date=2020-08-16|website=sunnah.com}} In-book reference: Book 36 (Tribulations), Hadith 152; English translation: Vol. 5, Book 36, Hadith 4077</ref>
====''Ḥadīth'' literature====
The following account describes one of the signs of the arrival of the Dajjal in Sunni eschatology.
{{blockquote|Narrated [[Mu'adh ibn Jabal]]:
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The flourishing state of Jerusalem will be when Yathrib is in ruins, the ruined state of Yathrib will be when the great war comes, the outbreak of the great war will be at the conquest of Constantinople and the conquest of Constantinople when the Dajjal (Antichrist) comes forth. He (the Prophet) struck his thigh or his shoulder with his hand and said: This is as true as you are here or as you are sitting (meaning Mu'adh ibn Jabal).<ref name="ReferenceB">{{Cite web|title=Sunan Abi Dawud 4294|url=https://sunnah.com/abudawud/39/4|website=sunnah.com|access-date=17 July 2020}}; In-book reference: Book 39 (Battles), Hadith 4; English translation: Book 38, Hadith 4281, Hasan</ref>}}
Thawban ibn Kaidad narrated that Muhammad said:
{{Blockquote|"There will be 30 dajjals among my Ummah. Each one will claim that he is a prophet; but I am the last of the Prophets (Seal of the Prophets), and there will be no Prophet after me."|Related by [[Ahmad ibn Hanbal]] as a sound hâdith.}}
[[Abu Hurayra|Abu Hurairah]] narrated that Muhammad said:
{{Blockquote|"The Hour will not be established until two big groups fight each other whereupon there will be a great number of casualties on both sides and they will be following one and the same religious doctrine, until about 30 dajjals appear, and each of them will claim that he is Allah's Apostle..."|[[Sahih al-Bukhari]], Volume 9, Book 88: Afflictions and the End of the World, Hâdith Number 237.<ref>{{Hadith-usc|bukhari|usc=yes|9|88|237}}</ref>}}
Muhammad also stated that the last of these dajjals would be the Islamic Antichrist, al-Masih ad-Dajjal ({{lit|the Deceitful Messiah}}).<ref name="Farhang 2017"/> The Dajjal is never mentioned in the Quran but he's mentioned and described in the [[Hadith|''ḥadīth'' literature]].<ref name="Farhang 2017"/> Like in Christianity, the Dajjal is said to emerge out in the east, although the specific location varies among the various sources.<ref name="Cook 2021"/> The Dajjal will imitate the miracles performed by [[Jesus in Islam|ʿĪsā]] (Jesus), such as healing the sick and raising the dead, the latter done with the aid of demons (''[[Shaitan|Shayāṭīn]]''). He will deceive many people, such as weavers, magicians, half-castes, and children of prostitutes, but the majority of his followers will be [[Jews]].<ref name="Cook 2021"/> According to the [[Islamic eschatology|Islamic eschatological narrative]], the events related to the final battle before the [[Last Judgment|Day of Judgment]] will proceed in the following order:
{{Blockquote|11 ''Hadith'' also report on the “[[Islamic eschatology#Greater signs|Greater Signs]]” of the end, which include the appearance of the Antichrist (Dajjal) and the reappearance of the prophet [[Jesus in Islam|Jesus]] to join in battle with him at [[Dabiq, Syria|Dabbiq]] in [[Syria (region)|Syria]], as well as the arrival of the [[Mahdi|Mahdī]], the “guided one.” As another ''hadith'' attributed to [[Ali|Alī ibn Abī Talib]] puts it, “Most of the Dajjal’s followers are [[Jews]] and [[Fornication in Islam|children of fornication]]; God will kill him in Syria, at a pass called the Pass of Afiq, after three hours are gone from the day, at the hand of Jesus".<ref name="Gallagher 2020">{{cite encyclopedia |author-last=Gallagher |author-first=Eugene |author-link=Eugene V. Gallagher |date=28 February 2020 |title=Millennialism |url=https://oxfordre.com/religion/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.001.0001/acrefore-9780199340378-e-125 |url-access=subscription |encyclopedia=Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion |location=[[Oxford]] |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |doi=10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.013.125 |isbn=9780199340378 |access-date=17 January 2022}}</ref>}}
Jews are prophesied to be followers of the dajjal, as narrated by [[Anas ibn Malik|Anas bin Malik]]:
{{Blockquote
|text=Seventy thousand of the Jews of [[Isfahan|Isbahan]] will follow the Dajjal, wearing Tayalisahs.<ref>Persian shawls</ref>|author=[[Sahih Muslim]] 2944<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/SahihMuslim-Arabic-english7Vol.Set|title=Sahih Muslim - Arabic-English (7 Vol. Set)|via=Internet Archive}}</ref>}}
[[Samura ibn Jundab|Samra ibn Jundab]] reported that once Muhammad, while delivering a ceremonial speech at an occasion of a [[solar eclipse]], said:
{{Blockquote|"Verily by Allah, the Last Hour will not come until 30 dajjals will appear and the final one will be the One-eyed False Messiah.",|Related by [[Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal|Imam Ahmed]] and [[Al-Tabarani|Imam Tabarani]] as a sound hâdith.}}
[[Anas ibn Malik]] narrated that Muhammad said:
{{Blockquote|1="There is never a prophet who has not warned the Ummah of that one-eyed liar; behold he is one-eyed and your Lord is not one-eyed.<ref name="muslim1">{{Hadith-usc|muslim|usc=yes|41|7007}}</ref> Dajjal is blind of one eye<ref name="muslim2">{{Hadith-usc|muslim|usc=yes|41|7009}}</ref> On his forehead are the letters [[K-F-R|k. f. r.]] ([[Kafir]])<ref name="muslim1"/> between the eyes of the Dajjal<ref>{{Hadith-usc|muslim|usc=yes|41|7008}}</ref> which every Muslim would be able to read."<ref name="muslim2"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://qa.sunnipath.com/issue_view.asp?id=1704 |title=The Signs Before the Day of Judgment by Ibn Kathîr |publisher=Qa.sunnipath.com |date=2005-07-03 |access-date=2012-05-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315191536/http://qa.sunnipath.com/issue_view.asp?id=1704 |archive-date=2012-03-15 }}</ref>|2=[[Sahih Muslim]], Book 41: The Book Pertaining to the Turmoil and Portents of the Last Hour, Chapter 7: The Turmoil Would Go Like The Mounting Waves of the Ocean, Ahâdith 7007-7009.}}
The [[Mahdi]] ({{lit|the rightly guided one}}) is the redeemer according to Islam.<ref name="EI2">{{cite encyclopedia |author-last=Madelung |author-first=Wilferd |author-link=Wilferd Madelung |year=1986 |title=al-Mahdī |editor1-last=Bosworth |editor1-first=C. E. |editor1-link=Clifford Edmund Bosworth |editor2-last=van Donzel |editor2-first=E. J. |editor2-link=Emeri Johannes van Donzel |editor3-last=Heinrichs |editor3-first=W. P. |editor3-link=Wolfhart Heinrichs |editor4-last=Lewis |editor4-first=B. |editor5-last=Pellat |editor5-first=Ch. |editor5-link=Charles Pellat |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopaedia of Islam#2nd edition, EI2|Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition]] |location=[[Leiden]] |publisher=[[Brill Publishers]] |volume=5 |doi=10.1163/1573-3912_islam_COM_0618 |isbn=978-90-04-16121-4}}</ref> Just like the Dajjal,<ref name="Farhang 2017"/> the Mahdi is never mentioned in the Quran but his description can be found in the ''ḥadīth'' literature;<ref name="EI2"/> according to the Islamic eschatological narrative, he will appear on Earth before the [[Last Judgment|Day of Judgment]].<ref name="Farhang 2017"/><ref name="Gallagher 2020"/><ref name="Muslim World 2004 p.421">Martin 2004: 421</ref><ref name="Glasse">Glasse 2001: 280</ref> At the time of the [[Second Coming#Islam|Second Coming of Christ]],<ref>{{Quran-usc|3|55|q=}}</ref> the prophet ʿĪsā shall return to defeat and kill al-Masih ad-Dajjal.<ref name="Farhang 2017"/><ref name="Gallagher 2020"/><ref>{{Hadith-usc|muslim|usc=yes|41|7023}}</ref> Muslims believe that both ʿĪsā and the Mahdi will rid the world of wrongdoing, injustice, and tyranny, ensuring peace and tranquility.<ref name="Momen">Momen 1985: 166-8</ref> Eventually, the Dajjal will be killed by the Mahdi and ʿĪsā at the gate of [[Lod|Lud]], who upon seeing Dajjal will cause him to slowly dissolve (like salt in water).<ref name="Cook 2021"/>
Since the 1980s, popular Islamic writers, such as Said Ayyub of Egypt, have blamed the forces of Dajjal for the overtaking of the Islamic world by the Western states.<ref name="Akyol-nyt-3-10-16">{{cite news |last1=Akyol |first1=Mustafa |title=The Problem With the Islamic Apocalypse |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/04/opinion/the-problem-with-the-islamic-apocalypse.html |access-date=29 January 2022 |agency=New York Times |date=3 October 2016}}</ref>
===Twelver Shīʿa eschatology===
{{Further|Occultation (Islam)|Reappearance of Muhammad al-Mahdi|The Fourteen Infallibles}}
[[File:Jamkaran Mosque مسجد جمکران قم 21.jpg|thumb|right|[[Jamkaran Mosque]] in [[Qom]], [[Iran]] is a popular pilgrimage site for [[Shia Islam|Shīʿa Muslims]]. Local belief holds that the [[Muhammad al-Mahdi|12th Shīʿīte Imam]]—the promised [[Mahdi]] according to [[Twelver Shi'ism|Twelvers]]—once appeared and offered prayers at Jamkaran.|263x263px]]
In the [[Twelver Shi'ism|Twelver denomination]] of [[Shia Islam|Shīʿa Islam]], one of the signs of the reappearance of the Mahdi whom Twelvers consider to be [[Muhammad al-Mahdi|their 12th Imam]] from the ''[[Ahl al-Bayt]]'' ("People of the Household"), is the advent of the Dajjal.<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.al-islam.org/life-imam-al-mahdi-baqir-shareef-al-qurashi/signs-reappearance-imam-time-0|title=Signs of the Reappearance of the Imam of the Time (a.s.)|date=13 December 2016|website=Al-Islam.org}}</ref>
"Whoever denies al-Mahdi has denied God, and whoever accepts al-Dajjal has denied God (turned an infidel)." This Shīʿīte ''ḥadīth'' attributed to Muhammad strongly emphasizes the return of Dajjal and the event of the reappearance of the Mahdi.<ref name="auto2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.al-islam.org/lights-muhammadan-sunnah-or-defence-hadith-mahmud-abu-rayyah/al-dajjal-impostor|title=Al-Dajjal (Impostor)|date=28 February 2020|website=Al-Islam.org}}</ref>
====''Ḥadīth'' literature====
The following is a Twelver Shīʿīte ''ḥadīth'' on the topic of the Dajjal, an excerpt from a longer sermon by [[Ali|ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib]]:
{{blockquote|Narrated [[Shaykh Saduq|Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn 'Ali ibn Babawayh al-Qummi]] in ''Kamal al-din wa tamam al-ni'mah Vol 2, Ch 47, Hadith 1'':
Narrated to us Muhammad bin Ibrahim bin Ishaq that he said: Narrated to us Abdul Aziz bin Yahya Jaludi in Basra: Narrated to us Husain bin Maaz: Narrated to us Qais bin Hafs: Narrated to us Yunus bin Arqam from Abi Yasar Shaibani from Zahhak bin Muzahim from Nazaal bin Sabra that he said:
Asbagh bin Nubatah stood up and said: "O Maula! Who would be the Dajjal?" He (Imam Ali) replied: "The name of Dajjal is Saeed bin Saeed. Thus one who supports him is unfortunate. And fortunate are those who deny him. He shall emerge from Yahoodiya village of Isfahan. On his forehead would be inscribed: 'Kafir' (disbeliever) which would readable to the literate as well as the illiterate.{{pb}}He shall jump into the seas. The Sun will follow him. A mountain of smoke will precede him and a white mountain will follow him, which in times of famine will be mistaken to be a mountain of food (bread). He shall be mounted on a white ash. One step of that ash will be of one mile. Whichever spring or well he reaches, will dry up forever. He will call out aloud which shall be audible to all in the east and the west from the jinns, humans, and satans."<ref>{{cite book|author=[[Shaykh Saduq|Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn 'Ali ibn Babawayh al-Qummi]]|title=Kamal al-din wa tamam al-ni'mah|volume=2|chapter=Chapter 47: Narration regarding Dajjal (anti-Christ)|publisher=Dar al-Kutub al-Islamiyya|location=Tehran}}</ref><ref name="auto2"/>}}
He would tell his followers that he is their Lord, whereas he would be a one-eyed man with human needs and God does not have any needs nor he has an eye. Muhammad strongly warned his companions and believers about this deceiving claim. According to a tradition "Al-Dajjal will verily be given birth by his mother in Qous in Egypt, and there will be thirty years separating between his birth and appearance. Shia reports regarding Isa state that he will descend at the Damascus east gate then he will appear in the East where he will be granted caliphate." This is a narration by [[Naim ibn Hammad|Nu'aym bin Hammad]] and also according to the hadith of Jassasah, "it is reported that he is confined in an abbey or a palace at an island in the Shaam or the Sea of Yemen. Some hadith reports that he will emerge from Khorasan whereas some say that he will appear in a place between the [[Syria (region)|Shaam]] and [[Iraq]]."<ref name="auto2"/> People will be deceived by his magic and sorcery for which he will be falsely claimed as Messiah. On the first day of his appearance, seventy thousand Jews will follow him. They will be wearing green caps. They will consider him as their promised savior; the one who is described in their holy books. The actual cause of their faith would be their animosity with the Muslims. [[Ja'far al-Sadiq]] narrates from the Prophet Muhammad that, most of Dajjal's followers would be people from illegitimate relationships, habitual drinkers, singers, musicians, bedouins, and women. He will travel all around the world except Mecca and Medina.. The earth would be under his control to such an extent that even the ruins will turn into treasures and the earth will sprout vegetation on his command. As soon as he descends, he will order a river to flow and then return and then dry up. The river will follow his command. Even the mountains, clouds and wind will be controlled by him. Due to this, his followers will gradually increase which will eventually make him proclaim himself as God.<ref name="auto1"/> A hadith from the Prophet indicates the condition of the world. He said, "Five years prior to the advent of Dajjal there shall be drought and nothing shall be cultivated. Such that all the hoofed animals shall perish”. After his emergence, the world would be facing acute famine. He will have food and water with him. Many people will accept his claim just for some food and water. He will spread oppression and tyranny all over the world.<ref name="auto1"/> The main aim of the Dajjal will be mischief and test of the people. The one who follows him will be exited from Islam and the one who denies him will be the believer.<ref name="auto1"/>
When the Mahdi reappears, he will appoint Isa (Jesus) as his representative. Isa would attack him and catch him at the gate of Ludd(present days' 'Lod' near Tel Aviv)<ref>Sahih Muslim (Dhikr ad-Dajjal)</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.al-islam.org/jesus-though-shiite-narrations-mahdi-muntazir-qaim/his-second-coming|title=His Second Coming|date=18 November 2013|website=Al-Islam.org}}</ref><ref name="auto1"/> According to the narrations of Ali, when the Mahdi returns, he will lead the prayers and Isa will follow him. As soon as Dajjal sees Isa, Dajjal would melt like Lead. Ali mentions Dajjal's defeat in one of his sermons, saying that Dajjal will set out toward the Hijaz and Isa (Jesus) will intercept him at the passage of Harsha. ‘Isa will direct a horrible shout at him and strike him a decisive blow. [[Muhammad al-Baqir]] narrated that at the time when Dajjal will arise, the people would not know about God, hence making it easy for the Dajjal to claim himself as God.
=== Ahmadiyya eschatology ===
{{Ahmadiyya|Distinct views}}
Prophecies concerning the emergence of the Dajjal are interpreted in [[Ahmadiyya]] teachings as designating a specific group of nations centered upon a false theology (or Christology) instead of an individual, with reference to the Dajjal in the singular indicating its unity as a system rather than its personal individuality. In particular, Ahmadis identify the Dajjal collectively with the missionary expansion and colonial dominance of [[Christianity in Europe|European Christianity]] throughout the world, a development which had begun soon after the Muslim [[Fall of Constantinople|conquest of Constantinople]], with the [[Age of Discovery]] in the 15th century and accelerated by the [[Industrial Revolution]].<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Glassé|first1=Cyril|last2=Smith|first2=Huston|title=The New Encyclopedia of Islam|year=2003|publisher=Altamira Press|isbn=0-7591-0190-6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=focLrox-frUC|page=33}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Jonker|first=Gerdien|title=The Ahmadiyya Quest for Religious Progress: Missionizing Europe 1900-1965|year=2015|publisher=Brill Publishers|isbn=978-90-04-30529-8|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=GUUpCwAAQBAJ|page=77}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Valentine|first=Simon|title=Islam and the Ahmadiyya jamaʻat: history, belief, practice|year=2008|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-70094-8|page=148}}</ref><ref>Malik Ghulam Farid, et al. [http://www.alislam.org/quran/tafseer/?page=1479®ion=E1 Al-Kahf, ''The Holy Quran with English Translation and Commentary''] Vol. III, p.1479</ref><ref>Muhammad Ali. (1992) [http://aaiil.org/text/books/mali/gog/antichristgogmagog.pdf ''The Antichrist and Gog and Magog''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180701133728/http://aaiil.org/text/books/mali/gog/antichristgogmagog.pdf |date=1 July 2018 }}, Ohio: Ahmadiyya Anjuman-i Ishāʿat-i Islām</ref> As with other eschatological themes, [[Mirza Ghulam Ahmad]], the founder of the Ahmadiyya movement, wrote extensively on this topic.
The identification of the Dajjal, principally with [[Christianity and colonialism|colonial missionaries]] was drawn by Ghulam Ahmad through linking the ''hadith'' traditions about him with certain Quranic passages such as, ''inter alia'', the description in the ''hadith'' of the emergence of the Dajjal as the greatest tribulation since the creation of [[Adam]], taken in conjunction with the Quran's description of the deification of Jesus as the greatest abomination; the warning only against the putative lapses of the Jews and Christians in ''[[al-Fatiha]]''—the principal Islamic prayer—and the absence therein of any warning specifically against the Dajjal; a prophetic ''hadith'' which prescribed the recitation of the opening and closing ten verses of chapter eighteen of the Quran, (''[[al-Kahf]]'') as a safeguard against the mischief of the Dajjal, the former of which speak of a people “who assign a son to God” and the latter, of those whose lives are entirely given to the pursuit and manufacture of material goods; and descriptions of the period of the Dajjal's reign as coinciding with the dominance of Christianity.<ref>Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, (2005), [https://www.alislam.org/library/browse/book/The_Essence_of_Islam/?p=3#page/279/mode/1up ''The Essence of Islam'', Vol. III] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171111042054/https://www.alislam.org/library/browse/book/The_Essence_of_Islam/?p=3 |date=11 November 2017 }}, Tilford: Islam International, p.290</ref><ref>Muhammad Ali. (1992) [http://aaiil.org/text/books/mali/gog/antichristgogmagog.pdf ''The Antichrist and Gog and Magog''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180701133728/http://aaiil.org/text/books/mali/gog/antichristgogmagog.pdf |date=1 July 2018 }}, Ohio: Ahmadiyya Anjuman-i Ishāʿat-i Islām, pp.12-14</ref> The attributes of the Dajjal as described in the ''hadith'' literature are thus taken as symbolic representations and interpreted in a way which would make them compatible with Quranic readings and not compromise the [[Tawhid|inimitable]] attributes of God in Islam. The Dajjal being blind in his right eye while being sharp and oversized in his left, for example, is indicative of being devoid of religious insight and spiritual understanding, but excellent in material and scientific attainment.<ref>Muhammad Ali. (1992) [http://aaiil.org/text/books/mali/gog/antichristgogmagog.pdf ''The Antichrist and Gog and Magog''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180701133728/http://aaiil.org/text/books/mali/gog/antichristgogmagog.pdf |date=1 July 2018 }}, Ohio: Ahmadiyya Anjuman-i Ishāʿat-i Islām, pp.19-20</ref> Similarly, the Dajjal not entering [[Mecca]] and [[Medina]] is interpreted with reference to the failure of colonial missionaries in reaching these two places.<ref>Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, (2005), [https://www.alislam.org/library/browse/book/The_Essence_of_Islam/?p=3#page/290/mode/1up ''The Essence of Islam'', Vol. III] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171111042054/https://www.alislam.org/library/browse/book/The_Essence_of_Islam/?p=3 |date=11 November 2017 }}, Tilford: Islam International, p.290</ref>
==== Defeat of the Dajjal ====
The defeat of the Dajjal in Ahmadi eschatology is to occur by force of argument and by the warding off of its mischief through the very advent of the Messiah rather than through physical warfare,<ref>Muhammad Ali. (1992) [http://aaiil.org/text/books/mali/gog/antichristgogmagog.pdf ''The Antichrist and Gog and Magog''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180701133728/http://aaiil.org/text/books/mali/gog/antichristgogmagog.pdf |date=1 July 2018 }}, Ohio: Ahmadiyya Anjuman-i Ishāʿat-i Islām, pp.57-60</ref><ref>Mirza Masroor Ahmad, (2006). [http://www.alislam.org/introduction/conditions.pdf ''Conditions of Bai'at and Responsibilities of an Ahmadi''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101228043314/http://www.alislam.org/introduction/conditions.pdf |date=28 December 2010 }}, Surrey: Islam International, p.184</ref> with the Dajjal's power and influence gradually disintegrating and ultimately allowing for the recognition and worship of God along with Islamic ideals to prevail throughout the world in a period similar to the period of time it took for nascent Christianity to rise through the [[Roman Empire]] (see [[Seven Sleepers]]).<ref>{{Cite book|last=Valentine|first=Simon|title=Islam and the Ahmadiyya jamaʻat: history, belief, practice|year=2008|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-70094-8|pages=148–9}}</ref> In particular, the teaching that Jesus was a mortal man who survived crucifixion and [[Jesus in Ahmadiyya Islam|died a natural death]], as propounded by Ghulam Ahmad, has been seen by some scholars as a move to neutralise Christian soteriologies of Jesus and to project the superior rationality of Islam.<ref>Francis Robinson.[https://books.google.com/books?id=XLvL4zh8KK4C ‘The British Empire and the Muslim World' in Judith Brown, Wm Roger Louis (ed) ''The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume IV: The Twentieth Century''.] Oxford University Press, 1999, p. 411. "At their most extreme religious strategies for dealing with the Christian presence might involve attacking Christian revelation at its heart, as did the Punjabi Muslim, Ghulam Ahmad (d. 1908), who founded the Ahmadiyya missionary sect. He claimed that he was the messiah of the Jewish and Muslim tradition; the figure known as Jesus of Nazareth had not died on the cross but survived to die in Kashmir."</ref><ref>Yohanan Friedmann. [https://books.google.com/books?id=rv8EAAAACAAJ&q=Prophecy+Continuous ''Prophecy Continuous: Aspects of Ahmadi Religious Thought and its Medieval Background''] Oxford University Press, 2003, p. 114. "He [Ghulam Ahmad] realized the centrality of the crucifixion and of the doctrine of vicarious atonement in the Christian dogma, and understood that his attack on these two was an attack on the innermost core of Christianity "</ref><ref>[[Kambiz GhaneaBassiri]]. [https://books.google.com/books/about/A_History_of_Islam_in_America.html?id=xKsLCx2VmcwC ''A History of Islam in America: From the New World to the New World Order''] Cambridge University Press, 2010, p. 208. "Ghulam Ahmad denied the historicity of Jesus' crucifixion and claimed that Jesus had fled to India where he died a natural death in Kashmir. In this way, he sought to neutralize Christian soteriologies of Christ and to demonstrate the superior rationality of Islam."</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Valentine|first=Simon|title=Islam and the Ahmadiyya jamaʻat: history, belief, practice|year=2008|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-70094-8|page=21}} "Proclaiming himself as reformer of Islam, and wanting to undermine the validity of Christianity, Ahmad went for the theological jugular, the foundational teachings of the Christian faith. 'The death of Jesus Christ' explained one of Ahmad's biographers ‘was to be the death-knell of the Christian onslaught against Islam'. As Ahmad argued, the idea of Jesus dying in old age, rather than death on a cross, as taught by the gospel writers, 'invalidates the divinity of Jesus and the doctrine of Atonement'."</ref> The 'gate of Lud' (''Bāb al-Ludd'') spoken of in the ''hadith'' literature as the site where the Dajjal is to be slain (or captured)<ref>'Gate of Lud' Abul Husayn Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj Qushayri al-Nishapuri. ''Sahih Muslim''. Of the Turmoil & Portents of the Last Hour. No 7015</ref> is understood in this context as indicating the confutation of Christian proclaimants by way of disputative engagement in light of the Quran (<span class="plainlinks">{{Cite quran|19|97|b=n|s=ns}}</span>). The ''hadith'' has also been exteriorly linked with [[Ludgate Hill|Ludgate]] in London, the westernmost point where [[Paul the Apostle|Paul of Tarsus]]—widely believed by Muslims to be the principal corrupter of Jesus' original teachings—is thought to have preached according to the [[The Lost Chapter of the Acts of the Apostles|Sonnini Manuscript]] of the [[Acts of the Apostles]] and other ecclesiastical works predating its discovery. Upon his arrival in London in 1924, Ghulam Ahmad's son and second [[Ahmadiyya Caliphate|Successor]], [[Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad|Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud]] proceeded directly to this site and led a lengthy [[Dua|prayer]] outside the entrance of [[St Paul's Cathedral]] before laying the foundation for a [[Fazl Mosque, London|mosque in London]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Geaves|first=Ron|title=Islam and Britain: Muslim Mission in an Age of Empire|year=2017|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-1-4742-7173-8|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=mMA2DwAAQBAJ|page=138}}</ref><ref>Shahid, Dost Mohammad, [http://alislam.org/urdu/pdf/Tarikh-e-Ahmadiyyat-V04.pdf ''Tarikh e Ahmadiyyat'' vol IV.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110807003931/http://www.alislam.org/urdu/pdf/Tarikh-e-Ahmadiyyat-V04.pdf |date=7 August 2011 }} p446.</ref>
==See also==
*[[Saf ibn Sayyad]]
*[[Hadith of Najd]]
*[[Sufyani]]
*[[Armilus]]
*[[Djall]]
*[[Antichrist]]
==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.masud.co.uk/ISLAM/ahm/cardiff.htm ''Seeing with Both Eyes''], transcript of a lecture on the Dajjal by Cambridge Professor Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad (born [[Timothy Winter]])
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<ul><li>— <i>Biblical texts</i> —</li>
<li><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Book_of_Revelation" title="Book of Revelation">Book of Revelation</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Book_of_Daniel" title="Book of Daniel">Book of Daniel</a></li></ul></div></li>
<li><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Olivet_Discourse" title="Olivet Discourse">Olivet Discourse</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/The_Sheep_and_the_Goats" title="The Sheep and the Goats">Sheep and Goats</a></li></ul></div></li></ul>
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<ul><li>— <i>Major figures</i> —</li>
<li><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jesus_in_Christianity" title="Jesus in Christianity">Jesus</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Two_witnesses" title="Two witnesses">Two witnesses</a></li></ul></div></li>
<li><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Apocalypse" title="Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse">Four Horsemen</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Antichrist" title="Antichrist">Antichrist</a></li></ul></div></li></ul>
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<ul><li>— <i>Different views</i> —</li>
<li><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Preterism" title="Preterism">Preterism</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Idealism_(Christian_eschatology)" title="Idealism (Christian eschatology)">Idealism</a></li></ul></div></li>
<li><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Historicism_(Christianity)" title="Historicism (Christianity)">Historicism</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Futurism_(Christianity)" title="Futurism (Christianity)">Futurism</a></li></ul></div></li></ul>
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<ul><li>— <i><a href="/wiki/Millennialism" title="Millennialism">Millennialism</a></i> —</li>
<li><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Premillennialism" title="Premillennialism">Premillennialism</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Amillennialism" title="Amillennialism">Amillennialism</a></li></ul></div></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Postmillennialism" title="Postmillennialism">Postmillennialism</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li>— <i>Other events</i> —</li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Events_of_Revelation" title="Events of Revelation">Events of Revelation</a> (<a href="/wiki/Apocalypse" title="Apocalypse">Apocalypse</a>)</li>
<li><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rapture" title="Rapture">Rapture</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Armageddon" title="Armageddon">Armageddon</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Seven_seals" title="Seven seals">Seven Seals</a></li></ul></div></li>
<li><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Second_Coming" title="Second Coming">Second Coming</a></li></ul></div></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kalki" title="Kalki">Kalki</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Kali_Yuga" title="Kali Yuga">Kali Yuga</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Shiva" title="Shiva">Shiva</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Beast_of_the_Earth" title="Beast of the Earth">Beast of the Earth</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Dhul-Qarnayn" class="mw-redirect" title="Dhul-Qarnayn">Dhul-Qarnayn</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Dhul-Suwayqatayn" title="Dhul-Suwayqatayn">Dhul-Suwayqatayn</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Jesus_in_Islam" title="Jesus in Islam">Isa</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Israfil" title="Israfil">Israfil</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Mahdi" title="Mahdi">Mahdi</a></li>
<li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Dajjal</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Muhammad_in_Islam" title="Muhammad in Islam">Muhammad</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Q%C4%81%CA%BEim_%C4%80l_Mu%E1%B8%A5ammad" class="mw-redirect" title="Qāʾim Āl Muḥammad">Al-Qa'im</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Sufyani" title="Sufyani">Sufyani</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Gog_and_Magog#In_Islamic_tradition" title="Gog and Magog">Yajuj and Majuj</a></li></ul>
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<p>— <i>Events</i> —
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<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Khasf_al-Bayda" title="Khasf al-Bayda">Swallowing in Bayda</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Signs_of_the_appearance_of_Mahdi" class="mw-redirect" title="Signs of the appearance of Mahdi">Coming of the Mahdi</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Second_Coming_of_Christ#Islam" class="mw-redirect" title="Second Coming of Christ">Return of Isa</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Day_of_Resurrection" class="mw-redirect" title="Day of Resurrection">Resurrection</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li>— <i>Biblical texts</i> —</li>
<li><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Book_of_Isaiah" title="Book of Isaiah">Book of Isaiah</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Book_of_Ezekiel" title="Book of Ezekiel">Book of Ezekiel</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Book_of_Zechariah" title="Book of Zechariah">Book of Zechariah</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Book_of_Daniel" title="Book of Daniel">Book of Daniel</a></li></ul></div></li>
<li>— <i>Other sources</i> —</li>
<li><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rabbinic_literature" title="Rabbinic literature">Rabbinic literature</a> (<a href="/wiki/Mishnah" title="Mishnah">Mishnah</a>, <a href="/wiki/Talmud" title="Talmud">Talmud</a>, <a href="/wiki/Midrash" title="Midrash">Midrash</a>)</li><li><a href="/wiki/Rishonim" title="Rishonim">Medieval Jewish scholars</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Kabbalah" title="Kabbalah">Kabbalah</a></li></ul></div></li></ul>
<p>— <i>Figures</i> —
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<ul><li><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Elijah_the_Prophet" class="mw-redirect" title="Elijah the Prophet">Elijah the Prophet</a>, Messiah (<a href="/wiki/Messiah_in_Judaism" title="Messiah in Judaism">Mashiach Ben David</a>, <a href="/wiki/Messiah_ben_Joseph" title="Messiah ben Joseph">Mashiach Ben Yosef</a>), <a href="/wiki/Gog_and_Magog" title="Gog and Magog">Gog and Magog</a>, <a href="/wiki/Armilus" title="Armilus">Armilus</a></li></ul></div></li></ul>
<p>— <i>Events and terms</i> —
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<ul><li><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Atchalta_De%27Geulah" title="Atchalta De'Geulah">Atchalta De'Geulah</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gathering_of_Israel" title="Gathering of Israel">Kibbutz Galuyot</a>, <a href="/wiki/Third_Temple" title="Third Temple">Third Temple</a>, <a href="/wiki/War_of_Gog_and_Magog" class="mw-redirect" title="War of Gog and Magog">War of Gog and Magog</a>, <a href="/wiki/Resurrection#Judaism" title="Resurrection">Resurrection of the dead</a>, <a href="/wiki/World_to_come#Jewish_eschatology" title="World to come">Olam Haba</a></li></ul></div></li></ul></div></div></td>
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<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bound_monster" title="Bound monster">Bound monster</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Gjallarhorn" title="Gjallarhorn">Gjallarhorn</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/L%C3%ADf_and_L%C3%ADf%C3%BErasir" title="Líf and Lífþrasir">Líf and Lífþrasir</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Naglfar" title="Naglfar">Naglfar</a></li></ul>
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<p>— <i>Events</i> —
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<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fimbulwinter" class="mw-redirect" title="Fimbulwinter">Fimbulwinter</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Ragnar%C3%B6k" title="Ragnarök">Ragnarök</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/V%C3%ADgr%C3%AD%C3%B0r" title="Vígríðr">Vígríðr</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Li_Hong_(Taoist_eschatology)" title="Li Hong (Taoist eschatology)">Li Hong</a></li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/Divine_Incantations_Scripture" title="Divine Incantations Scripture">Divine Incantations Scripture</a></i></li></ul></div></div></td>
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</p><p><b>Al-Masih ad-Dajjal</b> (<a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a>: <span lang="ar" dir="rtl">ٱلْمَسِيحُ ٱلدَّجَّالُ</span>, <small><a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Arabic" title="Romanization of Arabic">romanized</a>: </small><span title="Arabic-language romanization"><i lang="ar-Latn">al-Masīḥ ad-Dajjāl</i></span>, <small><a href="/wiki/Literal_translation" title="Literal translation">lit.</a> </small>'Deceitful Messiah'),<sup id="cite_ref-Farhang_2017_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Farhang_2017-1">[1]</a></sup> otherwise referred to simply as the <b>Dajjal</b>, is an evil figure in <a href="/wiki/Islamic_eschatology" title="Islamic eschatology">Islamic eschatology</a> who will pretend to be the promised <a href="/wiki/Messiah" title="Messiah">Messiah</a> and later claim to be <a href="/wiki/God_in_Islam" title="God in Islam">God</a>, appearing before the <a href="/wiki/Judgement_Day_in_Islam#Destruction_and_resurrection" title="Judgement Day in Islam">Day of Judgment</a> according to the Islamic eschatological narrative.<sup id="cite_ref-Farhang_2017_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Farhang_2017-1">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2">[2]</a></sup>
The word Dajjal is not mentioned in the <a href="/wiki/Quran" title="Quran">Quran</a>, but he is mentioned and described in the <a href="/wiki/Hadith" title="Hadith">Hadith</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Farhang_2017_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Farhang_2017-1">[1]</a></sup> Corresponding to the <a href="/wiki/Antichrist" title="Antichrist">Antichrist</a> in Christianity, the Dajjal is said to emerge out in the East, although the specific location varies among the various sources.<sup id="cite_ref-Cook_2021_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cook_2021-3">[3]</a></sup>
</p><p>The Dajjal will imitate the miracles performed by <a href="/wiki/Jesus_in_Islam" title="Jesus in Islam">Jesus</a>, such as healing the sick and raising the dead, the latter done with the aid of demons. He will deceive many people such as weavers, magicians and children of fornication.<sup id="cite_ref-Cook_2021_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cook_2021-3">[3]</a></sup>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Etymology"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Etymology</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Overview"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Overview</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Muslim_Eschatology"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Muslim Eschatology</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#Sunni_eschatology"><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span> <span class="toctext">Sunni eschatology</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-5"><a href="#Ḥadīth_literature"><span class="tocnumber">3.1.1</span> <span class="toctext"><i>Ḥadīth</i> literature</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="#Twelver_Shīʿa_eschatology"><span class="tocnumber">3.2</span> <span class="toctext">Twelver Shīʿa eschatology</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-7"><a href="#Ḥadīth_literature_2"><span class="tocnumber">3.2.1</span> <span class="toctext"><i>Ḥadīth</i> literature</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8"><a href="#Ahmadiyya_eschatology"><span class="tocnumber">3.3</span> <span class="toctext">Ahmadiyya eschatology</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-9"><a href="#Defeat_of_the_Dajjal"><span class="tocnumber">3.3.1</span> <span class="toctext">Defeat of the Dajjal</span></a></li>
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<p><i><span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">Dajjāl</i></span></i> (<a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a>: <span lang="ar" dir="rtl">دجّال</span>) is the <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/superlative" class="extiw" title="wikt:superlative">superlative</a> form of the root word <i><span title="Arabic-language romanization"><i lang="ar-Latn">dajl</i></span></i> meaning "lie" or "deception".<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup> It means "deceiver" and also appears in Syriac (<span title="Classical Syriac-language romanization"><i lang="syc-Latn">daggāl</i></span> <span title="Classical Syriac-language text"><span lang="syc" dir="rtl">ܕܓܠ</span></span>, "false, deceitful; spurious").<sup id="cite_ref-Cook_2021_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cook_2021-3">[3]</a></sup> The compound <i><span title="Arabic-language romanization"><i lang="ar-Latn">al-Masīḥ ad-Dajjāl</i></span></i>, with the definite article <i><a href="/wiki/Al-" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-">al-</a></i> ("the"), refers to "the deceiving Messiah", a specific <a href="/wiki/Eschatology" title="Eschatology">end time</a> deceiver, linguistically equivalent to the Christian Syriac <span title="Classical Syriac-language romanization"><i lang="syc-Latn">mšīḥā d-daggālūtā</i></span> <span title="Classical Syriac-language text"><span lang="syc" dir="rtl">ܡܫܝܚܐ ܕܕܓܠܘܬܐ</span></span>, "pseudo-Christ, false Messiah".<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a></sup> This <i><span title="Arabic-language romanization"><i lang="ar-Latn">Dajjāl</i></span></i> is an evil being who will seek to impersonate the <a href="/wiki/Messiah#Islam" title="Messiah">true Messiah</a> (<a href="/wiki/Jesus_in_Islam" title="Jesus in Islam">Jesus</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-Farhang_2017_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Farhang_2017-1">[1]</a></sup> Dajjal is Stupid
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Overview">Overview</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Al-Masih_ad-Dajjal&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Overview"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
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<p>A number of locations are associated with the emergence of the Dajjal, but usually, he emerges from the east.<sup id="cite_ref-Cook_2021_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cook_2021-3">[3]</a></sup> He is usually described as blind in one eye; which eye he is blind in being uncertain and disputed by some. Both of his eyes are, however, considered to be defective - at the least - with one being totally blind and the other protruding.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a></sup> Possessing a defective eye is often regarded as giving more powers to achieve evil goals.<sup id="cite_ref-Cook_2021_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cook_2021-3">[3]</a></sup> He would travel the whole world entering every city, except <a href="/wiki/Mecca" title="Mecca">Mecca</a> and <a href="/wiki/Medina" title="Medina">Medina</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a></sup> As a false Messiah, it is believed that many will be deceived by him and join his ranks, among them <a href="/wiki/Jews" title="Jews">Jews</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bedouins" class="mw-redirect" title="Bedouins">Bedouins</a>, <a href="/wiki/Weaving" title="Weaving">weavers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Magic_(supernatural)" title="Magic (supernatural)">magicians</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Fornication_in_Islam" class="mw-redirect" title="Fornication in Islam">children of fornication</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Farhang_2017_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Farhang_2017-1">[1]</a></sup> Furthermore, he will be assisted by an army of devils (<i><a href="/wiki/Shaitan" title="Shaitan">Shayāṭīn</a></i>). Nevertheless, the most reliable supporters will be the Jews, to whom he will be the incarnation of God.<sup id="cite_ref-Cook_2021_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cook_2021-3">[3]</a></sup> The Dajjal will be able to perform miracles, such as healing the sick, raising the dead, causing the earth to grow vegetation, causing livestock to prosper and to die, and stopping the sun's movement.<sup id="cite_ref-Cook_2021_3-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cook_2021-3">[3]</a></sup> His miracles will resemble those performed by <a href="/wiki/Jesus_in_Islam" title="Jesus in Islam">ʿĪsā</a>. At the end, the Dajjal will be defeated and killed by ʿĪsā when the latter simply looks at him, and - according to some narrations - puts a sword through the Dajjal.<sup id="cite_ref-Cook_2021_3-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cook_2021-3">[3]</a></sup> The nature of the Dajjal is ambiguous.<sup id="cite_ref-Farhang_2017_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Farhang_2017-1">[1]</a></sup> Although the nature of his birth indicates that the first generations of Muslim apocalyptists regarded him as human, he is also identified rather as a devil (<i><a href="/wiki/Shaitan" title="Shaitan">shayṭān</a></i>) in human form in the Islamic tradition.<sup id="cite_ref-Cook_2021_3-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cook_2021-3">[3]</a></sup>
</p><p>The characteristical one-eye is believed to symbolize spiritual blindness. Thus, the Dajjal, blind to the immanent aspect of God, could only comprehend the transcendend aspect of God's wrath. Hadiths describe the dajjal as twisting paradise and hell, as he would bring his own paradise and hell with him, but his hell would be paradise and his paradise would be hell.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a></sup>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Muslim_Eschatology">Muslim Eschatology</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Al-Masih_ad-Dajjal&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Muslim Eschatology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
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<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033289096"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Islamic_eschatology" title="Islamic eschatology">Islamic eschatology</a></div>
<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033289096"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Jesus_in_Islam" title="Jesus in Islam">Jesus in Islam</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mahdi" title="Mahdi">Mahdi</a></div>
<figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Umayyad_Mosque_Jesus_Minaret.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Umayyad_Mosque_Jesus_Minaret.jpg/263px-Umayyad_Mosque_Jesus_Minaret.jpg" decoding="async" width="263" height="351" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Umayyad_Mosque_Jesus_Minaret.jpg/395px-Umayyad_Mosque_Jesus_Minaret.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Umayyad_Mosque_Jesus_Minaret.jpg/526px-Umayyad_Mosque_Jesus_Minaret.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1536" data-file-height="2048" /></a><figcaption>Minaret of Isa on the <a href="/wiki/Umayyad_Mosque" title="Umayyad Mosque">Umayyad Mosque</a> in <a href="/wiki/Damascus" title="Damascus">Damascus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Syria" title="Syria">Syria</a>, which is thought to be one of the possible places where <a href="/wiki/Jesus_in_Islam" title="Jesus in Islam">ʿĪsā</a> will descend.</figcaption></figure>
<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Sunni_eschatology">Sunni eschatology</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Al-Masih_ad-Dajjal&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Sunni eschatology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3>
<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033289096"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Signs_of_the_appearance_of_the_Mahdi" title="Signs of the appearance of the Mahdi">Signs of the appearance of the Mahdi</a> and <a href="/wiki/Umayyad_Mosque" title="Umayyad Mosque">Umayyad Mosque</a></div>
<p>Some <a href="/wiki/Sunni_Islam" title="Sunni Islam">Sunni Muslims</a> have affirmed that the Dajjal is an individual man, and that when the Dajjal appears, he will stay for 40 days, one like a year, one like a month, one like a week, and rest of his days like normal days.<sup id="cite_ref-abidawud4321_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-abidawud4321-11">[11]</a></sup>
</p><p>Some time after the appearance of the Dajjal, <a href="/wiki/Jesus_in_Islam" title="Jesus in Islam">ʿĪsā</a> will descend on a white minaret to the east of <a href="/wiki/Damascus" title="Damascus">Damascus</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-abidawud4321_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-abidawud4321-11">[11]</a></sup> thought to be the Minaret of Isa located on the <a href="/wiki/Umayyad_Mosque" title="Umayyad Mosque">Umayyad Mosque</a> in Damascus. He will descend from the heavens wearing two garments lightly dyed with <a href="/wiki/Saffron" title="Saffron">saffron</a> and his hands resting on the shoulders of two <a href="/wiki/Angels_in_Islam" title="Angels in Islam">angels</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-12">[12]</a></sup> When he lowers his head it will seem as if water is flowing from his hair, when he raises his head, it will appear as though his hair is beaded with silvery pearls.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-12">[12]</a></sup> Every <a href="/wiki/Kafir" title="Kafir">Non-Muslim</a> who would smell the odor of his self would die.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a></sup>
</p><p>According to the Sunni <i>ḥadīth</i>, the Dajjal will then be chased to the gate of <a href="/wiki/Lod" title="Lod">Lod</a> where he will be captured and killed by ʿĪsā.<sup id="cite_ref-Cook_2021_3-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cook_2021-3">[3]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-abidawud4321_11-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-abidawud4321-11">[11]</a></sup> ʿĪsā will then break the <a href="/wiki/Christian_cross" title="Christian cross">Christian cross</a>, <a href="/wiki/Exorcism_of_the_Gerasene_demoniac" title="Exorcism of the Gerasene demoniac">kill all the pigs</a>, abolish the <i><a href="/wiki/Jizya" title="Jizya">jizya</a></i> tax, and establish peace among all nations.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a></sup>
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<h4><span id=".E1.B8.A4ad.C4.ABth_literature"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Ḥadīth_literature"><i>Ḥadīth</i> literature</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Al-Masih_ad-Dajjal&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Ḥadīth literature"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h4>
<p>The following account describes one of the signs of the arrival of the Dajjal in Sunni eschatology.
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The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The flourishing state of Jerusalem will be when Yathrib is in ruins, the ruined state of Yathrib will be when the great war comes, the outbreak of the great war will be at the conquest of Constantinople and the conquest of Constantinople when the Dajjal (Antichrist) comes forth. He (the Prophet) struck his thigh or his shoulder with his hand and said: This is as true as you are here or as you are sitting (meaning Mu'adh ibn Jabal).<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceB_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceB-15">[15]</a></sup></p></blockquote>
<p>Thawban ibn Kaidad narrated that Muhammad said:
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<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1211633275"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>"There will be 30 dajjals among my Ummah. Each one will claim that he is a prophet; but I am the last of the Prophets (Seal of the Prophets), and there will be no Prophet after me."</p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>Related by <a href="/wiki/Ahmad_ibn_Hanbal" title="Ahmad ibn Hanbal">Ahmad ibn Hanbal</a> as a sound hâdith.</cite></div></blockquote>
<p><a href="/wiki/Abu_Hurayra" title="Abu Hurayra">Abu Hurairah</a> narrated that Muhammad said:
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<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1211633275"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>"The Hour will not be established until two big groups fight each other whereupon there will be a great number of casualties on both sides and they will be following one and the same religious doctrine, until about 30 dajjals appear, and each of them will claim that he is Allah's Apostle..."</p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite><a href="/wiki/Sahih_al-Bukhari" title="Sahih al-Bukhari">Sahih al-Bukhari</a>, Volume 9, Book 88: Afflictions and the End of the World, Hâdith Number 237.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a></sup></cite></div></blockquote>
<p>Muhammad also stated that the last of these dajjals would be the Islamic Antichrist, al-Masih ad-Dajjal (<abbr style="font-size:85%" title="literal translation">lit.</abbr><span style="white-space: nowrap;"> </span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span><span class="gloss-text">the Deceitful Messiah</span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span>).<sup id="cite_ref-Farhang_2017_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Farhang_2017-1">[1]</a></sup> The Dajjal is never mentioned in the Quran but he's mentioned and described in the <a href="/wiki/Hadith" title="Hadith"><i>ḥadīth</i> literature</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Farhang_2017_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Farhang_2017-1">[1]</a></sup> Like in Christianity, the Dajjal is said to emerge out in the east, although the specific location varies among the various sources.<sup id="cite_ref-Cook_2021_3-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cook_2021-3">[3]</a></sup> The Dajjal will imitate the miracles performed by <a href="/wiki/Jesus_in_Islam" title="Jesus in Islam">ʿĪsā</a> (Jesus), such as healing the sick and raising the dead, the latter done with the aid of demons (<i><a href="/wiki/Shaitan" title="Shaitan">Shayāṭīn</a></i>). He will deceive many people, such as weavers, magicians, half-castes, and children of prostitutes, but the majority of his followers will be <a href="/wiki/Jews" title="Jews">Jews</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Cook_2021_3-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cook_2021-3">[3]</a></sup> According to the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_eschatology" title="Islamic eschatology">Islamic eschatological narrative</a>, the events related to the final battle before the <a href="/wiki/Last_Judgment" title="Last Judgment">Day of Judgment</a> will proceed in the following order:
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<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1211633275"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>11 <i>Hadith</i> also report on the “<a href="/wiki/Islamic_eschatology#Greater_signs" title="Islamic eschatology">Greater Signs</a>” of the end, which include the appearance of the Antichrist (Dajjal) and the reappearance of the prophet <a href="/wiki/Jesus_in_Islam" title="Jesus in Islam">Jesus</a> to join in battle with him at <a href="/wiki/Dabiq,_Syria" title="Dabiq, Syria">Dabbiq</a> in <a href="/wiki/Syria_(region)" title="Syria (region)">Syria</a>, as well as the arrival of the <a href="/wiki/Mahdi" title="Mahdi">Mahdī</a>, the “guided one.” As another <i>hadith</i> attributed to <a href="/wiki/Ali" title="Ali">Alī ibn Abī Talib</a> puts it, “Most of the Dajjal’s followers are <a href="/wiki/Jews" title="Jews">Jews</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fornication_in_Islam" class="mw-redirect" title="Fornication in Islam">children of fornication</a>; God will kill him in Syria, at a pass called the Pass of Afiq, after three hours are gone from the day, at the hand of Jesus".<sup id="cite_ref-Gallagher_2020_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gallagher_2020-17">[17]</a></sup></p></blockquote>
<p>Jews are prophesied to be followers of the dajjal, as narrated by <a href="/wiki/Anas_ibn_Malik" title="Anas ibn Malik">Anas bin Malik</a>:
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<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1211633275"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Seventy thousand of the Jews of <a href="/wiki/Isfahan" title="Isfahan">Isbahan</a> will follow the Dajjal, wearing Tayalisahs.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a></sup></p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite><a href="/wiki/Sahih_Muslim" title="Sahih Muslim">Sahih Muslim</a> 2944<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a></sup></cite></div></blockquote>
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<a href="/wiki/Samura_ibn_Jundab" title="Samura ibn Jundab">Samra ibn Jundab</a> reported that once Muhammad, while delivering a ceremonial speech at an occasion of a <a href="/wiki/Solar_eclipse" title="Solar eclipse">solar eclipse</a>, said:
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<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1211633275"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>"Verily by Allah, the Last Hour will not come until 30 dajjals will appear and the final one will be the One-eyed False Messiah.",</p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>Related by <a href="/wiki/Musnad_Ahmad_ibn_Hanbal" title="Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal">Imam Ahmed</a> and <a href="/wiki/Al-Tabarani" title="Al-Tabarani">Imam Tabarani</a> as a sound hâdith.</cite></div></blockquote>
<p><a href="/wiki/Anas_ibn_Malik" title="Anas ibn Malik">Anas ibn Malik</a> narrated that Muhammad said:
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<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1211633275"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>"There is never a prophet who has not warned the Ummah of that one-eyed liar; behold he is one-eyed and your Lord is not one-eyed.<sup id="cite_ref-muslim1_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-muslim1-20">[20]</a></sup> Dajjal is blind of one eye<sup id="cite_ref-muslim2_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-muslim2-21">[21]</a></sup> On his forehead are the letters <a href="/wiki/K-F-R" class="mw-redirect" title="K-F-R">k. f. r.</a> (<a href="/wiki/Kafir" title="Kafir">Kafir</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-muslim1_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-muslim1-20">[20]</a></sup> between the eyes of the Dajjal<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a></sup> which every Muslim would be able to read."<sup id="cite_ref-muslim2_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-muslim2-21">[21]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a></sup></p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite><a href="/wiki/Sahih_Muslim" title="Sahih Muslim">Sahih Muslim</a>, Book 41: The Book Pertaining to the Turmoil and Portents of the Last Hour, Chapter 7: The Turmoil Would Go Like The Mounting Waves of the Ocean, Ahâdith 7007-7009.</cite></div></blockquote>
<p>The <a href="/wiki/Mahdi" title="Mahdi">Mahdi</a> (<abbr style="font-size:85%" title="literal translation">lit.</abbr><span style="white-space: nowrap;"> </span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span><span class="gloss-text">the rightly guided one</span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span>) is the redeemer according to Islam.<sup id="cite_ref-EI2_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EI2-24">[24]</a></sup> Just like the Dajjal,<sup id="cite_ref-Farhang_2017_1-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Farhang_2017-1">[1]</a></sup> the Mahdi is never mentioned in the Quran but his description can be found in the <i>ḥadīth</i> literature;<sup id="cite_ref-EI2_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EI2-24">[24]</a></sup> according to the Islamic eschatological narrative, he will appear on Earth before the <a href="/wiki/Last_Judgment" title="Last Judgment">Day of Judgment</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Farhang_2017_1-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Farhang_2017-1">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Gallagher_2020_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gallagher_2020-17">[17]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Muslim_World_2004_p.421_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Muslim_World_2004_p.421-25">[25]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Glasse_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Glasse-26">[26]</a></sup> At the time of the <a href="/wiki/Second_Coming#Islam" title="Second Coming">Second Coming of Christ</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a></sup> the prophet ʿĪsā shall return to defeat and kill al-Masih ad-Dajjal.<sup id="cite_ref-Farhang_2017_1-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Farhang_2017-1">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Gallagher_2020_17-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gallagher_2020-17">[17]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a></sup> Muslims believe that both ʿĪsā and the Mahdi will rid the world of wrongdoing, injustice, and tyranny, ensuring peace and tranquility.<sup id="cite_ref-Momen_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Momen-29">[29]</a></sup> Eventually, the Dajjal will be killed by the Mahdi and ʿĪsā at the gate of <a href="/wiki/Lod" title="Lod">Lud</a>, who upon seeing Dajjal will cause him to slowly dissolve (like salt in water).<sup id="cite_ref-Cook_2021_3-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cook_2021-3">[3]</a></sup>
</p><p>Since the 1980s, popular Islamic writers, such as Said Ayyub of Egypt, have blamed the forces of Dajjal for the overtaking of the Islamic world by the Western states.<sup id="cite_ref-Akyol-nyt-3-10-16_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Akyol-nyt-3-10-16-30">[30]</a></sup>
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<h3><span id="Twelver_Sh.C4.AB.CA.BFa_eschatology"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Twelver_Shīʿa_eschatology">Twelver Shīʿa eschatology</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Al-Masih_ad-Dajjal&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Twelver Shīʿa eschatology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3>
<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033289096"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Occultation_(Islam)" title="Occultation (Islam)">Occultation (Islam)</a>, <a href="/wiki/Reappearance_of_Muhammad_al-Mahdi" title="Reappearance of Muhammad al-Mahdi">Reappearance of Muhammad al-Mahdi</a>, and <a href="/wiki/The_Fourteen_Infallibles" title="The Fourteen Infallibles">The Fourteen Infallibles</a></div>
<figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Jamkaran_Mosque_%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AC%D8%AF_%D8%AC%D9%85%DA%A9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%82%D9%85_21.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Jamkaran_Mosque_%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AC%D8%AF_%D8%AC%D9%85%DA%A9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%82%D9%85_21.jpg/263px-Jamkaran_Mosque_%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AC%D8%AF_%D8%AC%D9%85%DA%A9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%82%D9%85_21.jpg" decoding="async" width="263" height="175" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Jamkaran_Mosque_%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AC%D8%AF_%D8%AC%D9%85%DA%A9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%82%D9%85_21.jpg/395px-Jamkaran_Mosque_%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AC%D8%AF_%D8%AC%D9%85%DA%A9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%82%D9%85_21.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Jamkaran_Mosque_%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AC%D8%AF_%D8%AC%D9%85%DA%A9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%82%D9%85_21.jpg/526px-Jamkaran_Mosque_%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AC%D8%AF_%D8%AC%D9%85%DA%A9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%82%D9%85_21.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="2000" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Jamkaran_Mosque" title="Jamkaran Mosque">Jamkaran Mosque</a> in <a href="/wiki/Qom" title="Qom">Qom</a>, <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a> is a popular pilgrimage site for <a href="/wiki/Shia_Islam" title="Shia Islam">Shīʿa Muslims</a>. Local belief holds that the <a href="/wiki/Muhammad_al-Mahdi" title="Muhammad al-Mahdi">12th Shīʿīte Imam</a>—the promised <a href="/wiki/Mahdi" title="Mahdi">Mahdi</a> according to <a href="/wiki/Twelver_Shi%27ism" title="Twelver Shi'ism">Twelvers</a>—once appeared and offered prayers at Jamkaran.</figcaption></figure>
<p>In the <a href="/wiki/Twelver_Shi%27ism" title="Twelver Shi'ism">Twelver denomination</a> of <a href="/wiki/Shia_Islam" title="Shia Islam">Shīʿa Islam</a>, one of the signs of the reappearance of the Mahdi whom Twelvers consider to be <a href="/wiki/Muhammad_al-Mahdi" title="Muhammad al-Mahdi">their 12th Imam</a> from the <i><a href="/wiki/Ahl_al-Bayt" title="Ahl al-Bayt">Ahl al-Bayt</a></i> ("People of the Household"), is the advent of the Dajjal.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-31">[31]</a></sup>
</p><p>"Whoever denies al-Mahdi has denied God, and whoever accepts al-Dajjal has denied God (turned an infidel)." This Shīʿīte <i>ḥadīth</i> attributed to Muhammad strongly emphasizes the return of Dajjal and the event of the reappearance of the Mahdi.<sup id="cite_ref-auto2_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto2-32">[32]</a></sup>
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<p>The following is a Twelver Shīʿīte <i>ḥadīth</i> on the topic of the Dajjal, an excerpt from a longer sermon by <a href="/wiki/Ali" title="Ali">ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib</a>:
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<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1211633275"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Narrated <a href="/wiki/Shaykh_Saduq" class="mw-redirect" title="Shaykh Saduq">Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn 'Ali ibn Babawayh al-Qummi</a> in <i>Kamal al-din wa tamam al-ni'mah Vol 2, Ch 47, Hadith 1</i>:
</p><p>Narrated to us Muhammad bin Ibrahim bin Ishaq that he said: Narrated to us Abdul Aziz bin Yahya Jaludi in Basra: Narrated to us Husain bin Maaz: Narrated to us Qais bin Hafs: Narrated to us Yunus bin Arqam from Abi Yasar Shaibani from Zahhak bin Muzahim from Nazaal bin Sabra that he said:
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Asbagh bin Nubatah stood up and said: "O Maula! Who would be the Dajjal?" He (Imam Ali) replied: "The name of Dajjal is Saeed bin Saeed. Thus one who supports him is unfortunate. And fortunate are those who deny him. He shall emerge from Yahoodiya village of Isfahan. On his forehead would be inscribed: 'Kafir' (disbeliever) which would readable to the literate as well as the illiterate.</p><div class="paragraphbreak" style="margin-top:0.5em"></div><p>He shall jump into the seas. The Sun will follow him. A mountain of smoke will precede him and a white mountain will follow him, which in times of famine will be mistaken to be a mountain of food (bread). He shall be mounted on a white ash. One step of that ash will be of one mile. Whichever spring or well he reaches, will dry up forever. He will call out aloud which shall be audible to all in the east and the west from the jinns, humans, and satans."<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-auto2_32-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto2-32">[32]</a></sup></p></blockquote>
<p>He would tell his followers that he is their Lord, whereas he would be a one-eyed man with human needs and God does not have any needs nor he has an eye. Muhammad strongly warned his companions and believers about this deceiving claim. According to a tradition "Al-Dajjal will verily be given birth by his mother in Qous in Egypt, and there will be thirty years separating between his birth and appearance. Shia reports regarding Isa state that he will descend at the Damascus east gate then he will appear in the East where he will be granted caliphate." This is a narration by <a href="/wiki/Naim_ibn_Hammad" title="Naim ibn Hammad">Nu'aym bin Hammad</a> and also according to the hadith of Jassasah, "it is reported that he is confined in an abbey or a palace at an island in the Shaam or the Sea of Yemen. Some hadith reports that he will emerge from Khorasan whereas some say that he will appear in a place between the <a href="/wiki/Syria_(region)" title="Syria (region)">Shaam</a> and <a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-auto2_32-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto2-32">[32]</a></sup> People will be deceived by his magic and sorcery for which he will be falsely claimed as Messiah. On the first day of his appearance, seventy thousand Jews will follow him. They will be wearing green caps. They will consider him as their promised savior; the one who is described in their holy books. The actual cause of their faith would be their animosity with the Muslims. <a href="/wiki/Ja%27far_al-Sadiq" title="Ja'far al-Sadiq">Ja'far al-Sadiq</a> narrates from the Prophet Muhammad that, most of Dajjal's followers would be people from illegitimate relationships, habitual drinkers, singers, musicians, bedouins, and women. He will travel all around the world except Mecca and Medina.. The earth would be under his control to such an extent that even the ruins will turn into treasures and the earth will sprout vegetation on his command. As soon as he descends, he will order a river to flow and then return and then dry up. The river will follow his command. Even the mountains, clouds and wind will be controlled by him. Due to this, his followers will gradually increase which will eventually make him proclaim himself as God.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_31-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-31">[31]</a></sup> A hadith from the Prophet indicates the condition of the world. He said, "Five years prior to the advent of Dajjal there shall be drought and nothing shall be cultivated. Such that all the hoofed animals shall perish”. After his emergence, the world would be facing acute famine. He will have food and water with him. Many people will accept his claim just for some food and water. He will spread oppression and tyranny all over the world.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_31-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-31">[31]</a></sup> The main aim of the Dajjal will be mischief and test of the people. The one who follows him will be exited from Islam and the one who denies him will be the believer.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_31-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-31">[31]</a></sup>
</p><p>When the Mahdi reappears, he will appoint Isa (Jesus) as his representative. Isa would attack him and catch him at the gate of Ludd(present days' 'Lod' near Tel Aviv)<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-auto1_31-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-31">[31]</a></sup> According to the narrations of Ali, when the Mahdi returns, he will lead the prayers and Isa will follow him. As soon as Dajjal sees Isa, Dajjal would melt like Lead. Ali mentions Dajjal's defeat in one of his sermons, saying that Dajjal will set out toward the Hijaz and Isa (Jesus) will intercept him at the passage of Harsha. ‘Isa will direct a horrible shout at him and strike him a decisive blow. <a href="/wiki/Muhammad_al-Baqir" title="Muhammad al-Baqir">Muhammad al-Baqir</a> narrated that at the time when Dajjal will arise, the people would not know about God, hence making it easy for the Dajjal to claim himself as God.
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<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tawhid" title="Tawhid">Tawhid</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Five_Pillars_of_Islam" title="Five Pillars of Islam">Five Pillars of Islam</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Iman_(concept)" class="mw-redirect" title="Iman (concept)">Six articles of faith</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Bay%27ah_(Ahmadiyya)" title="Bay'ah (Ahmadiyya)">Bay'ah</a></li></ul></div></div></td>
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<div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible"><div class="sidebar-list-title">Distinct views</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist">
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mirza_Ghulam_Ahmad" title="Mirza Ghulam Ahmad">Mirza Ghulam Ahmad</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Prophethood_(Ahmadiyya)" title="Prophethood (Ahmadiyya)">Prophethood</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Jesus_in_Ahmadiyya_Islam" title="Jesus in Ahmadiyya Islam">Jesus</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Ahmadiyya_view_on_Jihad" title="Ahmadiyya view on Jihad">Jihad</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Ahmadiyya_views_on_evolution" title="Ahmadiyya views on evolution">Evolution</a></li></ul></div></div></td>
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<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Caliphate_Day" title="Caliphate Day">Caliphate Day</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Eid_al-Adha" title="Eid al-Adha">Eid al-Adha</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Eid_al-Fitr" title="Eid al-Fitr">Eid al-Fitr</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Promised_Messiah_Day" title="Promised Messiah Day">Promised Messiah Day</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Promised_Reformer_Day" title="Promised Reformer Day">Promised Reformer Day</a></li></ul></div></div></td>
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<ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Quran" title="Quran">Quran</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/Sunnah" title="Sunnah">Sunnah</a></i> (<i><a href="/wiki/Hadith" title="Hadith">Hadith</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Prophetic_biography" class="mw-redirect" title="Prophetic biography">Sirah</a></i>)</li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Aqidah" title="Aqidah"><i>Aqidah</i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(creed)</span></a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Tafsir" title="Tafsir"><i>Tafsir</i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(exegesis)</span></a></li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fiqh" title="Fiqh"><i>Fiqh</i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(jurisprudence)</span></a></li>
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<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mirza_Ghulam_Ahmad_bibliography" title="Mirza Ghulam Ahmad bibliography"><i>Rūhānī Khazā᾽in</i></a></li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/Malf%C5%ABz%C4%81t" title="Malfūzāt">Malfūzāt</a></i></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Tafseer-e-Kabeer" title="Tafseer-e-Kabeer"><i>Tafsīr-e-Kabīr</i></a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Haqaiq_al-furqan" title="Haqaiq al-furqan"><i>Haqā'iq al-Furqān</i></a></li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/Review_of_Religions" title="Review of Religions">Review of Religions</a></i></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Al_Fazl_(newspaper)" class="mw-redirect" title="Al Fazl (newspaper)"><i>Al Fazl</i> (newspaper)</a></li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Muslim_Sunrise" title="The Muslim Sunrise">The Muslim Sunrise</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="/wiki/Revelation,_Rationality,_Knowledge_%26_Truth" class="mw-redirect" title="Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth">Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth</a></i></li></ul></div></div></td>
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<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ahmadiyya_Caliphate" title="Ahmadiyya Caliphate">Caliphs:</a>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hakeem_Noor-ud-Din" title="Hakeem Noor-ud-Din">I</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Mirza_Basheer-ud-Din_Mahmood_Ahmad" title="Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad">II</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Mirza_Nasir_Ahmad" title="Mirza Nasir Ahmad">III</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Mirza_Tahir_Ahmad" title="Mirza Tahir Ahmad">IV</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Mirza_Masroor_Ahmad" title="Mirza Masroor Ahmad">V</a></li></ul></li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ahmadiyya#The_Consultative_Council" title="Ahmadiyya">Majlis al-Shura </a></li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lajna_Ima%27illah" title="Lajna Ima'illah">Lajna</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Khuddam-ul_Ahmadiyya" title="Khuddam-ul Ahmadiyya">Khuddām</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Ansarullah_(Ahmadiyya)" title="Ansarullah (Ahmadiyya)">Ansār</a></li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jalsa_Salana" title="Jalsa Salana">Jalsa Salana</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Ahmadiyya_buildings_and_structures" title="List of Ahmadiyya buildings and structures">Mosques</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Jamia_Ahmadiyya" title="Jamia Ahmadiyya">Jamia</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Muslim_Television_Ahmadiyya_International" class="mw-redirect" title="Muslim Television Ahmadiyya International">MTA</a></li></ul></div></div></td>
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<p>Prophecies concerning the emergence of the Dajjal are interpreted in <a href="/wiki/Ahmadiyya" title="Ahmadiyya">Ahmadiyya</a> teachings as designating a specific group of nations centered upon a false theology (or Christology) instead of an individual, with reference to the Dajjal in the singular indicating its unity as a system rather than its personal individuality. In particular, Ahmadis identify the Dajjal collectively with the missionary expansion and colonial dominance of <a href="/wiki/Christianity_in_Europe" title="Christianity in Europe">European Christianity</a> throughout the world, a development which had begun soon after the Muslim <a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Constantinople" title="Fall of Constantinople">conquest of Constantinople</a>, with the <a href="/wiki/Age_of_Discovery" title="Age of Discovery">Age of Discovery</a> in the 15th century and accelerated by the <a href="/wiki/Industrial_Revolution" title="Industrial Revolution">Industrial Revolution</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36">[36]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39">[39]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a></sup> As with other eschatological themes, <a href="/wiki/Mirza_Ghulam_Ahmad" title="Mirza Ghulam Ahmad">Mirza Ghulam Ahmad</a>, the founder of the Ahmadiyya movement, wrote extensively on this topic.
</p><p>The identification of the Dajjal, principally with <a href="/wiki/Christianity_and_colonialism" title="Christianity and colonialism">colonial missionaries</a> was drawn by Ghulam Ahmad through linking the <i>hadith</i> traditions about him with certain Quranic passages such as, <i>inter alia</i>, the description in the <i>hadith</i> of the emergence of the Dajjal as the greatest tribulation since the creation of <a href="/wiki/Adam" title="Adam">Adam</a>, taken in conjunction with the Quran's description of the deification of Jesus as the greatest abomination; the warning only against the putative lapses of the Jews and Christians in <i><a href="/wiki/Al-Fatiha" title="Al-Fatiha">al-Fatiha</a></i>—the principal Islamic prayer—and the absence therein of any warning specifically against the Dajjal; a prophetic <i>hadith</i> which prescribed the recitation of the opening and closing ten verses of chapter eighteen of the Quran, (<i><a href="/wiki/Al-Kahf" title="Al-Kahf">al-Kahf</a></i>) as a safeguard against the mischief of the Dajjal, the former of which speak of a people “who assign a son to God” and the latter, of those whose lives are entirely given to the pursuit and manufacture of material goods; and descriptions of the period of the Dajjal's reign as coinciding with the dominance of Christianity.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a></sup> The attributes of the Dajjal as described in the <i>hadith</i> literature are thus taken as symbolic representations and interpreted in a way which would make them compatible with Quranic readings and not compromise the <a href="/wiki/Tawhid" title="Tawhid">inimitable</a> attributes of God in Islam. The Dajjal being blind in his right eye while being sharp and oversized in his left, for example, is indicative of being devoid of religious insight and spiritual understanding, but excellent in material and scientific attainment.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43">[43]</a></sup> Similarly, the Dajjal not entering <a href="/wiki/Mecca" title="Mecca">Mecca</a> and <a href="/wiki/Medina" title="Medina">Medina</a> is interpreted with reference to the failure of colonial missionaries in reaching these two places.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44">[44]</a></sup>
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<h4><span class="mw-headline" id="Defeat_of_the_Dajjal">Defeat of the Dajjal</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Al-Masih_ad-Dajjal&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Defeat of the Dajjal"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h4>
<p>The defeat of the Dajjal in Ahmadi eschatology is to occur by force of argument and by the warding off of its mischief through the very advent of the Messiah rather than through physical warfare,<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45">[45]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a></sup> with the Dajjal's power and influence gradually disintegrating and ultimately allowing for the recognition and worship of God along with Islamic ideals to prevail throughout the world in a period similar to the period of time it took for nascent Christianity to rise through the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Empire" title="Roman Empire">Roman Empire</a> (see <a href="/wiki/Seven_Sleepers" title="Seven Sleepers">Seven Sleepers</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47">[47]</a></sup> In particular, the teaching that Jesus was a mortal man who survived crucifixion and <a href="/wiki/Jesus_in_Ahmadiyya_Islam" title="Jesus in Ahmadiyya Islam">died a natural death</a>, as propounded by Ghulam Ahmad, has been seen by some scholars as a move to neutralise Christian soteriologies of Jesus and to project the superior rationality of Islam.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48">[48]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49">[49]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51">[51]</a></sup> The 'gate of Lud' (<i>Bāb al-Ludd</i>) spoken of in the <i>hadith</i> literature as the site where the Dajjal is to be slain (or captured)<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52">[52]</a></sup> is understood in this context as indicating the confutation of Christian proclaimants by way of disputative engagement in light of the Quran (<span class="plainlinks"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2002.02.0006%3Asura%3D19%3Averse%3D97">19:97</a></span>). The <i>hadith</i> has also been exteriorly linked with <a href="/wiki/Ludgate_Hill" title="Ludgate Hill">Ludgate</a> in London, the westernmost point where <a href="/wiki/Paul_the_Apostle" title="Paul the Apostle">Paul of Tarsus</a>—widely believed by Muslims to be the principal corrupter of Jesus' original teachings—is thought to have preached according to the <a href="/wiki/The_Lost_Chapter_of_the_Acts_of_the_Apostles" title="The Lost Chapter of the Acts of the Apostles">Sonnini Manuscript</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Acts_of_the_Apostles" title="Acts of the Apostles">Acts of the Apostles</a> and other ecclesiastical works predating its discovery. Upon his arrival in London in 1924, Ghulam Ahmad's son and second <a href="/wiki/Ahmadiyya_Caliphate" title="Ahmadiyya Caliphate">Successor</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mirza_Basheer-ud-Din_Mahmood_Ahmad" title="Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad">Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud</a> proceeded directly to this site and led a lengthy <a href="/wiki/Dua" title="Dua">prayer</a> outside the entrance of <a href="/wiki/St_Paul%27s_Cathedral" title="St Paul's Cathedral">St Paul's Cathedral</a> before laying the foundation for a <a href="/wiki/Fazl_Mosque,_London" title="Fazl Mosque, London">mosque in London</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53">[53]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54">[54]</a></sup>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="See_also">See also</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Al-Masih_ad-Dajjal&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Saf_ibn_Sayyad" title="Saf ibn Sayyad">Saf ibn Sayyad</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Hadith_of_Najd" title="Hadith of Najd">Hadith of Najd</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Sufyani" title="Sufyani">Sufyani</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Armilus" title="Armilus">Armilus</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Djall" title="Djall">Djall</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Antichrist" title="Antichrist">Antichrist</a></li></ul>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Al-Masih_ad-Dajjal&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
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<li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1215172403"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://hadithanswers.com/description-of-dajjals-eyes/">"Description of Dajjal's eyes"</a>. <i>Hadith Answers</i>. 22 May 2018<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">14 June</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Hadith+Answers&rft.atitle=Description+of+Dajjal%27s+eyes&rft.date=2018-05-22&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fhadithanswers.com%2Fdescription-of-dajjals-eyes%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAl-Masih+ad-Dajjal" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1215172403"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://sunnah.com/muslim/54/123">"Sahih Muslim 169e"</a>. <i>sunnah.com</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">17 June</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=sunnah.com&rft.atitle=Sahih+Muslim+169e&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fsunnah.com%2Fmuslim%2F54%2F123&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAl-Masih+ad-Dajjal" class="Z3988"></span>; In-book reference: Book 54 (Tribulations and Portents of the Last Hour), Hadith 123; Reference: Sahih Muslim 169e</span>
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<li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1215172403"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://sunnah.com/muslim/54/128">"Sahih Muslim 2934a"</a>. <i>sunnah.com</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">17 June</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=sunnah.com&rft.atitle=Sahih+Muslim+2934a&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fsunnah.com%2Fmuslim%2F54%2F128&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAl-Masih+ad-Dajjal" class="Z3988"></span>; In-book reference: Book 54 (Tribulations and Portents of the Last Hour), Hadith 128; Reference: Sahih Muslim 2934a</span>
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<li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hamid, F.A. (2008). 'The Futuristic Thought of Ustaz Ashaari Muhammad of Malaysia', p. 209, in I. Abu-Rabi' (ed.) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Sf6HxVjOLPsC"><i>The Blackwell Companion to Contemporary Islamic Thought</i></a>. Malden: Blackwell Publishing, pp.195-212</span>
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<li id="cite_note-abidawud4321-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-abidawud4321_11-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-abidawud4321_11-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-abidawud4321_11-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1215172403"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://sunnah.com/abudawud/39/31">"Sunan Abi Dawud 4321"</a>. <i>sunnah.com</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">17 July</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=sunnah.com&rft.atitle=Sunan+Abi+Dawud+4321&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fsunnah.com%2Fabudawud%2F39%2F31&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAl-Masih+ad-Dajjal" class="Z3988"></span> In-book reference: Book 39 (Battles), Hadith 31; English translation: Book 38, Hadith 4307</span>
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<li id="cite_note-:1-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:1_12-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:1_12-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1215172403"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://sunnah.com/muslim:2937a">"Sahih Muslim 2937a - The Book of Tribulations and Portents of the Last Hour - كتاب الفتن وأشراط الساعة - Sunnah.com - Sayings and Teachings of Prophet Muhammad (صلى الله عليه و سلم)"</a>. <i>sunnah.com</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">11 August</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=sunnah.com&rft.atitle=Sahih+Muslim+2937a+-+The+Book+of+Tribulations+and+Portents+of+the+Last+Hour+-+%D9%83%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%A8+%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D8%AA%D9%86+%D9%88%D8%A3%D8%B4%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B7+%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%A9+-+Sunnah.com+-+Sayings+and+Teachings+of+Prophet+Muhammad+%28%D8%B5%D9%84%D9%89+%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D9%87+%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%87+%D9%88+%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%85%29&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fsunnah.com%2Fmuslim%3A2937a&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAl-Masih+ad-Dajjal" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1215172403"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://sunnah.com/muslim/54/134">"Sahih Muslim 2937a"</a>. <i>sunnah.com</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">17 June</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=sunnah.com&rft.atitle=Sahih+Muslim+2937a&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fsunnah.com%2Fmuslim%2F54%2F134&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAl-Masih+ad-Dajjal" class="Z3988"></span> In-book reference: Book 54 (Tribulations and Portents of the Last Hour), Hadith 134; Reference: Sahih Muslim 2937a</span>
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<li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1215172403"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://sunnah.com/ibnmajah/36/152">"Sunan Ibn Majah 4077"</a>. <i>sunnah.com</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">16 August</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=sunnah.com&rft.atitle=Sunan+Ibn+Majah+4077&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fsunnah.com%2Fibnmajah%2F36%2F152&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAl-Masih+ad-Dajjal" class="Z3988"></span> In-book reference: Book 36 (Tribulations), Hadith 152; English translation: Vol. 5, Book 36, Hadith 4077</span>
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<li id="cite_note-ReferenceB-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-ReferenceB_15-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1215172403"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://sunnah.com/abudawud/39/4">"Sunan Abi Dawud 4294"</a>. <i>sunnah.com</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">17 July</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=sunnah.com&rft.atitle=Sunan+Abi+Dawud+4294&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fsunnah.com%2Fabudawud%2F39%2F4&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAl-Masih+ad-Dajjal" class="Z3988"></span>; In-book reference: Book 39 (Battles), Hadith 4; English translation: Book 38, Hadith 4281, Hasan</span>
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<li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i><a href="/wiki/Sahih_al-Bukhari" title="Sahih al-Bukhari">Sahih al-Bukhari</a></i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/19700101010101/http://cmje.usc.edu/religious-texts/hadith/bukhari/088-sbt.php#009.088.237">9:88:237</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-Gallagher_2020-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Gallagher_2020_17-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Gallagher_2020_17-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Gallagher_2020_17-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1215172403"><cite id="CITEREFGallagher2020" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a href="/wiki/Eugene_V._Gallagher" title="Eugene V. Gallagher">Gallagher, Eugene</a> (28 February 2020). <span class="id-lock-subscription" title="Paid subscription required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://oxfordre.com/religion/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.001.0001/acrefore-9780199340378-e-125">"Millennialism"</a></span>. <i>Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion</i>. <a href="/wiki/Oxford" title="Oxford">Oxford</a>: <a href="/wiki/Oxford_University_Press" title="Oxford University Press">Oxford University Press</a>. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1093%2Facrefore%2F9780199340378.013.125">10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.013.125</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780199340378" title="Special:BookSources/9780199340378"><bdi>9780199340378</bdi></a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">17 January</span> 2022</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Millennialism&rft.btitle=Oxford+Research+Encyclopedia+of+Religion&rft.place=Oxford&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2020-02-28&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1093%2Facrefore%2F9780199340378.013.125&rft.isbn=9780199340378&rft.aulast=Gallagher&rft.aufirst=Eugene&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Foxfordre.com%2Freligion%2Fview%2F10.1093%2Facrefore%2F9780199340378.001.0001%2Facrefore-9780199340378-e-125&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAl-Masih+ad-Dajjal" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-muslim1-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-muslim1_20-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-muslim1_20-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><i><a href="/wiki/Sahih_Muslim" title="Sahih Muslim">Sahih Muslim</a></i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/19700101010101/http://cmje.usc.edu/religious-texts/hadith/muslim/041-smt.php#041.7007">41:7007</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-muslim2-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-muslim2_21-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-muslim2_21-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><i><a href="/wiki/Sahih_Muslim" title="Sahih Muslim">Sahih Muslim</a></i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/19700101010101/http://cmje.usc.edu/religious-texts/hadith/muslim/041-smt.php#041.7009">41:7009</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-Momen-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Momen_29-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Momen 1985: 166-8</span>
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<li id="cite_note-Akyol-nyt-3-10-16-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Akyol-nyt-3-10-16_30-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1215172403"><cite id="CITEREFAkyol2016" class="citation news cs1">Akyol, Mustafa (3 October 2016). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/04/opinion/the-problem-with-the-islamic-apocalypse.html">"The Problem With the Islamic Apocalypse"</a>. <i>The New York Times</i>. New York Times<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">29 January</span> 2022</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=The+Problem+With+the+Islamic+Apocalypse&rft.date=2016-10-03&rft.aulast=Akyol&rft.aufirst=Mustafa&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2016%2F10%2F04%2Fopinion%2Fthe-problem-with-the-islamic-apocalypse.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAl-Masih+ad-Dajjal" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-auto1-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-auto1_31-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-auto1_31-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-auto1_31-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-auto1_31-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-auto1_31-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1215172403"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.al-islam.org/life-imam-al-mahdi-baqir-shareef-al-qurashi/signs-reappearance-imam-time-0">"Signs of the Reappearance of the Imam of the Time (a.s.)"</a>. <i>Al-Islam.org</i>. 13 December 2016.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Al-Islam.org&rft.atitle=Signs+of+the+Reappearance+of+the+Imam+of+the+Time+%28a.s.%29&rft.date=2016-12-13&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.al-islam.org%2Flife-imam-al-mahdi-baqir-shareef-al-qurashi%2Fsigns-reappearance-imam-time-0&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAl-Masih+ad-Dajjal" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-auto2-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-auto2_32-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-auto2_32-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-auto2_32-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1215172403"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.al-islam.org/lights-muhammadan-sunnah-or-defence-hadith-mahmud-abu-rayyah/al-dajjal-impostor">"Al-Dajjal (Impostor)"</a>. <i>Al-Islam.org</i>. 28 February 2020.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Al-Islam.org&rft.atitle=Al-Dajjal+%28Impostor%29&rft.date=2020-02-28&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.al-islam.org%2Flights-muhammadan-sunnah-or-defence-hadith-mahmud-abu-rayyah%2Fal-dajjal-impostor&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAl-Masih+ad-Dajjal" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-33">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1215172403"><cite id="CITEREFAbu_Ja'far_Muhammad_ibn_'Ali_ibn_Babawayh_al-Qummi" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Shaykh_Saduq" class="mw-redirect" title="Shaykh Saduq">Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn 'Ali ibn Babawayh al-Qummi</a>. "Chapter 47: Narration regarding Dajjal (anti-Christ)". <i>Kamal al-din wa tamam al-ni'mah</i>. Vol. 2. Tehran: Dar al-Kutub al-Islamiyya.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Chapter+47%3A+Narration+regarding+Dajjal+%28anti-Christ%29&rft.btitle=Kamal+al-din+wa+tamam+al-ni%27mah&rft.place=Tehran&rft.pub=Dar+al-Kutub+al-Islamiyya&rft.au=Abu+Ja%27far+Muhammad+ibn+%27Ali+ibn+Babawayh+al-Qummi&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAl-Masih+ad-Dajjal" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-34">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sahih Muslim (Dhikr ad-Dajjal)</span>
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<li id="cite_note-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-35">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1215172403"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.al-islam.org/jesus-though-shiite-narrations-mahdi-muntazir-qaim/his-second-coming">"His Second Coming"</a>. <i>Al-Islam.org</i>. 18 November 2013.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Al-Islam.org&rft.atitle=His+Second+Coming&rft.date=2013-11-18&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.al-islam.org%2Fjesus-though-shiite-narrations-mahdi-muntazir-qaim%2Fhis-second-coming&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAl-Masih+ad-Dajjal" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-36">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1215172403"><cite id="CITEREFGlasséSmith2003" class="citation book cs1">Glassé, Cyril; Smith, Huston (2003). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=focLrox-frUC"><i>The New Encyclopedia of Islam</i></a>. Altamira Press. p. 33. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7591-0190-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-7591-0190-6"><bdi>0-7591-0190-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+New+Encyclopedia+of+Islam&rft.pages=33&rft.pub=Altamira+Press&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=0-7591-0190-6&rft.aulast=Glass%C3%A9&rft.aufirst=Cyril&rft.au=Smith%2C+Huston&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DfocLrox-frUC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAl-Masih+ad-Dajjal" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-37">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1215172403"><cite id="CITEREFJonker2015" class="citation book cs1">Jonker, Gerdien (2015). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=GUUpCwAAQBAJ"><i>The Ahmadiyya Quest for Religious Progress: Missionizing Europe 1900-1965</i></a>. Brill Publishers. p. 77. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-90-04-30529-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-90-04-30529-8"><bdi>978-90-04-30529-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Ahmadiyya+Quest+for+Religious+Progress%3A+Missionizing+Europe+1900-1965&rft.pages=77&rft.pub=Brill+Publishers&rft.date=2015&rft.isbn=978-90-04-30529-8&rft.aulast=Jonker&rft.aufirst=Gerdien&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DGUUpCwAAQBAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAl-Masih+ad-Dajjal" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-38">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1215172403"><cite id="CITEREFValentine2008" class="citation book cs1">Valentine, Simon (2008). <i>Islam and the Ahmadiyya jamaʻat: history, belief, practice</i>. Columbia University Press. p. 148. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-231-70094-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-231-70094-8"><bdi>978-0-231-70094-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Islam+and+the+Ahmadiyya+jama%CA%BBat%3A+history%2C+belief%2C+practice&rft.pages=148&rft.pub=Columbia+University+Press&rft.date=2008&rft.isbn=978-0-231-70094-8&rft.aulast=Valentine&rft.aufirst=Simon&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAl-Masih+ad-Dajjal" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-39">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Malik Ghulam Farid, et al. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.alislam.org/quran/tafseer/?page=1479&region=E1">Al-Kahf, <i>The Holy Quran with English Translation and Commentary</i></a> Vol. III, p.1479</span>
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<li id="cite_note-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-40">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Muhammad Ali. (1992) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://aaiil.org/text/books/mali/gog/antichristgogmagog.pdf"><i>The Antichrist and Gog and Magog</i></a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180701133728/http://aaiil.org/text/books/mali/gog/antichristgogmagog.pdf">Archived</a> 1 July 2018 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, Ohio: Ahmadiyya Anjuman-i Ishāʿat-i Islām</span>
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<li id="cite_note-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-41">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, (2005), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.alislam.org/library/browse/book/The_Essence_of_Islam/?p=3#page/279/mode/1up"><i>The Essence of Islam</i>, Vol. III</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171111042054/https://www.alislam.org/library/browse/book/The_Essence_of_Islam/?p=3">Archived</a> 11 November 2017 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, Tilford: Islam International, p.290</span>
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<li id="cite_note-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-42">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Muhammad Ali. (1992) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://aaiil.org/text/books/mali/gog/antichristgogmagog.pdf"><i>The Antichrist and Gog and Magog</i></a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180701133728/http://aaiil.org/text/books/mali/gog/antichristgogmagog.pdf">Archived</a> 1 July 2018 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, Ohio: Ahmadiyya Anjuman-i Ishāʿat-i Islām, pp.12-14</span>
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<li id="cite_note-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-43">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Muhammad Ali. (1992) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://aaiil.org/text/books/mali/gog/antichristgogmagog.pdf"><i>The Antichrist and Gog and Magog</i></a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180701133728/http://aaiil.org/text/books/mali/gog/antichristgogmagog.pdf">Archived</a> 1 July 2018 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, Ohio: Ahmadiyya Anjuman-i Ishāʿat-i Islām, pp.19-20</span>
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<li id="cite_note-44"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-44">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, (2005), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.alislam.org/library/browse/book/The_Essence_of_Islam/?p=3#page/290/mode/1up"><i>The Essence of Islam</i>, Vol. III</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171111042054/https://www.alislam.org/library/browse/book/The_Essence_of_Islam/?p=3">Archived</a> 11 November 2017 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, Tilford: Islam International, p.290</span>
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<li id="cite_note-45"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-45">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Muhammad Ali. (1992) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://aaiil.org/text/books/mali/gog/antichristgogmagog.pdf"><i>The Antichrist and Gog and Magog</i></a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180701133728/http://aaiil.org/text/books/mali/gog/antichristgogmagog.pdf">Archived</a> 1 July 2018 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, Ohio: Ahmadiyya Anjuman-i Ishāʿat-i Islām, pp.57-60</span>
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<li id="cite_note-46"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-46">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mirza Masroor Ahmad, (2006). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.alislam.org/introduction/conditions.pdf"><i>Conditions of Bai'at and Responsibilities of an Ahmadi</i></a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101228043314/http://www.alislam.org/introduction/conditions.pdf">Archived</a> 28 December 2010 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, Surrey: Islam International, p.184</span>
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<li id="cite_note-47"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-47">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1215172403"><cite id="CITEREFValentine2008" class="citation book cs1">Valentine, Simon (2008). <i>Islam and the Ahmadiyya jamaʻat: history, belief, practice</i>. Columbia University Press. pp. 148–9. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-231-70094-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-231-70094-8"><bdi>978-0-231-70094-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Islam+and+the+Ahmadiyya+jama%CA%BBat%3A+history%2C+belief%2C+practice&rft.pages=148-9&rft.pub=Columbia+University+Press&rft.date=2008&rft.isbn=978-0-231-70094-8&rft.aulast=Valentine&rft.aufirst=Simon&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAl-Masih+ad-Dajjal" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-48"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-48">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Francis Robinson.<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=XLvL4zh8KK4C">‘The British Empire and the Muslim World' in Judith Brown, Wm Roger Louis (ed) <i>The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume IV: The Twentieth Century</i>.</a> Oxford University Press, 1999, p. 411. "At their most extreme religious strategies for dealing with the Christian presence might involve attacking Christian revelation at its heart, as did the Punjabi Muslim, Ghulam Ahmad (d. 1908), who founded the Ahmadiyya missionary sect. He claimed that he was the messiah of the Jewish and Muslim tradition; the figure known as Jesus of Nazareth had not died on the cross but survived to die in Kashmir."</span>
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<li id="cite_note-49"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-49">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Yohanan Friedmann. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=rv8EAAAACAAJ&q=Prophecy+Continuous"><i>Prophecy Continuous: Aspects of Ahmadi Religious Thought and its Medieval Background</i></a> Oxford University Press, 2003, p. 114. "He [Ghulam Ahmad] realized the centrality of the crucifixion and of the doctrine of vicarious atonement in the Christian dogma, and understood that his attack on these two was an attack on the innermost core of Christianity "</span>
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<li id="cite_note-50"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-50">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Kambiz_GhaneaBassiri" title="Kambiz GhaneaBassiri">Kambiz GhaneaBassiri</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books/about/A_History_of_Islam_in_America.html?id=xKsLCx2VmcwC"><i>A History of Islam in America: From the New World to the New World Order</i></a> Cambridge University Press, 2010, p. 208. "Ghulam Ahmad denied the historicity of Jesus' crucifixion and claimed that Jesus had fled to India where he died a natural death in Kashmir. In this way, he sought to neutralize Christian soteriologies of Christ and to demonstrate the superior rationality of Islam."</span>
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<li id="cite_note-51"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-51">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1215172403"><cite id="CITEREFValentine2008" class="citation book cs1">Valentine, Simon (2008). <i>Islam and the Ahmadiyya jamaʻat: history, belief, practice</i>. Columbia University Press. p. 21. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-231-70094-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-231-70094-8"><bdi>978-0-231-70094-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Islam+and+the+Ahmadiyya+jama%CA%BBat%3A+history%2C+belief%2C+practice&rft.pages=21&rft.pub=Columbia+University+Press&rft.date=2008&rft.isbn=978-0-231-70094-8&rft.aulast=Valentine&rft.aufirst=Simon&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAl-Masih+ad-Dajjal" class="Z3988"></span> "Proclaiming himself as reformer of Islam, and wanting to undermine the validity of Christianity, Ahmad went for the theological jugular, the foundational teachings of the Christian faith. 'The death of Jesus Christ' explained one of Ahmad's biographers ‘was to be the death-knell of the Christian onslaught against Islam'. As Ahmad argued, the idea of Jesus dying in old age, rather than death on a cross, as taught by the gospel writers, 'invalidates the divinity of Jesus and the doctrine of Atonement'."</span>
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<li id="cite_note-52"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-52">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">'Gate of Lud' Abul Husayn Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj Qushayri al-Nishapuri. <i>Sahih Muslim</i>. Of the Turmoil & Portents of the Last Hour. No 7015</span>
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<li id="cite_note-53"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-53">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1215172403"><cite id="CITEREFGeaves2017" class="citation book cs1">Geaves, Ron (2017). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=mMA2DwAAQBAJ"><i>Islam and Britain: Muslim Mission in an Age of Empire</i></a>. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 138. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4742-7173-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4742-7173-8"><bdi>978-1-4742-7173-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Islam+and+Britain%3A+Muslim+Mission+in+an+Age+of+Empire&rft.pages=138&rft.pub=Bloomsbury+Publishing&rft.date=2017&rft.isbn=978-1-4742-7173-8&rft.aulast=Geaves&rft.aufirst=Ron&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DmMA2DwAAQBAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAl-Masih+ad-Dajjal" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-54"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-54">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Shahid, Dost Mohammad, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://alislam.org/urdu/pdf/Tarikh-e-Ahmadiyyat-V04.pdf"><i>Tarikh e Ahmadiyyat</i> vol IV.</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110807003931/http://www.alislam.org/urdu/pdf/Tarikh-e-Ahmadiyyat-V04.pdf">Archived</a> 7 August 2011 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> p446.</span>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.masud.co.uk/ISLAM/ahm/cardiff.htm"><i>Seeing with Both Eyes</i></a>, transcript of a lecture on the Dajjal by Cambridge Professor Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad (born <a href="/wiki/Timothy_Winter" title="Timothy Winter">Timothy Winter</a>)</li></ul>
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<li><a href="/wiki/Beast_of_the_Earth" title="Beast of the Earth">Beast of the Earth</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Dhu_al-Qarnayn" title="Dhu al-Qarnayn">Dhu al-Qarnayn</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Dhul-Suwayqatayn" title="Dhul-Suwayqatayn">Dhul-Suwayqatayn</a></li>
<li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Dajjal</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Israfil" title="Israfil">Israfil</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Mahdi" title="Mahdi">Mahdi</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Sufyani" title="Sufyani">Sufyani</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Jewish_eschatology" title="Jewish eschatology">Jewish</a>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Messiah_in_Judaism" title="Messiah in Judaism">Messiah</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Gog_and_Magog" title="Gog and Magog">War of Gog and Magog</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Third_Temple" title="Third Temple">Third Temple</a></li></ul></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Ragnar%C3%B6k" title="Ragnarök">Norse</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Frashokereti" title="Frashokereti">Zoroastrian</a>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Saoshyant" title="Saoshyant">Saoshyant</a></li></ul></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="/wiki/2011_end_times_prediction" title="2011 end times prediction">2011 end times prediction</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/2012_phenomenon" title="2012 phenomenon">2012 phenomenon</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Apocalypse" title="Apocalypse">Apocalypse</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Apocalyptic_literature" title="Apocalyptic literature">Apocalyptic literature</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Apocalypticism" title="Apocalypticism">Apocalypticism</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Armageddon" title="Armageddon">Armageddon</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Blood_moon_prophecy" title="Blood moon prophecy">Blood moon prophecy</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Earth_Changes" title="Earth Changes">Earth Changes</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Global_catastrophic_risk" title="Global catastrophic risk">End time</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Gog_and_Magog" title="Gog and Magog">Gog and Magog</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events" title="List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events">List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Messianism" title="Messianism">Messianism</a>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Messianic_Age" title="Messianic Age">Messianic Age</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Millenarianism" title="Millenarianism">Millenarianism</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Millennialism" title="Millennialism">Millennialism</a>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Premillennialism" title="Premillennialism">Premillennialism</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Amillennialism" title="Amillennialism">Amillennialism</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Postmillennialism" title="Postmillennialism">Postmillennialism</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Nemesis_(hypothetical_star)" title="Nemesis (hypothetical star)">Nemesis (hypothetical star)</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Nibiru_cataclysm" title="Nibiru cataclysm">Nibiru cataclysm</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Rapture" title="Rapture">Rapture</a>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rapture#Prewrath_premillennialism" title="Rapture">Prewrath</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Post-tribulation_rapture" title="Post-tribulation rapture">Post-tribulation rapture</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Universal_resurrection" title="Universal resurrection">Resurrection of the dead</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/World_to_come" title="World to come">World to come</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alien_invasion" title="Alien invasion">Alien invasion</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Apocalyptic_and_post-apocalyptic_fiction" title="Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction">Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction</a>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_apocalyptic_and_post-apocalyptic_fiction" title="List of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction">List of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/List_of_apocalyptic_films" title="List of apocalyptic films">List of apocalyptic films</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Climate_fiction" title="Climate fiction">Climate fiction</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Disaster_film" title="Disaster film">Disaster films</a>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_disaster_films" title="List of disaster films">List of disaster films</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/List_of_fictional_doomsday_devices" title="List of fictional doomsday devices">List of fictional doomsday devices</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Zombie_apocalypse" title="Zombie apocalypse">Zombie apocalypse</a>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Zombie" title="Zombie">Zombie</a></li></ul></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Organizations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Centre_for_the_Study_of_Existential_Risk" title="Centre for the Study of Existential Risk">Centre for the Study of Existential Risk</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Future_of_Humanity_Institute" title="Future of Humanity Institute">Future of Humanity Institute</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Future_of_Life_Institute" title="Future of Life Institute">Future of Life Institute</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Nuclear_Threat_Initiative" title="Nuclear Threat Initiative">Nuclear Threat Initiative</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ransomware" title="Ransomware">Ransomware</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Cyberwarfare" title="Cyberwarfare">Cyberwarfare</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Economic_depression" title="Economic depression">Depression</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Drought" title="Drought">Droughts</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Epidemic" title="Epidemic">Epidemic</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Famine" title="Famine">Famine</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Financial_crisis" title="Financial crisis">Financial crisis</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Pandemic" title="Pandemic">Pandemic</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Riot" title="Riot">Riots</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Social_crisis" title="Social crisis">Social crisis</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Survivalism" title="Survivalism">Survivalism</a></li></ul>
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