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Dajjal-the Antichrist 287 through the heavenly light and blessings which the heav- enly Messiah will bring with him. [Ayyām-uş-Şulḥ, Rūķānī Khazā'in, vol. 14, pp. 296-297] The Meaning of Dajjal Circuiting the Ka'bah Our Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) saw in a vision that the Dajjal was performing the circuit of the Ka'bah, and was doing it stealthily, like a thief, so that he could destroy the Ka'bah whenever the opportunity offered. . . . Obviously, no one can say that the Dajjal would actually become a Muslim and perform the circuit of the Ka'bah. Every intelligent person will inter- pret this revelation as a vision through which the spiritual condition of the Dajjal was revealed to the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), and that this allegory presented itself to him in a vision in which he saw the Dajjal was circuiting the Ka'bah like an actual person. What it meant was that the Dajjal would be a bit- ter enemy of Islam and would hover around the Ka'bah with evil intentions. We know that just as the watchman goes around the houses at night, so does a thief. But while the watchman seeks to protect the houses and to catch the thief, the thief's motive is to steal and plunder. Thus the interpretation of this vision of the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) is that the Dajjal will be preoccupied with trying to violate the sanc- tity of the Ka'bah, while the Promised Messiah, who was also seen performing circuit of the Ka'bah, would be busy protecting the House of Allah and trying to appre- hend the Dajjal. [Ayyām-uş-Şulḥ, Rūķānī Khazā'in, vol. 14, pp. 274-275] The fact that both the Promised Messiah and the Dajjal will perform circuits of the Ka'bah proves that this does