Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 132
132 ten verses of this chapter contain a refutation of Christianity. One of the verses reads: 71 َّو َرِذْنُي َنْيِذَّلا اوُلاَق َذَخَّتا ُهّٰللا اًدَلَو (Allah has revealed this book so) that it may warn those who say, ‘Allah has taken unto Himself a son. ’ This shows that Dajj a l and Christianity are the same, because the cure is administered according to the malady. If the evil of the Dajj a l was something distinct from that of Christianity, the Holy Prophet s as would never have told his followers that, to be saved from the Dajj a l , they should recite verses that have no mention of Dajj a l at all and instead contain a refutation of Christianity. Obviously, he considered the proponents of Christianity to be the Dajj a l. The greatest obstacle to a true understanding of the Dajj a l is the preconception that he would be an individual. This is not so. The lexicons define Dajj a l as: ُ فْقَة ِّ ِي َ الر ھ َ ْلِهَا وَقِيْل ھ َ َثْرَة ِ أ ک ِ َرْض َ ب ْأ ي ال ِّ فْقَة ِ الْعَظِيْمَة ِ تُغَط ِّ ْد ِ لِلر ی أَو ْ مِن َ الدَّجَّال ِ بِالتَّشْدِ 72 ِ جَارَة ِّ تَحْمِل ُ الْمَتَاع َ لِلت The Dajj a l is the name of a large party which, through force of numbers, will spread over the earth; and, accord - ing to some authorities, it is the name of a party that keeps moving its good and materials from one part of the world to another. 73 ُ فْقَة ُ الْعَظِيْمَة ِّ ال ُ اَلر َّ ج َّ اَلد (The Dajj a l is a very large group). These descriptions fully apply to Christian preachers who, in