The Essence of Islam – Volume III — Page 285
Dajjal the Antichrist 285 who does not wage war and reforms mankind through his spiritual power alone. As against this, the word 'Messiah' also applies to the Promised Dajjāl whose evil power and influence produce calamities, atheism and faithlessness. Even without employing coercive means to destroy the truth, he can make righteousness and love for. God grow cold merely by concentration, speech, writing, association and by the influence of his satanic spirit. On the other hand, misconduct, drunkenness, lying, promiscuity, materialism, fraud, tyranny, oppression, famine and epidemics become the order of the day. These are the meanings which emerge from a collective study of standard Arabic lexicons like Lisān-ul-'Arab; and these are the meanings which God has disclosed to me. [Ayyam-uş-Şulḥ, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 14, p. 294]. Remember, it is also written about the Messiah-the bearer of spiritual blessings, whose advent in the latter days has been promised to the Muslims that he would slay the Promised Dajjāl. But it does not mean he will actually kill him with a gun or a sword. What it means is that he will do away with all deceitful innovations in religion. . A study of Aḥādīth reveals that Dajjāl is actually the name of Satan. And the people whom Satan will employ to serve his purpose are also metaphorically called. Dajjal, because they are like his limbs. The following verse of the Holy Qur'ān means that the creation of God is far greater than that of men: لخَلْقُ السَّمَوتِ وَالأَرْضِ اكْبَرُ من خَلْقِ النَّاسِ 205. It refers the people concerning whom it is written that 205 Al-Mu'min, 40:58 [Publisher]