Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 7
7 November 1906 7 Dajj a l The Promised Messiah as said: It is proven from the a ha d i th that the Dajj a l [Antichrist] will emerge from the church. 1 He had been confined to the ر ی د�َ (meaning church) for a thousand years. He emerged into the world after that and began his efforts against the Muslims. His name has been mentioned as Dajj a l in the a ha d i th, and he has been described as the serpent and Satan in previous scrip- tures. In reality, they are both the same. The description of him emerging from the church clearly indicates who he is, where he lives and what his mischievous deeds are. The Awaited Mu s le h The Promised Messiah as said: Various names of the awaited Mu s le h and Mujaddid have been written in previous scriptures. They all mean the same, and point to the same person: the Messiah, Mahdi [the Guided One], a man of Persian descent, etc. He has been mentioned as a man of Persian descent hailing from this very Ummah due to his most magnificent objective; that is, to re-establish the lost faith—even if faith were to disappear from the world and ascend to the Pleiades, he would establish it again upon the earth. Objectives are of two kinds: firstly, to expel mischief and secondly, to bring about good. Mentioning the latter, he has been associated with this Ummah. 1. S a hih Muslim, Kit a bul-Fitani wa Ashr at is-S a‘ ah, B a b Qi ss atul-Jass a sah [Publisher]