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− Western world which turns men into beastly beings. The word swine stands for the so called sexual anarchy sweeping across America and Europe. It stands for the disgusting debauchery which claim even innocent children as its victims. The most Traditions assuredly did not convey that the Messiah would hunt down herds of wild boar or domesticated pigs. This would be a strange image of a Prophet of God. It would rather remind one of Ajax, a hero from Greek Mythology, who cut to pieces herds of cattle and flocks of sheep in the mad belief that they were the Greek army's chieftains! The Antichrist, too, like the Messiah, the cross and the swine is symbolic. He symbolizes a great powerful nation which rules not only the earth but also space. The cross and the swine are in fact symbols pertaining to this nation. The say that the Traditions Antichrist's right eye will be sightless but his left eye will be large and bright. This is a symbolic description of the fact that though this nation would be devoid of spiritual light yet its material insight and therefore material attainment, would be great. Lastly, the Ahmadi Muslims consider the Antichrist's ass to ± − be a symbol too - a symbol that was used to describe the means of transportation of the days to come. All the features describing this ass are without exception identifiable with the fuel-powered vehicles invented by the West. Consider the salient features of the ass - as described in the Traditions - it will eat fire, it will travel over land, over sea and above the air; its speed will be so great that it will cover a journey of months within the space of a few hours; the passengers will travel not on its back but in its belly which would be lit up; it will announce its departure and ask passengers to take their seats. The fulfillment of these things with such wondrous exactness is a glorious testimony of the truth of the Holy Prophet Muhammad. sa ± (Revival of Religion, Hadrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad, pp 3-6) ± ± − ± − ± 278