Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 7
7 NOVEMBER 1906 The Promised Messiahas said: Dajjal It is proven from the ahādīth that the Dajjal [Antichrist] will emerge from the church. ¹ He had been confined to the دیر (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 Dajjal in the ahādīth, 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. 7 The Awaited Musleh The Promised Messiahas said: Various names of the awaited Musleh 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. Şahih Muslim, Kitābul-Fitani wa Ashrātis-Saʻah, Bāb Qişşatul-Jassāsah [Publisher]