Dābbat al-Ard

16th century Persian illustration of the earth animal

The Dābbat al-Ard ( Arabic دابة الأرض Earth animal , DMG Dābbat al-Arḍ ) is one of the signs of Judgment Day in Islam , which appears after the sign of the rising sun has arrived in the west. In the Koran this beast is mentioned in sura 27 verse 82: " And when the saying goes about them, We will bring out an animal out of the earth that speaks to them. For people (until then) did not trust our signs ." The exact meaning of this verse would only become known to those who witnessed this event for themselves. Dabba is not to be confused with the jjjal .

According to a hadith by az-Zubair , the dābba animal has the head of a bull, the eye of a pig, the ear of an elephant, the horns of a deer, the neck of an ostrich, the chest of a lion, the color of a tiger, the tail of one Ram and the legs of a camel. ar-Razi notes that many of the comments made by the commentators have no clues in the text itself and therefore have no meaning and no actual informative value. For those who only convert to God when they see the beast, it is too late to find grace, because then they would no longer want to find God through faith, but only through their own observations.

In terms of religious history, the idea is related to the marks of the beast .

literature

AS Fulton: "Dābba" in Encyclopedia of Islam . Brill, Leiden, 1913-1936. Vol. I, p. 921b digitized

Individual evidence

^ Adel Theodor Khoury : The Koran. Translated and commented by Adel Theodor Khoury. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2007, ISBN 978-3-579-08023-9 , p. 369.

Web links

27. The ants (An-Naml) , Koran in German
Latter Day Sign , Tawhid.net
The great omens part 6: Gog and Magog; The talking animal; Sunrise from the west; The smoke; The fire from Yemen . islam compact

[1] Adel Theodor Khoury : The Koran. Translated and commented by Adel Theodor Khoury. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2007, ISBN 978-3-579-08023-9 , p. 369.