Dajal

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The Dajal ( Arabic الدّجّال ad-Dajjāl , DMG ad-Daǧǧāl  'the deceiver, deceiver, swindler') is a figure in Islamic eschatology who is supposed to appear before the “day of resurrection”. He is comparable with the Antichrist and with the Jewish tradition of Armilus .

Etymological

Actually the figure appears as al-Masih ad-daddjal (المسيح الدّجّال, al-Masīḥ ad-daǧǧāl , "false messiah ") in the traditions. The term goes back to the Syriac-Aramaic term Meshiha Deghala / mesīḥē daggālē, as it was used 400 years before the Koran in the Middle East, including in Syrian translations of the New Testament ( Mt 24:24  ELB ).

There are allegedly over 50 attempts to explain why this figure is called Mesih , i.e. Messiah.

Appearance and characteristics

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According to tradition, Muhammad reported a total of 30 deceptions that would appear in the course of time, the last of which would be Dajāl. The Dajal will first perform in Syria or Iraq, ride a white donkey and be accompanied by 70,000 men from Isfahan .

The Qur'an does not mention Dajāl, but its properties describe various Islamic traditions according to which it “ shall be on earth on a day that is like a year, a day like a month, a day like a week and the rest of the time Days that are like our days ":

  • He will be malformed and have a blind eye.
  • He will deceive the believers; he will teach that paradise is hell and vice versa.
  • The Arabic letters Kaf, Fa and Ra ( Kafir (كفر), 'unbelief') will be written on his forehead .
  • He will have the ability to work miracles to confuse Muslims.
  • He will try to put a person on God's throne.
  • He will not be able to enter the cities of Mecca and Medina .
  • According to Shiite doctrine, the Mahdi will fight him in the name of Islam.
  • He will be killed by Isa (Jesus).

There are many different places identified with the rise of the jjjal and mostly it comes from the east. He should perform miracles similar to those of Jesus, heal the sick, let vegetation grow and raise the dead, or awaken appearances with the help of satanic companions. Jesus himself would kill him on his return, for which he only had to look at him, whereupon the Dajjal would melt away. The relationship between Jjal and Jesus is obscure. Following a tradition, he followed Jesus on his pilgrimage around the Kaaba and seems to be a double. Even if the first sources describe him as human, in later traditions he is more likely to be described as a Satan in human form. Most of the followers of the Daddjal are Jews, an idea that probably comes from the remnants of Christian anti-Christian legends. Further parallels arise from the idea that the Dajjal was chained until the end times and the Christian notion that an apocalyptic monster would be chained until the end times.

Importance in Islamic philosophy and mysticism

Ahmed Hulusi describes the end times as an individual experience rather than a global event. In addition to the ego and the devils , the Dajal represents an enemy of spiritual development. Man, in a state of belief that he is an isolated and separate being, strives for physical or earthen fulfillment. This is the realm of Dajāl , that heaven that is really hell. The hereafter, as a world detached from the ego , should be imagined by man in this state as hell, but it is actually heaven. In order to free oneself from the realm of Dajāl, one must strengthen one's inner Mahdi . When the Mahdi has been awakened, he is still facing the Dajal , who then proclaims himself to be god and the ego reveals himself as Allah . In this phase a person has to realize that his ego is not divine, but that he is part of the divine. Only Jesus will kill the Dajāl , which happens when he enters the state of Fana . Until then, man will have to strengthen his inner Mahdi in order to withstand the heaven of Dajāl with all its temptations.

Use of the term in a political context

The Fatimids , whose first caliph had presented himself as Mahdi, called the enemy as Dajāl, who almost destroyed their empire in the years 944 to 946 with his warriors devastating Ifrīqiya : the Kharijite Berber leader Abu Yazid riding a donkey .

The Ahmadiyya regard Dajāl (also Masih ad-Dajjal) not as a concrete person, but as a collective term that symbolizes the Christian West or Europe.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ahmed Hulusi The Observing One Softcover ISBN 978-0-615-63664-1 , p. 49.
  2. ^ Heinz Halm : Das Reich des Mahdi , Munich 1991, p. 273.
  3. ^ Tadhkirah, Translated by Muhammad Zafrullah Khan, Islam International Publications, "Islamabad" Sheephatch Lane, Tilford, Surrey GU10 2AQ UK, 1976, ISBN 978-1-84880-051-9 , 1366 pages, p. 288.
  4. ^ "Death of Jesus", by Shahid Aziz, Bulletin October 2001, Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat Islam Lahore (UK) The Promised Mehdi and Messiah, p. 50, "Jesus Migrated to India," by Aziz Ahmad Chaudhry, Islam International Publications Limited

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