a question about dajjal

hypnotix-2000 · October 31, 2007, 7:05pm

Re: a question about dajjal

A-O-A perhaps this topic has been exhausted but i just want to know whether we are supposed to take the following sybolically or literally?
Ubadah ibn Saamit radiyallahu anhu narrates that the Last Prophet

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(peace & blessings be upon him) *said, ‘I have explained Dajjal to you, but I fear that you might not have understood. Maseeh-ud-Dajjal will be short and his legs will be crooked. The hair on his head will be extremely twisted. He will have one eye, while his other eye will be flat. It will be neither deep, nor protruding.’ Those who obey the Dark Messiah will enter his Paradise (and thus enter Hell), and those who denounce him will enter his Hell (and so shall in reality be entering Paradise). He will travel by means of a gigantic mule, at impossible speeds. He will cause droughts and famine upon those who reject him. But the remembrance of the true Lord will satiate "
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At best I would, very cautiously, consider it symbolic…

Please consider the meaning of Dajjal: DJL - if you consider the john-doe root Faa-Ayn-Laam (he did), then the grammatical operator would make it Fa’'aal, exemplifying “Doer” in its complete and proper sense. The root DJL means to smear with black tar (dark) so Dajjaal means “He who completely covers something with darkness” or, in the apocryphal sense, the opposite of “He who completely illuminates”… in other words, the Maseeh-ad-Dajjal would be translated as the Anti-Messiah. This fictional character has trickled into Islamic tradition through Christian traditions, especially the Syriac Apocalypces.