Dajjal: System or Person?

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Re: Dajjal: System or Person?

@kchughtai

dajjal has been traditionally taken as a person. Dajjal as a system or culture are rather recent ideas. Also Muslims have started to acknowledge that the ride of dajjal that is depicted as a donkey in ahadith actually points to recent inventions like airplane etc. but still a long way to go.
Still they argue on whether his being one-eyed will be by birth, it will appear in the center of his forehead etc. but totally ignore the wisdom hidden in the ahadith mentioned by teggy i.e.,
Dajjal will be one-eyed but your lord is not. Just this line shows that physical blindness is not referred to.

Peace kchughtai

If you look at the hadith about having a “donkey” - the metaphor is direct - in other words mode of travel. If you have accepted that then it must mean that Dajjal is human because only humans travel in planes. It’s clear also that Dajjal has two eyes … from hadith … He will be blind in both … yet he will be one eyed … So from hadith he will be all three … No eyed, one eyed, and two eyed … So we don’t need to go far to understand that we need interpretation here. A reconciliation is required for this, but before we do that we need to go back to the hadith themselves.

It is enough for a Muslim to know that any form contained in 3D space cannot be God … If he needs planes to travel with it is just another marker of his subservience to nature. However, the atheist mind or the mind that has not been accustomed to miracle (having explained things away) will see him achieve amazing things and that will make that person falter … in awe and start to believe that only God can take life and give it back … And yet if that is a metaphor in itself with modern medical technology we can achieve many things making it seem that life may be mechanical we could be left to discard the religious concepts as make beliefs …

The cautious approach is that Dajjal is already here … We know that he is already a known person … as met by the few who saw him chained on an island … Who is to say that the direction of the media, politics, economy and warfare is not a brainchild of his making … ??? We shall wait and see.