The great event of history
T
HE
ESTABLISHMENT
OF
world order through the efforts of Gog
and Magog is a very great event in human history in terms of its
consequences. Through this evolution for the first time in human
history, nature has become a major subject of investigation,
instead of being an object of veneration. Consequently, all the
resources of the earth are being and will continue to be exploited.
This has been referred to thus in a hadith: “The earth will deliver
all its treasures, leaving nothing inside.” (Ibn Majah,
Kitab
Al-Fitan
)
This process of discovering the material secrets hidden in
nature is being performed by western scientists, who being
secular, are totally indifferent to religious matters, displaying
neither a positive nor a negative attitude. But the philosophers
and thinkers will use their research for their respective purposes.
In this way two groups will be formed – secular thinkers and
religious thinkers. After the advent of the age of science, the
perverted ideas produced in the world have been the result not
of science but of atheism.
The appearance of Dajjal
T
HE
ROOT
OF
dajjal
is
‘dajl’
which means to deceive. When a
metal is given a gold polish to simulate gold, this process of
polishing is called
Dajl
.
Dajil
means deceiver.
Dajjal
is the
superlative degree, that is, a great deceiver.
In later times dajjal has been called the deceiver, because he
will act deceitfully. He will indulge in acts of gross
misrepresentation of the truth to the people in order to mislead
them. Another name for
Dajl
in ideological matters is
misinterpretation, i.e. an incorrect or false explanation.
Dajjal
will not wield the sword for this purpose, for people cannot be
mislead by the sword—only false reasoning can mislead them.
Such acts of
Dajl
have repeatedly occurred in the world. But
