The
Dajjali
menace is not by its nature a new menace. It is
only the culmination of the satanic menace. Satan has always
tried to make untruth appear attractive and thus make people
deviate from the truth. In the scientific age, this satanic fallacy
presented in beautiful words will appear in the form of elegant
scientific arguments. (15:39)
Such falsification always requires supportive resources,
which, lacking in previous times, now exist in abundance.
Dajjal
is, in fact, that great deceiver who, employing these modern
resources, will make untruth appear very attractive by forceful
presentation of falsehood, until the advent of a believer who by
the special grace of God, will put this
dajjaliat
(deception) to an
end on an ideological level.
What is
Dajjaliat
D
AJJALIAT
IS
NOT
an evil which will appear all of a sudden.
Dajjaliat
is in fact a superlative degree of satanic deception.
Deception
and
Dajl
are almost synonymous in meaning. Deception
is common deception while
dajjaliat
is deception of a high
degree. The Quran tells us that at the very time of man’s creation,
Satan issued this challenge: “I shall make the path of error seem
alluring to them on the earth and shall mislead them all, …”
(15:39). At another point in the Quran, the same threat is
expressed thus: “I will surely come upon them from before them
and from behind them and from their right and from their left,
and then you will find most of them ungrateful.” (7:17)
The
fitna
of ungratefulness
T
HESE
VERSES
OF
the Quran show that the actual purpose of
satanic deception is to make man ungrateful for God’s bounty.
By employing attractive strategy, Satan will lead man into
ungratefulness. If a man is rightly guided, he will lead his life
with feelings of gratitude, whereas he would be grievously
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