accept it. This will be the ultimate form of the grossly wrong
use of modern discoveries. The present age is the age of this
same
dajjali
culture.
Dajjaliat
, the
fitna
of religious exploitation
A
CCORDING TO A
tradition of Sahih Muslim, the Prophet of Islam
once observed: “I am more afraid of the
Dajjal
from within than
the
Dajjal
from without.” This means that the
Dajjal
from within
will be more dangerous than the
Dajjal
from without. It is easy
to recognize the Dajjal from without but the Dajjal from within
will be mistaken for one’s well-wisher. He will thus be better
able to mislead one than anyone else.
Imam Nawawi (d. 1277) quoted another hadith to explain
this tradition: “ What I fear more than anything else for my
community (
ummah
) is the misguided leaders who will mislead
the people.” (Sahih Muslim)
‘Leaders of the
Ummah
’ here means leaders who exploit . To
promote their leadership, they utter beautiful words. They mask
the irreligious nature of their goals in religious terminology. A
great number of people are then misled and rally around them.
In short, this is religious exploitation.
The political interpretation of religion
I
N
THE
AGE
of the printing press, books which give a political
interpretation of Islam have been printed and published on a
large scale. For a variety of reasons, these books have become
popular. The goal of those who have fallen under the influence
of this literature has become, by way of deviation, political
revolution. This political interpretation of Islam is based on a
dangerous fallacy, i.e. that religion is another name for a
“complete system” and that the goal of religion is not just worship
of and devotion to God, but is, more importantly, the
implementation and enforcement of the civil and criminal laws
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The alarm of Doomsday
