পৃষ্ঠা 228: তৃতীয় অধ্যায়: কিয়ামতের মহা আলামতসমূহ (মাহদী, দাজ্জাল, ঈসা (আ.), ইয়াজুজ-মাজুজ, পশ্চিমাকাশে সূর্যোদয়)

Mention of how to be saved from the Dajjal through knowledge.

Mention of the remainder of the hadith regarding the Dajjal.

[This is in response] to the speaker's words: "Let your leader step forward." Al-Mahdi responds through action, while the speaker responds through speech, so that each one's answer corresponds to what was uttered. Then, when morning comes, the followers of the Dajjal will be scattered, and the earth will constrict upon them. He will overtake them at the gate of Ludd (Lod), coinciding with the Zuhr prayer. The accursed one will attempt to find deliverance by establishing prayer; but when he realizes that he cannot escape through it, he will dissolve out of fear just as salt dissolves in water. Thus, he catches up with him and slays him; or perhaps because he invents a prayer outside its prescribed time, which is even more demonstrative of his misguidance and ignorance of Allah.

What lends support to this interpretation is what appears in the narration of Ibn al-Munadi from 'Ali (may Allah be pleased with him): "Allah will kill him in Sham at 'Aqabat Afiq, after three hours of the daytime have passed, at the hands of 'Isa ibn Maryam."

It is stated in al-Qamus: "Afiq is on the measure of Amir, and from it is 'Aqabat Afiq." End quote.

Here there is another perspective that is closer to thorough investigation, which is that it was previously mentioned that prayer during the short days, which are the final days of the Dajjal, will be estimated. Thus, it is possible that this estimation coincides with that time. Based on this, there is no contradiction between his descending in Damascus when six hours of the daytime have elapsed, and his leading the people in the 'Asr prayer. This is an answer grounded in rigorous verification; and Allah guides to the truth, and He guides to the right path.

Allah will defeat the Jews and the companions of the Dajjal, such that nothing created by Allah behind which a Jew hides will remain except that Allah will make it speak: neither tree, nor stone, nor wall, nor beast, except that it will say: "O servant of Allah, O Muslim! Here is a Jew."

In another narration: "This is a Dajjal (follower of the false messiah), so come and kill him; except the Gharqad tree, for it is from the trees of the Jews and will not speak."

He (ﷺ) said: "Then 'Isa ibn Maryam will be among my Ummah as a just judge and an equitable leader." His story will be presented in detail, if Allah, the Exalted, wills.

As for how to be saved from him: know that salvation from him is attained through knowledge and righteous action.

As for knowledge: it is that one knows that he eats and drinks, while Allah is exalted far above such things; that he is one-eyed, while Allah is not one-eyed; and that no one can see his Lord until he dies, whereas people see this impostor while they are alive prior to their death; in addition to other facts that have already been mentioned.