DAJJAL (the Anti-Christ) THE QUR’AN AND AWWAL AL-ZAMAN (the Beginning of History)

 

Dajjal (Anti-Christ), the Qur’an and the Beginning of History

www.Imranhosein.org

 

ANSARI MEMORIAL SERIES

 

Dajjal

(The Anti-Christ)

 The Qur’an

And

and Awwal Al-Zaaman

(The Beginning of History)

 

IMRAN N. HOSEIN

 

 

DAJJAL (the Anti-Christ) THE QUR’AN AND AWWAL AL-ZAMAN (the Beginning of History)

 

IMRAN N. HOSEIN

 

IMRAN N. HOSEIN PUBLICATIONS

 

© Imran N. Hosein, Safar 1439 (Hijri); 2017 (Gregory)

 

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San Fernando.

Trinidad and Tobago.

 

 

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For my beloved son

Mujahid

with the hope and prayer that he will be inspired

to reach for the stars—and then to travel on—

for beyond the stars there are many more worlds!

 

 

(Qur’an, Qaf, 50:45)

Remind, through this Qur’an,

those who fear Allah’s warning.

[This is an explanation, rather than a translation, of the Qur’an, since the Arabic Qur’an cannot be translated to another language.]

 

(Qur’an, al-Furqan, 25:52)

Do not submit to and obey those who are hostile to Islam. Rather, wage a mighty Jihad against them by means of this Qur’an.

 

(Qur’an, Yunus, 10:39)

They rejected a scripture in which there is knowledge that they could not compass, and with verses whose Ta’wil or interpretation had not as yet come unto them. There were others before them who also responded similarly; so they should remember the fate which befell such people.

 

“And there shall be signs in the sun,

and in the moon, and in the stars;

and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;

the sea and the waves roaring;”

(Gospel, Luke: 21:25)

 

And I will show wonders in heaven above,

and signs in the earth beneath;

blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke:

(Gospel, Acts: 2:19)

 

“And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars:

see that ye be not troubled:

for all these things must come to pass,

but the end is not yet.”

(Gospel, Matthew: 24:6) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contents

Dajjal (Anti-Christ), the Qur’an and the Beginning of History

 

Preface

Ansari Memorial Series

 

Chapters

 

Introduction Dr. Burhan Ahmad Faruqi — the philosopher of history

·         Islamic scholarship and Eschatology 

·         Outline of book 

·         The Arabic Text of the Qur’an 

·         For the Christian and Jewish Reader

 

1.      Introducing Dajjal, The Jasad (a Human Body without a Soul) 

·         A Gentle Warning 

·         The Basic Description 

·         The Complexity of the Subject—Dajjal is One-Eyed

·         The Qur’an and Internal Sight

·         Deducing Dajjal’s Further Profile 

·         Profile of the Two Great Prophet-Kings 

·         An Impostor on Solomon’s Throne

·         Da’bbatul Ard (i.e., a beast or creature of the earth) 

·         David and Solomon—the Miraculous Profile 

 

2.      Methodology of Connecting the Beginning of History with the End 

·         History Begins and Ends with Allah Most High 

·         The Beginning, the End, and Dajjal 

·         Jesus, the Jews and the Chosen People 

·         Epistemology and Methodology 

 

3.      The Human Ruh, The Divine Ruh, The Ruh Al-Qudus and The Messiah Who Is Himself Ruh 

·         Relevance of this subject 

·         What is the Ruh? 

·         How can the Divine Ruh be bestowed on all and sundry

·         when we are the Chosen People of the Lord-God? 

·         The Holy Spirit (al-Ruh al-Qudus) 

·         The Messiah is himself a Ruh or Spirit 

 

4.      4. The Angels Prostrate before Adam in Awwal Al-Zaman

·         Why Prostration? 

·         Is Prostration before a human being an act of worship?151

 

5.      5. Arrogance in Awwal Al-Zaman

·         A Khalifah (or Ruler) on Earth 

·         The Angels Respond to a Khilafah State on Earth

·         The Amanah or Trust was a mission to rule justly (in accordance with Truth) 

·         Arrogance at the beginning of history and a false claim to a birth-right of superiority 

·         The Parallel between the End and the Beginning of History

·         Another event in Awwal al-Zaman 

·         What is the Forbidden Tree? 

 

Conclusion 

 

Appendix

1. Qur’an, Surah al-Maidah: 5:51 Being a commentary by Hasbullah Shafi’iy to Maulana Imran N. Hosein’s interpretation of the verse. 

2. Summary of views on the Jasad by the classical commentators of the Qur’an by Hasbullah Shafi’iy 

3. Rabbi Rabinovich’s Speech of January 12th, 1952

Index 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Preface

 

I kept waiting for ten years before I could write this pioneering book on Dajjal, the false Messiah or Anti-Christ, but this long wait was a blessing in disguise since my knowledge of the subject and, more importantly, my understanding of methodology for the study of the subject, has matured significantly over this time. Hence, I suggest to those who now venture to write on the subject, to allow the river of thought and understanding to flow at its own speed. 

 

I am grateful to a brother resident in New Zealand who was the first to assist in sponsoring the writing this new book, and to another Pakistani brother whose kind sponsorship allowed me to write a significant part of the book. Sponsors in UK then took over the sponsorship until, Alhamdu lillah, this first book on Dajjal was completed. I am also grateful to those who generously assisted in meeting the cost of printing this book. May Allah, Most High, bless them all for their kind assistance. Amin!

 

I will now resume work on my second book on Dajjal entitled: From Jesus the True Messiah to Dajjal the False Messiah—A Journey in Islamic Eschatology. I propose to write an additional three books on Dajjal on the topics of Dajjal and ‘Money’, Dajjal and the modern ‘Feminist Revolution’, and finally, Dajjal, the Qur’an and Akhir al-Zaman, or the end of history.  May Allah Most Kind make it possible for me to accomplish this task Insha’ Allah.

 

I know that these five books will not exhaust the subject of Dajjal, but I hope and pray that they will provoke others Insha’ Allah, to take up the challenge to write on those subjects which are yet to be explained.   

 

I am grateful to those who read the manuscript of this book and assisted with valuable comments, as well as with proof-reading, and to my Assistant, Hasbullah, who was always there to assist me in searching for the texts of many Hadith as well as references in the Sirah, i.e., history of the life of Prophet Muhammad ṣallā -llāhu taʿālā ʿalayhī wa-sallam.

 

I have dedicated this book to my son, Mujahid Fazlur Rahman, who was named after his grand-father, Maulana Dr. Muhammad Fazlur Rahman Ansari (rahimahullah). Mujahid is also the great grand-son of Maulana Muhammad Abdul Aleem Siddique (rahimahullah). I hope and pray that this dedication might inspire him to follow in their noble footsteps in serving the mission of Islam. Amin! 

 

Imran N. Hosein

Safar1439 / November 2017

San Fernando in the Caribbean Island of Trinidad.

 

ANSARI MEMORIAL SERIES

 

The Ansari Memorial Series of books is published in loving memory of Maulana Dr. Muhammad Fazlur Rahman Ansari (1914–1974) who was a Sufi Shaikh of the Qaderiyyah Sufi Order, a philosopher, an outstanding Islamic scholar of the modern age, a roving missionary of Islam, and my teacher and spiritual mentor of blessed memory. My love for him, and my continuously increasing admiration for both his Islamic scholarship as well as his philosophical thought, more than 40 years after his death, is such that I cherish the very dust on which he walked. 

 

I began writing the books of the Ansari Memorial Series in 1994 while I was still resident in New York, and functioning as Director of Islamic Studies for the Joint Committee of Muslim Organizations of Greater New York. I started the Series of books in Maulana’s honor because I wanted to offer a gift to my teacher on the 25th anniversary of his death. The first six books of the Series were launched in the Masjid of the Muslim Centre of New York in Flushing Meadows, Queens, New York, in 1997, and in the years which have since passed, many more books were added to the Series. A complete list of books in the Series can be found at the end of this book.

 

The next book in the Series, entitled From Jesus, the True Messiah, to Dajjal, the False Messiah—A Journey in Islamic Eschatology, promises to be the most difficult and challenging of all. The subject is both difficult and challenging because, among other things, it takes a scholar directly inside the Zionists’ hornet’s nest, and as a consequence there are few scholars who are prepared to risk writing or speaking on this subject. But let us recall that the blessed Prophet ṣallā -llāhu taʿālā ʿalayhī wa-sallam said:

 

“One learned (scholar) is harder on Satan than a thousand worshippers”.  (Sunan Ibn Majah)

 

Hence scholarly books and lectures on Dajjal, whose Fitnah (evil) is described by Prophet Muhammad ṣallā -llāhu taʿālā ʿalayhī wa-sallam as greater than that of Satan, will surely be a means through which our readers would be able to identify true scholars of Islam. I pray that my present humble pioneering book on Dajjal entitled Dajjal the Qur’an and Awwal al Zaman, i.e., the beginning of History, might pass the test of scholarship, and if it does do so, Insha’ Allah, that it might encourage the learned scholars of Islam of the modern age to also address this important subject.

 

I recognize the subject of Dajjal to be the ultimate test of Islamic scholarship, and that implies that it constitutes the ultimate test of methodology for study of the Qur’an and for assessment of Hadith. I am convinced that only an authentic Sufi scholar can write credibly on the subject of Dajjal, because only he has the proper methodology for the study of the Qur’an and the assessment of Hadith, the Sufi epistemology of spiritual insight with which to interpret religious symbolism, as well as the tangible vibrating spiritual bond with Nabi Muhammad ṣallā -llāhu taʿālā ʿalayhī wa-sallam  which are all indispensable for penetrating the subject; and this is why I have to devote attention to the religious thought of Maulana Ansari, the authentic Sufi Shaikh. I could never have written my book on Dajjal without the benefit of his religious thought. The methodology of the scholars of ‘Islamic Modernism’, of the Salafi, Shia, Deobandi, Brelvi or of a Tabligh Jamaat, for example, will not allow a scholar whose primary identification is with those sects, to successfully penetrate the subject of Dajjal. I invite them, gently so, to prove me wrong.

 

I met Maulana Ansari for the first time in 1960 in my native Caribbean Island of Trinidad when I was just 18 years of age. I had done some studies in science, and I was quite surprised to learn that a Maulana (an Islamic religious scholar of a very high rank) would be visiting Trinidad from Pakistan, and that he would lecture at my Montrose Village Masjid on the subject of ‘Islam and Science’. (The Masjid was subsequently named after him as Masjid al-Ansari.) My response to the news was quite skeptical, since at that young age I knew of no possible link between Islam and science.

 

On the night of the lecture, he astonished me with his scientific scholarship, as well as with knowledge of Islam of which I was hitherto quite ignorant. I was surprised to learn that the Qur’an had, time and again, appealed to ‘observation’ and to ‘inductive reasoning’, and hence to what is today called ‘scientific enquiry’, as the method through which one should seek to penetrate and understand the reality of the material universe. I was also surprised to learn that knowledge which had come to the world these last few hundred years from some of the discoveries of modern science, such as in embryology, had already been present in the Qur’an.

 

I was even more surprised when Maulana lectured at Woodford Square in the capital city of Port of Spain, on ‘Islam and Western Civilization’ before an audience which filled the large Square to capacity, and with the Oxford University– trained Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Dr. Eric E. Williams, sitting on the platform beside him. Dr. Williams had himself already dealt a severe blow to Western Civilization in his PhD thesis at Oxford entitled ‘Capitalism and Slavery’. The learned Prime Minister was clearly impressed by Maulana’s scholarship as he dissected the godless pagan foundations of a barbaric and oppressive civilization that had arrogantly and deceptively presented itself as the best that the world had ever experienced, and would ever experience. 

 

Maulana’s dynamic Islamic scholarship, and the spiritual impact of his magnetic Sufi personality, changed my life. He inspired me to such an extent that I, also, wanted to become a scholar of Islam. By November 1963, and at the age of twenty-one, I became a student of Al Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt, which was the most famous institution of higher Islamic learning in the world. But I could not find in Al Azhar University the dazzling Islamic scholarship to which I was exposed three years earlier in Maulana Ansari. The scholars of Al Azhar appeared to me to have been stuck in time, and could not compare with Maulana in their scholarly understanding of the reality of the strange and challenging modern age, nor in their capacity to offer an Islamic response for example, to challenges posed by the modern scientific and technological revolution, the feminist revolution, etc.

 

I left Egypt and travelled to Pakistan in August 1964 to become Maulana’s student at the Aleemiyah Institute of Islamic Studies in Karachi, and that was the best decision that I have ever taken in life. [The Institute still exists to this day at the Islamic Center in Block B of the Karachi suburb of North Nazimabad.]

 

I remained his student until I graduated from the Institute seven years later in 1971 at the age of twenty-nine with the degree of Al-Ijazah al- ‘Aliyah, and returned to Trinidad. I never met him again in life, since he died three years later in 1974 in Pakistan at the age of 60. 

 

There are many things about Maulana that I would love to write and to record for history, but by far the most important of all aspects of his rich and multi-faceted life was his religious thought, and that is what I have attempted to explain in my brief essay on the subject. It was crucially important for me to do so, not only because his exceptional scholarship offers some assistance for modern Islamic scholarship to extricate itself from its present sorry and miserable plight (one cannot find a single prominent Islamic scholar today who dares to declare the present paper-money monetary system to be bogus, fraudulent and Haram), but also because his scholarship has played such an important role in guiding and assisting me in writing my present pioneering book on Dajjal, the false Messiah, which is the latest book in the Ansari Memorial Series.

 

That essay can be found in the Appendix to my book on ‘Methodology for Study of the Qur’an’.

 

Ansari Memorial Series

(Books written by Imran N. Hosein)

 

1. The Prohibition of Riba in the Qur’an and Sunnah; 1997

2. The Importance of the Prohibition of Riba in Islam; 1997

3. One Jamaat One Ameer: The Organization of a Muslim Community in the Age of Fitan; 1997

4. The Religion of Abraham and the State of Israel—A View from the Qur’an; 1997. 

5. The Strategic Importance of Isra and Miraj; 1997

6. The Strategic Importance of Dreams and Visions in Islam; 1997. Second edition 2014

7. The Caliphate the Hejaz and the Saudi-Wahhabi Nation-State; 1997. Second edition 2013

8. Fasting and Power; 1997. Second edition 2011

9. The Quranic Method of Curing Alcoholism and Drug Addiction; 2000

10. George Bernard Shaw and the Islamic Scholar; 2000

11. A Muslim Response to the 9/11 Attack on America; 2002

12. Jerusalem in the Qur’an; 2002, Second edition 2002

13. Surah al-Kahf Text Translation and Commentary; 2007

14. Surah al-Kahf and the Modern Age; 2007

15. Signs of the Last Day in the Modern World; 2007

16. The Gold Dinar and Silver Dirham—Islam and the Future of Money; 2007

17. The Islamic Travelogue; 2009 

18. An Islamic View of Gog and Magog in the Modern World; 2009, Second edition 2011

19. Explaining Israel’s Mysterious Imperial Agenda; 2011

20. Iqbal and Pakistan’s Moment of Truth; 2011

21. Madina Returns to Center-State in Akhir al-Zaman; 2012

22. In Search of Khidr’s footprints in Akhir al-Zaman; 2014

23. From Jesus the True Messiah to Dajjal the False Messiah; (not yet completed)

24. Methodology for Study of the Qur’an; 2016

25. Dajjal the Qur’an and Awwal al-Zaman (i.e., the beginning of History) 2017

 

Aleemiyah Memorial Series

1. Islam and Buddhism in the Modern Age; 1972

 

World Federation of Islamic Missions

1. The Quranic Foundations and Structure of Muslim Society in 2 Vols. By Maulana Dr. Muhammad Fazlur Rahman Ansari. First published 1973. Malaysian Edition 2011

 

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