Dajjal (Anti-Christ), the Qur’an and the Beginning of History
An Impostor on Solomon’s Throne
The Qur’an proceeded to reveal a truly astonishing event in religious history, the likes of which one can hardly, if ever, find a parallel. The description of the event has led us to the view that Solomon had a vision from Allah Most High in which he saw that a soulless impostor would one day sit on his throne, and hence seek to establish a bogus State with a claim that he has restored Holy Israel; and it was precisely because of his knowledge of that ominous future event that he immediately made an extra-ordinary prayer to Allah Most High. Here are the two relevant verses of the Qur’an:
(Qur’an, Sad, 38:34)
Allah Most High caused distress to Solomon when He placed upon his throne a Jasad, i.e., a human body without a soul; and when Solomon saw what was shown to him, he thereupon turned penitently towards Allah and made a prayer.
In the very next verse of the Surah Allah Most High described Nabi Sulaiman’s response to the Jasad which he saw sitting on his throne:
(Qur’an, Sad, 38:35)
Solomon responded with the prayer that Allah Most High might forgive him his sins, and ordain that his Holy State of Israel could never belong to any after him: verily, Thou alone can grant such a thing.
Proper methodology for studying this subject, in order to understand and identify the Jasad, requires that these two verses be studied as a whole. It is indeed regrettable that Islamic scholars failed to apply proper methodology in their efforts to explain the Jasad and, as a consequence they have delivered very strange explanations of the subject.
When the two verses are studied as a whole, the entirely plausible deduction can be derived that the human body that was devoid of a soul, and hence described as a Jasad, which was placed on Solomon’s throne, terrified him into making the prayer that he made because he could see that it would attempt to usurp his throne—which is his rule over Holy Israel, and to create an unholy State in the Holy Land—in Holy Israel’s name—that would seek to compare with Holy Israel.
Our view, therefore, is that Nabi Sulaiman saw the Anti-Christ or Dajjal, the false Messiah, sitting on his throne in Jerusalem, with a mission of eventually ruling over a State of Israel that would claim to be Holy Israel, and hence he made the prayer to Allah Most High in order to ensure that such an effort should never succeed. The Jasad who was sitting on the throne was Dajjal!
We can now recognize that Dajjal is not an angel, nor a Jinn, but, rather, a Jasad, i.e., a human body that is without a soul.
We do not know of anyone who has previously identified the Jasad of the Qur’an with Dajjal, and hence it is possible that such an identification has been made in this book for the first time. Since this is the most important of all our views presented in this book, our readers would naturally be interested in knowing what were the explanations and interpretations of the verse that were given in particular, by the classical commentators of the Qur’an. For this reason we have included a summary of those views in Appendix Two.
Since this writer is of the view that Dajjal, or the AntiChrist, is the Jasad that Allah placed on Solomon’s throne, it would follow that he is a special one-of-a-kind created being who would appear as a human being because he has a human body, but who would not be a complete human being since he would be without a soul (Nafs). Since he does not possess a soul, he would not have a free will, or a self-directed-will, and hence he would not be responsible for his conduct. It would follow therefrom that he would not be judged on Judgment Day as would all other human beings. It may be difficult, if not impossible, for some readers to even understand, much less to eventually accept, this view of Dajjal expressed above. Hence, we advise that such readers should move on with the subject and not allow this view of Dajjal to become a bone that sticks in the throat.
We need to make one more comment concerning the Jasad however, before we can move on with our subject.
If Dajjal is, indeed, a Jasad, i.e., a human body without a soul or spirit, then it would follow that Dajjal does not possess intrinsic intelligence. He does not, and cannot think for himself. Rather his intelligence and his process of thinking is externally programmed. He is similar to a robot, and we can thus better understand Dajjal, and sometimes even recognize his footprints, in whatever functions through artificial intelligence. Nowhere are the Dajjal’s footprints more visible today than in the world of money where real money in the form of gold and silver have been replaced by a monetary Jasad of artificial money. This will be the subject of a subsequent book, Insha’ Allah.
The Qur’an went on to describe the success of that Jasad in getting the Jinn to continue to work for him and to serve him for long years while believing that they were working for Solomon. The explanation for Dajjal’s success in that act of deception is that, upon the death of Solomon, the Jinn saw only the Jasad sitting on the throne and holding on to Solomon’s staff, and assumed that it was Solomon. The Jinn were bonded to Sulaiman by divine decree, and hence did not have the freedom to observe what was occurring in the world (see Qur’an, Saba, 34:12–14). They were unaware that Sulaiman was dead and buried. They had no knowledge of Akhir al-Zaman and, as a consequence, there was no way that they could realize that they were working as slaves for an impostor. Thus the unholy State of Israel would receive the continuous support of the Jinn during the long struggle for its eventual creation, upon the birth of Israel, and all through its life, so long as Dajjal continued to sit on Solomon’s throne while holding on to his holy staff.
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