What You Need to Know About Ad-Dajjal
Riyadul Saliheen: The 18th Book - Narrations About Ad-Dajjal (The Antichrist)
Summary
This lecture discusses the 18th book of Riyadul Saliheen, which covers miscellaneous and interesting narrations about Ad-Dajjal (the Antichrist). Sh. Ali Mashhour analyzes multiple hadith narrations describing Ad-Dajjal's emergence, appearance, and characteristics, including his origins in Asbahan (modern-day Iran), his followers numbering 70,000 who wear distinctive green garments, and his journey through Iran and Iraq into the Arabian Peninsula. The lecture explores the theological wisdom behind Ad-Dajjal's existence as a test and trial for humanity, explaining how he will attract certain types of people while repelling others, and how he will ultimately be defeated by Jesus (Isa) who will descend as a just judge.
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Alhamdulillah.
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Continuing in Real in the one of the final books, second to last book of Real regarding various ious narrations, collections of stories of history of stories of various prophets. I mean the name of the book remember is 19 books. It's a collection of 19 books. This 18th book is called This is the book of the miscellaneous and interesting. The miscellaneous and interesting. So he starts out the book very strong with the narrations regarding a dead jet. and he's got about 10 narrations that come one right after the other describing a de we've gone through a number of them and we're trying to work through it. picking up where we left off yesterday, we or the day before I should say we discussed the narration of when they went to and they both went to and they asked him to tell them a narration regarding a dead and he told them of the prophet sallallah.aii Wasallam's description that one of his descriptions is he has a river of fire and a river of water. We remember this narration. The next narration we will discuss after the narration of NS then I guess we did that narration as well in which the prophet sallall.aii Wasam said there is not a single town, village or city, no place except that a dal will enter it except that a dal will enter it and call its people to believe in him except for Mecca and Medina. And then the prophet sallallah.aii alaihi wasallam tells us of the three rajat the three earthquakes that will drive out all of the hypocrites from Medina. Annis narrates as well that the messenger of Allah.
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And this narrates that the messenger of Allah said of the Yahood. Now some of the scholars mentioned that the Yahood here means the Jews, the Jews residing in Obahan. Others mention that the Yehood here is actually a town in Asbahan and the people from there are referred to as Yahood. Right? Either way, he will emerge from Ubahan and Obahan is in modernday Iran. When he emerges, he will be followed by 70,000 of the Yehoud of Albahan. They will be wearing a toya. A thalisa is a type of green garment that they will wear. And what's apparent is this will be some kind of garb for their cult. You know, each group that emerges a lot of times cults and false prophets and idoltors, they usually have a certain color or clothing that they all wear, right? And so these will all emerge wearing the same clothing, the same kind of robe, if you will, and they will emerge following him, 70,000 strong from the land of Asbahan. And then he will go through Iran, cut between Iraq to his left and Hashem to his right, and he will enter into the Arab Peninsula. This narration is in Muslim. Another narration that we mentions also in Muslim.
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He says when emerges, people will flee from him and go hide into the mountains. Who are these people that will run from Adel? Obviously, it is the believers. He is a force that will move through the earth a magnet. a magnet. He will attract a very certain kind of person and he will repel a certain kind of person. You ever take two magnets and put the positive to the positive or the negative to the negative? What happens to the magnets? They push each other away, right? When you put a positive to a negative, they pull each other in. A dead has the exact same effect. He will repel the good people and he will attract the scum. Now, a person may ask and and we've had this question before. Why would Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allow someone a gel to exist? Right? If he is such a fitna, why would he allow someone a deed who wields that kind of power and influence and that kind of technology, why would he allow him to expose himself to the the the servants of Allah? The answer is what is the point of this? The point of this dunya is that Allah will distinguish and separate between the good and the bad. This dunya is a hallway. We're all moving through it. And there's two doors at the end. The good end up going through the right. The people that are bad end up going to the left. And those who deserve to be back in paradise are there. And those who deserve the judgment of Allah will be receiving it. And so a de will emerge upon the people in a time when the world has all become more or less one culture. And the Muslim will be few and there will be a lot of a lot of interaction to the point where people the Muslim will have kind of almost stagnated and then ali will emerge. He will attract a very particular type of person. Ael will then emerge and he will attract in turn a very particular type of person. And then he will then descend and he will judge between them. Right? And so he will judge between them based on the Quran and the Sunnah. He will practice the legislation of Muhammad sall.ai wasallam. And so he will descend as as the prophet sallall.aii wasallam described him.
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That will descend as a fair and just judge and he will break the cross and slay the pig, the swine. and he will then the matter of El Jiza will be put aside and people will either believe or disbelieve Muriam. And so we will get to that narration probably tomorrow night inshallah that AsaB Miam will be the one to slay a dead. But do we see the wisdom of Allah here when we look at it from a bird's eye view? We see ali comes he attracts a certain kind of people comes he attracts a certain kind of people. Now we have two camps will then descend and the great war will occur. Finally, we have an narration that in Noah we mentions on the authority of he and his father are both companions.
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Hussein narrates that he heard the messenger of Allah. Wasam say from the creation of Adam until the until the day of judgment there is no affair no fitna greater than that of that will will be upon humanity. Remember this is you know when you look at humanity you can look at humanity as one body. Imagine what one person goes through the stages a person goes through in his life. You go through the very beginning stage then they learn how to walk. Adolescence puberty middleage old age they make their decisions. They die. Humanity in general as a whole moves through these stages and civilizations move through these stages and nations move through the same stages that a single person will naturally move through. And so and these major fit happening at the end of humanity because this is the very final days of human existence on this earth. Foreham.
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Where did you all come?