Dajjal will emerge from the Monastery (Church)

Introduction

As per the Quran and the Ahadith, Dajjal is the manifestation of Satan at the time of the Messiah. This is explained in detail here.

One of the ways that Satan will manifest itself is through the Trinitarian Christians. This is explained throughout the Holy Quran and the ahadith. In this article, we will quote all such references and prove how the Dajjal was prophesied to emerge from among the Christians.

Explanation

1) Surah Kahf explains the identity of Dajjal

The Dajjal is the biggest fitnah since the creation of Adam (A.S) and to help us identify him, Muhammad (S.A.W) asked us to recite the first 10 and the last 10 verses of the Surah Al Kahf.

If anyone learns by heart the first ten verses of the Surah al-Kahf, he will be protected from the Dajjal.

[Sahih Muslim 809a]

From the last ten verses of Surat al-Kahf.

[Sahih Muslim 809b]

These verses describe Dajjal and show us how we can save ourselves from its fitnah. The first ten verses warn us against the fitnah of the Trinitarian Christians.

All praise belongs to Allah Who has sent down the Book to His servant and has not put therein any crookedness.

He has made it a guardian, that it may give warning of a grievous chastisement from Him, and that it may give the believers who do good deeds the glad tidings that they shall have a good reward,

Wherein they shall abide for ever;

And that it may warn those who say, ‘ Allah has taken unto Himself a son.’

No knowledge have they thereof, nor had their fathers. Grievous is the word that comes from their mouths. They speak naught but a lie.

[Quran 18:1-5]

2) Dajjal will be killed at the gate of Ludd (لُدٍّ); it points to the defeat of the Christians

فَلاَ يَحِلُّ لِكَافِرٍ يَجِدُ رِيحَ نَفَسِهِ إِلاَّ مَاتَ وَنَفَسُهُ يَنْتَهِي حَيْثُ يَنْتَهِي طَرْفُهُ فَيَطْلُبُهُ حَتَّى يُدْرِكَهُ بِبَابِ لُدٍّ فَيَقْتُلُهُ

Every non-believer who would smell the odor of his self (Isa AS) would die and his breath would reach as far as he would be able to see. He would then search for him (Dajjal) until he would catch hold of him at the gate of Ludd and would kill him.

[Sahih Muslim 2937a]

This means that the Dajjal will be killed via arguments because Ludd in Arabic lexicons is defined as:

لَدّ, originally لَدِدَ, (second pers. لَدِدْتَ, L,) aor. ـَ {يَلْدَدُ}, (L, Mṣb,) inf. n. لَدَدٌ (Ṣ, A, L, Mṣb,) He was violent, or vehement, in contention, or altercation; in dispute; in litigation. (Ṣ, A, L, Mṣb.)

[Lanes Lexicon, Book 1, part 7, pg 2657]

Similarly, this word is used in a few Quranic verses which support the above meaning.

فَاِنَّمَا یَسَّرۡنٰہُ بِلِسَانِکَ لِتُبَشِّرَ بِہِ الۡمُتَّقِیۡنَ وَتُنۡذِرَ بِہٖ قَوۡمًا لُّدًّا

So We have made it (the Quran) easy in thy tongue that thou mayest give thereby good tidings to the righteous, and warn thereby a contentious people.

[Quran 19:98]

3) قَوۡمًا لُّدًّا (Contentious people) are the Christians

The word لُّدًّا (Ludda) is used for the Trinitarian Christians in the above verse and is explained just 5 verses before.

Because they ascribe a son to the Gracious God,

Whereas it becomes not the Gracious God to take unto Himself a son.

[Quran 19:91-92]

Thus, it is the Christians who are the contentious people. This indicates that the Dajjal is the manifestation of Satan in the form of Trinitarian Christians at the time of the Messiah.

4) Dajjal was chained in the Church during the time of the Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W)

This explanation becomes even more clear when we read the Sahih Muslim hadith which relates that the Dajjal was chained up in a monastery (church) and will emerge from the east in the latter days.

He said: By Allah. I have not made you assemble for exhortation or for a warning, but I have detained you here, for Tamim Dari, a Christian, who came and accepted Islam, told me something, which agrees with what I was telling, you about the Dajjal. He narrated to me that he had sailed in a ship along with thirty men of Bani Lakhm and Bani Judham and had been tossed by waves in the ocean for a month. Then these (waves) took them (near) the land within the ocean (island) at the time of sunset. They sat in a small side-boat and entered that island. There was a beast with long thick hair (and because of these) they could not distinguish his face from his back. They said: Woe to you, who can you be? Thereupon it said: I am al-Jassasa. They said: What is al-Jassasa? And it said: O people, go to this person in the monastery as he is very much eager to know about you. He (the narrator) said: When it named a person for us we were afraid of it lest it should be a devil. Then we hurriedly went on till we came to that monastery and found a well-built person there with his hands tied to his neck and having iron shackles between his two legs up to the ankles.

We said: Woe be upon thee, who are you?
And he said: You would soon come to know about me. but tell me who are you.
We said: We are people from Arabia and we embarked upon a boat but the sea-waves had been driving us for one month and they brought as near this island. We got Into the side-boats and entered this island and here a beast met us with profusely thick hair and because of the thickness of his hair his face could not be distinguished from his back. We said: Woe be to thee, who are you? It said: I am al- Jassasa. We said: What is al-Jassasa? And it said: You go to this very person in the monastery for he is eagerly waiting for you to know about you. So we came to you in hot haste fearing that that might be the Devil…

He said: Inform me about the lake Tiberius?
We said: Which aspect of it do you want to know?
He said: Is there water in it?
They said: There is abundance of water in it.
Thereupon he said: I think it would soon become dry…
He said: Inform me about the unlettered Prophet; what has he done?
We said: He has come out from Mecca and has settled In Yathrib (Medina).
He said: Do the Arabs fight against him?
We said: Yes. He said: How did he deal with them?
We informed him that he had overcome those in his neighbourhood and they had submitted themselves before him.
Thereupon he said to us: Has it actually happened?
We said: Yes.
Thereupon he said: If it is so that is better for them that they should show obedience to him. I am going to tell you about myself and I am Dajjal and would be soon permitted to get out and so I shall get out and travel in the land, and will not spare any town where I would not stay for forty nights except Mecca and Medina as these two (places) are prohibited (areas) for me and I would not make an attempt to enter any one of these two. An angel with a sword in his hand would confront me and would bar my way and there would be angels to guard every passage leading to it;

then Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) striking the pulpit with the help of the end of his staff said: This implies Taiba meaning Medina. Have I not, told you an account (of the Dajjal) like this? ‘The people said: Yes, and this account narrated by Tamim Dari was liked by me for it corroborates the account which I gave to you in regard to him (Dajjal) at Medina and Mecca. Behold he (Dajjal) is in the Syrian sea (Mediterranean) or the Yemen sea (Arabian sea). Nay, on the contrary, he is in the east, he is in the east, he is in the east, and he pointed with his hand towards the east.

I (Fatima bint Qais) said: I preserved it in my mind (this narration from Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ).

[Sahih Muslim 2942a]

5) Dajjal is the biggest Fitnah – Heavens rent asunder

The ahadith describe Ad-Dajjal as the biggest fitnah since the creation of Adam (AS)¹Sahih Muslim 2946a and that every prophet warned his people about it²Sahih al-Bukhari 3337. When we turn to the Holy Quran, we see that the fitnah of Ad-Dajjal is so grave that even the heavens and the earth can be destroyed by it.

And they say, ‘the Gracious God has taken unto Himself a son.’

Assuredly, you have done a most hideous thing!

The heavens might well-nigh burst thereat, and the earth cleave asunder, and the mountains fall down in pieces,

Because they ascribe a son to the Gracious God,

Whereas it becomes not the Gracious God to take unto Himself a son.

There is none in the heavens and the earth but he shall come to the Gracious God as a bondman.

[Quran 19:88-93]

The Holy Quran warns us about many trials and tribulations but never does it single out any of them as it does for the fitnah of Ad-Dajjal i.e it can destroy the heavens and the earth.

6) Messiah will break the cross

The previous sections explain how Christians are the manifestations of Satan in the latter days (i.e Dajjal). This is the same reason that the Messiah will be sent in the latter days to not only kill Ad-Dajjal but also to break the cross, just as the ahadith explain. Breaking the Cross is exactly the same mission as killing Ad-Dajjal.

The great Dajjal would deify Jesus and would attribute salvation to the cross. To counter it, the Messiah will be sent to do the opposite.

Conclusion

In short, the Holy Quran and the ahadith of the Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W) clearly prove that the Dajjal will emerge from the Church. Moreover, Dajjal’s fitnah will manifest itself by the Christians, who are described as the manifestation of Satan in the time of the Messiah.

To learn about who the Dajjal is in detail, please check out this article.