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                               HARUN YAHYA (ADNAN OKTAR)
             Mahdi (as) will appear and the moral values of Islam will rule
             the world.


                 The Faithful Will Be Protected against the Fitnah

                 [Trial and Tribulation] of the Dajjal by Means of
                 the Prophet Jesus (as)

                 The concept of the dajjal (antichrist), which means "liar,
             cheat, he who confuses good and bad, truth and falsehood in
             people's minds and hearts, one who gilds a thing to conceal its
             true face, an evil and inauspicious entity who moves every-
             where," is described as someone who will emerge in the End
             Times, the source and representative of all evil and fitnah. The
             dajjal may actually be a human being; or it may be a system or an
             ideology that represents a way of thinking or practice that is
             against religious moral values. Many hadith contain a great deal
             of information about the dajjal, and several verses refer to the
             dajjal's morality and system. The dajjal's emergence is reported
             as being one of the End Times' major signs:

                 Abu Hurayra narrated: There are three things that, when they are
                 manifested, will be of no benefit to the faith of a person who did not
                 have faith before: the antichrist, the Beast, and the Sun rising in the
                 west. (Al-Tirmidhi hadiths; Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Rasul Barzanji,
                 Al-Isha‘ah li Aashrat al-Sa‘ah, p. 209)
                 The great Islamic scholar and imam, Abu Hanifa, states the
             following about the hadith describing the dajjal and other signs
             of the Last Day:

                 The emergence of the dajjal and of Gog and Magog is a reality; the
                 rising of the Sun in the west is a reality; the descent of the Prophet
                 Jesus (as) from the heavens is a reality; and all the other signs of the
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