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salt in water." Some of the hadith revealing how the Prophet
Jesus (as) will make the dajjal ineffective are as follows:

… As the dajjal spreads evil through the world, Allah will send the
Messiah, Jesus (as), son of Maryam, who will meet the dajjal at the
gate of Ludd [near Jerusalem] and make him ineffective. (Sahih Mus-
lim)
… As the dajjal spreads evil through the world, Allah will send the
Messiah, Jesus (as), son of Maryam … The Prophet Jesus (as) will
meet the dajjal at the gate of Ludd [near Jerusalem] and make him
ineffective. (Sahih Muslim)

When the enemy of Allah [dajjal] sees him [the Prophet Jesus (as)], it
will (disappear) just as salt dissolves in water and if he [the Prophet
Jesus (as)] were not to confront him at all, even then it would dissolve
completely. Allah would make him ineffective by the Prophet Jesus'
(as) hand.... (Sahih Muslim, 6924)

The Prophet Jesus (as) will soon return, and will then [spiritually]
destroy the dajjal, the malicious, the inauspicious one. (Nuzul-i
Mesih Risalesi (Treatise on the Second Coming of the Messiah),
Istanbul: Ekmel Publishing, 1998, p. 121)
Therefore, it is a matter of the greatest importance that all
believers and those who wish to be protected from the dajjal's
trial should fully support the Prophet Jesus (as) and strive to pre-
pare the best possible environment before he actually returns.
On the one hand, Muslims must uncover the dajjal's
wickedness and deceptions and wage an intellectual struggle
against those elements that comprise the ideological foundations
of the dajjal's system. On the other hand, they must prepare the
groundwork for the great intellectual struggle that the Prophet
Jesus (as) will wage after his return, and must prepare them-