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The Antichrist
and rebellion, and is the ultimate root of terrorism and violence. The
Antichrist spreads immorality by portraying good as evil, and evil as
good. One of the hadiths on the subject reads:
When Al-Dajjal appears, he will have fire and water along with him. What
the people will consider as cold water, will be fire that will burn (things). So,
if anyone of you comes across this, he should fall in the thing which will ap-
pear to him as fire, for in reality, it will be fresh cold water. 2
In the hadiths, the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) states that the
Antichrist will undoubtedly appear before doomsday, and describes
the kind of conditions in which he will do so. The period when he ap-
pears will be one when people fail to live by the morality condoned by
religion, when the existence of God is openly denied, when immorality,
chaos, war and conflict are everywhere, and when terrorism, murder
and violence become a part of normal, everyday life. Although there
have been times all through history that have witnessed anarchy and
chaos, the state of chaos and confusion that will be created by the
Antichrist will be on an unprecedented scale.
The Prophet (pbuh) emphasized that fact in a hadith:
