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The Nature Of The Antichrist As Described In The Qur'an

provoke. The ideology of the Antichrist seeks just the opposite, which
is why it harms those very elements that bind people together and en-
sure social cohesion (the most important of these elements are religious
morality and the spiritual values that arise from it), and encourages
people towards discord and conflict. In a hadith, the Prophet
Muhammad (pbuh) described what the world would be like in a sys-
tem based on that of the Antichrist, when people are dominated by

their desires: "The dissension of the end of time will be so terrible that no one
will be able to restrain themselves." 9
Commenting upon this hadith, Islamic scholars have explained
that the Antichrist will call on people to follow their passions and de-
sires, which will be portrayed as a good thing. Bediuzzaman Said
Nursi, for instance, said: "The men, ...defeated by their instinctual
souls, and with drunken joy, fall into the fire and are burnt. (The dis-
sension of the end of time and the dissension of the Antichrist) will
draw the pleasure-seekers around them like moths, intoxicating

them." 10

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The most harmful aspect of the system of the Antichrist is that it is
built on spreading corruption and damaging peace and order. The
defining characteristic of the Antichrist is to encourage terror and anar-
chy in order to spread corruption. The latter of course has wide-rang-
ing ramifications, and can include frightening people and making
them uneasy, and wreaking peace and security. Unjustified wars be-
tween nations, internal conflict sparked off by artificial causes, terrorist
attacks aimed at innocent civilians, and acts of violence in daily life can