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




                 The above hadiths are two accounts revealing that the Antichrist
            will portray good as bad, and bad as good. In the same way that the
            Antichrist encourages people towards anarchy and terror, the Devil
            claims that people can only be saved by turning to him, and that he is
            the true way. While encouraging people to atheism and a morality that
            denies God, he also tells the lie that he wants only what is good:

                 Say: "Are we to call on something besides God which can neither
                 help nor harm us, and to turn on our heels after God has guided us,
                 like someone the satans have lured away in the earth, leaving him
                 confused and stupefied, despite the fact that he has companions
                 calling him to guidance, saying, 'Come with us!'?" Say: "God's guid-
                 ance, that is true guidance. We are commanded to submit as
                 Muslims to the Lord of all the worlds." (Qur'an, 6: 71)
                 Likewise, the way that those who follow the Devil claim that they
            too want only what is good has been revealed in the Qur'an:
                 How will it be when a disaster strikes them because of what they
                 have done, and then they come to you swearing by God: "We de-
                 sired nothing but good and reconciliation"? (Qur'an, 4: 62)

                 One of the most striking examples of the way in which the
            Antichrist makes people think that what is evil is actually good is the
            way they begin to regard violence, fighting and conflict as normal; or,
            as we have seen earlier, those who have convinced themselves and oth-
            ers that the most efficacious way of obtaining what they want is the use
            of violence. They kill innocent people, imagining themselves to be en-
            gaged in a just struggle, as they harm others who have committed no

            crime at all. When members of terrorist organizations, or people who
            have been responsible for wars and conflicts in various regions of the
            world, are interviewed, they all declare how justified they were to re-
            sort to violence. Yet, they are entirely wrong, and merely despotic. No
            struggle that employs violence against innocent and defenseless peo-
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