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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-