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portance in the End Times. Bediuzzaman stated that the Dajjal
(Antichrist), the greatest source of corruption of the End Times,
would assume the leadership of Darwinist and materialist move-
ments, and warned Muslims in the following words:

A tyrannical current born of Naturalist and Materialist philos-
ophy will in time become strong and spread at the end of time
by means of materialist philosophy, reaching such a degree
that it denies God… And the greatest of them, the Dajjal, who
will come to lead them, will manifest awesome wonders, a sort
of spiritualism and hypnosis. He will go even further, and
imagining his tyrannical, superficial rule to be a sort of do-
minion. He will proclaim his deity." 54
As Bediuzzaman makes clear,
Darwinism is the most important vehi-
cle of the system of the Dajjal, and
stands at the head of his philosophy.
In leading people towards denial,
atheism and immorality, the Dajjal
will use Darwinism as a supposed
scientific mask for atheism.
That being the case, some
Muslims suggesting that the intel-

lectual struggle against Darwinism
is unnecessary is the equivalent of
saying that struggling against the
system of the Dajjal is unneces-

Bediüzzaman Said Nursi, the
great Islamic scholar