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Signs of Jesus’ (pbuh)
Second Coming

Other prophetic hadiths refer to the Dajjal as one of the major
portents of Doomsday:
"It [Doomsday] will not come until you see ten signs before,"
and [in this connection] he mentioned the smoke, the Dajjal, the
Beast [Dabbat al-Ard], the Sun's rising in the west, the descent
of Jesus son of Mary… (Sahih Muslim)
Great Muslim scholars have reported as a certain fact that the
Dajjal will come to Earth before Doomsday. Abu Hanifa, for instance,
states:

The appearance of the Dajjal, Gog and Magog, the Sun rising in the west,
the descent of Prophet Jesus (pbuh) from the sky, and other portents of
Doomsday are true and inevitable as sahih [authentic] news. (Abu
Hanifa, Al-Fiqh Al-Akbar)
God will use Prophet Jesus (pbuh) to defeat the Dajjal, who will ap-
pear at the same time as the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) and the Mahdi. As our
Prophet (may God bless him and grant him peace) has informed us,
Prophet Jesus (pbuh) will kill the Dajjal and thereby usher in a holy pe-
riod during which Islam's moral values will hold sway over the Earth.
One hadith regarding the slaying of the Dajjal says:
When the Dajjal faces him [Jesus], he [the Dajjal] will begin to dissolve
like salt in water. He [Jesus] will say to him: "I have to deal you a blow;
you cannot escape." So Jesus will kill him with his spear at the gate of
Ludd, and he will die there. (Sunan Ibn Majah)

In his works, the great Muslim scholar Bediuzzaman Said Nursi
devotes considerable space to the End Times and Prophet Jesus' (pbuh)
return. He stresses the fact that when Prophet Jesus (pbuh) returns, he
will wage a great struggle with the Dajjal, the representative of atheism,
and defeat him. Some of Bediuzzaman's statements on this subject
read:
Moreover, in the world of humanity, with the intention of denying the

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