The Alarm of Doomsday

the great opportunities produced in the wake of the discoveries made by Gog and Magog. The Deception (Fitnah) of the Great Dajjal There is a hadith that tells us that the words ka-fa-ra (meaning denial) will be inscribed on the forehead of Dajjal. (Musnad Ahmad, Hadith No. 14954) It shows that the period in which Dajjal will be born will be one of denial, of atheism. The evil in earlier times was not a denial of God but was rather that of associating something else with the One God. In earlier times, the existence of God was accepted as an axiom. However, in present times this axiom is not regarded as valid. Today is the age of atheism, of denial of God. A study of the Hadith shows that dajjal or dajjaliat (dajjalism) is, in fact, a phenomenon of the scientific age. In the scientific age, a group of people will deny the truth in the name of the reason for the first time. They will give the impression that religious truths cannot test scientific rationalism. Then, by the grace of God, an individual will arise— the hajeej—and will put an end to this dajjali menace (fitnah) by using scientific evidence. He will prove the dajjali arguments baseless by putting forward superior