The Alarm of Doomsday

What Is Dajjaliat? Dajjaliat is not an evil that will appear all of a sudden. Dajjaliat is, in fact, a superlative degree of satanic deception. Deception and Dajl are almost synonymous in meaning. Deception is a common deception, while dajjaliat is a deception of a high degree. The Quran tells us that at the very time of man’s creation, Satan issued this challenge: “I shall make the path of error seem alluring to them on the earth and shall mislead them all…” (15:39). At another point in the Quran, the same threat is expressed thus: “I will surely come upon them from before them and from behind them and from their right and their left, and then you will find most of them ungrateful.” (7:17) The Fitnah of Ungratefulness These verses of the Quran show that the actual purpose of satanic deception is to make man ungrateful for God’s bounty. By employing an attractive strategy, Satan will lead man into ungratefulness. If a man is rightly guided, he will lead his life with feelings of gratitude, whereas he would be grievously misguided if he led his life in a state of ungratefulness. Satan has always acted thus, but in present times, Satan will cause a man to deviate on a far greater scale from the