The Alarm of Doomsday

THE APPEARANCE OF DAJJAL will suddenly overtake you.” Chapter 29, verse 15 has this to say: “The hour is coming, but I choose to keep it hidden, so that every human being may be recompensed in accordance with his labours.” Ibn Kathir, in his explanation of this verse of the Quran, quotes the words of Abdullah ibn Masood, the senior Companion of the Prophet: “God said, ‘I have kept Doomsday hidden from all creatures. Had it been possible, I would have kept it hidden from Myself as well.’” (Tafisr Ibn Kathir, Vol. 5, p. 245) The stand of the religious scholars is that if any tradition contradicts the Quran, the Quran’s statements will be held to be accurate, and that particular tradition will be scrutinized. In such a situation, purely from the academic point of view, there is only one option, in terms of explanation, and that is to hold the statement of the Quran to be accurate, while the statement of the hadith should be regarded as being symbolic. There is no other way to end this contradiction. The Negative Use of Opportunities Dajjal will act negatively in using the opportunities available to confuse people. In this way, he will cause people’s thinking to deviate from God to nonGod. This Dajjalism will be at work in both secular