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To: Dajjal
If I am correct, the Dajjal is the Muslim equivalent of the AntiChrist. Certainly, descriptions of widespread deceit, persecution of the faithful, calling down signs from the heavens, even, parallel the description of the Antichrist in the Gospels.

A question.

If the Dajjal is the deceiver, the servant of evil, why have you chosen that for your screen name? Is this peace filled post more deceit?

Whom do you serve?

54 posted on 01/05/2006 11:51:55 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: Smokin' Joe
A question.
If the Dajjal is the deceiver, the servant of evil, why have you chosen that for your screen name? Is this peace filled post more deceit?
Whom do you serve?

LOL! Actually, that's a very good question. Please check out my FR homepage and decide for yourself.

My own primary motive in choosing this Freepname is just simply to educate Americans and our allies in the word "Dajjal" itself. If and when the word becomes better known, I will be happy to change it to "We-are-not-the-Dajjal" or something like that. But such a name would make no sense unless someone knows what "Dajjal" means, first.

Also, I would disagree with Dajjal being translated as "AntiChrist" or being called the "Muslim version of the AntiChrist." Thinking like that would lead the average Christian to presume that he understands the concept.

But the Muslim prophecies (and how they are sometimes being interpretted) are more intricate than that. For instance, Mohammed prophesied that the Dajjal would touch the clouds and raise the dead. Many imams are saying that the Western invention of the airplane and discovery of penecillin are "proofs" that the Dajjal is a metaphor for Western Civilization.

Most American readers of the Book of Revelation don't get that sort of image when they think of the AntiChrist. Hence, I prefer to leave it in the Arabic, as "Dajjal."

55 posted on 01/06/2006 12:40:05 AM PST by Dajjal
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