Haven't we asked too many questions about the elusive being called Dajjal?

People ask too many things about Dajjal nowadays, merely out of curiosity about this being, and not out of concern for this fitnah. Prophet Muhammad ﷺ feared more for Muslims regarding their act of prolonging their prayers when seen by others than about the fitnah of Dajjal.

So, the fact is that we should be thinking about our prayers rather than knowing more and more about this being, who will only and only bring fitnah. Knowing this fact, we must realize it can put us in a great trial. In this blog, I will try to make this fitnah more relatable in terms of Dajjal and our vulnerability to it.

Take for example our parents. They bring us into this life as we see in this world. They provide for our sustenance. They give us the love and facilities that we need to take our first step—no matter how tiny it might be—and then all the later ones that we somehow choose to believe we achieved ourselves.

Now suppose for a second that you fall in love with a girl, and your parents aren’t ready to accept the partner you choose. And then you have a dream in which that partner falls completely in place to achieve your dreams. But your parents are not agreeing to this partner. You think that you belong to this new world that you have found yourself in lately, and the dream can only be fulfilled when that partner is by your side. You also tend to have the impression that your parents are a bit primitive and completely out of sync with the modern world.

What will you do right then and there?

Now consider the further situation of the guy who is in love with a girl. Assume that the same guy has got a job proposal from a bank in Pakistan. And imagine all the possible scenarios that guy has been through till he reached 22: the government nonsense, the poverty situation, the toxic relatives, the bitterness of his parents accumulated while battling a system that never made it easy for them to feed their child. Plus, the burden they put on him while listening to corrupt leaders selling false dreams. Plus, being misguided into this cult of religious sectarianism pouring curses on every other sect individual. And now this guy has just found an opportunity that can prove to himself that he is at least something to be cared for.

Everything is happening against his desires. The only thing that soothes him is this dream. And this girl and the job can turn his world upside down—in a good way!

What do you think he will—or should—do? Marriage is a good thing, even one of the best. And a job is something more like a struggle venerated by Islam. So why refuse to seize the opportunity?

Ask this question in gatherings after telling them the whole scenario.

The truth is that we would be in this kind of situation when this being called Dajjal will show up. Not in the exact same sense of the situation, but in a similar one—maybe even worse. We will think that we are doing something for the sake of Allah, but in reality, we will be in the Dajjal’s trap.

Now think for a second—don’t you understand the severity of the situation during Dajjal’s time? Would you still be needing to talk about that being out of curiosity?

Whenever the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ were told about any fitnah, they would not ask, “What is the fitnah?” or “When will it appear?” They would immediately ask, “What would be the way to be saved from it?”

And here we are, asking again and again about this being, this crisis situation. The difference is that we see life as a journey to realize our dreams, while in reality this is the most basic form of Dajjal that we are living in. It’s only a matter of time before society displays the haram and destruction as basic needs. Why do you think LGBTIQQ is being celebrated nowadays? Because people are seeing it as a basic need. It’s being done through the manipulation of one generation at a time. Today, our society makes fun of guys with no girlfriend. And this isn’t even the era of Dajjal. Now imagine what the situation will be like in the times of the greatest Dajjal. And keep in mind that during his era, we will be surrounded by droughts and famine—not just temptations of the opposite sex. That will be the time when we will be tested for even water and food.

And while knowing that Allah has brought us that fitnah to test us, we will need to pray and submit to the One who is testing us—not the one who is apparently providing us the water and food.

It would be similar to the situation where our parents are forbidding us to marry the girl we want and refusing the job we love to get.