An explanation of the following of Muhammad Rashid Rida in the Qadiyani’s interpretation of the hadiths regarding the descent of Isa with good and the hadiths regarding the emergence of the Dajjal with evil.
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The Shaykh : And so this Qadiyani Dajjal interpreted the hadiths of the descent of Isa with good and interpreted the hadiths of the emergence of the Dajjal with evil, thereby restricting them, and many Islamic writers today have followed him in this interpretation, much to our great regret. Among them may be those whom we deeply, deeply regret see interpreting in this manner, for we consider him among the foremost of the researching, verifying scholars who had a special concern for calling to the Sunnah and spreading it; I mean by this Sayyid Muhammad Rashid Rida (may Allah have mercy on him). But, much to our regret, the matter is as it was said: "Every scholar has a slip, and every noble horse has a stumble". This is one of the stumbles of this learned man, where he interpreted the hadiths of the Dajjal and others along with the interpreters. It is not possible for a Muslim who is free from desire but to believe in the realities of the hadiths of the Dajjal, which lead to what we presented to you earlier, a summary of which is that they all end with the fact that he is a created man whom our Lord (Mighty and Majestic) causes some created things, such as rain and the earth and the like, to serve him, so that He may test His servants thereby. So it is either belief in these realities or denial of the hadiths from their origin, for interpretation is in reality... [a change to] the meaning that the texts contain. They interpret, for example, the Dajjal as being evil. How can evil be described as one-eyed, and it follows that your Lord is not one-eyed? And how is it described as evil because it does not enter Makkah and al-Madinah? And we see, much to our great regret, that today a great deal of evil has entered Makkah and al-Madinah, in the form of licentiousness and fitnah through wealth and the like. The hadiths explicitly state that the Dajjal does not enter Makkah and al-Madinah, but the Dajjal has entered these two sacred lands.
