Is the Messiah al-Dajjal alive, and if he is dead, how is the hadith of Tamim al-Dari to be understood?
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The student: Is the Messiah al-Dajjal alive or not, with an explanation of the hadith of Tamim al-Dari if he is not alive?
The Shaykh : What is the Messiah al-Dajjal? Is he a Shaytan or what is he? — Answer, my son — He is a human being from the children of Adam, but like the other wicked ones from the children of Adam, such as Pharaoh and others. Allah the Exalted will send him in the last of times as a trial for the servants. He will claim to be the Lord, and Allah will cause things to happen through his hands that cause doubt, such that he will command the sky to rain and the earth to grow. This is a great fitnah (trial, discord or temptation). With him is Paradise and with him is Fire; the Paradise is Fire and the Fire is Paradise. Whoever obeys him, he will put him in Paradise, which is in reality Fire, and whoever disobeys him, he will put him in Fire, which is in reality Paradise. It is established that and this is established. "Not one" (ahad) is an indefinite noun in the context of negation, so it becomes general. Based on this, al-Dajjal does not currently exist; rather, he will be sent when Allah the Exalted wills. As for the hadith of Tamim al-Dari that Muslim narrated in his *Sahih*, one who examines it doubts its authenticity from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) due to the disturbance in its chain and text. As long as we have the word of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) that is established without any doubt that not one person who is on the face of the earth today will remain after the head of a hundred years, that is sufficient for us to believe in it. As for that one, it is a matter of consideration, and it is sufficient for us to say: O Allah, if it is authentic from Your Prophet, then we believe in it, and if it is not authentic, then we are not bound by it. Yes.
The student: Is the Messiah al-Dajjal alive or not, with an explanation of the hadith of Tamim al-Dari if he is not alive?
The Shaykh : What is the Messiah al-Dajjal? Is he a Shaytan or what is he? — Answer, my son — He is a human being from the children of Adam, but like the other wicked ones from the children of Adam, such as Pharaoh and others. Allah the Exalted will send him in the last of times as a trial for the servants. He will claim to be the Lord, and Allah will cause things to happen through his hands that cause doubt, such that he will command the sky to rain and the earth to grow. This is a great fitnah (trial, discord or temptation). With him is Paradise and with him is Fire; the Paradise is Fire and the Fire is Paradise. Whoever obeys him, he will put him in Paradise, which is in reality Fire, and whoever disobeys him, he will put him in Fire, which is in reality Paradise. It is established that