The Quran, Dajjal and the Jasad

 

THE QUR'AN, DAJJAL

AND THE JASAD

 

—A wake-up call for today’s Dar al-Ulum

as well as for the Salafi Methodology

 

by

IMRAN N. HOSEIN

 

 

 

 

IMRAN N. HOSEIN PUBLICATIONS

© Imran N. Hosein, Shaban 1440 (Hijri) / 2019 (Gregory)

 

 

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For my dear departed student

Shirazuddin Adam Shah

May Allah have Mercy on his soul. Amin!

 

 

Contents

Ansari Memorial Series .................................................................... ix

Preface .............................................................................................. xv

1. Introducing the Jasad and the Method of Study of the Subject .. 1

We must think in order to penetrate the Qur’an ..................... 16

2. Who is Dajjal the False Messiah or Anti-Christ? ....................... 21

3. Who was the Jasad sitting on Solomon’s Throne? ..................... 27

What are the implications of Dajjal as a Human Jasad? ......... 30

Further Implications ................................................................... 33

4. How does Dajjal reduce human beings into Jasadsb

like himself? ..................................................................................... 37

Malcolm X and the Jasad ........................................................... 41

5. The Jasad the Jinn and  the Death of Solomon مﻼﺴﻟا ﻪﻴﻠﻋ ............. 45

6. Explaining Dabbat al-Ard  

(i.e., a beast or creature of the earth) .............................................. 55

Our view of Minsa-ah ................................................................. 60

Last Word ........................................................................................ 69

 

APPENDIXES

1. Summary of views on the Jasad by the classical

commentators of the Qur’an By Hasbullah Shafi’iy ...................... 71

2. Summary of views by the classical commentators of the

Qur’an on the event of Solomon’s death By Hasbullah Shafi’iy ... 83

3. Amin Ahsan Islahi’s comments on the Jasad and on

Dabbat al-Ard .................................................................................. 93

4. Abul ‘Ala Maududi’s comments on the Jasad and on

Dabbat al-Ard ................................................................................ 101

5. Muhammad Asad’s Comments on the Jasad and

Dabbat al-Ard ................................................................................ 113

Muhammad Ali’s comments on the Jasad and Dabbat al-Ard ... 119

Index .............................................................................................. 123

Ansari Memorial Series List of books ........................................... 129

 

Ansari Memorial Series

T he Ansari Memorial Series of books is published in loving memory of Maulana Dr. Muhammad Fazlur Rahman Ansari (1914-1974) who was a Sufi Shaikh of the Qaderiyyah Sufi Order, a philosopher, an outstanding Islamic scholar of the modern age, a roving missionary of Islam, and my teacher and spiritual mentor of blessed memory. My love for him, and my continuously increasing admiration for both his Islamic scholarship as well as his philosophical thought, more than 40 years after his death, is such that I cherish the very dust on which he walked. 

 

I began writing the books of the Ansari Memorial Series in 1994 while I was still resident in New York, and functioning as Director of Islamic Studies for the Joint Committee of Muslim Organizations of Greater New York. I started the Series of books in Maulana’s honor because I wanted to offer a gift to my teacher on the 25th anniversary of his death. The first six books of the Series were launched in the Masjid of the Muslim Centre of New York in Flushing Meadows, Queens, New York, in 1997, and in the years which have since passed, many more books were added to the Series. A complete list of books in the Series can be found at the end of this book.

 

The next book in the Series, entitled From Jesus, the True Messiah, to Dajjal, the False Messiah—A Journey in Islamic Eschatology, promises to be the most difficult and challenging of all. The subject is both difficult and challenging because, among other things, it takes a scholar directly inside the Zionists’ hornet’s nest, and as a consequence there are few scholars who are prepared to risk writing or speaking on this subject. But let us recall that the blessed Prophet pbuh said:

 “One learned (scholar) is harder on Satan than a thousand worshippers”.  (Sunan Ibn Majah)

 

Hence scholarly books and lectures on Dajjal, whose Fitnah (evil) is described by Prophet Muhammad pbuh  as greater than that of Satan, will surely be a means through which our readers would be able to identify true scholars of Islam. I pray that my recent pioneering book on Dajjal entitled Dajjal the Qur’an and Awwal al-Zaman, i.e., the beginning of History, might pass the test of scholarship, and if it does do so, Insha’ Allah, that it might encourage the learned scholars of Islam of the modern age to also address this important subject.

 

I recognize the subject of Dajjal to be the ultimate test of Islamic scholarship, and that implies that it constitutes the ultimate test of methodology for study of the Qur’an and for assessment of Hadith. I am convinced that only an authentic Sufi scholar can write credibly on the subject of Dajjal, because only he has the proper methodology for the study of the Qur’an and the assessment of Hadith, the Sufi epistemology of spiritual insight with which to interpret religious symbolism, as well as the tangible vibrating spiritual bond with Nabi Muhammad pbuh which are all indispensable for penetrating the subject; and this is why I have to devote attention to the religious thought of Maulana Ansari, the authentic Sufi Shaikh. I could never have written my book on Dajjal without the benefit of his religious thought. The methodology of the scholars of ‘Islamic Modernism’, of the Salafi, Shia, Deobandi, and Brelvi, or of a Tabligh Jamaat, for example, will not allow a scholar whose primary identification is with those sects, to successfully penetrate the subject of Dajjal. I invite them, gently so, to prove me wrong.

 

I met Maulana Ansari for the first time in 1960 in my native Caribbean island of Trinidad when I was just 18 years of age. I had done some studies in science, and I was quite surprised to learn that a Maulana (an Islamic religious scholar of a very high rank) would be visiting Trinidad from Pakistan, and that he would lecture at my Montrose Village Masjid on the subject of ‘Islam and Science’. (The Masjid was subsequently named after him as Masjid al-Ansari.) My response to the news was quite skeptical, since at that young age I knew of no possible link between Islam and science.

 

On the night of the lecture he astonished me with his scientific scholarship, as well as with knowledge of Islam of which I was hitherto quite ignorant. I was surprised to learn that the Qur’an had, time and again, appealed to ‘observation’ and to ‘inductive reasoning’, and hence to what is today called ‘scientific enquiry’, as the method through which one should seek to penetrate and understand the reality of the material universe. I was also surprised to learn that knowledge which had come to the world these last few hundred years from some of the discoveries of modern science, such as in embryology, had already been present in the Qur’an.

 

I was even more surprised when Maulana lectured at Woodford Square in the capital city of Port of Spain, on ‘Islam and Western Civilization’ before an audience which filled the large Square to capacity, and with the Oxford University—trained Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Dr. Eric E. Williams, sitting on the platform beside him. Dr. Williams had himself already dealt a severe blow to Western Civilization in his PhD thesis at Oxford entitled ‘Capitalism and Slavery’. The learned Prime Minister was clearly impressed by Maulana’s scholarship as he dissected the godless pagan foundations of a barbaric and oppressive civilization that had arrogantly and deceptively presented itself as the best that the world had ever experienced, and would ever experience. 

 

Maulana’s dynamic Islamic scholarship, and the spiritual impact of his magnetic Sufi personality, changed my life. He inspired me to such an extent that I, also, wanted to become a scholar of Islam. By November 1963, and at the age of twentyone, I became a student of Al Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt, which was the most famous institution of higher Islamic learning in the world. But I could not find in Al Azhar University the dazzling Islamic scholarship to which I was exposed three years earlier in Maulana Ansari. The scholars of Al Azhar appeared to me to have been stuck in time, and could not compare with Maulana in their scholarly understanding of the reality of the strange and challenging modern age, or in their capacity to offer an Islamic response for example, to challenges posed by the modern scientific and technological revolution, the feminist revolution, etc.

 

I left Egypt and travelled to Pakistan in August 1964 to become Maulana’s student at the Aleemiyah Institute of Islamic Studies in Karachi, and that was the best decision that I have ever taken in life. (The Institute still exists to this day at the Islamic Center in Block B of the Karachi suburb of North Nazimabad.)

 

I remained his student until I graduated from the Institute seven years later in 1971 at the age of twenty-nine with the degree of Al-Ijazah al-‘Aliyah, and returned to Trinidad. I never met him again in life, since he died three years later in 1974 in Pakistan at the age of 60. 

 

There are many things about Maulana that I would love to write and to record for history, but by far the most important of all aspects of his rich and multi-faceted life was his religious thought, and that is what I have attempted to explain in my brief essay on the subject. It was crucially important for me to do so, not only because his exceptional scholarship offers some assistance for modern Islamic scholarship to extricate itself from its present sorry and miserable plight (one cannot find a single prominent Islamic scholar today who dares to declare the present paper-money monetary system to be bogus, fraudulent and Haram), but also because his scholarship has played such an important role in guiding and assisting me in writing my recent pioneering book on Dajjal, the false Messiah, which is the latest book in the Ansari Memorial Series.

 

That essay can be found in the Appendix to my book on ‘Methodology for Study of the Qur’an’.

 

 

Preface

I thank, once again, my learned Assistant, the Islamic scholar, Hasbullah Shafi’iy, who kindly and diligently responded to my request to write summaries of the views of the classical commentators of the Qur’an on the subjects of the Jasad, as well as Dabbat al-Ard. These helpful summaries can be found as Appendix 1 and 2 of this book. I also thank my dear student, Gregoire, who has again kindly proof-read the text of this book. May Allah bless them both for their kind assistance.

 

The last chapter of this book is entitled ‘The Last Word’, and it comprises of only one paragraph. Hence the message cannot be missed by those to whom it is addressed.

 

May Allah make it easy for me to complete the remaining books to be written on the subject of Dajjal the false Messiah. Amin!

 

INH

In the Caribbean island of Trinidad

Jumadi al-Akhir 1440/February 2019

 

 

Ansari Memorial Series List of books

 

1. The Strategic Importance of Dreams and Visions in Islam;

2. Jerusalem in the Qur’an - An Islamic View of the Destiny of Jerusalem;

3. The Gold Dinar and Silver Dirham—Islam and the Future of Money; 

4. Surah al-Kahf and the Modern Age; 

5. Methodology for Study of the Qur’an;

6. Dajjal the Qur’an and Awwal al-Zaman;

7. An Islamic View of Gog and Magog in the Modern World;

8. Explaining Israel’s Mysterious Imperial Agenda;

9. In Search of Khidr’s Footprints in Akhir Al-Zaman;

10. The Importance of the Prohibition of Riba in Islam;

11. The Prohibition of Riba in the Qur’an and Sunnah; 

12. One Jamaat One Ameer: The Organization of a Muslim Community in the Age of Fitan; 

13. The Religion of Abraham and the State of Israel —A View from the Qur’an; 

14. The Strategic Importance of Isra’ and Miraj;

15. The Caliphate the Hejaz and the Saudi-Wahhabi Nation-State;

16. Fasting and Power – The Strategic Importance of the Fast of Ramadan;

17. The Quranic Method of Curing Alcoholism and Drug Addiction;

18. George Bernard Shaw and the Islamic Scholar;

19. A Muslim Response to the 9/11 Attack on America; 

20. Surah al-Kahf: Text and Commentary; 

21. Signs of the Last Day in the Modern Age;

22. The Islamic Travelogue: Travelling through the South in the Mission of Islam (2007-2008);

23. The First Islamic Travelogue (2001-2003);

24. Iqbal and Pakistan’s Moment of Truth; 

25. Madinah returns to Center-stage in Akhir al-Zaman; 

26. Islam and Buddhism in the Modern World; (published previously in the Aleemiyah Memorial Series)

27. The Qur’an the Great War and the West;

28. Constantinople in the Qur’an;

29. The Qur’an, Dajjal and the Jasad;

30. The Quranic Foundations and Structure of Muslim Society in 2 volumes; a book written by Maulana Dr. Muhammad Fazlur Rahman Ansari. 

 

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