Dajjal Hadiths Coming True: His 40 Days, His Mount & 1 Day Like a Year
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Who really is Dajjal? Has the Mahdi already appeared? Ya'juj and Ma'juj? Daabbetul Ard? The descent of Prophet Isa (pbuh) from the heavens, and so much more. Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) told us about many events of the end times one by one. However, some of these hadiths can seem distant from the reality of our everyday lives. For example, what does it mean that one day of the Dajjal will be like a year and another will be like a month? His journey across the earth as fast as drifting clouds? His entry into every city in just 40 days? His mount, with 40 cubits of distance between its ears? Or his power to command the sky to rain and the earth to uncover its hidden treasures, etc.
What could all of this actually mean? They might look impossible to fit into today's reality. And as a result, some are left in doubt and others are driven to question the credibility of the hadiths. But what if we are missing some kind of symbolic language? What if these descriptions were spoken in a beautiful metaphorical language? And more importantly, what if some of these prophecies we are waiting for have already happened? What if the very era we live in right now is already being shaped by their effects, but we just haven't realized it yet? In this video, we are not going to avoid the hard questions.
Our goal is simple: to remove all the question marks and provide clear and satisfying answers. At the end of the video, you will see how these signs perfectly align with the reality of today. And you will witness how our Prophet (pbuh) foretold the future as a true miracle. Get ready for a whole new perspective on the hadiths. Let's begin our journey with this foundational hadith: "Between the time of the creation of Adam and the Resurrection Day, there is nothing greater than the mischief of Dajjal." Think about it. If someone takes your life or your money, they only harm your temporary world. But if someone takes your faith, you lose eternal happiness and face the fire forever.
Therefore, the greatest mischief from the beginning to the end of humanity can only be a massive movement of disbelief. Throughout this video, we are going to use the clues from other hadiths to narrow down our circle. Every aspect we uncover will act like a puzzle piece, helping us complete the full picture so we can make an identification. Now, compare these two scenarios and ask yourself: Which one is a bigger threat to you? Scenario 1: A superhuman, imaginary monster suddenly appears right in front of you and says, "I am the Dajjal. Now deny Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)." And he simply kills whoever refuses to do so. Scenario 2: The Dajjal is a human being just like us.
He leads powerful ideological movements to spread disbelief. And he makes this corrupt system look attractive, modern, and beautiful. He misleads the masses through media and propaganda. Of course, the second scenario would cause millions to lose their faith without even realizing it. While the first one wouldn't really trick anyone because it's too obvious. In fact, even the Dajjal himself probably wouldn't realize his own identity. He will simply be a human being living his own test. If he knew he was actually Dajjal, he might even accept Islam. This is why we must realize that the descriptions in the hadith are actually symbolic.
Our Prophet (pbuh) chose his words in such a way that these events would be recognized when the time comes. For example, according to the hadith, Dajjal will stay on earth for 40 days. And during that time, he will enter every single city except Makkah and Madinah. In the era of the Prophet (pbuh), traveling the world was a matter of years, not days. People traveled on camels and horses, crossing a single desert took weeks. For over a thousand years, this detail of the hadith looked completely unrealistic. But when we look at the last century, everything changes. The world was completely rewritten by modern transportation. Trains and massive railway networks began to cover the Earth.
Airplanes made it possible to fly around the entire world in less than two days. But more importantly, think about global communication. In the last century, a single ideology could spread through newspapers and radio very quickly. By order of the government, all religious activity beyond worship is forbidden. Any religious institution that violates these regulations will be closed. And today, an ideological movement can enter every city and every smartphone screen on earth within seconds. And this is exactly how the Dajjal can spread his ideas, his corruption, and establish his global influence in just 40 days.
Long before the technology even existed, our Prophet (pbuh) accurately pointed out this age of instant communication. Isn't it a profound miracle? He had looked across 14 centuries and witnessed today's reality. Allah showed him the secrets of the future. And that's why the description of the Dajjal's mount is so critical. The hadith says that the distance between its ears is 40 cubits. Over the last century, humanity witnessed a massive shift from riding animals to building giant steel machinery. Airplanes, trains, cars, etc. Look at the absolute beauty in the Prophet's (pbuh) style of teaching.
Because the companions were his first and most precious students, he based his language entirely on the understanding of their century. If we were to take a modern car back to that era, how would those people see it? To them, the bright headlights would look like glowing eyes, the front grille would look like a giant mouth, and the side mirrors or even the open doors, they would look exactly like a pair of ears. It is a perfect description of a modern machine seen through the eyes of a seventh-century observer. As we all know, the distance between the two sides of some of today's modern transportation vehicles easily reaches 40 cubits, which is around 20 meters.
So this detail in the hadith is not a flaw. It's a clear sign of the technological era the hadith points to. When the companions asked, "O Messenger of Allah (pbuh), how long will he stay on earth?" The Prophet (pbuh) replied, "40 days. One day like a year, one day like a month, one day like a week, and the rest of his days like your days." What kind of timeline is this? The great Tafsir and hadith scholar Bediuzzaman provides two profound explanations to understand this secret. He focuses on the speed of corruption. In the beginning, the Dajjal works with terrifying speed. His first day represents a dark period where years of spiritual destruction happen in just a short time.
In his second phase, his speed slows down a bit but he still does an incredible amount of work, as if squeezing a whole month's worth of giant projects into a single day. Even in his third phase, he remains highly powerful, doing a week's worth of massive damage in one day. Eventually, the system slows down to normal daily speed. However, Bediuzzaman's second interpretation reveals that these profound words of the Prophet (pbuh) have a completely different miracle. According to him, this hadith actually contains an incredible piece of geographical knowledge. Think about it for a second. Where on earth does a day last a year? It happens around the North Pole, right above Russia's Siberia.
You experience six months of continuous daylight followed by six months of continuous darkness. The whole year is one day and one night. And it doesn't stop there. As you move slightly south, the day is shortened. In those regions, you find places where a single day and night lasts for a month and further down for a week. Then as you go further south towards the rest of the world, the anomaly ends. The daylight cycles finally return to normal. So that means this area is the birthplace of the Dajjal's movement. And it will spread to the rest of the world from there. And interestingly, in the last century, this exact northern region turned into the center of a massive wave of disbelief.
They used the full power of the state, schools, and media to spread absolute atheism. More than 95% of all mosques and churches were completely destroyed or closed down. They burned religious books and made religious education completely illegal. Thousands of religious scholars were exiled to the freezing camps of Siberia or worse, executed. For decades, millions of children were raised with heavy propaganda telling them that religion was a lie. They even established the League of Militant Atheists, an official group backed by the state. This group turned millions of citizens into active fighters against faith. A movement called Down With Shame was launched.
People literally marched through the streets completely naked, wearing nothing but a banner that read Down With Shame. For a period, this state even abolished the traditional concept of marriage. Nudity clubs opened everywhere, and traditional bathhouses were legally ordered to become mixed, allowing men and women to be naked together inside. They wanted a society where no one prayed, no one believed in the afterlife, and no one followed divine laws. And guess what? This spiritual virus spread across borders, and today, we are living in a world shaped by this virus. For years, religion was removed from education and science and a new system was created.
And this system tricks you into looking at the universe through a purely materialistic lens, even if you are religious. Up until two centuries ago, non-believers were almost nonexistent in the world. But today, about 1.3 billion people identify as non-believers, which means roughly one out of every six people. Of course, only Allah knows the ultimate truth and the true interpretation of everything. But can an even more destructive movement emerge after this? Honestly, that really makes you think. The Prophet (pbuh) stated that the Dajjal would be supported by 70,000 Jews. Look at the events we just discussed.
Jewish figures were highly visible within the top tiers of leadership of that atheistic movement. And this is only one example. For example, whether openly or behind the scenes, they took their place among the elite groups that shaped global politics. And it is well known in Arabic that numbers like 40, 70, 70,000, 80, or 80,000 are not meant to be exact math. It's just a common way to say a massive amount. In other words, we cannot expect a literal crowd of exactly 70,000 people openly chanting their support. These kinds of systems force a brutal choice upon every single individual. Messenger of Allah (pbuh) warned us: "With him, meaning Dajjal, will be a paradise and a hell.
But his hell is paradise and his paradise is hell." What does this actually mean? The answer is clear. Dajjal builds a system where your daily survival depends on your loyalty to him. If you join his materialistic wave and support his faithless system, he opens the doors to his paradise. You are rewarded with comfort, wealth, and high status. However, if you choose the side of Allah, the Dajjal's hell welcomes you with open arms, sending you to heavy labor camps, prison cells, and executions. But in reality, Dajjal's paradise is actually a path to real hell. While the worldly hell he forces upon the believers is the very thing that opens the gates to the true eternal paradise.
In another hadith, our Prophet (pbuh) said: "It is from the signs of the last hour that men will decrease in number while women will increase so much so that there will only be one man to look after 50 women." And if you look at the reality, this is exactly what we saw in the last century. World wars caused a terrifying loss of human life. And most of those casualties were men. Of the male population left behind, many were just children, the elderly, or wounded veterans. In the countries hit by wars, mature and healthy men who could take care of women became a tiny minority. And once again, the course of history proved the words of the Prophet (pbuh) true.
By the way, just like we saw earlier, the number 50 in the hadith is not exact math. It's a common way to say a big amount. So let me share another clue from these hadiths. And this time, you try to guess what this actually represents. Then he, meaning Dajjal, "will command the sky to rain, and it will rain. He will pass through the wasteland and will say, bring forth your treasures, then go away, and its treasures will follow him like a swarm of bees." Now take a look at today's world. What could this possibly mean? Right around the 1940 s, humanity discovered cloud seeding technology.
For the first time in history, scientists learned how to artificially trigger the clouds and literally make it rain on demand. This is like ordering the sky to pour down rain. And it actually worked. And in those exact same years, modern mining underwent a massive revolution. With modern technology, trillions of dollars worth of oil, gas, and precious metals began to pour out of the ground on demand. Have you noticed something? Whenever someone tries to attack these hadiths, the hidden miracles behind them shine even brighter. There is no way the Prophet (pbuh) could have known these on his own. It was clearly revealed to him by Allah. This brings us to a major question.
Why all this mystery? Would it be better if the Prophet (pbuh) gave us exact names and dates so everyone could easily understand? Let me ask you a question back. What was the actual purpose of these hadiths? Why did our Prophet (pbuh) warn us? He did it so his ummah would stay alert. But the Prophet (pbuh) wasn't just a guide for one specific century. He was a guide for every human being until the Day of Judgment. He wanted the spirit of the Mahdi and the Dajjal to be felt in every century. If he had pinpointed the exact identities of Dajjal and Mahdi and gave a specific time and date, only one generation would care. And all the other centuries would drop their guard.
He wanted the entire Ummah to stay alert, awake, and sharp. He chose a brilliant method so that every single generation would look at their own era compared to the hadith and say, "Could this be the time?" The possibility of facing the Dajjal keeps us careful. And holding on to the hope of Mahdi keeps us motivated. This beautiful balance between fear and hope is the ultimate secret behind the symbolic language of these hadiths. This explains why different narrations point to different locations when describing where the Dajjal will appear. One narration points to Khorasan, another points to a region between Iraq and Sham, and yet another points to the Jews of Isfahan. Why?
Because as the Prophet (pbuh) said: “…before the hour comes, there will be nearly 30 Dajjals. There is not just one leader of corruption. There are many of them. This means there is no need to combine all the signs of the Dajjal into one single individual. Because while one hadith is describing the features of one Dajjal, another narration is talking about a completely different one. And again, when you look back at the last century, you realize the anti-religious system we mentioned worked exactly like a giant octopus. Its head and its brain were located in Russia, but its tentacles reached out to neighboring Muslim countries.
Countries like Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Azerbaijan faced heavy oppression. Their mosques were forcefully shut down. Islamic clothing was restricted, Islamic scholars were systematically arrested, exiled or executed. Even though the vast majority of the population was Muslim, the Adhan was completely banned, and people had to learn their religion in secret. Now for a moment, try to replay all the clues we have talked about so far in your mind. The illusion of a worldly paradise and hell, the attack on faith, years of spiritual destruction in a short time, etc. Now think about it. One individual poisons the minds of millions.
New generations grow up receiving even science lessons as atheistic propaganda. In a world like that, can you fix everything by just eliminating one man? I don't think so. What matters far more than the Dajjal himself is Dajjalism, the ideologies he left behind. The actual person of the Dajjal could easily die from a simple virus or a common sickness. But what about erasing a worldwide ideology and convincing millions of people to accept the truth? A task this massive can be the only thing worthy of a great prophet's return. So when the hadiths speak of Prophet Isa destroying the Dajjal, we cannot treat it like a simple duel. Instead, this is a clash of two giant ideas.
Prophet Isa together with his alliance of believers will take the diamond sword of the Quran and slash through the whole ideology of Dajjalism. InshaAllah, they will bury that ideology so completely that it will never be able to breathe again. By this logic, for the words of the hadith to come true, Dajjal and Isa don't even need to live in the same time period. Now, you might be thinking, brother, is nothing literal in the hadith about the end times? Of course there are. Take the rising of the sun from the west, for example. This will happen exactly as you understand it. And because it's completely literal, the doors of repentance will close the moment it happens.
The test of believing or not is based on free choice. But this event is so impossible to ignore that the concept of choice simply vanishes. It's like the words La ilaha illallah being written in the sky with stars for a long time for the whole world to see. At that point, you can no longer choose to believe; you are forced to see. Just like the Pharaoh trying to believe at the very last second while drowning in the sea, believing at that moment will be completely useless. The word kafir on the Dajjal's forehead that anyone can read even if they are illiterate... Ya'juj and Ma'juj... The rise of Daabbetul Ard and how it exposes the true faith of every person.
The logical answers to these and many other highly curious hadiths are explained inside the Risale-i Nur collection. If you want to dive deeper into the original source and find more, you can download our app My Risale. It's completely free and ad-free. We will be waiting for you there. Today we see people fall into two extreme sides regarding these hadiths. One side doubts them and says this makes no sense. They end up rejecting the text. And some whose egos are far stronger than their faith even deny the entire collection of hadiths. And the other side takes these hadiths completely literally. By doing so, they confuse their listeners even more.
And of course, enemies of Islam love to highlight these specific narrations for this exact reason. But the truth is, less than 2% of our Prophet's (pbuh) hadiths are this hard to understand. The rest are clear, providing powerful guidelines and deep wisdom for every part of life. And do you know what's truly amazing? In all of human history, no other person has taught lessons in every single area of life like the Messenger of Allah (pbuh). Normally, when someone becomes prominent in history, it's usually in just one field, like law. But in other fields, they don't have remarkable insights. They don't have much to offer.
Yet, when we look at the books of hadith, we see that they gave lessons in so many areas. For example, law, trade, economics, family life, raising children, relationships between relatives and neighbors, cleanliness and hygiene, health, morality, spiritual growth, and the discipline of the nafs. Even love for animals is included. And if you look into the books of hadiths, you will find far more topics than these. So simply because we cannot fully grasp the depth of something, cutting it off and rejecting it cannot be the attitude of a rational mind. Especially when you look at how carefully and reliably these hadiths were preserved through centuries.
In fact, they went through a multi-layered verification process unmatched in history. A hadith is never accepted as sahih unless it passes these strict tests. 1. A connected chain of narrators: We must know every single narrator in the line person by person, showing exactly who told it to whom, all the way back to the Prophet (pbuh). 2. The honesty of the narrators: Every person in the chain must be known for their absolute honesty, deep fear of Allah, and strong faith, with no history of lying or any bad behaviors. 3. A perfect memory: They must have a perfect memory or perfect written records ensuring they don't forget or mix up the words. 4.
No contradictions: The narration cannot go against what more reliable or well-known narrators have reported. 5. No hidden flaws, known as illah: The text and the chain must be completely free from any hidden flaws that only deep experts in hadith science can find. More than 20,000 hadith narrators exist in history. And massive records cover their life stories, moral characters, and memory power. Every single detail is recorded all just to verify the truth of their words. History has truly never witnessed anything like it. In the end, every single false narration was filtered and completely removed. Let's put it this way.
If the Bible, which is accepted by 2 billion Christians, was examined under the strict rules of hadith science, it wouldn't even get a passing grade. The system was built perfectly from day one. Beyond the hundreds who memorized the hadiths, 52 companions were actively writing them down during the lifetime of the Prophet (pbuh). A famous example is the Sahifatus Sadiqah, a collection of nearly 1,000 hadiths written directly by the companion Abdullah ibn Amr. Between the years 50 and 150 of the Islamic calendar, around 400 different experts focused on saving and recording these texts. But beyond all of that, our biggest proof is the character of the companions.
We are receiving these words from people who dedicated their lives to Allah and sacrificed everything for Rasulullah (pbuh). They are the foundation of this entire system. They had absolutely zero reason to lie. In fact, they lived under the heavy weight of this famous hadith: "Whoever deliberately makes up a lie and attributes it to me, let him take his seat in hellfire." With a warning that scary, they were incredibly careful with every single word. But here, we need to clarify a very important detail. When we call a hadith weak, it's only weak compared to the perfect standards of a sahih hadith. In fact, it's much more trustworthy than almost any text written before the printing press.
Its historical value is still incredibly strong. Take the famous hadith about Istanbul, for example: "You'll conquer Constantinople. The best commander is its commander and the best army is its army." It carries the technical label of weak, yet history witnessed the conquest. And that weak label didn't change its historical strength. So unless you are discussing core beliefs of Islam or making strict religious laws, there is absolutely no reason to look down on a weak hadith. Now when we look at the whole trend of rejecting hadith, we have to ask a very simple question. If you deny the hadith, what do you actually gain? Nothing.
But if the hadiths you reject are true, the responsibility is terrifying. Moreover, think about the afterlife. Won't you be deeply embarrassed to face the Prophet (pbuh)? What are you going to say? Uh, you know what? Yes, you sacrificed your entire life for us. You were stoned, insulted, and slandered. You faced death countless times and lived through the harshest conditions. But honestly, your words weren't really that important to me. Can you really say that? And how can you accuse hundreds of companions of being liars? We cannot simply talk without understanding the weight of our claims.
And finally, let's leave the last word to the Prophet (pbuh) himself: "Let me not find one of you reclining on his couch when a command I ordered or a prohibition from me comes to him and he says, I do not know . What we find in the Book of Allah, we follow it."
What could all of this actually mean? They might look impossible to fit into today's reality. And as a result, some are left in doubt and others are driven to question the credibility of the hadiths. But what if we are missing some kind of symbolic language? What if these descriptions were spoken in a beautiful metaphorical language? And more importantly, what if some of these prophecies we are waiting for have already happened? What if the very era we live in right now is already being shaped by their effects, but we just haven't realized it yet? In this video, we are not going to avoid the hard questions.
Our goal is simple: to remove all the question marks and provide clear and satisfying answers. At the end of the video, you will see how these signs perfectly align with the reality of today. And you will witness how our Prophet (pbuh) foretold the future as a true miracle. Get ready for a whole new perspective on the hadiths. Let's begin our journey with this foundational hadith: "Between the time of the creation of Adam and the Resurrection Day, there is nothing greater than the mischief of Dajjal." Think about it. If someone takes your life or your money, they only harm your temporary world. But if someone takes your faith, you lose eternal happiness and face the fire forever.
Therefore, the greatest mischief from the beginning to the end of humanity can only be a massive movement of disbelief. Throughout this video, we are going to use the clues from other hadiths to narrow down our circle. Every aspect we uncover will act like a puzzle piece, helping us complete the full picture so we can make an identification. Now, compare these two scenarios and ask yourself: Which one is a bigger threat to you? Scenario 1: A superhuman, imaginary monster suddenly appears right in front of you and says, "I am the Dajjal. Now deny Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)." And he simply kills whoever refuses to do so. Scenario 2: The Dajjal is a human being just like us.
He leads powerful ideological movements to spread disbelief. And he makes this corrupt system look attractive, modern, and beautiful. He misleads the masses through media and propaganda. Of course, the second scenario would cause millions to lose their faith without even realizing it. While the first one wouldn't really trick anyone because it's too obvious. In fact, even the Dajjal himself probably wouldn't realize his own identity. He will simply be a human being living his own test. If he knew he was actually Dajjal, he might even accept Islam. This is why we must realize that the descriptions in the hadith are actually symbolic.
Our Prophet (pbuh) chose his words in such a way that these events would be recognized when the time comes. For example, according to the hadith, Dajjal will stay on earth for 40 days. And during that time, he will enter every single city except Makkah and Madinah. In the era of the Prophet (pbuh), traveling the world was a matter of years, not days. People traveled on camels and horses, crossing a single desert took weeks. For over a thousand years, this detail of the hadith looked completely unrealistic. But when we look at the last century, everything changes. The world was completely rewritten by modern transportation. Trains and massive railway networks began to cover the Earth.
Airplanes made it possible to fly around the entire world in less than two days. But more importantly, think about global communication. In the last century, a single ideology could spread through newspapers and radio very quickly. By order of the government, all religious activity beyond worship is forbidden. Any religious institution that violates these regulations will be closed. And today, an ideological movement can enter every city and every smartphone screen on earth within seconds. And this is exactly how the Dajjal can spread his ideas, his corruption, and establish his global influence in just 40 days.
Long before the technology even existed, our Prophet (pbuh) accurately pointed out this age of instant communication. Isn't it a profound miracle? He had looked across 14 centuries and witnessed today's reality. Allah showed him the secrets of the future. And that's why the description of the Dajjal's mount is so critical. The hadith says that the distance between its ears is 40 cubits. Over the last century, humanity witnessed a massive shift from riding animals to building giant steel machinery. Airplanes, trains, cars, etc. Look at the absolute beauty in the Prophet's (pbuh) style of teaching.
Because the companions were his first and most precious students, he based his language entirely on the understanding of their century. If we were to take a modern car back to that era, how would those people see it? To them, the bright headlights would look like glowing eyes, the front grille would look like a giant mouth, and the side mirrors or even the open doors, they would look exactly like a pair of ears. It is a perfect description of a modern machine seen through the eyes of a seventh-century observer. As we all know, the distance between the two sides of some of today's modern transportation vehicles easily reaches 40 cubits, which is around 20 meters.
So this detail in the hadith is not a flaw. It's a clear sign of the technological era the hadith points to. When the companions asked, "O Messenger of Allah (pbuh), how long will he stay on earth?" The Prophet (pbuh) replied, "40 days. One day like a year, one day like a month, one day like a week, and the rest of his days like your days." What kind of timeline is this? The great Tafsir and hadith scholar Bediuzzaman provides two profound explanations to understand this secret. He focuses on the speed of corruption. In the beginning, the Dajjal works with terrifying speed. His first day represents a dark period where years of spiritual destruction happen in just a short time.
In his second phase, his speed slows down a bit but he still does an incredible amount of work, as if squeezing a whole month's worth of giant projects into a single day. Even in his third phase, he remains highly powerful, doing a week's worth of massive damage in one day. Eventually, the system slows down to normal daily speed. However, Bediuzzaman's second interpretation reveals that these profound words of the Prophet (pbuh) have a completely different miracle. According to him, this hadith actually contains an incredible piece of geographical knowledge. Think about it for a second. Where on earth does a day last a year? It happens around the North Pole, right above Russia's Siberia.
You experience six months of continuous daylight followed by six months of continuous darkness. The whole year is one day and one night. And it doesn't stop there. As you move slightly south, the day is shortened. In those regions, you find places where a single day and night lasts for a month and further down for a week. Then as you go further south towards the rest of the world, the anomaly ends. The daylight cycles finally return to normal. So that means this area is the birthplace of the Dajjal's movement. And it will spread to the rest of the world from there. And interestingly, in the last century, this exact northern region turned into the center of a massive wave of disbelief.
They used the full power of the state, schools, and media to spread absolute atheism. More than 95% of all mosques and churches were completely destroyed or closed down. They burned religious books and made religious education completely illegal. Thousands of religious scholars were exiled to the freezing camps of Siberia or worse, executed. For decades, millions of children were raised with heavy propaganda telling them that religion was a lie. They even established the League of Militant Atheists, an official group backed by the state. This group turned millions of citizens into active fighters against faith. A movement called Down With Shame was launched.
People literally marched through the streets completely naked, wearing nothing but a banner that read Down With Shame. For a period, this state even abolished the traditional concept of marriage. Nudity clubs opened everywhere, and traditional bathhouses were legally ordered to become mixed, allowing men and women to be naked together inside. They wanted a society where no one prayed, no one believed in the afterlife, and no one followed divine laws. And guess what? This spiritual virus spread across borders, and today, we are living in a world shaped by this virus. For years, religion was removed from education and science and a new system was created.
And this system tricks you into looking at the universe through a purely materialistic lens, even if you are religious. Up until two centuries ago, non-believers were almost nonexistent in the world. But today, about 1.3 billion people identify as non-believers, which means roughly one out of every six people. Of course, only Allah knows the ultimate truth and the true interpretation of everything. But can an even more destructive movement emerge after this? Honestly, that really makes you think. The Prophet (pbuh) stated that the Dajjal would be supported by 70,000 Jews. Look at the events we just discussed.
Jewish figures were highly visible within the top tiers of leadership of that atheistic movement. And this is only one example. For example, whether openly or behind the scenes, they took their place among the elite groups that shaped global politics. And it is well known in Arabic that numbers like 40, 70, 70,000, 80, or 80,000 are not meant to be exact math. It's just a common way to say a massive amount. In other words, we cannot expect a literal crowd of exactly 70,000 people openly chanting their support. These kinds of systems force a brutal choice upon every single individual. Messenger of Allah (pbuh) warned us: "With him, meaning Dajjal, will be a paradise and a hell.
But his hell is paradise and his paradise is hell." What does this actually mean? The answer is clear. Dajjal builds a system where your daily survival depends on your loyalty to him. If you join his materialistic wave and support his faithless system, he opens the doors to his paradise. You are rewarded with comfort, wealth, and high status. However, if you choose the side of Allah, the Dajjal's hell welcomes you with open arms, sending you to heavy labor camps, prison cells, and executions. But in reality, Dajjal's paradise is actually a path to real hell. While the worldly hell he forces upon the believers is the very thing that opens the gates to the true eternal paradise.
In another hadith, our Prophet (pbuh) said: "It is from the signs of the last hour that men will decrease in number while women will increase so much so that there will only be one man to look after 50 women." And if you look at the reality, this is exactly what we saw in the last century. World wars caused a terrifying loss of human life. And most of those casualties were men. Of the male population left behind, many were just children, the elderly, or wounded veterans. In the countries hit by wars, mature and healthy men who could take care of women became a tiny minority. And once again, the course of history proved the words of the Prophet (pbuh) true.
By the way, just like we saw earlier, the number 50 in the hadith is not exact math. It's a common way to say a big amount. So let me share another clue from these hadiths. And this time, you try to guess what this actually represents. Then he, meaning Dajjal, "will command the sky to rain, and it will rain. He will pass through the wasteland and will say, bring forth your treasures, then go away, and its treasures will follow him like a swarm of bees." Now take a look at today's world. What could this possibly mean? Right around the 1940 s, humanity discovered cloud seeding technology.
For the first time in history, scientists learned how to artificially trigger the clouds and literally make it rain on demand. This is like ordering the sky to pour down rain. And it actually worked. And in those exact same years, modern mining underwent a massive revolution. With modern technology, trillions of dollars worth of oil, gas, and precious metals began to pour out of the ground on demand. Have you noticed something? Whenever someone tries to attack these hadiths, the hidden miracles behind them shine even brighter. There is no way the Prophet (pbuh) could have known these on his own. It was clearly revealed to him by Allah. This brings us to a major question.
Why all this mystery? Would it be better if the Prophet (pbuh) gave us exact names and dates so everyone could easily understand? Let me ask you a question back. What was the actual purpose of these hadiths? Why did our Prophet (pbuh) warn us? He did it so his ummah would stay alert. But the Prophet (pbuh) wasn't just a guide for one specific century. He was a guide for every human being until the Day of Judgment. He wanted the spirit of the Mahdi and the Dajjal to be felt in every century. If he had pinpointed the exact identities of Dajjal and Mahdi and gave a specific time and date, only one generation would care. And all the other centuries would drop their guard.
He wanted the entire Ummah to stay alert, awake, and sharp. He chose a brilliant method so that every single generation would look at their own era compared to the hadith and say, "Could this be the time?" The possibility of facing the Dajjal keeps us careful. And holding on to the hope of Mahdi keeps us motivated. This beautiful balance between fear and hope is the ultimate secret behind the symbolic language of these hadiths. This explains why different narrations point to different locations when describing where the Dajjal will appear. One narration points to Khorasan, another points to a region between Iraq and Sham, and yet another points to the Jews of Isfahan. Why?
Because as the Prophet (pbuh) said: “…before the hour comes, there will be nearly 30 Dajjals. There is not just one leader of corruption. There are many of them. This means there is no need to combine all the signs of the Dajjal into one single individual. Because while one hadith is describing the features of one Dajjal, another narration is talking about a completely different one. And again, when you look back at the last century, you realize the anti-religious system we mentioned worked exactly like a giant octopus. Its head and its brain were located in Russia, but its tentacles reached out to neighboring Muslim countries.
Countries like Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Azerbaijan faced heavy oppression. Their mosques were forcefully shut down. Islamic clothing was restricted, Islamic scholars were systematically arrested, exiled or executed. Even though the vast majority of the population was Muslim, the Adhan was completely banned, and people had to learn their religion in secret. Now for a moment, try to replay all the clues we have talked about so far in your mind. The illusion of a worldly paradise and hell, the attack on faith, years of spiritual destruction in a short time, etc. Now think about it. One individual poisons the minds of millions.
New generations grow up receiving even science lessons as atheistic propaganda. In a world like that, can you fix everything by just eliminating one man? I don't think so. What matters far more than the Dajjal himself is Dajjalism, the ideologies he left behind. The actual person of the Dajjal could easily die from a simple virus or a common sickness. But what about erasing a worldwide ideology and convincing millions of people to accept the truth? A task this massive can be the only thing worthy of a great prophet's return. So when the hadiths speak of Prophet Isa destroying the Dajjal, we cannot treat it like a simple duel. Instead, this is a clash of two giant ideas.
Prophet Isa together with his alliance of believers will take the diamond sword of the Quran and slash through the whole ideology of Dajjalism. InshaAllah, they will bury that ideology so completely that it will never be able to breathe again. By this logic, for the words of the hadith to come true, Dajjal and Isa don't even need to live in the same time period. Now, you might be thinking, brother, is nothing literal in the hadith about the end times? Of course there are. Take the rising of the sun from the west, for example. This will happen exactly as you understand it. And because it's completely literal, the doors of repentance will close the moment it happens.
The test of believing or not is based on free choice. But this event is so impossible to ignore that the concept of choice simply vanishes. It's like the words La ilaha illallah being written in the sky with stars for a long time for the whole world to see. At that point, you can no longer choose to believe; you are forced to see. Just like the Pharaoh trying to believe at the very last second while drowning in the sea, believing at that moment will be completely useless. The word kafir on the Dajjal's forehead that anyone can read even if they are illiterate... Ya'juj and Ma'juj... The rise of Daabbetul Ard and how it exposes the true faith of every person.
The logical answers to these and many other highly curious hadiths are explained inside the Risale-i Nur collection. If you want to dive deeper into the original source and find more, you can download our app My Risale. It's completely free and ad-free. We will be waiting for you there. Today we see people fall into two extreme sides regarding these hadiths. One side doubts them and says this makes no sense. They end up rejecting the text. And some whose egos are far stronger than their faith even deny the entire collection of hadiths. And the other side takes these hadiths completely literally. By doing so, they confuse their listeners even more.
And of course, enemies of Islam love to highlight these specific narrations for this exact reason. But the truth is, less than 2% of our Prophet's (pbuh) hadiths are this hard to understand. The rest are clear, providing powerful guidelines and deep wisdom for every part of life. And do you know what's truly amazing? In all of human history, no other person has taught lessons in every single area of life like the Messenger of Allah (pbuh). Normally, when someone becomes prominent in history, it's usually in just one field, like law. But in other fields, they don't have remarkable insights. They don't have much to offer.
Yet, when we look at the books of hadith, we see that they gave lessons in so many areas. For example, law, trade, economics, family life, raising children, relationships between relatives and neighbors, cleanliness and hygiene, health, morality, spiritual growth, and the discipline of the nafs. Even love for animals is included. And if you look into the books of hadiths, you will find far more topics than these. So simply because we cannot fully grasp the depth of something, cutting it off and rejecting it cannot be the attitude of a rational mind. Especially when you look at how carefully and reliably these hadiths were preserved through centuries.
In fact, they went through a multi-layered verification process unmatched in history. A hadith is never accepted as sahih unless it passes these strict tests. 1. A connected chain of narrators: We must know every single narrator in the line person by person, showing exactly who told it to whom, all the way back to the Prophet (pbuh). 2. The honesty of the narrators: Every person in the chain must be known for their absolute honesty, deep fear of Allah, and strong faith, with no history of lying or any bad behaviors. 3. A perfect memory: They must have a perfect memory or perfect written records ensuring they don't forget or mix up the words. 4.
No contradictions: The narration cannot go against what more reliable or well-known narrators have reported. 5. No hidden flaws, known as illah: The text and the chain must be completely free from any hidden flaws that only deep experts in hadith science can find. More than 20,000 hadith narrators exist in history. And massive records cover their life stories, moral characters, and memory power. Every single detail is recorded all just to verify the truth of their words. History has truly never witnessed anything like it. In the end, every single false narration was filtered and completely removed. Let's put it this way.
If the Bible, which is accepted by 2 billion Christians, was examined under the strict rules of hadith science, it wouldn't even get a passing grade. The system was built perfectly from day one. Beyond the hundreds who memorized the hadiths, 52 companions were actively writing them down during the lifetime of the Prophet (pbuh). A famous example is the Sahifatus Sadiqah, a collection of nearly 1,000 hadiths written directly by the companion Abdullah ibn Amr. Between the years 50 and 150 of the Islamic calendar, around 400 different experts focused on saving and recording these texts. But beyond all of that, our biggest proof is the character of the companions.
We are receiving these words from people who dedicated their lives to Allah and sacrificed everything for Rasulullah (pbuh). They are the foundation of this entire system. They had absolutely zero reason to lie. In fact, they lived under the heavy weight of this famous hadith: "Whoever deliberately makes up a lie and attributes it to me, let him take his seat in hellfire." With a warning that scary, they were incredibly careful with every single word. But here, we need to clarify a very important detail. When we call a hadith weak, it's only weak compared to the perfect standards of a sahih hadith. In fact, it's much more trustworthy than almost any text written before the printing press.
Its historical value is still incredibly strong. Take the famous hadith about Istanbul, for example: "You'll conquer Constantinople. The best commander is its commander and the best army is its army." It carries the technical label of weak, yet history witnessed the conquest. And that weak label didn't change its historical strength. So unless you are discussing core beliefs of Islam or making strict religious laws, there is absolutely no reason to look down on a weak hadith. Now when we look at the whole trend of rejecting hadith, we have to ask a very simple question. If you deny the hadith, what do you actually gain? Nothing.
But if the hadiths you reject are true, the responsibility is terrifying. Moreover, think about the afterlife. Won't you be deeply embarrassed to face the Prophet (pbuh)? What are you going to say? Uh, you know what? Yes, you sacrificed your entire life for us. You were stoned, insulted, and slandered. You faced death countless times and lived through the harshest conditions. But honestly, your words weren't really that important to me. Can you really say that? And how can you accuse hundreds of companions of being liars? We cannot simply talk without understanding the weight of our claims.
And finally, let's leave the last word to the Prophet (pbuh) himself: "Let me not find one of you reclining on his couch when a command I ordered or a prohibition from me comes to him and he says, I do not know . What we find in the Book of Allah, we follow it."