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If you are looking in Judaism, you have false Messiah after false Messiah, and then there's the concept of the ultimate false Messiah, before obviously the ultimate Messiah.

And on the other hand, you have Messiah's who are like Mujed Dideen, people who revive, until you have El Masih, the ultimate Messiah, who of course is Isha Ali, his Saddam, Jesus peace be upon him.

And so, in our conception, as we look to this idea of Dajjal, and we talk about a Dajjal, and what the Dajjal looks like, the Antichrist, the false Messiah looks like,

there are a few things that I wanted to cover within the night to out of for us to date, more about the conditions in which a figure like that can rise and can take advantage of so many different people.

Now over the last 200 years, or at last 100 years in specific, the tools of deception have obviously increased, the quality of those tools and those mechanics have increased.

And so, you know, when the TV first came out, some said, that's the Dajjal, it's your iPad, it is your phone, and then no, you know, it was Facebook, and now it's metaverse, and these are all Dajjal.

And while there are certainly forms of Dajjal, certainly forms of deception that are enabled to these tools, and those tools, you know, as they develop, become more frightening, there is the Dajjal that we hear about from the Prophet,

and he was said in numerous traditions, and there is a specific twist to this Dajjal, and that is that he is the ultimate deceiver.

He has the ultimate optical illusions, is able to play with people's eyes and able to deceive them with his claims in ways that other people before him were not able to.

So he is the culmination, if you will, of all of those tactics, while certainly the conditions prior to him make his arrival ripe.

Now before I go into the conditions in which the Dajjal rises, I think it's very pertinent that we talk about the things that the Prophet's license told us to protect ourselves from a Dajjal.

Number one, the Prophet, and specifically faith before it's too late to have faith before it's too late to profess and to have faith.

There is a time when faith comes, or there is a time when faith is no longer accepted.

And the Prophet ﷺ said, Thalatha, that there are three things.

The Prophet ﷺ said that there is a time that comes, once these three things arrive, at that point if a person did not profess faith, or they did not benefit from their faith.

Meaning it was merely an expression, but not actually a heartfelt reality or something that was acted upon or practiced.

The Prophet ﷺ mentioned the rising of the sun from the west, the Prophet ﷺ mentioned a Dajjal, and he mentioned the dabba.

So he mentioned these three things, the rising of the sun, the beast and the antichrist.

And that at that point, Eman does not benefit a person if it's sought to be initiated at that point.

It's something that you have to do in advance.

The second thing the Prophet ﷺ gave us was Eman, was knowledge.

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