one-eyed, whereas your Lord is not one-eyed. He also said, “Know that none of you will see his Lord until he dies.”

This author challenged this hadith, saying that such evidence is not needed to deny the Dajjāl’s divinity. Had he known how much misguidance exists in the world among those who affirm unrestricted union or union with particular individuals, he would not have said such a thing.

Would that the knowledgeable believer could see how the truth brought by the messengers is sometimes met with denial by one group, and at other times with attempts to liken something else to it and equate the two! Just as the polytheists rejected the Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) and other messengers, while the apostates believed in the messengership of Musaylimah and others like him among