—and he will saw him in half, then bring him back to life. He will next try to slaughter him, but will be unable; instead, he will seize the man by his hands and feet and hurl him away. Onlookers will think he has thrown him into the Fire, while in reality he has been cast into Paradise. After that, Allah will send down al-Masih ibn Maryam (the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary), who will descend by the white minaret to the east of Damascus. He will pursue the dajjal until he overtakes him at Bab Lud and there he will kill him. All of these reports are sound and firmly established in Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim, and they pertain to the unseen (ghayb) that Muslims are required to believe in, as the Almighty says: “Alif Lam Mim. This is the Book in which there is no doubt, a guidance for the God-fearing—those who believe in the unseen” (2:1-3). As for reinterpreting—or rather nullifying—these texts, as Ghulam Ahmad al-Qadiyani did when he claimed prophethood and asserted that the dajjal is nothing but the false Christian religion or its missionaries (see, for example, his I‘jaz al-Masih, pp. 27–30), that view is manifestly groundless and needs no elaborate refutation. One of this deranged Qadiyani’s so-called “miracles” is his claim that the “accursed Satan” from whom we seek refuge is in fact the same dajjal—i.e., the aforesaid religion. He wrote: “Only a person of blazing intellect can grasp this symbol!” Some “miracle” indeed! Anyone who reads his works will realize that almost all of his tafsir rests on such excessive Sufi-style allegories, unsupported by linguistic or legal principles; it is mere whim—or satanic inspiration! (*) See “The Story of al-Masih al-Dajjal, the Descent of Jesus, and His Killing of Him,” by Shaykh —, Islamic Library, Amman (Jordan).