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Among the signs of the Last Hour is the appearance
of approximately 30 false claimants of Prophethood known as Dajjals.
Narrated Abu Hurayrah: Allah's Apostle
said:
"The Hour will not be established until
two big groups fight each other whereupon there will be a great number
of casualties on both sides and they will be following one and the same
religious doctrine, until about 30 dajjals appear, and each of them will
claim that he is Allah's Apostle..."
(Related by Bukhari and Muslim)
The last of these Dajjals would be the False
Messiah:
Once the Prophet of Allah said, while
delivering a ceremonial speech at an occasion of a solar eclipse, as
Samura son of Jundub reported:
"...Verily by God, the Last Hour will
not come until 30 liars of prophecy will appear and the final one
will be the One-eyed False Messiah."
(Narrated by Imam Ahmad as a sound Hadeeth).
In another authentic hadeeth, the Prophet of
Allah informed that of 27 dajjals, 4 of them would be women:
Huthaifa narrated, that the Prophet said:
"In my Ummah (community/nation), there
are 27 dajjals of liars, including 4 women (who will proclaim themselves
Prophets). I am the last Prophet and none will come after me."
(Related by Imam Ahmad and Al-Tabrani as a
sound hadeeth)
Therefore, there would be 27-30 Dajjals who would
appear, 4 of which would be women and the last of which would be the False
Messiah, who the true Messiah, Prophet
'Eessa ("Jesus") would kill. The Prophet of Allah (Prophet
Muhammad) already closed the loophole of building a series of Prophets and
confirmed the impossibility of any newcomer as a Prophet after him. The
dajjals he mentioned that have already appeared are discussed below. As I
find more of them, I shall list them.
- Musailama al-Kazzab:
Among the first false claimants to Prophecy was Musailama al-Kazzab, who
appeared during the time of Prophet Muhammad (upon whom be blessings
and peace) and his Companions and caused numerous troubles among
Muslims and had many followers. He eventually surrendered along with
his supporters in Al-Yamam battle, led by the first Caliph Abu Bakr,
and was killed.
- Sajah al-Kahenah:
Along with Musailama in falsely claiming Prophethood, was his wife,
Sajah al-Kahenah, although she later reversed her position after her
husband, Musailama, had been killed.
- Saf son of Sayyad: Another
False claimant to Prophethood that appeared during the time of the
Prophet and his companions, was Saf son of Sayyad. He claimed he was a
Prophet when he was on the threshold of adolescence, and was initially
believed to be the False Messiah, as his characteristics were the same
as those of the False Messiah. He later repented and embraced Islam.
- Tulayha son of Khwailid:
Tulayha was another of the false
Prophets who appeared during the time of the Prophet and his
companions, but later repented and returned to the fold of Islam.
- Aswad al-Ansi: Also
during the time of the Prophet and his companions was another false
Prophet, named Aswad al-Ansi. He was based in Yemen and was killed by
the Companions of the Prophet.
- Al-Mukhtar Al-Thaqafi: A
Shi’ite rebel, al-Mukhtar son of Abi Ubayd is also accused of being
a False Prophet. He claimed to be a representative of the Mahdi. Millennialist connotations surfaced after Mukhtar's rebellion, following his announcement to the people of Kufa that he was a representative of the
Mahdi.
- Mahmud son of al-Faraj: In
Samara, a false Prophet by the name of Mahmud son of al-Faraj appeared
in 849-850 CE with a claim that a Quran was revealed to him through the angel
Gabriel. He is reported to have some followers in Samara and Baghdad.
He was executed on the orders of caliph, al-Mutawakkil.
- "Bab": Another
liar/false claimant to prophecy, and the predecessor of Bahaullah, was
Mizra Ali Muhammad, who initially declared himself the "Bab"
(Gate) to the Shi'ite's Mahdi, and eventually progressed into other
claims. He was embraced by the Shaykhis sect of Shi'a Islam, who were
then renamed "Babis". Subsequently, he declared himself to be the
Shi'ite's hidden Mahdi. After declaring himself the Mahdi, he moved on to call himself
Nuqtiyiula and declared that the Quran and Muslim Shari'a were now
abrogated. Shi'a and Sunni scholars condemned him and Bab faced a series of imprisonment, trials, and indignities before being shot dead by a firing squad in 1850.
- "Bahaullah":
The
self-proclaimed successor to the Bab, and another
liar/false claimant to prophecy was Mizra Hussein Ali Nuri. In 1863
Hussein Ali, a prominent member of the Babi group, declared himself to be the person whom
God will make manifest, whom the Bab had foretold. He also took the name Bahaullah (Glory of
God) and formed a new religion, the Bahai faith. Bahaullah was banished from Persia and was eventually imprisoned in Akka-Palestine. There he wrote his main work,
his Kitab-ul-Aqdas (Most Holy Book), and developed the doctrine of the Bahai faith into a comprehensive teaching.
- Elijah
Muhammad: Elijah Muhammad,
succeeding Wallace Dodd Ford, was another in the line of False
Prophets. He founded the convoluted belief system based on ideas extracted from everything from Christanity to Masonry to
Islam in Detroit, Michigan in the 1930s. He referred to it as the
"Nation of Islam".
- Kareem Agha Khan: In
the early 1970s, another false-claimant to prophecy appeared within
the Ismaili sect of Shi'ism, who proclaims himself
to be a manifestation of God on Earth and a spokesman for Allah.
- Rashid Khalifa: Then
we have another False Prophet, Rashid Khalifa, who came from Egypt,
and claimed there to be an intricate numerical pattern to the Qur'an
revolving around the number 19 in 1974. Because of this, he claimed to
be a Messenger of God, alongside Prophets Ibraheem (Abraham) and
Muhammad, and founded the group called "United Submitters
International", rejecting the hadeeths of the Prophet, and
denounced ayats 9:128-129 of the Qur'an. For many years he was the
Imam at the Tuscon Mosque in Arizona, where he was later stabbed to
death in 1990.
- Al Mizra Abbas: Another
liar, Al-Mizra Abbas, in 1233 AH/1818 CE, appeared in Tehran, Iran and
died in Palestine.
- Shabbatai
Zevi: Shabbatai Zevi was one of the
False Prophets who appeared during a desperate period of Ashkenazi Jewish history in the
16th and 17th centuries, promising to lead his compatriots out of tzuresdike golus (painful exile) to dwell with the Lord in
Eretz Yisroel (the land of Israel). It neither turned out as
prophesised, nor did the high hopes of the Jewish colonies in Brazil.
- Saleh son of Tarif
Burghwati: Saleh claimed prophethood and Mahdihood in
125 AH. After ruling over his people for 47 years, in 174 AH he abdicated the throne in favour of his son.
- Abu Mansoor 'Eessa: Abu
Mansoor 'Eessa claimed prophethood and Mahdihood in 341 AH and ruled over his people for 28 years.
- Al-Harith
son of Sa'id: Al-Harith
son of Said claimed prophethood during the reign of
the Umayyad caliph, Abd al-Malik son of Marwan. A number of royal soldiers were suspected of supporting
him. He was executed in 698-699 CE.
- Mizra Ghulam Ahmad: Mizra
Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian is a British-engineered false Prophet who
appeared in India to quell resistance against the British
colonialists. He claimed to be the Messiah as the similitude of
Prophet 'Eessa, the Mahdi, a Prophet, a Messenger, and the second
advent of Prophet Muhammad simultaneously. He invited his fiercest
oppenent, Molvi Sanaullah Amratsari, to a prayer duel. He advertised his supplication to Allah
pleading Him to annihilate the liar amongst the two in the lifetime of
the truthful one, by Cholera or by Plague. He considered them to be the sign of Divine Anger and
Punishment. Mirza subsequently died of cholera a year later.
- Muhammad son of Sa'id: Muhammad
son of Sa’id is considered as one of the four infamous forgers of
hadith. He distorted the hadith: "I am the seal of prophets and there is no prophet after
me" by adding: "unless Allah wills {otherwise}".
He is reported to have drawn his own conclusions from this addition and claimed prophethood for
himself. He was executed on the orders of Abbasid caliph, Abu Jafar
al-Mansoor.
- Mahmood Muhammad Taha: Mahmood
Muhammad Taha was also a false claimant to prophecy who was based in
Sudan, and he tried with maximum endeavor to mislead normal people
from their Islamic way of life until he was beheaded in 1985.
- Jasmin?: A
more recent individual who has appeared, and could potentially be a False
Claimant to Prophecy is Jasmin. He appeared
in 1998 in Bosnia, claiming the War of Bosnia and Herzegovina was the
Battle of Armageddon, and claims that he is the Messiah, tasked by God
to introduce the human community into the "golden age", and
claims that his destiny has been described under the symbol and notion
of a lamb.
- Dr. Dwight York:
Another fairly recent false claimant to
prophecy was Dr. York. In the late 1960s York, started calling himself
"Amunnnubi Rooakhptah," and founded various quasi-Muslim black-nationalist movements
(among these was the Ansaarullah Community) based on something called the "Science of
Nuwaubu". In the 1990s, he changed his community from worshipping
Allah to worshipping pagan idols. Soon thereafter, he claimed to
receive divine revelation, forming his own cult of Nuwaubians,
following, what they call, "The Holy Tablets", with beliefs,
based on pantheism, with an anthropomorphic view of Allah. In 2002, he
was arrested and charged with child molestation. In 2004, he was
convicted, and sentenced to 135 years in prison.
- Riyaz Ahmad Gohar Shahi: Another claimant to Mahdihood and prophecy, is Gohar Shahi. He was born in 1941 in the Indian sub-continent. He had a traditional Sufi upbringing, and at age 34 he went on a 3 year spiritual retreat (which he says to have been under the guidance of a "divine spirit") into the mountains of Sehwan Sharif. Afterwards, he returned (claiming it to have been commanded by God), and started to preach his message of "Remembrance and Love of God", disregarding religion and its practices, also claiming that his image is implanted on the moon, gaining a significant number of followers. The Ulema have since issued various fatwas against him.
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