Bediuzzaman Said Nursi explains that some hadith about the descent of Jesus (as) and his slaying of the dajjal are allegorical, and need to be properly expounded. In other words, their allegorical content has to be clarified. Otherwise, he says, so-called scholars have fallen into doubt by looking only at their surface content and not considering their allegorical aspects, or have even rejected the hadith entirely.
Since the meaning of hadith about the appearance of Jesus (as) in the End Times and his slaying of the dajjal is not properly understood, some superficial teachers have looked at the superficial aspects of these accounts and hadith and fallen into skepticism or else they have denied their soundness, or have attached a nonsensical meaning to them, giving them an absurd form and harming the world of Islam. Atheists, on the other hand, attack and mock the truths of Islam by misinterpreting these hadith that look irrational on the surface. The Risale-i Nur has shown the true meaning of such allegorical hadith through the riches of the Qur’an. I declare the following single instance as an example:
At the time of Jesus’ (as) struggle with the dajjal, when Jesus (as) slays him he will jump ten Turkish yards (5 meters) up in the air but only be able to plunge his sword in his knee, and the dajjal will be ten or twenty times taller than Jesus (as). This account’s superficial meaning is incompatible with the secret of the test, but favors the law of Allah currently in force. (Kastamonu Addendum, 49)
Since the meaning of hadith about the appearance of Jesus (as) in the End Times and his slaying of the dajjal is not properly understood, some superficial teachers have looked at the superficial aspects of these accounts and hadith and fallen into skepticism or else they have denied their soundness, or have attached a nonsensical meaning to them, giving them an absurd form and harming the world of Islam. Atheists, on the other hand, attack and mock the truths of Islam by misinterpreting these hadith that look irrational on the surface. The Risale-i Nur has shown the true meaning of such allegorical hadith through the riches of the Qur’an. I declare the following single instance as an example:
At the time of Jesus’ (as) struggle with the dajjal, when Jesus (as) slays him he will jump ten Turkish yards (5 meters) up in the air but only be able to plunge his sword in his knee, and the dajjal will be ten or twenty times taller than Jesus (as). This account’s superficial meaning is incompatible with the secret of the test, but favors the law of Allah currently in force. (Kastamonu Addendum, 49)
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It says in a narration in connection with Jesus’ (as) killing the dajjal the following: “The dajjal will have a colossal form, he will be extraordinarily big and taller than a minaret, while Jesus (as) will be very small in comparison.” None knows the Unseen save Allah, one interpretation must be as follows: it is an illusion and sign that quantitively the spiritual community of mujahidên who will recognize Jesus (as) and follow him, will be very few and small comparatively to the ‘scientific’, physical armies of the dajjal in terms of schools and soldiers. (The Rays, 495) After describing how Jesus (as) slays the dajjal in his struggle against him he will only be able to plunge his sword into the dajjal’s knee despite having leapt 10 Turkish yards (5 meters) into the air, Bediuzzaman explains that the dajjal must be 10-12 times (18-20 meters) taller than Jesus. Such a creation is within Allah’s power but a violation of His law (Adatullah).
Adatullah: The unchanging laws Allah has installed in the universe
However, the matter becomes much more rational and accessible if explained in terms of Jesus (as) and his community being much fewer in number than the dajjal’s military might and educational institutions and his armies that are superior in every respect.
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