dajjal
Noun
Meaning
dajjal (plural dajjals)
(Islam) false messiah, deceiver
Synonyms
Examples
Eventually, Jesus will slay the Antichrist Dajjal, and then everyone from the People of the Book (ahl al-kitāb, referring to Jews and Christians) will believe in him.
The Dajjal would be followed by seventy thousand Jews of Isfahan wearing Persian shawls.
But Dajjal may be derived, by a very common confusion between n and l, from Dagon, whose name two neighbouring villages bear to this day, while one of the gates of Lydda used to be called the Gate of Dagon."
Their name for Antichrist is Dajjal, and they have a tradition that Jesus will slay Antichrist by the gate of Lydda.
A war will be fought—the Dajjal against alMahdi and Isa. This war will mark the approach of the coming of the Last Day.
He will then join the Mahdi in his war against the Dajjal.