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will come up to him and say, 'I testify that you are the same Dajjal whose description was given to us by
Allah's Apostle .' Ad-Dajjal will say to the people, 'If I kill this man and bring him back to life again, will
you doubt my claim?' They will say, 'No.' Then Ad-Dajjal will kill that man and bring him back to life. That
man will say, 'Now I know your reality better than before.' Ad-Dajjal will say, 'I want to kill him but I
cannot.' "
REBELLIOUS:
5:25 - He said: "O my Lord! I have power only over myself and my bother so separate us from this
rebellious people!" 728
5:26 - Allah said: "Therefore will the land be out of their reach for forty years; in distraction will they
wander through the land: but sorrow thou not over these rebellious people." 729
728 "Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation. "(Num. xiv. 5). According to the
words in the Old Testament story, Allah said: "I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them." (Num. xiv.
12). Moses prayed and interceded. But as we are told here, (a spiritual touch not found in the Jewish story). Moses
was careful to separate himself and his brother from the rebellion. (5.25)
729 The punishment of the rebellion of these stiff-necked people, rebellion that was repeated "these ten times" (Num. xiv.
22) and more, was that they were left to wander distractedly hither and thither through the wilderness for forty years.
That generation was not to see the Holy Land. All those that were twenty years old and upwards were to die in the
wilderness: "your carcasses shall fail in this wilderness." (Num. xiv. 29). Only those who were then children would
reach the Promised land. And so it happened. From the desert of Paran they wandered south, north, and east for forty
years. From the head of what is now the Gulf of 'Aqaba, they travelled north, keeping to the east side of the
depression of which the Dead Sea and the river Jordan are portions. Forty years afterwards they crossed the Jordan
opposite what is now Jericho, but by that time Moses, Aaron, and the whole of the elder generation had died. (5.26)
5:49 - And this (He commands): Judge thou between them by what Allah hath revealed and follow
not their vain desires but beware of them lest they beguile thee from any of that (teaching)
which Allah hath sent down to thee. And if they turn away be assured that for some of their
crimes it is Allah's purpose to punish them. And truly most men are rebellious.
5:68 - Say: "O People of the Book! ye have no ground to stand upon unless ye stand fast by the
Law the Gospel and all the revelation that has come to you from your Lord." It is the
revelation that cometh to thee from thy Lord that increaseth in most of them their obstinate
rebellion and blasphemy. But sorrow thou not over (these) people without Faith. 778
778 In v. 26, Moses was told not to sorrow over a rebellious people. Here Muhammad is told not to sorrow over people
without Faith. The second situation is even more trying than the first. Rebellion may be a passing phase. Want of faith
is an attitude of mind that is well-nigh hopeless. Yet the Prophet patiently reasoned with them and bore their taunts
and insults. If, the argument runs, you do not believe in anything, even in the things that you may be expected to
believe in, how can you receive in Faith Allah's Message that has come in another form? In fact your jealousy adds to
your obstinacy and unbelief. (5.68)
5:81 - If only they had believed in Allah in the Apostle and in what hath been revealed to him never
would they have taken them for friends and protectors but most of them are rebellious wrongdoers.
7:102 - Most of them We found not men (true) to their covenant: but most of them We found
rebellious and disobedient.
9:8 - How (can there be such a league) seeing that if they get an advantage over you they respect
not in you the ties either of kinship or of covenant? With (fair words from) their mouths they
entice you but their hearts are averse from you; and most of them are rebellious and wicked.
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1256 The exceptions having been stated parenthetically in verse 7, the indictment of the general mass of Pagan tribes is
now set out briefly but fully and convincingly. After that kind of behaviour how can treaty be possible with them? The
counts are: (1) that whenever they got a slight advantage, they disregarded the ties both of kinship and of covenant as
against the Muslims because of their Faith, thus proving doubly treacherous; (2) that they spoke fair words, but had
venom in their hearts; (3) that their attitude was one of rebellion against their plighted word; (4) that they disregarded
the solemn words of Allah for some miserable worldly gain; (5) that they tried to prevent other people from coming to
the Way of Allah. The first clause is repeated again as the last clause, to emphasise their double treachery, and round
off the argument. (9.8)
1257 Among the Arabs the ties of kinship were so strong as to be almost unbreakable. The Pagan Arabs went out of their
way to break them in the case of the Muslims, who were kith and kin to them. Besides the bond of kinship there was
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