Linguistic
Meaning
His name is al-Maseeh ad-Dajjaal. It is a name made out of two words: Al-Maseeh and Ad-Dajjaal.
His name is al-Maseeh ad-Dajjaal. It is a name made out of two words: Al-Maseeh and Ad-Dajjaal.
One of the
scholars says the word al-Maseeh can have 50 meanings. It is a word rich in
meaning.
1.
Some of the meanings of al-Maseeh
are something that is wiped out. Ad-Dajjaal is called al-Maseeh because one of
his eyes is wiped out – there’s no eye.
2.
Maseeh could mean someone who travels all over
the earth. RasulAllah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam says that ad-Dajjaal would
travel all over the world in 40 days.
3.
Interestingly enough, the world
Al-Maseeh could have two opposite meanings: as-Siddeeq (the truthful) and
Al-Khadhaab (the liar). The Arabic language is like that – it can have one word
that can have two opposite meanings. The word Adam has two meanings as well –
one of them is the original and the other came later. The original meaning is
dark and the other meaning is something that is fair. Adam can be used to
describe someone who is dark-skinned, and it can be used to describe someone
who is fair-skinned. When it is used to describe Adam ‘alayhis salaam, it is
being used to describe a dark-skinned person. When it used to describe ‘Eesa,
it means fair-skinned. So Al-Maseeh means truthful and liar. Allah subhaana wa
ta’aala has created two Maseehs – one is Al-Maseeh Ad-Dajjaal and the other is
Al-Maseeh ‘Eesa ibn Maryam. ‘Eesa ibn Maryam is the truthful messiah and the
ad-dajjaal is the liar messiah.Al-Maseeh means anointed (and this would apply
to ‘Eesa ibn Maryam ‘alayhis salaam).
Now
we are going to take a look at the word Ad-dajjaal.
1.
There are some words in Arabic
that described something physical, and then they started picking up other
connotations and meanings. Dajalal Baleegh means painting the colour of the
camel with qataraan. Qataraan is a dye; black paint. For some reason, some of
the Arabs used to die the camel with that color. Allahu ‘Alam why – to heal it
or something. The camel would become coloured; therefore it is concealing
something – the colour of it. And that meaning applies to ad-dajjaal because he
is not telling the truth. He is covering up something.
2.
When you use the word as dajjalal
hadeet, for example, it means coating something with gold. When you coat
something with gold, it’s called dajjal. Those watches that are electroplated,
for example. If something is cheap and then you coat it with gold, that is
called dajjal. So it looks like gold – beautiful from the outside – but inside
it’s nothing. That is ad-dajjaal. He’s showing one thing, but in reality he’s
evil. He’s claiming that he’s God. He is claiming that he is bringing peace to
the world, but he’s evil. He is a disbeliever.
3.
It also means deception, lying,
imposter, etc. All of these meanings apply to ad-dajjaal.
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