Antichrist deceives people by showing the truth like falsehood, and falsehood like the truth

 

Its Use of Social Justice and Brotherhood in Communism is a Deception

As we are informed in the narrations of the hadiths, the antichrist that will appear in the End Times will work on in order to spread all kinds of evil, disorder, anarchy and corruption in the world and be the source of all suffering and oppression people encounter. The vastness of the corruption of the antichrist is informed in one hadith: 

Since the birth of Adam (as) till the advent of the Judgment Day there is no fitnah (tribulation) much greater than that of antichrist. (Sahih Muslim; Al-Barzanji, Al-Isha'ah li-ashrat al-sa'ah, p. 225)

Our Prophet (saas) has described in subtle detail the characteristics of the antichrist and how Muslims may protect themselves from this great corruption. One of the main features of the antichrist is its deception of people and pretending as if he is acting for good, whereas he is dragging people into great troubles. As a matter of fact the name of antichrist which is “dajjal” in Arabic comes from the root “dajl” which means “liar, fraud, a seditious and damned person who confuse the minds, hearts, good and bad, the right and the wrong, who hides the real face of something by gilding it, who wanders everywhere."

One hadith reports: 

When the dajjal appears, he will bring fire and water with him. But what the people see as fire will be fresh water, and what the people see as water will be burning fire. Whoever lives to see that day, let him be willing to fall into what the people see as fire, as that is fresh, cold water. (Bukhari, Fitan 26, Anbiya 50; Muslim, Fitan 105, (2935); Abu Dawud, Al-Malahim 14, (4315))

According to the information reported in the hadith, antichrist will inculcate people as if they are acting righteously but in reality will lead them to “fire” in other words fights, conflicts, war and shedding blood. He will appear as the false messiah and will employ virtues such as equity, social justice, love and brotherhood as to his own mind and will lie by saying that he is calling people to salvation but in effect he will pull them all into trouble.  As a matter of fact, ideologies of the 20th century that see conflict as the main principle of advancement and oppress the weak and the aggrieved, regard people to be machines that may be exploited. These ideologies present wars, terror, anarchy and bloody revolutions as the only solution to people by letting them into great afflictions and right down to the fire of the antichrist. Communism is the leading one among these. Communism is an ideology that washed the 20th century with blood. Communist dictators like Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot have murdered a total of 120 million people without a blink of their eyes. The majority of these communities were civilians who were their own people. Tens of millions of men, women, elderly, children or babies lost their lives due to this rigid, oppressive and brutal ideology.

Communism is a manifestation of the system of the antichrist and by telling lies that human beings are products of blind coincidences or deceiving people with fallacy of Darwinism and making empty promises of bringing social justice and through denial of the explicit fact of Allah’s existence and rejection of all moral values like family and morality, it has presented falsehood like the truth and the truth like falsehood and this way deceived people. Communist ideology attracted millions through claims like protecting the poor, advocating rights of the oppressed or maintaining socil justice but in practice it has executed the contrary by;

• Carrying out bloody acts,
• Causing anarchy and turmoil,
• Slaughtering women, children and elderly without remorse,
• Exploiting people ruthlessly,
• Providing wealth only for the governing classes,
• Impoverishing the poor more,
• Employing poverty stricken people in labor camps without mercy,
• Turning people into robots,
• Eliminating virtues like compassion, benevolence and love as a whole,
• Eradicating the family and moral values,

In this way communism demonstrated that it is in fact an extremely heartless, ruthless and bloody ideology.

Another hadith relates that notions which antichrist suggests as good to people do in fact cause misery and detriments on people: 

Definitely it is his fitnah (corruption) that he will also have (two rivers he names) paradise and hell with him. Though his hell will be paradise, and his paradise will be hell... (Ibn-Majah, 4075, 4076; Tirmidhi, Fitan: 59, no 2240, 4/510)

 

However, since the majority of people do not evaluate events according to the morals of the Qur’an or the Sunnah of our Prophet (saas), they have imagined that communism would bring welfare, freedom and comfort to them and therefore they have adhered to this deviant ideology. Once they encountered the climate of oppression resulting with the execution of communism, they realized this was a great mistake. For that reason our Prophet (saas) warned people and informed they should act knowing that what antichrist presents as wrong is actually what is right.

One of the hadiths report that although some people will know that antichrist is a disbeliever and will bring only affliction to them, they will be deceived by worldly interests he offers and stay under his unfluence:

Some people will converse with the dajjal. And they will say: “We know that he is an unbeliever; we are his friends so that we can eat his food and benefit from his tree.” When the chastisement of Allah comes, it will come to the dajjal and all of them. (Nuaym ibn Hammad; Al-Barzanji, Al-Isha'ah li-ashrat al-sa'ah, p. 231)

 

In fact history is filled with examples of the great disasters and sufferings experienced when communism was put to practice. Communism claimed so-to-say a good purpose by using some concepts that the system of the Mahdi advocates or moral virtues of religion requires, yet on the contrary it caused perishing of millions of lives due to its brutal and ruthless implementations. Therefore, all societies should definitely be aware and alert in the face of this plot of antichrist which is that communism tries to deceive people by pretended use of religion or its moral values. In this respect it is highly crucial that the main system which communism promotes or in other words its real face that sheds blood should be disclosed, while at the same time, it must be explained that the system of Mahdi based on morals of religion is exactly the opposite of this divert ideology:

1. Communism makes a claim for social justice and brotherhood of people, but in reality it is an ideology that exploits people and causes conflict among societies.

Communism attracts masses with pretense arguments of saving people, yet in effect this ideology denies that human beings are entities with souls so it regards them to be a type of machinery or an animal kind. Therefore it is impossible for communism to establish an order which is based on happiness, tranquility, comfort and security of people. Communism disintegrates people into classes and is bigoted to argue that each class has to possess a specific conduct, character and worldview. This way it sees collision or in other words battles and anarchy legitimate in between these classes. Human beings are not worthy in the communist system because of its prevalent logic which is, “There is already enough in the herd, nothing will happen if one is lost.” The ones who are incapable of working or handicapped are thrown out of the herd and left to die a death. Those ones are considered to be morbid and harmful. They aspire no feelings of forgiving, compassion or loyalty. The morality, intentions or state of mind of a person are never taken into account. This crooked mentality views life as a struggle for survival and sees no harm in eliminating the weak and in fact it considers this a necessity. Not possessing the altruism seen even in even, everyone first puts himself in the fore and that is why society cannot progress. Since people are far from feelings of compassion, having a society full of peace and comfort is not possible. In communist order people are only regarded to be animals that work to produce. Villagers are especially subjected to hatred and humiliation. Marx described peasants as “potato sacks”, and Lenin along with Stalin deliberately condemned millions of them to famine and eventually to death. According to them peasants meant herds of animals that produced crops, cotton, etc. and in the end taking away their products (collectivization) was considered as rightful and reasonable as if like collecting the honey that bees produce.

Therefore in societies where communism was put to practice, there existed no social justice as claimed and on the contrary an extreme case of injustice was put in effect where only governmental groups exploited others with all their might and this way prospered. In such communist systems which drive different ethnic groups out of their homelands into exile and force them to work in the most primitive conditions in labor camps, and that perceive all kinds of conflict as the so called requirement for progress, it is not possible to talk about “brotherhood” at all.

2. The system of the Mahdi is an order where “not even a nose of one person bleeds” while communism is an ideology that sheds blood.

Communist leaders have advised their proponents to cause terror and anarchy, to shed people’s blood and to slaughter the innocent as the means of their indispensable weaponry. Lenin who was one of the foremost leaders of communism advised the method of violence to his followers as follows:

To murder the police, soldiers, governmental officials and set state institutions on fire…Take away money from treasures of state… Revolutionary communist forces must emerge as invincible armed forces by killing people, bombing them, blowing up buildings, spreading fear and this way establishing the communist dictatorship over the society are the most important elements for our coming to power. (Vladimir Lenin, On Theoretical and Practical Terror, Homizuri G.P., Moscow, 2005)

Lenin declared that the Communist Party would shed as much blood as possible even 11 years before the Bolshevik Revolution in 1906 in the Proletari magazine:

The state of affairs we are interested in is armed struggle; this struggle is led by individuals and also smaller groups. While one division belongs to revolutionary organizations, others (in certain parts of Russia, the majority) are not linked up with any revolutionary organization. Armed struggle is aimed at two different purposes that definitely need to be separated; firstly, this struggle targets assassinations against individuals, leaders and officials in the army and police forces, secondly it seizes the sources of funds that belong to both the government and private persons… (Vladimir I. Lenin, 30 September 1906, Proletari, Nr. 5)

This terror and bloodshed Lenin promoted were put into practice in various countries all over the world by communists and extended by infamous psychopath communist leaders such as Mao, Pol Pot, Ho Chi Minh to cause the destruction of millions of lives. As to the calculations of historians throughout the 20^th century 120 million people were killed only because of this ideology. These people were not soldiers that died in front lines during a war but they were civilians that communist states killed within their own societies. 100 million men, women, elderly, children and infants lost their lives only because of this coldhearted, brutal and ruthless ideology. Furthermore, there are tens of millions of others who were deprived of their essential rights and liberties, who were forced to exile and systematically encountered with famine, and were imprisoned and exploited like slaves in labor camps. Millions of people at the same time became targets or were in fear of becoming targets of communist guerilla groups and shootings by terrorist organizations.

The system of the Mahdi is based on peace, love for others, compassion and mercy. Hazrat Mahdi (as) will dominate the world with morals of the Qur’an through no wars, but with love and preaching the name of Allah. The prevalence of morals of religion through peace and love is one of the most significant characteristics of Hazrat Mahdi (as). It is reported in one of the hadiths of our Prophet (saas):

People will seek refuge in Hazrat Mahdi (as) as honey bees cluster around their sovereign. He will fill the world that was once full of cruelty, with justice. His justice will be as such that HE WILL NOT WAKE A SLEEPING PERSON OR EVEN SHED ONE DROP OF BLOOD. The earth will return to the age of happiness. (Ibn Hajar al-Haythami, Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar fi `Alamat al-Mahdi al-Muntadhar, p. 29)

[Hazrat Mahdi (as)] will follow the way of the Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace). HE WILL NOT WAKE UP A SLEEPING PERSON OR SHED BLOOD. (Al-Barzanji, Al-Isha'ah li-ashrat al-sa'ah, p. 163)

LIKE THE CUP FILLS WITH WATER, SO WILL EARTH FILL WITH PEACE. There will be no enmity left between any people. All hostility, fighting, and envy will disappear. (Sahih Muslim, 1/136)

3. Communism is an atheist, irreligious ideology. Hazrat Mahdi (as) is a holy person who has deep love of Allah and faith will dominate the earth through him.

Communism accepts matter as the only being and attempts to explain the history of humanity with material factors and is irrationally in denial of the explicit existence of Allah. It advocates the lie that human beings are the products of blind coincidences and is a materialist and Darwinist ideology. Marx examined Darwin’s The Origin of Species published in 1859 and saw that this book was a great basis for his own theory. In his 19 December 1860 dated letter to Engels, he commented for Darwin’s books with the words, “…this is the book that contains the natural-history foundation of our view point.”^[1] In his letter to Lasalle dated 16 January 1861, he wrote: “Darwin’s work is most important and suits my purpose in that it provides a basis in natural science for the historical class struggle.”^[2] Marx, showed his great sympathy towards Darwin by dedicating his voluminous work Das Kapital to Darwin. In the German edition of his book that he sent Darwin, Marx wrote with his own hand, "To Charles Darwin from a true admirer, from Karl Marx."

Engels also presented his admiration of Darwin with the following words: “Nature works dialectically and not metaphysically. In this connection, Darwin must be named before all others."^[3] Engels praised Darwin just as equally as Marx and said, “Just as Darwin discovered the law of evolution in organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of evolution in human history.”^[4]Leon Trotsky who, together with Lenin, was one of the architects of the Russian Communist Revolution, described the discovery of Darwin was “the highest triumph of the dialectic (dialectic materialism) in the whole field of organic matter.”^[5]