The antichrist has taken people under his sway by way of hypnosis and put them into such a state that they can no longer see the truth
Our Prophet (saas) who gave the news that the antichrist is the greatest event of the history of humanity also provided expanded information about the ravages and the tribulations the antichrist will cause, how he will take people under his sway and lead them. Bediuzzaman Said Nursi also explained the activities of the antichrist based on these hadith exclusively and explained that the antichrist will influence people by practicing hypnotism. It could only be a wondrous person with the power of miracles who could make him ineffective and change the way of the awesome antichrist, who will preserve himself through wonders, bestowed on him by Allah in order to lead him astray, such as magic, hypnotic powers, and spiritualism, and will spellbind everyone. And that person will be the Prophet Jesus (as), who is the prophet of the majority of mankind, and whom most people follow. (Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, Rays, Fifth Ray)
The system of the antichrist, that employs a mass medium such as radio, television, Internet, journals and newspapers intensively, has taken both some Muslims and a great part of the world population under its sway. However, these people who remain under the hypnosis of the antichrist cannot grasp that they are being subjected to hypnosis because they are put under hypnosis. For this reason, they consider a state that they should normally regard as unusual, very ordinary. They assess an incident that will require them to take immediate action as something normal and an everyday situation, and readily accept false information, hearsay, superstitious beliefs that they would normally outright reject. They have their eyes closed to the many wonders and miraculous developments that Allah makes people experience. They don’t even notice these wondrous events.
In the hadith it is also related that satans will also help the antichrist:
... SATANS WILL SAY TO HIM, “TELL US WHAT YOU WANT, AND WE WILL DO IT.” And he will say, “Go, and tell people that I am their Lord,” and will disperse them in all directions... (Al-Barzanji, Al-Isha'ah li-ashrat al-sa'ah, pp. 212-213)
As it is related in the verses of the Qur’an, satan has the attributes of enclosing people all around and making them forgetful.
He (Moses’ servant) said, ‘Do you see what has happened? When we went to find shelter at the rock, I forgot the fish. No one made me forget to remember it except satan. It found its way into the sea in an amazing way.’ " (Surat al-Khaf, 63)
If someone shuts his eyes to the remembrance of the All-Merciful, We assign him a satan who becomes his bosom friend. (Surat az-Zukhruf, 36)
As the verses also indicate, satan may have the attribute of rendering a person forgetful, scattering his attention and concentration, covering his mind, influencing his mental capabilities, and make him lose his foresight. The system of the antichrist also employs satans to create an effect of hypnosis on people. A closer look at the population of the world reveals that a great majority remains under the hypnosis of the system of the antichrist. For this reason, a kind of haze forms in their minds that prevents them from seeing even the clearest facts.
The intensive and uninterrupted hypnosis of the system of the antichrist drift these people in question into great heedlessness. Bediuzzaman Said Nursi draws our attention to this state of heedlessness as follows:
But in these stormy times, currents which numb the senses and scatter man’s attention on peripheral matters, plunging him into them, have deadened his senses and bewildered him. As a result of this the people of misguidance are temporarily unable to feel their torment, while the people of guidance are overwhelmed by heedlessness and cannot truly appreciate its pleasures.(The Rays / The Fifteenth Ray - The Shining Proof - Second Station - p.643)
Just as Bediuzzaman expresses, in the End Times, the hypnosis of the system of the antichrist transformed a great majority of people into those;
* Whose senses have been numbed, that is whose foresight have been lost,
* Whose attention have been scattered; that is who have become so heedless not to notice the abnormal state in which they remain. This heedlessness is so intense that they can even not feel the pain and trouble of their state.
As Bediuzzaman Said Nursi also stated in his words,"It could only be a wondrous person with the power of miracles who could make him ineffective and change the way of the awesome antichrist, who will preserve himself through wonders, bestowed on him by Allah in order to lead him astray, such as magic, hypnotic powers, and spiritualism, and will spellbind everyone. And that person will be the Prophet Jesus." The Prophet Jesus (as)will remove this hypnosis of the antichrist entirely. Until the apparent appearance of the Prophet Jesus (as), Hazrat Mahdi (as) will engage in an effort to break this spell and hypnosis step by step, but the Prophet Jesus (as) will be instrumental in the removal of this hypnosis in its full sense.
To have a better understanding of how this hypnosis takes people under its sway, it will be beneficial to examine which subjects the antichrist applies his hypnosis, to obscure people’s attention and their ability to comprehend.
1. The purpose of the antichrist is to prevent people from seeing the facts. For this reason he will not want the communication and comprehension of the subject of the system of the Mahdi.
One of the meanings of the antichrist is the one who shows the truth as false, and false as true. The antichrist, who desires to destroy the material and spiritual values of people, spread tribulations and conflicts, conceal everything that is good and beautiful, suppress the facts, and thus prevent people from finding the truth. The greatest and most important beauty of the End Times is Hazrat Mahdi (as) and the antichrist will strenuously work on this subject. He will strive to conceal the system of the Mahdi, explain it away and, in his own way, falsify it. For this end;
* He will make some people deny the system of the Mahdi,
The antichrist keeps some people entirely distant to the fact of the system of the Mahdi by;
* Using some people to speak of the system of the Mahdi as a figure in whom one should never believe,
* Causing some people not mention the system of the Mahdi at all,
* Using some people to speak about the delay of the appearance of Hazrat Mahdi (as) to a few centuries ahead,
* Causing some people to think of the system of the Mahdi as a spiritual entity, or as an unseen spirit,
* Causing some people to believe in the lie that Hazrat Mahdi (as) has already appeared and died.
Many people will lose time by explanations that are fantastical and stories that they would, under normal conditions, never believe and hence they will even not notice Hazrat Mahdi (as).
(Click on this link to read which methods are employed to explain away and conceal the system of the Mahdi)
2. Under the hypnosis of the antichrist people will remain in a weird kind of quietness, and they will not grasp that they are living in a very important period.
Hijri 1400 is one of the holiest, greatest and the most glorious ages of the history of the world, because this age is the one for the appearance of Hazrat Mahdi (as). Allah gave the news of his appearance to all of His prophets, and provided information about him even in the most ancient pages revealed to prophets. Providing hundreds of details about him, Allah introduced Hazrat Mahdi (as).
In this century, the Prophet Jesus (as) will descend and the morality of Islam will dominate the world. From the beginning of the first days of Hijri 1400, the portents that we are living in a holy age have appeared. Within a period of 30 years more than 150 portents that our Prophet (saas) heralded came to appear one by one. This state is an evident sign of Hazrat Mahdi’s (as) appearance.
Under normal conditions a Muslim who is knowledgeable of the hadith about the system of the Mahdi, and observe these hadith coming true must be greatly excited and strive to seek and find Hazrat Mahdi (as). It is unbecoming for a Muslim who has faith in the words of our Prophet (saas) to remain silent and go on with his daily life as if nothing has happened after learning that more than 150 pieces of news given by our Prophet (saas) has come true. Every Muslim who is aware of this knowledge will naturally be in a pursuit to serve Islam with all his might in order to be a follower of Hazrat Mahdi (as). He will spread the morality of religion with passion and give a scientific struggle against disbelief.
However when the Islamic world is considered in general, some Muslims remain very calm by saying, “Yes, it is true that the portents that our Prophet (saas) has foretold have come true, how great it is! But what shall I cook for the dinner?” This calmness is the consequence of their being under the antichrist’s hypnotism. A person who is under the hypnosis of the antichrist cannot get rid of the inertia in which he remains and devote his attention on any other subject other than daily, trivial issues even though he knows all the related hadith and verses of the Qur’an.
3. The hadith of our Prophet (saas) shows that there is a very short time left until the Day of Judgment. Due to the hypnosis of the antichrist even this piece of information does not prompt people to action.
Theauthentic hadith related from our Prophet (saas) gives the news that the life of the world is 7000 years. An authentic hadith by Ahmad bin Hanbal, on the other hand, informs that 5600 years of the life of the world has already passed.
Bediuzzaman Said Nursi expounded the information given in these authentic hadith and expressed – he said “Allah knows the truth”- that the Day of Judgment will take place at around 1545.
“A group from my community will remain in truth until Allah’s command [the Judgment Day].”
The abjad calculation of the clause “A group from my community...” which is 1542 (2117) implies its [the community’s] time of survival. The abjad calculation of the clause “will remain in truth” (when the gemination mark is counted) gives 1506 (2082); it indicates until that date it will continue its work of enlightenment evidently and obviously, and maybe victoriously; then until 1542 (2117) in secrecy and defeat. The abjad calculation of the clause “until Allah’s command” (when the gemination mark is counted) suggests that THE JUDGMENT DAY WILL BEFALL the unbeliever in 1545 (2120). (Kastamonu Addendum, p. 33)
We are now living in the year Hijri 1431. As we clearly understand from the hadith and the explanations of scholars of the Ahl-Al Sunnah the life of the world has, Allah knows the truth, 70 years left. Within this 70 years, we will, by Allah’s leave, see Prophet Jesus’ (as) descend, Hazrat Mahdi’s (as) appearance, the unity of the Islamic world under the leadership of Hazrat Mahdi (as), the dominance of the morality of Islam over the world. No doubt this is a very important piece of information that will add to everyone’s zeal and enthusiasm. A great part of the world population are aware of this information by means of the advanced communication technology of our day.
Despite this, a great majority of the people in the world is involved in trivial details of daily life as if there is nothing unusual, that they will live for hundreds of years. They assess this substantial truth as ordinary information. It is a great wonder that a great prophet, who is very meticulous about Allah’s commands and who was, 2000 years ago, taken out of time and space into the Sight of Allah, is returning to the Earth. It is another wonder that Hazrat Mahdi (as), whom Allah rendered blessed and chosen and whose attributes He communicated to all His prophets, gets into action in this century. It is also another wonder that in the coming years all people will, by Allah’s leave, turn to faith and the morality of Islam will dominate the world. However it is a very great wonder that for some people, issues such as school payments of their children, commercial agreement they will sign or the decoration of their summer house are much more important, despite their awareness of these wonders. The very absence of any response to these wonders is one of the most explicit indications of the effect of the hypnosis of the system of the antichrist.
4. In all corners of the world the blood of Muslims flow in abundance, the Islamic world suffers greatly, but under the hypnosis of the antichrist a great majority of people watch this state with apathy.
Almost everyday news of martyrdom come from Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, East Turkestan or other Islamic countries. Almost everyday newspapers abound with the news of innocent, enslaved Muslims who are bombed, attacked, executed by shooting, unjustly captured, tortured or raped. A great majority of people watch these news in sheer silence and usually give no response other than saying, “Look what is happening in the world?” What is more bitter is that a greater majority turn the pages of a newspaper without reading these news, and pay more attention to the scores of a football match or the recent hair style of a celebrity. While that person sips his soup or tea, and talks for hours over insignificant issues that has no urgency. Millions of homeless people in Pakistan find nowhere to take refuge in the cold of winter, a Palestinian woman feels desperate for not being able to take her sick son to hospital, an Afghan father’s wife is raped before his very eyes, or an Iraqi child is losing his newborn brother in a delivery room that has been bombed. No doubt each Muslim very well knows that all kinds of ordeals are created by the will of Allah and it is obligatory upon Muslims to respond to them with the morality of the Qur’an and the Sunnah. However the Qur’an and the hadith also provide the way Muslims should follow when they face such cruelty and injustice.
Allah commands Muslims to unite like well-built walls and respond to this cruelty with scientific methods, and culture. Our Prophet (saas) also told that in the End Times, the Islamic community will go through great cruelty and pain, and that they will be oppressed under the pressure of the system of the antichrist. He further stated that the only way to get rid of this captivity is their getting united around the leadership of Hazrat Mahdi (as). Struggling for the unity of Muslims, striving to unite the community of Islam - no matter what their race, school and thought may be - within a spirit of brotherhood is obligatory upon all Muslims. Each Muslim living in the End Times must, with all his might, desire the unity of Islam and struggle to be a follower of Hazrat Mahdi (as), whom Allah sent as a savior to all Muslims, and to prepare the most beautiful environment for this blessed person. While Muslims in Afghanistan, Iraq, Patani, East Turkistan, Palestine, Philippines and in places we are unaware of around the world try to survive in pain and agony, people who do not strive for the unity of Muslims for a moment, and even do not utter the words, “Let the Islamic world unite, let the union of Islam come true” only for once are surely under a spell and hypnosis. While it is impossible for an ordinary person to remain calm in light of such images and information, the great majority of the Islamic world, consisting of 1.5 billion people, watch with apathy, what befall our mothers, sisters, children, grandfathers and elderly women. This is because of the influence of hypnosis.
The hypnosis of the antichrist is dividing the community of Islam into small pieces while Allah openly commands Muslims to unite. The hypnosis of the antichrist is rendering Muslims indifferent while Allah openly commands Muslims to run for the aid of the needy. The hypnosis of the antichrist is leading Muslims into other ways while our Prophet (saas) openly showed the way to salvation. The hypnosis of the antichrist is rendering Muslims to think only of their own comfort, pleasure, food, needs, subsistence and commerce while millions of Muslims are being subjected to incredible cruelty.
5. Darwinism that bases the origin of life on an unreasonable and irrational explanation like blind chance is accepted by people under the hypnosis of the antichrist.
One of the overt activities of the antichrist is that Darwinism is kept as a state policy in many countries and imposed on people, although it is obvious that even the formation of a single protein is impossible, more than 300 million fossils reveal that living beings remained unchanged for millions of years and each piece of information mankind gets from all branches of science reveal constantly the invalidity of the theory of evolution. Bediuzzaman Said Nursi also said that the antichrist would spread the diseases of Darwinism and materialism by way of indoctrination and devastate humanity by this way. Darwinism is the religion of the system of the antichrist. In its struggle against religion, the antichrist is in need of a false religion, which is Darwinism. They formulate an irrational theory by way of false drawings, false formulas and false stories and this false theory is impressed on to people as if it were a scientific fact.
Today it is an evident fact that Darwinism is a superstitious religion inherited from the ancient Sumerians and ancient Egyptians and that it is not based on any scientific evidence. Despite this fact, another indication of the hypnosis of the antichrist is that the story of living creatures coming into existence by themselves in mud is taught with Latin words as if it were actually scientific and with great seriousness. Furthermore even people are professors believe in this story. Anyone who notices that this story is very unusual and express it openly, are subjected to tremendous pressure and intimidation. This hypnosis has become so effective that even some newspapers, journals and Internet sites that are known as pro-Islam and conservative, have been made instrumental in Darwinist propaganda. What is surprising is that, under the hypnosis of the antichrist, people’s consciousness have closed in such a way that, these people, who overtly engage in Darwinist propaganda, give answers revealing their unawareness of what they are really doing when they are inquired as to why they are involved in such propaganda.
6. Allah promises Muslims the domination of Islamic morality over the world, but a large part of the Muslim population disregard this blessed promise under the influence of the antichrist.
In many verses of the Qur’an, Allah promises that He will make the genuine believers as inheritors of the earth. This means the domination of the morality of Islam over the earth. Apart from this, many hadith give the good news that during the period of Hazrat Mahdi (as), that is, during the time in which we live, the morality of Islam will dominate the world. Every Muslim who has faith in Allah, submitted himself to Allah and puts his trust in Allah’s will, knows that Allah’s promise will definitely come true. The domination of Islam over the world is also a promise of Allah, and a Muslim makes every effort so as to be instrumental in making this promise come true. He engages in material and physical effort. Another obvious command of Allah to Muslims is to struggle until no more tribulation exists on earth and the religion is Allah’s alone, that is, until the morality of Islam dominates the world. (Surat al-Anfal, 39). Just as fulfilling regular prayers, fasting or giving alms are commands of Allah, struggling on Allah’s path until the religion is Allah’s alone is also a commandment of Allah upon Muslims. In order to fulfill this provision, every Muslim is obliged to struggle against fitnah. That is to say, he must struggle against what gives him trouble, predicament and affliction, and deprives him of his happiness. A Muslim must strive against disbelief, materialism, and Darwinism, and what makes this system seem normal but in actuality legitimizes conflict, struggle and egoism. This struggle should definitely take place at the ideological level, since most of the pain and suffering we face in the world today have an ideological basis. As long as this ideological basis is not eradicated, it is unlikely for this pain to come to an end. The ideological basis in question is Darwinism and materialism.
While a Muslim gives an ideological struggle against Darwinism and materialism on one hand, he, on the other hand, is obliged to tell the signs of Allah’s existence and unity, and the signs that will lead people to sincere faith in the most beautiful, wisest, kindest and the most rational style. He is responsible for communicating to the people the facts of the Qur’an, the superior morality of our Prophet (saas) and the Islam according to the Age of Bliss. This communication has to be made as a requisite of the verse, “Struggle with them until the religion is Allah’s alone.”
Some people completely despair of the domination of the morality of Islam over the world because of the hypnosis of the antichrist. These people forget Allah’s obvious promise and the glad tidings Allah gives in the Qur’an, and do not deem the domination of the morality of Islam likely. In other words, they consider this obvious fact as impossible. If one asks these people if communism can ever dominate the world, their answer would be “Yes.” These people also consider the domination of atheist freemasonry or fascism quite possible. They only deem the domination of the morality of Islam as unlikely. The reason for this is that; under the influence of the hypnosis of the antichrist, they lose their foresight and forget the promise of Allah. However a Muslim knows that Allah certainly fulfills His promise. Whether Allah preordains domination of Islam during his lifetime or not, he puts all the resources at his disposal into use and engages in an ideological struggle for the domination of Allah’s religion. It is obvious that those who feign ignorance about Allah’s promise and, in their own way, try to humiliate those Muslims who endeavor for the domination of the morality of Islam, and instill indolence and idleness by saying, “Such a domination never happens.” These people are under the influence of the system of the antichrist.
7. The hypnosis of the antichrist distance some people from having a faithful, loyal, gentle, noble and respectful style peculiar to a Muslim and turn them into cold, pretentious, rude and unfaithful people with inferiority complex.
For a genuine Muslim, the only measures are the Qur’an, the Sunnah of our Prophet (saas) and the works of the Ahl al-Sunnah scholars. Apart from his worship, his life, morality, reactions, style and attitude also comply with the Qur’an and the Sunnah. No matter in which period and under which conditions a genuine believer lives, he adopts the morality that Allah has commanded and communicated to people since Prophet Adam (as). Improvement of technology, passage of time, or other conditions has no affect on this morality. No matter where a Muslim may be, he conducts himself as a wise, rational, moderate, balanced, gentle, loving, compassionate, merciful, faithful, helpful and loyal person who protects the people around him and beautifies his surroundings. If a person, feels concerned about being unaccepted, oppressed or alienated, and makes concessions to this superior morality by saying “the times have changed”, then that means that he follows a very different way and not the Qur’an or the Sunnah.
A Muslim does not imitate a person he sees in the workplace, a cafe, on the television or the Internet. He does not emulate their life or style. He does not strive to be like them. He does not act a little bit like a Muslim and a little bit like them in order to curry favor with them. He does not assume their wicked jokes, or mimics their reactions, because he, in his way, will be popular. A Muslim takes our Prophet’s (saas) nobility, kindness, compassion, activeness, love and quality as an example to himself. He strives to assume his superior morality and fine attitude. He very well knows that a person who abides by the Qur’an and follows the way of our Prophet (saas) leads the most modern, beautiful and quality life that a person can ever have. People who, despite knowing this, aspire for the applause, style and appearance of unbelievers and suffers from a kind of inferiority complex, and has set aside virtues such as loyalty, faithfulness, respect for the elderly, for the sake of being so-called “modern.” These people make such a choice under the hypnosis of the system of the antichrist. When considered with an open consciousness, these people have to see that this weird style, and unfaithful, disloyal and pitiless system may one day devastate them. They should be able to notice that such a model will demolish a Muslim’s real purpose, and what upholds him in life and makes him strong. People who use computers, shorten religious terms such as Insha’Allah and masha’Allah in writing, they make jokes about religious issues because they, in their own way, think it is popular. They associate showing respect to the elderly and protecting them with being obscurant. They assume that they would be better if they imitate unbelievers, who tend to oppress the innocent and poor. They side with those having power and they don’t notice that they are, under the guidance of the system of the antichrist, and pushed towards a hazy and dark spirit distant from the morality of Islam. They must immediately abandon this unacceptable mindset.
It is possible to expand on these characteristics and add new ones. However even only the ones cited above suffice to see that the minds of a great majority of people have been numbed under the influence of the antichrist.
The hypnosis of the antichrist is removed by a sincere, profound and attentive faith
The End Times in which we live is a very blessed time that is full of glad tidings. It also imposes important responsibilities upon all Muslims. Muslims cannot succeed against the antichrist, who is proclaimed as the greatest incident in the history of humanity, by disregarding him, acting as if he does not exist or ignoring him. A Muslim must have a complete understanding of the danger, with all its aspects, so that he can take the most rational and efficient measures. As the hadith inform us, the Prophet Jesus (as) will be instrumental in removing the hypnosis of the antichrist from all people. Only by means of sincere and profound faith will it be possible to avoid this hypnosis and to be safe against the spell of the antichrist. Satan aims directly at the mind, and Muslims can remove the hypnosis of the antichrist by prayer, by putting their trust in Allah and displaying a very sincere and determined will. Otherwise they cannot get rid of the influence of this hypnosis.
Indeed Bediuzzaman Said Nursi stated that, Prophet Jesus (as) and Hazrat Mahdi (as) can be recognized by the light of their faith and added that genuine Muslims can remain secure against the hypnosis of the antichrist by the light of faith and also see the facts that the system of the antichrist wants to conceal.
In the End Times Muslims must break through the veil drawn by the system of the antichrist. For this, it is essential to engage in a very strong intellectual propaganda against the system of the antichrist. Sharp attention and open consciousness as commanded by Allah in the Qur’an, vigilance, realization, and awareness of the existence of Allah at every moment in life will keep the hypnosis of the antichrist distant from believers. Just as how the system of the antichrist strives to uphold its own system by way of indoctrination, Muslims must also render its inculcations ineffective by remembering Allah every moment, and finding solutions by keeping the way that our Prophet (saas) showed. Muslims must, remind themselves of the fact that we are living in the End Times, by passing on the message and letting people know that Prophet Jesus (as) and Hazrat Mahdi (as) are on duty and striving to make the morality of Islam dominate the world.
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