From: laura@nospam.me   
      
   "Janice"  wrote in message   
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   > In article , laura@nospam.me says...   
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   > >"Janice"  wrote in message   
   > >news:MPG.1c35f1c63ce07c0c98a234@news.individual.net...   
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   > >> Interestingly, Moslems have their own  version of millenial beliefs   
   > >> complete with a Second Coming in which Jesus (Isa) returns, defeats the   
   > >> Anti-Christ (Dajjal) and brings peace.  They believe that he ascended   
   > >> bodily to heaven to await that time, but do not believe that he was   
   > >> crucified.  They also believe that he was born of a virgin, but not   
   that   
   > >> he was literally God or the son of God.   
   > >   
   > >Interesting... there is a clear phonetic parallel between Isa and Jesus,   
   and   
   > >between Dajjal and Devil.   
   >   
   > In case it helps narrow things down, Mohammed was very clear on the point   
   > of Dajjal being a one-eyed man. :-)   
      
   Still, there may be some etymological relationship...   
   Of course, one would have to look at the roots of the word "Devil"... and   
   that would be the greek "Diabolos", which doesn't really resemble "Dajjal" a   
   lot...   
      
   I dug up these quotes:   
      
   "Hadhrat Huzaifah (R.A.) says, Dajjal will be blind in his left eye. He will   
   have very thick hair on his body and he will also have his own type of   
   Jannat (Heaven) and Jahannam (Hell) with him: Although his Jannat will   
   appear as Jannat, in reality it will be Jahannam and likewise though his   
   Jahannam will appear to be Jahannam, in reality it will be Jannat.   
   (Hadith: Muslim)   
    Imraan bin Husain (R.A.) says Rasulullah (Salallahu Alayhi Wasallam) said:   
   "Those who hear about Dajjal should stay far from him. By Allah! A person   
   will approach him thinking him to be a Believer, but on seeing his amazing   
   feats he will become his follower."   
      
    Ubadah bin Saamit (R.A.) once said, "I have explained Dajjal to you but I   
   fear that you might not have understood. Maseeh Dajjal will be short, and   
   his legs will be crooked. The hair on his head will be extremely twisted. He   
   will have one eye (with which he can see, and this is the protruding eye   
   about which other ahadeeth inform us) while his other eye will be totally   
   flat. It will neither be deep (in its socket) nor protruding. "   
      
   So, even if Dajjal isn't related etymologically to Devil, Jahannam is   
   certainly related to Gehenna :-)   
      
   >   
   > He also stated that in the end times people would vie with one another to   
   > build very tall buildings and children would no longer respect their   
   > parents, so naturally there are Moslem millenialists who think we're   
   > there now.   
   >   
   > A lot of this stuff is in the hadith or collected sayings of Mohammed   
   > rather than in the Quran itself.   
   >   
   > --   
   >   
   > "I stand by all the misstatements that I've made."   
   > --George W. Bush   
      
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