The Second Station of the Fifth Ray
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate.
First Matter
There is a narration which says: “The hand of the Sufyan, one of the prominent figures of the end of time, will be pierced.” Allah the Most High knows best, an interpretation of this is as follows: if a person is very extravagant, and indulges in dissipated amusements, he cannot hold onto his possessions; they are poured away with his wastefulness. It is said in the proverb: “So‑and-so has a hole in his hand.” That is, he is very extravagant and wasteful.
Thus, this Hadith infers that the Sufyan will bind people to himself by encouraging them to be wasteful. By arousing in them an intense greed and ambition, he will hold them in subjection through that weak vein of character. It predicts that the extravagant will become captive to him and fall into his trap.
Second Matter
It says in a narration: “A fearsome person at the end of time will rise in the morning and on his forehead will be written This is a disbeliever.” Allah knows what is right, this may be interpreted as follows: the Sufyan will wear the headgear of non‑believers and make everyone else wear it. However, since it will be generally adopted under compulsion and the force of the law, when that headgear is taken into prostration [in worship], it will become rightly-guided, Allah willing, so that those who wear it –unwillingly – will not become unbelievers.
Third Matter
There is a narration: The despotic rulers of the end of time, especially the Antichrist (Dajjal), will have false paradises and hells. The knowledge is with Allah the Most High, an interpretation is this: it is an indication concerning the prison and high school which are situated opposite the government offices and are facing each other: one will become an ugly imitation of a huri and youth of Paradise, and the other will become a dungeon and torture‑chamber.
Fourth Matter
There is a narration which says: At the end of time no one will remain who says: Allah! Allah! None knows the Unseen save Allah, an interpretation of this must be as follows: the Sufi meeting‑places, the places where Allah the Most High’s name is recited, and the religious schools (medrese) will be closed, and a name other than Allah will used in such marks of Islam as the call to prayer and kâmet. It does not mean that all humankind is going to fall into absolute disbelief, for denial of Allah (May His glory be exalted!) is as irrational as denying the universe. It is unreasonable to suppose that the majority of people should do so, let alone all of them. The unbelievers do not deny Allah, they are in error concerning His attributes.
Another interpretation is this: the spirits of the believers will be seized a little previously to the end of the world so that they do not experience its terror. Doomsday will erupt over the heads of the unbelievers.
Fifth Matter
There is a narration: At the end of time, certain persons such as the Antichrist (Dajjal) will claim divinity and force others to prostrate before themselves.
Allah the Most High knows best, an interpretation is this: just as a nomad chieftain who denies the king imagines in himself and in other chieftains a small rulership proportionate to their power; so those who come to lead the school of naturalists and materialists, imagine in themselves a sort of lordship proportionate to their power, and to demonstrate their power, make their subjects bow down worshipfully before themselves and their statues, and incline their heads.
Sixth Matter
There is a narration: The dissension of the end of time will be so terrible that no one will be able to restrain themselves. It is because of this that for one thousand three hundred years, on the command of the Prophet (UWBP) all the Umma has sought refuge with Allah the Most High from that dissension –from the dissension of the Antichrist and from the dissension of the end of time – after seeking refuge from the torments of the grave. Allah knows what is best, it may be interpreted like this: the dissension of the end of time will draw souls to itself, captivating them. People will join it voluntarily, indeed, eagerly. For example, in Russia, men and women bathe naked together in the public baths. And because by nature women have a strong propensity to show off their beauty, they willingly throw themselves into that dissension and are led astray. The men too, being naturally enamoured of beauty, are defeated by their instinctual souls, and with drunken joy, fall into the fire and are burnt.
Holding a fascination, the amusements, grievous sins, and innovations of the times such as dancing and the theatre, draw the pleasure‑seekers around them like moths, intoxicating them. But if this occurs through absolute compulsion, the will is negated and it is not even a sin.
Seventh Matter
There is a narration: “The Sufyan will be an eminent scholar; he will fall into misguidance through his learning. Numerous other scholars will follow him.” The knowledge is with Allah, an interpretation is this: although he possesses no means of sovereignty such as strength and power, tribes and peoples, or the courage and riches of a king, he will win that position through his cleverness, art, and political acumen, and using his intelligence he will bewitch the minds of many other scholars, making them dictate his wishes. He will attract numerous teachers to support him, and pointing out to them the way to an education system stripped of religious instruction, will work for its widespread enforcement.
Eighth Matter
Narrations state that the terrible dissension of the Antichrist (Dajjal) will occur among Muslims, so that the Umma has always sought refuge with Allah the Most High from it. None knows the Unseen save Allah, an interpretation is this: the Muslims’ Antichrist is different. In fact, like Imam ‘Ali (May Allah be pleased with him), some investigative scholars said that the Muslims’ Antichrist (Dajjal) is the Sufyan. He will appear from among the Muslims and will carry out his work through deception. The Great Dajjal of the unbelievers is different. For those who do not bow to the absolute force and compulsion of the Great Dajjal are martyrs, and those who submit unwillingly are not unbelievers, and not sinners even.
Ninth Matter
In narrations, the events associated with the Sufyan and those of the future are depicted as occurring in the region of Damascus and in Arabia. Allah knows best, an interpretation is this: since in early times the centres of the Caliphate were in Iraq, Damascus, and Medina, in their own interpretations, the narrators showed these events as occurring close to the centre of Islamic government, as though it were always going to remain thus, and said Aleppo and Damascus. They added their own details to the succinct predictions of the Hadith.
Tenth Matter
Narrations mention the extraordinary power of the figures of the end times. The knowledge is with Allah, its interpretation is this: it is an allusion to the vast collective personality those figures represent. At one time, the commander‑in-chief of the Japanese Army, which had defeated Russia, was shown in a picture with one foot in the Pacific Ocean and the other foot in the fort of Port Arthur. The vastness of its collective personality was depicted in the representation of his person and in the gigantic form of the representation.
As for their extraordinarily vast power, since most of the affairs they carry out are destructive and related to the appetites, they appear to have extraordinary power, for destruction is easy; one match can burn down a village. As for the satisfying the animal appetites, since it is what the instinctual soul wants, it is much sought after.
Eleventh Matter
There is a narration which says: At the end of time, one man will look after forty women. Allah knows what is best, this may be interpreted in two ways:
Firstly: Lawful marriage will decrease at that time, or like in Russia, it will disappear. Someone who flees from being tied to one woman, will remain at a loose end and act as a shepherd to forty unfortunate women.
The Second: It is an allusion that at that time of dissension, most of the men will perish in wars, and for some reason most of the children born will be girls. Perhaps as well, the total freedom of women will so inflame their lust that they will acquire innate superiority over their menfolk. This will result in their causing their children to take after them, and through the divine command, girl children will be more numerous.
Twelfth Matter
It says in narrations : The Dajjal’s first day will be a year, his second day a month, his third day a week, and his fourth day a day.
None knows the Unseen save Allah, this may be interpreted in two ways:
The First: It is an allusion and sign that the Great Dajjal will appear near the North Pole or towards the north. For close to the North Pole the whole year is one day and one night. If he comes a day’s journey in this direction by train in the summer, for a month the sun never sets. If he comes a day further in this direction, the sun is visible for a whole week. When I was a prisoner‑of-war in Russia I was close to this region. That means it foretells miraculously that the Great Dajjal will attack from the North in this direction.
The Second Interpretation: The three days refer to both the Great Dajjal and the Islamic Dajjal having three periods of despotism. With elevated eloquence it informs the Umma that “in his first day; in his first period of government, he will perform works so great they could not be performed in three hundred years. On his second day, that is, in his second period, he will carry out such works as could not be carried out in thirty years. In his third day and period, the transformations he will bring about could not be brought about in ten years. While in his fourth day and period he will be reduced to the ordinary and do nothing, only try to maintain his position.”
Thirteenth Matter
There is a definite, sound narration which says: Jesus (Upon whom be peace) will kill the Great Dajjal. The knowledge is with Allah the Most High, there are two aspects to this:
The First Aspect: It could only be a wondrous person with the power of miracles who could kill and change the way of the awesome Dajjal, for he will preserve himself through such wonders as magic, hypnotic powers, and spiritualism bestowed on him by Allah the Most High in order to lead him astray, and he will spellbind everyone. And that person will be Jesus (Upon whom be peace), who is the prophet of the majority of mankind and whom most people follow.
The Second Aspect Is This: It will be the truly pious followers of Jesus who will kill the gigantic collective personality of materialism and irreligion which the Dajjal will form – for the Dajjal will be killed by Jesus’ (UWP) sword – and destroy his ideas and disbelief, which are atheistic. Those truly pious Christians will blend the essence of true Christianity with the essence of Islam and rout the Dajjal with their combined strength, in effect killing him. The narration: Jesus (Upon whom be peace) will come and will perform the obligatory prayers behind the Mahdi and follow him, alludes to this union, and to the sovereignty of the Qur’an and its being followed.
Fourteenth Matter
It says in a narration: The Dajjal will draw his main strength from the Jews. The Jews will follow him willingly. Allah knows best, we can say that his narration was partly fulfilled in Russia, for the Jews, who have been persecuted by every state, gathered in large numbers in Germany in order to take their revenge. Then, due to the important role he played in the founding of the revolutionary communist party, the terrible Trotsky, who was a Jew, took over the leadership of the Russian Army, then the government after the famous Lenin, who had trained him, and they set fire to Russia and laid waste whatever it had achieved over a thousand years. They showed that they were the secret revolutionary committee of the Dajjal and they carried out some of his works. They caused serious upheavals in other countries as well and fomented much trouble.
Fifteenth Matter
The events involving Gog and Magog are mentioned concisely in the Qur’an, but some details concerning them appear in narrations. Such details are not firmly established like the Qur’an’s concise but incontrovertible matters, and may be considered allegorical. They require interpretation. Indeed, they need to be interpreted, for the narrators’ interpretations have been mixed in with them.
Yes, None knows the Unseen save Allah, one interpretation is this: it is an allusion and indication that just as the Manchurian and Mongol tribes, called “Gog and Magog” in the heavenly tongue of the Qur’an, together with some other tribes, several times overturned Asia and Europe; so will they again cause chaos in the world in the future. In fact even now some of them are famous anarchists, and anarchy is born of communism.
Yes, socialism sprang up in the French Revolution from the seed of libertarianism. Then since socialism destroyed certain sacred matters, the ideas it inculcated turned into bolshevism. And because bolshevism corrupted sacred moral and human values to an even greater extent, and those of the human heart, of course the seeds it sowed will produce anarchy, which recognizes no restrictions whatsoever and has respect for nothing. For if respect and compassion quit the human heart, people with such hearts become exceedingly cruel beasts and can no longer be governed through politics.
As for the place for anarchy, it will be those oppressed, numerous raiding tribes which are backward in respect of both civilization and government. The Manchurian, Mongol, and some of the Kirghiz tribes fit those conditions, for they caused the building of the Great Wall of China, which is forty‑days’ distance in length and is one of the seven wonders of the world. Expounding the Qur’an’s concise statements about them, Muhammad (Upon whom be blessings and peace) predicted their appearance miraculously and precisely.
Sixteenth Matter
It says in a narration in connection with Jesus (Upon whom be peace) killing the Dajjal: The Dajjal will have a colossal form, he will be extraordinarily big and taller than a minaret, while Jesus (UWP) will be very small in comparison. None knows the Unseen save Allah, one interpretation must be as follows: it is an allusion and sign that quantitively the spiritual community of mujahidin that will recognize Jesus (Upon whom be peace) and follow him, will be very few and small comparatively to the ‘scientific’, physical armies of the Dajjal.
Seventeenth Matter
It says in a narration: The day the Dajjal appears all the world will hear. He will travel the world in forty days and have a wondrous ass. Allah knows best,
on condition such narrations are completely sound, they miraculously predict that in the time of the Dajjal, the means of communication and travel will have so advanced that an event will be heard by all the world in a day. It will be shouted out by the radio and will be heard in east and west, and will be read about in all the newspapers. One man will travel the whole world in forty days and see the seven continents and seventy countries. These narrations thus miraculously foretold the telegraph, telephone, radio, railway, and aeroplane ten centuries before they appeared. Moreover, the Dajjal will be heard not in his capacity as the Dajjal, but as a despotic king. And his travelling everywhere will not be to occupy those places, but to create dissension and to seduce people away from the right path. His mount or ass is either a railway train, one ear and head of which is an infernal firebox, and the other ear of which is a false paradise gorgeously adorned and furnished. He sends his enemies to its fiery head, and his friends to its feasting head. Or else his mount is an awesome motor car, or a plane, or… (silence!)
Eighteenth Matter
There is a narration which says: If my community advances on the straight path, it will have one day. That is, in accordance with the meaning of the verse, On a day the space whereof will be [as] a thousand years of your reckoning, it will have rule and splendour for a thousand years. If it does not proceed on the straight path, it will have a day of five hundred years, and will be dominant and victorious for only five hundred years.
Allah knows best, this narration is not giving news of the end of the world, but of Islam’s victorious rule and the sovereignty of the caliphate, for miraculously, that is exactly how it turned out. For because towards the end of the ‘Abbasid caliphate its politicians lost their sense of direction, it survived only five hundred years. But because the Umma in general did not deviate from the straight path, the Ottoman caliphate came to its assistance and it took over the rule of the Umma, which has continued in existence for one thousand three hundred years. Then because the Ottoman politicians were unable to maintain their direction, its caliphate survived only five hundred years (as the caliphate), and with its demise it confirmed the Hadith’s miraculous prediction. This Hadith has been discussed in other treatises, so we curtail the discussion here.
Nineteenth Matter
In the narrations are various prophecies about the Mahdi (May Allah be pleased with him), who is one of the signs of the end of time and will be from the Family of the Prophet (UWBP). In fact, some scholars and saints stated long ago that he had appeared. Allah knows best what is right, one interpretation of these various narrations is this: the Great Mahdi will have numerous functions. He will carry out duties in the world of politics, the world of religion, the world of government, and in the many spheres of the world of jihad. Similarly, since every century at a time of despair people are in need of a sort of Mahdi to strengthen their morale or of the possibility of a Mahdi appearing at that time to assist them, through divine mercy, every age or perhaps every century a sort of Mahdi has appeared from among the Prophet’s (UWBP) descendants, and preserved his forefather’s Shari‘a and revived his Sunna.
The narrations about the Mahdi are various because Muhammad (Upon whom be blessings and peace) saw persons who would perform some of the Great Mahdi’s works; for example, the ‘Abbasid Mahdi in the world of politics, and Gawth al‑A‘zam, Shah Naqshband, the four spiritual poles, and Twelve Imams in the world of religion. For this reason some of the people of reality said that he had already appeared. Anyway, since this matter has been explained in the Risale‑i Nur, we refer discussion of it to that and here only say this:
There is no family in the world so mutually supportive, nor a tribe in such agreement, nor so enlightened a community or society as the family, tribe, community and society of the Prophet’s (UWBP) Family.
Yes, the Prophet’s (UWBP) Family has raised hundreds of sacred heroes, and produced thousands of spiritual leaders of the Umma, and has been nurtured with the leaven of the reality of the Qur’an and the light of belief and honour of Islam, and has thus been perfected. It is therefore totally reasonable that by reviving the Shari‘a of Muhammad (UWBP) and his Sunna and the truth of the Qur’an at the end of time, and proclaiming them and putting them into practice, they should display to the world the perfect justice and veracity of the Great Mahdi, their commander‑in-chief. This is also both necessary and essential and demanded by the principles of human society.
Twentieth Matter
The sun rising in the west and the emergence of the Beast (dābbat al‑arḍ) from the earth.
The Sun Rising in the West will be a self‑evident sign of the end of the world, and because it is self-evident it will be a heavenly event that closes the door of repentance, which is tied to the will and reason. Its meaning is therefore clear, so is in no need of interpretation. One may just say the following: Allah knows best, its apparent cause will be this: on the disappearance from the head of the earth of the Qur’an, which is like its intelligence, the earth will go mad. With divine permission, its rotation will be reversed on another planet colliding with it. Through divine will, its journeying from west to east will be reversed to from east to west and the sun will start to rise in the west. Yes, the Qur’an is “the firm cord of Allah”, which binds the earth to the sun and the ground to the divine throne. If its gravity is broken, the string holding the earth will be undone, it will become dizzy and deranged, and with its reversed uncontrolled motion, the sun will rise in the west. There is another interpretation, which is that due to a collision, Doomsday would break forth at the divine command.
As for the Beast, in the Qur’an is an extremely concise indication, a brief expression made by its tongue of disposition. As for its details, like with some other matters, I do not know with any certainty for the present. I can only say this much: None knows the Unseen save Allah the Most High, just as the people of Pharaoh were visited by plagues of locusts and fleas, and the people of Abraha, who were trying to destroy the Ka‘ba, were attacked by “flights of birds”; so too, for the purpose of bringing to their senses those people who knowingly and willingly rebel due to the dissension of the Sufyan and Dajjals, and due to the anarchy of Gog and Magog embark on corruption and savagery, and fall into irreligion, disbelief, and denial, a beast will emerge from the earth and beset and rout them. Allah knows best, that beast is a species. For even if huge, a single creature could not be everywhere. That means there will be a truly terrible species of animal. Perhaps, as indicated by the verse, Except a little worm of the earth, which kept [slowly] gnawing away at his staff, the creature will be a sort of termite, called dābbat al‑arḍ, which will gnaw away at the bones of men as though they were wooden, establishing themselves in every part of their bodies, from their teeth to their finger‑nails. By making the creature speak on the question of belief, the verse indicates that through the blessing of belief and their avoiding vice and abuses, the believers will be saved from it.
O our Sustainer! Do not take us to task if we forget or do wrong.
Glory be unto You! We have no knowledge save that which you have taught us; indeed, You are All‑Knowing, All-Wise.
Three Brief Matters Complementing the Previous Twenty Matters
First Matter
Just as in some narrations, Jesus (Upon whom be peace) is called “the Messiah” (al‑Masīḥ), so are both Dajjals called Messiah, and in all the narrations it says: … from the dissension of the Messiah Antichrist (al‑Masīḥ al-Dajjāl) … from the dissension of the Messiah Antichrist (al-Masīḥ al-Dajjāl). What is the wisdom and meaning of this?
The Answer: Allah knows best, the wisdom in it is this: just as at the divine command, Jesus (Upon whom be peace) abrogated some of the burdensome ordinances of the Mosaic Law, making lawful some things agreeable to the appetites like wine, so too at the command of Satan and due to his temptations, the Great Dajjal will abrogate the injunctions of the Christian Law, and destroying the bonds in accordance with which the life of Christian society is administered, he will prepare the ground for anarchy and Gog and Magog.
Similarly, the Sufyan, the Islamic Dajjal, due to the devices of Satan and the evil‑commanding soul, will try to abrogate some of the eternal injunctions of the Shari‘a of Muhammad (UWBP), and destroying the material, moral and spiritual bonds of human life, and leaving headstrong, drunken, giddy souls without restriction, he will unfasten the luminous chains of respect and compassion. By giving people a freedom which is pure despotism so they fall on one another in a swamp of putrid lust, he will open up the way to a terrible anarchy. There will then be no way those people can be kept under control other than by the most repressive despotism.
Second Matter
Mentioned in the narrations are the wondrous achievements of the two Dajjals, and their superhuman power and majesty. It is foretold even that some unfortunates will ascribe a sort of divinity to them. What is the reason for this?
The Answer: The knowledge is with Allah, their achievements being so great and extraordinary is because since they mostly consist of destruction and exciting the appetites, they carry out those works easily, so that it says in one narration: “A single of their days is a year.” That is, the works they carry out in one year would not normally be carried out in three hundred. There are four aspects of and reasons for their power appearing to be superhuman:
The First:
As the result of a divine scheme permitting them to do so, the good things and advances which are achieved through the strength of brave armies and active nations in their despotic, huge states, are unjustly attributed to them. As a result, their persons are imagined to have the power of a thousand men.
But rightfully and according to the rules, the positive good, honour, and booty won through the actions of a community should be divided among the community and given to its members. And any evils, destruction, and losses should be ascribed to its leader’s lack of precautions and faults. For example, if a batallion conquers a citadel, the booty and honour is due to their bayonets. While if there are any losses due to faulty planning, they are the commander’s.
Thus, entirely contrarily to this fundamental principle of truth and reality, since positive progress and all things good are ascribed to those fearsome leaders, and negative developments and evils are attributed to their unfortunate peoples, as the result of a divine scheme, those persons, who deserve to be abominated by everyone, are loved by all the heedless and neglectful.
The Second Aspect and Reason:
Because both Dajjals employ the severest despotism, the greatest tyranny, and the maximum violence and terror, they appear to have vast power. Yes, a despotism so extraordinary that under the cloak of laws, they intervene in everyone’s consciences and religious beliefs, and even their clothes. It is my guess that with a premonition of the future the lovers of freedom at the end of the last century perceived this awesome despotism and letting fly their arrows at it, attacked it. But they were sorely misled and attacked on the wrong front. It is tyranny and coercion so great that it wipes out a hundred villages because of one man, punishing hundreds of innocent people and ruining them by forced migrations.
The Third Aspect and Reason:
Because both Dajjals will win the assistance of a secret Jewish society which nurtures a terrible desire for revenge on Islam and Christianity, and that of another secret society which uses women’s liberation as a screen, and because the Islamic Dajjal will deceive even the Masonic lodges and win their support, they will be supposed to possess tremendous power.
Also, it is understood from the divinations of some of the saints that the Dajjal called Sufyan who will come to lead the Islamic world will be a leading politician who is extremely capable, intelligent, and active, does not like ostentation and gives no importance to personal rank and glory; he will be a military leader who is extremely bold, forceful, energetic, and resolute, and does not condescend to fame‑seeking, and he will captivate the Muslims. Taking advantage of their lack of hypocrisy, he will have their extraordinarily brilliant works ascribed to himself, as well as the progress they have achieved driven by the severe need arising from the transformation and renewal of the large army and state and the upheavals of the First World War, and he will have it bruited everywhere by eulogists that he possesses a wondrous and extraordinary power.
The Fourth Aspect and Reason:
The Great Dajjal will have spellbinding, charismatic qualities, while the Islamic Dajjal will have fascinating, hypnotic powers in one eye. It even says in narrations: The Dajjal will be blind in one eye. By drawing attention to this and pointing out that one of the Great Dajjal’s eyes will be blind, and one eye of the other Dajjal will be blind in comparison with his other eye, the Hadith is indicating that since they will be absolute unbelievers, they will have only one eye and their sight will be restricted to this world, and they will have no eyes that see the hereafter and consequences of actions.
I too saw the Islamic Dajjal in a spirit world. I observed with my own eyes that he possessed a spellbinding hypnotic power in one of his eyes, and I understood him to be a total denier of Allah the Most High. He will attack religion and the sacred with a boldness and insolence arising from his absolute denial. But since the ordinary people will not know the truth of the matter, they will suppose it to be an extraordinary power and courage.
Also, because such a magnificent, lucky, successful, and cunning commander, who is merely being led on by Allah the Most High, appears at the time of a heroic and glorious nation’s defeat, with their love of heroism the people will applaud and fete him without considering his hidden, terrible true nature, and will want to cover up his iniquities.
However, it is understood from narrations that through the light of belief and light of the Qur’an in their spirits, the heroic, mujahid army and religious nation will see the truth and will try to repair that commander’s terrible destruction.
The Third Brief Matter
This consists of three instructive incidents.
First Incident:
One time, Allah the Most High’s Noble Messenger (Upon whom be blessings and peace) pointed out to ‘Umar (May Allah be pleased with him) one of a group of Jewish children, and said: “He is his very image!” ‘Umar said: “Then I shall kill him!” But Allah the Most High’s Messenger (UWBP) replied: “If it is the Sufyan, the Islamic Dajjal, you cannot kill him. And if it is not, he cannot be killed through his image.”
This narration indicates that at the time of his rule, the Sufyan’s image will appear on numerous things and that he will be born a Jew. It is strange that although ‘Umar (May Allah be pleased with him) was sufficiently angry and hostile towards him to be able to kill a child resembling him, someone the Sufyan most admired and liked and spoke off with praise and appreciation turned out to be ‘Umar.
Second Incident:
Many people narrated that the Islamic Dajjal will be curious about the meaning of the sura, By the fig and the olive, and will ask about it. It is strange but the verse Nay, but man transgresses all bounds in the following sura, Read! In the name of your Sustainer, according to jafr reckoning and its meaning, also indicates his time and person, pointing out that he will overweeningly aggress against the mosques and the people who perform the prayers. That is to say, that man, who is being led on by Allah the Most High, perceives that a short sura is concerned with him, but makes a mistake and knocks on its neighbour’s door.
Third Incident:
It says in a narration: The Islamic Dajjal will appear in Khorasan. None knows the Unseen save Allah, an interpretation of it is this: the Turks, the bravest and most numerous and powerful people of the east and the heroic army of Islam, were at the time of the narration, around the region of Khorasan and had not yet made their homeland in Anatolia. By mentioning the region they inhabited, it is indicating that the Sufyan Dajjal would appear from among them.
It is strange, exceedingly strange, he will temporarily try to use the Turkish nation and Turkism, which for seven hundred years has been a flashing diamond sword, a mark of honour, in the hand of Islam and the Qur’an, against some of the marks of Islam. But he will not be successful and will withdraw. It is understood from the narrations that “The heroic army will save it, taking the reins from his hand.”
And Allah knows what is best ❋ None knows the Unseen save Allah.