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And he would conquer it all except Saudi Arabia - with these words -I would surround it with my soldiers, officers, and doctors, and I would try to enter it, but I would not be able to. Then I would signal them to retreat, and they would retreat.
Indeed, he had a silver ring inscribed with "Abu Al-Bara' Al-Amiri." Abdul Qadir would look at his ring and say, "I have a ring other than this ring, and my kunya is other than this kunya."
A thought crossed Abu Abdullah's mind from this vision! If Abdul Qadir were to rule the entire world! And the great powers would submit to him! How could a country like Saudi Arabia resist him?! Is Saudi Arabia a symbol of the Two Holy Mosques?
And is this man who rules the world the Antichrist, and he cannot bring the Two Holy Mosques under his authority or his sedition?!
Abu Abdullah began to look at Abdul Qadir's forehead to see if the word "Kafir" was written on it?! To confirm that the one in front of him was the Antichrist?
Abu Abdullah's eyes fell on the letter "Kaf" written on Abdul Qadir's forehead. He quickly closed his eyes, fearing that the one in front of him was indeed the Antichrist.
He could not finish reading, so he averted his gaze and looked away without completing the rest of the letters of the word.
This is because the prevailing culture among students of knowledge is that the Antichrist does not enter Mecca even before his appearance and dominion. Rather, he appears in the East, and other such events.
But the vision smelled of evil, so Abu Abdullah advised Abdul Qadir to downplay the vision and warned him not to rely on it too much.
Once, he repeated his talk about that vision, and as usual, he forbade him from clinging to that vision and chasing after a mirage.
Abdul Qadir went mad, his anger flared, and he began to shout, scream, and hit a cushion in front of him, striving to swear solemn oaths about the truth of his vision and that it would come true, threatening Abu Abdullah that he would see it.
He even repeated to Abu Abdullah: "And you will see it, and you will see."
Regarding Ka'b, he said: News will come to them after its conquest - meaning Constantinople -and they will reject what is in their hands, and they will go out and find it to be false. The Antichrist will not emerge except after that, a snake will cling to him by the sea, then he will emerge. [Al-Fitan, Nu'aym ibn Hammad 1117]. And from him, he said: A snake will cling to the Antichrist by the seashore, then he will emerge. [Al-Fitan, Nu'aym ibn Hammad 1111]. Does Abdul Qadir refer to that snake with the staff?! Based on the snake, Moses' staff that swallowed what they conjured?! And is this reference confirmed by it being from Eritrean trees?! Based on Eritrea's proximity to Egypt, where the story of Moses and Pharaoh took place?! It is not far-fetched!
Al-Bara': And it is understood from it as distancing and aversion from anyone who approaches him, like the Samaritan, who saw what others did not see - as he saw the angel -and took a handful from the trace of the Messenger - the angel -which he was not permitted to take, so he was punished for the same crime, as God said to him through Moses, peace be upon him: "(Your punishment in this life is that you shall say, 'Touch me not!')" meaning he fears people and asks them not to approach him or harm him, and fear of people becomes an obsession for him. And this is what was observed about him in the story, starting from his appearance at the airport. Al-Amiri: As if it is an indication that he is one of the long-lived, whose lives have been extended beyond the normal and known limit. As if the state of "touch me not" gradually disappears from him until it completely disappears at the first appearance of his great tribulation.
Al-Hafiz Ahmad bin Ali Al-Abbar narrated in his history, from Al-Sha'bi, that he said: The Antichrist's kunya is Abu Yusuf. And it may be one of the kunyas he uses, and Abu Yusuf is Jacob, and Jacob is Israel, so perhaps he means to indicate his representation and embodiment of Israel in a person, just as he was embodied in an entity that usurped Palestine.