Question
Shaykh, nowadays various modern technologies and tools based on AI (Artificial Intelligence) are being introduced, through which people can create amazing things. Can it be said that the Dajjal will also use these same technologies?
Answer by Fadilat al-Alim Khizr Hayat (may Allah preserve him)
It is clear from the hadith that the Dajjal will have such extraordinary abilities that he will be able to perform various astonishing feats and strange deeds. However, it is uncertain whether Allah Ta’ala will grant him this power in the form of a miracle or extraordinary sign (karamat) that is beyond human understanding, or whether all of this will happen through an apparent means, as is possible today through modern technology and AI.
In that case, giving the example of modern technology is correct only in this respect: if an ordinary person can do amazing things with the help of current scientific progress, then why could the Dajjal not have extraordinary powers, which have been foretold in the ahadith? However, this does not mean at all that all the events of the future will be merely the result of technological development.
Allah Ta’ala alone knows best when the Dajjal and the other signs of the Hour will appear, and to what extent human intellect and inventions will be advanced until then. But one thing is certain: no matter how far technology advances, what the Dajjal does will be so extraordinary and astonishing that people will be deceived by it. This shows that, even for that era, he will be an unexpected and astonishing thing, by seeing which people will be deceived.
If the Dajjal’s works were the same as those that people today can also perform, such as flying by aircraft, use of satellites, the internet, AI, animation, video editing, design software or metaverse technology etc., then his reality would not be different from ordinary humans, and why would people be deceived by him?
Summary
It is a certain reality that the coming of the Dajjal and his extraordinary powers are part of faith and belief, because these things are established from the Shariah. However, the knowledge of how they will occur belongs to Allah Ta’ala alone, since we have not been given clarification about these details.
واللہ أعلم بالصواب وإلیہ المرجع والمآب!
