Agar siz bashorat qilingan Dajjol, ya'ni Masih ad-Dajjol, qanday qilib jismoniy nuqsoni, zulmi va yuzida aniq yozilgan "kofir" so'zi bo'lishiga qaramay, odamlar, jumladan musulmonlar orasida shunday katta ergashuvchilarga ega bo'lishi mumkinligi haqida hayron bo'lgan bo'lsangiz, javobni zamonaviy siyosatdan izlang.

If you have ever wondered how the prophesied Dajjal, i.e., the anti-Christ, could have such a large following among people, including Muslims, despite his physical disfigurement, his tyranny, and the word kafir literally spelled out on his face, look no further than modern politics.

Men doim o'ylar edim: nega kimdir shunchalik aniq yovuz bo'lgan mavjudotga ergashadi? Javob esa atrofimizda. Bugun Sharqda ham, G'arbda ham xuddi shu narsaning soyalarini ko'ramiz. Ochiqdan-ochiq har xil zulmni sodir etadigan siyosatchilar bor. Ular qirg'in qiladi, dronlar orqali zarba beradi, o'g'irlaydi, korrupsiyaga botadi, zaharlaydi, va bularning hammasi jamoatchilik nazari ostida sodir bo'ladi. Ammo hech kim e'tibor bermaydi. Haqiqatan ham, agar Prezident Obama kabi odamning ko'z yoshi oqizadigan, xushomadgo'y nutqi kimningdir og'zini ochib qolgancha maqtov va ko'r-ko'rona sadoqatini qo'zg'atishga yetarli bo'lsa, o'sha odam uning qo'li bilan sodir etilgan qotillik va zulmni haqiqatan ham e'tiborga oladimi?

I always wondered about this. Why would anyone follow such a clearly evil being? The answer is all around us. We see shades of the same thing happening today, in the East and West. You have politicians that openly commit all manner of atrocity against the human race. They massacre, drone strike, steal, corrupt, poison — all in full view of public scrutiny. But no one seems to care. I mean, does a person really care about the murder and oppression wrought by the hands of someone like a President Obama if him making a sappy, pandering speech is enough to elicit drooling praise and slack-jawed devotion from that person?

Juda ko'p jinoyatlar odamlarning ongida oqlanadi. Bombardimon qilish, bosib olish, egallash — bular "geosiyosat" yoki "qattiqqo'l tashqi siyosat"dan boshqa narsa emas. Begunoh odamlarning o'ldirilishi "yonidagi zarar" deb ataladi. Politsiyani harbiylashtirish, u esa jamiyatni qo'rqitadi va cheksiz zo'ravonlik va o'limga sabab bo'ladi, "jinoyatchilikka qarshi qattiq" va "xavfsizlikka jiddiy yondashish" deb ataladi. Sizlar shunchaki ehtiyotkorlik bilan tanlangan so'zlar bilan rozi bo'lib qolasizmi? Bir necha tanlangan atamalar, va to'satdan murdani parchalayotgan qassobning pichog'ini ko'ra olmay qolasizmi? Ustalik bilan yasalgan atamalar sizning ongingiz qarshilik qila olmaydigan sehrli iksirmi?

So many crimes are whitewashed in the minds of people. Bombing, invading, occupying — these are nothing more than “geopolitics” or “hawkish foreign policy.” Killing innocent people is nothing more than “collateral damage.” Militarizing a police force that then terrorizes society and is responsible for an endless stream of brutality and death is nothing more than being “tough on crime” and “serious about security.” Is creative wording all it takes for you people to fall in line? Just some carefully chosen terms and suddenly you can’t see the butcher’s knife mutilating the corpse? Is well-spun terminology like a magic elixir that your mind cannot resist?

Agar shunday bo'lsa, bitta narsani esda tuting: Xudo bir ko'z bilan emas.

If so, just try to hold on to one thing: God is not one-eyed.