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Main article: Masih ad-Dajjal See also: Masih and List of Mahdi claimants

al-Masih ad-Dajjal, Arabic for "the false messiah", is an evil figure in Islamic eschatology, directly comparable to the figures of the Antichrist and Armilus in Christian and Jewish eschatology, respectively. He is to appear, pretending to be Masih (i.e. the Messiah), at a time in the future before Yawm al-Qiyamah (Judgment Day).

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