Dajjal is a common Arabic word, used in the sense of "false prophet", but
al-Masih ad-Dajjal, with the definite article, refers to "the impostor", a
specific end-of times deceiver. The term al-Masīḥ ad-Dajjāl (Arabic for "the
false messiah") is a literal translation of the Syriac term Mšīḥā Daggālā, which
had been in the common vocabulary of the Middle East and adapted into the Arabic
language 400 years prior to the Qur'an via the Peshitta (which uses that term
instead of the Greek "Antichristos")
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