Muhammad is strangely absent from Islam’s biggest end-time story.
Islam teaches that one of the greatest figures to appear before the end of the world is al-Masīḥ al-Dajjāl — the False Messiah, commonly called the Antichrist.
But notice the name: Dajjāl, not "Anti-Muhammad" or "the False Muhammad."
And the irony goes further.
Islam teaches that Jesus was not killed. Allah raised him up, preserved him, and will send him back near the end of time. Jesus even has a central role in defeating the Dajjāl.
Muhammad, meanwhile, is dead and buried.
So the man Islam claims is Allah’s greatest and final messenger is absent from the climax of its own end-time narrative, while Jesus, the prophet Christians say is uniquely divine, returns and defeats the great deceiver.
If Muhammad is truly the central figure of Allah’s plan for humanity, why does the final chapter of the story revolve around Jesus, not Muhammad?