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Furthermore, he will reaffirm in his second coming what he prophesied in his first coming bearing witness to the seal of the Messenger, Prophet Muhammad. In his second coming many non-Muslims will accept Jesus as a servant of Allah Almighty, as a Muslim and a member of the community of Muhammad. 11
    Al-Sadr and Mutahhari likewise articulate this same expectation:
Jesus will descend from heaven and espouse the cause of the Mahdi. The Christians and the Jews will see him and recognize his true status. The Christians will abandon their faith in his godhead [ sic ]. 12
    JESUS WILL ABOLISH CHRISTIANITY
    It is crucial to understand that according to Islamic tradition and belief, when Jesus returns, He does not come to convert most Christians to Islam but to abolish Christianity entirely. This fact is understood when we analyze a very well-known and oft-quoted tradition that refers to four specific things that Jesus will do when He returns. Jesus is said to:
1. Break crosses.
2. Kill all swine.
3. Abolish the jizyah tax (a Muslim tax on non-Muslims).
4. Kill the Muslim antichrist and his followers.
The Prophet said: There is no prophet between me and him, that is, Jesus. He will descent [ sic ] [to the earth]… He will break the cross, kill swine, and abolish jizyah . Allah will perish all religions except Islam. 13
    The three actions of breaking the cross, killing pigs, and abolishing the jizyah tax are based on the notion that Jesus will eliminate all other religions on the earth other than Islam. Shafi and Usmani explain that to “break the cross” means to “abolish worship of the cross.” Several Muslim friends that I’ve spoken with have expressed their understanding of this tradition: Jesus will break or remove all crosses from the rooftops and steeples of churches throughout the earth. This action will thus indicate that Jesus will be making a clear statement regarding His disapproval of the false notion that He was ever crucified on a cross. The killing of the swine is so that the “Christian belief of its lawfulness is belied.” 14 The reason for abolishing the jizyah tax (the compulsory poll tax that non-Muslims must pay in order to live in a Muslim land) is based on the idea that when Jesus returns, the jizyah tax will no longer be accepted. The only choice that Christians will have is to accept Islam or die. As Sideeque M.A. Veliankode states in Doomsday Portents and Prophecies :
Jesus, the son of Mary will soon descend among the Muslims as a just judge…. Jesus will, therefore, judge according to the law of Islam… all people will be required to embrace Islam and there will be no other alternative . 15 (emphasis mine)
    Even Harun Yahya likewise affirms this belief in his book, Jesus Will Return , when he says, “Jesus will remove all systems of disbelief in that period.” 16
Muslim jurists also confirm these interpretations: consider, for example, the ruling of Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri (d. 1368) from The Reliance of the Traveller , the classic Shafi manual of Islamic jurisprudence:
[T]he time and the place for [the poll tax] is before the final descent of Jesus (upon whom be peace). After his final coming, nothing but Islam will be accepted from them , for taking the poll tax is only effective until Jesus’ descent (upon him and our Prophet be peace)…” 17 (emphasis mine)
    JESUS THE SLAYER OF JEWS
    Beyond the “accomplishment” of abolishing Christianity on a worldwide scale, another of Jesus’ primary jobs is to kill a figure known as the Dajjal, or the Muslim version of the Antichrist. Jesus will kill not only the Dajjal but also all of the Dajjal’s followers, most of whom will be Jews. Muhammad Ali Ibn Zubair in an article entitled “Who Is the Evil Dajjal?” elaborates:
The Yahudis [Jews] of Isfahaan will be his [the Dajjal’s] main followers. Apart from having mainly Yahudi followers, he will have a great number of women followers as well. 18
    Veliankode explains that one of the main reasons