Ya'Juj and Ma'juj (Gog and Magog)

Ya’Juj and Ma’juj (Gog and Magog)
“Then he (i.e., Dhul-Quamain) followed another route. Until when he reached between two
mountains he found on the hither side of the two (mountains) a people who could scarcely
understand a word. Said they: O Dhul-Quanain! Verily Gog and Magog cause mischief in the
land. Should we collect for thee the resources, so that thou shalt raise between us and them
a barrier? He said: The power in which my Lord has established me is better (than your
proposed resources). So you help me only with the strength (i.e, man-power); I will make
between you and them a barrier. Bring you unto me blocks of iron; until when it filled the
space between the mountain sides, said he: “Ply your bellows”; until he made it red-hot (like)
fire, and said: “Bring unto me molten brass which I may pour over it.”
“So they (Gog and Magog) could not scale it nor could they make a hole in it.

“Said he: “This is a mercy from my Lord. But when the promise of my Lord (i.e.,
Resurrection) comes to pass, He will level it with the ground; and the promise of my Lord is
true.” And We will let them that day to dash into one another. And the trumpet will be blown;
then We will gather them all together.” (Qu’ran,18:92-99)

“Until are let loose the Gog and Magog; and they shall hasten forth from every
elavation.” (Qu’ran 21:96)
Muslim scholars have done research about Gog (Yajuj, in Arabic) and Magog (Majuj,
in Arabic) Here their findings are given without going into detailed discussion.

Gog and Magog are two big tribes from the children of Japheth, son of Prophet Noah
(A) . In Old Testament, Magog is described as the Chief of Mashech and Tubal.
Now, Moscow is the river on which stands the city, Moscow, the capital of Russian
Federtion; Tobol is the river in Russia upon which stands Tobolsk.

The region of South European and Asiatic Russia, between the Carpathians and the
Don, was inhabited in ancient times by a savage nomadic people (Scythes) who
overran West Asia from the 7th century B.C. till the beginning of the Christian Era,
when their raids were abruptly ended by the construction of the barrier by Dhul-
Quarnain.

Also, it is said that the word 'Mangol' is the corruption of the Chinese word 'Mongog'
or 'Manchog'. If this finding is correct, then the place of Gog and Magog extends
from the Moscow river to the Chinese Turkestan and Mangolia.

The description of the 'barrier' in the Qur'an shows that it must have been built in a
pass to prevent those savege tribes from raiding their neighbours.

Maulana Abul -Kalam Azad, in one of his articles (quoted in Jannatul-Ma 'arif) has
said that such a barrier is extant in Turkey.

Late Agha Pooya (in his foot-note of the translation of the Qur'an by Mir Ahmad Ali)
quotes others as saying that it is between the mountains of Armenia and Azarbaijan.

There is a difference of opinion concerning the identity of Dhul-Qarnain. Abdullah
Yusuf Ali thinks that this name refers to Alexander the Great; while others think that it
refers to the Persian King, Darius. 13

It is immaterial for the purpose of thiis book to go deep into this controversy. But it
should be kept in mind that, according to the Qur'an, Dhul-Quarnain was a man of
God; therefore, no pagan or polytheist can be identified as Dhul-Qarnain.
Anyhow, according to the Qur'an, when the Day of Judgement would come near,
these tribes will break the barrier, i.e., will expand beyond their previous boundaries.
That expansion may be ideological; in which case it will mean that their ideology
(Communism and atheism) will be exported beyond their national boundaries. Or it
may be of colonial type, in which case it will refer to their domination of eastern
Europe, Southern Asia and other places. Or it may mean both.

It is written in Tafseer Majma-ul-Bayan that after dominating the earth, they will
aspire to conquer the skies. “So they will shoot their arrows towards heaven, and it
will return to them with something like blood-stain on it. So they will say; 'We
conquered the inhabitants of the earth and we dominated over the inhabitants of the
heaven.”

[An Enlightening Commentary into the Light of the Holy Qur'an vol. 9]:
Obviously, the 'arrows' refers to the rockets and space-ships. The words 'it will return
to them with something like blood-stain upon it” mean that the space-crafts will reach
their targets and men will return to the earth.
According to the said Tafseer, “when they will become too proud because of the
'conquest of heaven', Allah will create a 'worm' which will enter their ears, and will kill
them” 14 It means that finally they will be destroyed by some insignificant adversary,
or by some epidemic caused by a germ. [“Day of Judgement” by Sayyid Saeed
Akhter Rizvi]
Imam Baqir (as) said:
“Zul-Qarnayn was not a prophet, but he was a righteous man whom Allah loved. He
enjoined his people to piety. It happened that people knocked on one side of his
head. After that, he disappeared for a length of time.
Then he returned and repeated his invitation again. People struck another knock on
the other side of his head. Therefore, because of those two knocks, he had been
known as Zul-Qarnayn.” [Nur-uth-Thqalayn, the commentary, and Kamal-ud-Din-i-Saduq]
It has been narrated from Hadrat Ali (as) who said:
“Allah made clouds timid for him in a manner that he could ride on it; and He granted
him the means of everything; and He made everywhere bright for him so that the
night and the day became the same for him. This is the meaning of making him
mighty in the earth.” [Majma‘-ul-Bayan, vol. 15, P. 119]

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