W ‘ad al-Akhirah (The Last Warning)
The Qur’an has made reference to an event, which it has described as W‘ad al-Akhirah (i.e. the ‘Last Warning’ before the Sa‘ah or Last Hour overtakes mankind). That Last warning would come at that time when, by Divine decree, the Jews are brought back to the Holy Land:
“And after that We said unto the people of Israel: "You will dwell (henceforth) on Earth (i.e. scattered all over the earth) - but (remember that) when the final Divine prophecy (pertaining to the arrival of the Last Hour) is to come to pass, We will bring you back (to this Holy Land) (scattered as you will be) from all parts (of the Earth)!” (Qur’an, al-Isra, 17:104)
That return of the Israelites to the Holy Land 2000 years after they were expelled by Divine decree cannot take place, however, without Gog and Magog playing a decisive role in the matter. This is absolute clear from the declaration of the Qur’an located in Surah al-Anbiyah’:
“There is a ban on a town (i.e. Jerusalem) which we destroyed (and whose people were expelled) that they (the people) can never return (to reclaim that town as their own) until Gog and Magog are released and they spread out in all directions (thus taking control of the world while establishing the Gog and Magog world-order).” (Qur’an, al-Anbiyah’, 21:95-96)
It should be clear, therefore, that all the Signs of the Last Hour, including the release of Gog and Magog into the world, must occur prior to the commencement of the Sa‘ah, i.e. the actual commencement of the Last Hour and therefore prior to the moment when the true Messiah, Jesus the son of Mary, returns. A Sign that occurs after his return clearly cannot function as a Sign of the Last Hour since with his return the Last Hour would have already arrived and would have commenced in a manner that would be readily perceivable. In addition the return of the Jews to the Holy Land which was divinely prophesied and which was declared to be the ‘Last Warning’, could not take place without the release of Gog and Magog into the world.
In addition to a mountain of evidence and of conclusive arguments presented in this book which all prove that Gog and Magog have already been released into the world, our readers should reflect over the prophecy of Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) located in Sahih Bukhari in which he declared:
“People would continue to perform the Hajj and ‘Umrah even after the release of Gog and Magog” but then went on to prophesy that “the Sa‘ah would not come before the Hajj was no more (i.e. the Hajj was abandoned or the valid Hajj would cease to exist).”
In other words the Prophet declared that the Sa‘ah would not arrive until the Hajj would be abandoned or cease to have validity (as in the time of Arab idolatry) but that Gog and Magog would have been released even before that takes place. Very clearly, therefore, Gog and Magog would have to be released before the Sa‘ah arrives and not after.
It is in this context that this book questions the authenticity and/or interpretation of a solitary Hadith recorded in Sahih Muslim and elsewhere which purports to declare that the release of Gog and Magog into the world would occur only after the return of the true Messiah, Jesus the son of Mary, and only after he has killed Dajjal the false Messiah:
“. . . It will be under such conditions that Allah will reveal to Jesus these words: I have brought forth from among My servants such people against whom none will be able to fight; you take these people safely to the mountain, fa yab’athullahu Y’ajuja wa M’ajuj (and then Allah will send or raise Gog and Magog) and they will spread out in every direction or occupy every place of advantage. The first of them will pass by Lake Tiberias (i.e. the Sea of Galilee) and drink out of it, and when the last of them passes, he will say: ‘There was once water here . . . .’” (Sahih Muslim)
While we will be returning to this subject in the chapter which addresses the question: ‘Have Gog and Magog been released into the world?’, we may here note that there would be conceptual contradiction if we were to believe that Gog and Magog would be released only after the return of Jesus and after such return has delivered the news that the Last Hour has arrived. Such belief would also be factually contradicted by evidence that the Sea of Galilee is now close to drying up and that no one has ever found the barrier of blocks of iron which was built to contain Gog and Magog and which must still be standing on earth if Gog and Magog have not as yet been released. This book also demonstrates that such belief would also contradict the system of meaning of the subject that has been extracted from the Qur’an and Ahadith in addition to the plain and clear declaration of their release made by Prophet Muhammad himself (peace and blessings of Allah Most High be upon him).
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