They consume an excessive amount of water (Hadith)
The Qur’an has declared that Allah Most High created every living thing from water (al-Anbiyah’, 21:30). Water therefore enjoys the status of ‘mother’ of all living things including human beings. The Qur’an has further declared that Allah’s ‘Arsh (i.e. the command center from which He controls the entire creation) rests on water (Hud, 11:7). Water thus occupies a unique status in all of creation.
The religious way of life is one which insists on respect for water and which prohibits waste or excessive consumption of water. Yet the profile of Gog and Magog emerging from the Ahadith of Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alahi wa sallam) is that of a people who consume water so excessively (and foolishly) that even the Sea of Galillee in the Holy Land, would eventually become dry. Hence they are the authors of their own destruction:
“. . . the first of them (i.e. Gog and Magog) 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 . . . .’” (This implies such excessive consumption of water that nature will not be able to replenish such water and that the water-level would constantly decrease until the Lake would dry up). (Sahih Muslim)
“They will so drink (i.e. consume) the water of the world that when some of them pass by a stream they will drink all that is in it and leave it dry.” (Kanz al-Ummal, Hadith No 2157)
In addition they commit Fasad, hence they can be expected to corrupt and destroy not only the water resources of the world but, also, ‘respect’ for water. This has ominous implications for the preservation of the Sunnah in respect of both the quantity and purity of water used in Wudu (ablution) and Ghusl (bath).
Gog, Magog and the Sea of Galilee (Hadith)
The above Hadith also discloses that a constantly diminishing water level of the Sea of Galilee (until it runs dry) would be evidence of a continuing passage of Gog and Magog to the grande finale in Jerusalem. Scholars who undertake a study of this subject while neglecting to examine that critically important part of the Gog and Magog profile relating to the water level of the Sea of Galilee, would make a very grave mistake indeed.
