An Islamic View of Gog Magog in the Modern World

 

An Islamic View of Gog Magog in the Modern World

 

 

CONCLUSION

 

This book was written with the specific objective of inviting a response from those rivals of Islam in the modern age claiming to possess truth. The book also invites a response from the multiplicity of sects that now inhabit the house of Islam – sects that are obsessed with waging war on those who pursue the authentic Islamic spiritual quest (i.e. al-Ihsan or Tasawwuf). 

 

One of our objectives in writing this book was to attempt to bring such clarity to the subject of Gog and Magog as would dispel the layers of cobwebs that have accumulated over time. These cobwebs made it impossibly difficult for the subject to be understood. Even the Jewish Encyclopedia found it mysteriously necessary to add a substantial amount of cobweb (fairly dense cobweb at that) when choosing material which describes Gog and Magog in Arabic literature. Since this book is now completed we can, perhaps, take the liberty of sharing that hilarious cobweb with readers:

 

“They are of small stature, attaining to only one-half the size of a man (another report, in Yaḳut, i. 113, makes them larger). Very ferocious, they have claws instead of nails, teeth like a lion, jaws like a camel, and hair which completely hides the body. Their ears, hairy on one side, are so large that they use one for a bed and the other for a covering. They live principally on fish, which are miraculously provided for them. They resemble animals in their habits; and Mas'udi classes them among the beasts. They used to ravage the country, devouring every green thing; and it was to prevent this that the people living near them begged Alexander to build the wall shutting them in. It is even said that they were cannibals.”  (Jewish Encyclopedia, Article on Gog and Magog by Emil G. Hirsh and Mary Montgomery).

 

This book has presented arguments confirming that Gog and Magog are human beings. They were released into the world a very long time ago and began, with the European Crusades, their ‘thousand-year-old’ quest to liberate the qaryah (i.e., ‘town’) of Jerusalem and bring the Israelite people back to reclaim the Holy Land as their own. In pursuing that quest they fulfilled their role described in the blessed Qur’an in Surah al-Anbiyah’:94-5. 

 

We recognize the proactive Gog to be located within Western Europe’s mysterious Judeo-Christian alliance, which in turn, created modern Western secular civilization and the Anglo-American-Israeli triple alliance. We recognize the reactive Magog to be presently located in Russia. The Qur’an has strictly prohibited Muslims from maintaining, with a Jewish-Christian alliance, precisely the kind of friendly ties and alliance that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Pakistani elite (for example) have established with Britain and USA. The Qur’an declared of those acting the way of the Saudi regime, as well as most governments in the Muslim world and the scholars supporting such governments, that they belong to that alliance rather than to the community of Islam (Qur’an, al-Maidah, 5:51). However, to the extent that Russia does not become a part of that Western Judeo-Christian alliance, there is no prohibition of Muslims entering into an alliance with Russia. This may yet take place since the blessed Prophet prophesied that “you will make an alliance with Rum”.

 

A large number of Signs of the Last Hour (i.e. Last Day) as prophesied by Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) connect to Western  civilization created by the Jewish-Christian alliance, for example: “women would dress like men” (hence a feminist revolution seducing women to assume the functional role of men in society), “women would be dressed and yet be naked” (and this will provoke a sexual revolution in which sex would eventually be as freely available to all and sundry as is sunshine), “people would have sexual intercourse in public like donkeys” (hence a strange preference for public rather than private sex), “men would dress like women” (and this requires that beards be shaven), “Dajjal would ride on a donkey which would travel as fast as the clouds and would have its ears stretched out wide” (i.e. the modern aircraft);  etc. 

 

That Western civilization emerged in the historical process by divine decree with a mission of first seducing into its embrace, and then blending or merging all of mankind so seduced, into one global godless society. Nine hundred and ninety-nine out of every one thousand of mankind would eventually become members of that global society. The entire Gog and Magog tainted global society that was so embraced, and which copied an essentially godless and decadent way of life, would then be lead into the hellfire. 

 

Modern Western secular civilization would achieve that success in so seducing all of mankind (save the true Muslim) because it would deceive mankind with a dazzling claim to a new secular dawn in human history that appears from the West rather than the East. Religious ‘Truth’, which rose upon the world with Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad (peace be upon them and upon all other Prophets of the One God), would become obsolete and moribund and would be consigned to the museums of history. However that “sun rising from the west” would be false sunrise that the true Muslim would recognize and reject.

 

The Judeo-Christian alliance also created a Gog and Magog world-order with a mysterious obsession for liberating the Holy Land – hence the European Crusades. That world-order eventually succeeded in bringing the Israelite Jews back to the Holy Land to reclaim it as their own 2000 years after they were expelled by divine decree. It also succeeded in restoring an (imposter) Holy State of Israel in the Holy Land and is now poised to deliver to that imposter Israel the status of ruling state in the world. All of this was done in order that an evil being, created and programmed by Allah Most High, i.e. Dajjal the false Messiah, could rule the world from Jerusalem and then declare himself the true Messiah. 

 

However the Qur’an has informed us that Allah Most High would one day cause a momentous Gog and Magog clash to take place. As soon as we recognize Russia to be the Magog of the Qur’an, we can anticipate the coming world-shattering ‘star-wars’ clash in which Gog (i.e. the Anglo-American-Israeli ‘Western’ alliance) and Magog will “surge against each other” like waves (Qur’an, al-Kahf, 18:99). In the process they would not only destroy themselves as well as, perhaps, most of North America and Europe, but also leave the arrogant oppressor Euro-Jewish State of Israel totally defenseless. That Armageddon is now so close that children now at school should live to see it.

 

We have in a previous chapter, examined the implications which emerge from release of Gog and Magog into the world. The most frightful of all was prophecy that 999 out of every 1000 of mankind would enter into the hellfire. That would naturally include a very large number of Muslims. In addition there was the frighful prophecy of “destruction of the Arabs” which would take place when Khabath (such as public nudity and public sex) prevails in the world. Nabi Muhammad pbuh made explicit reference to that Khabath when he prophesied that donkey-sex in public would one day take place. 

 

The warning for those (Muslims in particular) who read this book is that if they live in a society which has already descended into such Khabath (such as USA, Britain and many parts of Europe, etc), or is embracing Khabath, they must part from such people or they will be counted to be one of them and will share in the punishment that awaits such people. Since the Prophet pbuh prophecied that women would be the last people to follow Dajjal the implication is that women would lead the way to this Khabath. It is in this context that we have suggested the creation of Muslim Villages in the remote countryside.

 

This book was also written with the specific objective of inviting a response from those rivals of Islam in the modern age claiming to possess truth. The book also invites a response from the multiplicity of sects that now inhabit the house of Islam – sects that are obsessed with waging war on those who pursue the authentic Islamic spiritual quest (i.e. al-Ihsan or Tasawwuf). 

 

That spiritual quest is pursued in order to acquire Nur (i.e. light). It is only with Nur which comes from Allah Most High that one can see and understand the strange modern world (that otherwise cannot be seen or understood), and only those who can explain the reality of the world today can validate their claim to truth. This book, written from an Islamic perspective, lays claim to correctly explaining the reality of the strange world today, in which events are fast unfolding that are all linked to a grande finale in the Holy Land. In explaining those unfolding events in the way that it does, this book provides evidence that validates Islam’s claim to truth. 

 

This writer cherishes knowledge, and has the greatest respect for those servants of Allah Most High who are blessed with knowledge. He prays that this hunble book may be blessed to make a positive contribution to knowledge. Amin! 

 

Muslims who read this book and are convinced by the evidence presented and the interpretation of the blessed Qur’an and Ahadith, should now be firm in their resolve to follow Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) rather than the Gog and Magog global society.  That global society has already embraced most of mankind in its destructive embrace – destructive most of all of faith in Allah Most High and of righteous conduct.

 

Secondly, members of such sectarian groups and movements as Shiasm, Ahmadiyyah, Wahhabism, Tableegh Jama’at, Islamic modernist movements and Elitist Sufi sectarianism who are convinced by the arguments raised in this book, should now critically examine the validity of their sectarian Islamic affiliations.  

 

Finally, while the views expressed in Dr Tamman Adi’s brilliantly written Introduction to this book have largely coincided with this writer’s views expressed in the book, there were some differences between the two, and it is our hope that these differences, as well as the book as a whole, would provoke such further research in the subject as would extend the frontiers of knowledge Insha’ Allah.  

 

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Stages of Release of Gog and Magog into the world

 

An Islamic View of Gog Magog in the Modern World

 

 

Stages of Release of Gog and Magog into the world

Once we have confirmed that the release of Gog and Magog has taken place we need to determine the manner of their release. There are several indications that their release into the world would be gradual, i.e., in stages. This is clear from the Hadith which describes them passing by the Sea of Galilee: 

 

 “The first of them will pass by Lake Tiberias (i.e. the Sea of Galilee) drink out of it, and when the last of them passes, he will say: ‘There was once water here .  .  .  .’”  (Sahih Muslim)

 

It is also clear from the verses of the Qur’an (alAnbiyah’:21:95-6) which declare that after they are released Gog and Magog will have to spread out in all directions or descend from every height and only then would the people of the ‘town’ be brought back to reclaim the ‘town’ as their own. As a consequence we are now in a position to determine their precise stage of release. 

 

Since the water level in the Sea of Galilee is now so low that the Sea can be considered to be dead (a fact that readers can easily verify with a Google search) it follows that the release of Gog and Magog is now close to the final stage. 

 

This is further confirmed by our recognition of ‘Jerusalem’ as the ‘town’ mentioned in the two verses of Surah al-Anbiyah’ (95 and 96). The fact that the Israelite people have now returned to reclaim that ‘town’ as their own indicates that Gog and Magog have now successfully spread out in all directions and taken control of the world. 

 

There are truly ominous implications which emerge from our recognition that Gog and Magog are close to the final stage of their release, and it concerns the following: 

 •       the state of the world, and 

 •       the fate of the Arabs. 

 

When the blessed Prophet (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) experienced the vision reported by Zainab bint Jahsh indicating that the release of Gog and Magog had commenced (see chapter three for Hadith) he woke up with the words “La ilaha illa Allah! Wailun lil Arab min sharrin qad iqtaraba” “Woe unto the Arabs because of evil which is drawing close.” Zainab (radiallahu 'anha) responded to the disclosure of the information concerning the release of Gog and Magog and the danger to the Arabs by asking, “shall we be destroyed even though there are righteous people in our midst?” The Prophet replied with the words, “N’am iza kathura al-khabath” “Yes! When khabath prevails (in the world)”. Khabath (kha ba tha) means refuse, garbage, scum, etc. But Khubth (kha ba tha) means wickedness, viciousness, etc. Hence not only would the Arabs be eventually destroyed but, also, their destruction would take place at a time when wicked evil people prevail in the world and the world would also have become the equivalent of a global garbage dump of moral filth, corruption, vulgarity and indecencies. 

 

What this Hadith has done is to establish a time-line for the destruction of the Arabs, i.e. as Khabath increases in the world their destruction at the hands of Gog and Magog would draw closer and yet closer. It is clear, even as we write this book, that the world is now ruled by the wickedest people ever experienced in history, that it is already collapsing to a state equivalent to a garbage dump, and also that the destruction of the Arabs has already commenced. 

 

The world will now witness the paradoxical drama of a destruction of the Arabs in the Holy Land and elsewhere in the Arab world, prophesied by the Arabian Prophet Muhammad pbuh more than fourteen hundred years ago, confirming his claim that he was indeed a Prophet of the One God, and thus confirming Islam’s claim to Truth. 

 

There is only one way through which Muslims can preserve their faith in such a world and it is given in Surah al-Kahf of the Qur’an (the Surah which protects from Dajjal). That way to salvation is to disconnect from the godless world. The process of disconnection or withdrawal from the godless and oppressive Gog and Magog world-order, and the global society that they create, can best be achieved if Muslims were to follow the example of the young men in Surah al-Kahf who fled from precisely such a world and sought refuge in a cave.  

 

The Qur’an itself directs the Muslim to disconnect from the abode of evil: 

“So separate us from this sinful rebellious people!” (Qur’an, al-Maidah, 5:28)

 

The blessed Prophet (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) as well, anticipated that such a time of disconnection would come, and gave the following advice: 

Narrated Abu Sa'id Al-Khudri: Allah's Apostle said, "There will come a time when the best property of a Muslim will be sheep which he will take to the tops of mountains and the places of rainfall so as to flee with his religion from the afflictions.  (Sahih Bukhari)

 

If Muslims seek guidance from the story of the young men in Surah al-Kahf they would eventually realise that they can effectively protect themselves and their families from the godlessness and evil that now surrounds if they were to retreat to remotely-located Muslim Villages disconnected from the Gog and Magog society.  

 

Muslims must concentrate on establishing micro-Islamic communities wherever they can.  If an authentic Muslim Village is to be established and if it is to provide Muslims with the means of preserving their faith in today’s increasingly godless world, then it must fulfill the following conditions:

 

• The public life of a Muslim Village must be established on the firm foundations of the Qur’an and Sunnah. Whatever is not based on the Qur’an and Sunnah cannot be recognized essential for survival. If a Muslim religious practice cannot be so established then, regardless of how beneficial it may be, or how long Muslims may have observed it, it should not be brought into the Masjid and into the public life of the Muslim Village, nor should it be allowed to become the grounds for division and conflict between Muslims. Only thus would the Muslim Village survive the sinister contemporary effort directed at purging Muslim communities of all practices (both harmless and harmful) that are not based on the Qur’an and Sunnah and the way of the Aslaf (plural of Salaf, i.e. early Muslims).  One implication of the above would be that the Halaqa of Dhikr of the collective recitation of Suah al-Kahf on every day of Jumu’ah would be held in a private location within the village.

 

• The Muslim Village must be self-sufficient in food production and energy.  Surah al-Kahf of the Qur’an points to solar energy as the means through which the village can achieve energy independence: 

“Thou wouldst have seen the sun when it rose declining to the right from their Cave and when it set turning away from them to the left while they lay in the open space in the midst of the Cave.  Such are among the Signs of Allah .  .  .  . Thou wouldst have deemed them awake whilst they were asleep and We turned them on their right and their left sides .  .  .  .” (Qur’an, al-Kahf, 18:17-18)

 

The ‘turning’ of the youths to the right and left was achieved through the ‘sun’. Phototropism of a plant takes place through attraction to sunlight.  The plant turns to face the sunlight.  And so it was in consequence of attraction to the sunlight that the bodies of the sleeping youths were turned from side to side over such a long period of time.  Also, the plant transforms sunlight into energy and this is called photosynthesis. It was through this supply of energy that their vital organs were kept alive through this long sleep. A Muslim Village will have to master both these processes of phototropism and photosynthesis so that it can harness solar energy for the purpose of achieving energy independence.

 

• The Surah also warns concerning absolute purity in food, hence abstinence from chemical fertilizers, genetically reengineered food, hormones in milk and meat, etc.  Surplus production of this organic food of the Muslim Village can be marketed out of the Village and this would form part of the foundation of the Village economy.  An effective marketing strategy can include, for example, an explanation of the link between food, sexuality and sexual virility. In the process of producing pure and healthy food a Muslim Village would demonstrate capacity to do what the rest of the people are increasingly incapable of doing.  The same would be true for the capacity of a Muslim Village to cure alcoholism and drug addiction, to reverse the decline in sexual morality, and preserve the family unit at a time when it is collapsing around the world, etc.   

 

• A Muslim Village would also have to establish a micro-market which would be as independent as is possible from the macro-market, and which would use real money (i.e. gold and silver) rather than the artificial paper money (to be later replaced by cashless electronic money) of the macro-market.  In this way the micro-market would survive when the fraudulent international monetary system based on paper money collapses. I expect the international monetary system based on paper money to collapse at that time when Israel wages her great war of territorial expansion to embrace the entire area from ‘the river of Egypt’ (Nile?) to the river ‘Euphrates’ in Iraq.  That war is likely to take place at any time now.  One of the most important characteristics of the micro-market of a Muslim Village is that it would ensure circulation of wealth throughout the village economy.  In this way the poor of the village would not remain permanently poor and the rich would not remain permanently rich. Since all forms of Riba would be prohibited in the village (this includes both ‘front door’ and ‘back door’ Riba) so-called Islamic banks would not be allowed to do business in the Muslim Village. 

 

• A Muslim Village would have to make a determined effort to pursue al-Ihsan (or Tasawwuf) in order to achieve internal spiritual insight.  Thus village life would have to be one of great simplicity, austerity and piety. There will have to be a strict enforcement of the Shariah.  In addition, a Muslim Village would have to take complete control over education. The Qur’an must remain at the center of the system of education throughout all stages of education.  The Muslim school in a Muslim Village would have one great advantage over the Muslim school located outside.  The children of such a Muslim school would be supported by a Muslim community that would be living Islam!  Only such children can truly be trained and educated as Muslims!

 

• All those Muslims who reside in a Muslim Village must collectively constitute One Jama’at under the leadership of One Amir.  The Amir must be someone who would know the Din (religion) and live the Din. He must also know the world today.  Regardless of whether he is Arab, African, Turk, Indian, Malay or other, he must enforce the Din on the members of the Jama’at and they must respond with asSam’u wa at-Ta’atu (listening and obeying). This will preserve the internal integrity and discipline of a Muslim Village.  

 

• A Muslim Village cannot be used, and must not be used, as a stepping-stone for the eventual control over the State.  Islam cannot take control of the State and the Islamic Khilafah cannot be restored while a Gog and Magog world-order survives. However armed resistance of oppression and occupation in the territory stretching from Khorasan to the center of oppression in Jerusalem must never cease since there is a guarantee of eventual success mentioned elsewhere in this book. 

 

• The only purpose of a Muslim Village is to preserve the faith of the believers. Thus, the Village would not be armed except with the weapons needed to defend it against robbers, bandits, rapists and thieves!  It would have no capacity to defend itself if attacked by the State.  In addition, the Village would encourage Hindus, Christians and others to reside with Muslims in the Village on the condition that they are not hostile to Islam and they agree to abide by the public norms of conduct of the Village.  In this way, non-Muslims would themselves be able to dispel the rumor-monger and the ‘doubting Thomas’ concerning the peaceful non-threatening nature of the Muslim Village.  But the Muslim Village, despite not being armed, would still have to develop the means of ensuring the safety and collective security of all villagers. This cannot be a Village in which people have to live like prisoners with iron bars on every window of their homes, and with expensive security and burglar-alarm systems installed in every home.  Security in the Village should be such that even a woman can walk in and around the Village at night in complete safety and security. This security of the Muslim Village would make a tremendous political statement to the rest of the beleaguered world.

 

The entire guidance, which emerges from the Qur’an and Sunnah and which must be applied to the task of establishing the micro-Muslim communities in Muslim Villages, needs to be extracted and classified. This is precisely the task that our teacher of blessed memory, Maulana Dr Muhammad Fadlur Rahman Ansari (rahimahullah) has accomplished in his magnificent work entitled ‘The Qur’anic Foundations and Structure of Muslim Society’. He has also articulated the concept of Islamic spirituality with great care and with quite some detail, and in so doing he has answered critics who had not even emerged at the time that the book was written.  But ‘spirituality’ cannot be achieved unless there is a prior moral struggle for the achievement of moral purity.  One of the major achievements of his book is its detailed exposition and classification of the Islamic moral code and the beautiful explanation and guidance that it provides of the methodology of Tazkiyah (i.e. moral purification) and of Dhikr (i.e. the fragrance which only true love can deliver when it embraces the heart and provokes, in the privacy of the heart, a constant remembrance of the beloved).

 

“The Qur’anic Foundations and Structure of Muslim Society” constitutes a textbook, workbook and a navigator for the survival of Muslims in the stormy seas of the present age. It can be used as a manual that would guide Muslims as they now seek to establish authentic Muslim communities in remotely-located Muslim Villages that are disconnected from the Gog and Magog world-order and hence facilitate withdrawal from modern-day godless decadent secular society.  

 

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to be continued . . . .