An Islamic View of
Gog and Magog in the Modern Age
© Imran N.
Hosein 2009
Surah
al-Kahf Quartet of Books
Volume 1: Surah
al-Kahf: Text Translation and Modern Commentary;
Volume 2: Surah
al-Kahf and the Modern Age;
Volume 3: An Islamic View of Gog and Magog in the Modern
Age
Volume 4: Dajjal the False Messiah or Antichrist
Published by: imranhosein.org
Khul ga’ay Ya’juj
aur Ma’juj kay lashkar tamam,
Chashmay Muslim dekh lay
tafsiray harfay yansilun!
[Bang-e-Dara -
Zarifana:23]
“Set loose are all the hordes of Gog and
Magog;
To the Muslim eye manifest is the meaning of
the word yansilun” (i.e. the
two verses of the Qur’an,
al-Anbiyah’, 21:95-96, which end with the word yansiloon”)
Dedicated
to Dr Muhammad Iqbal
who
responded with the above insightful verse in Urdu poetry
to the
European Crusader conquest of Jerusalem in 1917
“There
is a ban on a town (i.e. Jerusalem) which we destroyed (and whose
people were then expelled) that they (i.e. the people of the town)
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).” (Our comments
are in brackets)
(Qur’an, al-Anbiyah’,
21:95-96)
CONTENTS
Ansari Memorial Series
Preface
Introduction
Chapter One: The Importance of ‘Signs of the Last Day
in the Modern Age
• Appearance and
reality are opposite to each other
• Can all of
these events be occurring by accident?
• Responding to
Islamic sectarianism
• The Shia sect
• Ahmadiyyah
• The Wahhabi
sect
• Tableegh Jamaat
(i.e. Jamā’ah al-Tableegh) Islamic Modernism
• Elitist
sectarian Sufism
Chapter Two: Methodology of study
• The Qur’ān sits
in judgement on the Hadīth and not vice-versa
• Need to locate
‘system of meaning’
• Methodology of
explaining the Qur’ān through application and analysis of external data
• Gog and Magog
in other scriptures
Chapter Three: Explaining terminology
• The end of the
material universe
• The end of
history
• The Key to the
subject of the Last Hour
• W ‘ad
al-Ākhirah (The Last Warning)
Chapter Four: A Profile of Gog and Magog
• The Qur’ān
introduces the subject of Gog and Magog
• Gog and Magog
are human beings
• A double-faced
people who are capable of swift motion
• Possess
extraordinary military power
• Use ‘power’ to
oppress
• Make possible
the return of people to their ‘town’
• Absorb mankind
into their global godless melting pot
• Can wage ‘star
wars’
• Would target
Arabs in particular for oppression
• Would be
sent/raised only after Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salam) has returned and after he has
killed Dajjal?
• Consume an
excessive amount of water
• Gog, Magog and
the Sea of Galilee
• Will take most
of mankind into the hellfire hence they are an essentially godless and sinful
people
• Are linked to
the abandonment of the Hajj
Chapter Five: Identifying Gog and Magog
• Gog is the
Anglo-American-Israeli alliance and Magog is Russia
• Winston
Churchill identifies Gog and Magog
Chapter Six: Have Gog and Magog been released into
the world as yet?
• Search for the
barrier
• The strange
world today
• The
Judeo-Christian alliance
• Hadīth reveals
Gog and Magog’s release Water in the world and in the Sea of Galilee Hadīth
linking Gog and Magog to Jerusalem Iqbal Ansari and Said Nursi
Chapter Seven: Implications of the Release of Gog and
Magog
• Stages of
Release of Gog and Magog into the world
Chapter Eight: Conclusion
Ansári
Memorial Series
The Ansari Memorial Series is published in honor of
the distinguished Islamic scholar, philosopher and Sufi Shaikh, Maulana Dr. Muhammad Fadlur Rahman Ansari (1914–1974).
Publication of the Series began in 1997 to commemorate his 25th
death anniversary. Maulana Ansari was an
Islamic scholar, a teacher and spiritual guide who spent his entire life
struggling in the sacred cause of Islam in what
had become an essentially godless world. His labors in that sacred cause took
him on travels completely around the world several times on Islamic
lecture-tours in the 1950’s to 1970’s. He
would leave his new home in Karachi (having migrated from India when Pakistan came into being in 1947) and travel west,
and then return to his home months later from the east.
Maulana was a graduate of Aligarh Muslim
University, India, where he studied Philosophy and Religion. He derived his
Islamic philosophical and spiritual thought from the Islamic scholar,
Dr.Muhammad Iqbal, who
was the author of that masterpiece of Islamic scholarship, “The
Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam.” Maulana Ansari’s great
work of Islamic scholarship, “The Qur’anic
Foundations and Structure of Muslim Society” (in two
volumes), itself constituted a response to Iqbal’s call
for “reconstruction
of religious thought.”
He
received his spiritual training from his mentor Maulana Muhammad ‘Abdul ‘Aleem
Siddiqui, an Islamic scholar, Sufi Shaikh, and roving missionary of Islam. Most important of all, he received the Sufi epistemology from both Iqbal and Maulana Siddiqui
and delivered it to his students. The Sufi epistemology recognized that when Truth is
embraced (i.e., Islam is
accepted) and is lived with sincerity and devotion to Allah Most High, it
eventually enters the heart (i.e., Islam grows
into Iman). In the
Hadith
al-Qudsi it is reported that Allah Most High declared: “My
heavens and My earth are too small to contain Me, but the heart of My faithful
servant can contain Me.” This Hadith vividly describes the implications of the
entry of Truth into the heart.
When
Truth enters the heart, then a divine light (nurullah) also eventually enters, and
that light permits the believer’s powers of observation and internal
intuitive spiritual insight to penetrate beyond the ‘external’
appearances of things to reach their ‘internal’ reality.
At this stage of the growth of Truth in the heart the believer now sees with
two eyes – the ‘external’ and the ‘internal’ (Dajjal, the False Messiah, sees with only one eye – the ‘external’). The
believer who pursues a ‘Jihad fillah’ (i.e., a
struggle ‘in’ Allah)
is blessed with growth from Iman to the stage of Ihsan. This is also known as Tasawwuf, but
it is better recognized as al-Ihsan. It is only with inner light in the
discerning heart of a true believer that the continuously unfolding Signs of
Allah (Ayatullah) can be
recognized, and only thus can the world today be read and correctly understood.
Those who perceive the reality of the world today know that we live in
the age of Fitan, i.e., the Last Age or the age of al-Qiyamah (which would first culminate with the end of
history and the triumph of Islam, and then, subsequently, with the end of the
world and its transformation into a new world).
Maulana Ansari
devoted the last ten years of his life (1964–1974) to
the establishment of the Aleemiyah Institute of Islamic Studies in Karachi. He
struggled at Aleemiyah to train a new generation of scholars of Islam who would be spiritually and
intellectually capable of using the Qur’an and Ahadith to understand the mysterious modern age,
and to then respond appropriately to its awesome challenges. Out of his labors
emerged scholars such as Dr. Waffie Muhammad and Imran N. Hosein (Trinidad, West
Indies), Dr. Abul Fadl Mohsin Ebrahim, Dr.Abbas Qasim (marhum), Muhammad Ali Khan and others (Durban, South
Africa), Siddiq Ahmad Nasir, Raouf Zaman and Muhammad Saffie (Guyana, South
America), Ali Mustafa (Suriname, South America), Basheer Ahmad Keeno
(Mauritius), and so many others who graduated from the Aleemiyah Institute of
Islamic Studies, Karachi, Pakistan.
The Ansari Memorial Series consists of the following
books, all written by one of Maulana’s students:
• Jerusalem in the Qur’an – an Islamic
View of the Destiny of Jerusalem;
• Surah
al-Kahf: Text Translation and Modern Commentary;
• Surah
al-Kahf and the Modern Age;
• The Religion of Abraham and the State of
Israel –– A View
from the Qur’an;
• Signs of the Last Day in the Modern Age;
• The Importance of the Prohibition of Riba in Islam;
• The Prohibition of Riba in the Qur’an and Sunnah;
• Dreams in Islam – A Window to Truth and to the Heart;
• The Caliphate, the Hejaz, and the Saudi-Wahhabi NationState;
• The Strategic Significance of the Fast of
Ramadan, and Isra and M’iraj;
• One Jama’at - One
Amir: The Organization of a Muslim Community in
the Age of Fitan, and
• An Islamic View of Gog and Magog in the
Modern World.
The Series, which depict at least some of the ‘fruits’ of the ‘tree’ that was
planted by the Maulana, is
devoted to an effort of understanding the ‘reality’ of the
world today, explaining it accurately, and responding to its unprecedented
challenges appropriately. Three new books were recently included in the Series.
Two of them, on Surah
al-Kahf, form part of a proposed quartet of books on that Surah. The third new book in the Series is
comprised of a collection of essays on the theme of ‘Signs of
the Last Day in the Modern Age’. The present work on Gog and Magog is the
third in the series on Surah
al-Kahf, while a proposed book on Dajjal the false Messiah or Anti-Christ would be
the fourth and last.
The
Series would be incomplete without a biography of that great scholar himself – his
life, works and thought. Work has already commenced on that biography and we
hope that it can be successfully completed Insha’
Allah.
Maulana Ansari honored his own Shaikh, Maulana Muhammad ‘Abdul ‘Aleem
Siddiqui, by establishing the Aleemiyah Institute of Islamic Studies in Pakistan,
and by publishing the Aleemiyah Memorial Series. The Ansari Memorial Series represents a humble
effort to follow in that noble tradition.
to be continued . . . .
