| Who are the Gog and Magog mentioned in the Quran? | | |
Who is "Gog and Magog" (Arabic "wa Ya'jûj Ma'jooj ") mentioned in the Quran about the story Dhu-l-Qarnayn (Quran 18/94) and also as a harbinger of the proximity of the End Times (21/96)?
It is difficult to say categorically. However, we can say that they are human beings descended from Adam and Eve, physique quite normal. So be careful with these legends and folklore that are Gog and Magog as gigantic or tiny men, enlarged ears, etc.. These stories are not from the Qur'an and Hadith. See the criticism made of it by Ibn Kathir ( 
Bidaayah al-wa-n-Nihaya 2 / 118) and did Syohârwî ( Qassas ul-Qur'an 3/180-181 ).
In fact, if one accepts the research did Syôhârwî, "Gog and Magog" are the word sounds by which peoples of the East named sedentary tribes from Central Asia who regularly raided in cities to come and loot ( Qassas ul-Qur'an , Volume 3 pp. 184-195). and the Koran has taken those words, even if may appoint different people for different times depending ...
1. For the time for Cyrus II (Dhu-l-Qarnayn):
For the time for Cyrus II, according to as-Syohârwî, "Gog and Magog" designate Scythians , these semi-riders nomads, whose territory extended from north of the Black Sea north of the Caspian Sea. Occasionally crossing the mountains of the Caucasus through the Pass Darial they were ravaging the Northern Caucasus, where they were feared ( cf. Qassas ul-Qur'an, Volume 3 p. 207).
2. For the time of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and that of the Abbasid Caliphate:
The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) once said in his day (he died in the year 632 of the Gregorian era) that "a misfortune" would befall "Arabs" , before asserting that "had an opening in the wall of Gog and Magog" (Narrated by al-Bukhari, 3168, Muslim, 2880). Have Syoharwî tells al-'Ayn, al-Qurtubi and al-Kirmani they wrote that this "opening" was taken in a metaphorical sense ( Qassas ul-Qur'an , Volume 3 pp. 220-221), and al-Kirmani that this speech announcing the invasion of the Mongols , other semi-nomadic tribe of Central Asia, so designated under the name "Gog and Magog" (ul-Qur'an Qassas , Volume 3 p. 221). These invasions, which would take place in the thirteenth century, were to ravage many regions and, as predicted by the Prophet to be a great misfortune for the Arabs. Indeed, they debouched on the killing of the Abbasid Caliph in 1258 and the looting of the flourishing capital Baghdad. And it was good in the seventh century, so at the time of the Prophet, the ancestors of these invaders began their movements. So, metaphorically, that "had an opening in the wall."
3. Regarding the time of the End Times:
The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said that the end times, Jesus (peace be upon him) will return to Earth destroy the Antichrist (ad-Dajjal ) and then he will receive God's order to take refuge with the believers on the Sinai to escape Gog and Magog, which will catch up whole countries. In the Quran, God refers to this final wave of Gog and Magog, to precede the low end of the World: "Until the Gog and Magog unfurl and they come down on every hill. The true promise [ = the end of the world] will then become close ... " (Quran 21/96-97). What are today
the ancestors of these people who will surge in the future, shortly before the end of the world , and were called "Gog and Magog" by God in this verse from the Koran and the Prophet in this Hadith? Would this be the peoples of the Far East, aggregated around those who, "when they wake up, shake the world", and breaking on a large part of the world? We can not say.
Wallâhu A'lam (God knows best).
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