An Islamic View of Gog and Magog in the Modern Age

CONTENTS......Page 4
Ansári Memorial Series......Page 7
Preface......Page 11
INTRODUCTION......Page 14
Gog and Magog: a destructive nation capable ofbecoming the sole superpower......Page 21
Al-Radm: the barrier of Gog and Magog consists oftwo mountains and a crack between them that waspatched by Dhul Qarnain......Page 22
A large gap in the barrier was created before Islam—ahilly coastal passage was exposed by the receding CaspianSea......Page 23
The age of Gog and Magog......Page 25
Gog and Magog are now the sole superpower, but they will bedestroyed......Page 26
What is fasaad?......Page 27
Profiles of Gog and Magog and the fasaad groups theycontrol......Page 30
Top leaders of Gog and Magog and allied fasaad groupsbelong to the Children of Israel......Page 32
Gog and Magog have returned the Children of Israel to“their city” (Jerusalem)......Page 34
Dajjal (False Messiah), the leader of Gog and Magog......Page 36
Implications......Page 37
THE IMPORTANCE OF ‘SIGNS OF THELAST DAY IN THE MODERN AGE’......Page 39
Appearance and reality are opposite to each other......Page 40
Can all of these events be occurring by accident?......Page 43
Responding to Islamic sectarianism......Page 67
METHODOLOGY OF STUDY......Page 82
The Qur’ān sits in judgement on the hadīth and not viceversa......Page 85
Need to locate ‘system of meaning’......Page 88
Methodology of explaining the Qur’an throughapplication and analysis of external data......Page 94
Gog and Magog in other Scriptures......Page 97
EXPLAINING TERMINOLOGY......Page 99
The end of the material universe......Page 105
The end of history......Page 108
The Key to the subject of the Last Hour......Page 111
W ‘ad al-Ākhirah (The Last Warning)......Page 120
A PROFILE OF GOG AND MAGOG......Page 124
The Qur’ān introduces the subject of Gog and Magog......Page 126
Gog and Magog are human beings......Page 143
They are a double-faced people who are capable ofswift motion......Page 146
They possess extraordinary military power......Page 148
They use ‘power’ to oppress......Page 150
They make possible the return of people to their‘town’......Page 151
They absorb mankind into their global godlessmelting pot......Page 153
They can wage ‘star wars’......Page 154
They would target Arabs in particular for oppression......Page 155
Would Gog and Magog be sent/raised after Jesus(‘alaihi al-Salam) has returned and after he has killedDajjal?......Page 156
They consume an excessive amount of water......Page 157
They will take most of mankind into the hellfire hencethey are an essentially godless and sinful people......Page 158
They are linked to the abandonment of the Hajj......Page 159
IDENTIFYING GOG AND MAGOG......Page 161
Gog is the Anglo-American-Israeli alliance and Magog isRussia......Page 178
Winston Churchill identifies Gog and Magog......Page 181
HAVE GOG AND MAGOG BEEN RELEASEDINTO THE WORLD AS YET?......Page 183
Search for the barrier......Page 184
The strange world today......Page 186
The Judeo-Christian alliance......Page 188
Hadīth reveals Gog and Magog’s release......Page 193
Water in the world and in the Sea of Galilee......Page 197
Hadīth linking Gog and Magog to Jerusalem......Page 198
Iqbal Ansari and Said Nursi......Page 201
IMPLICATIONS OF THE RELEASE OF GOGAND MAGOG......Page 205
Extermination of an entire race......Page 207
Stages of Release of Gog and Magog into the world......Page 215
CONCLUSION......Page 225