What can you tell us about the Gog and Magog people who are said to appear to cause problems. What other signs are there to indicate that Qiyamat is near?Jazakallah Khair.
YA’JOOJ AND MA’JOOJ
During the reign of Eesa (Álayhis salaam) people will live an extremely
peaceful life filled with prosperity and abundance. Then the wall which
imprisones Ya’jooj and Ma’jooj will break and they will surge forth in large
numbers.
“But when Ya’jooj and Ma’jooj are let loose and they rush headlong down
every hill”
WHO ARE’THE YA’JOOJ AND MA’JOOJ
Zul Qarnain (A.S.) who was a pious and just Ruler travelled to many lands
and conquered them, establishing justice and the Law of Allah therein. Allah
Ta’ala provided him with all forms of material strength through which he was
able to carry out his conquests and missions.
He once carried out a mission in three directions, the far west, the far
east, and then in a northerly direction. It was here that he came across a
tribe of people who complained to him about the tribes of Ya’iooj and
Ma’jooj which inhabited the land behind two huge mountains and often emerged
from behind these mountains to perpetrate acts of anarchy and plunder among
them. They requested Zul Qarnain (A.S.) to erect a barrier between
themselves and the tribes of Ya’jooi and Majooj so that they could be saved
from their atrocities. With the material strength at his disposal, Zul
Qarnain (A.S.) enlisted their physical labour and set about erecting a high
wall between the two mountains. The height of the wall or its exact length
is unknown. What is known is that the height of this wall reaches that of
the summit of both mountains. It is made with blocks or sheets of iron,
which is further strengthened with molten lead. In this manner Ya’jooj and
Ma’jooj are unable to scale the wall, or cross it except when it is the will
of Allah.
“And when the promise of my Rabb approaches, He will level it to dust”
(Quran 18:98)
They are situated in a land of ice which is hidden from our gazes and the
exact location of which is unknown. Though many interpretations do exist in
this respect, none of these can be said to be absolute.
Ya’jooj and Ma’jooj are human beings and according to a narration they are
from the progeny of Yafith ibn Nooh (A.S.)
In a lengthy hadith by Hadhrat Nawwas ibn Sam’aan (R.A.) Rasulullah
(Sallallaahu Álayhi Wasallam) is reported to have said: “Allah will send
revelation upon Eesa (A.S.) that ‘Such a creation of mine is now going to
emerge that no power will be able to stop them. Therefore take my servants
and ascend the Mount of Toor’. Then Ya’jooi and Ma’jooj will emerge and
surge fourth in all their fury. When those from among them who constitute
the fromer part of their army pass the lake of Tiberias (which is in
Northern Palestine), they will drink up all the water of that lake and by
the time those that constitute the latter part of that same army pass the
lake, they will say, “There used to be water here (long ago). When they will
reach the Mount of Khamr in Jerusalem, they will arrogantly proclaim; “We
have conquered the people of the earth, now we will annihilate those in the
sky”.
So saying they will fire their arrows towards the sky. When the arrows
return to the ground they will be blood stained.
In the meantime Eesa (A.S.) will be on the Mount of Toor with his followers.
At that time the head of an ox will as valuable as is hundred dinars to you
in this day. (This indicates the scarcity of provisions).
Faced with these hardships, Eesa (A.S.) and his followers will make dua unto
Allah (to remove this calamity). As a result Allah will cause sores to
appear on the necks of each and every individual of these people which will
cause their death suddenly. When Eesa (A.S.) and his followers descend from
the Mount of Toor there will not be a single space on the land where the
dead rotting bodies of these people is not littered, giving off a horrendous
odour. Eesa (A.S.) and his followers will once more supplicate unto Allah as
a result of which Allah will send down huge birds whose necks will be as
thick as that of the necks of camels, and they will dump these bodies in a
place where Allah wills. (According to a narration by Tirmidhi, they will be
dumped at a place called Nahbal).
Allah Ta’ala will then send down a heavy rain, the waters of which will flow
in every part of the earth cleansing it thoroughly. It will rain for a
period of forty days. The Muslims will then burn the bows and arrows of
Ya’jooi and Ma’jooj for a period of seven years. Allah will order the earth
to yield forth its crops in abundance and there will be such blessing and
prosperity that one pomegranate will be sufficient for a whole group while
the peel thereof will suffice to cast a shadow over them. The milk of one
camel will be sufficient for many groups while one milk giving cow will be
sufficient for a whole tribe. One milk giving goat will be sufficient for a
whole family…” (Muslim)
Hadhrat Abu Saeed Khudri (R.A.) narrates that Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alayhi
Wasallam) said: “On the day of Qiyamah Allah will say to Adam (A.S.) to pick
out the Jahannamis from his entire progeny. Adam (A.S.) will ask: “O Rabb
who are they”? Allah will say: “Nine hundred and ninety nine of a thousand
are Jahannami while the one is a Jannati’. On hearing this the Sahaba were
overtaken by fear and they asked: “O Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam)
who will that one Jannati be”? Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) said:
“Do not grieve, the nine hundred and ninety nine will be Ya’jooj and Ma’jooj
while you will be the Jannati”. (i.e. your numbers in relation to them will
be one in a thousand). (Bukhari and Muslim)
Hadhrat Abdullah ibn Umar (R.A.) says that Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alayhi
Wasallam) said: “Allah Ta’ala divided mankind into ten parts. Nine tenths
constitute Ya’jooi and Ma’jooj while the remaining one tenth constitutes the
rest of mankind”. Hadhrat Zainab bint Jahsh (R.A.) says: “…once Rasulullah
(Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) awoke from such a sleep that his face was red
and these words were on his tongue,’ There is none worthy of worship but
Allah. Destruction is upon the Arabs on account of that evil which has come
close to them. Today a hole as big as this has opened up in the wall of
Ya’jooj and Ma’jooj and Rasulullah (SaliaJiahu Alayhi Wasallam) indicated
the size of the hole forming a ring with his index finger and thumb”.
(Bukhari and Muslim)
Hadhrat Abu Hurairah (R.A.) narrates that every day Ya’jooi and Ma’jooi
break (dig) through the wall erected by Zul Qarnain (A.S.) until they reach
the end of it to that extent that they can actually see the light on the
other side. They then return (home) saying that “We will break through
tomorrow. “But Allah Ta’ala causes the wall to revert to its original
thickness and the next day they start digging through the wall all over
again, and this process continues each day until as long as Allah wills them
to remain imprisoned. When Allah wishes them to be released, then at the end
of the day they will say, ‘If Allah wills, tomorrow we will break through”.
The following day they will find the wall as they had left it the previous
day (i.e. a will not have returned to its original state). and after
breaking the remaining part of it they will emerge”. (Ahmad, Tirmidhi, Ibn
Majah)
Commenting on the above hadith, Allamah ibn Arabi says, Three miracles are
evident in this hadith:
1. It never occurs to these tribes that they must continue work during the
night. After all, they are in such large numbers that they can easily
delegate the work among themselves and work in shifts. But Allah does not
allow this thought to occur to them.
2. It does never occur to them that they can merely cross the mountains or
scale the wall, which they can do through the aid of equipment and
implements which they possess in large numbers. According to a narration by
Wahab ibn Munabbah it is known that these tribes are agriculturists and
artisians possessing various types of equipment.
3. The thought of saying “if Allah wills” never enters their minds and it
will only occur to them to say it when Allah wills that they be released.
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YA’JOOJ AND MA’JOOJ
Yajooj and Majooj are two tribes which have been imprisoned behind a
mountain range by Zul Qarnain (alayhis salaam). They are a powerful and wild
people. They will emerge from their imprisonment during the reign of Nabi
Isaa (alayhis salaam), i.e. after the death of Imaam Mahdi (alayhis salaam).
After their emergence, they will wrought great destruction and anarchy on
earth. They are imprisoned in a land of ice, the location of which is hidden
from our gaze. Allah Ta’ala will finally eliminate them by means of a
natural disaster. After the destruction of Yajooj and Ma’jooj. Nabi Isaa
(alayhis salaam) will live for a period of forty years.
Important: Some commentaries on the Qur’aan written by modernists present
some fanciful interpretations regarding the people, Yajooj and Ma’jooj.
Their interpretations being the product of their personal opinions refute
the Shar’i teachings on Ya’jooj and Ma’jooj. All such personal opinions and
theories advanced by the modernists are baatil-baseless and false. Among
such false personal opinions on the matter of Ya’jooj and Ma’jooj is the
commentary of Yusuf Ali.
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