What is the meaning of His saying, the Exalted: “Until when Gog and Magog are released, and they come pouring down from every height”?
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The questioner : ... ؟
The Shaykh : ... regarding this type, or the answer to this type of question; that is, as individuals, unless you mean by individuals that if we reduced the number of Gog and Magog for clarification to, say, ten people, the verse does not deny that one or two might come out, and in that case, there is no contradiction or conflict between this emergence and the verse. But if the ten come out in some manner, there is a contradiction in that case, because they were able to get out; do you understand? We must distinguish between a small number and the entire number. This emergence is not possible for them unless the true promise comes, and then they will be as He, Mighty and Majestic, said:[Al-Anbya 21:96].
Yes.
The questioner : ... clarification regarding the question itself?
The Shaykh: Go ahead.
The questioner : Regarding the verse, they are not able to jump over the barrier, or expose the barrier, or demolish this barrier. I do not want to ask: Is it not possible to exit from another direction, for example, from space?
The Shaykh : I have given you the answer, may Allah reward you. If the exit is of the whole, it is not possible, because the intended meaning of the verse is clear. Why was this barrier placed? For them to come out, or so that they do not come out? So that they do not come out. Therefore, the construction of the barrier, if we imagine what you clarified in your question once more, if we imagine that they came out in helicopters, for example, what is the benefit of the barrier in that case? This is from one aspect. From another aspect, there is a true promise that they cannot come out unless the true promise approaches, so the exit is absolutely impossible. As individuals, as I told you, this is possible, but as a nation numbering in the millions, this is impossible.
The Shaykh : ... regarding this type, or the answer to this type of question; that is, as individuals, unless you mean by individuals that if we reduced the number of Gog and Magog for clarification to, say, ten people, the verse does not deny that one or two might come out, and in that case, there is no contradiction or conflict between this emergence and the verse. But if the ten come out in some manner, there is a contradiction in that case, because they were able to get out; do you understand? We must distinguish between a small number and the entire number. This emergence is not possible for them unless the true promise comes, and then they will be as He, Mighty and Majestic, said:
from every elevation, descend
مِنْ كُلِّ حَدَبٍ يَنْسِلُونَYes.
The questioner : ... clarification regarding the question itself?
The Shaykh: Go ahead.
The questioner : Regarding the verse, they are not able to jump over the barrier, or expose the barrier, or demolish this barrier. I do not want to ask: Is it not possible to exit from another direction, for example, from space?
The Shaykh : I have given you the answer, may Allah reward you. If the exit is of the whole, it is not possible, because the intended meaning of the verse is clear. Why was this barrier placed? For them to come out, or so that they do not come out? So that they do not come out. Therefore, the construction of the barrier, if we imagine what you clarified in your question once more, if we imagine that they came out in helicopters, for example, what is the benefit of the barrier in that case? This is from one aspect. From another aspect, there is a true promise that they cannot come out unless the true promise approaches, so the exit is absolutely impossible. As individuals, as I told you, this is possible, but as a nation numbering in the millions, this is impossible.
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