What is the meaning of Ya'juj and Ma'juj?
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The questioner : Also, a question about Ya'juj and Ma'juj.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : What is the meaning, first of all, of Ya'juj and Ma'juj?
The Shaykh : Allah knows best, but they are a people about whom the Messenger (peace be upon him) informed us: they are short in stature, numerous in offspring, and they will emerge in the end times. They will break through the barrier built by Dhul-Qarnayn, yes, and they will pass through the land of Sham to Lake Tiberias. Our Lord (Mighty and Majestic) will destroy them by sending small insects like dates into them, and they will die. And Allah (Mighty and Majestic) will send birds to carry them to the sea. This is the summary of what came in the authentic Sunnah regarding Ya'juj and Ma'juj.
As for the meaning of these two names, it is not possible to reach it; because they are proper names for two peoples whom we would not have believed existed in this world, which the claimants claim they have discovered every inch of, were it not that the Messenger (peace be upon him) informed us of them, and his report is revelation, and it is therefore truth,[Sad 38:88].
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : What is the meaning, first of all, of Ya'juj and Ma'juj?
The Shaykh : Allah knows best, but they are a people about whom the Messenger (peace be upon him) informed us: they are short in stature, numerous in offspring, and they will emerge in the end times. They will break through the barrier built by Dhul-Qarnayn, yes, and they will pass through the land of Sham to Lake Tiberias. Our Lord (Mighty and Majestic) will destroy them by sending small insects like dates into them, and they will die. And Allah (Mighty and Majestic) will send birds to carry them to the sea. This is the summary of what came in the authentic Sunnah regarding Ya'juj and Ma'juj.
As for the meaning of these two names, it is not possible to reach it; because they are proper names for two peoples whom we would not have believed existed in this world, which the claimants claim they have discovered every inch of, were it not that the Messenger (peace be upon him) informed us of them, and his report is revelation, and it is therefore truth,
And you will surely know [the truth of] its information after a time."
وَلَتَعْلَمُنَّ نَبَأَهُ بَعْدَ حِينٍ
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