What is the meaning of the saying of Allah the Exalted: “Until when Gog and Magog are let out, and they descend from every height”?
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The questioner : ... ؟
The Shaykh : ...for this type, or for answering this type of question, meaning as individuals, unless you mean by individuals that if we reduced the number of Gog and Magog for clarification, that they are ten people, for example, then the verse does not deny that one or two might come out; this is possible. In that case, there is no contradiction or conflict between this coming out and the verse. But if the ten come out in some way, then there is a contradiction in that case, because they were able to come out. Do you understand how? We must distinguish between a small number and the whole number. This coming out is not possible for them unless the true promise comes. At that time, they are as He, Mighty and Majestic, said:[Al-Anbya 21:96]
The questioner : ...clarifying this question. Regarding the verse, they are not able to jump over the barrier, or make the barrier disappear, or break through this barrier. I do not want to ask, but is it not possible to come out from another direction, for example, from space?
The Shaykh : I have given you the answer, may Allah reward you. If the coming out of the whole 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 do not imagine and if I did not clarify in your question a second time, 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 side. And from the other side, there is a true promise that they cannot come out unless the true promise approaches. So it is not possible to come out at all as individuals, as I told you, this is possible, but as a nation numbering in the millions, this is impossible.
The Shaykh : ...for this type, or for answering this type of question, meaning as individuals, unless you mean by individuals that if we reduced the number of Gog and Magog for clarification, that they are ten people, for example, then the verse does not deny that one or two might come out; this is possible. In that case, there is no contradiction or conflict between this coming out and the verse. But if the ten come out in some way, then there is a contradiction in that case, because they were able to come out. Do you understand how? We must distinguish between a small number and the whole number. This coming out is not possible for them unless the true promise comes. At that time, they are as He, Mighty and Majestic, said:
from every elevation, descend
من كل حدبٍ ينسلونThe questioner : ...clarifying this question. Regarding the verse, they are not able to jump over the barrier, or make the barrier disappear, or break through this barrier. I do not want to ask, but is it not possible to come out from another direction, for example, from space?
The Shaykh : I have given you the answer, may Allah reward you. If the coming out of the whole 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 do not imagine and if I did not clarify in your question a second time, 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 side. And from the other side, there is a true promise that they cannot come out unless the true promise approaches. So it is not possible to come out at all as individuals, as I told you, this is possible, but as a nation numbering in the millions, this is impossible.