The Alarm of Doomsday

THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF HUMAN HISTORY confinement, the age of interaction, and the age of science and industrial progress and development. Gog and Magog were no mysterious community— ‘they were men’ just like anyone else. In ancient times, banditry and violence as a means of survival became rife due to the widespread paucity of economic resources. Even in Arabia, such people were known as Sa‘ali-kul-Arab (Arab dacoits), and Gog and Magog initially belonged to one such group. The Wall of Gog and Magog In a tradition of the Prophet, we find a reference to the mighty wall that had acted as a barrier between Gog and Magog and the rest of humanity finally giving way, thus allowing them to wreak havoc on the world at large. According to this tradition, when Makkah had been conquered and idolatry had been wiped out from Arabia, the Prophet, then living at Madina, had a dream. At that time, he was sleeping in his wife’s room, Zaynab bint Jahash (d. 641 A.D.). When he woke up, his face had turned red, and he said: “There is no god but God, woe to Arabs, the evil which has drawn near! The barrier of Yajuj and Majuj has been dented today.” (Sahih al-Bukhari, Hadith No. 3346; Sahih Muslim, Hadith No. 2880)