works. They caused serious upheavals in other countries as well, and fomented much trouble.
Fifteenth Matter
FIFTEENTH MATTER
The events involving Gog and Magog are mentioned concisely in the Qur’an, and there are some details of them in narrations. Those details are not firmly established like the concise but incontrovertible matters of the Qur’an, and may be considered allegorical. They require interpretation. Indeed, they need to be interpreted, for the narrators’ interpretations have been mixed in with them.
Yes, None knows the Unseen save God, one interpretation is this: it is an allusion and indication that just as the Manchurian and Mongol tribes, called “Gog and Magog” in the heavenly tongue of the Qur’an, [^25] together with some other tribes, several times overturned Asia and Europe; so will they again cause chaos in the world in the future. In fact even now some of them are famous anarchists, and anarchy is born of communism.
[^25]:See, Qur’an, 18:94, 21:96.
Yes, socialism sprang up in the French Revolution from the seed of libertarianism. Then since socialism destroyed certain sacred matters, the ideas it inculcated turned into bolshevism. And because bolshevism corrupted even more sacred moral and human values, and those of the human heart, of course the seeds it sowed will produce anarchy, which recognizes no restrictions whatsoever and has respect for nothing. For if respect and compassion quit the human heart, those with such hearts become exceedingly cruel beasts and can no longer be governed through politics. Just the place for the idea of anarchy will be those oppressed, numerous raiding tribes, which are backward in respect of both civilization and government. The people who fit those conditions are the Manchurian, Mongol, and some of the Kirghiz tribes, who caused the building of the Great Wall of China, which is forty-days’ distance in length and is one of the seven wonders of the world. Expounding the Qur’an’s concise statements about them, Muhammad (Upon whom be blessings and peace) predicted their appearance miraculously and precisely.
Sixteenth Matter
SIXTEENTH MATTER
It says in a narration in connection with Jesus (Peace be upon him) killing the Dajjal: “The Dajjal will have a colossal form, he will be extraordinarily big and taller than a minaret, while Jesus (UWP) will be very small in comparison.” [^26]
[^26]:Ibn Kathīr, Nihāyat al-Bidāya wa’l-Nihāya, i, 103-4; ‘Alā’ al-Dīn al-Hindī, Kanz al-‘Ummāl, xiv, 330; Suyūṭī, al-Durr al-Manthūr, v, 355; al-Ḥāwī li’l-Fatāwā, ii, 588; al-Haythamī, Majma’ al-Zawā’id, viii, 244.