Gog and Magog

Gog and Magog are mentioned in only 2 places in the Quran, in Surah al-Anbiyah

and Surah Al-Kahf. It is in Surah Kahf that we find clues of their whereabouts

narrated in the story of Dhul-Qarnain.

In Surah Al-Kahf, Dhul-Qarnain, a divinely appointed king and conqueror, travels

west, where he dominates a people who live near a body of water that is “dark and

murky”. He then travels east, where he meets a people for whom God had “not

provided any shelter”. According to the Quran, Dhul-Qarnain did not conquer the

people of that region. Finally, he travels in a third direction, until he arrives at a pass

between 2 mountains. Here, he meets a people who speak a language he can barely

understand. They complain to him that Gog and Magog are doing mischief in the

land and request him to build a barrier between them. Dhul-Qarnain accepts and

builds them a wall at the pass between the 2 mountains which, according to him, will

be leveled by God when his “promise comes”. God promised each of His prophets that the last prophet would come with a great final

law. In scriptures like the Torah, this is referred to as “The Promise.” The notion that

this “Promise” is, in fact, the prophet Muhammad is supported by the numerous

Ahadith in Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim which record the vision in the life of the

Prophet in which he was informed that “a hole was made in the barrier built by

Dhul-Qarnain” and hence that the divine destruction of that barrier was taking place

and the release of Gog and Magog has commenced.

In my opinion, the figure of Dhul-Qarnain is the Persian king Cyrus the Great,

founder of the Achaemenid empire. Born in Persia, Cyrus goes on to conquer the Median empire in 550 BC where he decides to found Pasargadae, his capital city. From there he then travels west, where he conquers Lydia in 547 BC. Lydia is located in Asia Minor right next to the “dark and murky” waters of the Black Sea. He then

travels east, towards central Asia where he found the city of Cyropolis, which is located near the Eurasian Steppe. The Steppe is a large area of flat grassland in central Asia that does not offer its inhabitants any “shelter”. Since Dhul-Qarnain traveled in a third direction where he came across a pass between two mountains, it is

safe for us to assume that this is the pass at the Caucasus mountains, which is at the northern border of the Achaemenid empire. Here, he would have met with the Georgian people, who speak the Georgian language which is considered a language isolate. A language isolate is a language with no demonstrable genealogical relationship with other languages. The Georgian language which is spoken south of

the Caucasus Mountains is an insular pre-Indo-European language with no relatives that has been spoken for at least 5000 years.

There is further evidence to suggest that Cyrus is Dhul-Qarnain. Like Dhul-Qarnain, Cyrus also communicated with God as demonstrated in the Bible. Cyrus also carried out Gods promise to the Jews where he said that he will free them from their Babylonian captivity and return them to the Holy Land. It was Cyrus who liberated

the Jews and granted them the Holy Land, suggesting that like Dhul-Qarnain in the Quran, Cyrus too was in contact with God.

When Moses crossed the Red Sea with the Israelites (the 12 tribes that descend from the 12 sons of Jacob), he was ordered by Allah to conquer the Holy Land from the people inhabiting it (Quran 5:21). The Israelites however, refused, out of fear for those who occupied it (Quran 5:22). These would be the Canaanite peoples. 

According to Biblical sources, the Canaanites were the sons of the Anakim (Deuteronomy 9:1-2). According to the same sources, the Anakim descend from the Nephilim or “fallen angels”. In other words, Iblis and his followers, who, as we know in Islam, are actually Jinns. The Bible goes on to say that these fallen angels

intermarried with the daughters of men and produced a race called the Anakim, who are very tall and strongly built people (Genesis 6:1-4). I am aware that these are information from the Bible and do not know how to make sense of it, however, it does not seem to go against the Quran (Quran 17:64). If this is true and the Canaanites were indeed the descendants of these giants, it would explain to us why the Israelites were so afraid to confront them. Eventually,

after wandering the desert for 40 years, and a new generation had come, they conquered the Holy Land, where the 12 tribes would live as a confederation until they would be united, centuries later, under Holy Israel. The victorious Israelites were ordered by their lord, God, to destroy and drive out the people of the conquered lands

(Joshua 17:18) and not to intermarry with them (Deuteronomy 7:2-3) or worship their gods (Exodus 23:23). However, despite these warnings they did both of these extensively (Judges 3:5-6). The Amorites, the Canaanite tribe who occupied the Holy Land before the Israelite takeover, are depicted in Egyptian tomb paintings as white skinned, red or light haired and blue eyed. The Amorites were also tall and strong (Amos 2:9).

Centuries later, after the death of the Prophet-King Solomon, Israel broke into civil war and was divided into 2. The Northern Kingdom of Israel, comprising of 10 tribes with its capital in Samaria to the north. And the Kingdom of Judah, with 2 tribes and

Jerusalem as its capital to the south. The people from Judah eventually become known as Jews. It should be noted that according to Biblical sources it was mainly the northern tribes that lived among Canaanites (Judges 1:27-33). Therefore, it was probably the northern tribes that intermarried with the Canaanites the most and very

likely became racially and culturally different from their southern brethren. This might explain why the 3 Israelite rulers chosen by Allah, Saul, David and Solomon, were all from the 2 tribes that made up the Kingdom of Judah. Just after the split of the kingdom of Israel, the king of Judah, who according to the Bible was the son of Solomon, prepared an army to conquer the weakened north and

reunite Israel. But Allah forbade him from doing so by sending revelation to the prophet Shemaiah (I Kings 12: 21-24), saying that this was his doing. It is my opinion that Allah in his wisdom, allowed this division to keep the kingdom of Judah separate from Northern Israel. After the fall of Holy Israel, both kingdoms fell into

idol worship. However, the kingdom of Northern Israel was more corrupt and extensive when it came to idol worship, going as far as building temples dedicated to the golden calf or Baal to challenge the temple in Jerusalem.

Despite several warnings from God, the Israelites’ continued idolatry and failure to listen to its prophets led to the destruction of Northern Israel by the Assyrians in 721 BC. Judah was also attacked but not conquered thanks to its king Hezekiah, who returned Judah to the worship of the One God and therefore maybe spared by Allah.

Most of the conquered Northern Israelites were relocated by the Assyrians, to parts of modern day Northern Iraq and Iran (2 Kings 18:11) while Samaria was restocked by subjects from other parts of the Assyrian empire (II Kings 17: 24). It is from this

point that the 10 tribes of Northern Israel become known as the “Lost Tribes of Israel”. While it is true that the 10 northern tribes lost their Israelite identity and special status with God (Hosea 9:15), the actual people themselves were never really lost and their

whereabouts and movements can be traced.

The ancient Assyrian records mentions of a people called the “Gimirri ” who lived in the regions of Northern Mesopotamia and Media in the late 8 th century BC. This is the same place and time where the northern Israelites were placed by the Assyrians.

The Assyrian name for Northern Israel prior to its destruction was “Khumri”, derived from “Bit-Khumri”, which means House of Omri. Omri was a royal dynasty of Northern Israel. After their deportation, the Assyrians dropped the use of the word Khumri and instead called them Gimirri, which is likely the Babylonian variant. The

Gimirri are known as the Cimmerians in English. The Cimmerians were placed there to serve as a client state, positioned between Assyria and its rival, the Kingdom of Urartu. It was common practice for the Assyrians to create such buffers, by creating

smaller states made up of captured and deported people. The Cimmerians were also used as mercenaries by the Assyrians in military campaigns against Urartu. In the early 7 th Century BC, one group of Cimmerians rebelled against the Assyrians and went west, into Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey), and then eventually settled down in Crimea and the Black Sea region. Those who didn’t leave were called “Iskuza” by the Assyrians, which is translated as “Scythian” in English. Therefore, despite this division and difference in terminology, the Cimmerians and Scythians are from the same stock. As the Encyclopedia Iranica states, “the Cimmerians cannot be differentiated archeologically from the Scythians.”

In fact both these names are used interchangeably in the Assyrian and other ancient sources. This is confirmed in the Behistun Inscription found in Persia which describes the conquests of the Persian king Darius the Great, written in 3 different

languages, Persian, Elamite, and Babylonian. In it, the Babylonian word Gimirri (Cimmerian) is written as Saka (Scythian) in Persian and Elamite. Similar examples are found in other inscriptions as well. Ancient historians describe the Scythians as tall, white-skinned with red/fair hair and blue eyes.

The Scythians who still remained grew in strength and, eventually joined the rebellion led by the Babylonians and Medes to overthrow the Assyrians in 612 BC. However, after the conquest, the Medes and Babylonians divided the Assyrian Empire between themselves and drove out the Scythians, who crossed the Darial Pass

and took refuge in the Caucasus mountains and the steppes of Southern Russia. It was here that one group among them gets trapped, a few decades later, by Persian king Cyrus the Great, who in my opinion is Dhul-Qarnain. The remaining Scythians then

spread from the Caucasus in all directions except south. This is because of Dhul-Qarnain’s barrier. Some go as far as China and the Indus valley and gradually assimilate with the local tribes. This is why we can see some people with fair and blond phenotypes in parts of western China, Northern Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran.

One group, however, goes west, into Europe. This group of Scythians settles in the Black Sea area, the very same place the 

Cimmerians did a few 100 years earlier. The Cimmerians by then would have moved further into Europe and were known as the “Cimbri”, “Gauls” and more generally as “Celts”. According to archaeologists and historians, the Celts were the first people

known to have used chain mail armor. However, we know that this type of armor was taught to David by Allah and therefore Israelite technology (Quran 21:80). In the Quran Allah also mentions that he taught David how to “make iron soft.” (Quran 34:10–11). The Celtic tribes and the Scythians are known for their sophisticated

metalwork which requires this knowledge.

The Celtic tribes would go on to conquer all of western and central Europe, sacking Rome in 390 BC. The ones that went to Britain end up being known as the “Britons”. After several wars, the Celts in mainland Europe get nearly wiped out by the Romans

in the 2 nd and 1 st centuries BC. One group, however, managed to make its way from northwestern Spain to Ireland and became known the “Scots”. The Celts are also described as tall, white-skinned with red/fair hair and blue eyes. In fact, Britain and Ireland, the only countries where the Celts survived, have the highest population of

naturally redheaded people in the world

Meanwhile, the Scythians continued to live in the region north of the Black sea until, when in the 3rd to 2nd century BC, the Sarmatians started invading their land. Their invasion forced the Scythians to move further west, occupying the coast of the Baltic and North Seas and Scandinavia. Since the land that was called Scythia was now

inhabited by a new people, the Romans, according to Pliny and Strabo, stopped the use of the word Scythians and instead used the names "Sarmatae" (Sarmatians) and “Germani” (Germanic tribes). In other words, the Scythians who moved out were now called Germans. Non-Roman writers, however, continue to call them Scythians, till as late as the 9 th century CE.

Like the Celts, before them, the Germanic tribes came into conflict with the Roman Empire. Due to centuries of expensive wars and internal moral decay, the Western Roman Empire fell to the Germans in 476 CE and all of western, central, and southern Europe becomes Germanized. During its last stages, the Roman Empire withdrew its troops stationed in Britain to protect its own cities. This left the island open for invasion by the Germans, mainly from the tribes of the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes. Several early writers such as

Diodorus, Ptolemy, Pliny, Albinus, and British historian Sharon Turner, maintained that the Saxons (and their kin) were decedents of the Sakai (Scythians). These people who eventually dominate Britain come to be known as the “Anglo-Saxons”. From this point onward, what is now known as western Europe becomes a stronghold of

the Germans, which lasts to this very day.

Before we go any further, we should understand what happened to the Kingdom of Judah. After the Kingdom of Northern Israel fell, the people in the Kingdom of Judah failed to learn their lesson. They too turned to all forms of sin and, therefore, inevitably suffer a similar punishment. The Babylonians, who had conquered Assyria

25 years earlier, besieged the kingdom in 587 BC, pillaging Jerusalem and destroying the Temple of Solomon. The Jews (inhabitants of the Kingdom of Judah) were taken into captivity in Babylon. It was here that they got the revelation that the golden age of Israel would be restored by God.

Less than 40 years after the captivity, a King rose from Persia who went on to conquer the Median empire in 550 BC and then Lydia, a land situated next to the “dark and murky” waters of the Black Sea, in 546 BC. He would then turn his attention to Babylon, invading it in the year 539 BC. This king, Cyrus, then allowed

the exiled Jews to return to Jerusalem and used royal funds to rebuild their temple. The Jews went from being slaves in the most powerful empire at the time, to return to their homeland in just a few decades.

For the next 400 years, Jerusalem would continue to survive by the grace of Allah. In the 4

th century BC, king Alexander of Macedonia, or “Alexander the Great”, conquered and Hellenized the known world. However, when he marched towards Jerusalem, the High Priest, out of fear, went out to meet him. Upon seeing him, Alexander dismounted from his horse and bowed to him. According to the Roman-Jewish scholar Josephus, when asked by his general, to explain his actions,

Alexander answered, “I did not bow before him, but before that God who has honored him with the high Priesthood; for I saw this very person in a dream, in this very apparel.” He spared Jerusalem, peacefully absorbing it into his empire.

In the 1 st century BC, just 63 years before the birth of the Messiah, Jerusalem fell to the Romans. However, it was allowed to remain autonomous with Judaism officially recognized as an official religion. Then, about 70 years later, Jesus reveals himself to be the Jewish Messiah, and as we know the Jews reject him and try to crucify him

with the help of the Romans. Once Allah raised Jesus to safety, his protection over the Jews for more than 400 years had officially ended. They had failed miserably and their chance for a second Holy Israel was finished. A few years after their rejection of the Messiah, the Jews start revolting against the Romans. After three major rebellions, the Romans entered Jerusalem and destroyed the second temple, massacred the Jews, exiled the survivors, and banned them from returning to Jerusalem. These survivors would go on to settle down in all corners of the word. This is known as the Jewish

diaspora.

Before the death of Prophet Muhammad, no empire or nation crossed the Caucasus mountains since the Scythians. If you study all the Empires following that, they always stop at the Caucasus, as if something was stopping them. Those in the south never cross to the north and vice versa. This suddenly changed a few decades after

the passing of the Prophet, when the Kingdom of Khazaria emerged in southern

Russia, north of the Caucasus. This kingdom did something those in the past never managed to do. It crossed the Caucasus and came south to establish itself as a regional superpower rivaling the Arabs and the Byzantine Romans. This is because the barrier that blocked any movement across the Caucasus was no more. In other

words, Gog and Magog were now released and were the ruling elite of Khazaria. The people of the Khazar kingdom were mainly composed of Turkic tribes. However, the ruling elite was ethnically and linguistically different from its subjects. The Arab

and writers of the time described the Khazars as having a white complexion, blue eyes, and reddish hair, just like the Scythians who occupied the Caucasus when Dhul-Qarnain built his barrier more than a 1000 years ago.

The kingdom of Khazaria was multireligious, being the home to pagans, Christians and Muslims. However in the 8th century, the Khazar king Bulan, along with the royal elites, converted to Judaism, and from then on all Khazar kings had Hebrew names. Khazaria continued to flourish until the 9th century, when 2 groups called the

“Magyars” and “Kabars” left Khazaria. The Magyars, the ancestors of the Hungarians while the Kabars were Jews. The Kabars and Magyars move west and eventually settle down and created the nation of Hungary. During the late 10th century more Khazars migrated to Hungary. A few decades after these 2 migrations, Khazaria gets invaded by the Rus (Russians). Unlike his predecessors, the king ruling Khazaria during its fall was most likely a Christian, named Georgius Tzul. This might be because all of the Jewish Khazar elites (Gog and Magog) had left Khazaria by then.

From their new home in Hungary, the Kabar and Magyar elite start heavily intermarrying with the royal families of Western Europe. These European Royal families culminate with the current British Royal family. There are plenty of examples linking the British royal family and aristocracy to the Hungarians/Khazars (Gog and Magog). I will provide one such instance. During the early 11th century, the Danes invaded Britain and exiled the heir to the British throne, who eventually ended up in Hungary. There he married a local princess and fathered a daughter named Margaret. Once the English regained power, the exiled king returned to England with his family along with several Hungarians only to die a few days after reaching the shores of England. A few years later the Norman French invade England under their leader William the Conqueror. This drives the party from Hungary north, into Scotland. There, Margaret marries the King

of Scots, Malcolm III, who’s descendants include the current British royal family.

One of the Hungarians that accompanied her was called George, who was a Hungarian prince. His descendants are known as the Drummond clan. The Drummonds married into the British royal family and also became a wealthy banking dynasty. One Drummond, in the 1800s, named Henry, co-founded and funded the

“ London Jews' Society”, whose main purpose was to spread Christian Zionism. So what we have here, is one example of a people from the land of Gog and Magog, who end up being one of the founders of Zionism. This one example alone fulfills the

prophecy in the Quran in Surah al-Anbiyah verses 95-6.

You may have realized by now, that the point I’m trying to make, is that Gog and Magog and those in the West are descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel. The first-ever mention of Gog and Magog in Jewish texts is by the prophet Ezekiel who lived as a captive in Babylon. That is nearly 200 years after the northern tribes were “lost”. Also, the light physical features of the modern westerner is the same as the Scythians, and the Amorites of the Holy Land, whom the Israelites heavily mixed with. I am not implying that all ethnic Europeans are inherently evil. This is not Islamic. Allah in the

Quran says that he made men as nations and tribes so that we may identify each other (Quran 49:13), and that is all I’m doing.

The Quran uses the words “Jews” and “Banu Israel” and it is important to understand the difference between the two. The word Jew is used for the followers of Moses after the time of Jesus, and “Banu Israel” or “Children of Israel” was used during and

before Jesus. This is because, after the rejection of Jesus, the concept of Holy Israel came to an end and so did any chance of the Israelites being reunited. In the Quran whenever Allah used the word “Banu Israel” he is talking about the 12 tribes, the children of the 12 sons of Jacob. With that in mind, if we look at verse 49 in Surah Al-Imran, we can see that Jesus was sent as the Messiah not only for the

Jews, but for all of Banu Israel. This promise can also be found in the verses of the Hebrew Bible (Jeremiah 23:5-8). Also, in the prophecy mentioned in Surah Al-Isra verse 104, Allah says he will gather the CHILDREN OF ISRAEL as a mixed crowd in the Holy Land during the End Times. If we look at the verse previous to it, it is

beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is addressing the 12 tribes. The Jews, having rejected Jesus, still await for the fulfillment of all those prophecies.

It was when the Jews were held captive in Babylon that the Jewish heresy known as the Kabbalah was born. Certain heretical Jews who refused to purge their religion of pagan influences instead added to them the practices of Babylonian magic. In order not to reveal their apostasy, they disguised their hidden faith as an interpretation of

the religion, a cult that is known as the Kabbalah. This development is carefully described in the Quran in Surah al-Baqara, verse 101-102. According to historian David Livingstone, after Cyrus freed the Jews from Babylon these Kabbalistic ideas spread around the world and went on to be the source of various works of philosophy,

religious sects (Gnosticism,Sufism, Catharism etc.) and secret societies (Knights Templar, Rosicrucians, Freemasons etc.).

During the 16th Century, a Rabbi named Isaac Luria initiated a new interpretation of the Kabbalah. Known as the New Kabbalah or Lurianic Kabbalah, it transmitted the notion that the Jews must not merely await the fulfillment of prophecy with regards

to the coming of the Messiah and restoration of the Jewish people in the Promised Land. Rather, they ought to work actively to prepare for his appearance. This meant recreating Holy Israel of David and Solomon by any means necessary. This is the birth of modern Zionism, which aims to create the necessary political, social, and

moral circumstances to receive the coming of their messiah, that is, a new world order.

In order for the Zionists to cause the advent of the messiah, they need to accomplish certain tasks. Chief among them is, which many believe, is returning the Jews to the Holy Land. This is where I have to disagree because they are supposed to bring back Holy Israel of David and Solomon. Holy Israel wasn’t just home to the Jews but

all the 12 tribes of Israel. In fact, part of the prophecy regarding the second golden age and the coming of the Messiah includes the return of the lost tribes (Jeremiah 23:5-8). This is why Jesus asked his apostles to go look for the “lost sheep of Israel” because it was the duty of the Messiah to reunite them (Matthew 10 5-6).

Ever since the Holy Land was liberated from the Ottomans, the Zionists have made great efforts to settle the Jews there. This was made easy after the second World War, thanks to the holocaust. Over the years Jews poured into Israel, while those who didn’t, at least became a dual citizen. In the past couple of decades however, several

organizations such as “Shavei Israel” have been working on locating and bringing back the Lost Tribes. They usually go to remote places in Africa or India, find primitive people, usually numbering a few hundred, and call them Israelite. None of these finds are backed by any proof. For example, one group found in India, called

“Bnei Menashe”, was claimed to be the descendants of the Israelite tribe of Menasseh. However, DNA tests show that none of these people have even a hint of Middle Eastern ancestry. Therefore, it is unlikely that Jews would take any of this seriously and certainly not as a fulfillment of the prophecy.

It is to the British that they will turn to. The British, unlike the rest of the Europeans are more racially connected to the Israelites, being descendants of the Celts(Cimmerians) and the Germans (Scythians). It is very well known that the Jews and the British share a close affinity with one another. The British have had a strong

alliance with the Jews for the last few centuries. By the 19th century, Jewish bankers, such as the Rothschilds and Goldsmiths, had become enormously wealthy and successful, to a point where they entered the aristocracy. It was from here that the Judeo-Christian alliance was born. It was an alliance between the banking Jewish

elite and the British royalty and aristocracy (Gog and Magog), both known for their involvement in shirk. It was this alliance that liberated the Holy Land and created the modern unholy state of Israel. This exists today as the Judeo-Anglo-American

alliance. According to the Lurianic Kabbalah, the Zionists have to fulfill certain tasks in order to bring in the New World Order, which in turn will bring forth their messiah. These plans are what we know as the Zionist agenda. Which includes liberating the holy

land from the Muslims, returning the Jews and the lost tribes to the holy land and creating a state of Israel, and finally making the state of Israel the ruling state of the world. In order to make Israel the superpower of the world they need to bring down

the other world powers. That will be achieved through a nuclear 3rd world war, which has been hinted in the Quran and mentioned in the ahadith as the Malhama or Armageddon. This would explain the phenomenon of Brexit, the beginning of Britain’s ostracization from the rest of the western world, which could culminate with Britain leaving NATO. This would ensure the safety of Britain during

a global war since it would not be obligated to take part in it. After the war the inhabitants of Britain will leave war-torn Europe and move to the Holy Land. To the Jews this will be the fulfillment of prophecy, seeing this as the return of the lost tribes.

From an Islamic point of view, this is the beginning of what is known as Ākhiral-Zamān or the End Times. The messiah that these people look forward to is what we know as the Dajjal or the Anti-Christ. These events will culminate with the arrival of the prophet Jesus, after which it is very little until the end of history.