The zenith of the West
T
HE
W
ESTERN
NATIONS
set up modern communications after a
long and hard struggle. It was but natural that they should receive
the lion’s share of their benefits. These technological advances,
coming soon after their colonization of a major part of the world,
gave the whole world the status of a global village. Naturally,
the western countries became the masters of this modern world.
Another aspect of this matter was predicted by the Prophet.
It is explained metaphorically in a long tradition which tells the
story of Gog and Magog. A part of this tradition is as follows:
According to Abu Saeed Khudri, the Prophet of Islam said
that Gog and Magog would be unleashed and then they would
descend upon the people. As is mentioned in the Quran, they
would overwhelm the people from every hillside, leaping across
every barrier of land and sea and the believers would retreat to
their cities and strongholds, bringing their flocks with them.
Gog and Magog would drink all the water of the land; passing a
river, they would drink it dry. Then those who came after them
would pass by that place and would say, “There used to be water
here once.” Then one of them would say, “We are done with the
people of the earth. Now the people of heaven are left.” One of
them would shake his spear and hurl it into the sky, and it would
come back stained with blood, as a test and a trial for them.
(Musnad Ahmad, Vol. 3, p. 77)
