A clarification
T
HIS
TRADITION
CLEARLY
points out the reality which gradually
emerged at a global level after the Renaissance in Europe. After
that a new phenomenon appeared in the economic world – an
“economic explosion.” Control of this development was totally
in the hands of western nations. They thus contrived to gain a
monopoly over all the material resources of the world. ‘Drinking
all the water of the river’ perhaps refers to the world’s resources
of petrol. The greater part of these lay in the eastern world but
their consumption was largely in the western, industrialized
world. That is why western nations took away most of the natural
resources of petrol and used them to their own advantage.
The Hadith further tells us that, after drinking all the water
on earth, Gog and Magog would direct their gaze upon the sky.
This perhaps alludes to different kinds of space rockets. The
western nations have at different times sent a great number of
rockets into space in search of some planet like the earth. These
rockets, equipped with all kinds of sophisticated equipment and
cameras failed, despite intensive efforts, to find any earth-like
planet in the vastness of space. This hadith clearly describes in
symbolic language all these efforts made by the western countries
in present times which have changed the world.
According to the traditions, two more events will take place
during the age of Gog and Magog. One is the appearance of
Dajjal
or
Dajajela
(plural); and another will be the appearance
of a believer as mentioned in
Sahih
Muslim, one of the most
authentic books of Hadith. In other books of hadith this believer
is called
Mahdi
(the guided one).
The unleashing of Gog and Magog, recorded in the Quran
in chapter 21, verse 96, makes it clear that the appearance of
Gog and Magog will be according to a great plan of God.
It is a historical fact that the extraordinary spirit produced
among the race of Gog and Magog which led to the discovery of
the realities of nature never existed in any group in the entire
