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I am interested about all science and bible (and history) oriented
proofs on behalf of Islam, from all fields, and I think I have found
some that maybe non-other has noticed before, so please help
translating and spreading them, to increase faith of us all (it surely
did it for me, very strong reasons why I accepted Islam, I put many
links if some will not open in one hour due to high traffic) :
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About Alexsander the Great and "Gog and Magog":
83. They ask thee concerning Zul-qarnain [or Dhul-qarnain]. Say, 'I will rehearse to you something of his story.' 84. Verily We established his power on earth, and We gave him the ways and the means to all ends. 85. One (such) way he followed, 86.
Until, when he reached the setting of the sun, he found it set in a
spring of murky water: Near it he found a People: We said: 'O
Zul-qarnain! (thou hast authority,) either to punish them, or to treat
them with kindness.' 87. He said: 'Whoever doth wrong, him shall we
punish; then shall he be sent back to his Lord; and He will punish him
with a punishment unheard-of (before). 88. But whoever believes, and
works righteousness,- he shall have a goodly reward, and easy will be
his task as We order it by our Command.' 89. Then followed he (another) way, 90.
Until, when he came to the rising of the sun, he found it rising on a
people for whom We had provided no covering protection against the sun. 91. (He left them) as they were: We completely understood what was before him. 92. Then followed he (another) way, 93. Until, when he reached (a tract) between two mountains, he found, beneath them, a people who scarcely understood a word. 94.
They said: 'O Zul-qarnain! the Gog and Magog (People) do great mischief
on earth: shall we then render thee tribute in order that thou mightest
erect a barrier between us and them?' 95. He said: '(The power) in
which my Lord has established me is better (than tribute): Help me
therefore with strength (and labour): I will erect a strong barrier
between you and them: 96. Bring me blocks of iron.' At length, when
he had filled up the space between the two steep mountain-sides, He
said, 'Blow (with your bellows)' Then, when he had made it (red) as
fire, he said: 'Bring me, that I may pour over it, molten lead.' 97. Thus were they made powerless to scale it or to dig through it. 98.
He said: 'This is a mercy from my Lord: But when the promise of my Lord
comes to pass, He will make it into dust; and the promise of my Lord is
true.'
18:86 Is not description to take literally (as Koran has
those in other places too), as sun can not even in anyone�s wildest
dreams go from place were there is no hole in the ground (as all water
in lake would go from it), and it is not said to pounch back to east
from west. According to Islam, hadiths, sun goes from west to east only
on Judgement Day, and it is sign from that Day (what even may have
began, as sun goest from west to east in northest part of the world in
summer time at night, and there is even muslims now to prove it
eventhough there is no muslim-state in north, that is why signs are
given so that as muslims realize those, it is sign. Another way to see
this sign is connected to part of Koran that says about two west and
two east, Islam and muslims have reached also Hawaiji and sun there
rises from western coast of America and will set on eastern coast of
China).
To the west of the town of Lychnis is a lake 170 square
miles in area, fed by underground springs that issue through limestone
rocks and give out murky water. Both town and lake are now called
Ochrida, about 50 miles west of Monastir. The water is so dark that
the river which forms the outlet of the lake to the north is called the
Black Drin. Looking at the sunset from the town, the observer would
see the sun set a pool of murky water (18:86). It was a question
before the boy Alexander -- the dreamy, impulsive, fearless rider --
whether he would put the barbarous Illyricans to the sword or show them
mercy. He showed true discrimination and statesmanship. He punished
the guilty but showed kindness to the innocent, and thus consolidated
his power in the west. This I construe to be the meaning of (Noble
Verses) 18:86-87; otherwise these verses do not seem to be perfectly
clear.
(17)
18:90 Mentions people who Allah had not
"offered protection from the sun", meaning people of Central-Asia where
they live on plains and desert, where Alexsander visited Bukhara and
Samarkand. He did not went to conquest Central-Asia, but "left them as
they were". Then he arrived area 230 kilometers south-east from
Bukhara, where he build Iron Gate to protect people who did not speak
his language (turkish) as protection against "Gog and Magog"-people
(mongols). As Allah had promised, this gate was later destroyed in this
narrow canyon. Yet on 7th century chinese traveller and 985-986 arabian
traveller reported and wrote about this gate made of iron blocks. Another
but less propably possibility could be Tiemen Pass (also called Iron
Pass or Iron Gate Pass), only 8 kilometers north of Korla, lies at the
mouth of a 14 kilometer (9 mile) long valley. It was of strategic
importance in history in ancient China and islisted as one of the 26
famous Passes. Tiemen was at the throat of the Silk Road and the
traffic junction between northern Xinjiang and southern Xinjiang.
Nearby, there are still traces of an ancient barracks and military
activities. Four Chinese characters are inscribed on the cliff beside
the pass. The characters describe the steepness and precipitousness of
the pass. But this is maybe only in case that there really has been
(destroyed) iron gate and that Alexander visited so north in plains of
Xinjiang or if Zul-qarnain is not Alexander the Great.
21:96-97
"Until the Gog and Magog (people) are let through (their barrier), and
they swiftly swarm from every hill. Then will the true promise draw
nigh (of fulfilment): then behold! the eyes of the Unbelievers will
fixedly stare in horror: "Ah! Woe to us! we were indeed heedless of
this; nay, we truly did wrong!" Section 21:96-97 is
from my wiew of point telling "Gogin ja Magogin" nations (as described
in 18:93-96, mongols) new destructive wave of attack, it does not
descrbe future but is already happened prophecy from 1200- and
1300-centuries about everything destroying, killing all (muslims) in
the way from east to west coming mongol invasion. All cities (including
Bagdad) were destroyed completely, and from their (muslim) inhabitants
skulls were made towers and hills. This wave reached from
Himalaja-mountains trough Centre-Asia, Afghanistan an Iran�s "all
hills" (that area has A LOT because of differences in altitude)
reaching all the way to Damascos (were before they were finally
stopped) destroying Bagdad on the way, destroying completely Caliphate,
symbol of muslim prosperity and unity, even getting many (non-muslims
mostly) to believe that end of Islam is at hands. Mongols attacked also
over hills of Ural (to muslim-areas of Volga, who accepted Islam at
10th century), untill they finally after advancing long inside modern
Russia- and Ukraine- areas accepted Islam as Koran informed and
predicted mukaisesti Islamiin. Just like Koran said ("Ah! Woe to us! we
were indeed heedless of this; nay, we truly did wrong!"), they were
terrified and on horror about destruction they had made (to Islam, its
another wing in form of bird/angel were severely injured back then),
and they spend long time and big efforts in trying to repair damage
they had done, with for example prospering arts and other kind of
cultural activities of Timurid-Empire.
"...The name (i.e., Gog
and Magog) stands for wild and lawless tribes who will break their
barriers and swarm through the earth. This will be one of the
prognostications of the approaching Judgement." Muhammed said that
mongols will come again (after times of Aleksander), and that they will
"swarm through the earth" as waves, as they did conquering most of
biggest continent in th earth, Asia (even China was conquered).
Remember that "approaching Judgement" is not far away for Allah even in
hundreds or thousands of years, christians waited Jesus to come back in
their life-time.
"Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri: "The Prophet said
'The people will continue performing the Hajj and 'Umra to the Ka'ba
even after the appearance of Gog and Magog.' Narrated Shu'ba extra: The
Hour (Day of Judgment) will not be established till the Hajj
(pilgrimage to the Mecca) is abandoned. (Translation of Sahih Bukhari,
Pilgrimage (Hajj), Volume 2, Book 26, Number 663)" Mongols did not
advance to Mecca, that is why pilgrimages continued normally, in east
people had even more reasons to get there from way of mongols.
"Abu
Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying:
"The Last Hour would not come until you fight with a people wearing
shoes of hair and the Last Hour would not come until you fight with a
people having small eyes and broad snub noses. (Translation of Sahih
Muslim, The Book Pertaining to the Turmoil and Portents of the Last
Hour (Kitab Al-Fitan wa Ashrat As-Sa`ah), Book 041, Number 6958)" Beginning
of this prophecy has at least finally now come true, as soldiers
"wearing shoes of hair" are now in Irak, meaning shoe-lazes of their
army boots (also mongols had lot of hair in their boots). This does not
mean that war should be continued or spread, peace should be made when
offered as Islam requested. And it does not mean that "Hour" (Different
time-section than) is yet any much closer than in times of mongols,
just "close".
"Abu Sa'id reported: The Messenger of Allah (may
peace be upon him) said: "Allah, the High and Glorious, would say: O
Adam I and he would say: At Thy service, at thy beck and call, O Lord,
and the good is in Thy Hand. Allah would say: Bring forth the group of
(the denizens of) Fire. He (Adam) would say: Who are the denizens of
Hell? It would be said: They are out of every thousand nine hundred and
ninety-nine. He (the Holy Prophet) said: It is at this juncture that
every child would become white-haired and every pregnant woman would
abort and you would see people in a state of intoxication, and they
would not be in fact intoxicated but grievous will be the torment of
Allah. He (the narrator) said: This had a very depressing effect upon
them (upon the companions of the Holy Prophet) and they said: Messenger
of Allah, who amongst us would be (that unfortunate) person (who would
be doomed to Hell)? He said: Good tidings for you, Yajuj and Majuj
(i.e., Gog and Magog in English) would be those thousands (who would be
the denizens of Hell) and a person (selected for Paradise) would be
amongst you. He (the narrator) further reported that he (the Messenger
of Allah) again said: By Him in Whose Hand is thy life, I hope that you
would constitute one-fourth of the inhabitants of Paradise. We extolled
Allah and we glorified (Him). He (the Holy Prophet) again said: BY Him
in Whose Hand is my life, I wish you would constitute one-third of the
inhabitants of Paradise. We extolled Allah and Glorified (Him). He (the
Holy Prophet) again said: By Him in Whose Hand is my life, I hope that
you would constitute half of the inhabitants of Paradise. Your likeness
among the people is the likeness of a white hair on the skin of a black
ox or a strip on the foreleg of an ass. (Translation of Sahih Muslim,
The Book of Faith (Kitab Al-Iman), Book 001, Number 0430)" (18) According
to this prophecy, only one out of thousand mongol-invaders got to
paradise (at least without going to helle first). Every (mongol
conquered area) child came "white-haired", because also their skulls
were put into these (white) towers/hills to be burned by sun and sand.
Pregnancyes of womans were aborted understandably, as they all were
killed. People were "in state of intoxication" either from fear or
shock (muslim-civilians), or either from hatred and lust for murdering
(mongols). Increasingly rising numbers of muslims proportion in
paradise means that it is open (in princible, even as determined, but
not informed by declaration), hopely high as possible. In any case
muslim (ecspesially really so believing) is in this world among of
thousands of gods come to earth etc. worshipping religions is as easy
to spot like "white hair in black ox".
"Narrated Thauban: "The
Prophet peace be upon him said: 'The nations shall gather and team up
against you (i.e., Muslims) as the predators gather and team up against
their preys. A questioner asked: 'Is it because of us being low in
numbers at that day?' The Prophet replied: 'No, you that day shall be
in great numbers, but you will be as powerless as the foam of the water
on the surface of the river, and Allah shall remove any fear from your
enemies toward you, and He shall put in your hearts a corruption.' A
questioner asked: 'O Apostle of Allah, what is the corruption?' The
Prophet replied: 'The love of life's amusements and the fear of death.'
(Translation of Sunan Abu Dawud, The Book of Fierce Battles - The
Gathering of all Nations against Islam, Book 37, Number 4297)" In
times of mongol-invasions muslims were suffering in all directions,
enemy really came from all directions, "nations together". Half of Asia
were attacking muslims from east, indians and mongols (who controlled
China also), from west there came enthuastic christian-missionaries to
"crusade" towards Jerusalem, Spain was pushing (all ready for centuries
in "reconquista") like as in last days towards south, Granada, to get
their hands on muslim-maps of America (Granada surrendered on january
1492, Columbus found America in 12th of october 1492), just born in
sub-Sahara huge muslim-states of Mali and Songhai were neither so
thrilled with southern pagan-states of africans (which were
supprisingly strong and big also), Russia started to wake up from
mongol-invasion. That means that almost all of Asia and Europe were (as
crusades were hobby of whole continent as football now) and half of
Africa non-muslim areas (it was not much easier either on African east
coast for muslims) were attacking together against muslims, "without
fear".
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