METHODOLOGY FOR STUDY OF THE QUR'AN
by Sheikh Imran Nazar Hosein
Do not by—pass the Qur’ān!
In order for anyone to be a true student of the Qur’ān, the firm policy of study must be adopted of never ignoring or by-passing the Qur’ān in the pursuit of knowledge – regardless of the branch of knowledge being studied. Rather the Qur’ān must be recognized as the infallible Word of the One God Who speaks with absolute authority and without error. Fourteen hundred years is a very long period of time, and that is how long the Qur’ān has been in this world. Had there been any errors in the Qur’ān, they should have already been discovered; but no one has ever discovered any error in the Qur’ān during this very long period of time.
It is only after the student of the Qur’ān has studied what the Qur’ān has plainly said concerning a subject of study, should he then turn to other sources of knowledge such as the Hadīth of Nabī Muhammad (s), or to previous scriptures, i.e., revealed prior to the Qur’ān, or to knowledge which has come to the world for example, from modern western civilization. Since knowledge which has come from the Qur’ān is absolute ‘truth’ and is infallible, that knowledge from the Qur’ān must be used as al-Furqān, i.e., that which sits in judgment over all other knowledge – regardless of source.
Let us now give an example of proper methodology. Suppose we wish to study the subject of Gog and Magog, who are a major sign of the End-time, to determine when they will be released into the world. If we use the wrong methodology of commencing our study with the Hadīth, rather than the Qur’ān, we can be misled to misinterpret the Hadīth. Many have unfortunately made this mistake of using a wrong methodology, and have concluded from the study of one solitary Hadīth that Gog and Magog will be released into the world only after the return of Nabī ‘Isa (Jesus (a), the son of the Virgin Mary, and after he has killed Dajjāl the false Messiah.
The Qur’ān did not at all link the release of Gog and Magog into the world to the return of Nabī ‘Isa (Jesus (a) and to his killing of Dajjāl. If such people had commenced their study of the subject with the Qur’ān they would have found that the release of Gog and Magog into the world has been linked by Allah Most High to the return of a people to a ‘town’ from which they had been expelled by divine decree. Having expelled them from their ‘town’, Allah Most High then banned their return until:
i. Gog and Magog were released,
ii. Gog and Magog had spread out in all directions:
“We have prohibited the return of a people to a town which we have destroyed,
Until Gog and Magog are released, and they spread out in all directions (or descend from every height).”
Until Gog and Magog are released, and they spread out in all directions (or descend from every height).”
(Qur’ān, al-Anbiyāh, 21:95-96)
In order for the student to discover the absolute and irrefutable ‘truth’ of the release of Gog and Magog into the world, he has to discover the identity of the ‘town’ referred to in the verse above. We have done so while using proper methodology, and we have identified the town as Jerusalem.
Our first step in identifying the ‘town’ was to recognize it to be linked by the irrefutable Qur’ān to Gog and Magog. Secondly, Gog and Magog belong to the Signs of the End-time, and the Qur’ān has declared Nabī ‘Isa (Jesus (a) to be the Sign par excellence of the End-time:
“And, behold, surely he (Jesus) (i.e., his return) is indeed a Sign of the Last Hour; hence, have no doubt whatever about it, but follow Me: this [alone] is a straight way.”
(Qur’ān, al-Zukhruf, 43:57-61)
Nabī ‘Isa (Jesus (a) (i.e., his return) is the master-Sign of the Last Day or the End-time. The ‘town’ therefore has to be one that is linked to Nabī ‘Isa (Jesus
(a) as no other ‘town’ is linked to him. Hence it has to be Jerusalem.
This identification of the ‘town’ with Jerusalem is confirmed by the Hadīth quoted here-under that Gog and Magog will pass by the Sea of Galilee on their way to a mountain in Jerusalem:
The Prophet said that the first of (Gog and Magog) will pass by the Sea of Galilee and start to drink from it – until when the last of them pass by they will say: “There once used to be water here.” They will then travel on until they reach a mountain in Jerusalem and they will then say: “We have killed those who are in earth – now let us kill those who are (above) in the sky.”
(Jāmi’ al-Tirmīdhī)
As a consequence, we have concluded that the Qur’ān referred to the expulsion of the Jews by divine decree from Jerusalem, and to the ban imposed again by divine decree prohibiting their return to reclaim Jerusalem.
When, however, they do return and succeed in reclaiming Jerusalem as their own, such will not only reveal to the world that Gog and Magog were already released and had already spread out in all directions, but also reveal the identity of Gog and Magog in the Judeo-Christian Zionist alliance who control power in modern western civilization, and who brought the Israelite Jews back to Jerusalem to reclaim it as their own.
Since the Qur’ān also referred to Gog and Magog as agents of Fasād (al-Kahf, 18:94) the implication of them spreading out in all directions is that the world would experience universal Fasād. The explanation in the Qur’ān for the universal Fasād which now afflicts mankind is quite plain and clear. Gog and Magog are the cause of that Fasād! There is no other explanation.
Not only did wrong methodology of ignoring the Qur’ān lead to an error concerning the time of the release of Gog and Magog into the world, and negligence in respect of locating the explanation in the Qur’ān for today’s universal Fasād, but it also led to a misinterpretation of the Hadīth which spoke of Allah sending Gog and Magog rather than releasing them:
… And then Allah will send Gog and Magog and they will spread out in every direction. The first of them will pass by the Sea of Galilee and they will drink from it. And the last of them will pass by and they will say that there used to be water in it.
(Sahīh Musl im)
Those who used the wrong methodology also missed the clue given by the Hadīth that an ever-diminishing water-level of the Sea of Galilee will indicate that Gog and Magog have been released, and that they have been passing by that Sea on their way to Jerusalem. In fact, the water-level in the Sea of Galilee is now so low that it has crossed all previous records, and it seems only a matter of time before the Sea becomes dry and devoid of water.
This provides further tangible proof that Gog and Magog have already been released. Finally, we may direct attention to another Hadīth which records a vision which the blessed Prophet (a) experienced while sleeping at the home of his wife Zainab(r). The Hadith is so important that we quoted it entirely:
“Narrated Zainab bint Jahsh: One day Allah’s Apostle entered upon her in a state of fear and said: None has the right to be worshipped but Allah! Woe to the Arabs from the Great evil that has approached (them). Today a hole has been opened in the barrier of Gog and Magog like this. The Prophet made a circle with his index finger and thumb. Zainab bint Jahsh added: I asked: O Allah’s Apostle! Shall we be destroyed though there will be righteous people among us? The Prophet said: Yes, (it will come to pass) when wickedness increases (i.e. scum, evil, disgusting conduct, sexual perversity, etc. overtakes the world).” (This indicates not only political, economic and military oppression of Arabs but also, that they would be demonized in every conceivable obscene and malicious way.)
(Sahīh Bukhārī)
This vision not only clearly indicated that the release of Gog and Magog commenced in the Prophet’s life-time, but it also prophesied the eventual destruction of the Arabs by Gog and Magog at that time when Khabath or scum, prevails. It is plain as daylight that scum is now incrementally prevailing in the world. Nowhere is that scum more visible than in those parts of the world where a man can now marry another man and get a marriage certificate. There are those Muslims, without any faith in their hearts, who actually make Hijrah to those parts of the world where scum prevails, because they can live there comfortably, make heaps of money, build mansions with that money in Pakistan, Egypt, Bangladesh, and elsewhere, and thus justify their Hijrah in the eyes of the poor destitute masses of those countries. Scum now prevails in the Arab world as well, in consequence of which the oppressed masses are now destitute, the Algerian Dinār (like the Pakistani Rupee) is trading at more than 100 to US$1, millions live the wretched life of refugees, and the true believers amongst the Arabs live the most miserable life possible.
It is not difficult to understand why Gog and Magog have embarked on a destruction of the Arabs. A Pax Judaica, in succession to Pax Americana, would not be possible so long as the Arabs are strong enough to offer effective resistance to oppression.
However, there is comfort for the Arabs in the knowledge that their destruction will not constitute Divine punishment since it will take place despite righteous conduct.
to be continued .....
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