KN-OW-Imran-Nazar-Hosein-An-Islamic-View-Of-Gog-And-Magog-In-The-Modern-World

no covering (i.e. perhaps no protection against the sun (climate,atmospheric pollution etc.) other than the natural covering).(Qur’ān, al-Kahf, 18:90)The stretch of land for which we are looking must not only bebounded on both west and east by two large seas but must also begeographically characterized by impassable continuous mountainrange. We need to find a series of more or less connectedmountains ranged in a line stretching from the shores of one seato the other. Only thus can we accept that the construction of abarrier blocking a solitary pass between the mountains couldeffectively seal off the passage of marauding tribes from one sideof the mountain range to the other side:® ف َما اسط َاعوا أ َن يظ ْهروه وما استط َاعوا ل َه نق ْبا〉‏“And thus (the barrier was built and Gog and Magog) were unable toscale it and neither were they able to penetrate it (by digging a holethrough it) (and these had to be the only two options available to themsince Dhul Qarnain proceeded to declare that the construction of thebarrier was an act of Divine Kindness, i.e. implying that mankind washenceforth safe from the ravages of Gog and Magog).”(Qur’ān, al-Kahf, 18:97)Dhul Qarnain used the Arabic word Radmun to describe thebarrier which he was going to construct. While Saddun in Arabicmeans barrier, Radmun implies a construction which fills up aspace akin to a dam. Let us repeat; we must look for a geographicalregion North of the Holy Land which is bounded on both west andeast by large seas, with the Western sea characterized by a dark164