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

must fulfil the following conditions:• The public life of a Muslim Village must be established onthe firm foundations of the Qur’ān and Sunnah. Whatever isnot based on the Qur’ān and Sunnah cannot be recognizedessential for survival. If a Muslim religious practice cannotbe so established then, regardless of how beneficial it maybe, or how long Muslims may have observed it, it should notbe brought into the Masjid and into the public life of theMuslim Village, nor should it be allowed to become thegrounds for division and conflict between Muslims. Onlythus would the Muslim Village survive the sinistercontemporary effort directed at purging Muslim communitiesof all practices (both harmless and harmful) that are notbased on the Qur’ān and Sunnah and the way of the Aslāf(plural of Salaf, i.e. early Muslims). One implication of theabove would be that the Halaqa of Dhikr of the collectiverecitation of Sūah al-Kahf on every day of Jumu’ah would beheld in a private location within the village.• The Muslim Village must be self-sufficient in foodproduction and energy. Sūrah al-Kahf of the Qur’ān pointsto solar energy as the means through which the village canachieve energy independence:“Thou wouldst have seen the sun when it rose declining tothe right from their Cave and when it set turning away fromthem to the left while they lay in the open space in the midstof the Cave. Such are among the Signs of Allah . . . . Thouwouldst have deemed them awake whilst they were asleepand We turned them on their right and their left sides . . . .”(Qur’ān, al-Kahf, 18:17-18)The ‘turning’ of the youths to the right and left was achieved219