God’s servant who walked with Moses,Zhu Al-Qarnayn,Gog and Magog(Debunking more claims justifying hadith:)
God’s servant who walked with Moses,Zhu Al-Qarnayn,Gog and Magog(Debunking more claims justifying hadith:) . The following Quranic persons have been subject for claims to justify the hadith: 1- God speaks of Zhu Al-Qarnayn (18:83)? The literal translation is “the one with 2 horns”. In the Quran we learn that he was a great ruler who built the wall which kept Gog and Magog from attacking the people whom he met on his journey to the east. Do we know for sure who this person was? We do not know for sure, there have been a number of interpretations. Some interpreted Zhu Al-Qarnayn to be Alexander the Great and some have understood him to be Cyrus the Great while some others understood him to be the Byzantine emperor Heraclius who was thought of by his contemporaries as a “second Alexander”. But this is not all, the word ‘Qarnayn’ literally means two Qarn, yet when we look at the use of the word ‘Qarn’ we find that it was never used in the Quran to mean “horn” but was used to mean a century...