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It was as if its taking from it heat, light or energy, I do not know
Or maybe it was giving something I don't know, but what matters is that there is a sort of tube connected with this body and the sun
Then it disconnected and moved away from it.This is also one of the strange things that I came across when researching about the "Hollow Earth" theory
There is another hadith: From Ali son of Ibrahim, he said: Jaafar son of Ahmad said, from Abdullah son of Musa from Al-Hassan son of Ali son of Abi Hamza from his father from Abi-Baseer from AbiAbdillah (pbuh) that he said:
I asked him about the words of Allah " And they ask you, [O Muhammad], about Dhul-Qarnayn. Say, "I will recite to you about him a report." ( AlKahf:38)
Here the talk is about Zul Qarnain and what he discovered, he discovered things that are unknown to us, or only some of it is known to us
He responded by saying: Indeed Dhul-Qarnayn was dispatched by Allah to a nation, they struck him on his right horn, so Allah took his life for 500 years
Then he dispatched him to them after this so they struck him on his left horn, so Allah took his life for 500 years
Then he dispatched him to them after this, and made him reign over the east of the earth and its west
And as I said to you in the narrations (it says): " And he has a likeness to our Qaim (pbuh)" 11 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:40,000 So when he returned the 3rd time Allah made him reign from the east of the earth to its west from where the sun rises to where it sets
So He swt says: "Until, when he reached the setting of the sun, he found it [as if] setting in a spring of dark mud" until the words in the Holy Qur'an "a terrible punishment"
He said in the fire, so Dhul-Qarnayn made between them a door from cupper, iron and tar, so it prevented them from exiting"
So this story tells us that Dhul-Qarnayn (as) has reached to where the sun sets and to where it rises and he went and traveled...etc
And of course as we know from the story, he went to people who did not know how to defend themselves against Gog and Magog
These people asked him [Dhul-Qarnayn] for help and said to him: “Wee see you are a righteous servant, each time we plant, Gog and Magog come and destroy our plants and eat them until nothing remains.
We will pay you so that you may build between us and them a barrier. ” meaning it would separate between them so that they would not attack them and eat the plants
So from here I don’t see how it is possible to imagine that they [Gog and Magog] are [present] in the heavens/sky. From what I understand, and Allah knows best of course, they are present on earth. 19 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:30,000 From Jabir Ibn Abdillah Al-Ansary, he said he heard the Prophet of Allah (pbuhahf) saying: Verily Dhul-Qarnayn was a righteous servant, Allah made him a Proof ( Hujja) upon his servants
So he called his people to Allah swt, and ordered them to be God-fearing
He was neither a prophet nor a messenger but a righteous servant who reached a high rank so Allah dispatched him to a nation.
"So they struck him on is horn upon which he went into occultation for some time until it was said: he is either dead or he perished, in which place/valley did he go?"
This is what was also said about the Mahdi (pbuh) in his occultation
"Then he appeared and returned to this people, so they struck him on his other horn, and among you are those who stick to their ways"
"Verily Allah swt established/enabled him upon the earth, and gave him to everything a way."
"He reached the east and the west, Allah swt will have a likeness from him appear in the Qaim from my sons"
"And He will make him reach the east of the earth and its west until there are neither plains nor mountains Dhul-Qarnayn treaded except that the Mahdi (as) he treads it as well"
"Allah swt reveals to him the treasures of the earth and its assets and gives him victory through terror so he fills the earth with justice and equality after it was filled with injustice and tyranny"
And of course, regarding that hadith, the messenger of Allah (pbuhap) mentions that the Qa’im will be enabled in the the earth. All praises due to Allah, we have no doubt about that
And also that He will reveal treasures, if it says “he will reveal treasures” then that means that humanity has not yet reached (come to know) the treasures of the earth,
Either the treasures that exist underneath the pyramids as some of the narrations mention
by the way some say that there are cities existing underneath the earth
And the person who reads the Quran of course glorifies Allah the Almighty is not surprised much and is able to believe these kind of things, because Allah the Almighty says in Ayatu Al-Kursy:
“To Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on the earth and whatever is between them and whatever is underneath the soil
It says “and whatever is underneath the soil What could be underneath the soil/earth? That means that there are things [hidden] underneath the earth no one knows but Allah the Almighty.
In Sheikh Mufid's book "Al-Ikhtesas": from Ahmad Ibn Mohamad Isa, from Mohamad Ibn Sinan, from who spoke to him, from Abdurahman Al-Kaseer he said;
Abu Jaafar (pbuh) started by saying: "As for Dhul Qarnain he was given a choice between the two clouds, so he chose "Al Dhalul" and kept "Al-Saab"(AR: the difficult one) one to your companion"
This is also a beautiful hadith and an important one. It means that Allah the Almighty gave Dhul-Qarnayn the choice between two clouds.
There was the cloud “Dhalul” and the other cloud which was called “the hard one”, so Dhul-Qarnayn chose the “Dhalul”
And left for your companion, meaning the Qa’im (pbuh) or one of the Imams, the “hard/difficult”one of them
“So I said what is the difficult one? He said: Whatever cloud has thunder and lightning, your companion will ride it,
He will ride the clouds and rise in the ways
The ways of the seven heavens and seven layers of earth
Five are inhabited and two are wreck
So Subhanallah here he’s speaking about the seven heavens and the earths
And he says five of them are inhabited, meaning by creatures
And two are destroyed and nothing exists in them
This is also from the knowledge of Ahlu-albayt (pbut) and wonders of the hadiths
As for “ascend in ways/means”, it’s because Dhul-Qarnayn in the Quran
Allah has given him the means and the ways to reach the setting of the sun and its rising
But it’s not like he would take his camels or his horses and set off, it was not that easy.
Rather Allah has tamed for him the clouds and in another tradition/narration-maybe it will come in a bit
It says that Allah has expanded for him the light
So when it was asked what does that Allah has expanded for him the light mean?
Ali (pbuh) said: “It means he sees in the day like he sees at night"
So it’s not the case that he cannot see anything at night, he does not need anything
And this confirms the narrations that we will probably mention in a bit.
O Allah send your peace and blessings upon Muhammad and the family of Muhammad and the Imams and the Mahdis
Also from the book "AlIkhtesas" by Sheikh Mufeed
Ibn Mohamad ibn Isa, from Al-Hussein Ibn Saeed, from Uthman ibn Isa
From Sama'a ibn Mahran and others, from AbiBasseer,
From AbiJaafar (pbuh) that he said: “Ali (as) has owned/was king over what is above this earth and what is beneath it
So two clouds were offered to him, one of them is Al-Saa'b (the hard/difficult one) 64 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:16,000 And the other one is "Al Dhalul". So in this hadith the clouds where offered to Ali (pbuh) 65 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:20,000 As they were offered to Dhul-Qarnayn
Dhul-Qarnayn chose AlDhalul, and they were offered to Ali (pbuh) so he chose "Al-Saab"
“Al-Saab would enable kingship over what’s underneath the earth and AlDhalul of what is above it"
so he chose Al-Saab over AlDhalul, so it took him to the seven layers of earth.”
And when I say “the seven layers of earth” we do not know whether
The layers are in the bottom of the earth or in another dimension
Allah knows best but what matters is that it took him to the 7 layers of earth
“So he found three in wreck and four inhabited.”
As we said like the hadith mentioned previously
The prince of the believers ( pbuh) said: Verily Dhul-Qarnayn, when he reached with the sun to the spring of dark mud 75 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:16,000 He found that the sun was setting in it
Try to imagine this hadith: It says “setting in a spring of dark mud”
The spring of dark mud is a hot spring
so we don’t know whether that spring is existent on earth or in another dimension, Allah knows best
“when he reached with the sun to the spring of dark mud, he found that the sun was setting in it, and with it 70,000 angels dragging it with chains
of iron and hooks, dragging it
from the depth of the sea from the right region of the earth
like a ship running through water
Ali (pbuh) is saying that the angles dragg the sun and pull it from the depth of the sea
It moves like a ship crossing the sea
"so when he reached with it to its rising place of the sun"
"He found it rising upon a people" until the end of the Allah’s saying: 87 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:31,000 He found beside them a people who could hardly understand [his] speech.”
This is also a strange hadtih
From JameelIbn Daraj, from Abi Abdillah (pbuh) he said
I asked him about the earthshaking so he said: My father told me from his father, from his fathers (pbut)
That the Prophet (pbuhahf) said: "Verily when Dhul Qarnain came to the barrier
He passed it so he entered into darkness". That means that Dhul-Qarnayn has reached the farthest that a human being could ever reach
Is it to the North Pole, the South Pole? Allah knows best
But what matters here is that he reached an extreme far [side] of the earth to the extent that he crossed over to what is behind the barrier.
The barrier in some narrations is a giant/great mountain or two great mountains
So he crossed them. It says until “he entered into darkness”
It says “So he saw an angel standing” This is a very strange and beautiful narration.
When he reached to what’s behind the barrier and entered into the darkness
and in that darkness there is no light and it is hard to see, but as we know,
Dhul-Qarnayn sees at night like he sees in the day,
that’s why he had no problem with that, but the problem, as we might see later in one of the narrations, was with Al-KhIdr because Al-Khidr was not able to see in the darkness
So Dhul-Qarnayn gave him a stone that would lighten in the dark. No sorry, not lighten, 104 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:26,000 but make a noise so that he can know where he is or where he’s going out
We will come to that later insha’Allah.
So he says “He saw an angel standing, his length is 500 arms/cubits, the angel said to him:
O ZulQarnain wasn't there behind you a passage?
So Dhul-Qarnayn said: And who are you?
He said: "I am an angel from the Angels of the Most Merciful, I am assigned to this mountain,
There is no mountain created by Allah except that it is connected to this mountain”
Meaning all the mountains that are created on the earth have their roots and their origin in that mountain,
And that is its strength, because the mountains hold the earth together
“So if Allah wants to shake a city, He would inspire me and I would shake it.”
So if Allah wants to shake the earth, he orders the angel, the angel shakes the mountain
And the mountain, since it is attached/ connected to all the other mountains, shakes that certain piece of earth
From Jabir, from Abu Jaafar (pbuh) he said, the Prince of believers (pbuh) said: “The sun sets in a spring of dark mud
In a sea below the city that follows what's behind Maghreb
And that city is called what? “Jabalaka”
The sun, as he says, sets in a spring of dark mud, in a sea,
and it exists in that city.
The Sheikh in Amaleeh said: Ibn AL Salt
informed us , IbnAqda informed us, Abu Al Hassan AlQasim Ibn Jaafar ibn Ahmad Ibn Imran who is known as Ibn Al-Shamy
said: Ibad Ibn Ahmad Al Arzamy said:My uncle informed me from his father, from Jabir, from Shaaby from AbiRafea from Huzaifa ibn Al Yamman
from the Prophet (pbuhahf): the people of Gog and Magog
He said: The people will dig underneath the barrier with their shovels continuously”
Meaning they will be working day and night, wanting to dig it[the barrier] 127 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:10,000 After Dhul-Qarnayn has built it
“When the night comes they say: tomorrow we will continue but that they wake up (to find it) stronger than the night before”
So Allah the Almighty, for a certain reason only he knows, made it so,
That they dig and dig all day along and when the night comes, they get tired and they say “tomorrow we will carry on with the digging”
thinking that they will continue from wherever they stopped
But Allah the Almighty returns it [the barrier] back to what it was before (back to its previous condition)
So they start digging all the way back from the beginning
So their matter is like that
until a man from them becomes Muslim, so the messenger of Allah says:“Until a man from them becomes Muslim"
Until Allah (swt) reveals his matter So the believer says: Tomorrow we will open it insha'Allah
So they wake up and go back and forth to it so Allah opens it
By the one whom my soul is in his hand, a man of them will pass by the beach of the valley in Kufan 139 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:18,000 And drink from it until they empty it
So one would say by Allah I had seen this valley once before and water would run through it.”
So the day Gog and Magog come out, there will be a Fitna
Because they [Gog and Magog] do not leave anything except that they destroy it
And like the messenger of Allah (pbuhap) says in this hadith also
Even the valley in Kufan they drink it to the end/fully, because they are originally many
In some hadiths it is said that each of them gives birth to 999 children
They bear a lot of children and they are many
Of course this is not surprising because some hadiths cross my mind now which say that among the signs of the End Times 148 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:22,000 For example the Nile will dry up or another river will dry up
So we’re not surprised or we do not wonder how it dries up, because sometimes a person could wonder and ask themselves and try to imagine:” how is it possible that it dries up?
It is filled [with water] already, masha’Allah it is big (wide) and long
So how? How is this possible?Certainly it’s going to take days and years etc. [until it dries up]
So the objectors say, meaning the objectors of Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan (pbuh) ”the Mahdi has not appeared yet, because these signs have not yet taken place”
But if Allah wills, the valley could dry up in a blink of an eye
If for examples Gog and Magog come out or another thing happens
“They said when would that be O Prophet of Allah? He said: When there is nothing left of this world except the remaining amount in a container.”
Meaning until what is left in this world is very little. “A remaining amount in a container” means a small amount of water in a container 158 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:16,000 And this means a little of this world in the End Times
The prince of the believers ( pbuh) was asked about creation, he said:
“Allah created 2200 in the land and 2200 in the sea
the children of Adam are 70 races other than Gog and Magog.”
Also in this hadith Ali (pbuh) says Allah has created 2200 in the land, meaning a lot of creatures
And it is impossible to know all of them. How much of the creation in the land and in the sea do we know? 164 00:19:56,000 --> 00:20:01,000 And as we know, even in the sea, in the seabed, in its darkness, the salty sea,
there are creatures that the human being has not yet come to know in the first place
the same also goes for the bottom of the earth
“The children of Adam are 70 races other than Gog and Magog.”
whom we do not know of which race they are
It has not been mentioned
but we know for sure that Gog and Magog are not of humankind and they do not look like us
For sure they are not human beings
Because there are some theories, and among them the theory of Sheikh Imran
for example and other theories too, which state that Gog and Magog are the inhabitants of Khazar, not far from China
Meaning in Asia and near Russia and those areas
And that they are the Khazars, the Tatar and the Mongols
However, the words of Ali (pbuh) confirm that they [Gog and Magog] are not of humankind
So it is not possible that they are from the Khazar
Or what you call the people of Russia, or the Mongols or Tatars
In another hadith by Al-Hassan (pbuh)
Al-Hassan once asked his father for something
So he said to Ali (pbuh): ’I want you to show me Gog and Magog
And the barrier that is between us and them
so the wind blew underneath the clouds” 184 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:04,000 So when Al-Hassan (pbuh) when he asked Ali (pbuh) they were sitting and I think with them was Salman too
and Al-Hassan (pbuh) said: “I want to see Gog and Magog and the barrier that Dhul-Qarnayn has built.”
So Ali (pbuh) asked the cloud to come to him, so it came and took him
So he said: “So the wind blew underneath the clouds, and we heard the sound of thunder
So we flew higher in the sky
And the Prince of believers was ahead of us
Until we reached a high mountain and a dry tree whose leaves had fallen and branches had dried
So Al-Hassan (pbuh) spoke to the tree and asked O tree: What happened to you that you dried out like this?
So it did not answer so the prince of believers (pbuh) said: you must answer him
So the narrator said: By Allah I heard it say: the Prince of Believers (pbuh) used to come to me every night at the time of Sahar (last portion of the night)
( He would) pray two rakaa's and make a lot of Tasbeeh/supplications
Once he is finished with his prayers a white cloud would come to him, with a fragrance of musk
On top of it is a chair, so he would sit on it, and it would move with him to wherever he wishes
I was living with his presence and his blessings, then he stopped coming to me for 40 days
and this is the reason why I became like this
So the Prince of Believers (a.s) got up, prayed two rakaa's and wiped his palms over it, 199 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:36,000 so it returned green as it was.”
So this hadith of course highlights Ali (pbuh) and his knowledge
and he as well reached places no one has ever reached
for example that mountain which we don’t know where it exists and those trees, those special trees, so Subhanallah.
So there are secrets in this earth that we don’t know about until our present day and in our present time.
“Then he ordered the wind [to blow] so it [the cloud] moved with us, until we saw an angle who has a hand in the west and the other in the east
When the angel looked at the prince of believers (as) he said: I bear witness that there is no God but Allah, Alone no associates to him
and that Mohamad is His servant and messenger, sent with guidance and the religion of truth, to make it triumph over all religions even if the disbelievers hate it
And I bear witness that you are his vicegerent and his caliph truly,
So I said O Prince of the believers, who is this who has a hand in the east and the other in the west?
So he said (pbuh) this is the angel that Allah has assigned for the darkness of the night and the light of the day, he does not go away until judgment day
Verily Allah swt has made the matter of this life to me, the works of the servants are presented to me every day, and then they are raised to Allah.
Then we continued until we stood on the barrier of Gog and Magog , so the Prince of the Believers (as) said to the wind:
Descend with us until what is behind this mountain" and he pointed with his hand to a great mountain
It is the mountain of Khidr (as), so we looked to the barrier, and its height was greater than our eyesight, it was black like
So the Prince of believers said: O Aba Mohammad, I am the master of this matter over these servants.
the darkness of the night, from its sides smoke was coming out,
Salman said: ‘I saw three types.’ ” So he found in that area in which that great barrier is placed which no human being has ever reached yet,
Three types. Salman says: “The length of one of them is 120 arms/Cubits
In the second type the length ofeach one of them is 60 arms/cubits
and the 3rd extends one of his ears underneath him and covers himself with the other one.” So these are all creatures people didn’t even know
By the way some of the people who believe in the hollow-earth theory say that there are giant creatures with great heights
And this hadith confirms at least these statements/arguments because it says they found creatures
who are 120 arms/Cubits tall and others among them 60 arms/Cubits tall
O Allah send your peace and blessings upon Muhammad and the family of Muhammad and the Imams and the Mahdis
Thus through all these great hadiths that we can find in the narrations of Ahlu-Bayt (pbut) it is clear to us that we do not know anything of the creatures of the earth except very very little
And it is possible that Gog and Magog are present on the earth, and of course when that certain time comes and Allah wills,
that barrier will be opened and they [Gog and Magog] will come out or like the Quran says “descend”
And “descend” means sliding or coming down easily and quickly
So they will descend from every elevated place. I don’t know if this verse talks about when the records of the children of Adam are closed 229 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:55,000 And no repentance is accepted and no belief is accepted, from a soul who did not believe before that, Allah knows best
I do not have a precise answer for that
And of course if you want to watch the photos and the map,
It will be available for you insha’Allah. And also you can research in depth about this topic and think about it and certainly you will find things I have not come out with
And all praises are due to Allah
O Allah send your peace and blessings upon Muhammad and the family of Muhammad and the Imams and the Mahdis