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Come: He said: {And they ask you about those who have two horns. Say: They will recite against you by mentioning} Verse 83 of Surat Al-Kahf. .
God Almighty revealed these verses from Surat Al-Kahf after the Jews asked the Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, about “Dhul Qarnain,” where some of his stories were mentioned in their books. The story of Dhul Qarnain is one of the most mysterious stories mentioned in the Noble Qur’an, due to the lack of its details and the similarity of some of its details to what was mentioned in the Jewish books.
Who is Dhul-Qarnayn?
There are many narrations about the cause of his name, but most of them went to his highness with that name in admiration for him, and a salute to his high mission and his honor, where Dhul Qarnain grew up in a bonded nation, occupied and attacked by neighboring countries, and when he appeared and saw the weakness and enslavement of his nation, Sadness and thought of doing something to liberate his country than it is.
Invitation
Dhul-Qarnayn began to call upon his people to work to get rid of the oppression of neighboring countries and to call them to unite and to circumvent it and support it, but the people used to accept injustice and humiliation, and asked him not to speak on this subject so that the enemy king did not know so he prepared a powerful army to attack them with it.
He did not come with Dhul-Qarnayn. God gave him great qualities, and he was of sincere belief, firm belief, wisdom and good opinion. He was strong and healthy.
Wonderful vision
One night, Dhul Qarnain saw in his dreams a strange vision that made him very optimistic, seeing as if he had ascended to the sun, or as if the sun had come close to him until his peer grabbed his hands, the two horns woke up from his dreams and sheared to his companions while he was explaining the pleased chest. The interpretation of the vision from his companions was that he would be strong and become a strong man with followers and an army, and would own the whole world and hold its bright and Moroccan horns.
Dhul Qarnain and King
The influence of Dhul Qarnain increased, until with the days he became the leader of the whole country, and people around him turned around and pledged to listen, obey, and fight the enemy, until he returned to them their right. The country of Dhul-Qarnayn paid money every year to the neighboring king, a tax imposed on them, and when the time came to pay these money, the king’s men came to collect these money from the people, so Dhul-Qarnayn expelled them and wrote to the king that these taxes will not be paid to him after today and that, God willing, is coming to fight them.
War and Victory
Dhu al-Qarnayn prepared a huge army and prepared for war, and marched with the army to the land of the unjust king, so when the people of these countries learned of the advent of Dh al-Qarnayn, God Almighty hurled in their hearts terror, and rushed to the king asking him to reconcile the enemy, so he got angry, gathered this army and prepared to fight.
The two armies met and there was intense fighting between them, and God was with the patient and faithful, so he won them and defeated their enemies, and the enemy king was killed in the battlefield, thus the two centuries saved the country from the king’s oppression, and he became king over the whole country and the neighboring countries, so he spread justice and security among the people.
Dhul Qarnain in the Maghrib of the Earth!
Dhul-Qarnayn determined to wander with his powerful army, which is victorious throughout the land, to purify its east and west by the word of God, and God has given him everything that makes him strong and victorious in the land. Dhul Qarnain marched with his army heading towards the West, and he found in it infidel people who did not worship God, so God insisted on them, and he managed to control them, so he advised them and reformed the affairs of this country and its age, and built mosques in it and was able to make these people believers who owe God Almighty.
Dhul Qarnain in the bright ground!
Dhu al-Qarnayn marched to the east, after being reassured about the state of the West, and with him his army and his men were engineers and doctors, and he began to invite every people who met them on his way to worship God alone, so if they believed their generosity and made them dear to the land.
Gog and goggle
Dhul-Qarnayn reached the end of the country, the ocean, so he walked with his army among wide plains, and found fertile valleys and rugged plateaus. It is difficult to walk in it, and he kept walking until he reached a wide and wide opening between two high mountains, and behind the mountains there was a nation and a good tribe of people, having religion and faith and worshiping God but they are isolated from people, and this wide opening between the two mountains was the cause of their tiredness, hardship, and fear for their children and themselves Because of this wide opening, two brutal tribes come from them, they used to eat everything and attack the righteous nation that worship God, so they perish their crops and fruits, and they kill women, men and children with cruelty, mercy and no religion they have, they are “Gog and Magog.”
And when the believing tribe saw the army of Dhul-Qarnayn, its country came, and heard about its justice and righteousness, it was joyful for it, and a delegation of its elders went, and they declared their faith in God, and they complained to him about Gog and Magog, and they mentioned to the two centuries a serious matter, as he was told that Gog and Gog have many children and multiply quickly. It is enormous, and they will fill the land with their children soon, and spread corruption and disbelief among people, so they asked him to build a strong dam between the two mountains, blocking the opening from which they enter, and offered the two centuries to pay him for this work.
He replied that he was not looking for money but rather spreading faith and worshiping God alone, and that what he wanted was to help him build this dam. Dhul-Qarnayn ordered the people to collect pieces of iron, and he ordered the engineers to measure the distance between the two mountains and their height, and he commanded the workers and they dug mainly on the ground and laid Pieces of iron between the two mountains, and made between each layer of iron and another amount of coal, and still raises the wide iron until a bridge between the two mountains, and the workers kept blowing in the coal until the pieces of iron turned into a liquid fire, and the copper was poured on the molten iron dictating the cracks, and the dam turned into A huge high dam from which Gog and Gig cannot penetrate.
After the completion of the structure and its height, Dhul Qarnain looked at him and praised and thanked God, and said: {This is a mercy from
