999 Out of Every 1,000? The Terrifying Numbers of Gog and Magog (Yajuj Majuj) — Part 6

Few numbers in Islamic tradition are as startling as the one mentioned in connection with Gog and Magog, known in Arabic as Yajuj and Majuj. According to hadith narration, on the Day of Judgement a call will be made for people to be separated, and from every thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine will be taken. The Companions are described in the narration as being alarmed by this proportion, asking who the one remaining person might be, which underlines how shocking the figure was meant to sound.


Scholars explaining this narration have generally understood the number as a picture of sheer multitude rather than a census to be calculated in advance. The point, in this traditional reading, is that Yajuj and Majuj will be so numerous that, compared with the rest of humanity, they overwhelm the scale. In other words, humanity as we ordinarily imagine it - nations, cities and generations - is presented as a small fraction beside their vast numbers. That is why the narration is often quoted when teachers describe why their emergence is considered such a momentous sign.


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This fits the wider story told in the Qur'an and in Islamic tradition. Dhul-Qarnayn, a righteous ruler, is described as building a barrier of iron and molten metal to restrain Yajuj and Majuj and protect people who lived behind it. For a long age that barrier holds, and their confinement becomes part of the background of history. Tradition teaches, however, that near the end times the barrier will be opened, they will surge out in great waves, and events of immense turmoil will follow before God's final judgement brings everything to account.


Part 6 of this Daily Info Dose series focuses on that single ratio - 999 out of every 1,000 - and invites reflection on what it is intended to convey: not a reason for despair for believers, according to the traditional commentaries, but a reminder of the scale of God's knowledge and power, and of preparing for the Day of Judgement with faith and goo



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