again I ask."The European Jews following godless etc."...I hope you didn't mean anything anti-Semitic by that? If I were you, I'd watch how you phrase things.
"The European Jews following godless etc."...I hope you didn't mean anything anti-Semitic by that? If I were you, I'd watch how you phrase things.
"The European Jews" as doing "godless" things it comes across as sounding a little racist and makes them appear tactless at the very least. If nothing else it was a very poor choice of words.
He didn't provide any of those things. Perhaps all of the genuine examples of anti-Semitism I've seen at boards such as this one have made me a little jaded but you have to admit, when people speak of entire groups of people like "The European Jews" as doing "godless" things it comes across as sounding a little racist and makes them appear tactless at the very least. If nothing else it was a very poor choice of words.
From the way you talk one would think I use Wikipedia as my sole source of learning because I cited it once in passing as a quick reference point.
However, I would not completely throw away all the evidence provided by those who believe Khazar Jews to be part of Gog and Magog forces....rather the evidence about Khazar Jews being part of Gog and Magog forces is a lot more and convincing than the Vikings theory especially as the European Jews following godless political Ideology of Zionism are at the forefront in what happening right now in the Middle East.
Shaikh Dr Ridhwan Saleem said:Weaknesses in identifying the Khazars as Gog and Magog.
I will not elaborate this point extensively as it will surely be clear to most people who delve into the history of the Khazar people that they do not fit the profile of Gog and Magog given in the revelatory sources except in some random characteristics.
The idea that the barrier of Dhul Qarnayn was situated in the Caucasus region came into Muslim thought through the influence of Jewish and Christian sources. Long before Islam, Jewish and Christian tradition had built a legend around the figure of Alexander the Great and identified him with the Biblical prophet who had been given dominion over the ends of the Earth and had built the great barrier to contain the tribes of Gog and Magog. The great wall of Alexander was thought to lie somewhere in the Caucasus region according to legend.
It is clear that these ideas were introduced into Muslim eschatological theory, as they have no basis in authentic revelation. Many Muslim scholars were not averse to taking ‘knowledge’ from the ‘Isra’eeliyaat’ or Jewish sources, although other scholars warned against this practice. Consequently, we find many books of tafsir identifying Dhul Qarnayn as Alexander the Great. Modern historical knowledge about Alexander, however, refutes the idea that he was a prophet or righteous man who believed in the One God.
Reasons against the Khazar people being Gog and Magog
1. The Quran describes that Gog and Magog were trapped behind the barrier and could not scale it or breach it. When they would be released, they would overrun the Earth. It is clear that the Khazar people were not trapped behind a barrier from all other people, either before the time of the Prophet (upon him be peace) or after. They were a nation of people whose relations with surrounding people are historically documented from prior to the final Prophecy.
2. It seems inaccurate to say that the Khazars stopped the Muslim armies from entry to Europe. There were clearly other routes into Europe from the Islamic Caliphate, including across the Mediterranean; it is well known that Islamic rule was established in Spain for centuries. Therefore, to say that the Khazars prevented Muslim expansion into Europe is to overstate their impact.
3. The Khazar people were from Central Asia, and thus surrounded by other ethnic groups and civilisations with whom they had extensive discourse. There is no suggestion that they were a people who were blocked off from the surrounding peoples of the world by natural or physical barriers.
2. It seems inaccurate to say that the Khazars stopped the Muslim armies from entry to Europe. There were clearly other routes into Europe from the Islamic Caliphate, including across the Mediterranean; it is well known that Islamic rule was established in Spain for centuries. Therefore, to say that the Khazars prevented Muslim expansion into Europe is to overstate their impact.
Arthur Koestler quotes from 13th Tribe:
Professor Dunlop of Columbia University, a leading authority on the history of the Khazars, has given a concise summary of this decisive yet virtually unknown episode:
The Khazar country… lay across the natural line of advance of the Arabs. Within a few years of the death of Muhammad (AD 632) the armies of the Caliphate, sweeping northward through the wreckage of two empires and carrying all before them, reached the great mountain barrier of the Caucasus. This barrier once passed, the road lay open to the lands of eastern Europe. As it was, on the line of the Caucasus the Arabs met the forces of an organized military power which effectively prevented them from extending their conquests in this direction. The wars of the Arabs and the Khazars, which lasted more than a hundred years, though little known, have thus considerable historical importance. The Franks of Charles Martel on the field of Tours turned the tide of Arab invasion. At about the same time the threat to Europe in the east was hardly less acute.... The victorious Muslims were met and held by the forces of the Khazar kingdom.... It can… scarcely be doubted that but for the existence of the Khazars in the region north of the Caucasus, Byzantium, the bulwark of European civilization in the east, would have found itself outflanked by the Arabs, and the history of Christendom and Islam might well have been very different from what we know.
I highlighted this part to show that just as how Normans stopped the advancing Muslim armies so did the Khazar.... so they both became barriers that stopped the spread of Islam and Muslims in to Europe (West and Eastern). So it is not fair to say that Khazars did not stop the Muslims from entering Europe.
Another thing that I believe is that in the same Book the 13th tribe, when King Joseph (one of the Khazar King) who replied back to Hasdai Shaprut, a Jew (the minister at the court in Cordoba Spain, Ummayad Caliphate), when asked about which tribe (of the 12 tribes of Children of Israel) the Khazar's belonged to ...Joseph replied...
“We have found in the family registers of our fathers,” Joseph asserts boldly, “that Togarma had ten sons, and the names of their offspring are as follows: Uigur, Dursu, Avars, Huns, Basilii, Tarniakh, Khazars, Zagora, Bulgars, Sabir. We are the sons of Khazar, the seventh…”
.....so all of the mentioned sons and their offspring, like Hun and children of Huns, Bulgars and children of Bulgar... all of them occupied the territories between the Black sea and Caspian Sea and almost all of them had war like nature and were known to the world from time immemorial as the Wild Tribes and it was due to this reason the passes such as Dariel and Darband came in to existence, because of their continuous attacks on the land of Iran and Southern part of Asia.
...Priscus’s chronicle confirms that the Khazars appeared on the European scene about the middle of the fifth century as a people under Hunnish sovereignty, and may be regarded, together with the Magyars and other tribes, as a later offspring of Attila’s horde.
...so when they became emperors and established their Khazar Kingdom which is during 2nd half of the 6th century, I believe it was that when the Prophet (saw) had a dream while in Arabia....
So I believe we cannot rule out them to be one of the Gog and Magog forces.... rest I will post tomorrow InshA'Allah.... I have to go.
Salaam Brother Scimitar and Yahya .... I believe its the Dariyal Pass...
What I see is that by you believing Nordic pass as the Wall of Gog and Magog, your completely overlooking the fact of Khazar Jews, the "13th Tribe" a book by Arthur Koestler , who are European Jews and are claiming the Holy Land to be their own (without them having any kind of share in the descent from Ibrahim (a.s)) and it is the Euro Jewish Elite from the Euro Jews who are the main backers of Zionism and are causing Havoc in the Middle East and Africa which I believe made Prophet (saw) wake up in the middle of the night with a shriek saying wailun lil 'arab..
....so I believe that Khazar Jews are a tribe that one should study and understand well before going in to the subject of Gog and Magog .....
Now yes there are other wild tribes of North Europe and Central Asia like Scythians and in the past like Mongols against whom even Chinese Kingdom had built Wall of China to protect against....but in the LAST Age i.e. our age.... it is the Euro Khazar Zionist Jews causing destruction.... And Allah (swt) knows best....
A Map of Khazaria Kingdom from 13th Tribe by Arthur Koestler
Also important thing to mention is the Euro Zionist Jewish Families like Rothschild, originated from Khazar land. They choose who should rule in USA, U.K etc.
Yes, I felt this way for quite a while myself. Until I was forced to look again at the hadeeth regarding the "swarming down upon" the believers. This is implying that the G&M will attack the Muslims, not the other way round. So in the example you cited from Koestler, doesn't really prove that the Khazars were the G&M you see?
The Muslims were the ones who went to "conquer" other lands... on the way, they found the Khazar lands, and tried to infiltrate those, and because the Khazars managed to hold the Muslims off for a period of approx. 100 years - seems to justify that the Khazars are the G&M? I find that kinda weak now... I never used to. I just started to think more, and think in perspective.
Quote Originally Posted by syed_z View Post
Another thing that I believe is that in the same Book the 13th tribe, when King Joseph (one of the Khazar King) who replied back to Hasdai Shaprut, a Jew (the minister at the court in Cordoba Spain, Ummayad Caliphate), when asked about which tribe (of the 12 tribes of Children of Israel) the Khazar's belonged to ...Joseph replied...
“We have found in the family registers of our fathers,” Joseph asserts boldly, “that Togarma had ten sons, and the names of their offspring are as follows: Uigur, Dursu, Avars, Huns, Basilii, Tarniakh, Khazars, Zagora, Bulgars, Sabir. We are the sons of Khazar, the seventh…”
So- if the Khazars belong to the tribe of Jews - how do they belong to the tribe of Gog and Magog also? they can't be both bro.
Remember - the G&M are the sons of Japeth, a son of Noah Alahis salaam.
Whereas the tribe of Jews, are from the sons of the Prophet Israi'l Alaihis salaam.
This is a key determining factor in their genealogy.
If the Khazars were already known and spreading in the middle of the 5th century, then they would have escaped 100 years (atleast) before the dream prophecy of the Prophet Muhammad pbuh, where he awoke sweating saying "woe to the Arabs woe to the Arabs" - the dream telling of the barrier being breached on that very day. So by this historical standard, i rule out the Khazars here too.
Darius, and Cyrus were Persian, so it makes absolutely no sense that Dhul Qarnain (maybe he was Darius, maybe he was Cyrus - Allah knows best) supposedly a Persian King and a Mede King would not know of a people so close to his own territory, and find their language to be unlike any he has ever heard.
Looks like you figuired out the Anti Christ. They have legions of sychophants (Godless Facsists, Marxists and brainwashed Christians and other faiths and many Muslims bend their knee to them for money.
Most people who have khazar blood today are indeed zionist jews. zionists are part of the judeo-christian alliance, which will follow dajjal. Hence they are a other side of the puzzle.
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