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Elsewhere, the Qur'an tells how the end of the world will be signaled by the release of Gog and Magog from behind the barrier. Other apocalyptic writings predict that their destruction by God in a single night will usher in the Day of Resurrection (Arabic: یوم القيامة, romanized: Yawm al-Qiyāmah). [3]
The form "Gog and Magog" may have emerged as shorthand for "Gog and/of the land of Magog", based on their usage in the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible. [11] An example of this combined form in Hebrew (Gog u-Magog) has been found, but its context is unclear, being preserved only in a fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
The interpretations are collected by the Quran exegete Mahmud al-Alusi: Jesus is the embodiment of God's word uttered at the moment of his conception (9:169, 14:30, 3:42), announced in the "word of God", prophesied preached by preceding prophets; Jesus is the word of God because he speaks on behalf of God; or that Jesus is a word of God because ...
The legend describes "the old wise men" explaining this geography and cosmology of the Earth to Alexander, and then Alexander setting out to enclose Gog and Magog behind a mighty gate between a narrow passage at the end of the flat Earth: The old men say, "Look, my lord the king, and see a wonder, this mountain which God has set as a great ...
By contrast, the exegete Al-Tabari referred to the Torah in his words as "the Torah that they (the Jews) possess today". [34] One Islamic interpretation holds that "Gospel" references in the Quran are to the original divine revelation Jesus Christ, as opposed to the canonical Gospels in the New Testament. [35]
'Uj ibn Anaq ('Ûj ibn 'Anâq) is a giant in Islamic mythology. Uj is not namely mentioned in the Quran or canonical hadiths. The origins of this character lay in Jewish folklore and the Old Testament, e.g. king Og. [citation needed] He takes his matronymic from his mother ʿAnāq [11] who begat him after an incestuous affair.
Jesus had prophesied that his fate would be like that of Jonah (the story of Jonah is one of survival). [22] Jesus was placed on the cross for only a few hours. Death by crucifixion usually takes several days. While he was on the cross his legs were left intact, and not broken as was the normal procedure.
[6] [7] Christians view Jesus as a role model, whose God-focused life believers are encouraged to imitate. In Islam, Jesus (commonly transliterated as Isa) is the Messiah and one of God's highest-ranked and most-beloved prophets. Islam considers Jesus to be neither the incarnation nor the Son of God. He is referred to as the son of Mary in the ...