Transliteration:( Qaaloo yaa Zal qarnaini inna Ya'jooja wa Ma'jooja mufsidoona fil ardi fahal naj'alu laka kharjan 'alaaa an taj'ala bainanaa wa bainahum saddaa )
209. Or communicated through signs, or they may have found such an interpreter who could understand the languages of both, Zul-Qarnain and these people. Or, that Allah Almighty had given Zul-Qarnain the knowledge of all the languages and he found no difficulty in speaking or understanding any language.
210. He was from the descendents of Hazrat Yafath bin Nuh (On whom be peace). He was very strong and extremely mischiefvous. On this side he would come and destroy people's fields and gardens. He would take all the dry things, to this extent, that he would even eat serpents and scorpions, as well as humans and beasts.
It should be remembered that Hazrat Nuh (On whom be peace) had three sons, Saam, Haam, and Yafath. Arabs and the Romans are children of Saam. The Negroes and the people of Noba are that of Haam, while the Turks and Yajooj and Majooj are children of Yafath (Tafseer Roohul Mu'ani). Yajooj and Majooj were so tall that some among them were as tall as three hundred and sixty feet (Tafseer Rooh)?. Their entire body was covered in hair.
211. This means that money you would take from us and management would be done by you. You should build such a wall that Yajooj and Majooj (Gog and Magog) would not be able to come on the other side and we would be able to live in peace and security.
The tafsir of Surah Kahf verse 94 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Kahf ayat 92 which provides the complete commentary from verse 92 through 96.
69. As has already been pointed out in (Surah Al-Kahf, ayat 83) note 62, Gog and Magog were the wild tribes of North Eastern Asia which, from the very early times had been making inroads on settled kingdoms and empires in Asia and Europe and ravaging them. According to Genesis (Chapter 10), they were the descendants of Japheth, the son of Noah, and the Muslim historians have also accepted this. And according to the book of Ezekiel (Chapters 38, 39), they inhabited the territories of Meshech (Moscow) and Tubal (Tubalsek). According to the Israelite historian Josephus, they were the Scythians and their territory spread to the north and the east of the Black Sea. According to Jerome, Magog inhabited the territory to the north of Caucasia near the Caspian Sea.
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