Posted by Scientific Insights on Saturday, February 18, 2017
Tracing The Trail Dzulkarnain
Part 2
In the Koran it is not explained in detail about Dzulkarnain come from and to anywhere odyssey. Koran only mentions, Dzulkarnain doing wandering off into the sunset and sunrise. Then, on the way to the north, Dzulkarnain met with two hills that behind it there are people named Gog and Magog.
However, commentators believe Dzulkarnain came from mainland Egypt to build walls around the Central Asian region. In Central Asia, there are some nations, such as China, India, Uzbeksitan, and others. With some trends, expert commentary or researchers then refer to the existence of the wall is in the Central Asian region.
In Nuzhat al-Musytaq, al-Sharif al-Idrisi also said that Sallam once asked residents of the surrounding mountains, if anyone ever saw Gog and Magog. They claimed to have seen hordes of people on the wall coverings.
Then, a whirlwind came out throwing them. Residents there saw their bodies is very small. After that, Sallam return through Taraz (Kazakhstan) and Samarkand (Uzbekistan), the city of Ray (Iran), and returned to the Palace of al-wathiq in Surra Man Ra'a, Iraq. He then recounted in detail the results of his research to the caliph.
If according to the narrative in the book of Ibn Battuta Ibn Battuta Rahlat, mountain Gog and Magog is located approximately six-day trip from China. This narrative does not conflict with al-Sharif al-Idrisi. Because, in the west of China Sea are regions of Russia.