Yajuj Majuj Wall
According to Javed Ahmad Ghamidi, the wall of Dhul-Qarnayn described in Surah al-Kahf was a historical barrier, built to restrain certain violent nations for a specific period of history. The Qur’an narrates this as a real event of its own time, not as an end-times structure meant to last until the Day of Judgment. The verse says: “When the promise of my Lord comes, He will level it to the ground.” (18:98) This statement does not require that the wall must remain physically standing until the Day of Judgment. In Qur’anic language, “the promise of my Lord” refers to Allah’s decision to end that restraint, not necessarily the final Hour itself. In other words, the promise was fulfilled when Allah allowed those nations to break free, and that fulfillment included the wall becoming ineffective, collapsing, or disappearing over time. Ghamidi explains that once Allah’s purpose for the wall ended, its physical destruction or erosion became inevitable. History supports this: later Muslim historians (including during the Abbasid period) reported remains and traces of such fortifications in Central Asia, but no intact wall still restraining entire nations. This aligns with the Qur’anic idea that the barrier would not be permanent. So the verse is not saying: “The wall will stand untouched until the Day of Judgment, and only then collapse.” Rather, it is saying: “The wall exists only as long as Allah wills. When He decides otherwise, it will be rendered meaningless and leveled.” The destruction could be gradual, historical, and natural, not a dramatic end-times collapse. Ya’juj and Ma’juj spreading across the world is already part of human history, not something waiting to happen suddenly in the future.