Page 185 - Signs of the End Times in Surat Al-Kahf

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he third time Dhu’l-Qarnayn sets off on his journey, he reaches
an area between the East and the West. This could be an area in
T T the Himalayas. Bediuzzaman Said Nursi indicates these areas
too, and reminds us that "… The Great Wall of China covers a distance of
several days’ journeying and was built to halt the incursions against the op-
pressed peoples of India and China of the savage tribes… These tribes several
times threw the world of humanity into chaos, and pouring out from behind the
Himalayas wrought destruction from East to West. A long wall was built be-
tween two mountains close to the Himalayan mountains which for a long time
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prevented the frequent assaults of those savage peoples…" As Bediuzzaman
says, the two mountains could be mountain chains.
The verse also indicates that the people he encountered were scarcely
able to understand what was said to them. Perhaps the expression
"scarcely able to understand speech" indicates that they spoke a very
different or unusual language.
Dhu’l-Qarnayn (as), however, is able to communicate with them, ei-
ther through being able to speak their language because of his special
knowledge or because a member of his party knows that particular lan-
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