When the Moon Split

The nature of the Ya’jūj and Ma’jūj (Gog and Magog); the man called ‘Dhū al-
Qarnayn’ and the wall that he had erected have always been amongst those topics 
which have captured the attention of both the scholar and the layman.
The research of ʿAllāmah Anwar Shāh al-Kashmīrī, with regards to the issue of the 
Ya’jūj and Ma’jūj is perhaps amongst the most unique explanations given in this 
regard. Muftī Muḥammad Shafīʿ Ṣāḥib in Maʿārif al-Qur’ān has described this 
explanation to be upon the highest levels of scholarly research. 
With regards to the personality titled ‘Dhū al-Qarnayn, and the wall that he had 
erected’, the research of the illustrious student of ʿAllāmah Anwar Shāh Ṣāḥib;
Shaykh Ḥifẓ ar-Raḥmān Suhārwī, which he has in detail discussed in his masterpiece
‘Qiṣaṣ al-Qur’ān’, is indeed worthy of due consideration.
In the pages that follow, much of what is written has been based upon the research 
of these two illustrious scholars, viz ʿAllāmah Anwar Shāh Ṣāḥib al-Kashmīrī and 
Shaykh Ḥifẓ ar-Raḥmān Suhārwī .
It should be understood that with regards to issues such as the ‘Ya’jūj and Ma’jūj’, 
‘Dhū al-Qarnayn’, etc., there is indeed scope for differing opinions, as long as it does 
not contradict the clear-cut texts of the Qur’ān and the Sunnah, nor does it stem 
from a methodology which is not in line with the principles laid down by the 
scholars of the Ahl as-Sunnah for deduction.