and kill him there. With that, the impostor messiah meets his end, while the true Messiah—the Messenger of Allah, Jesus (peace be upon him)—remains. Allah alone grants success.
Jesus son of Mary will then go to a people whom Allah has protected from the Dajjāl’s ordeal. He will pass his hand over their faces and give them glad tidings of their stations in Paradise. While they are in this state, Allah will reveal to Jesus: “I have released servants of Mine against whom no one has the power to fight.” These servants are not worshippers in the devotional sense but servants by the decree of fate: “There is none in the heavens or on the earth but will come to the All-Merciful as a servant” (Q 19:93).
Those servants are Gog and Magog. “They will surge forth from every elevation,” meaning that from every high place they will pour down, for the valleys and ravines cannot contain their numbers. You will see them scaling mountains and then streaming down upon the land because of their sheer multitude. They are descendants of Adam, not jinn and not some third species; they are human beings.
The proof is the Prophet’s ﷺ statement that on the Day of Resurrection Allah the Exalted will say, “O Adam!” He will reply, “Here I am, ready to obey You.” Allah will say, “Bring forth from your progeny a contingent for the Fire”—or he said, “the contingent of the Fire.” Adam will ask, “My Lord, what is the contingent of the Fire?” Allah will answer, “From every thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine from the children of Adam will be in the Fire; only one in a thousand from the children of Adam will be among the people of Paradise.”
This weighed heavily on the Companions, and they said, “O Messenger of Allah, who will be that single one?” He ﷺ replied, “Rejoice! For you belong to two communities that, whenever they are counted alongside anything, outnumber it: yourselves and Gog and Magog. Of you there will be one, and of Gog and Magog a thousand.” The Companions were delighted at this, and he then said, “I hope that you will be a quarter…"