Dhul Qarnayn & Cyrus the Great | Mufti Abu Layth

[Music] uh great question but do you know two horns thing wasn't specific to Alexander also that book was written after the Quran I take it you're talking about um right can you explain the story with regards to Alexander romances Alexander's romances um right now I okay alexand sorry of the

Quran uh in my understanding people go yeah why do you always give your understanding whose understanding should I give your dad's obviously I have to give my understanding [Laughter] all right so in my understanding um is most likely Cyrus the

Great yeah people yeah Cyrus um I don't think no he definitely wasn't Alexander uh but seems to make sense why why you see you may say so the reason being that won the territory that Cyrus the Great conquer and rules

over I was in two minds that could it have been Darius as well who who's from the same um you know the aamin dasty but is H but most likely it is Cyrus and that's because of um you see it wasn't just the ruling so many people but he did stand for uh

several principles of Justice which are still Incorporated in modern times so you have um if so you will have even today uh I believe it's in if I just it's used by several uh let me see

uh that I believe are the first or several articles of the universal Declaration of Human Rights are also uh based upon this let me see right anyway oh that's it yep so the cylinder of Cyrus right which is known as the Edict

of Cyrus as well and it was um they found this this kind of cylinder kind of tablet which had these inscriptions on there and it contained a declaration that Cyrus had made after conquering uh Babylon and uh so that is you know that that this is obviously um you know 500 something BC before uh you know before Christ so now the he was this let me just bring this back this

was a declaration that he had made about the the preservation of Human Rights so he was also one of the first people I'm not saying he was the first but amongst the earliest kind of people who of whom we have Records who spoke about actively preserving human rights and he was in a position of power to do so so sometimes philosophers may have spoken of these things but they weren't the rulers they weren't the Kings they weren't the dynasts whereas he was the other thing is he also frees the Israelites and um

and supports them financially in the restoration of the temple now this is why the Jewish people hold Cyrus the Great in uh you know in such high esteemed um um praise in their records and books now you have to remember that when uh Surah Al is speaking it is highlighting a dialogue that the Jewish people are asking the prophet that that they are asking you about the soul they are asking you about this they are asking you

about so whoever zul is he is somebody that the Jewish people um have are are most likely very fond of or very familiar with because they are the ones asking the prophet about him so to say it's Alexander the Great doesn't make any sense he wasn't never he was never really in that kind of a position or Hell fondly by the Jews um you know so whereas Cyrus the Great was and he also fits these other description so I feel that that is who Z is being referred to

as yes somebody said it was prophesized um in the Bible as well yes of course uh