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He was very powerful.
He was shown all the sides in the world.
He was given so much power.
It was guided by Allah.
He went where the sun sets and he found the sun setting in a muddy spring is what it says.
That's literally what it says.
He went and he found the sun setting in a muddy spring.
Then he went to the place where the sun rises and he found that it was rising over people who didn't have any protection against the sun.
So he built them shelter to protect them from the sun because they were very close to the sun.
All of this is completely nonsensical in the world that we know.
It's an ignorant idea of the world.
And then he goes and finds a people called Gog and Magog.
And he builds, because they ask him for help.
No, he finds a people and they ask him for help against a people called Gog and Magog.
So he builds a wall, a giant wall to protect these people against Gog and Magog.
Now, the funny thing is this whole story seems like a random story when you read the Koran.
When you, however, go into literature, into literature that precedes the Quran, you will find that this is actually a story, a mythical, a folk story about Alexander the Great that was found in, you know, among people spoken and also written down.
It is called the Alexander Romances or, you know, the...
There are different names to it, the Greek or Syriac Alexander romances, where people establish these little tales about Alexander the Great because they wanted to depict him as this wonderful figure, this wonderful hero.
When you look at those stories, he's described as the one with two horns.