The religious way of life is one which insists on respect for water and which prohibits waste or excessive consumption of water. Yet the profile of Gog and Magog emerging from the Ahadīth of Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu alahi wa sallam) is that of a people who consume water so excessively (and foolishly) that even the Sea of Galillee in the Holy Land, would eventually become dry. Hence they are the authors of their own destruction: . . . the first of them (i.e. Gog and Magog) will pass by Lake Tiberias (i.e. the Sea of Galilee) and drink out of it, and when the last of them passes, he will say: There was once water here . . . . (This implies such excessive consumption of water that nature will not be able to replenish such water and that the water-level would constantly decrease until the Lake would dry up). (Sahīh Muslim)
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