Summary

The text explains how Alexander the Great is interpreted in religious prophecy, particularly in the Book of Daniel in the Bible and also referenced in the Quranic tradition. Daniel, a prophet from the 7th–6th century BC, describes a vision of a powerful ram with two horns and a strong goat with one prominent horn. The ram symbolizes a powerful kingdom expanding in all directions, while the goat represents a fast-moving conqueror from the West. The goat defeats and destroys the ram, symbolizing the fall of empires. Its large horn is then broken and replaced by four horns, interpreted as the division of Alexander’s empire after his death.

Transcribed:

“Alexander the Great according to the Bible and the Quran

Alexander is mentioned in the prophecy of Daniel in the Bible, as well as in the Quran. Daniel was a prophet who lived in the 7th–6th century BC, i.e. two centuries before Alexander was born. In the Bible it is written that Daniel had another dream. This time he saw two animals, a strong ram with two horns and a dominant goat with one horn.

Then Daniel wrote: I raised my eyes and looked, and behold, a ram standing beside the river, and it had two horns. Both horns were high, but one was higher than the other, and the higher one came up last. I saw the ram pushing toward the West, North, and South, and no animal could stand against it, and there was no one who could rescue from its power, and it did whatever it wanted and became great.

While I was considering this, behold, a male goat came from the West across the whole surface of the earth without touching the ground, and the goat had a prominent horn between its eyes. And it approached the ram with the two horns, which I had seen standing beside the river, and it ran toward it in great fury. And I saw it come close to the ram, and it became enraged against it and struck the ram and broke its two horns.

The ram had no strength to resist, and the goat threw it to the ground and trampled it, and there was no one who could rescue the ram. The goat became very great, but when it became strong, the large horn was broken, and in its place four horns came up.

Alexander the Great (356–323). p. 33″