Correct answers to two questions can help us understand about them. Firstly, what time in history Zulqarnain reached the land of this creature under attack by Gog Mgog? Secondly, where exactly are they?
Whenever Zulqarnain existed in past it was prerecorded time in history i.e. thousands of years ago. Please do not discard possibility of Zulqarnain being able to time travel back and forth due to his intergalactic travels. So we assume that he existed few thousand years ago then where are Gog Mgog if they existed on our earth? Since Allah swt mentioned it and Ahadith confirmed their descending on earth near end of times, how Gog Mgog survived all this time? How is it that despite so much of human progress, we are unable to locate them on earth? Most logical answer would be that they might not exist of this earth. They might descend down from above on their appointed time.
In the end of the same Ayah, those people offer Zulqarnain expense of creating a barrier (سدا) between them and Gog Mgog. If you recall in previous Ayah, the same word (سدا) is translated as mountains because the meaning barrier didn't fit in to suit our imagination. But to put their (Gog Mgog & the nation under attack) existence to context, the best possible translation of this word is barrier. They needed to create a barrier in front of the portal between them and Gog Mgog to prevent this onslaught. Likewise, the same type of portal barrier prevents Gog Mgog to unleash on our earth as well.
Unless we look at this with a different angle, Al Kahf and other Quranic references to ET would always sound like crude Sci-fi stuff which it is not.
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