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Permission To Withdraw From People...

2.20.2013

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful,

Permission To Withdraw From People When Trials Become Severe And When Desires Become Deeply Ingrained

In the Hadeeth of Huthaifah (radi allahu 'anhu) when he asked what to do when there is neither Imam nor Jamaa'ah, the Prophet (salalahu 'alayhi wa salam) said, "Withdraw yourself from all of those groups, even if that means for you to bite on to the root of a tree until death overcomes you while you are upon that state." We have also previously mentioned this authentic Hadeeth: "Islam began strange and new, and it will return strange and new." And it is related in another authentic Hadeeth, "The Hour will not arrive upon anyone who says, 'Allah, Allah."' What some of these narrations indicate is that it is permissible to withdraw from people when trials begin to appear. And the following is established in a Hadeeth: "Then if you see miserliness with avarice being obeyed, desires being followed, the opinion of each person being admired by its holder, then upon you is to adhere to your own self, leaving the affairs of the general public."
Abu Sa'eed (radi allahu 'anhu) related that the Messenger of Allah (salalahu 'alayhi wa salam) said, "The time is near when the best wealth of a Muslim will be sheep, which he will follow through the peaks of mountains and places of rainfall, in order to save his religion from the trials." (Bukhaaree) At that time, when the said trials arrive, it becomes permissible to ask for death, even though doing so is otherwise forbidden, a ruling that is related in an authentic Hadeeth.

[ Taken from the book of the End by Ibn Kathir ]

Labels: Chapter 2: Trials in general, Hadtihs: Book of the End: Trials and Afflictions

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It was narrated that the Prophet , ordered anyone who sees an evil thing to change it with his hand. If he cannot, he should change it with his tongue. If he cannot, he should change it with his heart, and this is the weakest degree of faith. [Muslim]

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