some signs of the hour and the fitan ( trials. tribulations

[ابوالياس*]

الحمد لله الذي هدانا لهذا وما كنا لنهتدي لولا ان هدانا الله . الحمد للهنحمده ونستعينه ونستغفره ونعوذ بالله من شرور أنفسنا ومن سيئات أعمالنا من يهده الله فلا مضل له ومن يضلل فلا هادي له وأشهد أن لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له وأشهد أن محمدا عبده ورسوله.

Praise be to Allaah, we seek His help and His forgiveness. We seek refuge with Allaah from the evil of our own souls and from our bad deeds. Whomsoever Allaah guides will never be led astray, and whomsoever Allaah leaves astray, no one can guide. I bear witness that there is no god but Allaah, and I bear witness that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger may peace and blessing be upon him and ...
Dear brothers and sisters
Allah have sent Muhammad as a mercy to all mankind , by him ALLAH has opened blind eyes, deaf ears, and heedless hearts. He left us on a clear way( platform), it is clear by night as it is by day, whoever distant himself from it is doomed. There is nothing good in this world nor in the hereafter except he sw has show us its guidance, and there no evil or bad thing except he has warned us about it . And from the evil or bad things, that he informed us about to avoid it is what we called in Arabic kathratu al-fitan(the trials ,tests, tribulations, and the calamities will reach the ummah) and because Muhammad sw love me and you he warned us of these fitan to avoid them when it comes.
As we see and hear and read Muslims all over the world has been going through an increasing calamities and trials one after one that we never experienced before, so much corruption’ injustice ,blood shed, so much killing, innocent children getting killed , a mothers going a killing pain of seeing her own child dying out of hunger and cold weathers because they were kicked from their countriesunjustly , unjust theif rulers, so much suffering , tough trials, bring doubts in the hearts of the believers, to the extent as rasool allah said : that the believer sleeps as a believer and wake up as a kafir, and wake up as a believer and sleep as a disbeliever ( he turns away from Islam for a small amount of worldly goods) for some wealth or desires. Allah commanded us if somthing confuses us or we don’t find an answer for we should refer it to the quran and the sunna
Allah swt said in the quran : يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا أَطِيعُوا اللَّهَ وَأَطِيعُوا الرَّسُولَ وَأُوْلِي الأَمْرِ مِنْكُمْ فَإِنْ تَنَازَعْتُمْ فِي شَيْءٍ فَرُدُّوهُ إِلَى اللَّهِ وَالرَّسُولِ
(And) if you differ in anything amongst yourselves, )if something confuses you, if you couldn’t find answer about any matter )refer it to Allah and His Messenger , if you believe in Allah and in the Last Day. That is better and best in result.
So following the command of Allah by referring things to the quran and sunna, and trying to understand all these trials and calamities happen to the moslim countries specifically and other part of the world i thought it would be a good idea to share with you some of the ahadith about the fitan and signs of the hour that rasool allah told us about, so we may find some answers for these signs and events

عن الزبير بن عدي قال أتينا أنس بن مالك فشكونا إليه ما نلقى من الحجاج فقال اصبروا , فإنه لا يأتي عليكم زمان إلا الذي بعده شر منه حتى تلقوا ربكم سمعته من نبيكم صلى الله عليه وسلم

Az-Zubair bin `Adi said: We went to Anas bin Malik (May Allah be pleased with him) and complained to him of suffering at the hands of Al-Hajjaj. He replied: ", Be patient, Be patient Be patient for no time will come upon you but the time following it will be worse than it. till you meet your Lord I heard this from your Prophet
So this a fact we have to keep in our mind and expect always from nowadays worse things might happen in this world, more calamites, more trials until the day of the judgments

عبدالله بن عمرو رضي الله عنه أن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم كان من صحابته في سفر فنادى منادي رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم الصلاة جامعة فاجتمع الأصحاب حول الرسول صلى الله عليه وسلم فخطبهم خطبةً عظيمة كان مما قال فيها : إنَّ أمتكم هذه جعل عافيتها في أولها ، وسيصيب آخرها بلاءٌ وأمورٌ تنكرونها وتجئ فتنةٌ فيرقق بعضها بعضا وتجئ الفتنة فيقول المؤمن : هذه مهلكتي ، ثم تنكشف وتجئ الفتنة فيقول المؤمن : هذه هذه .

Abd Allah said: The Prophet (pbuh) said: It was the duty of every prophet who has preceded me to guide his followers to what he knew was good for them and to admonish them against what he knew was bad for them.3 And [as a part of this duty, I am warning you that] this group of yours has its days of peace during its initial period,,,,, and in the latter period of its existence it will be afflicted with trials4 and with matters that you will find disagreeable and strange.,,,,, [In this latter phase of the life of this group], there will be massive trials one after the other, each making the previous one seem insignificant6. ( example yesterday we heard 130 children was killed out of extremisms. Tomorrow you might hear another 1000 innocent children has been killed with disregard and we will forget about the 130 children as that was nothing )
Cont,,,,,When they are afflicted with a trial, the believer would say: This is going to bring about my destruction. And When this [trial] is over, they would be afflicted with another trial, and the believer would say: This surely is going to be it. Then it would be over too. And so on until the day of judgment.
عن أبي هريرة - رضي الله عنه - أن رسول الله - صلى الله عليه وسلم - قال:((يتقارب الزمان، وينقص العمل،وتكثر الفتن ويلقى الشح، ويكثر الهَرْج))، قالوا: وما الهرج؟ قال: ((القتل القتل))؛

the hour will not take place until the time is accelerated,(meaning will be no blessing in time,( a year like a month..... and the other meaning of the scholars is : about distances// the journey of a few days is covered in a
matter of hours, because of the spread of the modern means of transport, the air, ships and trains
a time will come good deeds will decrease from the ummah generally ( less activities), tribulations( fitan ) will appear, and there is a lot of haraj, they asked what is harj he sw said : too much killing. May allah save us..
· the Resurrection Day won't come till a man passes by other man's grave saying" I wish I was in his grave
· ties of kinship would be broken, kids would not listen or respect their parents, and false testimony will be widespread ( people swear by allah and they are lying ( they have no piety ) no magnification وقار
· There will be years of trickery, in which the liar is believed, the truthful is called a liar, the trustworthy is called a traitor(deceiver), the traitor) deceiver( will be called trustworthy, the (rowaybedah) will speak and address people.” He was asked: Who is the (rowaybedah), he peace be upon him said: “The foolish ( silly ) person will give fatwa to the general public because of lack of knowledge and people will elect a political military man over the scholars to be a leader.
· Knowledge of Islam will be taken away while ignorance will increase. This removal of knowledge will be because old scholars will die and fewer and fewer new scholars will replace them
· A time will come when a man doesn't mind if he is earning halal or haram money."
· There will be such an abundance of wealth that people will not be able to find recipients for zakat."
· Will be muslims who will make unlawful things lawful Drinking and musical instruments.( (Drinking and fornication(zina) will increase heavily.." would become common
· the earthquakes spread" usury will spread to reach every house.)
· the number of men will fall short and the women would survive that there would be one man to look after fifty women
· They will a fight between the muslims and rome and will be so much killing **** bird fly
· Allah’s Apostle said, “When honesty is lost then wait for the Hour.” It was asked, “How will honesty be lost, O Allah’s Apostle?” He said, “When authority is given to those who do not deserve it, then wait for the Hour.”” These are some of the fitan and minor signs of the hour i ask allah sw to save us all.


2nd khutbah

Dear brother and sisters we have to understand that we are here in this short life for a test and we should be aware of these fitan and don’t let it affect us in any negative way

Allah sw said : الم 1 أحسب الناس أن يتركوا أن يقولوا آمنا وهم لا يفتنون 2 ولقد فتنا الذين من قبلهم

Do people thing they will say we believe in allah and they will be left and will not be tested ? And We indeed tested those who were before them and allah will know the honest from liar in his faith.
“واتقوا فتنة لا تصيبن الذين ظلموا منكم خاصةAnd fear a trial which will not strike those who have wronged among you
And talking about fitan and calamities there was no massive calamity for the Muslims than the death of our beloved Muhammad sw and he mentioned this as a sign of the hour when he said to the companions ,
· Count six things before the advent of Qiyamah: The death of the Prophet Muhammad
عن عوف بن مالك رضي الله عنه قال: قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: ((أعدد ستاً بين يدي الساعة: موتي))الحديث.
Anas bin malik said “:the greatest calamity affected the muslims is the death of rasool allah ,in the day when rasool allah enter madina a light come from every spot of the madina ... every thing become dark in the sight of the companions and we felt different feeling in our hearts.
So what i am trying to say dear brothers and sisters, don’t let these calamity effect you if there is any thing should make us sorrow , grief its the death of rasool allah , and be aware allah swt he is always just and fair and ,mercy he want always good even if it appear badto us, we may thing its unfair what happened to the children in Pakistan and Syria or Iraq , but if allah accept these children as a martyr wallahi them and their family members will be the happiest among the people in the janna because the shaheed ( myrter ) he will intercede to 70 person of his family memberas rasool allah said , so lets worry about ourselves and our death more and thing positive about the almighty allah.
Finally,
عَنْ أَنَسٍ ، قَالَ : جَاءَ أَعْرَابِيٌّ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ عَلَيْهِ السَّلامُ ، فَسَأَلَهُ عَنِ السَّاعَةِ ، فَقَالَ : " مَا أَعْدَدْتَ لَهَا ؟ " قَالَ : مَا أَعْدَدْتُ لَهَا كَبِيرُ عَمَلٍ ، وَلَكِنِّي أُحِبُّ اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ , قَالَ : " فَأَنْتَ مَعَ مَنْ أَحْبَبْتَ
In Sahih al-Bukhari, there is a hadith which states that a Bedouin asked the Prophet about the Hour. He said,
"It will surely come to pass.
What have you prepared for it?"
The man said, "O Messenger of Allah, I have not prepared much in the way of prayer and good works,
but I love Allah and His Messenger." The Prophet said, "You will be with those you love." The Muslims had never rejoiced as much they did when they heard this hadith.
And indeed the love for allah and his messenger can only be attain with sincere following the quran and sunna of Muhammad.