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Kashif
12/11/00 at 06:49:53
assalaamu alaikum Yesterday i bought a tape of a talk which i'd heard ages ago entitled "The Ummah and Allah's Promise" by Sh. Ali al-Timimi. Alhumdulillah its a good talk and the speaker describes therein the various fitan that the ummah will face in the build up towards the Day of Judgement. In particular he mentions the fitan of al-Maseeh ad-Dajjal (the AntiChrist). He mentions how three years before the coming of the antichrist, 1/3rd of the rainfall will be withheld from falling; and then two years before his coming, the sky will withhold 2/3rd of its rain; and then in the year before his coming the sky will withhold ALL of its rain. In the hadith itself, the people asked the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam how would the people survive in such a state? and he replied that they will get their nourishment from tasbeeh (saying 'subhanallah') and tahmeed (saying 'alhumdulillah'). Ali Timimi then goes onto quote Ibn al-Qayyim as saying that this hadith should be taught to all the children because we do not know in which generation this calamity will arrive. And then when the Antichrist appears, he will first make a claim to being a Mujaddid, then a Prophet and then Allah! And his call will be so fair-seeming to the people that the Prophet said that a man will lock up his women before he leaves his house for fear that they may go out and hear a word of the Dajjal and be taken in by him. Subhanallah! What a fitna! May Allah protect us and our families all from the fitna of the Antichrist. Help yourself by memorising the first ten ayaat of surah al-Kahf (ch. 18) which will save you from this fitna. Kashif Wa Salaam
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bhaloo
12/11/00 at 10:24:27
slm [quote] Help yourself by memorising the first ten ayaat of surah al-Kahf (ch. 18) which will save you from this fitna.[/quote] Is this mentioned in some narration? ??? Can you share with us some more information that the Shaikh said about the finals days?

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Kashif
12/11/00 at 12:25:37
assalaamu alaikum Arshad, the ahadith regarding the memorisation of the 10 ayaat of al-Kahf as a protection from the Dajjal can be found in the Bebzi stand in the first memorisation task. Perhaps sister Malika can narrate the hadith *smile* Anyhow, i don't really want to summarise the different aspects of the last days that Ali Timimi covers because i couldn't really do justice - i'd recommend that you get the tapes, instead. However, in the aforementioned tape Sh. Ali speaks about the state of the Arabs in the last Days. He mentions how the fitan (trials & tests) will increase as we get closer to the Last Day, esp. with regard to wars. One interesting hadith which he cited reported the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam saying "Allah will not allow two swords to befall the Muslims (at the same time): a sword from within and a sword from without." Meaning it is from the Mercy of Allah that we are never in a situation where our ummah finds itself both at war with the kuffar AND one part of it fighting a war with another part. Its either one or the other. Sh. Ali also mentions how the Arabs as an ethnic group make up the greatest number of the Muslims in the world - greater numerically than Pakistanis, Indians, Turks or EVEN Indonesians. Bearing this fact in mind, below is an article that he wrote (mainly a translation) regarding the Arabs in the last days: [jazira = arabisan peninsula] ~~~~~~~ as-Salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu: I though it might be beneficial that we reflect on some of the ahadith regarding fitan in the Jazira prior to the Day of Judgment. Of course, we should remember that only Allah knows when these events will pass. My reference is at-Tuwaijari's Itihaf al-Jama'a, I, pp. 75-81 (may Allah be merciful with him): Chapter: What Has been Related Regarding a Fitna that Will Sweep the Arabs Away Upon 'Abdullah b. Amr (may Allah be pleased with them both) who said: The Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) said: There will be a fitna that will clean (tastanzifu) the Arabs, its dead will be in Hell. During which the tongue will be more severe (ashadd) than a blow of the sword. Reported by Ahamd, Abu Dawud, at-Tirmidhi, Ibn Majah. At-Tirmidhi said that this hadith is gharib. At-Tuwaijari then comments on the narrators of this narration and after concluding that the hadith is hasan he proceeds to explain it as follows: [Regarding the Prophet's] statement "cleans the Arabs," Ibn al-Athir and Ibn al-Manzur [my note: Ibn al-Athir is the scholar who wrote an-Nihaya fi Gharib al-Hadith, a dictionary on uncommon words found in hadith texts; Ibn al-Manzur is the author of the famous Lisan al-Arab.] have said: It means it will encompass them in destruction. It is said [in Arabic]: istanzafat ash-shay', if you take it all. ... . While Ali al-Qari has said in al-Mirqat [my note: al-Mirqat is a commentary of Mishkat al-Masabih]: It has been said that it means it will purify them from filth (al-ardhal) [my note: perhaps here it is best translated as sins] and the people of al-fitan. I (i.e. at-Tuwajari) say: This [second] opinion is strong in light of the evidence, even though the first opinion is stronger in light of the [Arabic] language. What bears witness to what al-Qari has said is what has been mentioned regarding the fitna known as ad-duhaima' [my note: ad-duhaima' means black and dark, at-Tuwaijiri gives a lengthy discussion on the meaning of this word on pages 55-56.]. [Where the Prophet said]: It will not leave any single individual of this umma but slap him on the cheek. In [the hadith on the duhaima' fitna, the Prophet] said: "Until the people become two camps: one of faith with no hypocrisy and one of hypocrisy with no faith." At-Tuwaijri continues: This shows that the duhaima' fitna will clean the believers from the people of fitan, doubt and hypocrisy; not that it will annihilate them completely. And the duhaima' fitna is the greatest fitna that will occur prior to the appearance of the Antichrist. At-Tuwaijri then continues: [Further] evidence that the fitna will not consume all the Arabs is what Muslim reports in his sahih and at-Tirmidhi in his Jami' upon Jabir b. Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with them both) who said: Umm Sharik informed that she heard the Prophet (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) say: The people will flee from Dajjal to the mountains. Umm Sharik said: O Messenger of Allah where will be the Arabs that day? He replied: They will be few. At-Tirmidhi said: This hadith is Hasan-Sahih Gharib. At-Tuwaijari then cites another hadith in Ibn Majah of the same meaning as the one above but with the Prophet's reply being: "They [i.e., the Arabs] will be few, most of them that day will be in Jerusalem, their imam will be a righteous man..." The hadith then continues to describe the descent of Jesus. At-Tuwaijari then cites another evidence that not all the Arabs will be annihilated in the Prophet's hadith in al-Bukhari and Muslim that the Banu Tamim will be most severe of his umma against the Antichrist. At-Tuwaijari then comments, "The Banu Tamim is a large tribe of Arabs." He then relates the hadith reported by al-Hakim regarding the peace between the Muslims and ar-Rum (Christian Europe) to fight a common enemy and the victory of the Muslims over that enemy, followed by the treachery of the Europeans against the Muslim expeditionary force. In the hadith after the Europeans treacherously massacre the Muslim contingent they say to their boy-king, "We have sufficied you the edge of the Arabs." In other words, we have ended their ability to attack/fight. The hadith then describes how after defeating the Arab army, they will then rally their forces to attack the Middle East coming under eighty banners, under each banner twelve thousand soldiers. (80 x 12,000 = 960, 000 men!) After discussing the hadith's isnad, at-Tuwaijari points out that the proof is the reference to the Arabs which shows that the Great War (al-Malhama al-Kubra) [my note: to which they refer to as Armageddon] will between the Arabs and Europe. He then relates a hadith from Ahmad and others that the Prophet (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) said: The Great War, and the conquest of Constantinople, and the appearance of the Antichrist will [all occur] within seven months [of each other]. At-Tuwaijari then surmises that "these four ahadith all indicate that a large number of Arabs will remain after the great fitna mentioned at the beginning of the chapter. Upon this, [the Prophet's] statement, "clean the Arabs," means that it will consume most of them in destruction. The juxtaposition of the majority when saying all is prevalent in Arabic. And Allah knows best." As for the Prophet's statement: That its dead will be in Hell. At-Tuwajari then explains that some scholars have interpreted this to mean that since they did not intend by fighting to raise Allah's word, or push back an injustice, or assist the people of the truth; but rather they sought to show off and sought wealth and power (al-mulk), they are in Hell. At-Tuwaijari then mentions a number of hadith about fighting under a "blind" banner (rayah 'immiya), i.e., a call of blind partisanship, be it tribal, national, etc. At-Tuwaijari then explains how the tongue during this fitna is more severe than the sword as follows: "The confirmation of this is seen in our times in the spread of radio broadcasts and newspapers in all corners of the earth. The tongues of those who speak through [these media], insulting, bellitting, mentioning the faults of those who disagree with them, spreading fitan, and whipping up hatred and animosities is much greater than the blow of the sword." At-Tuwaijari then continues by saying: "This fitna [which will clean the Arabs] has yet to occur, and perhaps it is the duhaima' fitna which will occur just prior to the appearance of the Antichrist." He then mentions a number of hadith which tie a deaf, blind fitna and the destruction of the Arabs. One hadith has the wording, "Woe to the Arabs of an evil drawing nigh, its shadow has fallen on [them] by the Lord of the Kaaba, its shadow has fallen on them." I.e., drawn close so that it is as if its shadow is casted upon them. Some of these hadith mention that the fitna will occur due to competing claims of jahiliya, i.e., call of nationalism, tribalism, etc. At-Tuwajari then remarks: "Much death and killing has occurred in our times due to the call of jahiliya especially due to the removal of the imama and the khilafa and it being replaced by jumhuriyas." (jumhuriya is normally translated as republic, but hear it has a broader meaning to include all governments of the slogan/type for the people, by the people). He continues: "This is the pure resemblance of the infidel nations and following their ways as one sandal resembles the other. It is not far-fetched that the duhaima' fitna will be due to such call of jahiliya. Refuge is sought with Allah from the fitan." He then concludes with a couple of hadith regarding the fitna in general and the eventually total war with Europe. I also remember that elsewhere in his book he ties the duhaima' fitna with the drying up/retraction of the Euphrates and its uncovering a mountain of gold. And Allah knows best.

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Saleema
12/11/00 at 14:16:36
Assalam ualykum, This is really scary. May Allah protect us from the anti-Christ and may He protect the future generations. Ameen. My mother opened the door to my room and I jumped. I was so into this. :0 I just bought a book yesterday that talks about the same subject. It seems to me that the anti-Christ will appear in our time. I know, I am not a scholar and I shouldn't say it with such assurance, but this stuff really scares me. :( I am going to be afraid of going to sleep tonight. If it happens in our lifetime, will I be from the hypocrites? :( The book that I bought, it talks about the building of the Solomon Temple and the Israelis are doing that right now. So many of these signs are happening in our time. I don't know. wassalam

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Malika
12/18/00 at 16:01:30
slm thanks Br. Kashif for that vote of confidence. I cannot however quote that Hadith but I can recite the 1st ten ayats by memory :) If I had known I had to memorise the hadith also it would be a done deal (wiseguy)

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Rashid
12/19/00 at 00:01:31
slm Most of this is happening now!  after attaturk destroyed the khalifah and the ummah was split into 53 "republics", each one of them thinking they are better than the rest, whipping up nationalism and tribalism.  And the muslims fighting the kufaar in Russia, India, Israel...and fighting amongst themselves in Afghanistan.  And the Saud family more worried about their wealth and status with the US than helping Iraq.  Check it, Saudi gets all its weapons and fighter planes and missiles from US...what if just one, just one plane was used to strike against Isreali army...14 year old boys are throwing stones at tanks.  Yet they hear the cries for help, but do not listen.  They look, but do not see.
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