Question:
BismillahirRahmanirRahim
AsSalaamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh
Eid Mobarak
i regretfully came across this very disturbing article and wanted to know how to deal with this incredibly disturbing information and how to react to these confused people trying to bring and use islam in the confused lives.
I could not bring myself to read past the first quote istaghfarAllah so have not read the whole article.
To notify any readers this is a very disturbing articles to do with “muslim gay marriage” IstaghfarAllah
Maddad Ya RasulAllah
Answer:
wa `alaykum salam,
There is no need to read further in such articles. They only serve as confirmation of what Sayyidina Muhammad (s) informed us would happen in the Last Days of this Ummah, as cited by Mawlana Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani in The Approach of Armageddon:
1) Abū Hurayra (r) related that the Prophet (s) said:
Before the Hour comes, there will be years of deceit, in which the trustworthy one will be said to be a traitor, and the traitor will be trusted and the insignificant will have a say.(Āhmad, Musnad. Ibn Mājah.)
2) Abū Mūsā al-Ash`arī (r) related that the Prophet (s) said:
Before the Last Hour there will be afflictions like patches of a dark night in which a man will be a believer in the morning and an unbeliever in the evening, or a believer in the evening and an unbeliever in the morning…
3) Abū Raf‘i (r) narrated that the Prophet (s) said:
You are going to encounter a people sitting on lofty cushioned chairs. My order comes to them from what I was ordered (by Allāh swt) to command or forbid. They say, “We do not know about that. We follow only what we find in Allāh’s Book (the Qur’ān).” (Narrated in Musnad Āhmad, (4:130), Sunan Abū Dāwūd, Tirmidhī in “Bab al-’Amal,” Hākim, Ibn Hibbān, Ibn Mājah)
And there are countless other ahadith explaining the current state of the Ummah and of mankind in general.
The only safety from such afflictions is as Sayyidina Muhammad (s) said:
Worshipping during the period of widespread turmoil is like emigration towards me.(Sahīh Muslim. “Kitāb al-Fitan”, from Ma`qil Ibn Yasār (r))
Our mashaykh advise that in this time of affliction, the best thing is to avoid intermingling with others except as needed for business or livelihood, stick to one’s home and the centers of dhikr and prayer which follow the path of Ahl as-Sunnah wa ‘l-Jama`ah and avoid all other activities, especially frequenting malls and coffeeshops, and crowded areas.
Mawlana Shaykh Muhammad Nazim al-Haqqani, advised someone who used to get upset when reading troubling stories in the newspapers, “don’t read newspapers.”
W ‘Allahu `alam,
Taher Siddiqui
