11 Nov 2021 By Know Muslim
While replying to this question the Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه و سلم said:
The verses which enjoin doing good and forbidding doing wrong are also quite right in their places as they advise the preaching of Deen. A time will, however, come when man will be responsible to take care of, and reform his own self, this will be the time in which the following four signs will appears:
(1) Firstly, it will be the time when a man will be hankering after wealth and will become miserly. From morning till evening he will be engrossed in his lust to increase his balance by hook or by crook. All that he will do will be in the interest and love of worldly gains.
(2) Secondly, people will be drowned at all times in satisfying their desires and lusts. A man will follow the direction towards which his desires push him without caring what is lawful and what is unlawful and whether the path he is following leads to Paradise, to the pleasure of Allah or to His displeasure. Forgetting all these considerations, he will be running after his desires.
(3) Thirdly, preference will be accorded to the worldly gains over the gains of the Hereafter. The people will be warned against the approach of the Hereafter; arrival of death about which there is no doubt; burial in the grave; attendance before Almighty Allah. The only reply to all these warnings will be: I cannot help, this is the trend of the times After all one should follow the affairs of the world also in which one has to pass his life with others. Thus ignoring all these admonitions man will become totally absorbed in earning the worldly resources.
(4) Fourthly, every man will be self-willed, not prepared to heed better advice. He will think that he alone is right and the others are wrong. This is a common observation. Everyone has formed his own opinion about what is lawful and what is unlawful even though he has not spent a single day in trying to study and understand the Holy Qur'an and the sacred Ahadith. When some problem of the Shari'ah is mentioned before him, he raises objections and begins to project his own misleading notions. Everyone will feel proud of his own opinion.
Anyway, try to seek your own safety when these four signs become apparent, viz:
1) Love of worldly resources;
2) Hankering after one's own desires;
3) Preferring the world to the Hereafter.
4) Taking pride in being self-willed.
As already stated, at such a critical time people should mind their own salvation and safety forgetting what the others are doing. They should keep themselves aloof from the common men and try to reform their own selves. Keeping within the bounds of their houses at all costs. This is the injunction of the Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه و سلم to his Ummah to follow during the period of trials and tribulations.
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