Saad Tasleem – The despicable state of the Ummah today

Because I actually wanted to today

go over,

a very chilling hadith of the Prophet sallallahu

alaihi wasallam.

And this is the hadith of Sauban mentioned

in Suran Abu Dawood.

And in this hadith we hear about

a time to come. But the way the

Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam phrase this hadith

is that he said, a time will soon

come, meaning it is upon you, meaning it

is close.

He said

that

a time is upon you

when the nations of the world

will gather around you,

and they will attack you,

and they will invite one another

to attack and harm you. Just as someone

who would sit down to eat

at a plate of food, and they would

invite others to come join in them in

this feast.

And the companions radhiallahu anhu,

they were shocked to hear this,

that a time like this would come. And

so they asked the Prophet

They said,

Is it because we are so few

in that time, and we are so few

in number?

The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said, bal antum

yawaydin kir.

No. On that day, in that time, in

that moment,

there's going to be many of you,

but you will be and now he mentions

the state

of the Ummah.

He says you will be like the filth

that floats on top of water,

meaning there's no value to you.

You float about, there's nothing there to you.

Allah

will remove

your fear from the hearts of your enemies.

And then the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam

said, walayatadayfannalahu

firkulubikum

alwahil,

And he will put into your hearts,

al wahin. And you know it's very interesting

because the word al wahin or wahin

literally means like fatigue.

And Allah speaking about childbirth

says,

It's fatigue

and being tired and worn out.

And so the companions are asking this when,

this this fatigue, what is that?

They said,

Like what is this wahil that would cause

us to be in this despicable state?

And the prophet subhanahu alaihi wa sallam,

he said, This wahil

is

He

said, This wahil

is this love, and this desire, and this

infatuation

for this worldly life,

and the hatred

for death. Now the prophet

says this, that this is shocking for the

companions

because the state that the companions were in

at that moment was the opposite of this

hadith.

Meaning they were not infatuated

with the dunya.

Their end all and be all of their

existence was not worldly life, and worldly gains,

and worldly benefits, and worldly comforts.

Their end all and be all was not

every desire that we have needs to be

fulfilled in this life.

They yearned

for the akhirah.

They yearned for the afterlife. They knew that

this life is temporary, that this life is

fleeting. This life is a test from Allah

This life is a life in which we

earn

the akhirah.

It is because of that state of mind,

that state of being, that spiritual state that

they found this hadith

to be shocking.

That a time will come

when the ummah will no longer

yearn for the akhirah. They will be infatuated

with this dunya. And one of the things

that will happen at that time is that

we will lose strength.

We will lose, Mike. We will lose honor.