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SATalha
Is it me or are people in my area becomming closer to the deen? Me and my friends recently decided that our lives needed changes, we werent gangstar O G's but we just whent to uni came home and Islam didnt play a big part. However now two of my friends are in college studying seera, tajweed, fiqh and retaking a-levels and i started my salah properly. I notice the change in my area, can anyone tell me if this is the case in other places?
Here, this is ahadith about change in which some folk become closer to the Deen and others more astranged:
Abdullah bin Umar narrated that the Messenger of Allah sallallahu `alaihi wa sallam said,
“The fitnah of Al-Ahlas (continuous calamity) is mass desertion and war. Then, the fitnah of As-Sarraa [meaning ‘the rich’, when some reach people use their money to hire others to fight for them] will start from under the feet of a man who claims that he is of me (of my descendants). However, he is not of me, for my loyal friends are the ones who have taqwa. Afterwards, people will unite around a man whose reign is unstable. Then, the fitnah of Ad-Duhaymaa [it is called ‘dark and black fitnah’ because of its enormity] (will start) and will not leave any member of this nation without severely touching him. When it is thought that its time has come to an end, it will be lengthened. Meanwhile (during this fitnah), a man will wake up as a believer and will meet the night as a disbeliever, until people divide into two camps: A camp of belief that contains no hypocrisy, and a camp of hypocrisy that contains no belief. If this happens, then await the Dajjal on that day or the next.” [Ahmad, Abu Dawood and al-Hakim, Mishkatul-Masabih, vol. 4, no. 5403]
Try reading it for the belief that the Dajjal will appear as a cyclical thing: first he appears in the place he begins, "on that day", and then in another day in another place "or the next". Remember that in all true Prophesy the word "Day" can mean daylight hours or living of one live span. That there is a cycle of his appearance in different parts of Earth, can not make him any less a man whom walks and talks.
Also in all prophesy in respect of The Dajjal, remember that it is both the case that Jesus is whom will kill him, and that Allah is exalted from having a son. Than apply the scientific understanding of Holy Trinity: Father=Holy affirming=Faith; Son of God=Holy denying=Hope; Holy Ghost=Holy Reconciling=Love. Therefore Jesus will not appear again at Earth in a Man's body, but will Kill The Dajjal in Love, and through The Dajjal's own internal acceptance of his betrayal of Jesus.
The coming of the Mahdi must be that sign which people know for certain by. Is it the Mahdi, or another "righteous Caliphate" whom will bring the appearance of Jesus standing with him? How can we know, but that when we know we will be unable to deny.
There is drought already here in Australia, and I for one beleive that we are already en masse Dreaming only in the patterns of Revelations, since last Ramadan, and confirmed this Christmas of the orthodox calendar. But when these events occur in Palestine, I can not know. But I know that I receive in Prayer, certainty in Isa, that now, today these things happen in Australia, tomorrow in another continent, the day after in another, and it will be six generations of lives of all people before all Humanity has experience . . .
. . . but are we only now already experiencing the pattern becoming established, a pattern in which the full manifestation of The Dajjal among us will be realised in relative safety, or is it that these things are already a material part of the world. . . . it is today or tomorrow the Dajjal will appear?
Already here in Australia many Muslims recognised that there was unity around an unstable character, when an Australian Muslim spoke that Sheik Hilali has done for Islam what Hitler did for Christianity. But this fact seems so very minor in the whole scheme of what is written. The droughts here seem so very minor, and all the natural disasters which have been happening. How could we say it that the sea boiled when the largest of the tsunami happened, now only two years ago. How can we know what the Prophets saw when they looked at the future, and can it be that many are only deluded that we are not already seeing the same things, only because we named such things differently?
Truly I can not yet know whom the Mahdi is, but when we each are certain in any sign, its message is not to be denied.
Be happy in the Deen, in these things. We each must learn and constantly relearn that lesson of the very smallest of joys being that upon which we must constantly rely. But know that a believer will always find joy and solace and certainty in life everlasting, in the very certainty which a non-believer can only deny. That is what the ahadith at the start of this post is able to help us to find our way in.
The fitnah of continuous calamity, then the fitnah of the rich, then the dark and black fitnah, are a pattern that is becoming established in a cycle. It has a smaller pattern over only a day, or a few days, a few weeks, and in the event of its pattern heralding the actual hour, the time periods will be increased to be exact to that stated in Qur'an.
What I am observing is that some cycles long known are decreasing constantly in duration, and even now finished with, while others are increasing, and already increased. But I am my self avoiding the degree of scholarship required to be able to know precisely about what time scale I am my self now in. This is part of an indigenous Australia methodolgy of dealing with the shaytan, not to let them learn of Human timing in Prophesy by never letting that knowledge manifest fully in our own minds.
Wasalam