Allah is Preparing us for Victory
Prophethood which is the beginning of the hadith ended with the death of Muhammad (sallallahu ‘alayhe wassallam). The next stage is Khilafah Rashida and this is from Abu Bakr al-Siddiq to ‘Ali ibn Abi Taalib (radiyallahu ‘anhum). Then he said it will be Mulkan 'aaddah which is the Banu Umayyah, Banu ‘Abbas and al-Khilafah ‘Uthmaniyyah. Then after that, he said it will be mulkan jabriyyah - dictatorship, which we are living under today; it is oppressive rule. Then after that it will be Khilafah Rashida.
Sometimes we complain about our times, that we are living in the worst times – the Ummah is weak, the Ummah is defeated and disunited, we wish we were living in the time of the Sahabah (radiyallahu ‘anhum) or times of the heroic Islamic eras.
The following are reasons why we should not complain about our times:
First Reason: One of the Tabi’een said to one of the Sahabah: “How did you treat Rasoolullah (sallallahu ‘alayhe wassallam) when he was among you?”
So a Sahabi talked about how they used to treat the Prophet and that they did their best.
The Tabi’ responded by saying, “If the Prophet (sallallahu ‘alayhe wassallam) was living in our time we would have carried him on our shoulders.”
What the Tabi’ was trying to say is that the Sahabah did not treat him good enough and if he was living with them, they would have treated him better than the Sahaba.
The Sahabi replied, “A person does not know what they would have done had they lived in that time; we were fighting our fathers and brothers and it was not an easy thing.
Now your fathers and brothers and family are Muslims; you imagine you are going to treat Rasoolullah (sallallahu ‘alayhe wassallam) in a certain way. So do not ask or wish for something Allah did not destine for you.”
Second Reason: We shouldn’t complain about our time; instead we should be grateful to Allah ‘Azza wa Jall that we are living in these days.
Why? If you look at the status of the Sahabah, it is the highest status among the Muslim Ummah; they are the highest, the best and the greatest. And then the Tabi’een and then those who came after them.
How come the Sahabah were the best? Some of the reasons include that the Sahaba built Islam from scratch; the Sahabah came and there was nothing so they established the foundation of the Deen whereas anyone else who came after them, the building was already there and they came and added pieces to that foundation here and there;
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