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The Prophet ( )ﷺsaid, "The example of the person abiding by Allah's order and restrictions in
comparison to those who violate them is like the example of those persons who drew lots for
their seats in a boat. Some of them got seats in the upper part, and the others in the lower.
When the latter needed water, they had to go up to bring water (and that troubled the others), so
they said, 'Let us make a hole in our share of the ship (and get water) saving those who are
above us from troubling them. So, if the people in the upper part left the others do what they had
suggested, all the people of the ship would be destroyed, but if they prevented them, both
parties would be safe."
It was Marwan who initiated (the practice) of delivering khutbah (address) before the prayer on
the 'Id day. A man stood up and said: Prayer should precede khutbah. He (Marwan) remarked,
This (practice) has been done away with. Upon this Abu Sa'id remarked: This man has
performed (his duty) laid on him. I heard the Messenger of Allah as saying: He who amongst
you sees something abominable should modify it with the help of his hand; and if he has not
strength enough to do it, then he should do it with his tongue, and if he has not strength enough
to do it, (even) then he should (abhor it) from his heart, and that is the least of faith.
O people, you recite this verse: `O you who believe! Take care of your own selves. If you follow
the (right) guidance [and enjoin what is right (Islamic Monotheism and all that Islam orders one
to do) and forbid what is wrong (polytheism, disbelief and all that Islam has forbidden)] no hurt
can come to you from those who are in error` [al-Ma’idah 5:105]. I heard the Messenger of Allah
( )ﷺsay: “If the people see an evildoer and do not stop him, soon Allah will send His punishment
upon them all.”
Musnad Ahmad 30
Book 1: Musnad Abu Bakr as-Siddiq (ra)
Narrated Zainab bint Jahsh:
The Prophet ( )ﷺgot up from his sleep with a flushed red face and said, "None has the right to
be worshipped but Allah. Woe to the Arabs, from the Great evil that is nearly approaching them.
Today a gap has been made in the wall of Gog and Magog like this." (Sufyan illustrated by this
forming the number 90 or 100 with his fingers.) It was asked, "Shall we be destroyed though
there are righteous people among us?" The Prophet ( )ﷺsaid, "Yes, if evil increased."
Zainab bint Jahsh reported that Allah's Apostle ( )ﷺgot up from sleep saying:
There is no being worthy of worship except Allah; there is a destruction in store for Arabia
because of turmoil which is at hand, the barrier of Gog and Magog has opened so much. And
Sufyan made a sign of ten with the help of his hand (in order to indicate the width of the gap)
and I said: Allah's Messenger, would we be perished in spite of the fact that there would be
good people amongst us? Thereupon he said: Of course, but only when the evil predominates.
Allah's Messenger ( )ﷺsaid, "You see the believers as regards their being merciful among
themselves and showing love among themselves and being kind, resembling one body, so that,
if any part of the body is not well then the whole body shares the sleeplessness (insomnia) and
fever with it."
The similitude of believers in regard to mutual love, affection, fellow-feeling is that of one body;
when any limb of it aches, the whole body aches, because of sleeplessness and fever.