Thursday 23 December 2010

The state we're in

The Messenger of Allah (may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said that a man from Bani Israel (the tribe into which Prophet Moses/Musa was born)invited someone to his house, and in his house was a pregnant dog. The dog said: "By Allah, I will not bark at my owner’s guest". But her pups barked from inside her. It was said: “What is this?” So Allah, The Majestic inspired to one of the men that: this is like a community that will come after you, whose sufahaa’ (vulgar people) will overpower its hulamaa’ (people of hilm: forbearance).


-Narrated by imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal. It is Sahih according to shaykh Ahmad Shakir.

Courtesy of Dawud Israel, at Muslimology

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