The Way Out of Trials and Distinguishing the Truth When They Are Numerous

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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, a questioner says: In this time, trials have become numerous. What is the guidance in that? And how does a Muslim know the truth at this time?

Answer:
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said

Do good deeds before trials come like portions of a dark night when a man will be a believer in the morning and an infidel in the evening, and a believer in the evening and an infidel in the morning, selling his religion for some worldly goods

بادروا بالأعمال فتنا كقطع الليل المظلم يصبح الرجل مؤمنا ويمسي كافرا، ويمسي مؤمنا ويصبح كافرا، يبيع دينه بعرض من الدنيا

Mishkat al-Masabih 5383

, so he exits from faith. If he sells his religion, he exits from faith, because of the trials, trials like the dark pieces of the night, because of the trials.
How does the believer exit from the trials? The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was asked, and he said

What is the way out from it O Messenger of Allah?" He said: "Allah's book

ما المخرج منها يا رسول الله؟ قال كتاب الله

Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2906Da'if (Darussalam)

in it is the news of what came before you and the report of what comes after you and the judgment of what is between you

Whoever among the oppressive abandons it, Allah crushes him, and whoever seeks guidance from other than it, then Allah leaves him to stray. It

من تركه من جبار قصمه الله ومن ابتغى الهدى من غيره أضله الله هو

Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2906Da'if (Darussalam)

the decisive matter is not a joke, to the end of the hadith. So the way out of the trials is by holding fast to the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). Yes.

Source المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين-15-03-1439هـ — af.org.sa (43:44)

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