Guidance in the Face of Proliferating Trials and Knowing the Truth

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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 a believer get out of the trials? The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was asked, “What is the way out of them, O Messenger of Allah?” He said:

The Book of Allah

كتاب الله

In it is the news of what came before you and the information of what will come 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)

It is the dividing rope, not a joke, to the end of the hadith. So the way out of the trials is to hold fast to the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). Yes.

Source إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان 15-03-1439هـ — alfawzan.live (43:44)

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