He spoke about the hadith: (The religion began as something strange and will return as something strange). And what is happening in our time of sins and religious innovations.

The Shaykh : This is one thing, and a second thing. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) informed us of a reality that we are now touching with our hands in this time, as it is said. That is his saying (peace and blessings be upon him): . Indeed, Islam began as something strange and will return as something strange, meaning just as it began. So blessed are the strangers. This hadith is in this form in Sahih Muslim. Then, in some other authentic narrations from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), the explanation of these strangers came in two types. One of them is when it was said to him: Who are the strangers, O Messenger of Allah? He said: . And this reality is not known by the specialists, who are the scholars, but rather by some of the scholars; indeed, all the religious people touch upon this reality. This becomes clear from the following question: Do most Muslims today obey Allah in the rulings of their religion, or do they disobey Him? They disobey. The majority are the ones who go against it. If this hadith is true, the strangers are a few righteous people among many people, where those who disobey them are more than those who obey them. Those who do not pray are more than those who pray. Those who do not fear Allah in themselves, their families, their women, their daughters, and their children are more than those who fear Allah, and so on. But there is another thing. Being a stranger means a few righteous people among many people, where those who disobey them are more than those who obey them. Disobedience is of two types. One type is for a matter whose reward is agreed upon by the Muslims, like the previous examples, such as prayer, for instance, or the display of adornment by women. This is obligatory and that is forbidden. All these rulings are agreed upon by the Muslims. Nevertheless, most people abandon and go against them. But there are other rulings in which the scholars of the Muslims themselves differ. They say, for example, that they differ regarding the good religious innovation and the bad religious innovation, even though the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) explicitly stated in more than one hadith: . And he said in another hadith: . Despite these hadiths and others, you hear today some of those who claim knowledge saying: No. There is a good religious innovation, and there is a disagreement between two groups of the specialists of the Muslims, who are the scholars. One group says according to the saying of the Messenger: . And a group says: No. This hadith is not on this basis; rather, there is a good religious innovation. Also, this requires a special lesson, so I cannot delve into it now. Rather, it is a reminder of the meaning of this hadith, the hadith of being a stranger, in two narrations. We are now dealing with the first narration: . The second hadith will clarify for us a hidden meaning in the first hadith that many people do not notice. When it was said to him (peace be upon him): Who are the strangers? He said: . So here there are two types of being a stranger: the strangeness of the righteous among the many wicked, and a second strangeness, the strangeness of the righteous among the righteous. Because the righteous here are of two types: righteous people who directed themselves to the worship of Allah, a group of them according to the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and a group of them who deviated from the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), whether they realize it or not. Their reckoning is with Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He). So the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) informed us about our reality in this time. He said: