Innovations drag one another along.

The Shaykh: It was reported in a hadith of al-Layth that the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) saw a man pointing with his two fingers, so he said to him: . He took it, and this remains a rule: that whenever one wants to say, "There is no god but Allah," one should affirm the oneness of Allah; meaning, one moves his finger. In this regard, as I say, the truth is that calamities drag one another along, and errors drag one another along, and innovations drag one another along, and so on. I mentioned this in some of my comments on some of the hadiths, and perhaps some of you remember this with me; it may have been in some of the hadiths regarding the virtue of praying with a turban, . These hadiths are like the Book of Allah to us in Damascus. You find the young man who has shaved his beard and mustache and is bareheaded entering the prayer, taking a handkerchief from his pocket and wrapping it around his head. This is one of the etiquettes of prayer. Good; this is an Islamic etiquette that a person does not walk around bareheaded, and this is not only in prayer. So I said there: What I fear most is that a time will come when they will also put fake beards in their pockets, so that whenever one of them enters the prayer, he puts on the borrowed turban and the borrowed beard, in the manner of the English lords. Evil drags evil, and this is what I consider unlikely. And I said here, when I came and was surprised by the unified adhan: What I fear most is that they will appoint a unified imam for us, one who prays there in the mosque and it is broadcast; because it is not difficult for the one who innovated that innovation to establish one like it, and so on.

The questioner: Have you finished speaking about this?

The Shaykh: If you want me to end it; because the hadith has many branches, but I am in my mind.

Another questioner: There is a question, by Allah ... .

The Shaykh: Go ahead.