How do you reconcile the hadith: (And this community will remain standing until the command of Allah comes) with what we see of decline in some countries?
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The questioner :Sahih al-Bukhari 71 Meaning, this community is standing, still manifest upon the truth, so how... the Islamic awakening, that it has now awakened, and that this community is also standing, how do we reconcile this and that?
The Shaykh : This community, the ummah, like others, experiences decline in some times, but this decline does not mean it is a decline in every place.
The questioner : But, Shaykh, this group is a phenomenon in every place.
The Shaykh : No, it may be in one place, and it may be lost in another place according to the time. The important thing is that this ummah must have a group upon the truth, whom those who abandon them do not harm.
that this nation (true Muslims) will keep on
ولن تزال هذه الأمة قائمةThe Shaykh : This community, the ummah, like others, experiences decline in some times, but this decline does not mean it is a decline in every place.
The questioner : But, Shaykh, this group is a phenomenon in every place.
The Shaykh : No, it may be in one place, and it may be lost in another place according to the time. The important thing is that this ummah must have a group upon the truth, whom those who abandon them do not harm.