What are the signs of the Hour?
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The questioner: What are its signs?
The Shaykh: Where are you in this? You are currently surrounded by many of the signs,Sahih Ibn Hibban 4:43, Sahih Muslim 2128b among the signs of the Hour ... Good, good, .
The questioner: The spread of the pen.
The Shaykh: They seem to be two contradictory matters, but they are two realities ... .
The questioner: Ignorance alongside writing.
The Shaykh: Alongside writing.
The student: The pen serves ignorance.
The Shaykh: The spread of the pen means the elimination of illiteracy, but with the elimination of illiteracy, ignorance spreads as you see.
The questioner: I mean what we see now of investigations and responses and such with ignorance ... .
The Shaykh: Ah, the spread of the pen is among the signs of the Hour, among the signs of the Hour he said - peace be upon him - :Sahih al-Bukhari 100, and here you see now the entire Islamic world, I don't know how many millions ... connect with four, five, ten, twenty, say fifty, and we type another fifty, a hundred, a hundred, these are the world ... who benefit the Islamic world, this is the most prominent phenomenon and sign of the truth of the words of the Messenger - peace and blessings be upon him - : Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 38:477, now the heads of the parties are the scholars of the parties, and they are undoubtedly mostly ignorant, yes they have a pen, but did you know that ignorance meets the pen? And what is the phenomenon of responding to Al-Albani's fatwa with successive articles in this luxurious newspaper Al-Liwaa? These are pens that write, and I wish the matter had stopped at ignorance only, but it is hatred, envy, malice, and the like, and Allah is the helper - turn it off, my brother, then deal with it, turn it off, and whoever encircles the sanctuary is likely to fall into it - yes.
The Shaykh: Where are you in this? You are currently surrounded by many of the signs,
That you see the barefoot, naked shepherds competing in building structures
أن ترى الحفاة العراة رعاء الشَّاء يتطاولون في البنيانTwo are the types amongst the denizens of Hell, the one possessing whips like the tail of an ox and they flog people with their help. (The second one) the women who would be naked in spite of their being dressed, who are seduced (to wrong paths) and seduce others with their hair high like humps. These women would not get into Paradise and they would not perceive the odour of Paradise, although its frag- rance can be perceived from such and such distance (from great distance).
صنفان من الناس لم أَرَهما بعد : رجال بأيديهم سياط كأذناب البقر يضربون بها الناس ، ونساء كاسيات عاريات ، مائلات مميلات ، رؤوسهنَّ كأسنمة البخت ، لا يدخلْنَ الجنة ولا يَجِدْنَ ريحها ، وإنَّ ريحَها لَتُوجد من مسيرة كذا وكذاThe spread of ignorance, and the spread of the pen
انتشار الجهل ، وفشو القلمThe spread of ignorance, and the spread of the pen
انتشار الجهل ، وفشو القلمThe questioner: The spread of the pen.
The Shaykh: They seem to be two contradictory matters, but they are two realities ... .
The questioner: Ignorance alongside writing.
The Shaykh: Alongside writing.
The student: The pen serves ignorance.
The Shaykh: The spread of the pen means the elimination of illiteracy, but with the elimination of illiteracy, ignorance spreads as you see.
The questioner: I mean what we see now of investigations and responses and such with ignorance ... .
The Shaykh: Ah, the spread of the pen is among the signs of the Hour, among the signs of the Hour he said - peace be upon him - :
Allah does not take away the knowledge, by taking it away from (the hearts of) the people, but takes it away by the death of the religious learned men till when none of the (religious learned men) remains, people will take as their leaders ignorant persons who when consulted will give their verdict without knowledge. So they will go astray and will lead the people astray.
إن الله لا يقبض العلم انتزاعًا من صدور العلماء ، ولكنَّه يقبض العلم بقبض العلماء ؛ حتى إذا لم يُبْقِ عالمًا اتَّخذ الناس رؤوسًا جهَّالًا ، فسُئِلُوا ، فأفتوا بغير علمٍ ، فضلُّوا وأضلُّواIndeed, Allah does not pluck knowledge from the hearts of scholars, but He takes away knowledge by taking away the scholars; until when He leaves no scholar, the people take ignorant heads, so they are asked, and they issue rulings without knowledge, so they go astray and lead others astray
إن الله لا ينتزع العلم انتزاعًا من صدور العلماء ، ولكنه يقبض العلم بقبض العلماء ؛ حتى إذا لم يبق عالم اتَّخذ الناس رؤوسًا جهَّالًا ، فسُئِلُوا ، فأفتوا بغير علمٍ ، فضلُّوا وأضلُّوا
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