So that is where the Satan -la rules over his -la friends...
So that is where the Satan -la rules over his -la friends, and the ones for whom goodness has preceded from Allah -azwj escape from this.
إِنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ آلِهِ يَقُولُ: كَيْفَ أَنْتُمْ إِذَا أَلْبَسَتْكُمْ فِتْنَةٌ يَرْبُو فِيهَا الصَّغِيرُ، وَ يَهْرَمُ فِيهَا الْكَبِيرُ، يَجْرِي النَّاسُ عَلَيْهَا وَ يَتَّخِذُونَهَا سُنَّةً، فَإِذَا غُيِّرَ مِنْهَا شَيْءٌ قِيلَ: قَدْ غُيِّرَتِ السُّنَّةُ وَ أَتَى النَّاسُ مُنْكَراً I -asws heard Rasool-Allah -saww saying: ‘How will your condition be when you are clothed in ‘Fitna’ (strife) in which the young ones will grow older while the adults would become elderly.
The people will flow towards it (fitna) and take it as a Sunnah. So if something is altered therein, they will say, ‘The Sunnah has been altered’, and the people would have become deniers.
ثُمَّ تَشْتَدُّ الْبَلِيَّةُ وَ تُسْبَى الذُّرِّيَّةُ وَ تَدُقُّهُمُ الْفِتْنَةُ كَمَا تَدُقُّ النَّارُ الْحَطَبَ، وَ كَمَا تَدُقُّ الرَّحَى بِثِفَالِهَا، وَ يَتَفَقَّهُونَ لِغَيْرِ اللَّهِ، وَ يَتَعَلَّمُونَ لِغَيْرِ الْعَمَلِ، وَ يَطْلُبُونَ الدُّنْيَا بِأَعْمَالِ الْآخِرَةِ Then the affliction would intensify, and the offspring would become captivated and the ‘Fitna’ (strife) would consume them just as the fire consumes the firewood, or just as the millstone grinds upon its lower base.
And they would learn the Laws for the sake of other than Allah ‑azwj , and they would learn for the sake of other than doing good deeds, and they will be coveting the world instead of working for the Hereafter.
ثُمَّ أَقْبَلَ [عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ] بِوَجْهِهِ وَ حَوْلَهُ نَاسٌ مِنْ أَهْلِ بَيْتِهِ وَ خَاصَّتِهِ وَ شِيعَتِهِ، فَقَالَ: قَدْ عَمِلَتِ الْوُلَاةُ قَبْلِي أَعْمَالًا خَالَفُوا فِيهَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ آلِهِ، مُتَعَمِّدِينَ لِخِلَافِهِ، نَاقِضِينَ لِعَهْدِهِ، مُغَيِّرِينَ لِسُنَّتِهِ Then he -asws turned his -asws face towards those from his -asws family and his -asws special ones and his -asws Shias who were around him -asws , so he -asws said: ‘The rulers before me -asws acted in opposition to Rasool-Allah -saww deliberately breaching the Covenant with him -saww and altering his -saww Sunnah.
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