Kitab al-Fitan · Nu'aym ibn Hammad

ما لي ولكم منها مخرج إن نحن أدركناها إلا أن نخرج منها كما دخلناها، هكذا عهد إلينا نبينا صلى الله عليه وسلم

There is no way out for you or me if we have reached it except to leave it as we entered it. This is how our Prophet, ﷺ, entrusted us.

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يأتي على الناس زمان يخير الرجل فيه بين العجز والفجور، فمن أدرك ذلك فليختر العجز على الفجور

There will come a time when a man will have to choose between impotence and immorality. Whoever realizes this should choose impotence over immorality

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خير الناس يومئذ مؤمن معتزل في شعب من الشعاب، يتقي ربه ويذر الناس من شره

The best of people on that day is a believer who secludes himself in a mountainous area, fears his Lord and shuns people from his evil

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إن الإسلام بدأ غريبا وسيعود غريبا، فطوبى للغرباء بين يدي الساعة

It was narrated from Anas bin Malik that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:“Islam began as something strange and will go back to being strange, so glad tidings to the strangers.”

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خير الناس في الفتن رجل أخذ برأس فرسه يخيف العدو ويخيفونه، أو رجل معتزل يؤدي حق الله عليه

The best people in turmoil are a man who takes the head of his horse and frightens the enemy, or a man who is isolated and performs Allah’s rights upon him

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خير الناس في الفتن رجل يأكل من فيء سيفه في سبيل الله، ورجل في رأس شاهقة يأكل من رسل غنمه

The best people in turmoil are a man who eats from the droppings of his sword in the name of Allah, and a man on a high mountain who eats from the messengers of his sheep.

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