Kitab al-Fitan · Nu'aym ibn Hammad

ما رأيتم؟ قالوا: لا شيء، قال: لتخبرني قالوا: رأينا حمارا قد علته قوائمه، قال: فما أولتم؟ قالوا: قلنا تعلو سفلة الناس وسقاطهم، ويتضع أشرافهم، فقال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: فإنه كما أولتم

What did you see? They said: Nothing. He said: Tell me. They said: We saw a donkey with its legs stuck. He said: What did you understand? They said: We said: The lowliest of people and their fallen will be exalted, and their nobles will be humbled. So the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: It is as you have understood.

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لن تنفكوا بخير ما استغنى أهل بدوكم عن أهل حضركم، فإذا أتوكم لم تمتنعوا منهم لكثرة من يسيل عليكم، يقولون: طال ما جعنا وشبعتم، وطال ما شقينا ونعمتم، فواسونا اليوم

You will never cease to be well as long as the people of your Bedouins do not need the people of your city. When they come to you, you will not be deterred from them because of the large number of people pouring on you. They say: “We have been hungry for so long and you have been full, so long have we been miserable and you have been blessed, so console us today.”

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لتأمرن بالمعروف وتنهون عن المنكر، أو ليبعثن الله عليكم العجم فليضربن رقابكم، وليأكلن فيئكم، وليكونن أسدا لا يفرون

You will enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong, or Allah will send foreigners upon you, and they will behead you, and they will eat your spoils, and they will be a lion that will not flee.

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كيف بكم وزمان يغربل الناس غربلة، تبقى حثالة من الناس، فإذا كان ذلك فخذوا ما تعرفون، وذروا ما تنكرون، وأقبلوا على أمر خاصتكم، وذروا أمر العوام

How can people be sifted for so long, and only scum will remain, so if that is the case, then take what you know, abandon what you deny, and accept the affairs of your own, and abandon the affairs of the common people.

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لأنا أخوف على أمتي في اللبن أخوف مني عليهم في الخمر قالوا: وكيف يا رسول الله؟ قال: يحبون اللبن فيتباعدون من الجماعات ويضيعونها

Because I fear for my nation regarding milk, I fear for them regarding wine. They love milk, so they distance themselves from the groups and waste them

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من أشراط الساعة أن يملك من ليس أهلا أن يملك، ويرفع الوضيع، ويوضع الرفيع

One of the signs of the Hour is that someone who does not deserve to rule will rule, and the lowly will be exalted and the high will be humbled

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