Tribulation is the things and hardships that God Almighty brings upon His servants. It means trial and examination, and every matter in which truth is mixed with falsehood is a trial.
God Almighty says: “Do people think that they will be left to say, ‘We believe,’ and they will not be tested? But We did test those before them, and God will surely make evident those who are truthful, and He will surely make evident the liars.”
There are two types of sedition: 1- Specific seditions 2- General seditions 1- Private trials are the things that befall a person in his private life, whether good or evil. God Almighty tests the servant with them in his wealth, wife, children, or neighbor. 2- General tribulations: These are tribulations that afflict the entire nation, and Islam and its people are in a great affliction. They are general tribulations that ravage the servants and the country, and Islam is weakened, the status of its people is diminished, and the nations fall upon them as eaters fall upon their dish.
The nation is currently in the midst of the great tribulation that the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, warned us against, and which began with the Tunisian revolution. Here, I am not condemning or blaming the revolutionaries who participated in those revolutions. I am one of those who participated in this revolution and I still believe in its principles. I have not and will not regret my participation in it. However, here I am not talking about those who participated in this revolution in order to achieve noble goals. Rather, I am talking about those who are being directed by these young people and who exploit their struggle in order to achieve personal goals and to serve Zionist goals to destroy the nation.
I explained in a previous article that every stage in which our nation moves from one stage to another, the nation is afflicted with a general tribulation, and we are now in the midst of the great tribulation that follows the rule of force and precedes the rule according to the method of the Prophet.
We will discuss here in detail the Al-Dahima sedition that swept the majority of Muslims from all walks of life. You must know when you fell into this sedition. You should not assume that you have been right from the beginning of the revolution until now.
What is the Fitna of Duhaima? Ad-Duhaymaa means black, dark, great tribulation, or blind calamity. It has also been said that Ad-Duhaymaa means the calamity.
The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said about it: “Then there will be a great tribulation. Whenever it is said that it has ended, it will continue until there is no house of Arabs left that it has not entered. Fighting will not be known whether they are fighting for the truth or for falsehood. They will continue like this until they become two camps: a camp of faith in which there is no hypocrisy, and a camp of hypocrisy in which there is no faith. Then when they meet, you will see the Antichrist today or tomorrow.”
In another narration, the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: “Then the tribulation of Ad-Dahimah will not leave anyone of this nation without striking him with a blow. When it is said, ‘It has ended,’ it will continue. A man will become a believer in the morning and an unbeliever in the evening, until people will be divided into two camps: a camp of faith in which there is no hypocrisy, and a camp of hypocrisy in which there is no faith. When that happens, then await the Antichrist on that day or the next day.” Narrated by Abu Dawud and Ahmad.
The specifications of this sedition can be summarized as follows: 1- Do not leave anyone from this nation without slapping him. 2- Whenever it is said that it is interrupted, it continues. 3- A man becomes a believer in the morning and an unbeliever in the evening. 4- He fights in it, not knowing whether he is fighting for the right or for falsehood. 5- People fall into two camps: a camp of faith in which there is no hypocrisy, and a camp of hypocrisy in which there is no faith. 6- Its end is the appearance of the Antichrist
Let us talk about each of these points in some detail and explain to you how it applies to our current reality. 1- Do not leave anyone from this nation without striking him with a blow: that is, do not leave anyone from this nation without being afflicted by this tribulation and participating in it. It is not a condition that you stay away from demonstrations in order for you to believe that you have not fallen into that tribulation. It is sufficient for you to post on your Facebook page in which you accuse those who differ with you of being infidels, or comment on a post of one of your friends on Facebook and accuse him of being an infidel or a Kharijite, or permit the killing of your Muslim brother, or support an oppressor or a murderer in one of your gatherings with your friends. All of that represents your falling into that tribulation without participating in demonstrations.
2- The more it is said that it has stopped, the more it has persisted: that is, the more people think that this strife has ended, the more it increases. This is what happened and is happening in the countries of the Arab Spring. For example, the Egyptian revolution, at every stage of the revolution, people thought that the revolution had ended, but in reality it caused more division and more victims. For example, when Mubarak stepped down, people thought that the revolution had succeeded, but in reality it resulted in a division among the people, and this resulted in victims in several incidents. When Morsi was removed, people thought that the matter had ended, but it resulted in a division that was more severe than before, and also resulted in many more victims than the victims of the previous year.
3- A man becomes a believer in it and becomes an unbeliever in the evening: A man becomes a believer in it, meaning: because his brother’s blood, honor, and money are forbidden to him. And he becomes an infidel, meaning: because he considers his brother’s blood, honor, and money permissible. This stage is unknown to most people, and it has happened to many of those I know. There are those who used to defend the truth with me, and now they consider the blood of those who disagree with them permissible. The opposite is true for those who used to applaud and support falsehood, and now they rebel against it. The Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: Insulting a Muslim is an act of disobedience, and fighting him is an act of unbelief. The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: Any man who says to his brother, “Unbeliever,” then one of them will be guilty of it.
4- He fights in it, not knowing whether he is fighting for the truth or for falsehood: Here we are not talking about those who create and plan these seditions from among the seekers of power and the sheikhs of the sultan who justify the killing of their opponents under any pretext (from the Kharijites or from the infidels), but here I am talking about those who follow them without knowledge and believe the leaders of these seditions. The Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: “If two Muslims meet with their swords, the killer and the killed will both be in Hellfire.” I said: “O Messenger of God, this is the killer, but what about the killed?” He said: “He was eager to kill his companion.”
5- People will be divided into two camps: a camp of faith without hypocrisy, and a camp of hypocrisy without faith. This stage is the stage of distinguishing between the bad and the good. We are not heading towards this stage now, as the camp of hypocrisy has begun to appear somewhat clearly. There are still many who are deceived and do not understand anything and are leaning towards this camp. There is the camp of faith, which every faction claims to support and represent, but it will appear soon. This camp is the camp of the Mahdi, who will rule according to the method of the Prophethood and under the banner of “There is no god but God” and not under the banner of a party or group. The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: “Whoever fights under a blind banner, calling for partisanship or getting angry for partisanship, will be killed in the time of ignorance.” This stage will end with only two camps, clear and without doubt: a camp of faith and a camp of hypocrisy, with no middle camp between them.
6- Its end is the appearance of the Antichrist: After the Muslims are divided into two camps (a camp of faith without hypocrisy and a camp of hypocrisy without faith), the nation will move to a trial more severe than the trial of Ad-Dahima, and it will spread to all parts of the earth, which is the trial of the Antichrist. It is possible that those who joined the camp of faith will be tempted by this trial, and God knows best. This trial will end with the descent of our master Jesus, peace be upon him, and his killing of the Antichrist. The trial of the Antichrist will follow the trial of Ad-Dajjal directly, and there will be only a few years between them. Most of those who witness the trial of Ad-Dajjal are the ones who will witness the trial of the Antichrist. The Mahdi, the Antichrist, and our master Jesus, peace be upon him, will appear in succession at very close times, and God knows best.
How to survive the temptation of Ad-Dahima The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: “There will be tribulations, and there will be a tribulation in which the one who is sitting is better than the one who is walking, and the one who is walking is better than the one who is running towards it. So when it descends or occurs, whoever has camels should join his camels, and whoever has sheep should join his sheep, and whoever has land should join his land.” A man said: “O Messenger of Allah, what do you think of someone who does not have camels, sheep, or land?” The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: “He should take his sword and beat its edge with a stone, then flee if he is able to flee. ‘O Allah, have I conveyed the message? O Allah, have I conveyed the message? O Allah, have I conveyed the message?’” A man said: “O Messenger of Allah, what do you think if I am forced to go to one of the two rows or groups, and a man strikes me with his sword or an arrow comes and kills me?” The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: “He will bear his sin and your sin, and he will be among the companions of the Fire.”
Dear brothers, you have two options. 1- Either you withdraw from the strife if you feel that you are distracted and do not know right from wrong, or you follow a group or institution that supported the truth at one time and fell into strife at another time. 2- Or you should follow the truth only without fanaticism for any trend and without following any group or institution, and call for unity and not division and bloodshed. Most of the elites made mistakes and fell into this strife, and because of them millions fell into this strife. Also, there are religious scholars who ignited these strifes with fatwas inciting murder, and many people trusted them, so do not trust anyone these days.
O God, save us from the trials, both apparent and hidden. O God, enlighten us with the truth and grant us steadfastness in it. O God, show us the truth as truth and enable us to follow it, and show us falsehood as falsehood and enable us to avoid it, O Lord of the worlds.