Chapter 4: Evil Within The Muslim Ummah
Abdullah ibn Umar reported that the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ came to us and said: O Muhajirin, you may be afflicted by five things, Allah forbid that you should live to see them. If fornication becomes widespread, you should realise that this has never happened without new diseases befalling the people which their ancestors never suffered. If people should begin to cheat in weighing out goods, you should realise that this has never happened without a drought or famine befalling the people and their rulers oppressing them. If people should withhold Zakah, you should realise that this has never happened without the rain being stopped from falling, and were it not for the animals sake, it would never rain again. If people should break their covenant with Allah and His Messenger, you should realise that this has never happened without Allah SWT sending an enemy against them to take some of their possessions by force. If the leaders do not govern according to the Book of Allah, you should realise that this has never happened without Allah making them into groups and making them fight one another. (Ibn Majah)
Ali ibn Abi Talib narrated that the Prophet said: If my Ummah bears fifteen traits, tribulation will befall it.
A man asked the Prophet: what are they, O Messenger of Allah?
The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ replied: When any gain is shared out among the rich, with the poor not benefitting from it, when a trust becomes a means of making a profit, when a man obeys his wife and disobeys his mother, and treats his friend kindly whilst shunning his father, when voices are raised in the mosques, when the leader of a people is the worst of them, when people treat a man with respect because they fear some evil he may do, when a lot of wine is drunk, when men wear silk, when female singers and musical instruments become popular and when the last of the people of this Ummah curse the first ones.
The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ then said: Let them then expect a red wind, or the earth to swallow them or for them to be transformed into animals. (Tirmidhi)
One of the companions of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, Imran ibn Husayn reported that the Prophet said: Some people of this Ummah will be swallowed up by the earth, some will be transformed into animals and some will be bombarded with stones.
One of the Muslims asked the Prophet: when will this be, O Messenger of Allah?
The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ said: When singers and musical instruments will become popular and much wine will be drunk. (Tirmidhi)