Is Islam Growing?
- philhoraia
- Mar 28, 2023
- 4 min read
Muslims like to tell us that Islam is growing but what do their sources say?
Allah's boss knew that Islam would weaken and said that it would even disappear.
It is narrated on the authority of Ibn 'Umar ('Abdullah b. 'Umar) that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) observed:
Verily Islam started as something strange and it would again revert (to its old position) of being strange just as it started, and it would recede between the two mosques just as the serpent crawls back into its hole.
Narrated Kathir bin 'Abdullah bin 'Amr bin 'Awf bin Zaid bin Milhah narrated from his father, from his grandfather:
that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: "Indeed the religion with creep into the Hijaz just like a snake creeps into its hole, and the religion will cling to the Hijaz just like the female mountain goat cling to the peak of a mountain. Indeed the religion began as something strange and it will return to being strange. So Tuba is for the strangers who correct what the people have corrupted from my Sunnah after me."
Narrated Jubair bin Nufair:
from Abu Ad-Darda who said: "We were with the Prophet (ﷺ) when he raised his sight to the sky, then he said: 'This is the time when knowledge is to be taken from the people, until what remains of it shall not amount to anything." So Ziyad bin Labid Al-Ansari said: 'How will it be taken from us while we recite the Qur'an. By Allah we recite it, and our women and children recite it?' He (ﷺ) said: 'May you be bereaved of your mother O Ziyad! I used to consider you among the Fuqaha of the people of Al-Madinah. The Tawrah and Injil are with the Jews and Christians, but what do they avail of them?'" Jubair said: "So I met 'Ubadah bin As-Samit and said to him: 'Have you not heard what your brother Abu Ad-Darda said?' Then I informed him of what Abu Ad-Darda said. He said: 'Abu Ad-Darda spoke the truth. If you wish, we shall narrated to you about the first knowledge to be removed from the people: It is Khushu', soon you will enter the congregational Masjid, but not see any man in it with Khushu'.'"
It rather looks like he expected this 'taking of knowledge' to take place pretty soon, in his lifetime.
Zirr reported: Ibn Mas’ud, may Allah be pleased with him, said, “The Quran will vanish in one night. No verse in the scripture or in the heart of anyone will be left behind.”
Source: Sunan al-Dārimī 3343
Grade: Hasan (fair) according to Al-Darani
Ibn Taymiyyah said, “Indeed, it will be taken away by night at the end of time, from the written copies and the hearts. No word of it will remain in the hearts, nor any letter in the written copies.”
Source: Majmū’ al-Fatāwá 3/174
عَنْ زِرٍّ عَنْ ابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ رضي الله عنه قَالَ لَيُسْرَيَنَّ عَلَى الْقُرْآنِ ذَاتَ لَيْلَةٍ فَلَا يُتْرَكُ آيَةٌ فِي مُصْحَفٍ وَلَا فِي قَلْبِ أَحَدٍ إِلَّا رُفِعَتْ
3343 سنن الدارمي كتاب فضائل القرآن باب في تعاهد القرآن
4/2106 المحدث حسين سليم أسد الداراني خلاصة حكم المحدث حسن في سنن الدارمي
قال ابن تيمية فَإِنَّهُ يَسْرِي بِهِ فِي آخِرِ الزَّمَانِ مِنْ الْمَصَاحِفِ وَالصُّدُورِ فَلَا يَبْقَى فِي الصُّدُورِ مِنْهُ كَلِمَةٌ وَلَا فِي الْمَصَاحِفِ مِنْهُ حَرْفٌ
3/174 مجموع فتاوى ابن تيمية
When have most Muslims even bothered to read through their quran?
Mustaurid al-Qurashi reported:
I heard Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: The Last Hour would come (when) the Romans would form a majority amongst people. 'Amr said to him (Mustaurid Qurashi): See what you are saying? He said: I say what I heard from Allah's Messenger (ﷺ). Thereupon he said: If you say that, it is a fact for they have four qualities. They have the patience to undergo a trial and immediately restore themselves to sanity after trouble and attack again after flight. They (have the quality) of being good to the destitute and the orphans, to the weak and, fifthly, the good quality in them is that they put resistance against the oppression of kings.
The 'Romans' refers to those of the Eastern Roman Empire, i.e., the Byzantines. And the state religion was decidedly not Islam. .
Islam is 'growing'. Who exactly are these Muslims? The Ahmadiyya, the Shiites, the Alawis, the Sufis? Ask a Sunni, and he'll probably deny that those above were Muslims.
What if a Muslim were of the 'correct' branch of Islam? According to non-quranic hadith, only ONE sect would make it to 'the' (sic) Jannah. From another post:
It was narrated from ‘Awf bin Malik that the Messenger of Allah(ﷺ) said: “The Jews split into seventy-one sects, one of which will be in Paradise and seventy in Hell. The Christians split into seventy-two sects, seventy-one of which will be in Hell and one in Paradise. I swear by the One Whose Hand is the soul of Muhammad, my nation will split into seventy-three sects, one of which will be in Paradise and seventy-two in Hell.” It was said: “O Messenger of Allah, who are they?” He said: “The main body.” https://sunnah.com/ibnmajah/36/67 According to the hadith above, the Jews have a 1/71 chance of getting into the Jannah, the Christians a 1/72 and the Muslims a 1/73 chance. The Jews and Christians have a greater chance of getting in, and all without converting to Islam; the Muslims, however, have just one chance in 73 of getting into it, depending upon their being in the right sect. It would seem that someone asked just which exactly the winning sect of Islam was, and that the founder of Islam tried to fob him off with a non-answer, which the translator renders "The main body", the word being "Al-jama'ah", 'The group'. The Jannah-Bound
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