Our Situation Today
وقع حجر على ذيل ثعلب فقطع ذيله .
A stone fell on a fox’s tail and severed it.
فرآه ثعلب آخر فسأله لم قطعت ذيلك ؟ قال له إني أشعر بسعادة وكأني طائر في الهواء يالها من متعة .
When another fox saw him, he asked, why did you severe your tail? He replied:
I feel happiness (without the tail). I feel like I’m flying in the air. What a great delight it is!
فجعله يقطع ذيله ! فلما شعر بألم شديد ولم يجد متعة مثله ، سأله : لما كذبت عليّ ؟
So the second fox cut his own tail, but rather than find it pleasurable like his friend said,
he felt sharp and excruciating pains. Turning to his friend, he asked, why did you lie to me?
قال : إن أخبرت الثعالب بألمك لن يقطعوا ذيولهم وسيسخرون منا
He replied, if you inform other foxes about the pain, they will not cut their tails and will make mockery of us.
فظلوا يخبرون كل من يجدوه بمتعتهم حتى أصبح غالب الثعالب دون ذيل! ثم إنهم صاروا كلما رأوا ثعلبا بذيل سخروا منه !
They started informing all the foxes about how delighted they feel until most of the foxes had their tail severed. Whenever they see a fox with tail, they mock him.
( فإذا عم الفساد صار الناس يعيرون الصالحين بصلاحهم ! واتخذهم السفهاء سخرية )
Whenever evil becomes rife in the land, righteous people are often condemned for their integrity and the fools turn them into objects of mockery.
عن كعب رحمه الله قال: “ليأتين على الناس زمان يُعَيَّر
المؤمن بإيمانه كما يعير اليومَ الفاجر بفجوره حتى يقال للرجل إنك مؤمن فقيه”
Ka’b rahimahullāh said, it shall come upon the people, a time when a believer shall be condemned for his faith in the manner that today the corrupt person is being condemned for his corruption
إن المجتمع الفاســـــــد إذا لم يجد للمصلحيـــــن تهمــــــة .. عيّرهـــــم بأجمــــــل ما فيهـــــم ..
In a corrupt society, whenever there's no concrete proof to smear the righteous persons, they denigrate them with their best character...
ألم يقل قوم لوط : ( أخرجوا آل لوط من
قريتكم إنهم أناس يتطهّـــــــــــرون
Did the people of Prophet Lūt not say, “Exile the household of Lūt from your town, they are a people given to purity (religious)?!
ويحكى ان رجلا دفن كلبا في مقابر المسلمين
It was related that a man buried his dog in the Muslim cemetery
فشكاه الناس الى القاضي ، فاستدعاه القاضي وسأله عن حقيقة ما نسب إليه
So the people complained to the judge and the judge summoned him to come and defend his action
فقال الرجل : نعم لقد أوصاني الكلب بذلك فنفذت وصيته .
(On appearing before the judge) the man said, my dog
wished to be buried in the Muslim cemetery. I merely executed its wish.
فقال القاضي : ويحك أتستهزيء بنا .
Judge: (Enraged) What’s wrong with you? Are you making mockery of us here?
فقال الرجل : وقد اوصاني الكلب أيضا ان اعطي 10000 دينار للقاضي ..
The man: My dog had also
directed me to give a thousand Dīnār to the judge...
فقال القاضي : رحم الله الكلب الفقيد
Judge: (smiling) May Allāh have mercy on your late dog
فتعجب الناس من القاضي وكيف تغير في الحال ،
The people were shocked by the sudden change in the judge’s countenance
فقال لهم القاضي :
لا تتعجبوا ؛فقد تأملت في امر هذا الكلب الصالح فوجدته من نسل كلب اصحاب الكهف .
Judge: Do not be surprised. After due observation, I realized that this righteous dog is a descendant of the dog of the ‘As-hāb al-Kahf (The Companions of the Cave)
هذا حالنا اليوم..
بعض الناس تتغير مبادئهم ومواقفهم فينطقون بالباطل ويدافعون عنه حسب رغباتهم وما تقتضيه مصالحهم
This is exactly our situation today. Some of us change our principles & positions at will, support & propagate falsehood once it serves our interests and benefits.
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