TRANCENDENTING DECENTRALISTIC SOVEREIGNTY AND RESPONSIBILITY 8

  

A CLEAN GOVERNANCE,

WHEN HONESTY AND FAITH

A DISAPPEARANCED FROM SOME HEART

Hudhaifah said:

"The Messenger of Allah

Told us two Ahâdith, one of which has

come to pass and I am still waiting for the other.

He told us:

Honesty was preserved in the

roots of men's hearts, then the

Qur'ân was revealed and they learned (it)

from the Qur'ân and from the Sunnah."

"Then he told us about its disappearance, saying:

'A man will go to sleep and honesty will

be taken away from his heart,

and only its trace will remain,

like the traces of a faint mark.

Then he will go to sleep, and the

honesty will be taken away from

his heart, leaving a trace like a

blister, as when an ember touches

your foot and raises a blister

which has nothing inside."

"Then he picked up a handful of pebbles

and rolled them on his leg.

'People will engage in business with one another,

But there will hardly be any honest persons among them.

Then it will be said that in such-and-such a tribe

there is an honest man, and

a man will be admired for his intelligence,

good manners and strength, but there will not be

even a mustard-seed of faith in his heart!"

"There was a time when I did

not mind dealing with any one of you,

for if he was a Muslim, his

religion would prevent him from cheating;

and if he was a

Christian or a Jew,

his (Muslim) ruler would prevent him from cheating;

but today I cannot deal

except with so-and-so and so-andso.',

The Sacred Legal Way of The Prophet.

Muslim, The Authentic  No. 367