Abu Huraira (ra) reported Allah's Messenger (saas) as saying:
“The Last Hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews. The Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: ‘Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him;’ but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.”
“The Last Hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews. The Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: ‘Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him;’ but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.”
(Sahih Muslim, Kitab al-Fitan wa Ashrat as-Sa'ah, Book 41, 6985)
“So that Jews will hide behind trees and the tree will say “Muslim! The servant of Allah! Come, look there is a Jew behind me, he hid here, behind me, come and punish him”. Only the tree Gharqad will not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.”
(Kitab al-Fitan, hadith. 2239)
1ST SENTENCE:
‘The Last Hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews’
As can be understood here, the world news today really shows that the Jews fight against Muslims especially in Palestine. This hadith that reveal more than 1400 years ago have come true and remind us that the Last Hour and the end of this world is close at hand.
2ND SENTENCE:
‘The Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree…’
It possible that the hiding Jews mentioned in this hadith imply those diplomats, journalists, judges, businessmen, doctors, soldiers, statesmen who infiltrate into states and practice their professions and also serve to the dajjal.
3rd SENTENCE:
‘…and a stone or a tree would say: ‘Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him.’
'Stones and trees’, as revealed in the hadiths, is meant in a FIGURATIVE SENSE.
We can see what this hadith means by looking at other hadiths and verses of the Qur'an. Otherwise, it is a sin to kill an innocent Jew, a person, a child, standing there, and heed a voice from a stone telling us to kill them. That is unacceptable.
According to the Qur’an, a Muslim learns from the Qur’an, not from tree or wood. Nowhere in the Qur’an is it revealed that a tree or wood can bear witness for a Muslim. According to the Qur’an, it is what Muslims bear witness to that matter.
We cannot deduce any judgments based on a single verse of the Qur’an or a single hadith. In the Qur’an also other verses are complementary. The other hadiths complete one another. Now, let’s see and understand WHO is this ‘Stones and trees…’ actually mean by analyzing this verse from the Qur’an. We need to understand what our Prophet (saas) says here, what it actually means.
Allah compares HYPOCRITES to “blocks of wood” in the Qur’an (Surat al-Munafiqun, 4).
Allah also compares UNBELIEVERS to rock, “your hearts became as hard as rocks.” (Surat al-Baqara, 74)
So, we can understand here that ‘stone and tree’ as mention in the hadith is actually UNBELIEVERS AND HYPOCRITES who try to put Muslims and Jews against each other. So, thus happen what we see in Palestine.
4th SENTENCE:
‘…but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.’
The gharqad tree here might imply those people who have ROOTS everywhere and advocate those people who are uncovered (Unbeliever and Hypocrites)? Allah knows the truth. By the concept of tree here, we can make a comparison between the FRUIT-GIVING FEATURE OF TREES to those human beings who have reached maturity. So, these people might be the people who know what they’re doing. They already build their hidden society and agenda long before Jews and Muslims fight against each other as they’re the ROOTS of all the event and disaster that happen until it turn into fruition.
CONCLUSION
If someone tells us, “Come here, there is a Jew here, come and kill him”, we would not do that. Why would we kill him? This is unacceptable. He should have committed a crime, right? He should be put on trial and as a result of the trial he should be sentenced by a judge. There is a system, a legal system.
That is, this does not mean that whoever wishes can go and kill someone he meets and then puts him to trial as he wishes. We can only understand the meaning of the hadith when we look at the other hadiths. Otherwise, for instance an innocent Jewish, a Jewish kid, for instance is standing there and a voice from the stone calls on, “Go and kill this kid.” I do not kill him, nor does anyone else. This would be haram (unlawful), this is unacceptable.
A Muslim does not behave according to rocks and wood. He acts according to what other Muslims say.
It is incompatible with the Qur’an and unlawful for an innocent person to be killed according to a statement issued from a stone. To say that such a ruling can be given without trying that person would mean to say that the voice from the stone was revelation (Surely Allah is beyond that).
It would therefore be insanity, murder, to say, “I killed a man because of a voice from a stone” or “A rock told me, and I killed him.” A Muslim would never act in such a way toward anyone without trying them as the law demands.
If rulings were to be extracted from rock or wood, then what the rock or wood said would be regarded as Divine revelation. Since no other book apart from the Qur’an will come, to say such a thing would be to claim that rock or wood would reign over us (Surely Allah is beyond that).
If rulings were to be extracted from rock or wood, then what the rock or wood said would be regarded as Divine revelation. Since no other book apart from the Qur’an will come, to say such a thing would be to claim that rock or wood would reign over us (Surely Allah is beyond that).
A Muslim acts by the light of the Qur’an and the hadiths of our Prophet (saas), not rock and wood. If a person regards stone and wood as issuing revelation, if he says, “what a rock says is revelation, rock bestows revelation on me, stone and wood rule me,” then he is departing from the religion. Under that belief, the rock might tell him other things, too. It will say anything and cause the person to do other things. There are no verses in the Qur’an concerning a Muslim obeying rock and wood.
In addition, Jews are people given protection in the time of our Prophet (saas) and who followed Muslims.
In addition, Jews are people given protection in the time of our Prophet (saas) and who followed Muslims.
the compassion and justice shown by the Prophet (saas) in the light of the Qur’an, acted as a role model for subsequent Muslim rulers.
Allah says in the Qur’an, "... Do not let hatred for a people incite you into not being just. Be just. That is closer to taqwa” (Surat al-Ma’ida, 8).
Allah also commands Muslims to ensure the safety even of the idolaters (pagans who do not heed Allah’s revelation):
"If any of the idolaters ask you for protection, give them protection until they have heard the words of Allah. Then convey them to a place where they are safe...." (Surat at-Tawba, 6)
A Muslim will therefore uphold justice, for Allah’s sake, in the face of anyone and everyone and will only seek solutions to all matters as revealed in the Qur’an.
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