The Prophet ﷺ said: “There will not cease to be a group amongst my Ummah upon the truth; neither will they be harmed by those who betray them nor those who oppose them until the command of Allaah arrives [i.e. the day of judgement]”. [Bukhaari]
This group will not cease to exist in the Ummah. The Ummah will not be deprived of this Sunni Group.
This Taa’ifah can be one group. If it adheres to the Qur’aan and the Sunnah, it is the Taa’ifah Al-Mansoorah [The Victorious Group], even if it is only one.
The Ummah will not lose this Sunni Group, this good group, and all praise be to Allaah until the command of Allaah comes to pass [i.e. the day of judgment].
‘They will not be harmed by those who forsake them’. Amongst the people are those who forsake them and those who oppose them, but they will not be harmed.
This is from Allaah’s Grace upon His servants and that He will establish the truth for the one who aids the truth and call to it, even if evil is rife.
There will be those who adhere to good, call to it and disseminate it amongst the people.
Not all the Ummah will be misguided, but some will remain upon truth, but they might be strangers [i.e. their affair will be strange to the people], just as the Prophet [sallal laahu alayhi wasallam] said, “Islam began as a strange thing and it will return as a strange thing, and glad tidings to the strangers”, so they said, ‘Who are the strangers O Messenger of Allaah?
He said, ‘They are those who will be upright when the people become corrupt’..
and in another version of this hadeeth, “Those who rectify what the people have corrupted’.
These are the strangers, because the majority of the people oppose them, belittle, forsake and keep away from what they are upon, but this will not harm them,
“They will never be harmed by those who forsake them nor by those who oppose them’.
Allaah will make them remain so that His Proofs remain amongst the creation until the end of time.
This group might be in the East, the West, or the North etc…They are not in a specific place, but they are present. Whoever wants will find it.
It is present and all praise is due to Allaah.
Alhamdulil laah, we at present are upon a correct methodology, upon a sound methodology; our methodology is that which the Qur’aan and sunnah necessitate, our learning is based upon the Qur’aan and the Sunnah.
We study Tafseer, hadeeth and its explanation, the Aqeedah of the pious predecessors and that which they were upon.
Alhamadulil laah at present we are upon a correct path, a sound methodology and straight path.
We ask Allaah to keep us firm upon it until we meet him, neither substituting nor changing it.
This is why it’s very important to stick with ahlul ilm (people of knowledge) the major scholars and their students who are known for there sound Aqeedah and its Manhaj …. when people let go of the scholars then they turn to the ignorant one’s who themselves are upon misguidance opposing the book of Allāh and the Prophetic Sunnah …
The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم foretold us about the misguided callers to the gate of Hellfire….
So be warned and careful whom you aquire knowledge from…..
As ibn siren رحمه الله said:
This knowledge is Deen so be careful whom you take your Deen from…..
