A Time Will Come...

Salaamun 'alaykum wa rahmat-ul-lahi wa barakātuh

A Time will come when a Man’s Own Thigh Informs Him of What His Family Did After He Left Them

🎙️‎Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī narrated that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:

*"By the One in whose Hand is my soul, the Hour shall not come until wild beasts speak to mankind, and a man's whip-tip and sandal-strap speak to him, and his own thigh informs him of what his family did after he left them."

🎙️‎Shaykh Ḥammūd ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Tuwayjirī said: 

These two signs, that a man's whip-tip should speak to him, and that his thigh should inform him of what his family did in his absence, are therefore signs which have not yet come to pass, and Allah knows best. Yet they are certain to occur and will indeed take place, given that the one informing us of them is the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, speaking on behalf of his Lord, Mighty and Sublime is He.

‎Some contemporary researchers have suggested that what is intended by the speaking of the whip-tip, the sandal-strap, and the thigh may refer to the modern means of communication invented in our own era, such as mobile telephones and surveillance devices capable of transmitting even the faintest and most subtle of sounds.

It has also been said that this should be understood according to its apparent, literal meaning: that these are genuine signs to be taken at face value, in which the whip, the sandal-strap, and the thigh will speak actual, literal speech. And Allah knows best.

‎- 📚 Al-Tuwayjirī, Ḥammūd ibn ʿAbd Allāh (d. 1413 AH/1992 CE), Itḥāf al-Jamāʿah bimā Jāʾa fī al-Fitan wa al-Malāḥim wa Ashrāṭ al-Sāʿah (1/411).

*MMay Allaah accept our ibaadat and forgive our shortcomings.

Keep Reminding, for Indeed the ʀᴇᴍɪɴᴅᴇʀ ʙᴇɴᴇꜰɪᴛs ᴛʜᴇ ʙᴇʟɪᴇᴠᴇʀ 

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