Benefits from the Hadeeth of the Safeenah

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On the authority of Nu’maan bin Basheer [May Allaah be Pleased with him] that the Prophet [Peace and Blessings of Allaah be Upon him] said, “The likelihood of upholding the laws of Allaah is that like a group of people travelling on a boat, this boat has two levels, those people staying on the top deck and those on the lower deck. Those on the lower deck decide that they want to drink some water so they begin to dig a hole on the deck of the boat, so if the people on the top deck don’t stop them on the lower deck from doing this, they will all be destroyed but if they stop them then they will all be saved.” [Narrated by Bukhaaree (3484)]

“This is an example given as a simile for the whole Ummah, as if they are on this boat and they are afflicted by different tests, from the right or the left, from before them or behind them, just like waves that hit the boat. There is no doubt that if some of the Ummah are left to themselves then all of them will be destroyed, however if we guide them to the truth instead then the all of them will succeed. Also in this Hadeeth, we can learn that the actions of few can cause everyone to be punished this is because some may leave of enjoining good and forbidding evil. ” [http://www.khudheir.com/text/4254]

Shaykh Abdul-Kareem al-Khudayr [May Allaah Preserve him]
Member of Permenant Committee of Senior Scholars and Member of Council of Senior Scholars