# Is Islam still relevant in today's confusing times? *Defining times: trials like a dark night, and Islam for every age* - URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/qbvwbhoizw4/s/3/ - Date: 2016-12-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Islam in the 21st Century | Mufti Abu Layth | Ha Meem Foundation (8:12–12:05) - Status: general teaching - Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBvWBHOIzW4&t=492s - Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/qbvwbhoizw4/ **Topics:** Islam and modernity; Individual hadith explained **Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Yes: the Prophet foretold confusing trials like layers of night, but Islam is for every time and place and has spread against the greatest odds. **Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth says Islam is for every time and every place, not restricted to the Arabian Peninsula. **Evidence, his words at 10:46:** “but Islam is for every time and every place it isn't restricted to just a it wasn't just for the Arabian Peninsula” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBvWBHOIzW4&t=646s) ## Longer summary Mufti Abu Layth says these are defining, pivotal times that will be remembered, and that Islam, or rather the people meant to represent it, is going through turbulence. He cites the Prophet's warnings that trials will descend like layers of a dark night that restrict what one can see, and that a newborn would turn grey, which he explains as an Arab figure of speech for utter confusion rather than only natural calamities. Yet Islam is for every time and place, not only the Arabian Peninsula and the companions, and its spread against the greatest odds is itself a miracle worth reflecting on. ## Sources and names cited - report: trials like pieces of the dark night - fitnah ## Transcript (machine tier, 8:12–12:05) [7:32] be so Allah says that even him there such a people who sit for my remebrance for my glorification for this Dean anybody who sits with them will never lose out so that is some amazing words of inspiration passed to us in this Trad people we are in defining times anybody I mean make no mistake about that this era that we are [8:12] in Allah how long there is for people to come and how many generations of people will come after us and what hundreds or thousands of years or not we don't know but these times that we're in are defining crucial and pivotal they will be remembered just us alone in this in in this climate that we're in in this type of in the time in the in the part of the world that we are in is absolutely crucial [8:52] Islam is going through a sense of and I say Islam but it's really the people that's Ma I mean it's actually the people people who are supposed to be representing Islam but Islam is going through some turbulence and we are all caught up in it the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam warned us or gave us some you could say almost like premonitions in some Hadith saying that some fan will descend that these fan will surely descend these trials tribulations these [9:30] interesting times like the dark layers of a night where the visual field is so restricted you cannot actually see beyond just a few yards at best this is like that they will descend layer upon layer it just gets darker and darker that these and this Darkness isn't speaking about a literal Darkness he's not saying oh it's just going to get dark there isn't going to be it's and [10:08] it's not necessarily just speaking about it it does include things like oh there will be whether there's calamities and whether there's earthquakes or tsunamis and these type of things yes there will be those type but it's not restricted to that the prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam adds in another Hadith that that that a child a newborn child will almost turn old his hair will turn white from that type of fitan from that type of confusion now this isn't this is a a [10:46] figure of speech the Arabs use this a lot you know or what you know that which makes children you know makes their hair turn white it doesn't literally mean that it means that Things become so what completely puzzles you such is a time that has descended upon us but Islam is for every time and every place it isn't restricted to just a it wasn't just for the Arabian Peninsula it wasn't just [11:26] for the amazing sahaba and the students of it was for all times it was for all places and it has stood the test of time Islam has spread I mean against the greatest of odds at times nothing short of a miracle as the brother spoke before about miracles if you want to see Miracles it's it's an amazing Miracle to just reflect upon the history that we have as Islam unfolds for it to reach us today this is why Allah subhana tala [12:04] time and time again within the Quran reminds us take take heed so we find ourselves in this in this age where there's so much going on especially recently I would say within especially the last decade decade and a half there seems to be so much that seems to be happening on a global scale but things which come straight back to us here from one perspective you could say Islam is so highlighted in the media ## Cite Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment QBvWBHOIzW4/s/3. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/qbvwbhoizw4/s/3/ Not a fatwa: these answers were given to specific people at specific times. 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