The World Gets Topsy-Turvier: Signs of the End Days [2/2]

One of the main themes that runs through hadiths about the End Days is how good will be considered as being bad; and visa versa, how trustworthiness and honesty shall disappear, how the worthless will be raised to positions of rank and respect, and how there will be an increase in disobedience and widespread violation of rights (kathrat al-‘uquq…

Takfir: Its Dangers & Rules

Takfir - accusing a fellow Muslim of apostasy; of having left the fold of Islam and being a disbeliever (kafir) - is indeed a grave affair in Islam. It is a fitnah, or "sedition," whose flames were historically put out by the defeat of the Kharijites (khawarij), only to be set alight again in our times, on a global scale,…