Sit and Wait?

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We have been informed by the Prophet sallallahu `alayhi wa sallam about many events that will occur in the future. What attitude should we take in this regard?

There are some ideas which some Muslims have that we should just sit and wait for `Eesaa ibn Maryam to come, we should just wait for the Mahdee to appear and until that time we should just sit and just engage ourselves with a lot of intellectual discussions and so forth. Just s it and wait for these events to occur. This is not the way of the Sunnah, the way of the Sunnah is that we face a qadar with a qadar so therefore we know that for instance that Constantinople will be taken over by the Christians again because the Prophet (Sallallaahu `alaihi wa sallam) said that. Constantinople, when it's going to be conquered before the Day of Judgment, it will be conquered without fighting, but that Muslims will say Allaahu Akbar, and some of its walls will fall, and they'll say laa ilaaha ill Allaah, and some of it walls will fall. This is going to be one of the signs of the Day of Judgment, just by saying these takbeers, the city walls will collapse.

We know therefore that what we call now Istanbul will have to return back to Christians one day. So then do we just say let the things in Turkey go as they are? Let the secularism and let the Western entrenchment in Turkey continue as it is, because this is a divine decree that Allaah has decreed.

No, we fight that qadar with another qadar, in the sense that we make sure that da`wah is in Turkey is strong for as long as it is, so when the time comes for that to occur, it occurs. The Prophet (Sallallaahu `alaihi wa sallam) told us that an Ethiopian with two thin shanks will destroy the Ka`bah, piece by piece. So therefore do we say, "Well, OK, it's going to happen, the Ethiopian s going come and destroy the Ka`bah, so therefore whatever happens in the East Africa, we'll just let it happen?" No. We know this will happen, one day the Ka`bah will be destroyed by an Ethiopian, but we fight that qadar with a qadar by making sure that the da`wah is strong in East Africa and that it remains that no non-Muslim country ever has a rule in East Africa, but that strong Muslim states have that.
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