"Doomsday will not strike unless people boast about mosques." Will you explain this hadith?
Submitted by on Fri, 07/06/2024 - 10:59
Dear Brother / Sister,
Anas (radiyallahu anh) narrates: "The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said,
"Doomsday will not strike unless people boast about mosques." [Abu Dawud, Salah 12, (449); Nasai, Masajid 2, (2, 32).]
The Messenger of Allah states that people will move away from the divine criteria and start to boast about mosques as the Day of Judgment approaches. The length and width, the type of material used in the construction, decoration and adornment of the mosques can be used as a means of boasting and showing off separately. However, what makes religious services valuable to is not quantity but quality, sincerity and Allah’s consent. There is no place for boasting in sincerity. This kind of boasting is criticized since it will decrease the interest shown in content. When a person satisfies himself by boasting of material things, he is not concerned with and care about spirituality and lack of content.
Ibn Raslan stays the following: "In this hadith, there is a clear miracle of the Prophet (pbuh) because he informs us about what will happen after him exactly. For, kings and rulers have started to decorate the mosques in Cairo, Damascus and Quds (Jerusalem) and to boast about the ornaments in them very much. Besides, they take people’s wealth through persecution and use them to build aesthetically superior religious schools."
(see Prof. Dr. İbrahim Canan, Kütüb-ü Sitte Tercüme ve Şerhi)
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