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One of the most dangerous hadiths of all time is a hadith that is present in the books of the Sunnis, in the books of the Shia, in the books of pretty much all of the sects of Islam. They differ on many things, the sects of Islam.
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917 wordsOne of the most dangerous hadiths of all time is a hadith that is present in the books of the Sunnis, in the books of the Shia, in the books of pretty much all of the sects of Islam. They differ on many things, the sects of Islam. They differ on the way to pray. They differ on the meanings of certain verses of the Quran and certain acts of worship. But one thing that they agree upon, or one thing that they have in common, is that they all have this hadith. It says, whoever dies, that the Prophet Muhammad said, whoever dies and does not know the imam of their time has died the death of ignorance. And there's another hadith that says, the Prophet Muhammad said, whoever dies and does not have in his neck a pledge of allegiance has died the death of ignorance, the death of jahiliyyah. The death of jahiliyyah means that, and what the hadith is pretty much saying, is something extraordinarily dangerous. It's saying that if you're a Muslim, the Prophet Muhammad is saying is if you are a Muslim, if you said the shahada, ashhadu an la ilaha illallah wa ashhadu anna Muhammadan rasulullah, I bear witness that there's no God but God and that Muhammad is the messenger of God. If you pray fiv…
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e times a day, if you fast in the month of Ramadan, if you give charity, zakat, every year, and if you made pilgrimage to Mecca, you made hajj, but you don't know the imam of your time, all of that's in vain. And you're going to go to hellfire. Because whoever dies and doesn't know the imam of his time dies in the same state as the people before the message of Islam.
The people who die and they had rejected Islam. And it's known that whoever dies like the people in jahiliyyah goes to hellfire, like an idol worshiper. So the Prophet Muhammad made this condition that you had to know the imam of your time. That you had to pledge allegiance to an imam of the time.
So how do we know what is the imam of the time ? Who is the imam of the time ? That's the duty that is upon every single believer. And that is what we say true religion is really about. About finding the live messenger of the time. We're saying that the Prophet Muhammad in this hadith said that there is an imam in every time.