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Signs of Jesus’ (pbuh)
Second Coming

71. Hypocritical and Fraudulent Clergy

God's Messenger (may God bless him and grant him peace), re-
vealed that in the End Times, some people acknowledged as scholars
will actually be two-faced impostors:

Wolves will give readings in the End Times. Let
those who live to see those times seek shelter
from their evil in God. They will be very corrupt
people. Hypocrisy will prevail, and nobody will
be ashamed of it and its manifestations.
(Tirmidhi)

God's Messenger (may God bless him and grant
him peace) said: “A man will wake up as a be-
liever, and be an unbeliever by nightfall. People
will sell their religion for a small amount of
wordly goods." (Ibn Ahmad Hanbal)

He said: “In mosques, the voices of those who rebel aganist God
rise, and those who commit those deeds prohibited by religion
hold control over sincere believers.” (Mukhtasar Tazkirah al-
Qurtubi, p. 450, no. 828)

Ultimately some ignorant people remain. When they are asked
about religious issues, they give a fatwa ]juridical decision], al-
though they are illiterate. This way, they pervert and also make
others stray from the right path. (Mukhtasar Tazkirah al-
Qurtubi, p. 463, no. 850)

What a pity for my community, because of the scholars who

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