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Dawah: The Mission of Muslim Ummah
Imitating the Practice of Ancient Jews

A hadith tells us that in later times, the ummah
of the Prophet Muhammad will definitely imitate
the Jews. The Prophet said: “You [Muslims] shall
definitely follow the ways of those before you,
span by span, cubit by cubit; so much so that if
they entered inside a lizard’s hole, so would you.”
The Companions asked: “o Messenger of God,
is it the Jews and the Christians?” The Prophet
replied: “Who else!” (Sahih al-Bukhari, 7320)
This, actually, has to do with a law of nature,
which is expressed in the Quran (57:16) as the
hardening of hearts with the passage of time:

“[…] whose hearts with the passage of time became
hardened [...]”.
That is to say, degeneration sets in among
later generations of a community as a result of
the passage of a long period of time, resulting in
various forms of ills. The most deadly form of this
phenomenon of degeneration among present-
day Muslims is their imitating of the practice

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